A New York policeman tries to talk a man off a ledge as a crowd gathers below.

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of not being capable of making his girlfriend happy, climbs out onto the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A police officer makes every effort to convince him not to go through with it.—Tiziana Totaro <[email protected]>

While on patrol on Lower Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day, traffic cop Charlie Dunnigan spots a potential suicide on a ledge of a Broadway hotel. Because the young man vocalizes his dislike for the police, Dunnigan alters his uniform and establishes a rapport with him. When the police rescue squad arrives, Dunnigan returns to his street duties. Authorities identify the jumper as Robert Cosick but are unable to win his trust or discover the reason for his actions. Cosick demands that Dunnigan return as the swelling crowd and cynical reporters create a media circus in the streets. As the day wears on, psychiatrists and Cosick's dysfunctional parents and ex-fiancee all try to talk him off the ledge without success as the day gives way to an eerie night illuminated by floodlights.—Gabe Taverney ([email protected])

On St. Patrick's Day in New York City, an early twenty-something John Doe is a proverbial jumper in being out on the ledge of the fifteenth floor of the Rodney Hotel. The first two on the scene are one of the hotel's room service waiters who was in the room when he noticed the man had climbed on the ledge without his knowledge, and Charlie Dunnigan, an NYPD traffic cop who could see the young man on the ledge from his position on the street. Dunnigan takes it upon himself to try and speak to the John Doe to find out his story and prevent him from jumping, that is until those on the force with experience on such matters arrive to take over. With the John Doe seemingly suspect of authority, he will speak to straight and plain talking Dunnigan and only him. As the authorities try and do their work, which for Dunnigan's superiors means first and foremost getting the John Doe off the ledge safely with or without his consent and to find out who he is so that they may have information for Dunnigan to push the right buttons with him, a large crowd convenes below, many whose own lives go on but are affected by this stranger potentially ending his life. Meanwhile, Dunnigan, as the front line of defense, has to balance all the information coming at him, from the John Doe himself, from the experts associated to the first responding authorities, and from who the police discover are his "loved ones", all the while trying to determine if there is that one triggering event that ultimately made the John Doe decide to go out on the ledge.—Huggo