Eighteen months later, Banning works at the Treasury
Department, within sight of the White House. He has been removed
from the Presidential Detail because the sight of him triggers Asher’s memories
of the night Margaret died. During a political meeting between Asher and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo (Keong Sim), North Korean-led guerilla forces, under the guise
as local garbage services and a crowd of tourists, mount an air and ground
assault. Aided inside the White House by treasonous members of Prime Minister
Lee’s detail, including Dave Forbes (McDermott), a former Secret Service agent
now a private security contractor, and aerial cover fire from a commandeered US
military Lockheed AC-130 gunship,
the attack results in the eventual capture of the White House. Asher and
several top officials are held hostage in the White House
bunker, where the terrorists use a video connection to the Pentagon
command center to show the execution of Prime Minister Lee. Agent Roma (Hauser)
alerts the Director of the
Secret Service Lynne
Jacobs (Bassett) that “Olympus has fallen,” shortly before his death.
The attack has been masterminded by Kang
Yeonsak (Yune), a Korean terrorist who appears to be motivated by hope for areunification of Korea.
Kang seeks to use Asher’s hostage status as leverage to force U.S. officials to
withdraw the Seventh Fleet andUS troops from the Korean Peninsula, removing American opposition from a North
Korean invasion on South Korea. He also seeks to destroy all of America’s
nuclear weapons in their respective silos across the country, turning the U.S.
into an irradiated wasteland as revenge for the deaths of his family (his
mother having been killed by an American landmine, and his father having been
executed by the North Koreans). To accomplish this, he requires the access codes to
Cerberus: a fail-safe device that self-detonates any U.S. nuclear missiles
during an abort, which are held by the President, the Secretary of
Defense, and the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of whom are present in the bunker. Asher
orders the other two officials to reveal their codes to save their lives,
certain that he will not give up his code.
During the assault by Kang’s forces on the
front lawn, Banning joins the White House’s defenders. He falls back into the
building, disables the internal surveillance and gains access to Asher’s
satellite phone, which he uses to maintain contact with Jacobs and Allan
Trumbull (Freeman), the Speaker of the House who
is now the Acting President.
Authorized to proceed, Banning’s first act is to save Connor, whom Kang plans
to use to force Asher to reveal his Cerberus code. Despite resistance, Banning
finds Connor hiding in the hidden tunnels behind the Lincoln bedroom walls,
thanks to the training Banning had given him before, and sneaks him out of the
White House before beginning reconnaissance and reducing the terrorists’
numbers one by one. This includes Forbes, but not before Banning convinces
Forbes to report to Kang that he killed Banning. Meanwhile, Army Chief of
StaffGeneral Edward Clegg (Forster) convinces
Trumbull to order an aerial SEAL assault on the White House in an
attempt to enter through the roof and shut down Cerberus, but Kang’s team
deploys an advanced anti-aircraft remote gun system called the Hydra 6, a fully
automated weapons system capable of seeking targets independently. Discovering
this, Banning advises Trumbull and Clegg to abort the mission, but it proceeds
and the Hydra 6 annihilates all but one of the six helicopters before Banning
can stop it. Kang retaliates for the attempted infiltration by killing Vice
President Charlie Rodriguez (Phil Austin) on the video feed to the Pentagon.
After Banning disables Kang’s
communications, Kang tries to execute Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan (Leo)
outside the White House in front of the media, but Banning's intervention
allows her to escape and he takes out several more of Kang’s men in the
process. With Kang’s forces dwindling, he fakes his own death as well as
Asher’s by sacrificing several of his men and the remaining hostages in a
helicopter crash. However, Banning believes that Kang has faked his death and
will attempt to sneak away. Kang eventually cracks Asher’s code and activates
Cerberus. As Kang attempts to escape with Asher, Banning kills the remaining
terrorists, but President Asher is shot by Kang in the abdomen when Asher tries
to fight Kang. Banning kills Kang by stabbing him in the head with a knife
after overpowering him in hand-to-hand combat. Banning then disables Cerberus
with the assistance of Trumbull with only seconds to spare. During daybreak
that day, Banning walks out with Asher and is received by the soldiers posted
to await their arrival. Sometime after the events, Washington begins to heal
from the terrorist attack, while Banning once again becomes head of the
Presidential Detail. Then Banning, Jacobs, Clegg, and Connor observe President
Asher as he addresses the public.
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