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>> we heard a shot. confirmed hostage down, window 2. six seconds later, we saw the special forces guys breach. it was pretty loud, pretty frightening. it's like nothing i've ever seen before, ever. the moment he crossed the line of taking down a hostage, it was a forced action from police. in my mind and probably anyone else's seeing it, they're not going to sit around and wait for another hostage to have the same fate. >> reporter: after all, greg parker saw on sydney's longest, darkest night, it's the terror on the faces of those victims in the early hours of the siege which will live with ...
These remarkable, chilling images to police headquarters. >> the guys back in the police sort of command were asking for specific shots. so we would put on kevlar vests and relocated cameras as we needed them to be, specifically that window that they called window 4, where the flag was being sort of held up was where the gunman was continually sort of positioning himself and putting hostages between himself and the window and himself in the door. it was generally horrible. in 20 years, you know, it's very rare to come across such upsetting footage. there's nothing you can do. >> as the world w...
>> the thing that probably keeps going through my mind the most is the look of just anguish on those faces of those people being forced to stand in that window. but matched with that, the sheer courage of those police officers and the nonstop stories and the info i was getting from the sniper who was telling us how and what to do different things and then to see the way they sort of went in with no fear for their own safety to get people o out, never going to forget that. >> just incredible. the lingering question remains, why did the hostage-taker do this? what was his motive? we'll bring you...
The lights went off, signs weren't looking good. and the scene was getting sort of worse by the hour. >> reporter: as the hours ticked by, the gunman's behavior became more erratic. >> we continually saw him moving, almost shoving and walking behind in a really intimidating, angry, kind of threatening manner. it was just horrible to see. you could see him communicating and especially after those guys escaped, he became quite agitated. he was grabbing the hostages and moving them and continually keeping them between the window and himself it seemed. >> reporter: still the entire focus of emerge...