[cookiedough]

MK saw a gun and heard a threat. Surely she would not think her parents said it was okay for this scenario to occur.

I think she fell asleep. To me, that's the only rational explanation for the two hour time lapse. Two hours is an awfully long time for anyone, let alone a child, to sit in the dark, terrified and unable to move. She didn't have to walk a long distance to get to her parents' bedroom, and it's not like the gunman was active in the house the whole time.

So, with no long-lasting danger, and no distance to travel to get help, and with a desire to help her sister, the two hour time lapse does not make sense to me, unless she fell asleep or the interval between abduction and notification was much shorter than reported.

As far as I know, the only person who knows exactly what time it was that Liz was taken is MK. Could she have been mistaken about the time?

[Neenah]

I think she fell asleep. To me, that's the only rational explanation for the two hour time lapse. Two hours is an awfully long time for anyone, let alone a child, to sit in the dark, terrified and unable to move. She didn't have to walk a long distance to get to her parents' bedroom, and it's not like the gunman was active in the house the whole time.

Really? You actually think a little 9 yr. old girl, see's her sister who she shares a room with, taken at gunpoint, is threatened if she talks, her sister will be harmed, watches her leave your room with a gun pointed at her...would then fall asleep?

Wow, cookie !!

I think that if you would have left off "I THINK SHE FELL ASLEEP" off that paragraph, you would have been dead on correct. That is how I feel too !!!

[varina davis]

As far as I know, the only person who knows exactly what time it was that Liz was taken is MK. Could she have been mistaken about the time?

Good point! Liz may have left much earlier than we know. I can understand a 5 or 6 year-old child being too terrified to move, or maybe falling asleep, but not a bright (by all accounts) 9-year-old. Just doesn't fit.