The Kill Point

Capt. Horst Cali tries to negotiate with the leader, Mr. Wolf, for a teenage boy's release.

Cali has to hand over the rein to a female FBI negotiator, arranged by politicians to accommodate the tycoon's wish to make his daughter top priority. She assures him she respects his reputation, but completely ignores his advise by confronting the kidnappers. Mr. Wolf doesn't budge, simply refuses to talk to her at all and ends up successfully demanding to speak to Cali again and gives him the eldest hostage. Meanwhile accomplices outdoors take sniping positions. Cali's team works outs Robby Sabian's dad was released as part of a plot depending on the fat knave's brilliant computer skills.

A Pittsburgh real estate tycoon leans heavily, via political cronies, to make his brat-daughter's release a top-priority, but Horst Cali refuses to appreciate being owed a favor. Deputy Chief Abrami plans to have Cali replaced, or at least suspended, by an FBI negotiator, after a failure. Wolf actually agrees to release hostages on humanitarian grounds for favors, but he refuses to include the youngest, computer whiz kid Robby Sabian, and threatens to execute someone unless electrical power, which Horst had ordered cut as pressure, is restored within an hour. Giving in to save a life is considered unforgivable to Abrami.