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Hostage
Season 4
Episode Number: 92
Season Episode: 21
Originally aired: Wednesday May 21, 2008 on CBS
Writer:
Peter M. Lenkov, Zachary Reiter
Director:
Rob Bailey
Show Stars: Gary Sinise (Detective Mack ”Mac” Taylor), Melina Kanakaredes (Detective
Stella Bonasera), Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald ”Don” Flack,
Jr.), Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes), Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe),
Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer)
Recurring Role: A.J. Buckley (Adam Ross), Robert Joy (Dr. Sid Hammerback)
Guest Stars: Elias Koteas (”Joe”Douglas), Dayo Ade (Derrick James), Adam Baldwin
(Brett Dunbar), Roger Aaron Brown (Richard Jackson HRT Commander),
Sharni Vinson (Lori Mandel), Dennis W. Hall (Steven Morris),
Tiara Parker (Talia Kirkfield)
Production Code: 421
Summary: When a man takes hostages during a failed attempt to rob a bank,
Mac offers himself in exchange for a hostage. Only condition is that he
must prove that the bank robber did not kill the bank manager, whose
body is found lying in a pool of blood in the vault. On the outside of
the bank, the rest of the team works to process the evidence that Mac
finds and stop the SWAT team from making matters worse.
We have someone going up a flight of stairs and coming upon to a locked combination door.
It flies open and a man holding a gun gives orders raise hands. We see a familiar silver metal
case. The man with the gun orders the person to put it down and turn around. The owner of the
case follows the orders. As the person turns around we learn that it’s Detective Mac Taylor. The
man with the gun frisks Mac and takes Mac’s handcuffs but finds nothing else that he wants. He
instructs Mac to turn around again and orders him to slide his case over. The man opens Mac’s
case and removes the box cutter knife that’s inside almost laughing at Mac ”what you think I’m
stupid?” The man deposits the knife in his sweatshirt pocket and informs Mac that he’ll hang on
to it then proceeds to close Mac’s case and returns it to him. He orders Mac to move forward into
a bank lobby with the vault door wide open and numerous bank hostages lying on the floor, in
silent terror. Mac looks around making silent observations and making mental notes. The man
with the gun instructs Mac that what he’s looking for is in the vault. Mac reminds him of the
deal. Next we are back outside of the bank, the gunman has his hood up and sunglasses on, he
is also holding his gun to a hostages head near the door entrance of the bank. We flash to the
street scene unfold. We see patrol cars and SWAT everywhere, helicopters both media and police
and scattered about the street are reporters looking for information and angling for the best shot
for their next live broadcast. We come upon Detective Flack who has his eyes on the front door
of the bank. It swings open and a hostage is released. It’s a woman. Flack instructs her to head
straight for him, to safety. As she does the gunman waits at the entrance keeping an eye on
everything going on outside while still holding gun to his hostage’s head. Within seconds he and
the hostage he is holding are back inside the bank. Once back inside the gunman immediately
heads towards Mac who is inside the vault looking at a man lying in a pool of blood, he’s dead.
The gunman takes Mac’s handcuffs out of his pocket and tosses them to Mac. Then the gunman
tosses a heavy bank bag and instructs Mac to cuff himself to the bank bag, obviously to hinder
his movement. Mac does as he’s instructed and looks up at the gunman and asks ”you expect
me to believe you didn’t kill him.” The gunman denies that he did. He informs Mac that he was
dead before he got there and he expects Mac to prove it.
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