Talk to Me tells the inside story of how the field of hostage negotiations was created. In the wake of major 1970’s tragedies such as the Attica prison riot and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, the NYPD realized there was an urgent need to develop a system for handling hostage incidents. With news archives and first-hand accounts from hostage team founders Frank Bolz and Harvey Schlossberg, we bring to life cases large and small to explore what worked—and what didn’t. The world’s first hostage negotiation team pioneered the use of psychology in saving lives and created a model that is still used around the world today. The series is written and narrated by Edward Conlon, a veteran South Bronx detective and New York Times bestselling author.
An XG Productions Series.
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Talk to Me tells the inside story of how the field of hostage negotiations was created. In the wake of major 1970’s tragedies such as the Attica prison riot and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, the NYPD realized there was an urgent need to develop a system for handling hostage incidents. With news archives and first-hand accounts from hostage team founders Frank Bolz and Harvey Schlossberg, we bring to life cases large and small to explore what worked—and what didn’t. The world’s first hostage negotiation team pioneered the use of psychology in saving lives and created a model that is still used around the world today. The series is written and narrated by Edward Conlon, a veteran South Bronx detective and New York Times bestselling author.
An XG Productions Series.
In this bonus episode, the NYPD trains its first class of hostage negotiators since the beginning of the pandemic. To prepare for dealing with people on the worst day of their lives, the class begins with detectives sharing stories of their own hardships
In the season finale of "Talk to Me," hijacker Luis Robinson leads police on a high-speed chase through Kennedy airport. Negotiators still have to try to reach a man they can't even catch.
Hours into the bloody standoff at JFK Airport, there is finally a breakthrough: hijacker Luis Robinson agrees to talk with police. But hopes for a peaceful resolution prove premature
The Hostage Negotiation Team believed that the passage of time always worked in their favor---that the threat of violence diminished as the hours passed. But the hostage standoff at JFK Airport would put that belief to the test
With two dead and one wounded before negotiations have even begun, the 4th of July hostage crisis at JFK airport appears to be headed toward a disastrous conclusion
On the morning of a hot Fourth of July in 1977, Frank Bolz and the team negotiate with a man with an axe, holding a two-year-old hostage. They're getting ready to go home when another job comes in: a bus has been hijacked, and hostages have already been shot.
As the hours pass by, bank robber Cat Olson begins to realize that he's not the star of a movie. But he still can't make up his mind about how his story will end.
Frank Bolz is threatened with transfer from the Hostage Negotiation Team when a young drifter robs a bank in Greenwich Village, demanding the release of Patty Hearst.
Intense bonds can form between hostages, hostage takers, and negotiators. The most notorious example of this process occurred during a 1973 bank robbery in Sweden that inspired the term "Stockholm Syndrome."
When madman goes to a pizzeria asking for a box to hold his shotgun, the NYPD tracks him back to his apartment. In the shootout that follows, a cop is trapped inside, caught in the crossfire between the gunmen and his brother officers
When a man claiming to have a bomb takes over an office in the World Trade Center, the NYPD's Hostage Negotiation Team weighs the risks of using outsiders and go-betweens to negotiate.
As nights pass without progress in the hostage siege in South Jamaica, an angry crowd threatens to riot. Meanwhile, Frank Bolz has to negotiate with his own bosses, who don’t believe that his psychological approach will work
In the wake of a racially-charged shooting by a police officer that rocked the city of New York, the HNT tries to save the life of a child held by a three-time killer with a .357 Magnum in South Jamaica, Queens
Though the Hostage Negotiation Team was created in anticipation of high-profile terrorist incidents, it proves its worth in handling domestic crimes with some very complicated family dynamics
The successful conclusion of the siege of John and Al’s was a rare bright spot for the NYPD in early 1973, when crime was soaring and the department’s reputation had been battered by scandals uncovered by the Knapp Commission. Later that spring, Frank Bolz created the Hostage Negotiation Team. We join the team for unprecedented access as Harvey Schlossberg describes the types of criminals who take hostages and how psychology can be used to peacefully resolve a crisis.
As hours pass at John and Al’s without a breakthrough, intermediaries are brought in to help ease the tension, but one of them has a hidden agenda of his own. When the hostage takers announce that everyone inside will die before they surrender, one of the hostages devises an escape plan
Talk to Me tells the inside story of how the field of hostage negotiations was created. In the wake of major 1970’s tragedies such as the Attica prison riot and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, the NYPD realized there was an urgent need to develop a system for handling hostage incidents. With news archives and first-hand accounts from hostage team founders Frank Bolz and Harvey Schlossberg, we bring to life cases large and small to explore what worked—and what didn’t. The world’s first hostage negotiation team pioneered the use of psychology in saving lives and created a model that is still used around the world today. The series is written and narrated by Edward Conlon, a veteran South Bronx detective and New York Times bestselling author.
An XG Productions Series.
