Samantha (Jessica Alba) is betrayed by her friend who brought her to the bad guy who held her captive on the ship. She is shown from above the shoulders in a close-up seated next to her captor. Duct tape has been wrapped once around her mouth, and her hands are behind her back (no visible bonds at this point). Such is the tightness of her wraparound gag, the tape even covers the lower part of her ears; in a nice visual touch, she turns her head to the side for us to get a good view of it.

The captor makes a call to her boyfriend, and when he asked to speak to her, he said she’s got this thing on her mouth and unable to talk. As the phone call ends, we still see her from the same angle whilst her captor indulges in a typical bad guy monologue. She becomes teary-eyed as he makes his threats, then shoots dead a her friend who betrayed her in front of her, which prompts a muffled scream and some wide-eyed mmpphhs (some of his blood manages to splatter onto her face and shoulders, but this is not particularly graphic). Only once is she shown briefly from further away, from the waist up, as she remains seated.

A while later, she has been moved to an area below deck. Now only handcuffed by one hand to the aforementioned dead friend’s body, the sequence begins with her lying on her stomach (she was most likely knocked out) and slowly trying to pull herself up using her free hand. Lots of good, well-lit full-body shots and close-ups as she stares dejectedly — and still tightly tape gagged — at her boyfriend who has come to save her.

From hereon she spends about a minute struggling to free herself. First she rips away the tape from her mouth, then starts to laboriously drag the body across the floor in order to find something to cut away the handcuffs. A large knife winds up doing the trick, which she uses to hack away the guy’s hand.

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