Die Hard 2 [1990]
On Christmas Eve, two years after the events of the previous film, John McClane is now a lieutenant with the LAPD, who arrives at Dulles International Airport to pick up his wife, Holly.
Meanwhile, a plane carrying corrupt foreign military leader General Ramon Esperanza is also headed to Dulles under extradition for using U.S. funds to buy drugs.
Waiting to meet Esperanza's plane is disgraced former Colonel William Stuart and a group of ex-military sympathizers who supported Esperanza's actions.
Suspicious, McClane follows two of Stuart's men into a restricted baggage sorting area, where a gun fight ensues. McClane kills one man, but the other escapes.
With the help of his friend, Sergeant Al Powell, he discovers that the dead man's fingerprints correspond to an American soldier who died in a helicopter accident two years ago.
Putting this together with Esperanza's imminent arrival, McClane reports his concerns to the ill-tempered airport police chief, Carmine Lorenzo, and air traffic control director Ed Trudeau, but neither believe him.
They are convinced when Stuart and his men, operating out of a church on the outskirts of the airport.
They cut all communications with incoming airplanes, disabled all runway lighting, and demanded that Esperanza's plane be allowed to land without interference.
Under Stuart's direction, Trudeau orders all air traffic controllers to have all planes in Dulles airspace hold in the air despite their low fuel warnings.
McClane becomes worried about Holly's plane and enlists the help of the airport janitor Marvin to fight back.
Chief airport engineer Leslie Barnes decides to try using an unfinished antenna array to communicate with the stranded, circling airplanes.
Carmine sends an airport SWAT team with him, but Stuart's men kill them all and destroy the antenna. Barnes is saved by McClane.
In retaliation, Stuart crashes a British airplane, killing everyone onboard, by impersonating air traffic control and faking the airplane's altimeter reading by recalibrating sea level.
Once Esperanza's plane lands, McClane wounds Esperanza before Stuart and his men arrive.
They blow up the plane and take Esperanza to the church, but fail to kill McClane.
A U.S. Special Forces team arrives, led by Major Grant, for whom Stuart is a protégé.
Grant's men and McClane attack the church. McClanekills one of Stuart's men and gives chase with his gun, but the mercenaries escape on snowmobiles.
McClane follows, but his vehicle is destroyed by cooperating with Stuart.
Grant, Stuart, their men, and Esperanza all rendezvous at an airport hangar, where a Boeing 747 that they demanded is waiting for them.
On Holly's flight, arrogant reporter Richard Thornburg becomes suspicious as to why the plane hasn't landed.
He taps into the cockpit communications and records an earlier surreptitious transmission from Barnes to all the circling airplanes describing the situation.
In the airplane's lavatory, he broadcasts the recording live on television, leading to a panic in the airport terminal, which prevents McClane and Carmine from getting to the 747.
Find out what happened next as he broadcasts the recording live on television, leading to a panic in the airport as the movie gets interesting.
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