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The Negotiator

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The Negotiator	comment	The Negotiator is a 1998 film starring Samuel L. Jackson as Danny Roman, a Chicago Police Department hostage negotiator framed for the murder of his partner, Nate Roenick (Paul Guilfoyle). Nate was murdered when he uncovered serious corruption within their unit. Not knowing who he can trust, Danny turns to taking hostages to find the truth about Nate's murder. Unable to trust his friends, he calls upon a stranger, and fellow negotiator, Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey), to prove his innocence.The film was directed by F. Gary Gray, previously known for Friday (1995) and Set It Off (1996). It was not a box office hit, earning about $44,547,681 in the United States market. It was only the 47th most successful film of its year. However, it gained mostly positive reviews and earned both Gray and Jackson a number of awards.Tropes list contains unmarked spoilers. Please repair if you have a moment.
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The Negotiator / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
The Negotiator / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: SWAT sniper Palermo is a genial man who chews a toothpick on the job to calm his nerves. He seems reluctant to believe the worst of the Wrongfully Accused Danny Roman, refusing to take a shot at him, and being one of the only prominent honest cops on the team.
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The Negotiator / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
The Negotiator / int_132d93f1	comment	Done later when the cops try an ill-advised breach, but Danny already has Rudy as a Human Shield and willing to shoot his hostage. Frost orders the SWAT members to put down their guns to prevent a loss of life, and Danny tells everyone on comms that the dirty cops have now handed him two more hostages as a result of trying to silence him.
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The Negotiator / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Negotiator / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers show that Sabian eventually sides with Danny. By using a line that isn't even in the final cut of the film!
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The Negotiator / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Negotiator / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Primarily Sabian who is the Deuteragonist of the film, but really the entire team trying to take Roman down qualify because they really do believe that he's a Dirty Cop who stole their money and murdered his own partner. Well... aside from the ones who framed him for it, of course. Also Beck pretty much screams "Rabid Cop" with his constant attempts to have SWAT charge into the building and shoot Roman, but is one of the few senior officers during the stand-off that isn't crooked.
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The Negotiator / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Negotiator / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: When Travis cedes command to Sabian, with the title drop emphasized:
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The Negotiator / int_20016429	type	Experienced Protagonist
The Negotiator / int_20016429	comment	Experienced Protagonist: At the onset of the film Danny is a former US Army soldier, a decorated police officer and a top hostage negotiator.
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The Negotiator / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Negotiator / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Sabian holds no ill will towards Danny but gives no illusions that he cares about anything other than getting the hostages back alive. At one point, he even pulls a gun on Danny.
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The Negotiator / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Negotiator / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Between the Jurisdiction Friction between the Chicago PD and FBI agents, the overaggressive attempts by the cops to resolve the hostage situation that results in two SWAT officers being captured and the actual dirty cops trying to find any excuse to kill Danny Sabian emerges as this. He gives out multiple What the Hell, Hero? speeches to the cops in particular, reminding them that their top priority should be saving the lives of the hostages.
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The Negotiator / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
The Negotiator / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Danny, to a whole room full of cops. The result is a desk covered in guns and handcuffs. Justified in that Danny is a crack shot (which he demonstrates by intentionally missing - by about four inches - a cop who was trying to line up a shot from a high walkway) and is standing in a doorway, preventing anybody from flanking him. Done later when the cops try an ill-advised breach, but Danny already has Rudy as a Human Shield and willing to shoot his hostage. Frost orders the SWAT members to put down their guns to prevent a loss of life, and Danny tells everyone on comms that the dirty cops have now handed him two more hostages as a result of trying to silence him.
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The Negotiator / int_2ce97e0c	type	Prove I Am Not Bluffing
The Negotiator / int_2ce97e0c	comment	Prove I Am Not Bluffing: Danny invokes this trope when he shoots one of the cops he took hostage, as protocol dictates the police can't breach if it's demonstrated he will take lives in retaliation. He actually faked it and the cop is fine, he just needed them to think otherwise.
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The Negotiator / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The Negotiator / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Inverted and then subverted. Sabian gets a friend to pretend to be the mole to convince Danny to release the hostages and give himself up (and possibly reveal if there are conspirators in the police department). His plan is successful at first, as Sabian has gathered enough information from Danny to know some of the mole's characteristics. But ultimately his plan is foiled when Danny discovers from Niebaum's files who the real mole is. The second breach attempt is really just a cover for the corrupt cops to assassinate Niebaum and destroy incriminating evidence.
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The Negotiator / int_2fbab42f	type	Wrongful Accusation Insurance
The Negotiator / int_2fbab42f	comment	Wrongful Accusation Insurance: Danny takes hostages in a federal building just to start, but is let off the hook once the mastermind is revealed.
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The Negotiator / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
The Negotiator / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Subverted. At first glance it seems that Danny, who is accused of murdering a police officer, digs himself into an even deeper hole by shooting one of the SWAT officers he takes as a hostage. He faked Scott's death to convince the police that another raid would not be worth the risk.
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The Negotiator / int_3671a716	type	Empty Cop Threat
The Negotiator / int_3671a716	comment	Empty Cop Threat: After the hostages have been released Maggie initially gives Chief Al Travis the silent treatment when he asks where Danny has gone, but relents when he threatens to charge her with obstruction of justice.
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The Negotiator / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
The Negotiator / int_38bf28e3	comment	Engineered Public Confession: Roman and Sabian get Frost to do this by Sabian pretending to be crooked himself, shooting Roman with a "good wound", and blackmailing Frost with floppy disks he alleges are the evidence, while Roman keeps his walkie talkie on to broadcast it to the officers outside.
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The Negotiator / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Negotiator / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Done multiple times by Roman, since he knows through experience how police and SWAT will react to every move he makes; Roman and Sabian use one together to get the real conspirator to make an engineered confession. Done by Chris which what initially seems like a poor bluff with a fake informant; it's actually a way for Danny to see right through it then flip it with a bluff of his own by telling everyone on comms that Niebaum is ready to talk. This causes the dirty cops to panic and into action that crumbles the facade that Danny is acting like the guilty party.
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The Negotiator / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
The Negotiator / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Danny gives Niebaum a crash course in how "real cops" pick apart liars. He's rather disconcerted, however, when he flat out asks Niebaum who really did it, and Niebaum says "You" and Danny can tell the guy honestly believes it.
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The Negotiator / int_3cf10fcf	type	Click Hello
The Negotiator / int_3cf10fcf	comment	Click Hello: When Danny is making his getaway out of the building to retrieve the files at Niebaum's house, Chris gets the drop on him. Chris says he'll assist Danny to uncover the truth, but any wrong move and Sabian will shoot Danny himself.
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The Negotiator / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Negotiator / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Well, verbal battle at least, between Danny and Farley. It's not even a fair fight, since Farley is a last minute substitute since their best negotiator is the one taking hostages. Danny reacts with disbelief when Farley calls him up on the phone and he starts on the standard negotiation lines, decides to give Farley a chance to talk him down, and what follows is an emasculating verbal dissection. Danny at least apologizes later for giving him a hard time.
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The Negotiator / int_3dbdb0d5	type	Rudely Hanging Up
The Negotiator / int_3dbdb0d5	comment	Rudely Hanging Up: After Roman executes a hostage and calls the negotiator for his next demands, Sabian hangs up the phone on him several times even though Roman still has hostages, both to signal his anger and to make it clear that he will refuse further negotiations if people get hurt.
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The Negotiator / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Negotiator / int_3dd3951e	comment	Beck to Danny, after Danny goes cowboy during the opening scene.
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The Negotiator / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Negotiator / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: When the crooked cops shoot Niebaum they engage in a drawn out firefight with Danny to make it look like the guy just got caught in the crossfire. Danny points out to Sabian that he has "three shots to center mass", obviously indicating murder. In a nice touch, the shots passed through the target and went into the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet despite the bloodstain in the chair showing the victim was seated, indicating that they came from high up and making it almost impossible that Danny was responsiblenote Since Sabian didn't directly witness the firefight, he needs the proof, while the audience saw the whole thing and have no such doubts.
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The Negotiator / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Negotiator / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Palermo has a clear shot at Danny during a breach and is ordered to shoot, but Palermo believes Danny's innocence and refuses to fire, and is relieved from duty as a result.
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The Negotiator / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Negotiator / int_47fea76b	comment	When Farley is trying to talk Danny down, Danny threatens to kill someone if Farley says the word "no." When Farley accidentally say no, Danny fires a gunshot into the air. Rudy confirms moments later that they're all fine and Danny was probably just screwing with Farley anyway.
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The Negotiator / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Negotiator / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Roenick rejecting a bribe offer to keep him quiet about the disability fund embezzlement fund. It's what gets him killed.
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The Negotiator / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Negotiator / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Niebaum, until Danny finally outsmarts him.
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The Negotiator / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Negotiator / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: As Beck warns the team, Danny is an expert at their tactics as one of them, and he's able to seal off the room and bunker down to the point that he's able to fend off multiple breaches and keep eyes out of the room on his own.
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The Negotiator / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
The Negotiator / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: Roenick rejects the same bribe that Niebaum took, forcing Frost and the co-conspirators to have him killed and set Danny up, kicking off the events of the film. It's especially ironic since Frost admits to Sabian that they spent most of their embezzled money setting Danny up in the first place.
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The Negotiator / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
The Negotiator / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: The SWAT team uses small vents for running fiber-optic cameras and larger vents for team members. When the title character barricades himself into an office, one of the precautions he takes is to close off the vents as best he can with available materials. Danny also uses it during his escape from the building.
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The Negotiator / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Negotiator / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Subverted. Danny only acts increasingly unhinged after the failed breach, and only pretends to shoot Scott to make the police think it isn't worth risking the other hostages' lives with another breach. He stays relatively cool and in control throughout the ordeal, which is justified since he's a cop with decades of experience in tense situations.
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The Negotiator / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Negotiator / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: All the cops who arrive to Niebaum's house give one to Frost when they realize that he was the one who masterminded the embezzlement scheme and murdered Nate Roenick. Danny gives a very chilling one to the hardass states attorney when he makes it clear that he’s VERY unsympathetic to Danny’s claims of innocence, which finally leads to Danny taking the matter into his own hands.
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The Negotiator / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Negotiator / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: First Roenick, then Niebaum.
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The Negotiator / int_69766c43	type	Closed Door Rapport
The Negotiator / int_69766c43	comment	Closed Door Rapport: The movie milks this for all it's worth—both Danny Roman and Chris Sabian are introduced doing this. Roman is talking with a gunman. Sabian is talking with his wife.
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The Negotiator / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Negotiator / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Frost, who was a largely background character, is the mastermind behind of the theft of the disability fund and Danny being framed. Danny never killed Scott. Roenick was the informant. Niebaum took a bribe from the conspiracy to conceal the evidence of it.
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The Negotiator / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Negotiator / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Averted when Frost discovers he's been outed as the conspiracy mastermind and attempts it; he's shot in the shoulder before he can do it.
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The Negotiator / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
The Negotiator / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Danny is given this order by the Chief before his meeting with the DA. Getting it back is one of his demands. Sabian gives it back to him at the end of the movie, acknowledging it's one demand he hadn't met.
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The Negotiator / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
The Negotiator / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Internal Affairs cop Niebaum is a sinister Jerkass who is quick to accuse the main character of embezzling from the police disability fund and murdering his partner, even though Danny's Dead Partner questioned Niebaum's trustworthiness before dying. Danny ends up taking Niebaum hostage to try and get some answers, with Niebaum remaining oddly silent throughout most of the ordeal. Eventually, it's confirmed that after being given the evidence needed to arrest the embezzlers, they bribed him to cover up their misdeeds.
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The Negotiator / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Negotiator / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Adam Beck, the squad leader, who makes no secret of his dislike for Danny even before the set-up, can't help but chuckle silently during the "never say no" scene; a sentiment shared by one of the FBI agents. Sabian's wife Lisa is upset after their daughter Stacy said her ski clothes made her look "wide". While she's locked up in their bedroom, Chris makes a big show of trying to lecture their daughter (who's also on the phone and ignoring him) to placate his spouse, but keeps laughing despite himself.
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The Negotiator / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Negotiator / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Samuel L. Jackson goes to town with this after the failed breach, standing at the shattered window in front of the police and news helicopters and shouting for them to "TAKE MY BLOOD!", knowing full well they won't shoot him on national television.
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The Negotiator / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Negotiator / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Danny Roman (Red) and Chris Sabian (Blue) for the negotiators; Chief Travis (Blue) and Commander Beck (Red) for the senior officers.
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The Negotiator / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
The Negotiator / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: Danny gets one to show how good he is at what he does.
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The Negotiator / int_8a8f37f9	type	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement
The Negotiator / int_8a8f37f9	comment	Artistic License – Law Enforcement: No police department would ever attempt a breach without warning the hostage negotiator beforehand, which is what happens when Chief Travis orders a breach attempt while Sabian is talking to Roman. Sabian himself lampshades the fact that this would put both the negotiator and any hostages in danger. The second time it happens it's justified, as the dirty cops were using the breach as an excuse to kill Niebaum in order to silence him.
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The Negotiator / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Negotiator / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Niebaum. He's a corrupt, cowardly Smug Snake and the only reason anyone is sorry to see him go is that he won't be able to reveal the corrupt cops involved with the embezzlement scheme.
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The Negotiator / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Negotiator / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Danny.
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The Negotiator / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Negotiator / int_90c018ac	comment	Danny, to a whole room full of cops. The result is a desk covered in guns and handcuffs. Justified in that Danny is a crack shot (which he demonstrates by intentionally missing - by about four inches - a cop who was trying to line up a shot from a high walkway) and is standing in a doorway, preventing anybody from flanking him.
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The Negotiator / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: Chris Sabian. Because Danny doesn't know how far up the betrayal goes in the precinct, he needs a complete outsider in Sabian to come in and listen to Danny. However, as Chris makes clear to both Danny and the cops, as an outsider, he has no idea about who is really telling the truth, and his only concern are the hostages. He makes it plain to both sides to not make the mistake of thinking he's on their side just because he's on the scene.
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The Negotiator / int_98770aab	comment	At the end, after Beck shoots Frost to prevent him from killing himself, Danny picks up Frost's gun and is about to give him a Coup de Grâce. He looks around and, seeing his wife and all of his friends, hands the gun off to Travis.
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The Negotiator / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When attempting to force out Niebaum's information by putting him in the killbox room, Danny tells Niebaum that if the dirty cops killed Nate, they'd kill Niebaum too. Sure enough, as soon as Niebaum spills out what he knows, the dirty cops breach and murder Niebaum.
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The Negotiator / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: During the second attempted breach, Danny manages to outsmart and drive back the entire SWAT team with absolute EASE.
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The Negotiator / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The "Don't say no" phone scene, sharply pivoting from jokes to real anger.
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The Negotiator / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: The impetus behind the entire film and the reason Danny asks for Sabian to be brought in, as he's unsure who within his own precinct may be dirty. Also Danny himself, from the perspective of the honest cops involved.
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The Negotiator / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: We are first introduced to Chris Sabian as he is failing to persuade his wife to come out of the bedroom in which she has locked herself. Summed up succinctly with this line:
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The Negotiator / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: Roman takes several innocent people hostage during the incident as he fights to clear his name. The movie doesn't imply that he will ever face consequences for doing so. Even if you have been framed for theft and murder, taking innocent people hostage is still a crime. It's strongly implied that the hostages would speak on Danny's behalf, and given the misconduct of the corrupt cops, it's likely he would come out of it in decent shape.
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The Negotiator / int_aa0b5ae8	comment	Covert Distress Code: At the beginning, Danny flashes hand signals (1, 2, and 3 fingers) to alert the sniper team when to fire. The "1" signal is worked into his conversation with the hostage taker as a "wait a minute" gesture, while the others are displayed with his back turned to the suspect.
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The Negotiator / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Niebaum after Danny claims that Niebaum is willing to reveal the conspirators of the embezzlement scheme, realizing that he's likely to be targeted to silence him. Which he was.
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The Negotiator / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: Used as a misdirection with Danny and Chris Sabian escaping from the federal building, after Sabian agrees to help Danny and instructs him to follow. Sabian begins to drive away from the scene, having been relieved of duty, only to be stopped by a checkpoint in case Danny is being smuggled out. They pop open the trunk and find nothing; Chris drives off and picks up Danny, who left the building on foot, several blocks down.
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The Negotiator / int_ae422bac	comment	Fake Kill Scare: Twice. When Farley is trying to talk Danny down, Danny threatens to kill someone if Farley says the word "no." When Farley accidentally say no, Danny fires a gunshot into the air. Rudy confirms moments later that they're all fine and Danny was probably just screwing with Farley anyway. Roman insinuates over the phone that he killed a hostage to prove that he was serious after a failed SWAT breach. This charade is kept up as a ploy by Roman for some time to gain leverage, before Danny reveals to Chris as he prepares his escape that it was only this trope.
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The Negotiator / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Subverted when Chris Sabian pretends to kill Danny Roman for a cut in the villains' profits.
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The Negotiator / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Both Danny and Sabian are top hostage negotiators. This leads to an interesting dynamic where both of them are constantly reading each other and generally doing a good job anticipating what the other does, such as Chris not initially bothering to talk Danny down due to how he normally would have expected it and Danny calling Chris out for pretending to be on his side during their first meeting.
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The Negotiator / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Danny takes the hostages to clear himself of stealing from his precinct's disability fund and murdering his partner.
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The Negotiator / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Between the FBI and Chicago PD, as the building is a federal one and the FBI allow them jurisdiction until the mounting list of screw-ups compel them to take over the situation. Then, once Danny is known to have left the building, CPD claims jurisdiction again, even though the FBI could probably have claimed Hot Pursuit.
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The Negotiator / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: Played with in-universe. Danny wants everyone to think he's shot one of the officers who attempted the first raid, specifically because SOP requires that breaching is to be held as an absolute last resort if the hostage-taker has proven themselves willing to kill. But eventually he reveals to Sabian that it was staged. At the end, after Beck shoots Frost to prevent him from killing himself, Danny picks up Frost's gun and is about to give him a Coup de Grâce. He looks around and, seeing his wife and all of his friends, hands the gun off to Travis.
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The Negotiator / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: The film actually Deconstructs the concept of the Framed Hero finding out who his "real" friends are when things hit the fan. When Danny is ordered to turn in his badge, he gives the standard "You know me better than this" line usually made in this situation, but later on Sabian (correctly) points out that belief in Danny's innocence or guilt in this situation is irrelevant, the cops are doing their jobs by following the evidence where it leads them (and trying to neutralize an angry man who has taken hostages). Frost, who is the only one who is somewhat supportive of Danny throughout the whole mess — even suggesting to Travis and Beck that Danny "may actually believe he's innocent" — is really the villain who set him up in the first place.
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The Negotiator / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: When things are going badly and Danny Roman believes that he will soon be killed by the corrupt cops, he asks Maggie for a favor. One of Danny's demands is for a department funeral if he dies.
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The Negotiator / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Danny initially thinks Niebaum is responsible for all his trouble, and once the hostage situation ensues, he gets a couple Hannibal Lecture moments to sell him as the villain of the piece. But he's actually very low on the food chain; he simply found out about the conspiracy on his own. When he confronted the real guilty parties, they bribed him to lose the evidence and he was quickly eliminated once he revealed the arrangement and became a liability.
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The Negotiator / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Rudy Timmons is a two-bit con artist whose rap sheet includes credit card and insurance fraud but he's affable enough and helps Roman piece together the fraud.
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The Negotiator / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Negotiator / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: There are a whole bunch of them. Sabian both gives and receives several throughout the movie. Beck to Danny, after Danny goes cowboy during the opening scene. Danny again, from just about everyone, when he takes hostages. Sabian to the Chief and Beck after the first breach attempt fails. Sabian to Danny after Danny shoots Scott. Everyone to Sabian after his bluff with the informant fails. Sabian to Beck, the Chief, and the FBI after the second breach fails.
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The Negotiator / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Negotiator / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Chris wins an early negotiating round on Danny when the latter threatens to kill hostages if Chris leaves. Chris immediately turns heel and leaves, and since Danny's entire plan relies on Chris's outside help, he relents and is willing to give Chris a hostage in exchange for the building's power being restored.
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The Negotiator / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Negotiator / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: SWAT Commander Beck seems like an easy pick for the person who is setting up Danny; he is a hardass, no-bull character who wants to immediately take out Roman with a tactical squad, and is played by David Morse, who has made a living playing villainous roles. But he's not. He's only trying to take down Roman because he believes he's the culprit, and he not only arrests the true villain, but also keeps him from committing suicide to escape his fate.
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The Negotiator / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
The Negotiator / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Sabian gets Frost to confess by blackmailing him with the nonexistent evidence. When Chris's bluff with the fake informant fails, Danny opens the walkie-talkie line while on the phone with Chris so everyone can hear that Niebaum is willing to talk about who was in on the embezzlement. A horrified Niebaum had made no such deal, but Danny tells him that's not what the dirty cops now think. This results in Niebaum revealing what he knows, and the dirty cops breaching to murder Niebaum and destroy the workstation with the evidence.
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The Negotiator / int_dfbf8667	type	Right Under Their Noses
The Negotiator / int_dfbf8667	comment	Right Under Their Noses: A rare accidental example. Danny spends the entire movie looking for the mastermind behind the embezzlement scheme and Roenick's murder. The mastermind in question was Frost, one of Danny's hostages the entire time.
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The Negotiator / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The Negotiator / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Danny threatens to push Niebaum (who is handcuffed to a chair) into a room where the bad cops could get to him to get him talking.
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The Negotiator / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
The Negotiator / int_e4f5affb	comment	Farley basically exists for no other reason than to get utterly humiliated by Danny. The first time his name is mentioned, long before he appears on-screen in any meaningful capacity, is when Danny complains that "Farley fucked up the list!" (Said list being a likes / dislikes inventory for the current hostage-taker — Farley put the man's dog on the "Likes" side, but the guy hates his dog for barking all the time.) He later on gets humiliated by Danny getting him to repeatedly say 'No', though Danny apologizes for that later.
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The Negotiator / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Negotiator / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Maggie is Niebaum's assistant, not secretary. Backfires on her immediately, as Danny realizes she thus might have more information than he initially suspected.
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The Negotiator / int_e568bf17	type	Destruction Equals Off-Switch
The Negotiator / int_e568bf17	comment	Destruction Equals Off-Switch: Used twice in the movie by The Dirty Cops. In the first instance, the IAB workstation is shot by Allen, Argento & Hellman to destroy the evidence. They even avert Computer Equals Monitor by targeting the tower, not the monitor, which not only makes sure Danny can't turn it back on, but has a fairly likely chance of irrevocably destroying the data (even if they missed the hard drive, it's not like Danny has the time to disassemble the thing). Later, Frost, snaps some floppy disks in half which (allegedly) had copies of the evidence, before also shooting the computer in the same fashion.
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The Negotiator / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Niebaum. He's a corrupt scumbag who took a bribe from Frost and the other dirty cops to lose evidence of embezzlement and then pinned it on an innocent man. He also proves to be a Dirty Coward when the instant he thinks his life is in danger he reveals everything to Roman.
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The Negotiator / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
The Negotiator / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Played with. What really sells Sabian's bluff towards Frost is that he shoots Danny in the abdomen. Danny is then shown lying on the floor with blood pooling from under him. Afterwards, Sabian helps Danny out of the house, and Danny is able to stand on his own briefly, although he needs help from several cops to make it to the ambulance and obviously isn't just going to walk it off. In reality, a gunshot wound to the abdomen can cause a great deal of damage, since there are a lot of important organs there (Sabian seemed to be going for a "stay to the side and don't go too deep" approach, but guns are not knives). Sabian points out that if Frost had shot him, it would have been worse.
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The Negotiator / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
The Negotiator / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: The snipers and breaching team who remain on standby during the negotiations are minor characters who show a lot of skill and attention to their job and help keep the situation from devolving. Some of them are Dirty Cops, though.
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The Negotiator / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Several of them. Allen, Argento, Hellman and Frost form the conspiracy. Niebaum takes a bribe to hide the evidence of it. Beck, however, is clean.
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The Negotiator / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Beck was a dick even before Danny was setup. This, plus his gung-ho attitude when the hostage crisis erupts, suggests he's involved in the conspiracy. He's not. Niebaum is this too, being perpetually smug and weaselly.
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The Negotiator / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
The Negotiator / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: It is a movie with Sam Jackson, so we get some more screaming gems such as: YOU WANT MY BLOOD! TAKE MY BLOOD! YOU CAN'T TALK ME DOWN! I AM TALKING! NOW DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT EVER DRESS UP LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL AND GET YA ASS SPANKED?! YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL! THEY ARE!
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The Negotiator / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: Used by Palermo, the HRT sniper, when lining up a shot on Danny. It both tells the audience he has a shot, and helps justify the SWAT team putting down their guns and surrendering - they think he's about to be shot.
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The Negotiator / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Negotiator / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Chris Sabian is as close to Actual Pacifist as a cop can get. That said, however, do not test him.
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The Negotiator / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Beck get several in the finale. After being a Red Herring for the mastermind and a general jerkass throughout the movie he shoots Frost to prevent him from committing suicide, helps an injured Danny to the waiting ambulance and orders the street cleared so Danny can be rushed to the hospital. Background character Markus gets a nice one. Towards the finale he gives a pair of keys to Danny while also giving him a trusting handshake squeeze. Not bad considering he initially thought Danny had murdered Scott. After verbally eviscerating Farley during initial negotiations and briefly making him think Danny shot someone, Danny tells Farley not to feel bad on the following call, acknowledging Farley was too out of his depth in the situation.
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The Negotiator	hasFeature	Pinocchio Nose / int_dc3e6901
The Negotiator	hasFeature	Prove I Am Not Bluffing / int_dc3e6901
The Negotiator	hasFeature	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_dc3e6901
The Negotiator	hasFeature	Rudely Hanging Up / int_dc3e6901
The Negotiator	hasFeature	SWAT Team / int_dc3e6901
The Negotiator	hasFeature	The Corpse Stops Here / int_dc3e6901
The Negotiator	hasFeature	Wrongful Accusation Insurance / int_dc3e6901

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