Kidnap And Ransom – Episode 1

Summary:

At the beginning of this episode you see Dominic King in a small boat throwing something that looks very much as a body into a lake. There then is a flashback of 2 weeks earlier to Kashmir in India to negotiate the hostage release of a British family. Kidnappers in Kashmir take some passengers on a tourist bus hostage, King then has to convince the police to not shot them. The innocent passengers do everything the kidnappers say, they all lined up against the window of the bus, one of the passengers wrote on the window saying ‘Don’t kill us’. The UK government initially is unwilling to interfere in Indian hostage negotiations. However during negotiations King unearths that one of the tourists is the daughter of a UK politician, which of course changes the stance of the UK government. The kidnapper took everyone’s phone and was contacting Dominic every so often, he also asks for everyone’s passports. One passenger tried to escape by kicking down the window and jumping out hoping he would be safe but as the police thought he was part of the kidnappers they shot him dead, the bullet went into his neck and he died instantly. At the end of the episode Dominic King managed to convince the kidnapper to let some of the hostages go, he ended up letting go the pregnant lady.