Man gives hitchhiker a lift home-and is shocked by the news the next day

 "The reports about Avery, the phone calls... it was all part of a plan to deceive them," the anchor said, his voice calm but his hands trembling slightly.Carter understood the weight of his words and realized how deeply rooted the deception was. "We had to make sure everyone was focused on the wrong thing," he continued, revealing the extreme measures a father would take to protect his daughter from the dangers lurking in the shadows.