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the survivors of some of the nation's worst kidnapping casetd har error. now moving forward with messages of hope and healing. these seven women survived the unthinkable. >> if she is able to look up to me, i can help her in a very positive way. >> reporter: one of them shackled in a coffin-sized box. >> there were actually handcuffs on either side of this bed. >> reporter: another held captive for nearly 10 years in the infamous house of horrors. >> i thought about putting rat poison in his beans and then spraying like pine sol in his eyes. >> reporter: a third kidnapped at 13, found bound and gagged in the basement of this home, her mother and brother murdered. knowing that you can never say mom again. it's the worst feeling in the world. >> my name is denise husband kins. >> katie beers.

>> gina dejesus. >> cara chamberlain. >> sarah maynard. >> reporter: these women, survivors of the nation's most notorious abductions, brought together by elizabeth smart. >> nothing prepares you for being kidnapped and nothing prepares you for life after. >> reporter: in 2002, she was kidnapped at knifepoint from her salt lake city home, her family pleading for her safe return. >> it's time for her to come home. >> reporter: the then 14-year-old endured nine months of physical and psychological torture at the hands of brian david mitchell and wife wanda barzee beforeheas it reunre. elizetappy. she's well. and we are so happy to have her back in our arms. >> this is jayme closs' missingg poster. >> reporter: now in a lifetime

special, "smart justice: the jayme closs" case, elizabeth smart and the other members of this tragic sisterhood offer their unique insights to help 13-year-old kidnapping victim jayme closs. >> we want jimmy to know she is one of us. my mission is simple, to help jayme move forward and heal. >> reporter: closs just the most recent high-profile kidnapping that horrified the nation. randomly spotted at a bus stop by patterson. according to authorities, after seeing her he knew that was the girl he was going to take. patterson broke into the family home, murdered her parents and abducted jayme, taking her in the trunk of his car to his home in gordon, wisconsin, 70 miles away. an amber alert was issued. for weeks volunteers looked for signs that jayme was still alive. she was held captive for three months. jayme telling authorities she was forced to stay under his twin-sized bed for hours without

food or water. on january 10th when patterson told jayme she was leaving for a few hours, she seized an opportunity to escape. >> jayme is the hero in this case, there's no question about it. >> reporter: investigators say jayme fled the house, running into the arms of jean nutter, a social worker out walking her dog. >> i saw a young woman approach me. she was crying and said, i need help, i don't know where i am, i'm lost. please help me. >> reporter: when nutter asked the frightened teen where she was coming from, jayme pointed at the house across the street. >> i kept telling jayme, don't worry, everything's going to be okay. >> reporter: wanting to put distance between them and her captor's house, nutter brought jayme down the road to the home of peter and kristin. >> it was like seeing a ghost, for real. it was -- i mean, it took my breath away, you know. i'm still -- it's kind of hard for me to wrap my mind around it. >> reporter: incredibly jayme was able to give a name and description for patterson, even

providing authorities with a vehicle description that ultimately led to his arrest. >> in cases like this, we often need a big break. it was jayme herself who gave us that break. >> reporter: jayme is now living with her aunt. a month after her escape they released a statement. jayme greatly appreciates each and every gift as well as the many cards and letters, the statement said, the many kind words have been a source of great comfort to her. in march jake patterson pled guilty to two counts of homicide and one count of kidnapping. he now faces the possibility of life in prison and will be sentenced in may. the way he targeted jayme was eerie similar to what happened to elizabeth smart in utah. >> i was clothes shopping with my mom when my captor saw me. as soon as he saw me, he decided that i was the girl he was going to kidnap. >> reporter: in the lifetime special, another connection is highlighted. sarah maynard's kidnapper also killed her family.

>> i think your case is probably the closest to jayme's. >> of course we feel days where we feel hopeless and we want to give up. i'm sure all of us feel that way. but we can't. losing my mother is one of the hardest things in life. you have to -- >> i just feel so bad for you, i'm sorry. i just can't print what you had to go through. you're amazing and strong. >> thank you. >> i just want you to know that. >> reporter: elizabeth smart visited wisconsin, offering support to the community. >> i just want you to know that jayme is an extraordinary young woman. because despite the horrors that she saw, despite the terrible things that she suffered, she still escaped. i mean, that takes more strength than i can ever imagine. >> reporter: smart and the other abduction survivors hope that by speaking out and reaching out, their stories will help jayme

move for ward. >> i'm a social worker. what can we do to advocate for families and children who are victims? >> obviously securing them is a really good thing to begin with, which i'm sure you already know. helping them to understand that they do have options. being able to make choices again for yourself. as a victim, as a survivor, it's so empowering. >> reporter: as the women know all so well, it's much more complicated than that. >> i feel that when we're rescued, that yay, happy ending, it's all over. literally the newspaper said that, happy ending. it's not an ending. the book doesn't close and i just vanish. >> a lot of people have asked me, why didn't you do this? like, if they knew what they would do if they were kidnapped. >> i was physically chained up, i was also manipulated and told if i ran he'd kill me, he'd kill my family. i ultimately felt like those mentions were much stronger bonds than the actual chains

that i was held with. >> reporter: and while jayme is safe at home, this sisterhood of survivors knows this is just the first step in recovering from the unthinkable. >> "smart justice" premieres tomorrow night on lifetime. up next, superheroes doing super box office. we talk to the avengers. no spoilers. are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ozempic® should not be the first medicine for treating diabetes,

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the avengers asmble iing for their final act. shattering box office numbers, smashing the thursday night preview record with projected to earn nearly $300 million domestically by the end of the weekend. here's abc's paula faris with the cast of characters. >> this is where it all ends. it's all been working up to this. >> everything changes after this movie. >> it's kind of the crown jewel. >> reporter: after a year of agonizing anticipation -- >> you could not live with your own failure. what did that bring you? back to me. >> reporter: audiences around the world still reeling all over one little snap. >> you should have gone for the head. >> reporter: and in one fell swoop -- >> this is no place to die. >> reporter: the villain thanos wiped out half the universe,

including marvel's major superheroes. >> after "infinity war," i remember people coming into the shindig i threw, grabbing me, going can you believe that? we were all fangirls and fanboys together. >> thanos did exactly what he said he was going to do, wipe out 50% of all living creatures. >> reporter: the avengers are assembling for one final mission to save the world. in what's shaping up to be the cinematic event of the year, avengers end game. >> oh my gosh, we're rolling. everybody in character. >> calm down. >> buckle up. >> reporter: sitting down with the original six, robert downey jr., scarlett johansson, mark ruffalo, the chrises, hemsworth and evans, and jeremy renner. >> give me one word to describe the end. >> epic. >> game. >> cathartic.

>> i think they deliver. really stick the landing in terms of addressing the arcs and really finding a completion. >> ask jeremy, how good is it? you weren't in the last film. is it so nice to be back? >> it feels good to be back because of these cats right here. i got to spend a lot of time, quality time. the best thing that's birthed from the universe is my friendship with these jokers. >> if we do this, how do we know it's going to end any differently than before? >> before you didn't have me. >> reporter: with the stakes raised it's potentially the end for some of marvel's most beloved heroes. many suspect this may be the swan song for at least a few of the original cast, including chris evans' captain america. this tweet had fans buzzing. the cap was hanging up his shield for good. >> it appeared that you were saying good-bye to your character. what should we read into that? >> nothing and i tried to clarify this. regardless of what happens in the plot, truly, what happens happens in this movie, i would have posted the exact same thing. this has been an enormous part of my life.

it will follow me to the day i die. that's really -- when you think about it it's easy to get emotional about it. >> new york of the characters are immortal. none of our characters can't be killed. that's one of the reasons they seem so human. that's one of the reasons you connect with them. >> reporter: avengers end game, produced by marvel, owned by abc's parent company disney, marks the culmination of ten years and 22 films that make up the marvel cinematic universe, the most lucrative film franchise in the world, netting more than $18 billion. the brain child of marvel studios president kevin feige. >> the theme is overcoming adversity. working alongside people who are completely different from you. the avengers should not be in a room together. the avengers are all very, very different types of people. as we've continued to grow and add guardians of the galaxy, you get to "infinity war" and see so many people who have almost no

business being in the same movie, much less being in the same room, yet they're able to get along and they're able to put aside for differences for the common good. >> you trust me? >> i do. >> reporter: that massive multi-focus cinematic universe began with 2008's "iron man" way before the avengers even assembled when tony stark was not yet a household name. >> i'm just not the hero type. >> how crucial was robert downey jr. in that first movie to really get things going in the right direction? >> it was more than crucial. it was the seed that led to everything else. i say, if there were no rdj, there would be no mcu. jon favreau for helping us navigate. what they were able to do with iron man is reinvent expectations for what a quote-unquote comic book movie could be. >> reporter: the connection with these characters so deep, it hit hard when many were turned to dust in "infinity war." >> was it painful for you to watch any of those scenes?

was there a character that you really -- >> what tom holland did with spider-man -- >> i don't feel so good. >> that connection that we built through "civil war" and "spider-man homecoming" and seeing him go. >> i don't want to go, i don't want to go, please, i don't want to go. >> and seeing our big hero, tony stark, who up to that point hadn't met a conflict he couldn't eventually overcome, literally having this kid turn to dust in his hands. >> reporter: he was also the hardest scene for brothers joe and anthony russo, directors on four marvel films, including "infinity war" and "end game." >> it was tough killing him off. we knew it would be painful. because it was painful for us. we wanted to make it painful. i mean, that's sort of the value of narrative is that it can be reflective of life. you don't always win. >> we worked very hard with both robert downey and tom holland on that scene to find the most

emotionally combustible version of that scene and be very true to the relationship that was unfolding there. where tony was this father figure to him and he was -- he was going away and dying. >> it's an ending to a really grand experiment that a lot of people care about and have invested a lot of their time and their thoughts and their energy into. >> reporter: and after nearly a decade as avengers, all of the core six, except mark, celebrating in a very unique way. >> is it true that you all have avengers tattoos? >> yeah. >> yes. >> well, except for -- >> except for the yahoo here. >> i have a problem with needles. >> why didn't you say that? >> i did say that i told robert. >> you can see you genuinely love one another. what's it been like to work with this amazing group? >> it's the family you choose. the fates brought us together. i can look at each of my costars and recall many times that we've

sought each other out when there was no call sheet. >> we keep using the words surreal, dream-like. it's been a very blessed affair. >> most of you have kids. has this upped the cool factor? >> i was just telling the guys, one of my kids thinks that i'm cool. >> just one? >> just one. he gets fed the most, he looked after, he gets my love. the other ones like wonder woman so they sleep outside. >> reporter: whatever heartbreak we may have after this next film, at least for these avengers, they will always be superheroes at heart. >> the majority of us have come back probably every year and a half, two years, to this same dynamic or a similar dynamic in this huge, now enormous extended family. and it's been this kind of landmark in our lives for the past decade. i think it's just a lot to wrap our heads around. >> when we all go do separate jobs, every one of us will have these moments of, man, i miss this. regardless of how the other

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