1. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES SCENARIO
You are part of a Hostage Unit Negotiating Team (HUNT). Your complete team
consists of the people in your group. Your team has just been called to a specific situation
and you are sitting together inside the HUNT van. Unfortunately, you are in control of this
operation. Ten people are being held hostage by an unknown number of people in a high
rise building across the road.
This is the situation. The people holding the hostage are armed and dangerous. They
have given you a set of demands that will take at least 45 minutes to comply with, perhaps
longer, they may in fact take several hours. They are not interesting in listening to your
reasons for the delay. They want their demands met now. You have negotiated the release a
one hostage every half hour, as a show of good faith
They have also told you that you will be responsible for choosing the first to be
released, the second, third and so on. The hostages have agreed to this themselves as they
are not prepared to make this decision.
They will call you in 15 minutes for your complete list of names indicating your
selected order. The only information you have is the information collected by the other
people who arrived on site before you (not much info…really).
Please show your choices below:
Order of release Name (your selection) Name (group selection)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

2. Hostage Details
NAME AGE SEX OCCUPATION OTHER DETAILS GAINED
Robert 43 M International Born and raised in America. Has
Tourism Expert lived in Thailand for 10 years.
Married to a Thai lady with two
young children.
Nattakan 26 F Office Worker About to get married to Worapot,
also a hostage.
Ton 24 M Marketing Has a sister. Lives with his
Major parents. Is member of dog lovers
club.
Nattapat 57 M Security Guard Has been employed at the same job
for 20 years. Married with 5
children and six grandchildren
Issara 19 M Student Just out of the army and his father
is a world authority on AIDS.
Supatta 32 F Mother Mother of three young children.
Today is her birthday. From
Chiang Mai. Lives with husband
and grandparents.
Jiranut 24 F Flight Very attractive. Working on an
Attendant MBA
Worapat 26 M University Engaged to Nattakan (above).
Student Studying to be a doctor.
Sarawaddi 62 F Retired Primary care giver for six
grandchildren. Diagnosed with
breast cancer. Devout Cathlolic.
James 35 M Teacher American. Single.