
While Cross is at home preparing to meet Kate for dinner, he discovers that Ruskin's signature on the arrest warrants matches Casanova's handwriting. Ruskin drops by Kate's house and sends home the two officers guarding her. Later, Kate invites Cross to dinner at her house.


Cross rescues the kidnapped women, including Naomi. Casanova escapes, while Rudolph is shot by Cross. Rudolph is revealed to be Casanova's partner. Alerted by a gunshot, he discovers Casanova's underground hideout. In North Carolina, Cross traces Casanova up the river. Cross's efforts to capture and question Rudolph are foiled when Rudolph escapes. William Rudolph, known as the Gentleman Caller. This means there is time to rescue the other imprisoned women, as long as they remain obedient.Ĭlues lead them to Los Angeles, where a series of gruesome kidnappings and murders have been credited to Dr. After she recuperates, she joins forces with Cross to track down her captor, whom Cross concludes is a collector, not a killer, unless his victims fail to follow his rules. She manages to escape and is severely injured when she jumps from a cliff into a river. When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers that she is being held by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair. Soon after his arrival, one of the missing women is found dead, bound to a tree, and a short time later, Kate McTiernan is kidnapped from her home.

He learns from police detective Nick Ruskin that Naomi is the latest in a series of young women who have vanished.

detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross heads to Durham, North Carolina when his niece Naomi, a college student, is reported missing. A sequel titled Along Came a Spider was released in 2001. The screenplay by David Klass is based on James Patterson's best-selling 1995 novel of the same name. Kiss the Girls is a 1997 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Cary Elwes.
