With a life-and-death hostage situation paralleling own strange circumstances, Sam Tyler is ordered with the rest of the 1-2-5 to diffuse a potentially deadly face-off at a hospital where a crazed gunman is trying to force a doctor to reverse a dangerous operation on the renegade’s brother, and the squad are all targeted in the gunman’s cross-hairs.
When his mother’s voice bleeds through from 2006 and he hears her say goodbye to him, Sam is desperate – he’s alive and determined to make himself heard. But then the call comes in that a man has taken people hostage at the Manchester Gazette and is intent on killing them at 2pm – the same time Sam’s machine will be switched off. Could stopping the hostage-taker be a way of staying alive?