{year}=2012
{quality}=HD
{duration}=1h:42mn
Summary of the story
A gentleman by the name of Joe Walker checked into the Roosevelt Hotel and proceeded to enter his hotel room on the 21st floor. He then climbed onto the ledge, indicating his intention to commit suicide. The crowd below alerted the police, who arrived on the scene. Dante Marcus took charge of the crowd, while Jack Dougherty engaged in conversation with Walker. However, Walker refused to speak to anyone other than negotiator Lydia Mercer, who was on a leave of absence after failing to save a suicidal policeman. Mercer eventually arrived at the hotel room and obtained Walker's fingerprints from a shared cigarette. Dougherty had the fingerprints analyzed and discovered that "Walker" was actually Nick Cassidy, a former policeman who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing a diamond from businessman David Englander. Nick had escaped from prison one month earlier during his father's funeral. Nick maintained his innocence and claimed that Englander had framed him, as Englander had lost his fortune in a bad business deal and was too proud to sell the diamond.
Nick distracted the police while his brother, Joey, and Joey's girlfriend, Angie, broke into Englander's vault across the street to recover the diamond and prove his innocence. Cassidy had to use double entendres to provide instructions to Joey and Angie through an earpiece while speaking to Mercer. Dougherty informed Marcus of Nick's true identity, and Marcus ordered the jewelry store's security to check the vault. Joey and Angie managed to evade them but were unable to locate the diamond. They deliberately set off an alarm, tricking Englander into retrieving the diamond, and then ambushed him in his office, where they stole the diamond at gunpoint.
Nick's former partner, Mike Ackerman, arrived at the hotel with evidence that Nick was planning something and demanded to be allowed into the hotel room. Mercer was suspicious of Ackerman, and Dougherty supported her. Ackerman claimed that he had found bomb schematics in a storage unit rented by Nick and was convinced that Nick was planning to detonate an explosive somewhere. While the crowd was evacuated by the bomb squad, Mercer, believing in Nick's innocence, contacted internal affairs and discovered that three of the cops employed by Englander were suspected of being corrupt: Ackerman, Marcus, and a deceased officer named Joe Walker.