White House Down Page #8

What if this were even a coup d'tat?

Come on, that's just nonsense.

Why isn't the military doing anything?

You gotta understand,

this is a very difficult situation...

...for the Pentagon, there are hostages.

You can't bring the big guns out...

...because there's a class

of little schoolgirls still inside.

- Martin!

- Good morning, boys.

Move, move!

Come on, go, go, go!

- They're in the ground-floor kitchen.

- That's it.

Come on, go, go, go!

Where's the basement?

Through here. To the left.

- Sh*t!

- They're gone.

Goddamn it!

- I have the president and Cale calling.

- Cale, give me your location.

All right, we're in the basement.

There's a gate with a keypad.

Okay, the code is 64762.

All right, we're in.

Go down the hallway. That should be

the entrance to the catacombs.

- Are you sure?

- Yes, I'm sure.

You should then be in a big oval room.

There'll be five tunnels.

Take the second tunnel,

follow it all the way out...

...and we'll be waiting.

- We found it. Mr. President...

...take this.

- I can't go.

- What are you talking about?

- I'm not leaving my little girl.

- Then I'm staying.

You gotta go back

to being president, sir.

- Otherwise, all this is for nothing.

- You can't do this by yourself.

You're gonna go and send the Marines

in here to get us, okay? Promise me.

All right.

You got my word. Thanks, John.

All right.

See you outside.

They are in the basement.

All right, everyone in the basement!

The basement!

Cale, come check this out.

Okay, please don't touch my toys.

That's something

that we do not wanna touch.

Carol, we got a problem.

The exit tunnel's wired with explosives.

We need another exit.

There isn't another exit.

It's locked!

- Tyler, I need the gate code.

- I have that right here.

Here's your gate code.

This is not happening.

We gotta move.

- Carol, where are we going?

- Hold on.

I can't hold on.

We need a location right now!

Stagecoach. Follow me.

Let's get to the Stagecoach.

No, no, no, you'll be trapped.

This is a bad idea.

They grounded all aircraft.

This is Jack Freeman reporting live

from the skies over Washington, D.C.

We're bringing you exclusive images

of the terrorist-held White House.

Clear left.

Cabinet is assembling with

the vice president to invoke the 25th.

Cale, if you don't get him out

in the next five minutes...

-...he might not be president anymore.

- You didn't give me the job, remember?

What's the code to D227?

What's the code for D227?

Hold on.

Fast! Go, go, go! Go, go!

We're in, let's go!

- Go, I'll cover you!

- All right, all right!

This way, Cale. The keys.

Got them!

What the hell

are you getting in the back for?

Sorry, force of habit.

Damn it! Keys! Let's go! Let's go!

- I'm crashing the gate.

- No, no, no!

It's 8 feet tall and dual-hardened steel.

We're not gonna make it. Left!

- Where's the garage clicker?

- You kidding? I don't have a clicker.

Suburban!

I think I'm seeing the presidential limo

driving across the grounds.

We're gonna cut them off!

Hang on, Motts!

Watch out, watch out, watch out!

Cale, they're in heavy weapons

follow-up.

What do you mean, "heavy weapon"?

You gotta be kidding me right now!

Move!

Oh, my goodness!

The presidential limo...

...has just burst onto the South Lawn!

- So sorry.

- Ladies and gentlemen of the Cabinet...

...it's with a heavy heart--

- Sir, you have to see this!

It's trying to make its way

around the South Lawn fountain.

That iconic fountain

that everybody knows...

...anyone who's ever been

to the White House knows.

Box them in! Go for the window, Motts!

Tanks. We got tanks.

Let's put them to use.

I think that's my dad.

I'm not sure using heavy artillery

is a wise--

I don't give a damn. You get that tank...

...you put a hole in the goddamn fence!

- Yeah! Come on!

Look, look, look!

Watch him, watch him, watch him.

Go for the windshield! Go!

- Watch out, watch out, watch out.

- Get your head down.

- Yeah, that's one down.

- Sh*t!

- Commander, are you in position?

- Roger.

- Then go to work.

- Fall back! Fall back!

Driver, advance!

We don't know what is happening exactly,

but the National Guard is in fact...

...enacting some sort of manoeuvre.

It depends--

RPG'S! Now!

Blow these bastards off the roof.

- Take cover!

- Fire!

Incoming!

Commander, come in!

- Goddamn it!

- Sh*t.

Good job, boys! Great job, Mulcahy!

This is an unprecedented situation.

We have a full-scale war going on...

...on the White House grounds.

Mulcahy! Take out the limo!

Let's go! Take the limo!

What are you waiting on? Take it out!

They're firing.

- I can't see. What am I supposed to do?

- I need him alive!

- That's an order!

- Why don't you shut up?

There's a camera system

here in the car. There.

- What am I doing with zombies?

- it's my daughter's favourite movie.

Watch out, watch out! Left!

We gotta punch a hole in this fence soon

or we're dead in the water.

There's a weapons locker in the back.

Jackpot!

'What you got?

That's what I'm talking about!

That thing in your right hand is

a blast shield. Perfect.

Can you not hit me in the head

with a rocket while I'm trying to drive?!

Get me to the fence, Cale!

- Stick that thing out there, go to work.

- Damn right.

Hold it with two hands, Mr. President.

Oh, my God, that's President Sawyer.

- He has a rocket launcher.

- There's something...

...you don't see every day.

Here it comes!

- I lost the rocket launcher.

- How do you lose a rocket launcher?

Killick, take one of the hostages outside.

Show them we mean business.

This just in from China.

--destroyed the West Gate

of the White House.

- We got our exit.

- One more time around the fountain.

- No!

- Get over here.

One of the terrorists

is holding a little girl at gunpoint.

- What'd he say?

- Emily Cale is being held...

...at the White House balcony right now

by the terrorists.

She was the one who managed to send

this video out so the world could see...

- Another rocket.

- Cale!

Dad!

I can't see what is going on...

Get me a location on them now!

- -The West Wing. The president has...

We're not sure if he's alive

or dead right now.

- The limousine has disappeared...

- Emily?

--The West Wing. I can't see him...

Killick, take her back inside.

- Dad!

- Get over here!

Sh*t. What the...?

- Something wrong with your radio?

- Malfunctioned.

Stay behind me. They won't shoot us.

They need me alive.

- Put a gun to my head.

- What?

That concludes

the running-and-shooting portion.

Stay back or I'll shoot him!

Appreciate what you're trying to do, son.

Did the same job myself, and proudly.

I have no quarrel with you,

but I do have a deadline.

So put the gun down...

Pull the pin.

...because you're not

gonna shoot the president.

- You're right.

- Where does that leave us, boys?

That leaves us with this.

Come on!

Go, go, go!

What are you doing?!

Oh, no. Come on, go!

This way! Follow me! Follow me!

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