Liz Cook

**Liz Cook** (Sonja Bennett) is the hidden secondary antagonist of the 2011 Lifetime film *Gone* (airdate June 27, 2011). She is introduced as a cop who was on the call (along with her partner Dennis Baldwin) when 9-year-old Emily Franklin was kidnapped.

The girl's abduction was part of a conspiracy organized by someone that was meant to force her mother Amy (the film's protagonist) to kill Ed Borden, a reporter laid up in the hospital she worked at. He wanted to expose a group of criminals that had stolen the current flu vaccine and planned to sell it on the black market for millions of dollars, prompting them to plan his murder. A male member of said group made a call to Amy during which he said that if she refused to follow his instructions "to the letter," Emily would die.

While they were following a suspect, Liz ordered Dennis to get out of her car and told Amy that he was involved in the sinister plot. She took his gun from him while holding him at gunpoint, removed Amy's handcuffs, and gave her a gun of her own—which she pointed at Dennis while demanding to know Emily's whereabouts. At that moment, Liz's true colors as a female member of the aforementioned group showed themselves when she shot her partner in his abdomen, which quickly led to his death.

Being one of Emily's two kidnappers, the corrupt cop's original plan was to frame Amy for the murder she had just committed and then make it appear that she had to kill her "in self-defense." During the chase that ensued, the former managed to shoot the latter in her left arm, only for her to escape. She then returned to Amy's house and asked her mother for her daughter's whereabouts. Later on, Liz rang the doorbell of the mansion of state health commissioner Paula Stronin, as it was where Amy was headed. At first, both she and her financial advisor Duncan Hall tried to reassure her that she was not there; the pair then let her go inside and search the mansion.

Heading up to the second floor, Liz found Amy there and pointed her gun at her once again, with her new plan being to falsely arrest her while still having her take the fall for killing Dennis. Soon enough, a brawl broke out between the two women, and they ended up rolling down the stairs—landing right in front of Paula, Duncan, and numerous guests who were attending the former's celebration of her upcoming retirement from public service. As the unscrupulous henchwoman resumed attempting to wrongfully detain Amy, she pleaded with Paula to help her find Emily, after which she tried to out Duncan (the film's hidden tertiary villain) as her daughter's other kidnapper and the man who called her earlier.

Wanting a peaceful resolution to the situation, Paula dismissed said guests and took Amy down to her cellar, which her late husband (who died four years before the film's events) used as a workshop; all the while, Duncan and Amy accompanied them, with the latter continuing to hold Amy at gunpoint. It was there that Paula exposed herself as the criminals' ringleader by scolding Duncan and calling him an "idiot" for bringing the girl to her house in the first place. Her motive for masterminding everything turned out to be paying off millions of dollars in debt; additionally, after he proclaimed that he would show her how "real business" was done by having himself and Liz shoot Amy dead in front of her, Paula's cowardice surfaced when she wordlessly walked back upstairs.

With their employer gone, Liz was instructed by Duncan to get her car; while she was doing so, Amy killed him as he tried to kill her. She then arrived in her vehicle, only for Amy to point Duncan's gun at her and instruct her to exit. After doing so, the villainess had a brief fight with her that ended when she was pistol-whipped and then handcuffed to said car, with Amy forcing her to divulge Emily's new whereabouts: the trunk of the vehicle, as Liz had moved her there under Duncan's orders. Though it was not shown, she was most likely arrested offscreen.