cisco... ...tomorrow starts here. >>> it happened in san ysidro, a short drive from ann and john bender's in april 2001. >> so we were driving along and john mentioned there was a car behind us that just keeps following us. we pulled into where we were going to go. i looked at john and said this is a kidnapping. he just sat down on the ground because he knew they wouldn't be able to move him. >> they were not kidnapping him, they were acting as muscle for a past business associate of john's. john and ann no longer felt safe in costa rica. >> the first thing we did is, we left the country. we went to canada. >> three months later they returned to their home in the rain forest. >> to come back, we had to be safe. so that is when we hired the private security. >> she and john also armed themselves. >> we both got gun permits. i never in a million years would have thought, and john said the same thing, i can't believe i'm learning how to shoot a gun. both of us were very anti-gun. >> she says soon their safety was threatened again. when their mountain-top sanctuary was invaded in 2002 by arme