Jodie

Protagonist who works at an insurance firm, performs a daily sandwich run, listens to music to escape, discovers an abandoned baby on a waste ground and is attacked by a masked man. Witness describes a young woman leaving Simpson's house, providing a physical description and emotional state. Jodie texts Scott, participates in the hundred‑reasons game, offers brief affection, and later discovers an abandoned baby. Routine sandwich run leads to finding an abandoned baby and a sudden assault by a masked attacker with a spray bottle Jodie is handcuffed, walking through mud-filled woods with Scott, guided by an internal voice, and notices a distinctive black tree trunk. Jodie is handcuffed together with Scott, trekking through a snowy forest while the devil‑masked captor watches, helping Scott when he slips and hearing an internal voice urging one‑step‑at‑a‑time survival. Jodie is handcuffed in an old stone building, endures darkness, hears Scott’s torture, uses her iRiver player to drown out the internal voice, and observes the devil lighting a fire and heating a screwdriver. Jodie interacts with Scott’s paintings, supports him, and is present during the devil encounter, holding him tightly. Jodie is referenced as Scott’s girlfriend, believed to be alive. Identified as Scott’s girlfriend, possibly alive, works for SafeSide Insurance. Jodie calls Scott early in the morning, crying and apologising, admits she has been unfaithful with her business partner Kevin, later meets Kevin in a hotel room where she expresses self‑hatred and begs Scott not to leave her. Jodie is identified by Simpson’s neighbour, had set up CCL with Kevin Simpson, and disappeared during her lunch hour after taking a day off to be with Simpson. Jodie is referenced as the missing girl Pete is searching for. Jodie is handcuffed and locked in a dark stone storeroom, listening to the devil‑masked captor torture Scott, feeling physical pain and exhaustion as the iRiver dies. Jodie is shown asleep in the bedroom while Scott grapples with the devil’s claims of her infidelity, highlighting her physical presence but emotional distance. Jodie is referenced as the still‑alive girlfriend they must locate. Location inferred as a small farm clearing north of a river; presumed alive and needing rescue Jodie cuts a headphone cable into a makeshift hook, discovers a thin black lock line on the door, threads the cable through a spy‑hole to unlock the storeroom, escapes into a clearing and confronts the devil‑masked captor. Referenced as the object of Kevin Simpson’s unrequited affection, central to the killer’s motive to destroy love. Jodie battles the devil‑masked captor, uses lighter fluid, kills him with a rock, is rescued by police and learns Scott survived in hospital, and notices a spider‑web drawing on the stone storeroom wall. Jodie is believed to survive the night Jodie is alive, thawing, wrapped in a blanket, moving through the woods with John and Mark, hearing radio communications and aware Scott is alive Jodie is being held captive as part of the killer’s sacrifice game. Scott repeatedly imagines Jodie’s unhappiness, her possible affair with Kevin Simpson, and her lack of love for him, shaping his torment during the captivity. Attended the funeral, showed severe panic, was approached by Detective Mark Nelson who gave her his business card and hinted at another envelope.