00:00In 1977, a woman named Colleen Stan accepted a ride from a couple she barely knew.
00:05She would not live freely again for seven years.
00:08Her captors did not keep her in a cage.
00:11They built one inside her mind.
00:13They told her she was being watched by a secret organization called The Company,
00:17a group so powerful it had eyes on her family.
00:20If she ran, her parents would die.
00:22So she didn't run.
00:23She went to work.
00:24She visited her parents.
00:26She wrote letters to a boyfriend who had no idea what was happening to her.
00:30The Company was completely made up.
00:32There were no agents, no surveillance, no organization at all.
00:36When her captors finally admitted that, Colleen still did not leave right away.
00:40That is the part that stays with you.
00:42The lock was never on the door.
00:43It was in her, placed there piece by piece over years,
00:47until she could no longer tell where their control ended and her own thinking began.
00:51Some prisons have no walls at all.
01:00She had no fever, she did not go into her place.
01:00I didn't want her to die.
01:00The command I was at Life.
01:00I wasn't finished.
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