Their car broke down during the escape, and they eventually ended up in the homes of an elderly couple in Larvik after taking a 44-year-old female police officer as hostage the night after the robbery.
They were led to believe that they would be given an airplane at the nearest airport, Torp, but upon arrival they quickly realised that they had been fooled.
He was then told that he was going to be killed if the demands of the kidnappers were not met, which was a sum of US$10 million and passage out of the country within the hour.
A few seconds later, the police tactical unit Delta launched an attack that saved all the hostages and killed Resid Koca.
[citation needed] Due to the MS Estonia sinking, the incident received little press attention, although a miniseries titled Deadline Torp was made for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), in 2005.