she said to me, amanda, you re free. amanda s mother lorinda had never stopped negotiating and adam had agreed to accept $680,000 for both amanda and nigel. the captives flew out of somalia into kenya, they were wisked away to a hospital. mother and daughter finally reunited. i barely recognized her. it was relief, it was joy and it was heart. heartache to see her like that. i would not be here now if it was not for my mother. my mom gave me life and she saved my life. amanda lindhout was finally safe, back with her family, but adam, the one who tormented them so much wasn t finished with them yet. a single word from him would bring it all back. coming up. did your heart stop?
head alone is worth half a million in mogadishu. be careful. as amanda left the airport, the capital city was chaotic. back at home, amanda s mother lorinda worried about her daughter. i just made sure every time you take talked to her i told her i loved her. amanda got to work on her third day in somalia, she was in a car s with nigel chasing a story. the vehicle started to slow down and i looked up about a dozen armed men were emergeing from where they had been hind, allha of them with ak-47. next thing i knew my door was pulled opened and then i found myself lying face down in the dirt spread eagle with a gun held to the back of my head. ba terrifying. i asked, is this about money? and he said to me, ah, it might
be something like that. all the way back in canada, her mother lorinda stopped hearing from her daughter. she began h to fear the worst. she didn t want to be right. but she knew kidnappings were common inna somalia. you must have felt so helpless. i felt we were so far apart and we didn t know where our daughter was. i think i would have been a collapsed w puddle on the floor. well, i knew i couldn t. i couldn t. she reached out to canadian officials who told her this was, in fact, a kidnapping, by islamic rebels and they scrambled to set up a recording system if case the kidnappers called. the next morning my cell phone rang and it was adam, who was negotiator for the kidnappers. canadian investigators had lorinda lead the negotiations. but what she couldn t know then was just how much terror the man
amanda my head was pulled back and there was a serrated knife. and her mother. lorinda stewart. did you keep it together? i ydid. i had to be strong for her. driven by strength, courage and endurance, these women would not only survive this ordeal, but their determination in a completely new chapter of their story would ultimately lead them to triumph over one of the men who had triedz them so brutteri them so beautifully. it almost seems like sting. it does. we often refer to this plan as the hail mary plan. before all ofha that, this story begins in a small town in western canada, where a young woman yearned for a world beyond herfo town. one constant was i wanted to be a world traveler. i wanted told go to every count
for amanda to testify against her kidnapper. can you describe it for me? she was crying, she was upset, she was afraid. and then she swung her head over and she looked at adam in the box. and she stopped crying and gave him a look, like i i would never want anyone looking at me like that. what kind of a look? it was a firm resolve. seeing him sitting across from me as a prisoner in that box, that was also the truth now. it s a reversal. exactly. and he looked so small, in a way, sitting in that box. reporter: in her testimony amanda spoke openly about how adam terrorized her. she was on the stand for one long day. okay, my name is adam, and i m from mogadishu. reporter: but her mom lorinda spent three days in court listening to the phone calls that would prove crucial to the case.