 Cross kneels before the nervous Megan to introduce himself as a policeman and her parents' friend.She asks if he can take her home to them, and he assures her that nothing would make him happier.One of the primary elements of the book screenwriter Marc Moss eliminated from his script was the fact that Soneji is actually a mild-mannered suburban husband and father suffering from dissociative identity disorder resulting from having been abused as a child.