S1.E5

Bank Job

Name: Bank Job
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989-01-03
Rating: 8
Cast: Gary Cole, Wendy Kilbourne, Dennis Dun

Episode aired Jan 3, 1989

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8.0/10

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Matt Clark and Gary Cole in Midnight Caller (1988)

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As Jack's luck would have it, he goes into a bank to cash a cheque and finds himself a hostage in a bank robbery. The media and the police wait out the negotiations, all with a personal inte... Read allAs Jack's luck would have it, he goes into a bank to cash a cheque and finds himself a hostage in a bank robbery. The media and the police wait out the negotiations, all with a personal interest in Jack's well-being.As Jack's luck would have it, he goes into a bank to cash a cheque and finds himself a hostage in a bank robbery. The media and the police wait out the negotiations, all with a personal interest in Jack's well-being.

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Bank Job

Jack goes to the bank to cash a cheque and gets caught up in a bank hold up instead.

Not the bad luck he needed when a local television mogul, Kenneth Miller wanted Jack Killian to move into the lucrative television market.

Now Jack finds having to use his police training to keep the situation calm. Unfortunately one of the robbers suffers from PTSD after his stint in a Prisoner of War camp in Vietnam.

Meanwhile pushy Miller wants to bend the rules to get a television scoop for his station.

An inept police hostage negotiator gives Jack's identity away, so now he becomes a target.

Like a lot of television shows after movies like Platoon. The after effects of Vietnam certainly came back in vogue. Jack tries to get through to one of the baddies who felt abandoned after coming home.

It also has points to make about the media who wants to make the news rather than report it.