Inside Man Page #2

You'll see it on the news tonight.

Step back, please.

Mr Case?

Oh, good morning, Katherine.

What can I do for you?

Sir, there's a robbery in progress

at one of our branches.

Oh, my.

- Has anybody been hurt?

- I don't think so, but there are hostages.

Oh, how awful.

- Which branch is it?

- Number 32. 20 Exchange Place.

- Which one?

-20 Exchange Place.

Thank you, Katherine.

I'm sorry, Mr Case.

Oh, dear God.

Get these people out of here.

Come on, open these gates. Back up.

Up on the sidewalk. Come on in.

Sergeant Collins, first on scene.

Are you the hostage negotiator?

That's right. Detective Frazier.

This is Detective Mitchell. What do you got?

Not much.

Saw the bank was filled with smoke.

The door was locked.

I tried to take a look inside

and one of the gunmen opens the door,

sticks a. 357 in my face,

screaming in some foreign accent

about killing hostages.

- See any other gunmen?

- No, sir. I couldn't see anything at all.

- You hear anything inside?

- No, sir,

but with that. 357 sticking in my face,

I can't really be sure. I'm sorry.

Okay.

Good, good. Good, good, good, good.

You did a good job, Sergeant.

You ever had a gun

stuck in your face before?

- Yeah, once.

- Really?

Yeah, by a 12-year-old.

- What was that like?

- Not one of my better days.

I bet. All right, well, look.

As soon as we get this thing cleared up,

we'll cut you loose, all right?

If you don't mind,

I'd rather hang around a while,

at least until we make contact.

That's what I like to hear, Sergeant.

What? Come on. Why you doing this?

Why you doing this to me?

Pop, what's going on? Yo.

All bank employees,

raise your hands!

Bank employees, this side!

Everyone else, over there!

Now, I need everybody

to take your cell phones and your keys

out of your pockets and handbags

and hold them in the air.

- What's your name?

- Peter.

- Peter what?

- Peter Hammond.

- Where's your cell phone, Peter Hammond?

- I left it at home.

Peter, think very carefully

about how you answer the next question

because if you get it wrong,

your headstone will read,

"Here lies Peter Hammond, hero,

"who valiantly attempted

to prevent a brilliant bank robbery

"by trying to hide his cellular phone,

"but wound up getting shot

in the f***ing head. "

Now, Peter Hammond,

where is your cell phone?

I'm telling you, I did. I left it at home.

Okay, I f***ed up. I'm sorry. Please.

Hey. Don't worry about it.

Just let me talk to you!

Please, please, listen to me.

Let me explain.

Help! Help me.

Stop!

Stop!

Anyone else here smarter than me?

- And you are?

- Vikram Walia.

Vikram Walia. Thanks, Vikram.

Hey, mister.

Keep it.

Men here. Women here.

Move!

I need all of you

to strip down to your underwear.

Now.

Lady?

Believe me. This is the only situation

where I'd ask you to do this.

- But take off your f***ing clothes.

- No.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

What's with you mishegoyim?

Go ahead. Make my day.

- Take your f***ing clothes off, lady.

- No!

Stevie?

Let's go!

Now, I need all of you

to put on one of these suits

and these masks.

I'm Shon Gables, with CBS 2 News,

outside Manhattan Trust Bank,

where we have just been told

by investigators,

the bank has been robbed.

The suspect or possible suspects are inside,

holed up with an unknown number

of hostages.

- Captain Darius?

- Yeah.

I'm Detective Frazier.

This is Detective Mitchell.

Hey.

You may remember,

we worked that hospital thing on 93rd,

during my training?

Oh, yeah. That was a real shame.

Yeah, it was. It was.

So, what do we got?

I got an unknown number of suspects

and an unknown number of hostages,

and a bank, and about a million spectators,

and I can't see sh*t inside there,

- so I'm kind of busy.

- I understand.

The way this works, Mr Frazier,

is I deal with Mr Grossman.

So if you need anything,

you can speak with him, okay?

No, it's not okay, Captain.

Detective Grossman is away on vacation,

so Detective Frazier

is the big dick today, all right?

Now, if you need anything,

you can speak to me, all right?

I guess it'll have to be.

That's the way it's gonna be.

You got vests for us?

- Berk!

Yo!

- Get these guys some vests!

- Okay.

- And check them into the command log.

- Okay.

You know what?

I'm gonna get out of your hair

and let you get control

of this crime scene, okay?

You'll let me know when you're ready

with a detailed briefing?

- Okay.

- We're gonna take a walk down to the diner.

Don't go in the bank without calling us first,

all right? Okay?

- All right.

- Good to see you, Captain.

Shouldn't we be in there?

Let's give him some time. See what he does.

Come on.

Until he secures his position

and gets the physical layout,

he'll only dump on us.

If the show starts, he'll call us.

Trust me. I've seen him work.

Your call, Keith.

Can you get that for me?

I guess it is, isn't it?

That's the one thing I learnt

from Grossman,

is these guys don't have much respect

for what we do.

- How do you mean?

- Well, to them it's a tactical situation.

Us being here means there's

a mental side to it that they don't get.

- Told you, you could handle this.

- Yeah.

I keep waiting for someone higher up

on the food chain to show up and say,

"Here's what we do. "

What happened at the hospital?

Guy shot himself, shot his girlfriend.

Thank you.

I told you, I've got

a heart condition.

Get up.

Put down

your f***ing weapons!

- Don't move! Don't move!

- Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

- Don't move! Don't move! Come here!

- I haven't got...

- Come here, come here, come here!

- I work in the bank!

On your knees! Down on your knees now!

- They sent me out here!

- Now!

- He said stay away!

- Cuff him.

If you come near the bank,

he'll throw out two dead bodies!

- Who said this? Who?

- I don't know who!

The guy with the big f***ing gun!

- That's who!

- All right, get on your feet. Let's go.

- There's four of them in there!

- Come on.

Christ!

- Calm down!

- Let's go!

- Am I gonna be on TV?

- Yeah. A big star. Let's go. Come on.

Was it a time when I thought

I might not see my family again? Yeah.

Yeah, I thought about it.

I mean, at first, I wasn't...

It was too much to think about at that point.

You know, with a gun in your face,

but after a while I...

You know, I thought about...

Yeah.

My wife, you know,

not seeing my wife again.

My kids. I got a 10-year-old son,

Yeah, I thought about it, man.

What do you think?

Those are my babies.

Beautiful.

Go ahead.

Miss White, I want you to rest assured

my only intention is to spend time

in your wonderful city

and to enjoy all that it has to offer.

And no business with your uncle?

In truth, I have very little

to do with him these days.

I'm told you haven't seen him in nine years.

Is that right?

- You are extremely well informed.

- I have to be. Yes?

I have a Mr Arthur Case

on the phone for you.

We'll need to end this here.

I'm gonna need

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