Hostage 911

A man takes his wife hostage after she demands a divorce. Negotiators plead with the suspect to let her go but have no idea there is another plan going on inside the house that could have fatal consequences.

An ex-felon with an axe to grind takes his former lawyer hostage, threatening to detonate a bomb if he doesn't get justice.

When a 10-year-old girl reports being held hostage by a family friend, negotiator Mike Newlin must earn the suspect's trust. In New Mexico, an assailant takes shelter inside a local tourist attraction, taking everyone hostage.

A father and his twin sons are home when a violent bank robber takes them hostage; a deranged man holds his wife and child hostage in an apartment complex, but when he reports killing the wife, police have only minutes to save the child.

It's nightfall in a forest when officers locate a suspect who has taken his three children hostage, and he is armed and claiming he will hurt his own family, so negotiators try to de-escalate the situation and convince him to release the children.

An elderly man faking chest pains takes five EMT firefighters hostage at gunpoint. With a house full of firearms and an unwillingness to negotiate, officers believe he has a deadly plan in mind.

Two mothers face their worst fear: suspects take their children hostage. Negotiators work via text to get a baby to safety, and they draw on their own parenting experience to convince a suspect to give himself up.

A dance teacher receives a message from her ex-husband holding a gun to his head and he claims that he's enroute to the dance studio and threatens to murder the family, and officers race to beat him to the scene, pleading with him to stand down.