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Alex Jones is meanwhile found to be developmentally disabled, having the [[Intellectual quotient|IQ]] of a ten-year-old. After hours of aggressive questioning and [[DNA profiling|DNA testing]] of the RV, the police cannot link him to the missing girls and release him. Dover, in a fit of rage, attacks Jones as he is released after he claims that Jones whispered "They didn't cry until I left them" to him. However, no one else hears these words, and Dover is frustrated with Loki's reluctance to treat the statement as evidence. Taking matters into his own hands, Dover abducts and imprisons Jones in an abandoned apartment building that he owns, torturing him for several days without obtaining any further information.
During a [[candlelight vigil]] for the girls, Loki sees a hooded man acting suspiciously. When Loki approaches the man, he runs away. Both girls' houses are broken into, apparently by the same man, whom Loki now considers a suspect. A clerk at a local store reports the man has been buying children's clothing in various sizes. This suspect, Bob Taylor ([[David Dastmalchian]]), is arrested at his home, where the walls are covered in drawings of mazes. In a back room, Loki finds crates filled with maze books, live snakes, and bloodied children's clothing. The Birches and Dover positively identify some of the items of clothing as belonging to their daughters. Detained, Taylor confesses to the abduction, but before giving any more information, he seizes one of the officers' handguns during a struggle where Loki is forcibly restrained from beating him and kills himself.
Dover continues to torture Jones, who says he is not Alex Jones, and that he escaped from a maze. Dover visits Jones's aunt, Holly ([[Melissa Leo]]), and brings up the topic of mazes, but Holly only says Jones does not talk much since an accident involving snakes when he was young. She tells him that she and her husband were religious until their son died of cancer at a young age.
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