History Series / TheKillPoint

* LimaSyndrome: Most of the hostage takers show a great deal of care for the hostages, and do whatever they can to make their situation more comfortable under the circumstances. The only one to routinely avoid it is [[ShellshockedVeteran Mr. Rabbit]], the more violent member of the team. Mr. Wolf is also still prepared to execute one of them to make good on his threat to the police.

''The Kill Point'' is a 2007 series that aired on Creator/SpikeTV, about an attempted bank robbery in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} organized by a group of disgraced Iraq War veterans who get involved in an armed stand-off with the police when their heist goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation. The cast includes Creator/DonnieWahlberg and Creator/JohnLeguizamo.

* JurisdictionFriction: The FBI takes over negotiations from the Pittsburg P.D. after one of their agents, who happened to be in the bank during the initial robbery, dies in the hospital from injuries sustained in the shoot-out. The new FBI negotiator immediately tries to throw her weight around, and proves to be far more incompetent than Horst Cali in dealing with the situation. First, she antagonizes Mr. Wolf instead of agreeing to his comically small demands (he's willing to surrender a hostage in exchange for a birthday cake), then declares that the FBI "doesn't negotiate with terrorists". As Cali points out, this defeats the whole point of communicating with the hostage takers to begin with and means they might as well storm in guns blazing and apologize to the families of the dead civilians afterwards. Some of the things that go wrong are indeed beyond her control, such as an independent sniper trying to kill one of the hostage takers. When Wolf refuses to deal with her any longer and Cali rescues another hostage by giving Wolf what he wants, he is put back in charge of negotations with Wolf and his gang.

* YouMakeMeSic: Horst Cali constantly corrects people's grammar while they're trying to talk to him about the ongoing hostage situation.

* JurisdictionFriction: The FBI takes over negotations from the Pittsburg P.D. after one of their agents, who happened to be in the bank during the initial robbery, dies in the hospital from injuries sustained in the shoot-out. The new FBI negotiator immediately tries to throw her weight around, and proves to be far more incompetent than Horst Cali in dealing with the situation. First, she antagonizes Mr. Wolf instead of agreeing to his comically small demands (he's willing to surrender a hostage in exchange for a birthday cake), then declares that the FBI "doesn't negotiate with terrorists". As Cali points out, this defeats the whole point of communicating with the hostage takers to begin with and means they might as well storm in guns blazing and apologize to the families of the dead civilians afterwards. Some of the things that go wrong are indeed beyond her control, such as an independent sniper trying to kill one of the hostage takers. When Wolf refuses to deal with her any longer and Cali rescues another hostage by giving Wolf what he wants, he is put back in charge of negotations with Wolf and his gang.

* JurisdictionFriction: The FBI takes over negotations from the Pittsburg P.D. after one of their agents, who happened to be in the bank during the initial robbery, dies in the hospital from injuries sustained in the shoot-out. The new FBI negotiator immediately tries to throw her weight around, and proves to be far more incompetent than Horst Cali in dealing with the situation. First, she antagonizes Mr. Wolf instead of agreeing to his comically small demands (he's willing to surrender a hostage in exchange for a birthday cake), then declares that the FBI "doesn't negotiate with terrorists". As Cali points out, this defeats the whole point of negotiating to begin with and means they might as well storm in guns blazing and apologize to the families of the dead civilians afterwards. Some of the things that go wrong are indeed beyond her control, such as an independent sniper trying to kill one of the hostage takers. When Wolf refuses to deal with her any longer and Cali rescues another hostage by giving Wolf what he wants, he is put back in charge of negotations with Wolf and his gang.

* BitchAlert: The female FBI hostage negotiatior. As soon as she walks into the room, it's obvious that she's desperately trying to prove her credentials but in the process just comes across as being unable to deal with the HostageSituation intelligently, such as arguing that the FBI "doesn't negotiate with terrorists". Everybody hates her, from the hostage takers to the Pittsburgh PD and SWAT.

* JurisdictionFriction: The FBI takes over negotations from the Pittsburg P.D. after one of their agents, who happened to be in the bank during the initial robbery, dies in the hospital from injuries sustained in the shoot-out. The new FBI negotiator immediately tries to throw her weight around, and proves to be far more incompetent than Horst Cali in dealing with the situation (although some of the things that happen are beyond her control, such as an independent sniper trying to kill one of the hostage takers), leading to him reassuming control of negotations.

* BitchAlert: The female FBI hostage negotiatior. As soon as she walks into the room, it's obvious that she's desperately trying to prove her credentials but in the process just comes across as being unable to deal with the HostageSituation intelligently.

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Mr. Pig manages to escape out of the city while avoiding the police, and ends up collecting the money he and his fellow robbers stole from a Canadian bank.]]

''The Kill Point'' is a 2007 series that aired on Creator/SpikeTV, about an attempted bank robbery in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} organized by a group of disgraced Iraq War veterans who get involved in an armed stand-off with the police when their heist goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation. The cast includes Donnie Wahlberg and Creator/JohnLeguizamo.

* LemmingCops: During the initial robbery, an off-duty FBI agent (who happened to be present in the bank's lobby at that moment) pursues the robbers and immediately starts a gunfight outside the building. [[TooDumbToLive A single person against five heavily armed suspects with only her sidearm for back-up]]. She's lucky a security guard just ''happened'' to circle back to back her up, or all she would have accomplished is getting herself and/or innocent bystanders killed. They fall back into the building and turn the whole thing into a protracted hostage situation instead, and she later dies from her injuries in the hospital anyway.

* LemmingCops: During the initial robbery, an off-duty FBI agent who happened to be present in the bank's lobby at that moment, pursues the robbers and immediately starts a gunfight outside the building. [[TooDumbToLive A single person against five heavily armed suspects with only her sidearm for back-up]]. She's lucky a security guard just ''happened'' to circle back to back her up, or all she would have accomplished is getting herself and/or innocent bystanders killed. They fall back into the building and turn the whole thing into a protracted hostage situation instead, and she later dies from her injuries in the hospital anyway.

* NobodyOver50IsGay: The elderly hostage Bernard is revealed to "have come out of the closet in 1953". At the end, after the hostage situation has ended, we see him reuniting with his partner.

* LemmingCops: During the initial robbery, an off-duty FBI agent who happened to be present in the bank's lobby at that moment, pursues the robbers and immediately starts a gunfight outside the building. A single person against five heavily armed suspects with only her sidearm for back-up. She's lucky a security guard just ''happened'' to circle back to back her up, or all she would have accomplished is getting herself and/or innocent bystanders killed. They fall back into the building and turn the whole thing into a protracted hostage situation instead, and she later dies from her injuries in the hospital anyway.

* BitchAlert: The female FBI hostage negotiatior, as soon as she walks into the room, it's obvious that she's desperately trying to prove her credentials but in the process just comes across as being unable to deal with the HostageSituation intelligently.

''The Kill Point'' is a 2007 series that aired on Creator/SpikeTV, about a bank robbery organized by a group of Iraq War veterans who get involved in an armed stand-off with the police when their heist goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation. The cast includes Donnie Wahlberg and Creator/JohnLeguizamo.

* NobodyOver50IsGay: The elderly hostage Bernard is revealed to "have come out of the closet in 1953"

* TrainEscape: [[spoiler:Mr. Pig is the only one of the robbers who manages to get become a KarmaHoudini after hopping onto a passing train to escape the pursuing SWAT team.]]

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Mr. Mouse, the most guilt-ridden of the five hostage takers, decides to walk outside and gets himself shot by reaching for something that turns out to be merely be a sketchbook.]]

* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:In the final episode, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Pig, and Mr. Cat manage to escape from the bank by kindnapping Horst Cali's wife and blackmailing him into assisting in their getaway by disguising them as hostages.]]

* LemmingCops: During the initial robbery, an off-duty FBI agent who happened to be present in the bank's lobby at that moment, pursues the robbers and immediately starts a gunfight outside the building. A single person against five heavily armed suspects with only her sidearm for back-up. She's lucky a security guard just ''happened'' to circle back to back her up, or all she would have accomplished is getting herself and/or innocent bystanders killed. They fall back into the building and turn the whole thing into a protracted hostage situation instead, and she later dies from her unjuries in the hospital anyway.