


In Alaska, Stephen finally gains the courage to ask Joanna out, as he is a frequent patron of the diner at which she now works as a waitress. Joanna loses her unborn baby before fleeing to Alaska, with Stephen on her trail.
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Stephen arrives just in time to save Joanna and gives Gary a thorough beating. Another month or two later, a drug addict named Gary (Jason Priestley) picks up Joanna when her car dies, and tries to seduce her when she rebuffs his advances, he beats her unconscious and injects her with heroin so he can rape her while she is unconscious. Stephen follows a grief-stricken Joanna as she takes off for the desert in the USA southwest. While the couple is on the way to the chapel for the wedding, Stephen shoots out one of their tires and the car crashes, killing Joanna's fiance. Stephen, who has witnessed all of this, cannot bear to let her go, and is willing to do anything to stop her from having a relationship with another man. When Joanna helps a rich blind man (Patrick Bergin) in an airport, the two become involved, fall in love and become engaged, and it looks like they might even live a happy life together. He soon discovers that Joanna and her father were homeless and that he had abandoned her, explaining her pathological hatred of men. Over the next several months, Stephen follows Joanna across the country and through her committing several murders. He hallucinates constantly that his young daughter - whom he hasn't seen since his ex-wife took custody of her - is with him, and comes to think of Joanna as a vulnerable, lost child. Instead of turning her in, Stephen follows her in an effort to save her. At Penn Station in Pittsburgh, Eris commits yet another murder, enabling Stephen to finally corner her as he prepares to call Hilary for backup. Stephen's journey leads him to a woman named Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a serial killer who is in a relationship with the son, whom she murders. lang), a computer tech and fellow agent who supplies him with information over his assignments over the telephone. Stephen's liaison and contact is Hilary (k.d.

