Fucking hell.
- Go to Mummy. - Mummy!
Basil!
Professor, the hostage-takers have just released a 6-year-old boy.
Are they showing us their humanity?
Not necessarily.
They may want to stir emotions among the public or the police,
but this isn't about their humanity.
They know that children are an emotive issue...
Okay, now take the second sports bag.
You'll see lots of little tubes in it.
What you have to do is simple.
Take some money, roll it up, put it in a tube.
As much as will fit in. And then screw the top on again.
Start with the big notes. First 500, then 200, 100, and so on.
I'll tell you later what you have to do after that.
Okay.
- Isn't that rather messy, for a bank? - What?
- That money in those bags. - It's not the bank's money.
Or I'd have known about it.
And we never have this much cash on the premises.
Jesus.
We interrupt for an extra news bulletin with only one headline.
In a development in the Fides Bank hostage situation,
a first hostage has been released.
A 6-year-old boy has been allowed to leave.
He was in the bank with his sister and both were taken hostage.
His sister is stiii being held, with a number of bank employees.
Nothing is known about...
What are you doing here?
- Didn't you have to work today? - No, I'm still on sick leave.
Could I...
Could I spend a few nights at your place, please?
On the sofa?
- I know it's... - That's what's most important?
Inge, I don't understand you. How, at a time like this, you...
Karen, I need you.
Do you?
I did need you but I don't any more.
Michael needs you now, not me.
If we have to get the safe open and roll up the money,
the others must be doing something too.
I don't know.
There's a vault room upstairs. Maybe...
Maybe Serge and Walter have to do the same as us there.
What do you think?
Actually, I think those guys hadn't counted on...
My girlfriend works here too. But she's on sick leave.
She should have been here, instead of you.
Are you okay?
- Kristien, any more news? - There's no more information at present
but the shot that was heard
apparently has nothing to do with events in the bank.
What happened, Kristien? Can you tell us anything?
We see images of an elderly man
being brought out of a house in the square.
Apparently a local resident with dementia
who couldn't be evacuated earlier for medical reasons.
- Shouldn't you go back to the factory? - No.
The seriously wounded officer
has just been rushed to hospital
but nothing is known about his condition.
The elderly man and his wife were taken in for questioning.
He is receiving medical and psychological care.
- We need to talk about Freya again. - Not now.
How could this happen?
The houses in the square were all evacuated early this morning
but the elderly couple couldn't leave, for medical reasons.
Later this morning...
Now she's taken the first step and come home...
Not now, Claudine.
To watch a street leading to the bank.
What did you argue about?
Well, she...
- You don't have to talk about it. - No, no. But she...
She's struggling with personal issues. I think that has a lot to do with it.
What kind of personal issues?
Depression.
My brother suffered from depression too.
Did he?
How did he get over it?
- He didn't. - He didn't?
He committed suicide, 18 months ago.
Okay, listen.
Michael, take all the tubes that are ready into the corridor.
- And madam, what's your name? - Freya.
Okay, Freya, pick up the loudspeaker
and film Michaél, so we can follow everything.
- Like this? - Yes.
- And one man kicked too. - What did he kick?
The old man.
Which man was that, Basil?
That one.
Are you sure? They kicked that man?
When we've finished interviewing Basil... you can stay, of course...
I think it would be a good idea if one or both of you took him home.
He'll deal with it better in familiar surroundings.
Okay. And...
what do we say if he asks about what happened?
I think you should just keep him calm and be honest.
Okay, let it fill up again. Take the next tube to the other toilet.
- Oh, yeah, it's broken. - What?
- It's out of order. - Oh, fuck.
Hello?
Don't just stand there, carry on with the toilet that works.
Fuck.
That's two toilets.
Six hours. It's going to take six hours.
- Six hours? - At a guess.
So much money. I never thought there'd be that much.
No way. We can't possibly drag this out for six hours.
You calculated based on 7 million but we don't know, do we?
Hopefully it is, but we don't know.
How much money is in that safe?
- Exactly. - I don't know. I really don't.
So, who does'? Who does the accounts? Your wife?
Michael hasn't been here long enough.
Nor has that Inge. So?
So?
Why aren't you asking if Serge knows about that money?
Come on.
I'm losing my patience.
How much money is in that safe?
I've already told you, I don't know.
I've never even heard of that safe.
Count it yourself if it's so important. I don't know.
- Hey, no! - Three.
Three million.
Approximately.
- Is that all? - Yes.
Hey, tape his mouth again for when we call the cops.
No. I've searched everywhere three times, no flash drive.
Okay. But if you don't know whether Walter or you took it last time...
Oh. How long ago was that?
Yes, yes, I know. But if we can't find it...
If they what?
Listen. Firstly, it won't come to that. And secondly...
Even if they turn this place or yours upside down,
if we can't find the flash drive, neither will they.
The first let's gone.
Hello?
Come on, answer.
Fuck! Bloody cops!
How's it going there?
The last tube has been flushed.
Okay, go back to the storeroom and carry on.
One person will flush the next lot
while the other carries on rolling.
I think she needs to go to the toilet.
Go on, then.
Where is my brother?
We let your brother go, you heard that.
We have just received images of the perimeter
showing the 6-year-old boy released this morning
leaving to go home.
His release seems...
Sorry, say that again? Yes, Hawal. That's him.
I sent an email this morning
about sacking him after that alarm last night, but...
No, no, let's leave it. Yes. Okay, fine.
That poor little boy.
It really is the same Hawal. The security guard from last night.
Really?
I almost had him sacked.
Bank employees and possibly some customers are being held.
The building is now surrounded but...
I think they know someone who used to work here.
- Why? - I just do.
They know the building too well, where everything is.
But not that one of the toilets was broken.
And has been for weeks.
So, not someone who still works here?
I think so. I don't know.
I told you, no one near the bank.
And what do you do? You put snipers everywhere.
We promised to stay out of the immediate vicinity
but we must consider everyone's safety, okay?
That shot was an accident.
An old man with dementia shot one of our men.
Is he still alive?
He's seriously wounded.
There's no air in here. Is that necessary?
I'm serious. Is it necessary?
I gave you a deadline, not a time frame.
Stop making excuses and fucking me about.
Sir, it's not going to work like this, okay?
I suggest you calm down and then call me back, okay?
Fuck.
What's the matter?
Someone's been seriously wounded. A cop.
Some old fool with dementia shot a cop.
It's not our fault.
- Well... - It is not our fault!
You realise this is your own fault?
Really, Serge?
Not many people know what's in that safe.
What are you trying to say?
I can't get into it.
I thought it had been empty for years.
You said you'd stopped years ago.
- Do you realise that this... - Hey...
I didn't walk in here with guns and bombs.
But without you, no one would have had any reason to.
What?
What's wrong?
Can you help me a minute'?
What will happen to us once all that money is gone?
When it's all gone, we won't be any use to them.
They've nothing to gain by letting us go.
- You don't think... - I'm not saying that.
I just think, the slower we work, the more time it will buy us.
That's your opinion. I say we do what they say.
No, no. Just do it.
- You can't risk my life. - But you can risk mine?
How can I risk your life by doing what they ask?
I'm just asking you to slow down.
I won't and neither will you. TheyW realise. They're not stupid.
- I didn't say that. - What if they detonate the bombs?
How can you be so sure they won't?
Do you want to see what will happen if you slow down?
- Is mine doing that too? No! - Turn it off!
Turn it off.
- No! I didn't do anything. - We're helping.
- Turn it off. - Sorry.
- Turn it off. - No.
I know how to flush that money quicker.
Freya, the camera. Come on.
Freya, the hose. The hose in the cistern.
Couldn't he have thought of that before?
Yes, it's flushing. It's flushing. Turn it off.
Carry on. Next time Ipress the button, I won't turn it off again.
Can you check what our friends are up to?
LIVE: BANK HOSTAGE BOY GOES HOME
For Basil Hawal, 6 years old,
one of the Fides Bank hostages, things have ended well.
After his tumultuous release...
They said it was better for him to go home.
I know, but I'm not happy about it.
I want to go back as soon as possible, for Noor.
Here, son.
- Daddy? - Yes?
Noor said that...
that those men in the bank were playing a game.
Did she?
I don't think it was a game.
Something seems to be happening in the square.
A man is walking towards the bank. Probably a police officer.
He has stopped at some distance. I've no idea what he intends to do.
Okay, listen carefully. Someone is bringing food and drinks.
Michael, let Freya through the vestibule and keep filming her.
I want to see her the whole time, okay?
No, hold on.
Let her go first. I want to be able to see her.
From now on, not a word.
The officer in the square is slowly staning to move.
Maybe in response to a sign from inside. He is also carrying a bag.
Maybe food has been requested for the hostage-takers and hostages.
That could be a logical explanation for the officefs presence there.
The sliding doors have opened and, as you can see,
someone has just stepped outside.
It looks like a woman. Probably one of the hostages.
- She's just outside the bank. - I don't believe it.
A few metres from the police officer and...
- Yes, it's her. - I! seems she '5 wearing a kind of collar.
- No, it can't be her. It can't be. - I'm going there.
- Perhaps some kind of explosive. - No...
The woman has gone back inside.
We can only say that this is a new, very worrying element.
The victims, one at least, may have explosives around their necks.
Show me.
Take the cigarettes and drinks out first.
And take the boxes out too.
Hold on a minute.
Take the pizzas out of the boxes. I don't trust this.
Yeah, take them out and... put them on something else.
- Hold on, we... - Silence!
When you're finished, put the bag with the boxes back at the entrance.
Freya, take the stairs up to the next floor.
Michaél, you can wait there.
Take two pizzas and something to drink.
Then go back down.
Excuse me.
Rolf.
- Did the police... - What happened?
- I know as much as you. - Freya's in there. Did you know?
No, of course not.
- Why is she? - I don't know, I no longer work there.
- Andrea. - Claudine.
- Do you know any more? - No, no.
- It's okay. - They're with me, it's okay.
Let those people in, please.
What is upstairs?
Offices. They used to do insurance up there, but...
when the bank was taken over, they got rid of it.
So it's empty now.
I'd eat something. Who knows how long we'll be here?
Are you all right?
- Are you all right? Hey... - Sorry.
No...
What's the matter?
- Sorry. - No, no.
Are you all right? Come here.
Hey, it'll be fine.
Really, I mean it. It'll be fine.
That is one of the stages in the negotiations
and providing food and/or medicines, for example,
is a positive signal to the hostage-taker.
It can be an important step in reaching a peaceful solution.
You can wait here.
I'll see if there's any news and come back and see you.
- Yusef, isn't it? - Yes.
Claudine, Rolfs wife.
- We've never spoken before. - No.
No, there are more pleasant occasions.
It'll be fine.
- What's happening? - I don't know.
- What's the prob/em? - We don't know.
- Did you cover the camera? - No, it's not covered.
The light's out.
Okay, don't be scared. Nothing's going to happen.
We can try to carry on in the dark.
Okay, do that.
Fuck!
- It isn't filling up. - What?
The water isn't filling up.
- What about the fire hose? - Hold on...
- And? - No.
Where's the fuse box?
- Where are the fuses? - On the ground floor.
Beside the glass office, there's a fuse box.
Come with me.
You're not serious?
The toilet won't flush and the hose won't work.
Fuck!
- That's no coincidence. - Couldn't the water, the socket...
- It short-circuited? - Short-circuited?
And it cut the water off downstairs, too?
- The cops? - Of course it's the cops.
- Good aflemoon. - Do you want people to die?
- Sorry, sir... - Don't start, pal!
Turn the water and power back on
or you'll have a body on your conscience.
Do you hear me?
What are you going to do?
No...
Damn!
Here!
- Hello? - Hear that?
That's my pistol against the girl's head. I'll kill her, I mean it!
You have 6O seconds to turn the water back on.
55.
45 seconds.
Noor...
Hey, why did they ask if the camera was covered?
What?
The electricity must be off upstairs too.
20 seconds.
My finger is on the trigger.
Apparently the whole square is without electricity, sir. But they're sorting it.
- I! shouldn't '1' take long. - 15.
Hold on, sir. We'll turn it back on, we will.
Five, four...
three...
It's back on. The electricity is back on, sir.
The electricity is back on.
- What about the water downstairs? - I'll go and see.
- What about the water'? - It should be back on too,
but the pressure may take time to build up.
That helicopter with that money will be here at the agreed time
and not a millisecond later.
- Do anything else to that girl... - I didn't do anything.
She hasn't done anything!
Do you realise what that does to someone?
For Basil Hawal, 6 years old, one of the Fides Bank hostages,
things have ended well.
After his tumultuous release this morning
aha' a police interview about what he saw in the hank,
the little boy can be taken home.
His older sister, Noor, and the others in the bank
are still being held hostage.
In response to whether the offenders...
Come here.
- No, no, I'm fine. - You're cold, go on.
What's the matter?
I'm worried.
Too many things are going wrong.
And we still have a problem here.
Thank you.
What's up?
Hello?
I think I know why we have to do all the work.
Why?
I don't think those men are here at all.
We need to talk.
Yes, I think we do.
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