Trapped is a 1973 American made-for-television action thriller film starring James Brolin, Susan Clark, Earl Holliman and Robert Hooks.
[1] Chuck Brenner and his daughter, Carrie, shop for a hard-to-find "Billy Jo" doll at a Noonan's Department Store.
They argue, Chuck not happy that she's moving with Carrie to Mexico City that night with David Moore, her current husband, and disrupting his visitation rights.
Chuck lets Elaine and Carrie leave for dinner while he waits for the doll to arrive.
The cashier, Miss Havermeyer, has to go to the main office to break the large bill Chuck pays with, so he starts to smoke.
They steal his watch, cash and other valuables before locking him inside one of the stalls, but leave the doll.
Dizzy, he falls, letting out a grunt which alerts two other dogs stationed at the bottom of the stairwell.
At the airport, the flight to Mexico City is delayed and de-boarded to fix a loose cowling on an engine.
Cautiously leaving the office, he makes his way to the pay phones, but finds that the robbers have taken all of his change.
Still waiting in the airport lounge for the plane's repairs to be finished, David suggests that Elaine try calling the bars she expected Chuck to be in.
But David insists, being a decent man and not wanting Carrie to hate him for the rest of his life as "the guy who took her away from her daddy."
Still trapped in the store, Chuck releases the tourniquet and massages his leg to get some circulation back before reapplying the belt.
Chuck unhooks one of the barriers, then lights a thinner-soaked mop and uses it to back one of the dogs into the office, pulling the door closed behind it.
The bartender doesn't remember most of the customers from the busy hour, so Elaine pulls a photograph from her purse.
He climbs atop an armoire and tries to set it off, but another dog vaults the barrier and startles him into dropping the lit match.
The sergeant tells David that there were no hospital admissions matching Chuck's description, but there was a white male at the morgue hit by a subway and badly mangled.
On the verge of passing out from his blood loss, he uses his belt to strap himself to the rail behind him and keep him from falling off as he fishes for the archery set.
Police records show Hanrahan's is in charge of security, and Connaught realizes the extreme danger Chuck might be in.
Elaine watches terrified and helpless while a delirious Chuck sees an otherworldly scene of three strange, almost demonic forms yelling and waving.