L.A. Takedown is a crime/thriller made for TV movie that aired on NBC on August 27, 1989 at 9 pm. It was written and directed by Michael Mann, and its ensemble cast includes Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker, Daniel Baldwin, and Xander Berkeley. Takedown starred Plank as Hanna and Alex McArthur as Patrick McLaren.

Din Kalia a lonely taxi driver who hears all the good things happening into his passengers' lives, is going through some troubled times. One night he gives a ride to two passengers, Russell Law (Ashish Wahi) and Gus Vincent (Kirtikar). They seems to be pretty normal at first, but then reveal their true identity as killers on mission. Din being helpless has to drive them around while they kill people who are somehow related to him either professionally or personally while he's the last one on their list, but later on as he finds out the reason for their killing these innocent people. He seems to support their reasons and madness behind these ruthless murders. Going deeper into the rabbit hole, Din finds himself actually helping them at some point. When L.A.P.D. gets on the case they find something happening that hasn't happened before, 7 killings in a matter of four hours in 5 mile radius. Det. Cora (Malena Treves), Det. McCauley (David Scott) and Det. Sinha (Sunny Surat Singh) give their all to get to the bottom of this matter as it costs more people their lives. In their investigating of these crimes, they surprisingly run into the killers as a gun down between the two parties happens in the middle of the street in an L.A. neighborhood. The question now is will Din help Russel and Gus escape the police, or is he onto a master plan to get out of the situation. Written by Digital Artist Films Inc

This was originally meant to be a pilot for a new television series but it never materialized so Michael Mann (I) re-made the movie into Heat (1995). However, eventually, Mann did create a series inspired by this called "Robbery Homicide Division" (2002).