The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

'In early afternoon, four armed men hijack a subway train in Manhattan. They stop on a slight incline, decoupling the first car to let the rest of the train coast back. Their leader is Ryder; he connects by phone with Walter Garber, the dispatcher watching that line. Garber is a supervisor temporarily demoted while being investigated for bribery. Ryder demands $10 million within an hour, or he\'ll start shooting hostages. He\'ll deal only with Garber. The mayor okays the payoff, the news of the hostage situation sends the stock market tumbling, and it\'s unclear what Ryder really wants or if Garber is part of the deal. Will hostages, kidnappers, and negotiators live through this?'

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a 2009 American thriller film directed by Tony Scott, and starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The film is based on the thriller novel by Morton Freedgood (writing under the pseudonym John Godey), and is a remake of the original 1974 film adaptation, which was also remade in 1998 as a TV movie. Production of the current remake began in March 2008, and the film was released on June 12, 2009.
Four heavily armed men, led by a man who calls himself "Ryder," (John Travolta) board a New York City subway 6 train (aka the Pelham Line, hence the title), then proceed to take control of the train. Meanwhile, MTA dispatcher, Walter Garber (Denzel Washington), is assigned to the Rail Control Center due to an ongoing investigation that he took a bribe to recommend a Japanese car manufacturer for the next subway car contract. The group then uncouple the front car from the rest of the train and hold the passengers of that car hostage. One of the hijackers, Baskhikim, kills an undercover police officer in the course of the action. Ryder and the hijackers settle down on the front car, demanding $10 million dollars in ransom money to be paid within the next 60 minutes. For each minute past the deadline, one passenger aboard his car will be killed. Garber and Ryder exchange conversations though the microphone, while one of the male passengers has a laptop with a webcam, his girlfriend eventually sees the hostage situation through her webcam and provides the live feed to the police stationed at RCC. Ryder accesses his own laptop to watch the stock market plunge nearly 1,000 during the course of the next hour. It is largely implied that Ryder has short-sold the market and invested in gold, earning him a profit far larger than the ransom money. Garber agrees to have the city pay Ryder the $10 million ransom while the Mayor (James Gandolfini) is intercepted by his staff aboard a train in the Bronx and is transported back to RCC. NYPD Emergency Service Unit Lt. Camonetti (John Turturro) enters RCC, and Garber's boss, who has a rocky relationship with Garber, orders Garber to leave the premises. Camonetti takes over the hostage negotiations, infuriating Ryder who demands that Garber be put back on the mic and that he will speak only to Garber. When Camonetti refuses explaining Garber has already left the building, Ryder shoots and kills the train operator, who was Garber's classmate in motor school. Camonetti immediately has Garber brought back on the mic, talking to Ryder while he sets up a sniper unit in the tunnel where the car is stuck, ordering all officers not to fire upon any hijacker until told to do so (which Ryder is fully aware of their presence by giving the middle finger to one of the officers). Camonetti is puzzled as to why Ryder will only talk to Garber but when he learns about Garber's bribery investigation, he asks Garber in consenting to search his home, which Garber agrees and tells his wife about it. Ryder learns through news reports about Garber's alleged bribe in Japan and forces him to confess by holding the boy with the laptop at gunpoint, saying the reason for taking the money was to pay for his daughters's college education. While the police stand down in the tunnel, one of the many rats on the roadbed slithers inside an officer's leg, causing him to lose control of his gun and fire off a shot, killing Ramos who was sitting in the motorman's position. The money is transported uptown to Grand Central, which Ryder demands Garber to deliver it within 8 minutes. Garber delivers the money with the aid of a 9mm gun loaned to him by Camonetti, then is ordered to operate the train to another location where the hijackers will exit. Ryder uses a special mechanism to lock the driving lever in the full speed position, causing the train to speed down Coney Island at high speeds. Garber escapes from the hijackers while picking up his gun, and then follows them to emergency exit inside an abandoned subway station underneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Inside the hotel, Ryder splits away from Bashkim and Emri, who are surrounded outside the hotel by police, they are killed instantly in a hail of police gunfire. The runaway train is tripped by a red signal one station away from Ryder boards a taxi with Garber in pursuit, to the Manhattan Bridge where he leaves the cab to use the pedestrian walkway on the bridge. Garber confronts Ryder on the bridge; Ryder dares Garber to kill him. Before the police can stop him, Garber kills Ryder with one shot to his chest, while Camonetti watches from an NYPD chopper. The Mayor thanks Garber for saving the hostages, and vows his staff in representing him in the bribery investigation tomorrow. Garber refuses the Mayor's offer for a car ride home saying the subway is faster and is his lifeblood.

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