When an elusive serial bomber abducts a statistics professor to force her help, she must devise a solution to stop him before his next attack at her daughter’s school.

SYNOPSIS:

When a quiet, unassuming, but brilliant, PROFESSOR JAMIE CARTIER (30s), exits the Statistics Building, an explosion sends her flying to the ground. DETECTIVE ANTHONY SANCHEZ (35), a handsome, street-smart, but sloppily-dressed cop is bewildered why the woman he crushes on is the target. He suspects that she made enemies in the crime world when she used her predictive spatial models, typically reserved for cute forest creatures, to help nab a bank robber. Sure enough, waiting nearby is ATF AGENT VIHAAN GIRI (40s), of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), who wants Jamie’s help in catching an elusive serial mail-bomber. Agent Giri begs for Jamie’s modeling help, but she refuses. Predicting psychotic behavior is impossible, and Jamie must protect her daughter, VALE (9), and graduate students, LISA MASON (20s), RYAN PETROV (20s) and HUI TAN (20s). She can’t get involved.

That night, Jamie discovers her laptop is hacked Agent Giri, and previously by criminal elements. Agent Giri helps them escape; Vale to a friend’s house, and Jamie to an ATF safe house in the woods, where she must help hunt down the bad guys with her predictive models. The stakes are raised when Jamie learns that Lisa is being held hostage by the serial bomber. In exchange for Lisa’s release, the bomber demands Jamie’s help selecting targets where he can best avoid detection and capture. Meanwhile, Agent Giri wants Jamie’s models to catch the bomber. As Detective Sanchez hunts for Jamie and Lisa, as missing persons, ATF AGENTS BOB TANSLEY (40s) and MOLLY O’BRIAN (30s) intervene to focus the investigation on Agent Giri, who they think has gone rogue.

Jamie is surprised to learn that the safe house in the woods is heavily guarded, and that Ryan is working there to help with her predictive models. Jamie grows suspicious as Agent Giri locks them in the upstairs room ‘for their own protection.’ Jamie’s first models fail. Predicting the psychotic behavior of past serial bombers appears impossible. Jamie plans an escape, but Ryan yells for Agent Giri to stop her. However, the Guard (the bomber in disguise), kills Agent Giri. The Guard then sets a remote-controlled bomb in their room and exits. Jamie hatches an escape plan.

Jamie and Ryan escape from the killer/bomber, who is revealed as Ryan’s estranged father, MARTIN PETROV III (50s). Detective Sanchez gives chase, but the bomber escapes. On the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, ATF agents assume the bomber’s next target is the Federal Building, but Jamie’s models predict it’s her daughter’s elementary school. In a nerve-shattering ending, they catch the bomber, despite Ryan helping his lunatic father. Jamie proves her intellect and mathematical models to be indispensable in catching serial criminals.

PATTERN OF EVIL