1. Pirate Hijack

A pro bono team of hostage negotiators take on a near-impossible case - help free 29 fishermen who have been held hostage by Somali pirates for over two years.

2. Taipei Hostage Crisis

Taiwan's most-wanted criminal holds a South African diplomat's family hostage at gunpoint; negotiators find themselves trying to do their work in the midst of a frantic media circus.

4. Embassy under Siege

Armed rebels have seized 89 people in the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, and Thai negotiators must stop them from killing hostages every half an hour in one of the country's biggest hostage crises.