White House Down Page #7

- What?

They're big knives.

Great, then you can

make me a sandwich.

Now, where's the phone?

Right here.

Walker set this number up.

Wait a minute, he's gonna trace it.

We gotta get in touch

with somebody on the outside.

- I got somebody.

- You got somebody?

- Yeah, yeah.

- I need to get my shoes.

Needed this.

- Hello?

- Jenna, this is John Cale.

John, not a good time.

Wait, wait, hold on a second.

- Close friend?

- She works for the vice president.

Have you heard what's happening?

It's not a good time.

I'm with the president.

We're in the White House.

- That's not funny, John.

- Does this sound like a joke to you?

- Yeah, he's--

- Jenna, this is James Sawyer.

For the past 10 minutes, I've been

getting shot at with this young man.

If you could connect me to whatever

control structure we still have left...

...I would really appreciate it.

- Hold on.

Hello? Thank you.

She hung UP?

She put me on hold

when I was thanking her.

So we wait for your best friend Jenna

to hit us back.

You smoke?

Neither do I.

This is your moment, sir.

The country is looking for a leader.

It's your time to step up.

I told you, we weren't to be disturbed.

The president of the United States

called my cell.

- Mr. President.

- It's about damn time.

- Mr. President, are you all right?

- We're safe.

- "We"?

- Yeah, I'm with someone.

I'm gonna put him on the phone.

- Hello, this is John Cale.

- Cale?

What are you doing

in the White House?

- He's doing a damn good job.

- it's a long story, Mr. Speaker...

...but look, they've taken the building

and they're holding hostages.

- This is when you come get us.

- We're doing our best.

- Do we have any intel on these people?

- We are working on that, sir.

You have to get the president

out of there.

- Can you get to the basement?

- Yeah, sure.

- Yeah.

- There's a series of tunnels.

JFK used them to sneak Marilyn in.

- I thought that was a myth.

- it's true.

Donnie's gonna be pissed.

Get to the basement.

I'll lead you to the tunnels.

Okay, Carol, I got separated from Emily.

Can you tell me if she made it out?

We're gonna find her, but you have got

to get the president to safety, okay?

Cale? Cale?

Can you get him back?

Son of a b*tch!

Get your hands off my Jordans!

Freeze! I said freeze!

Shoot him!

No, don't shoot him.

Shoot him!

Sh*t.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

Don't worry about him.

He would've killed me

if you wouldn't have killed him.

Thanks, a**hole.

Look what I found. Merry Christmas.

- You got the satphone?

- Right here.

And it's on.

- Mr. President, are you okay?

- Define "okay."

What happened, John?

We got two dead bad guys,

that's what happened.

These guys had military training. You

gotta find out what they're doing here.

Walker demanded a ransom.

You think they're going through this

for money?

- You need to see this.

- Hang on, John.

--people watching all of this together.

No doubt young Emily Cale

had to risk her own life to...

Can you get me the president here?

Cale, can you turn on the news?

You got a TV?

We need to find out how Walker

found these guys.

- John, you've gotta turn on the news.

- What's going on?

I'm so sorry.

What you are seeing really is

just amazing footage...

...captured by an extremely brave

young girl by the name of Emily Cale.

Now, these are the first images coming

to us from inside the White House...

...from inside this hostage situation.

The images have gone viral. They've

had more than a hundred million...

Wait.

Cale, Cale, listen.

We're all walking out of here together,

okay?

I gotta go get her.

- Captain.

- Yes, sir?

Get me facial recognition

on everyone in that video now.

--Very brave young girl

named Emily Cale.

The hostages include the nine girls...

...from Watkins Charter School

in Louisville...

...five Cabinet members as well...

...and also, understandably,

a very emotional Roger Skinner.

And from what I understand now...

I got the president a scrambled

satphone to call his family with.

He keeps it in his bedside table

in the residence. See if it's still there.

No. No.

Vadim, would you be kind enough

to confirm your last name for me, please?

- Let's go.

- They're in the residence.

Go! That's them in the residence.

Easy.

--And the faces of the terrorists.

You gotta be shitting me.

So we are going to put those faces

up on-screen right now...

In here!

As we put these faces up on-screen,

we are sure that we will...

...no doubt learn the names

of the men who are...

...holding the White House hostage.

These men are clearly not al Qaeda.

We are positive

that the FBI will have...

...those images out.

So again, these are images...

...captured by a brave young girl...

How many more ways can you guys

screw this thing up?

Hey.

How you like your chair?

You comfortable, Mr. Skinner?

Let me ask you a question.

Where do you come up with

all the ideas for your show?

- I...

- You got guys who do that for you?

Because, believe me,

I got some good ideas.

Hey!

Give it to me.

Congratulations, a**hole,

you just made us all famous.

When they come for us,

you're gonna die first.

Get away from me.

- You understand?

- Get away from me.

Sir, we have facial recognition

coming up right now.

Carl Killick.

This guy's a right-wing sociopath.

First arrested at age 12.

Tried to blow up his local post office...

...because they employed

too many African-Americans.

Last seen with Conrad Cern.

I saw that guy at the Capitol.

He runs a white-power hate blog

against President Sawyer.

- Lovely.

- Jesus. Skip Tyler.

King of the hackers.

Worked for the NSA.

Was fired for rewriting

nuclear launch coordinates...

...to target Apple headquarters.

He was unhappy

with their music-sharing polices.

Walker's been after this guy forever.

And Emil Stenz. Ex-Delta Force.

Highly decorated.

I'm afraid we know this guy too.

- How?

- Unfortunately, that's classified.

Well, I hereby declassify it.

Now, you wanna share it with the group?

Stenz did off-the-books wetwork

for us in Pakistan...

...as part of a black-bag

CIA operation.

When the Sawyer administration

came in, the new secretary of defence...

...shut down the operation

and disavowed its assets...

...including Stenz.

His identity was compromised.

He wound up spending two years

in a Taliban-controlled prison.

- No wonder he's pissed at us.

- it's the threat matrix.

Every day the Secret Service

does a rundown...

...of threats against the president.

Every one of these guys was on it.

It's like Walker used it as a shopping list.

Sir, Delta Force is 15 minutes out.

All right, general. I want them prepped

for an attack on the White House...

-...as soon as I give the word.

- Sir, please! Please.

Only the president can give that order.

The president is behind enemy lines

and compromised.

I'm calling the Cabinet together

to invoke the 25th.

Get behind this, Eli.

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