A twelve-year-old girl, home alone, grabs her mother's gun and holds fort in her bedroom closet, as an intruder enters and roams her home with unknown intentions. After being kidnapped by an ex-boyfriend, a woman narrowly escapes to a nearby house where the homeowner calls 9-1-1 just as the woman's ex steps into view armed with a kitchen knife. When their dog wakes them up in the middle of the night to the sounds of an intruder breaking into their home, an elderly couple calls 9-1-1 and prepares for a certain attack.
A taxi driver calls 9-1-1 moments after witnessing her last fare commit a violent crime, but while on the phone, her passenger returns and gets back in her cab! When a fourteen-year-old boy decides to confront an intruder in his home, all he has at his disposal is whatever he can find in his bedroom closet. A pregnant woman, trapped on the second floor of her burning home, realizes in the middle of her 9-1-1 call that she might not be the only one inside.
Episode: 7
Premiere Date: August 29 2013
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I Plan on Leaving Here in a Body Bag
This episode begins with a rural California widow calling 911 in the middle of the night as someone tries to break into her home. The horrifying story of a mass killing spree in a quiet Ohio neighborhood is told through 911 calls from frightened neighbors and the gunman's girlfriend. In an upscale suburb of Connecticut, a bitter divorce battle drives Richard Shenkman to kidnap his ex-wife and make numerous taunting and threatening calls to 911 as he holds her hostage in their former home.
SEE PHOTOSTALK ABOUT IT
The situations in the this episode are close calls. A pregnant woman in suburban Denver is helpless as she is attacked by her stalker in her secluded home. In Indiana, neighbors and paramedics rush to save two girls who have fallen through the ice on a frozen lake. A single mother is hunted by her ex-boyfriend on a North Carolina highway at high speeds.
He Told Me I Was Going to Die Today
The situations in the this episode are close calls. A pregnant woman in suburban Denver is helpless as she is attacked by her stalker in her secluded home. In Indiana, neighbors and paramedics rush to save two girls who have fallen through the ice on a frozen lake. A single mother is hunted by her ex-boyfriend on a North Carolina highway at high speeds.
Episode: 2
Premiere Date: December 06 2012
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I Need You to Put the Gun Down
One part thriller and one part true-crime show, this new series features the real, urgent, unrehearsed, 911 call audio between emergency dispatchers and frantic callers--in real-time--as life and death situations unfold around them. In this episode we meet three callers who under extreme duress must make critical choices as the lives of strangers, loved-ones and themselves are violently threatened. In San Jose, California, a single mother with a gun must decide whether to face her would-be rapist unarmed or risk being accidentally shot by police rushing to save her. After a lone gunman starts shooting in a local sporting goods store in Macomb, Illinois, the store's manager must choose whether to flee the scene or stay on the line in order to save those around him. On a dark night in rural Oklahoma, a grandmother faces the grim possibility of using deadly force to protect herself from an intruder.