Chris Sabian

Lt. Chris Sabian is the secondary Protagonist in the 1998 movie The Negotiator. He was portrayed by Kevin Spacey

Sabian works as a Police Lieutenant for the Chicago Police Department's west precinct and is the city's second top negotiator. He has a reputation of solving all hostage situations with talking instead of using tactical action. He once talked for 55 hours and he even talked a man out of blowing up the Sears Tower. At home, he reads a lot of books and watches a lot of old movies, especially westerns. Unfortunately, His negation skills don't work on his family. He Eventually meets his match in East Precinct office Danny Roman, the city's best top Negotiator, who has been framed for laundering money from his Precincts disability fund and murdering his Best friend and Partner Nate Roenick, who had been investigating the theft.

In time, Danny manages to convince him he is innocent and helps him prove his innocence saving his life on the way.