After a domestic terrorist takes hostages on a freeway, an ex-Army cop helps the President of the United States thwart the terrorist’s plan to finance a coup with a billion dollars in stolen gold.

SYNOPSIS:

Sergeant Marcus Gatt, a military police officer, call sign “Doomer,” scans a cavernous pavilion in Afghanistan. He’s security for a transfer-of-command ceremony. As the ceremony starts, he notices a nervous Afghan officer. Seeing alarming signs, Doomer charges the Afghan, preventing him from triggering a bomb, saving an American general and his aide. A second bomber detonates his explosives.

Six years later, Doomer takes a break behind his parents’ tiny Seattle restaurant. A five-week-old kitten befriends him. As he feeds the kitten, a local gang attempts to extort protection money. Doomer frightens them off, but the leader vows to return.

At the same moment, President Benjamin Hayes lands for a visit to the city, tying up freeway traffic. On a bridge ramp, towering eighty feet off the ground, a group of terrorists has placed two truck bombs, one at each end of the ramp. They are led by Leylan Nazarov, a petty criminal turned political insurgent. The bombs explode, cutting off the ramp from the freeway complex, trapping a dozen innocents. As police respond, Nazarov demands the President in exchange for his hostages.

Aware of the attack, the President texts Doomer, calling in a marker. Doomer mounts his powerful motorcycle, tucks the kitten into his jacket, and finds the police command post. The police chief refuses his help, calling Doomer a “cowboy.” Doomer ignores the chief and reconnoiters the bridge ramp. He rescues two people, even as they come under fire from the terrorists. Infuriated, Nazarov destroys a helicopter sent to ferry injured hostages to a local hospital.

Observing the disaster, the President sends in the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, led by one of Doomer’s army comrades. They use cherry-pickers to assault the ramp, and they rescue another hostage, but at great cost. The hostage is comforted by Doomer’s kitten.

The President decides he must trade himself for the remaining hostages. He sends helicopters to make the trade and pick up the hostages. Meanwhile, Doomer returns to the ramp. He takes out more of the terrorists, but Leylan lifts off with the President and another hostage. Doomer escapes the unstable ramp just before it collapses into a pile of rubble.

The police track the helicopter with the President and Leylan. Doomer decides to got after it, recruiting the FBI agent and a Secret Service agent to help. In the helicopter, Leylan threatens to kill the kidnapped hostage, forcing the President to give him a code to open a vault holding $1 billion in gold, which will finance his goal of revitalizing America. The President reluctantly agrees.

The helicopter lands at a small-town airport. Leylan and the President drive an SUV into a remote parcel of government property. They come to a large vault, once a nuclear bomb shelter. Meanwhile, Doomer and his team arrive at the airport, and a guard points the way to Leylan’s likely location. Doomer finds the entrance, but they stay hidden in a forest. A large box truck passes them, heading to the old shelter, but they do not see the driver.

Leylan opens the vault, which contains hundreds of boxes of gold bars. Intended to haul away the gold, the truck is driven by the same gang that tried to extort Doomer’s parents. Leylan forces the President to help load the gold. Feeling that the President’s life is in immediate danger, Doomer’s team attacks the terrorists and the gang, killing several. The FBI agent, Doomer’s friend, dies.

The truck escapes, but the fight is at a stalemate. Doomer offers himself as a hostage in exchange for the President. Leylan agrees, but Doomer escapes. In the chase that follows, Doomer takes out the truck carrying the gold. Leylan crashes his car on a freeway overpass, but wounds Doomer. Triumphant, Leylan gets too close to Doomer. The kitten jumps out and slashes Leylan with its claws. Disoriented, Leylan falls to his death from the overpass. Doomer rides back into obscurity.

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