Hi. Hey.
Thanks, Ahmed.
You´re welcome, Sidney. Have a nice day.
Thanks.
Hey, partner. Hey.
You´re in a hurry.
I got that McKenna thing this morning.
Damn it, I left my briefcase in the gift shop.
I´m a mess today.
You want me to hold the elevator?
Uh, no, no, I´ll see you up there.
Okay.
Six for me, please?
Uh, it´s going down.
It is? Yeah.
I´ll take a ride.
She bought her paper, like usual.
That was it.
Do you remember seeing anyone suspicious?
Suspicious?
Ah... hanging around,
loitering, that sort of thing.
Um, no...
I´m sorry.
Okay, thank you.
Give me the rundown.
Okay...
The woman´s name is Sidney Harrison,
41 years old, Caucasian, divorced, no children.
Owns and runs a small employment agency
on the sixth floor.
She was on her way up to work
when someone grabbed her in the elevator.
What time?
About nine. Everybody on their way to work,
crowded lobby, pretty risky move.
He could have been staking her out for days,
waiting for the right moment.
Did he take her out through the underground garage?
Looks that way, but we got no witnesses.
What have you got?
Spray paint on the security camera.
JACK: Could you, uh, stop the tape there?
Rewind it.
You see that?
Covering his mouth with his hand,
trying to disguise his voice. He knows her.
Maybe the ski mask isn´t just for the camera. ( phone rings )
JACK: I´m going to need the original copy of this tape.
Yeah?
Thanks.
We´ll be right up.
We just got a ransom note,
upstairs in her office.
I´ll be back for that.
MAN: It came on my computer
five minutes ago.
I don´t know how we´re going to come up
with that kind of money so quickly.
Have you responded to this E-mail yet?
No, of course not.
Would you mind giving us a few seconds?
Sure, of course.
( clears throat )
JACK: "We have Sydney Harrison. If you ever want
"...see her again follow our instructions,
"don´t call the police.
"You have until two o´ clock
"to get six hundred eighty seven thousand dollars...
"At that time, you will hear from us again.
Be prepared to deliver the money."
2:00? That´s only three hours to get everything organized.
Well, let´s see if we can stall them.
Okay, then.
Let´s get started.
687 grand?
That´s a pretty random number, huh?
Yeah, it is.
It´s got to be symbolic, you know, personal,
something like that.
Well, she´s no Bill Gates.
$82,000 in equity is her personal savings.
I don´t know where these idiots think
she´s going to come up with that kind of money.
Her company?
No, they´d never raise it that fast.
We´re going to have to go to our own banks first.
How about the E-mail?
Untraceable so far.
The techies are taking
the computer to the field office.
Next E-mail will come in there.
Hey. The attendant´s been here since 7:00
DANNY: He see anything?
White Ford conversion van parked right there.
That door leads to the elevator.
He was just about to have the van towed
when another car pulls in.
He parks the other car,
and when he comes back, the van´s gone.
So he waits for her in a crowded lobby,
intercepts her in a security elevator,
parks in a tow-away zone
and still manages to get her out of here
without anybody seeing a thing.
This guy´s either a criminal genius,
or a complete moron.
Lucky moron, so far.
This is insane...
Sidney was just getting back on her feet, and now this.
Back on her feet in reference to what?
Our old offices were in the World Trade Center.
Sorry.
There were 18 of us.
We lost 15.
Were you there?
No, um...
we were the lucky ones.
Right.
We believe that the man who took Sidney knew her.
Possible that it´s a disgruntled client?
Well, there are a lot of people
that we can´t find jobs for these days.
What about employees? Anybody fired recently?
Jim Thatcher.
When was this?
Last Thursday.
What for?
I´m not sure, um...
Sidney talked to him alone,
and she-she wouldn´t say why she let him go.
Was he angry when he left?
Yeah, he was.
Okay, got it.
That was Jack.
He wants us to check out a disgruntled employee
a guy named Jim Thatcher.
Thatcher? Yeah.
SYDNEY´S VOICE: "I will not die an unlived life.
"I will not live in fear of falling
"or catching fire.
"I choose to inhabit my days,
"to allow my living to open me,
"to make me less afraid, more accessible.
"I choose to risk my significance.
"To live so that which comes to me as seed
"goes to the next as blossom.
"And that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
Guy wasn´t there.
We got an hour before the drop,
and for all we know,
this guy could be in Puerto Rico.
How long do we have to wait?
Another ten seconds.
Yeah, then what happens?
We interrogate him.
Mr. Thatcher, FBI.
Mind if we ask you a couple questions?
What´s this about?
Where were you this morning at 9:00 a.m.?
I was home, why?
Your former employer,
Sidney Harrison´s been kidnapped.
Come on.
You think that´s funny?
No.
Jeez, of course not.
Why´d she fire you?
Because she´s a hypocrite, that´s why.
Elaborate for us.
She asked me to cut a phony payroll check.
I took a little extra... for myself.
That´s the least I can do
when you´re asking me to break the law.
You stole from me.
You´re embezzling from the company, what´s the difference?
I told you, that check was for a friend in need.
Oh, so then why don´t you
give him the money out of your pocket?
Because he has too much pride.
I didn´t buy it for a second.
What was her friend´s name?
Barry Mashburn.
How much was the check for?
Ten grand.
I made it out
for nine and change.
I was going to keep the little extra for myself--
Think we could take a look in your apartment?
Yeah.
I got nothing to hide.
Come on.
I´m going to check out this Barry Mashburn.
Steve, yeah, I need a Barry Mashburn.
Here we go.
Barry Mashburn.
Great, thank you.
Do you remember anything in particular about him?
She took all of his calls personally.
She was very invested in him.
Okay, now what are all these notations right here?
Any time she calls a potential employer
for a client, she marks it down.
Wow, she really worked hard for him.
Sidney´s amazing.
Relentless.
If she can´t place you, you´re unplaceable.
Do you want a transmitter?
Yeah.
Jack.
We just got the drop location.
Okay.
You got two minutes.
We traced the E-mail that copied that central server.
There´s 52 of them in Manhattan,
22 in the Midtown, downtown area.
That really helps us narrow it down.
Yeah, no kidding.
( cell phone ringing )
Yeah.
JACK: The drop´s going to happen at a bookstore
on West Fourth called The Table of Contents.
Yeah, I know it.
They want somebody named Libby Coulter
to make the delivery.
That´s Sidney´s assistant.
Right. You know the revival movie house
across the street?
Uh-huh.
I want you and Libby
to meet me in the adjacent alley in 15 minutes.
Okay.
Ready, Boss? Yeah.
Everything´s going to be fine.
We´ve got it under control.
I´ll do whatever I need to do to help Sidney.
Now, I think the reason that he picked you
is because he knows what you look like.
So when you go in there, if you recognize him...
Don´t talk to him.
Don´t identify him
in any way.
Just walk into the travel section.
Put the bag down, and walk out.
Okay. Look at me.
Okay, now, say the words.
Repeat what I just said to you.
Um... walk in there, leave the bag
in the travel section, walk away.
Okay, good.
This compact-- it has a microphone.
You´re going to put it in your bag
so we can hear everything that´s going on.
Okay. Okay?
Agent Spade-- she´s going to be in the bookstore with you.
She´s going to cover you if anything goes down,
but under no circumstances do you acknowledge her.
Right, we spoke about that.
Right.
Go.
This is going to be fine.
( laughs )
It´ll be over in ten minutes.
Okay?
( sighs )
( door chimes ring )
CLERK: Hey, can I help you
with something?
Um, where´s your travel section?
Over there.
Are you looking for anything in particular?
No, thanks.
She´s doing good.
Yep.
Uh, Miss?
You forgot your bag.
Oh, for crying out-- He´s trying to give her the bag back, shut up!
Oh, um, I´m...
just going to feed my meter.
It, it´s kind of heavy,
so I just...
So...
Hey, Pal, that´s not your bag.
Hey, hey, hey!
It´s not, hey!
Get the hell off!
( muttering )
LIBBY ( over microphone ): It´s Barry Mashburn. Damn it!
( whispering ) It´s Barry Mashburn.
It´s Barry...
Hey, who you talking to?
Who you talking to?
Cops, huh?
Cops are here?
( whimpering ): Oh, God!
All right, nobody move!
Or I´ll shoot! Get over here! Get over here!
Uh, uh...
Everybody down!
Down!
Everybody down!
Down!
I said down!
You, get over here!
Get over here!
Over here, come on!
On the floor.
MARTIN: We just lost audio.
( panting )
I said "no cops!"
There´s cops here!
Are you a cop?
What about you?
Are you a cop? Huh?
The situation has changed dramatically.
I´m going to need you to contact the NYPD.
Set up an out-of-perimeter. Nobody in or out.
And also, notify SWAT.
What about you? Down! Down!
What about you?
( tires screeching )
Subway station has been shut down and secured.
Great. We´re going to need a supply of food and water.
We need to hook up a direct line to the bookstore.
We need to set up a rain-down.
So I want to blast the heat in the bookstore, okay?
Set the furnace up to 100 degrees.
Bring it down to 85. Keep it level. ( phone ringing )
Right.
( over phone ): John. All right, here´s what I got
so far on Barry Mashburn.
42 years old,
widowed, wife´s name--
Nicole. She was 38.
Nicole. How´d she die?
Doesn´t even say when she died.
All I got is a "wife deceased" off his last tax return.
Kids?
Peter, 12; Wendy, 10.
Finances?
They´re not good.
Made only 17 grand last year.
He´s been out of work for the last three months.
Has he got a record?
He´s clean-- DMV says he´s got
a white Ford van that matches the description
of the getaway car. And where does he live?
Got an address for him in Brooklyn.
I´m on my way there right now.
Great.
( cell phone ringing out )
( phone ringing )
All right, uh-uh, you and you,
uh, take that bookcase,
move it in front of that door.
( ringing continues )
Now!
It´s too heavy.
T-T-Take the books out.
( ringing continues )
You want me to answer that?
If I want you to do something, I´ll tell you, okay?
Hey, Jack, I think they´re doing something
with the bookshelves.
( cell phone ringing out )
Can I look? Yeah.
Oh, come on, man, it´s still too heavy.
Look, why don´t you just close the blinds?
( ringing continues )
All right, all right, all right.
Close the blinds.
You take care of the ones in the back.
Yeah, all right.
What are they doing?
( whispering ): Oh, great.
Ah, son of a bitch.
SYDNEY: "April 10, 2003.
"I feel so badly.
"Barry. God, Barry...
"Waiting for me downstairs last night in the lobby,
"with that beaten-down expression
and those sad, lost eyes."
Hey.
I thought you were going to call me.
Oh. I-I´m sorry, Barry.
I-I was going to call you tomorrow.
Did you get the check?
No. What check?
There was an old, uh, payroll check
from your last job,
but we sent it to your mother-in-law´s address.
No, I haven´t been over there. You know, I...
Well, you should go get it.
I don´t need a couple hundred bucks.
I need a job. Well, I-I know that. I know that.
I know, and I´m trying.
Nicole would have been able to find me a job.
Nicole carried you.
She had the relationship with all the clients.
She-she-she, uh, she set up all the meetings, you know?
Barry, this isn´t productive.
I´m tired.
I´m tired of getting the runaround
because I remind you of her,
and you can´t take it!
I... you owe us!
I promised you that I would do everything I can,
and I have been.
Please, I-I have to get home.
"Do I not look him in the eye because of Nicole?
"I thought I saw him this morning
"outside the coffee shop,
"but then it was just some poor homeless guy.
Must be my guilty conscience talking."
( phone ringing )
For God sakes, answer the phone.
Shut up.
( ringing continues )
You have a very big mouth.
And you don´t have much of a plan here,
so you better pick up the phone.
Shut up, man.
Everybody just chill out, okay?
Shut up, okay? Everyone, shut up.
Gotta think!
( ringing continues )
All right, keep me posted.
Jack, that was Vivian.
Barry Mashburn´s wife was Sydney´s old assistant.
She died on 9-11.
What, and you think that Barry blamed Sydney?
Apparently he confronted her in the lobby of her building
three days ago,
and he was described as angry and resentful.
You think Sydney´s still alive?
( phone ringing )
Hey, hey, hey. What are you doing?
It´s hot in here.
( ringing contiues )
All right.
Okay.
Can I use the bathroom?
No, no, no. No.
Look,
I´m really scared, and...
...I need to go to the bathroom.
Can I please go to the bathroom?
( ringing contines )
All right, um, uh-uh, wh-where´s the bathroom?
It´s over there.
Let´s go. Come on.
Nobody move,
all right?
Come on!
Come on, come on.
Where´s your cell phone?
I don´t have a cell phone.
All right, I´m going to have to search you again. You know... Okay.
All right.
Um...
Okay.
( ringing continues )
( sotto voce ): Okay.
Think, think, think, think, damn it.
Think, think, think, think.
Barry Mashburn?
I can´t believe it.
Do you think that he somehow blames Sydney
for what happened to Nicole?
No. Well... not that I ever saw.
She only tried to help him.
He was here just last week.
He seemed... desperate but not crazy.
I´m going to call you in a couple of days, okay?
All right, thank you. Thank you.
You´re welcome.
What´d you tell him?
That we´d keep trying.
Sydney...
What?
He´s not your personal responsibility.
Well, I-I never said he was.
You don´t have to.
It´s not our fault that we weren´t there that day.
If the man
doesn´t want to help himself, we can´t help him.
That´s all I´m saying.
Mm.
You know, before 9-11,
Sydney was...
kind of cold.
You know, business was business.
Getting jobs for people was a numbers game to her.
But afterwards, she changed.
I mean, she really changed.
Everyone who came through this door,
it was personal with her.
And no one more than Barry.
Come on, let´s go! What are you doing in there?
Just a sec.
Coming.
Sorry, I... I´m just....
No, that´s all right. I mean...
you don´t have to apologize for everything.
Stop saying sorry. It´s making me nervous.
Okay, I´m sorry. Okay?
Uh...
( chuckles )
I... I´m going to shut up now, then...
( phone ringing )
Yeah. Thanks, Viv.
All right, according to Sydney´s business partner,
Mashburn got himself fired from a job at a copy place
three months ago.
And early last week
he came into Sydney´s offices
to ask for another job.
She said she´d try to help him out,
but it didn´t look promising.
And I think that´s when she went to Thatcher
to cut that false check for ten grand.
But he never got that check?
No. According to her diary,
she sent it to his mother-in-law´s house.
Now, why would she do that?
( phone ringing )
( ringing stops )
Thank God.
Yeah. I´ll give ´em three minutes
till they call back again.
Mom, it´s hot in here.
Oh, I know, sweetheart.
Hey, yeah, hey.
Where´s the thermostat?
There isn´t one in the... in the store.
The building controls the temperature.
What´s your name?
This is Kyle.
I´m Cheryl.
I´m Samantha.
I´m Libby.
I´m Ted.
Fran.
Richard.
( ringing resumes )
What the hell happened, Jack?
We had a drop go bad.
There´s a suspect across the street in a bookstore.
He´s holding about a half a dozen hostages.
And Special Agent Spade is one of these hostages?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Have you achieved contact with the suspect?
Not yet.
Then Drummond should step in and be the negotiator on this.
With all due respect to you
and Drummond, I am knee-deep in this.
I have background on the suspect.
I know a lot about the person he kidnapped.
I have tons of experience in hostage negotiation,
not to mention the fact that there´s one of my agents
in that bookstore.
Which is what makes me doubt whether or not you have
proper objectivity--
particularly because it´s...
this agent, Jack.
Which is exactly why I should do it.
Because if she tries to communicate
something to me covertly,
I am the best one to interpret it.
I know her.
Drummond doesn´t.
( ringing continues )
Hello?
I´ve got him on the phone.
You´ve got the rope, Jack. Don´t hang yourself with it.
Who am I talking to?
JACK: Who am I talking to?
Hello? Is anyone there?
Who´s this?
My name is Jack.
Jack who?
Uh, I´m with the FBI.
And, uh, who am I talking to?
I think you know my name.
Right.
So this is Barry.
Yeah, that´s right. Uh-huh.
And, uh, what else do you know about me?
Well, Barry, I know that you have, uh...
a number of hostages in there.
But what I need to know is, is anyone hurt?
No one´s hurt.
Yet.
Does that include Sidney Harrison?
Sidney´s safe for now.
Can you tell me where she is?
She´s, uh, she´s, uh, she´s with my partner.
You know, but one word from me
and she dies.
They don´t hear from me by midnight
she dies, you understand that?
Okay, Barry, I got it, I got it.
It´s good that you´ve kept your cool.
Yeah, so far.
Right, ´cause you don´t want to hurt anyone, Barry,
because if you do, that´s when things
are going to get difficult.
Oh, yeah, well, things are really peachy right now.
Look, I need you to tell me
how many people are in there with you.
Well, let´s just say that there´s, uh,
there´s more than three
and less than ten.
And one cop.
What cop?
There´s no cop in there, Barry.
There´s no cop in there with you.
The delivery girl was miked, Jack.
Let me tell you something, Barry, if there
was a cop in there, you´d be disarmed right now.
( scoffs )
Yeah, maybe.
How many women do you have in there?
I got a few.
Anybody old or sick?
No.
What about kids?
You have any children?
Barry, do you have a child in there?
What about him?
Well, we need to get him out.
Yeah?
Yeah, well, okay.
Then I got to get something I need.
Okay, what do you need?
Tell me what you need.
Uh, I need a, I need a helicopter
to get me to the airport
and I need a plane to get me out of the country.
Okay, I hear you, I hear you.
But those are very difficult things to arrange.
You have to give us some time.
I don´t need anymore false promises.
What are you talking about?
We just started talking.
There´s no false promises here.
What are you talking about?
Let´s just say people are liars, Jack.
Okay, let´s just say that people are liars.
Let´s just say that.
But I´m not, okay? You know why I´m not?
Because I have to keep my credibility.
If I lie, I lose my credibility with you
and that´s not good, because we
have to work this out together.
You understand?
We have to work this thing out together.
Yeah, right, together.
I´ll tell you what I´m going to do, Barry.
I´m going to give you something.
Does anybody in there
need food or water?
Uh, hold on.
All right, is, uh, is anyone in here hungry?
SAMANTHA: Water.
We could use some water.
Okay, let me ask you something.
Is the boy with
his mother or father?
Mother.
I´ll tell what I´m going to do.
I´m going to send in some water
and you´re going to give me the boy and his mother.
Yeah, uh, well... I´ll think about it.
All right, I got to go.
Okay, and Barry...
just wait a minute, okay?
What?
I just want to tell you
that we have a direct telephone line hooked up
between the bookstore and here.
You pick up the phone on your end
and the phone on my end will ring.
A direct line?
Uh-huh, exactly, a direct line.
Well, whoop-de-do.
I think he´s going to give us the boy.
Hey.
What you doing in there?
Relax, ma´am.
I´m with the FBI.
This is Barry Mashburn´s house, yes?
It was.
Did he do something wrong?
You could say that.
Well, I guess, I guess that was inevitable.
Why´s that?
Um, he just never seemed to get over Nicole´s death.
How so?
Must have been, like, ten families in this area alone
lost someone that day and most of them, you know,
they were able to keep going and Barry, he just never seemed
to be able to right himself.
Then he lost his job and everything just,
it fell apart.
How was he before everything fell apart?
He was a nice guy.
He was kind of quiet.
He loved those kids.
Nicole was always working real late.
He was the one who was here.
You´d never know it by the look of this place,
but, uh, he was always
tending to the yard and making repairs
around the house.
He took a lot of pride in this place.
( cell phone ringing )
Yeah?
His house has been foreclosed, Jack.
Since when?
February.
We didn´t get anything from the victim´s phone?
Apparently not.
Where´s he been living these last months?
He still has that van; maybe he´s living there.
What about his kids?
His neighbor thinks they went
to live with their mother-in-law.
Okay, well call me when you know.
Got it.
That Danny?
Yeah.
Are you hungry?
No.
All right.
What is he doing?
What can he possibly be thinking?
VIVIAN: He asked for $687,000.
Do have any idea why that exact amount?
No, I have no idea.
Obviously, he had money troubles, but...
Now I know this is sensitive, but do you have an idea
why he didn´t collect anything
from the victim´s fund?
For the life of me, I don´t understand it.
I know he was working with some lawyer,
and there was some hold up about the paperwork.
And Sidney Harrison?
I mean, do you have an idea
why he´d do something like this to her?
No, she always tried to help him.
That´s why this just doesn´t make any sense.
( sirens )
Why don´t you let Kyle go?
All right, the kid can go. Get him up.
( phone ringing )
Hello?
Kid´s coming out in two minutes.
What about the mother?
No, no, no, just the boy.
We got a deal?
Yes, we have a deal.
But listen,
I have to send some agents over to escort the boy out.
I don´t want you to be alarmed.
Yeah, okay.
We´ve got one coming out.
No, Mom, I´m not going without you.
Yes you are,
and I don´t want to hear...
Come on kid, now.
Not without her.
Kyle, you have to go now!
Kyle, you listen to me.
We´re all here to protect your mom.
She´s going to be fine, okay, she´s going to be fine.
But you have to go,
all right, honey?
You get the door.
Don´t point your gun at me.
Go.
Okay.
Grab the water out there.
Let´s go.
Mom...
Please.
All right, yeah, you, too. Come on.
Yeah, come on.
Let´s go.
Looks like he´s sending the mother out, too.
Good work, Jack.
You know, I wasn´t really going to shoot you.
I know, I´m just... guns...
I, uh... you did good.
So did you.
Yeah, I´m pretty sure his name is Robert.
Okay. How old? Uh, about 50.
White? Yes.
How tall?
( phone rings out )
Hello?
JACK: Barry?
Listen, I really appreciate what you did.
Letting the mother go, too.
Yeah, I didn´t do that for you.
I know.
But I really appreciate it. I...
It shows me what kind of... what kind of man you are.
Yeah, well...
Look, Barry I think
I understand why all of this is happening.
Oh, you do know?
Yeah.
I know what happened to your wife,
and I am truly sorry.
You´re sorry?
Yeah.
I lost some good friends that day.
Yeah.
How about your wife?
You... you lose her?
You lose your job, your house?
No, Barry, I didn´t.
Then don´t tell me you understand, Jack.
Look, I know it´s not the same thing, but I was down there.
I saw what happened.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Yeah, well, I bet you didn´t run over there
looking for your wife...
only to see people jumping out of the building, huh?
Look, I know it´s not the same, Barry,
but I am sorry.
And I got to tell you...
people will understand...
why you´ve done this.
People will understand how it´s come to this.
All I want to do is get you out of there unharmed.
No.
You want to help me, you get me my helicopter.
I´m working on a helicopter.
Okay? I am, but it´s-it´s complicated.
You know, we can´t land one in the middle of the street.
It involves transport, an airport.
I got to get a clearance from the FAA.
There´s a lot of things
that I don´t have any control over.
All right, all right.
I want to talk to your boss.
Come on. You can´t do that, Barry.
You got to work this out with me, understand?
We have to work this out together.
What, you think
I´m stupid, don´t you?
No. Of course I don´t think you´re stupid.
Barry... how could you have pulled off
the kidnapping with Sidney if you were stupid?
No, no, no, no, no...
This is not about Sidney now, okay?
Look,
let´s just talk about her for a minute, okay?
Look, why don´t you give her to me?
Okay? You´ve got all the hostages in there.
You don´t need her. Are you kidding me?
I tell you where Sidney is,
you come running in here with the cavalry.
You kill us all.
What are you talking about, Barry?
Look, just slow down for a second, okay?
Nobody is
going to send anybody to kill anyone, all right?
I´m not going to kill you.
All I want to do is get everybody out of there unharmed.
Now, look,
I, uh, I have no control
over Sidney´s whereabouts right now.
Uh, but one word from me, and she is dead.
Do you understand that?
Listen,
Barry, it´s counterproductive
to make threats, okay?
It´s not going to help either one of us.
No? Well, how about this?
Right, you don´t get me
my helicopter in the next hour...
somebody in here gets hurt.
Do you understand that?
I´m not bluffing, people.
I will do
what I have to do.
Sidney vouched for him, so I figured
Barry must be the best guy for the job.
How long did he work here?
Two weeks.
That´s it?
He had a short fuse.
I asked him to stay late
a few minutes one night.
Next thing I know, he´s throwing a scanner at my head.
Well, it looks like he missed you.
Missed me by that much.
A $1,000 piece of equipment smashed to pieces.
Let me get this straight.
All you did was ask him to stay late?
I mean, that´s what set him off?
We had an obnoxious customer.
He was giving Barry a hard time.
Barry snapped at the guy.
I told him to apologize.
He freaked out.
Did you call the cops?
No. Sidney begged me not to.
Said he´s having a rough time lately.
But if he ever came back again, I´d press charges.
I was down there that day.
I´m a nurse.
I was, uh...
treating the cops
and the firemen.
But no survivors?
A few.
Not enough.
My cousin...
worked in the north tower.
He got out, but...
he´s never been the same.
I was asleep.
I´d worked late the night before.
I tend bar.
And I had an audition that day downtown.
They never put the play up.
Theater´s closed now.
BARRY: How about you?
I was in Chicago visiting my brother.
And what was that like?
At first, I was so glad to be there with him
to be safe, and then...
after watching it on TV all day and all night,
it just... started to become so unreal, I...
I had to get back to New York.
Go on.
So I...
got on a train on Thursday.
24 hours straight.
I didn´t sleep a wink.
And I remember when...
when I walked out of Penn Station
onto Eighth Avenue, and I looked downtown...
all I could see was smoke.
All those people.
One of those people...
was my wife.
You´ve got her job now.
Nicole was your wife?
That´s right.
Sidney always talked about her,
but I never knew her last name.
I never knew that you...
It´s me.
Sidney says that your wife was wonderful.
( laughs )
Yeah, she was, she was.
She was.
She so wonderful that, uh,
Sidney had her working 12, 13 hour days.
You know, she was so wonderful that, um...
when she asked
if she could come in a little bit later
so she could take our kids
to school, Sidney said,
"Uh, uh, no, no.
I don´t think that´s a good idea."
"No. There-there´s too many phones
to answer, too many copies to copy, too much filing."
That´s how wonderful she was.
Yeah.
She was so wonderful that...
now I wake up...
every morning, and I walk down to that place...
just to smell her ashes.
( weeping )
What time do you have to come in now?
9:30.
Yeah. Yeah.
That´s what I thought.
Nicole had to be in at 8:00.
She would still be alive...
if that bitch
had let her take our kids...
to school.
( gun cartridge clicking )
Bonding session´s over.
Thanks for playing.
( phone ringing out )
( phone ringing )
Oh, for God sake.
We´re not getting anything worked out just sitting here.
Answer the damn phone!
Why don´t you just leave him alone, okay?
He´s just trying to figure out what to do?
Samantha... you answer it.
Me? Yeah.
Tell him I don´t want to speak to him
until I get my helicopter.
But I really don´t want
to get in the middle of this, okay? I...
No. No. Tell him... tell him that you´re scared,
I´m crazy, and if I don´t get what I want...
I´m going to start throwing bodies...
out that door there.
Do it!
( phone continues ringing )
Hello?
JACK: Who am I speaking to?
This is Samantha.
Barry listening, Samantha?
BARRY: Tell him what I told you.
Tell him. He wants me
to tell you that he´s crazy,
and if you don´t give him what he wants,
he´s going to start shooting people.
Okay, I can hear him in the background.
Um, can you tell me
how many hostages there are, including you?
You´ve got five minutes
to give us an answer.
Okay. I´ve got Libby,
Fran,
and Robert.
Is that right?
I would say that there are two
to one odds that somebody
is going to freak out if you don´t get us
the hell out of here.
You understand?
Okay, two of them are right.
One of them is off.
Who am I missing?
You want to talk to the guy who works here?
He wants to talk to Ted.
Why? I don´t know.
BARRY: No!
Tell him to forget it.
No. He says forget it.
That´s nice work, Sam.
Listen, everybody really
wants to get hell out of here, okay?
Is there something wrong?
We´re really glad you´re making progress,
because we all really want
to get the hell out of here.
You know what I´m saying?
What´s going on in there, Samantha?
Is somebody hurt?
No. Nobody´s going
to do anything stupid.
What´s he saying?
Hey!
( groans )
( grunts)
( gunshot )
Samantha?
Sam? Sam?