Ryder (John Travolta) leads a group of armed men, board a New York subway train and takes everyone in a coach hostage. Their demands : 10 million dollars within sixty minutes or a passenger will be killed every minute after that.MTA dispatcher Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) becomes the unwitting negotiator. When Ryder demonstrates his seriousness by killing some of the hostages, the money has to be delivered to him as he demands and Garber must do whatever he can to end the situation, but it seems the hijackers have a perfect escape plan.
