When a 50-year-old man having breakfast at home spots two ninja-masked men picking the lock on his back door he calls 9-1-1 but then wonders if he called 10 minutes too late. A cellphone in a school backpack is the only hope for a female college student abducted from campus by an ex-boyfriend and locked in the covered bed of a stolen pickup truck. Moments after seeing a strange car pull into her driveway, a woman is left with little choice but to seek the safety of an upstairs closet as an intruder crowbars his way inside her home.

• Thomas Parobek