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Trapping McClane in the cockpit, the men throw in grenades, but McClane escapes via the ejection seat seconds before they detonate. McClane reaches the aircraft before Stuart's men and incapacitates Esperanza. By listening in on a two-way radio dropped by one of Stuart's henchmen, McClane learns that Esperanza, having killed his captors is now landing his plane. Army Special Forces team led by Major Grant is called in.

Stuart retaliates by crashing a British jetliner, killing everyone onboard. With his wife on one of the planes circling above Washington, D.C., with too little fuel to be redirected, McClane prepares to fight the terrorists, allying himself with a janitor, Marvin, to gain greater access to the airport.ĭulles communications director Leslie Barnes heads to an unfinished antenna array with a SWAT team to re-establish communications with the planes, but they are ambushed and killed in the firefight, though McClane rescues Barnes and kills Stuart's men. They demand a Boeing 747 cargo plane so they can escape to another country with Esperanza, and warn the airport controllers against restoring control.

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Their goal is to rescue General Ramon Esperanza, a drug lord and dictator of Val Verde, being extradited to the United States to stand trial on drug trafficking charges. They hack into the air traffic control systems, sever communication with the planes, and deactivate the runway lights, leaving Dulles ATC unable to land aircraft. Army Special Forces Colonel William Stuart and other former members of his unit establish a base in a church near Dulles. Learning Cochrane was believed to have been killed in action while serving in Honduras, McClane tells airport police captain Carmine Lorenzo, who dismisses his concerns.įormer U.S. After a shootout, McClane kills one of them, Oswald Cochrane, while the other escapes. In the airport bar, McClane observes two men in Army fatigues behaving suspiciously and pursues them into the baggage area. Reporter Richard Thornburg, who had exposed Holly's identity to Hans Gruber in the Nakatomi Tower, is assigned a seat across the aisle from her. On Christmas Eve 1990, two years after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, former NYC police officer John McClane now working for the LA Police Department is waiting at Dulles International Airport for wife Holly to arrive from Los Angeles.

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The film was preceded by Die Hard (1988) and followed by Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013). During the night, McClane must also contend with airport police and a military commander, none of whom want his assistance. He must stop the terrorists before his wife's plane and several other incoming flights that are circling the airport run out of fuel and crash. McClane is waiting for his wife to land at Washington Dulles International Airport when terrorists take over the air traffic control system. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos and Reginald VelJohnson.Īs with the first film, the action in Die Hard 2 takes place on Christmas Eve. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. The film was released on July 4, 1990, in the United States. Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action-thriller film and the second installment in the Die Hard film series.