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The "mental illness" card, hmmmmm, let's see: So this is basically about a crazy woman who wraps her car around a tree or something while intoxicated and loses the ability to have children forever. Then she applies to adopt a baby and is gently told that with her record (causing a crash while DUI) she is not elligible to adopt and she loses it and throws paper around the adoption agency's office screaming her head off.

If anything it was the fault of people around her who missed the red flags and did not intervene on time, the adoption agency worker, psycho's sister and whoever else she might have interacted with. At least someone should have seen the warning signs that this woman needs immediate psychiatric help, even if it means involuntary admittance to a mental hospital.

So posing as a nurse in a planned parenthood type place she chooses her victims, i.e. Young pregnant girls with boyfriend and or parent/s issues, and grooms them in believing everyone is against them but herself. Because her ulterior motive is to get her hands on a baby at any cost. So her first test drive is killed after she supposedly lost the baby.

Then in come Taylin and Kevin. He is supportive from the beginning but her mother is opposed and after suggesting they put the baby up for adoption a big fight ensues and Taylin moves in with Kevin. This when psycho starts her meticulous scheme to gradually isolate Taylin, and ultimately kidnaps her and takes her to a remote family cabin.

Skipping the rest of the movie, the ending was perfect. The writers of the story did not feel the need to put in extra pages for the immediate aftermath of the death of psycho. The viewer will correctly assume that all the criminal inestigations were done correctly as they should and the three were cleared. Let's see, psycho has committed 2 murders, two kidnappings and false imprisonment, and still fighting right to the end to kill anyone who wants to come in between her and the unborn baby that she has set her eyes on. I do not think any "mentally" competent DA would file charges against the three heroes!

I am sorry but the mental illness card does not work here at all. How many of the mass shooters of the last three decades did not suffer from mental health issues? Not many I bet. The problem is people who do not see red flags do not do anything, or worse still, those who see the red flags but choose to ignore them.

The villain of the piece seems to be the only likeable person in this by-the-numbers TV movie thriller. The rest are unsympathetic cardboard cut-outs, who come across as shallow and complacent ... and they don't get any extra depth as the film progresses. Tracy Martin is good in a small part but is inderused here. Jean Louisa Kelly does her best to create a three dimensional character out of a script that appears to be written by looking through a reference book on mental illness and picking out illnesses the scriptwriters considered juicy, and does well to convey inner drama (the only one of the principle actors who do) when the script gives her character no plausible motivation to do what she does.

I seriously question the makers of TV movies in the USA who use mental illness as a shortcut to evil. Maligning an already misunderstood and persecuted faction of the population. I have lost count of the amount of US TV films (and cinema films) that follow this trope. Also there is also the overused trope that women who can't have children are dangerous to women who can ... and their babies. A highly irresponsible portrayal. The writers of this film should hang their heads in shame for creating this propaganda.

At the end of the film the three supposedly sympathetic characters shoot the villain dead and then the mother of the heroine just says, "Let's go," implying they are just going to leave the body there and not even bother to report it. The epilogue should show them facing manslaughter charges, or at least pleading the case for self-defense. Instead they are just shown having a saccharine filled 'happy ending' now that the baby has been born ... all problems left behind them. Highly irresponsible film making, but par-for-the-course it seems in Hollywood and US TV Movie drama.