Air Force One Is Down

Air Force One Is Down is a 2013 television film in two parts based on a story by Alistair MacLean that was based on a 1981 novel by John Denis. The film stars Jeremy Sisto,[1] Jamie Thomas King, Emilie de Ravin, Rupert Graves, Ken Duken and Linda Hamilton.

The project was first conceived for TV in the late 1970s. MacLean wrote up the story as a 120 page novella about Air Force One being hijacked while hosting a number of oil company executives. The project was turned down by NBC who did not want to make something about terrorism at the time. After The Hostage Tower was made it was revived as a proposed telemovie in 1980 but production was postponed.[2]

Plot

Plot of Episode I

In Rakovac, Western Serbia, a man who is named as Fergus Markey (Jeremy Sisto), walks towards a graveyard holding a soccer ball. It gives him a flashback that he knew the children who were buried in his sight, and lays the soccer ball at a boy's tombstone. Further in the flashback, a killer blows up the children, and has murdered numerous others.

Markey arrives in front of the killer's safe house, and begins to speak to a man inside the safe house behind, requesting for maintenance service at the pool, but is denied access because of the "usual" guy being sick at his home. As a result, he reverses the car and moments later, as well as other units (cars), they decide to break into the property. Instantly, a gunfight begins. Markey and his partner take out shooters and slowly enter the property. However, a black car drives away, using mines as distraction, but Markey manages to follow them. The hostiles use decoys to distract Markey. They are following the cars, but the killer gets out, protected, from behind to another car, but Markey confronts him. The killer is captured and sent to court in The Hague, where he is identified as Arkady Dragutin (Rupert Graves). The judge notifies he did wars in former Yugoslavia, to create the socalled Greater Serbia, and was involved in rape, torture and massmurder on innocent civilians. As a penalty of doing crime against mankind, the judge puts him on a sentence of life in prison, but Dragutin vows NATO are the guilty; who bombed Belgrade, and will do revenge by "ripping the heart out of Europe". In a room, Markey tells Dragutin the truth about him, where he is a common killer, and not a hero or martyr. And he expects that Dragutin's right hand Milosz Petrovic will enter the cell shortly.

The U.S president Rowntree is scheduled for a flight to Serbia, to discuss their involvements with NATO. At the Russian Embassy in London, numerous reporters are fighting for throwing questions to the Russian governor Kozinski who insists Serbia has the rights to join NATO. A man speaks to Channel 7 news reporter Francesca Romeroh and introduces himself as Steven Featherstone (Jamie Thomas King). On the fifth floor, five minutes later, he and another woman discuss that working at the Kremlin is worthless, because Kozinski is hardly connected to the West, and may be executed by FSB, because of threats that the West will gain power from Moscow. Back in the Netherlands, Dragutin is taken to his cell, strongly supervised. Featherstone and the woman enter a parking lot, but they are ambushed by a black car. Featherstone is knocked out, and the woman is taken away to an unknown location. Dragutin does a secret conversation with Petrovic (Ken Duken) in Maryland, who has tied up a woman behind him in her own house.

At the Air Force Base in Washington, a maintenance man secretly puts radioactive bottles onto the landing gear compartment, but is not suspected by the aircraft captain Walsh. Inside the Whitehall in London, Featherstone is told by his CEO he left his duties, and tells him that someone in the Kremlin have the desire to execute Medev, and Featherstone is sent to a different place with "less" opportunities to put the security at risk, which is simply a mansion.

Back in Maryland, the woman's husband enters the house, but she is dead, and once he checks on her, Petrovic executes him silently. Once he is outside, he blows up the house and grabs himself a cigar. In the cell, Dragutin sets up a set of check. At the airstrip, Romeroh enters the Air Force One, scheduled for departure to Serbia. In a small town in Serbia, Markey and some other men are breaking into the house where Petrovic is estimated to be located. However, once they search for him inside, Markey realizes he is not there, and the men are actually allies of Petrovic, but they are silently taken out. He tells them to tell Petrovic that Markey is coming for him.

Air Force One is going for departure, and Markey enters Featherstone's mansion where Featherstone finds out he is the number one target of Petrovic, and Markey finds the car keys of a man who tried to shoot them. Dragutin does mental conversation with a base in Serbia, which is his and Petrovic's headquarters. There, a man does hack coding on a computer which is designed to control Air Force One. Up in the air, Air Force One is hacked by the computer and taken control of by another man in the base, dropping the aircraft to 3000 feet. Cabin pressure drops and oxygen masks are deployed, but it is a trap that will put them to sleep. However, Romeroh drops her phone, but once she returns to her seat, everyone beside her are asleep, but Romeroh breaths normally. When Markey and Featherstone arrive in front of the airport, Air Force One arrives at the airstrip. A group of cars arrive at the aircraft and quickly take the president with them, but they also catch Romeroh as she tries to sneak away. Markey and Featherstone witness it all, and try to follow them once they leave. With the president out of the aircraft, Petrovic sends it back up in the air. Units of Fast Eagle One are scrambled and spot Air Force One. Petrovic orders the hacker to take her down. Colonel Walsh regains consciousness, but the aircraft shortly impacts the ocean, which Fast Eagle One guarantees to the Pentagon.

The president awakes in a cell in Dragutin's base, supervised by one of Dragutin's guards. Petrovic sends a man out to execute Romeroh, but she manages to distract him and escape death. However, she also notifies the president is held captive and storms into the president's cell. Meanwhile, Markey and Featherstone sneak into the base, and they find Romeroh and the president. Harriet realizes that Petrovic has captured her as an exchange of Dragutin. The four try to leave the base as shadows, but only Markey gets out as the other three are captured. Petrovic does a video tape to the government to make a deal; Release Dragutin within 12 hours and Rowntree will be released unharmed. Markey tries to call Barry inside (unnotified) a house of a follower of Dragutin, but they do miscommunications and the man cuts the telephone wire. The government agrees to the offer and send Dragutin by chopper, but the president is not returned. Instead, she is put inside a house covered with multiple mines both inside, and outside along the field. The chopper leaves Dragutin on the ground, but the pilot quietly tries to stalk him, but Dragutin knows they track him, and cuts out the sender implanted inside his arm.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Jeremy Sisto Joins 'Air Force One Is Down' Miniseries". The Wrap. June 19, 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Alistair MacLean's Eiffel Tower Drama By DAVID LEWIN. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 11 May 1980: D37.

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