Sam Baily takes hostages at a museum after getting laid off from his job. He takes the museum boss and children on a field trip hostage. Journalist Max Brackett gets involved in the hostage situation while using the bathroom. He acts as an intermediary between Baily and the police. The situation escalates as Baily accidentally shoots someone and frightens the children. Brackett reports on the story exclusively, reviving his career. Baily wants to go home to his family but knows he will go to jail. He ultimately commits suicide by detonating explosives when the police issue an ultimatum rather than face prison.

4. Sam Baily gets laid off from his job as museum security guard. In
desperation for not being able to provide for his wife and kids, he comes
armed with weapons and explosives and takes his boss Mrs. Banks and
a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages.

5. Television journalist Max Brackett is in the museum using the restroom
after an interview with the curator about financial difficulties. He
becomes directly involved in the hostage situation, acting as Baily’s
intermediary to the outside world and the police.

6. Baily accidentally shoots an ex-colleague, sending him to the hospital
and inadvertently fires a gun again, frightening the children and
becoming more and more unstable as he takes caffeine pills to stay
awake. Along with a young intern, Laurie, Brackett reports the story
exclusively on television, reviving his career. By being free to come and
go, he negotiates with a national network and its star news anchorman,
Kevin Hollander, with whom Brackett has unhappy history.

7. Baily wants the police to let him return home to his wife and kids and
won’t accept he’s going to jail. Brackett on the other hand makes a deal
with Larry King rather than to let Hollander have the story, prompting
Hollander to publicly accuse Brackett of prolonging the crisis and
endangering the children. When Baily’s ex-colleague succumbs from his
injuries. Baily stars to realize he’s lost everything.

8. Baily and Brackett allow the situation to worsen until the police finally
have had enough, issuing a five minute ultimatum to Baily for releasing
the hostage. Baily lets the children as well as Brackett go, but rather
than face prison– and his wife – he ultimately sets off his explosives,
committing suicide. As reporter swamp Brackett and ask about Baily, all
he can say is, “We killed him”, referring to how media handles the
situation.

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