Babies? Seriously?--SPOILER

Good points. I watched this last night, and while I found the plot gripping and intense, (and yes, I DID see the twist coming...more about that in a minute) any one who has ever mothered a child immediately saw through the holes, and this one was HUGE.

Babies need incubators only if they are born prematurely, and even then, they would require full time, or almost full-time nursing care. What happened to those children during the day? Who took care of them? What about when they grew up?

Another BIG plot hole was where did Chelsey get the money to just up and quit her job on the force, move 3 babies to another town, and buy a big house with a nursery? She was a teen runaway...she didn't have MONEY.

Which brings me to the 3rd hole: I saw the end coming a mile away. It was so poorly done, really. Why did Fletcher's wife mention that Chelsey couldn't have kids? No reason (foreshadow). Why did Chelsey make that phone call in the kitchen, when it was really too soon, AND she couldnt' have known it was Daddy who took Abby? (foreshadow). But the biggest, and most obvious one was when Chelsey started rambling on and on like a mental patient about "you don't know what happened in MY hometown...when a teenage girl vanished and no one cared..." Oh c'mon. I saw that a mile away, pointed to the screen and yelled "It was YOU!"

And there were more...the fact that she was picked up hitchiking by a serial killer in training, who, for some reason, spared her life, while she finished college and then the police academy? (detectives have to have at least a bachelors degree, even if its from night school, like Elliot Stabler on SVU.)

And what about the black nurse? Why did he have body parts? Why did he have the picture book? Why was Abby's picture ripped in half?

Sigh. I had nightmares after seeing this picture, and it really wasnt't worth it. Pick better scripts, John...

Except that this is a fairly accurate account of the Gary Heidnik case in Philadelphia in the '80's I believe. He did keep women chained up in his basement because he wanted to make a family. Obviously some of the things never happened like the incubator room and the twist at the end but for the most part it was quite accurate.

What I'd like to know is how a runaway becomes a cop. Wouldn't a background check show that she was a missing person? I don't know how it works in the US but in Canada they want all previous addresses, schools, employment, etc. Then they interview your family, friends, and neighbours.