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Tonight on Defendant.

You're a model.

Not for much longer. A 10 -25 extortion to Wilkinson Tower.

It looks like the real thing.

And it calls himself Galileo.

Cut the power.

Oh my God. There's a timer and a whole bunch to see for it, Joel. I have no

what... In the jungles of Peru, the fight for survival heightened his

Now, Detective James Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice.

Seeing before others see.

Sensing what others can't.

An ever -vigilant watchman in the war against crime.

Oh, no, I'm late for lunch.

Yeah, you and Hap before.

Sure, and my lucky record's already on its way down.

Story of my life.

You're a model.

Not for much longer.

You getting on or what?

Yeah.

Acceleration disease.

What?

It's an affliction common to the 90s. Everybody's wired, overcommitted.

They got lots of information like that.

That thing you said about being wired.

Yeah? You must be a mind reader.

Yeah.

Guy was weird, huh?

Guy left his briefcase.

Hey, Jim, want to grab some lunch?

If only I would, Simon, but I told Sandberg I'd meet him for some Cuban

Where is it?

It's late as usual, so I'm just going to blow it off.

More research questions?

Sandberg's never -ending search for the missing link.

Maybe you should check him out.

Why don't you and I just go?

No, no, come on, call him. He can meet us at the restaurant.

Sure? Yeah, yeah. Hurry up.

Looks like we're stuck in between floors. Oh, no.

Just calm down. Calm down. It's all right. This kind of stuff happens every

I've been working with the police department.

You're a cop?

No, not exactly. I'm a research fellow at the university. My name is Blair

Sandberg. I am, too. Would you hit the red button over there, please? With

pleasure.

Hello, Car 4. This is Bill at Security.

Is everybody all right?

Yeah, yeah, we're fine. What's wrong?

I don't know. We're checking it right now, but we'll have you down in a

Just stay calm.

Give me Watson.

Number four just stopped in the pipe.

There's no answer. Let's just go. I can call off on my cell phone.

Simon, I was just over in dispatch and a call came in on 9 -1 -1.

A 10 -25 extortion at the Wilkinson Tower.

It looks like the real thing. And he calls himself Galileo. Where is he?

Line six.

Look, you call over communications.

Have them start a trace.

Got it.

This is Captain Banks.

Suspended between the 30th and 31st floor. I'm in complete control.

There are four people on board.

If you don't do exactly as I say, it'll drop.

Have we gotten in touch with the security people over there yet? Got them

column four, and the guy's not lying.

The car's frozen, and none of the equipment's responding.

What do you want?

What do we all want?

Love, security, and five million dollars wired to a numbered account at the bank

of my choice.

Five million dollars is a lot of money.

Calm, too.

How long, Ray? Thirty seconds.

Well, which bank?

I'll get back to you on that.

For now, I want to demonstrate my resolve to experiment in gravity.

No, wait!

He just dropped it five floors.

You all right?

You okay?

Ray?

Not enough time.

You sure everybody's okay?

Yeah.

Nelson. Hey, Jim.

Doesn't look like I'm going to make it to lunch.

Don't tell me you're on that elevator.

Yes, I am, actually.

Yeah, I was here getting a figurine appraised for the university.

Chinese, third century.

Supposed to be a good luck charm. Good luck?

Remember that breathing exercise you taught me, the one to relieve stress?

Yeah. Start doing it. Why?

Some schmuck is threatening to drop that elevator car you're on unless he gets

five million bucks.

Well, that's, uh... That's interesting.

I assume that you're on top of this.

I mean, you're on top of this, right, Jim?

Yeah, just sit tight. We'll be right there.

Jim!

Packers! Yo!

I thought you were off duty.

Sandberg's helping with that church problem.

I'm here. All right. Let's whack off all that.

Make sure Ray Patterson's great food to the fraternity office. Yeah.

I can't believe Sandberg's in the middle of this.

The boys started tagging around with me. The worst that could happen to them at

the university was a paper cut.

Well, look at the upside.

The police experience is going to help him do this. Yeah.

Hey, Simon, is it me or is Cascade the most dangerous city in America?

Tom Watson, head of building security.

Captain Simon Banks and Detective Jim Ellison.

That's elevator four on the big monitor.

It's our boy. He called the PD to patch him through. Patch him into the speaker.

Check the trace.

On it.

Yeah, go ahead.

Bank of Commerce, St. John, Cayman Islands.

The account number is 6705649.

It's 12 -16.

You have until 1 p .m. to wire the $5 million. Once I receive confirmation,

car will be lowered to the lobby. If not, it drops five floors every ten

minutes. After that, it drops the last 15 stories.

Do I make myself clear?

Thanks. Trace is no good. He's forwarding the call to a dozen different

phones. All right, this is Captain Simon Banks, Cascade PD.

How the hell do you expect us to come up with five million dollars in under an

hour? Actually, there's a source that's very liquid and very close.

What would that be? The man who owns the building.

Mel Wilkinson does not respond to threats.

Oh, he will this time.

Take a good look at your monitor.

Caitlin? Who's she?

Wilkinson's daughter.

Let's get a hold of Wilkins. Wait a minute, detective. He won't negotiate.

Back in 89, he was kidnapped in Mexico.

He stoned Walter to let him go.

Yes, yes, I remember that. The guy made the cover of Newsweek. Yeah, well, his

neck's not on the block.

He got an elevator car full of innocent people, including my partner.

Yeah? Are you okay in there?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Good.

How the hell does he know you?

My father owns this building. What?

Wilkinson? We'd contract that to do all of his repairs.

Guy controls half of downtown.

He should dance.

This is a good thing.

If your father owns the note on this building, he'll have us out of here in

time, right?

Don't count on it.

Somehow he's overridden the onboard braking system.

He's got control of that car. He's got to be close.

Where's the system that controls the elevator? Utility room, top floor.

All right, Bob, get a couple of men up there on the double. Check it out. I'm

it, sir. I'm going to want this entire building evacuated. Let's get all these

people out of here.

Riley. Look, Dagger, contact dispatch.

Let's get every available unit over here for an office -by -office search. You

got it.

Somehow we've got to get into that shaft for a walk.

Fill me in.

Situation's still static, sir. This wouldn't have happened if you were doing

your job.

Mr. Wilkinson.

Captain Simon Banks, Cascade PD.

It's Detective Jim Ellison.

I understand you have some sort of position about negotiating with

extortionists? It's simple.

I don't.

You haven't told him yet.

What? Sir, your daughter is on board that elevator.

Caitlin?

Apparently she was visiting your office. Why wasn't I told?

What's it going to be, Mr. Wilkinson?

Five million dollars or he drops that car.

Perhaps you want to reconsider your policy.

You've got 33 minutes, sir. We haven't even begun to weigh our options.

Mr. Wilkinson. Do you think I built this tower by folding every time somebody

called my hand?

Men like him count on weakness.

Somebody who'll cut and run. Well, I'm not made like that.

I have some set of stones. Yeah.

Only stones are like elevators.

You drop them, they'll fall.

Empty on 40, no sign of him.

Copy that. Let's move.

Man.

Something's wrong with this. It's taking too long.

Yeah. Where the hell are you?

In the building security office. And?

We're working on it.

Oh, jeez, Jeff.

Well, did he come up with the money yet? Not so far.

You've got to be kidding me. I'm sorry, Chief. The old man doesn't negotiate.

What is it?

I'm going to say something over the speaker.

Okay.

I'm going to talk to us in just a second.

This is Detective Ellison from the Cascade PD.

The department is doing everything in its power to ensure your safety.

And to get you out as soon and safely as we can.

Thank you.

I don't like this.

How come the cops are involved?

I know that your father's some kind of hard -ass, but maybe you can get things

going a little faster if you just talk to him.

He won't speak to me. Why not?

You wouldn't understand.

Well, try me.

I minored in psych.

I got married when I was 18.

And I made the mistake of picking my husband without asking Daddy.

Well, that's not going to stop your father from helping us, is it?

Let's just calm down. I'm sure that Caleb's probably doing everything that

can to get his daughter and the rest of us out of here.

Let's just relax. This will all be over soon.

It's here.

This is Captain Beck. The first ten -minute deadline is about to pass.

I've been in touch with my bank.

There's been zero movement on my demands. Who do you think you're dealing

Well, we're having a little trouble locating Mr.

Wilkinson. Is that right?

Well, he's standing next to you in a $3 ,000 Savile Row tailor -made, $500

Brioni loafers, and if you check that Rolex Presidential on his wrist, you can

see that his daughter has 31 minutes to live.

That means he's got to be inside the building.

There's got to be a way to keep him from hearing and seeing Bob.

We can cover the camera lenses and cut the audio.

Do it.

Hey, are you listening to me?

Yeah, we're listening.

You've got 60 seconds to decide.

That ought to get my black eye.

And what about audio?

Now he can't hear us either.

Great. All right, this guy has penetrated the security of the downtown

building and seized one of its elevators. His calls have thus far

our trace attempts.

He has a working knowledge of electronics and international banking.

Exactly. And with a profile like that, you should be able to find him. Damn it,

man, you have an offer on the table right now in less than 30 seconds to

He's not going to murder four people.

How do you know that?

Because Mr.

Wilkinson's a dealmaker. He plays this kind of poker ten times a day.

Yeah, but not with his daughter's life.

If he was serious, he would have dropped it. He wouldn't have given us a series

of ten -minute deadlines. The man's not a closer.

Five, four, three...

Sanford, can you hear me?

Help! Yeah, yeah, I'm all right, I'm all right.

God, my ankle.

Help!

Are you okay?

You... Hey, if Mr.

Wilkinson's there, Caitlin's father, and if you got one ounce of human

compassion or feeling, you better start paying attention to what's going on down

here. Because whoever has control of this elevator is insane!

Good judge of character.

Now come on, quit messing around!

Come on, this isn't funny anymore!

You broke her ankle!

We've disabled the cameras in all the halls in the other elevators except for

four. We're leaving it operational so we can keep an eye on the hostages.

Guess who?

Banks! You want to try and blind me? Fine.

You want to search the whole building? Go ahead.

But understand this.

I'm Galileo. I wrote the book on falling bodies.

Sir, with all due respect, I don't think this guy's going to... We're going to

do everything we can to get those people out. But in the meantime, I've located

that money.

Well, else what?

I drop it down to the media and the world finds out that Mr. Newsweek Hero

just an empty suit who let his own daughter die.

What the hell is the matter with him?

Well, Mr. Wilkinson, I'll tell you, that's his friend in there.

And if you cared half as much for your daughter, maybe this whole thing would

over.

all clear.

You were right. He's got devices on each of the emergency brakes. Looks like

they're set with remote antennas.

Can't we just cut the wires of the table today?

Not easily.

The leads are in some kind of housing.

Even if we could cut through one of the wires.

This clown Galileo would pick up the power loss and release the other brakes.

Yeah, and I doubt if one functioning brake would be enough to keep that car

Well, we can't take him out through the roof. He'll just drop the car.

Not if it can't fall.

What? He can't see or hear us, right? No, we're secure.

So all he sees is what the surveillance cameras show him.

Right.

There are no videos in the elevator shaft, right?

So that area's blind to him.

What if I go downstairs and come up on elevator three?

I bring one of the SWAT guys who's a welder. We literally fuse the car to the

support shafts, right?

So this way, if he releases the brake, the car's not going to drop.

We're for sure. Make it happen.

Look, I don't know what went wrong between you and your dad, but maybe you

just talk to him.

You don't know him.

Malcolm Wilkinson, it's never about the deal.

It's the principle of the thing.

Yeah, so how come we got to pay the price?

I got a wife and four kids.

Yeah, and I got a 12 -year -old daughter.

Look, honey.

Why don't you just reason with him?

He won't listen to me.

You don't understand.

The man that I married worked for my father.

He got fired.

Now we're broke.

I tried to see my father four times in the past two weeks.

I couldn't even get past reception.

I tried again today after I went on this modeling call.

I didn't get it.

I'm in real trouble now.

What do you mean?

I'm pregnant.

Hello?

Did you hear that? She's pregnant.

Did you hear that, Mr. Wilkinson?

What about it?

Your grandson or daughter.

I don't take this position lightly.

There isn't a person of means in the world today who isn't a target.

Somebody has to draw the line.

Somebody has to say, enough.

I'm not going to kowtow to terrorists.

Pardon me, sir.

That's a decision you can make for yourself.

But now your daughter is at risk.

along with three other innocent people.

Four, if you count your grandchild.

You might be able to hear us on the mic inside of the hospital.

Yeah?

How are you holding up?

I've been better.

I think we've all been better.

We're going to try and weld the brakes.

This guy's blind except for the camera in his car. Stay alert, all right?

Gotcha.

No, man. What?

What was that?

I didn't hear anything.

Wait a minute. I'm serious, man. Somebody's out there.

Yeah? Yeah, the guy's listening in, so make some noise. We just need a few

minutes.

Like what?

Jim.

How long is this going to take?

I don't know, sir. I've never done this before.

Hey, check this out.

You guys.

What? I need to break up the party, but how much time you got?

I got about ten minutes before the next one.

God, I can't take another drop.

You have got to plead with your father.

Just call him.

I'll check with the speaker.

This is Captain Banks.

I guess you people just don't listen.

I told you no rescue attempt.

Hey, boys, down there in the shaft, check the top of the car.

There's no way you can get them out.

Jeremy called to us.

He says to check the roof of car four.

I'll take her up one.

I've got the escape hatch rig with C4.

It's hidden under a support girder. You've got to alert Taggart.

Welding idea. What's that?

I've got more than one way to drop that car.

Sell a side minor and open the briefcase.

If he doesn't, I'll blow it all right now.

Blair, this is Simon.

He wants you to open the briefcase.

Hey, Simon, I don't think that's such a good idea, man. Blair, we have no

choice. You have to open it.

That's heavy.

Good thoughts, huh?

Oh, my God.

people understand the gravity of the situation.

Jim, are you all right?

Yeah, but I think I'm going to pass on that tube.

Oh, God.

It hurts so much.

Oh, my God.

This guy has got to be using elevator motor control.

I thought your people checked the utility room.

Dr. Brown.

Sir? Get back to that utility room on 40.

Check it again.

Captain Banks.

Talk to me, Brown. He was here.

We found the cable he used to tap into the security system.

Any other sign of him? No, sir.

All right.

I want that entire place dusted for prints.

Find me something I can use.

Let's see if we can figure out who this guy is.

Yes, sir.

You catch all that, Jim?

Yeah. Meet you on 15.

Right. Let's go.

Captain Banks.

I want to go with you.

I'm sorry, sir. This is a police matter.

Please.

I instructed my staff to wire the money.

Caitlin's in there. I want to help.

All right, sir, I'll tell you what you do.

Now, from the way this guy described you, he is obviously somebody close.

Now, I need you to go back and check your records.

Anybody that worked for you who might hold a grudge.

Any security cameras or mics on the floor? Not anymore. We're clean here.

Hey, we're welcome.

Check in with ex -employees who might have something against him. Yeah, but

could take years.

Had another look at that video we made of the devices he has on the brakes.

They're wired into the building's AC. Same with the remote for the bomb on the

roof. Well, can't we cut the power to the entire building? Yeah, but we lose

security cameras then. But he won't be able to drop the car.

What about the briefcase bomb? It won't work with that.

Sandberg said there's an onboard battery.

Look, we gotta come up with something quick, guys. That next drop is coming up

fast. What about the money?

You ever try to do a bank wire transfer? It's in the works. It's just going to

take time. Power cuts are best move.

What do you think, Jim?

Jim!

Jim! What is it?

You guys stay here. Get it set up.

Got it.

There's somebody on one of the upper floors.

Sounds like a power drill.

No way.

We had all those floors checked.

Clear when I need it.

Cut the power.

Oh, my God. What happened?

They must have cut the power.

Hey, do you have a flashlight in your toolbox?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay,

everybody.

We're coming up on another deadline here, so let's get ready, all right?

this going to stop?

Hold on. Hold on.

Okay.

Three, two,

one.

Nothing happened.

They must have stopped it.

Whatever he did to the brakes must have got cut when they pulled the power.

Yes! We don't get out of here!

Oh, God.

Looks like you called it, man.

Come on, man.

What's wrong?

That's what's the matter.

Simon. Yeah, go.

I don't like this.

What do you mean?

Power cut Galileo.

He's playing this whole thing with taking a sleep. He's been one step ahead

us the whole time.

He's even tapped into the building's electrical system.

Well, so what are you saying? He wanted us to cut the power?

I don't know.

When was the last time he called?

He hasn't.

Look, Jim, if it's not the five mil, then what the hell does he want?

When I find out, he'll be the first to know.

Tell him to use the one at corporate headquarters.

Come on, Mr.

Wilkinson. Think.

You said you had enemies, people who threatened you before. Show me a CEO who

doesn't. I've got 62 companies worldwide, maybe 20 ,000 employees.

Every time one of them gets the boot for non -performance, I can get harassed.

All right, what about your daughter?

What about her?

She's headstrong.

I've never been able to tell her a thing.

I wonder where she gets that from.

She hasn't listened to me since her mother died.

Maybe she needs you to listen to her.

Simon, I got a parcel print off the elevator cable.

The guy had no record, so we had a picture faxed over from DMV.

The guy's name is Frank Rachins.

What?

Damn it.

I should have seen this coming.

Why, do you know this guy?

Rachins?

He's the arrogant little bastard my daughter married.

Used to work in my semiconductor division. I caught him stealing, so I

him. All right, all right. We need an angle. How do we get to it? Here's a

younger brother, Ronnie.

Decent kid.

Still works for me somewhere.

Call personnel.

Think he's okay?

Frank. What?

With the power cut, we can't use the building's video.

You think Caitlin's all right? You knew we'd be blind when they cut the juice.

Yeah, but her inside there with that suitcase ticking away just makes me

nervous. Everything's going perfectly.

We jacked the elevator so they'd cut the power.

Now the vault alarm's dead and I've killed the backup.

Frank. What?

You're getting scared on me, little brother. No, Frank, I'm just worried,

all. I'm just worried. This is foolproof.

We set the charge to go at the same time the bomb blows.

By the time they pick up all the pieces, we're out of here.

After we get Caitlin out, right?

When are you going to make the phone call to tell them we're going to release

the hostages?

Well, there's been a change in plans.

We're not releasing any hostages.

What the hell are you talking about? Not even Caitlin?

She's your wife, Frank.

Yeah, well, you should have thought of that before you two did the deed.

Frank, what are you talking about?

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

That was Frank and Mark. We've been doing my old lady.

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, come on. You've been annoyed for months, Frank.

The only reason why you married her was to get close to her father.

A lot of good that did, right?

She showed him a little respect, Frank. What, like you, Ronnie? Always sucking

up to the boss.

What were you thinking with Caitlin?

Things didn't work out at the company.

Maybe you'd live off her modeling career.

But guess what?

That's over.

She's pregnant.

What?

She's having a kid.

And it's not mine, little brother.

So it has to be yours.

Okay, okay.

Wait a minute, Frank.

Wait a minute.

I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for you dragging me into this.

If Keelan's going to have a baby, well, it's all the more reason for you to let

her out. Just get her out of there.

Frank.

There's a certain logic to that.

Well, I don't need her anymore.

And I sure as hell don't need you.

Am I right?

Simon, I just heard shots fired above me. He's somewhere between you and the

floor. Listen, Jim.

We also have a suspect.

His name is Frank Ration.

He's working for his son -in -law.

Some kind of wirehead knows computers.

According to his personnel record, he also has a working use of munitions.

Are you going to want me to send that back up? Negative.

He's got some kind of detonator.

I'm better off taking him home.

There's a timer.

There's a lot of wires.

And a whole bunch of C4, Joel. I have no idea what to do. Don't even try to get

near it.

The hell does it matter if the car doesn't drop?

We're going to wind up in the next time zone anyhow.

Please let us out!

Let me talk to her.

Blair, it's Simon.

Hey, Simon. Yeah? The guy we're looking for is Caitlin's husband.

What do you want me to do?

Find out if she knows something.

She said they were strapped for cash because he was out of work. Maybe this

some sort of wacko plan to get back at Daddy.

Come on, you think so?

Hell, man, I don't know. I mean, what's he going to do, blow her up, too?

Check her out.

There's less than six minutes left.

I think it's best that I just leave it alone.

going to let you off?

What? Your husband.

I don't know where you're going with this, but my husband doesn't have...

Caitlin, think about it. He hasn't called here in over 20 minutes, and

getting pretty close to another splashdown. Now, I don't know what the

two got going on here, but he is going to let you off, right?

He's going to shut that thing off. He promised me. How could you do this? I

you he's going to...

Stop it! When?

When is he going to shut this off, Caitlin? Because we don't even know if

hear us anymore.

I didn't want any of this.

Frank said it was all for the baby. There was no other way with my father.

Yeah?

Pick of the devil.

Talk to him.

Katie, I heard about you being pregnant tonight.

I just want you to know that I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have judged you.

It's just that I had a feeling. I always had a feeling about Frank.

Something about him was wrong.

to lose you.

I'm so sorry, Daddy.

You were right about Frank. Ronnie is the one that cares about me.

And now Frank's got him involved in this, too.

This is all great, Caitlin, but we don't have time for this. Where is he?

The exchange.

I couldn't listen.

I'm sure he built me.

Number 37 -4. It's the Boolean exchange.

Copy that.

You're going to put me up to die.

353. What the hell are we going to do?

What are you doing, babe? I'm just putting this flashlight at the ground

What are you doing?

Metal floor.

Do you have anything in that box that will cut through metal up low, George?

Sure. Why? What are you going to do?

I'm going to cut a hole in the bottom of the elevator.

That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to drop the bomb out. It's 15 stories.

Boom. It's going to be too far away to hurt any of us.

Depends on the size of the bomb. Depends on the size of the bomb, the velocity

of the explosion, the rate of the fall, whether or not Mercury is in retrograde

for crying out loud. But to tell you the truth right now, none of that really

matters because we are only minutes away from redecorating 10 stories of this

elevator.

Come on, get that thing going.

Put him in his glasses, please.

Come on, three minutes.

Two summons at a sheet metal plant.

Vance has tortured my crew.

Nothing personal.

2 .5.

Ease it down.

Do it.

So it was never about the elevator. Just a diversion.

Why Galileo?

Because he was a man like me.

Gifted. A visionary among smaller men.

Censored for challenging the established order.

My history is a little rusty, but wasn't Galileo known for dropping the ball?

I should do it.

Get up and put your hands behind your back. Get back!

I'm done.

He's got a remote detonator!

Drop it!

No, he'll blow it! Drop it!

You've been with your wife on the elevator.

There's more than one way to get her divorced.

You off the building and see how fast you hit the ground.

All right.

Yes.

All right.

Happy minute. Get rid of it.

Get back.

All right, folks. This way out.

Out of the box and left.

Well, you know that parachute ride down at the Cascade Pier?

Yeah.

Try a blindfolded with a bomb in your lap and three hysterical people hanging

to you.

Hi, sir.

Here we come now.

Daddy, I'm so sorry.

Not me.

I got your back now.

Take care of yourself.

Yeah, you too.

You take care of that baby.

You'll have to come with me.

Hey, Chief, this figurine you brought here to have it appraised. Oh, yeah,

Trail Dynasty, 13th century BC. Some kind of good luck charm.

How are you going to bring it back up to have it re -appraised?

Only this time, take that.

Good job, gents.

Thank you.