In the movie "Taken," seventeen year-old Kim (Maggie Grace) is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson). Bryan is a retired agent who leaves the Central Intelligence Agency to live nearer to Kim in California; it's an attempt to make up for the time he lost while he was away for work. Kim lives with her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen). Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father but gives brief him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill them if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper talks to Bryan on the phone: BRYAN: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.  MARKO: [after a long pause] Good luck.  This dialogue helps Bryan find his window of opportunity to rescue his daughter is exceedingly slim, a mere 96 hours. He continues to travel to France and utilize his unique skill set to obtain the information he needs to both recover his daughter, and punish those responsible for perpetrating the crime. Taken starts off relatively slow as it presents the back-story and gets the audience up to speed on how the story ended up were it is now. The lighting noticeably switches from darker when Mills is alone or thinking about his relationship wit