The Negotiators

Synopsis

A deep dive into one of the world’s most high-pressure professions: hostage negotiation. With exclusive access to the expert negotiators involved, we go behind the scenes of some of the world's most dangerous hostage situations, and reconstruct how the negotiations played out.

First Air Date: 2019-10-09

Last Air Date: 2019-10-30

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Networks: Channel News Asia

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Seasons

Season 1 (2019)

In this four-part docuseries, expert negotiators recount their experiences navigating high-pressure hostage crises from Australia to Thailand.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Pirate Hijack (2019-10-09)

A pro bono team of hostage negotiators take on a near-impossible case - help free 29 fishermen who have been held hostage by Somali pirates for over two years.
Ep. 2: Taipei Hostage Crisis (2019-10-16)

Taiwan's most-wanted criminal holds a South African diplomat's family hostage at gunpoint; negotiators find themselves trying to do their work in the midst of a frantic media circus.
Ep. 3: Sydney Community Centre Siege (2019-10-23)

Police negotiators are called into a local welfare office, where 27 people are being held hostage by an armed couple threatening to blow everyone up unless their 3-month-old baby is returned to them.
Ep. 4: Embassy under Siege (2019-10-30)

Armed rebels have seized 89 people in the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, and Thai negotiators must stop them from killing hostages every half an hour in one of the country's biggest hostage crises.