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THE ORPHAN

PLOT:
The married couple, Kate and John Coleman, are experiencing strains in their marriage after
their third child died after delivery. The loss is particularly hard on Kate Coleman, who is also
recovering from alcoholism. The couple decides to adopt a 9-year-old Russian girl named
ESTHER from an orphanage. While Max, Kate's and John's deaf daughter, embraces Esther
immediately, their son Daniel is less welcoming. Kate suspects that there might be problems
in Esther's background when Esther's knowledge of sex extends beyond her age. Her
suspicions deepen when Esther seriously injures her classmate.
Kate is further alarmed when Sister Abigail, the head of the orphanage, warns her that bad
things happen when Esther is around. Esther overhears this and pushes Max into the path of
Sister Abigail's car, forcing her to swerve off the road. Esther then kills Sister Abigail with a
hammer, and forces Max to help her hide the weapon in their tree house. Kate is convinced
that something is very wrong with Esther, but John does not believe her. Attempting to find out
more about her, Kate finds Esther's hidden Bible and discovers that it came from the Saarne
Institute in Estonia, which she eventually learns is a mental hospital. She emails a picture of
Esther to them and asks for more information.
When Daniel learns about Sister Abigail's death from Max, he tells her of his plan to retrieve
the hammer to prove Esther's guilt. Esther overhears this and confronts Daniel as he
searches the tree house, then sets it ablaze to kill him and destroy the evidence. Daniel falls
from the tree trying to escape, and is knocked unconscious. Esther attempts to finish him off
with a rock, but Max stops her. While Daniel is hospitalized, Esther slips into his room and
smothers him with a pillow, stopping his heart; doctors quickly revive him. Kate, realizes what
happened and attacks Esther, but orderlies help John restrain her. As John takes Esther and
Max home, doctors sedate Kate.
That night, a provocatively-dressed Esther tries to seduce a drunken John, who finally
realizes Kate was right. He tells Esther that he will send her back to the orphanage, upsetting
her. Meanwhile, a groggy Kate receives a call from a doctor at the Saarne Institute, who
reveals that Esther is actually a 33-year-old woman named Leena Klammer. She has
hypopituitarism, a hormone disorder that stunted her physical growth; she has spent most of
her life posing as a little girl and had people adopt her, with the goal of seducing the father
and having a relationship with him. The doctor reports that Leena is extremely violent and has
murdered at least seven people. The last family, whom she was adopted by in Estonia, was
killed by her because the father had rejected her sexual advances. Kate tries to get back
home to stop Esther, and prevent her family from suffering the same fate. Leena flies into a
rage after being spurned by John, and ransacks her room, before angrily removing her "little
girl" makeup and clothes, revealing the scars from a strait jacket on her neck and wrists,
weathered skin, stained teeth, and fully developed breasts.
After removing the disguise that enhanced her illusion as the youthful "Esther", Leena kills

John. Max witnesses this and hides. Kate rushes home and finds John dead. Leena gets a
gun from John's safe and shoots Kate in the arm, then tracks Max down into the greenhouse.
Kate manages to knock Leena out, take the gun, and flee with Max. Leena regains
consciousness and finds Kate and Max near a frozen pond. She lunges at Kate, knocking the
gun away, and hurling them both onto the ice. Max picks up the gun and tries to shoot Leena,
but hits and shatters the ice below them instead, causing Kate and Leena to drop into the
water. Kate climbs partially out of the pond; Leena, reverting to her "Esther" persona, begs
Kate not to let her die while hiding a knife behind her back. Kate angrily responds that she is
not her mother and kicks Leena in the face, breaking her neck and sending her back into the
pond. Max and Kate are met by the police moments after.
CHOSEN CHARACTER: Esther Coleman a.k.a. Leena Klammer
She was born in Estonia with hypopituitarism, a disease that blocks physical growth and
makes her appear a child even when an adult. Leena was sexually abused by her father from
infancy, causing her to be sterile. Because this unnatural relationship was all she knew, it
caused further difficulties in her search for a healthy relationship with a normal man. When
her father took on a new sexual partner, he informed Leena that it was because she would
"never be a real woman". She was pushed into insanity and killed both her father and his
girlfriend. She was subsequently caught and eventually placed in the Saarne Institute, an
Estonian mental hospital.
Leena was one of Saarne's most violent patients, forcing the staff to keep her in a straitjacket
that she was constantly fighting to get out of. Continued struggling against her restraints
caused scarring on her wrists and neck. So, to cover these, she wears ribbons on the affected
areas. She escaped the hospital and then continued to allow herself to be abused by
becoming a prostitute for wealthy pedophiles. When arrested by the police in her prostitution,
she kept up her child facade and was sent to an orphanage, where she tricked a family into
adopting her. Eventually, she tried to seduce the adoptive father, and when that failed, she
killed him and his family and set fire to the house. She then escaped the country and headed
to America, where she uses fake documents to pose as a 9-year-old Russian girl named
Esther. In the orphanage where she flees to, she would meet the last family to adopt her: the
Colemans.

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