![]() ![]() (From 5-car to standard 10-car train-lengths for both Local & Express, being so close to the 14th Str. That emergency exit is actually a long abandoned Local platform (18th Street) which was closed in 1948 when the City undertook a massive Citywide platform lengthening project for Local stations. They don't realize that Longman has figured out how to bypass the "dead-man's switch", allowing the car to speed along the track by itself (with the police chasing it while driving on surface streets) while the hijackers escape through an emergency exit. While the city rushes to comply, transit police try to puzzle out the hijackers' plan. They threaten to execute the hostages unless the city pays one million dollars in ransom. The hijackers are led by Ryder, a former mercenary Longman, a disgruntled former motorman Welcome, a violent former Mafia thug and Steever, a powerful, laconic brute. ![]() ![]() ![]() Four men armed with submachine guns detach the lead car of the train and take it and 17 hostages into a tunnel. It starts as a normal day on a subway, but the normality is interrupted by the hijacking of a subway train, the number 6 train. ![]()
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