[1][2][3] NYPD Detective Mike Bennett and his new partner FBI Special Agent Emily Parker are on the trail of Francis Mooney, a Manhattan trusts and estates lawyer with terminal lung cancer.
Bennett and Parker respond, but Mooney is able to escape in a stolen taxicab with 2 male students as hostages.
After leaving the school, Mooney also takes the teenage doorman from a nearby swanky hotel hostage as well.
Mooney takes his hostages to the place he feels epitomizes all the greed and monetary obsession that troubles him: the New York Stock Exchange.
Mooney moves towards the stairway to verify this and is shot in the wrists by an FBI sniper stationed across the street.