Sixty Seconds, One Demand

One of you is barricaded behind a door with a single impossible demand and a hand that won't stop shaking; the other is the only voice getting through, with sixty seconds before the people outside stop waiting and come in hard. Every word either buys time or spends it — mirror them, name the fear, offer the small thing to get the big thing. Talk each other down, or find out what happens when the clock hits zero.