Plot Summary for
"The Listener" Desperate Hours (2011)

When Toby (Craig Olejnik) and Oz (Ennis Esmer) are dispatched to a routine call in the financial district, they are unexpectedly taken hostage by two men posing as security guards who are carrying out a victim suffering from a gunshot wound. When Toby hits his radio's panic button, Ryder (Arnold Pinnock) and the dispatch team listen to the radio transmission and, aware of the events occurring, alert Michelle (Lauren Lee Smith) and the police. Toby and Oz insist the victim requires immediate medical attention that only a hospital can provide, but the hijackers refuse. When the victim's condition worsens, Toby and Oz are faced with a life-threatening scenario: perform a surgical procedure to keep the victim and themselves alive. With time running out and Toby and Oz's lives at stake, Michelle and Dev (Rainbow Sun Francks) must learn the identity of the hostage takers and figure out their next move. When they discover that the gunshot wound victim has been convicted of investment fraud for running a Ponzi scheme and is out on bail awaiting the results of an appeal, the urgency increases. Written by Shaftesbury Films

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