Murder at 1600 Page #5

Get rid of the wire. | I know who's listening anyway.

You think you got it all figured out?

You haven't read me right at all.

I see my life and my service...

...with a clarity...

...you're incapable of-

Sh*t!

Sh*t! Cover me!

Go!

- You're a sharpshooter? | - Save it!

Freeze China out | if they stand with North Korea.

All talks for a grain deal cease | until they stand down.

If China wants grain, | I want our boys back!

You got 5 minutes.

I'm afraid it'll take longer than that.

It's bad news, Mr. President.

It's still Jack, Alvin.

Nick Spikings is dead.

What?

And he had evidence | that Kyle killed Carla Town.

Spikings collected it.

They found a condom with Kyle's semen | and the woman's fingerprints on it.

They found the murder weapon...

...and the surveillance tape | putting Kyle and Carla together...

...minutes before the murder.

There must be another explanation.

Spikings was about to | cut himself a deal to leak it.

Nick Spikings...

He wouldn't.

Everyone has a price.

Not the first thing in your life | you've been naive about.

Obviously not.

You're safe now.

So's Kyle.

Spikings...

...was murdered.

See what we got.

Jordan.

18. That's 9:
18.

He goes out there.

We got a special on that model.

Back off!

Sure. Only a couple left though, | just so you know.

16 he comes in.

Can even throw in | a universal remote with that.

Back off!

Sure, sure. Take your time. | Just ask for Jack.

He comes in and then he leaves with-

Who's that?

I know that guy.

He's the guy at Spikings'.

The 31 st name?

Jordan walked him in.

Jordan set up the whole thing.

The investigation into the White House | murder has resulted in 2 suspects.

The car...

...a burgundy Chevrolet Caprice, | is the possible suspect car.

There won't be anything | anyone can prove.

All the evidence will be destroyed.

What do you want?

Your resignation...

...effective 10 p. m.

I don't know why you look surprised.

Tully was right | when he called it criminal.

Because we didn't attack?

- You think that'd save our boys? | - You have failed!

You have failed your office pitiably.

I've seen your cowardice grow | from the beginning.

Finally, not having served | your country in the military...

...you had no idea | of the time-honored code...

...of never leaving a man | on the field of battle.

You should have | brought those boys home!

Dead, wounded or otherwise.

You should've done it | by force if necessary!

Any President who serves up his country | as appetizers for the enemy...

...isn't fit for this office.

So the choice is yours.

You can resign... | say it's due to your health...

...and tour the best | golf clubs in America.

Or you can stay in office | and watch your son destroyed.

The choice is yours.

If any father can call that a choice.

Why didn't he just kill Neil?

It's easier to kill the secretary | than the President.

Besides...

...alive and ruined is better.

Than what?

Than dead and martyred.

And now, this special bulletin.

An Oval Office address | is scheduled for 10:00 tonight.

Sources say the President will resign.

Jordan played his card.

That gives us 2 hours | to get to the President.

Are you insane?

How?

We'll use the tunnels | they used to get out.

You don't know where they are.

But you do.

You know the security and the layout.

You're crazy.

Why, because I'm helping a government | that's evicting me?

You got no argument there.

We got to get rid of this car.

Don't say my name, just listen.

Remember where we had | the double homicide 2 weeks ago?

Meet me there in one hour.

Get down. Cops.

Two.

That's the steam grate.

It'll take us to one of the three points | vulnerable to penetration.

Eisenhower put a water-filtering system | down in there.

There must be an alarm.

There is.

It goes off across town, | the General Services Building.

No White House or Secret Service.

Response time?

Officially, 5 to 7 minutes.

But realistically, 10 to 11.

By that time, we'll either be fired | or we'll be dead.

What do you think? | Meet and greet time?

Good evening, officers.

Tense night in the big city.

Could be this thing | with the President maybe?

Nice to know that we have | our men in blue out here to...

...keep watch over us.

This has got to work.

Didn't that Senator lay the wood | to that stripper around here somewhere?

All right, take it easy this evening.

Just asking. | Didn't see it on my guide map.

We'll see you later.

All right, gentlemen.

Come on!

Go!

Be careful.

Come on!

My grandmother moves faster than you.

- Wait. | - Where are we?

We're under the mall. | That's Pennsylvania Avenue.

It's not far.

Now what?

End of the line.

This is the old emergency water system.

These pipes go through the wall.

That's where we're going.

After you're sworn in...

...you'll salute Neil | for his service to his country.

You'll ask for the country's prayers, | for bipartisan unity.

Would you two excuse us now?

Thank you.

Gentlemen, at 2400 hours...

...President Dylan will sign off | on the raid into North Korea.

Look for a steel door.

Army Corps engineers.

These are escape tunnels.

Built in case the Confederates lay siege | to the White House.

Who says history isn't practical?

We're running out of time.

You first.

You hear that?

Christ!

Go ahead, I'll be okay.

We got to cross over.

In less than an hour...

...Jack Neil will step down after | a little more than 2 years in office.

For CNN, I'm Doris MacMillian.

Let's do this.

Wait. We're here.

Motion sensors.

They trip an alarm in the White House.

Set it off, we're surrounded by agents.

How long?

10 seconds.

We've come too far to turn back now.

I'll hold them off as long as I can.

Movement in 102. Repeat. | Movement in 102, subsector 11.

Tunnels. Tunnels, subsector 11.

You're under arrest! | Drop your weapon!

Cover sector 12!

Freeze!

On the ground! Get on the ground!

Clear sector 7 now and | report back to me only.

Let's go!

What agent captured?

Get her up here.

Not now.

Hold it!

Let's see I.D.

Agent, gun!

The janitor!

Get him! He killed Spikings!

Mr. President...

...Kyle's innocent!

You can't be here.

I am here. Seal the corridor.

I am still the President!

Seal the corridor!

Jordan, you're under arrest...

...for conspiracy in the murder of | Carla Town and Nicholas Spikings!

You may remain silent!

Anything you say can be held against you | in a court of law!

You have the right to an attorney. | If you can't afford one, you prick...

...one may be appointed to you.

How'd you get in?

I crawled.

He gave Spikings | the evidence on your son.

I have you on tape...

...with Carla's murderer.

The same man | who put a bullet in Spikings.

Stand him up.

Don't believe me, look at the tape.

It's in my back.

Carla was killed to destroy you...

...to force your resignation.

Then Jordan had Spikings shot | because he saw the tape.

Arrest him.

Not him.

Him.

My God, Alvin...

...you had her killed.

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