. >> okay, la rin da. >> yes. >> talk to your daughter. >> amanda? >> amanda? i love you sweetheart. p. >> that call was the first proof that amanda was still alive. la rin da being coached by investigators told her mother how much the captors demanded for each life they held. >> what's the amount? i have no idea. >> okay. well, he has asked for 1.5 million. >> oh, my god. >> and -- >> oh, mom. >> amanda begged her captors to understand that the ransom might never be paid. >> my family is trying to make money. i come from a poor family. >> hello? >> then the call disconnected. >> did you have that kind of money? >> no. i was a single mom, raising, you know, raising my children. and her dad certainly wasn't in, you know, in a position to pay that kind of money. >> by then, canadian officials had routed la rin da's phone to an operations center they set up and kept covert. she lived there, always ready for the next call. >> after the first couple weeks we realized that this might, might go on for longer than we hoped. >> on the other side of the globe,