go.
Thank God the women are safe.
(beeping)
Yeah.
The bus has left.
We're ready to make our move.
Sorry, McCoy. We're still on hold.
Damn it, Nick. Let's not screw this one up.
Everyone to the back!
To the back! Everybody to the back!
- Colonel Alexander?
- Yeah.
They want you on the phone.
- Alexander here.
- Nick...
...it's a go.
Gotcha.
McCoy... it's a go!
Take 'em down!
OK, section two and three, let's do it.
Close communications.
We go in... 60 seconds.
Ready? Mark.
Mark.
We go in 60 seconds.
60 seconds. Mark.
Radios off the air.
Colonel, this is Ingrid Harding,
the plane's purser.
Mr Ambassador,
I'd like to talk to her alone.
- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
Miss Harding,
this will only take a few minutes.
- What's happening?
- Commandos are gonna storm the plane.
Oh, no. Don't.
All the hostages in Beirut,
they'll kill them all.
- What hostages?
- Navy guys and Jews who left the plane...
...when the other hijackers came on.
- What other hijackers?!
All those men who came on board.
10 or 12 of them.
Oh, God!
All sections! All sections!
OK, 30 seconds. All right?
All sections! Come on,
somebody respond!
Let's go! Turn the light on! Hit the siren!
(siren)
- (siren still blaring)
- What the hell is that?
Come on, get out of there, McCoy!
McCoy!
Turn the lights out! Turn the lights out!
Get down! Get down!
What the hell?
Don't shoot back! We're clearing out!
- Get out!
- Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
Get out! Get out of the tanker!
(siren)
Oh, shit.
Take off - immediately! Take off!
- All right, all right!
- Take off! Take off!
Come! Come!
(speaks Arabic)
Americans!
Look what you have done!
Look here, Americans!
- Look!
- He's gonna kill him.
Now your president
will know we are serious!
- Here is a token...
- Don't shoot.
...for the American people!
One Marine killer!
- Oh, Jesus!
- Son of a bitch. Let's go!
Come on, move!
Sorry I had to do it that way, boys. It was
the only way I could stop you in time.
- What happened, Colonel?
- 12 terrorists got on board.
They were in every part of that plane with
machine guns. It woulda been a disaster.
He's an American. He was in the Navy.
- Where do we go from here?
- After them, I hope.
They're going back to Beirut.
- You mean it' all over for us?
- On the contrary, Colonel.
The President wants you to fly to Israel.
Israel?
Israel is our best friend in the Middle
East, and it' only 20 minutes from Beirut.
You're gonna get everything you want
to do it right.
The President wants those people home.
So do we, General. So do we.
We are Americans! Stay down!
- Clear!
- Clear!
Not bad, McCoy. Not bad.
20 seconds. Just like clockwork.
- We can do it in 10.
- All right, one more time.
ISRAEL, AIRFORCE BASE
SATURDAY, JULY 20TH - 5:50AM
Hold it, McCoy. We've got visitors.
- Colonel Alexander?
- Yeah.
Good morning. I'm Colonel Amir
from Israeli Intelligence.
Oh, yes. This is Major McCoy.
- Good morning, Major.
- Colonel.
Can I talk to you?
Certainly.
Bobby, take over.
I want it done in 10 seconds.
We'll be right down.
- (Nick) So what's happening?
- They took the hostages off the plane.
- Where to?
- I don't know.
They could be spread
all over Beirut by now.
Colonel, I assume your Mossad still has
people planted in Lebanon, right?
Your assumption is correct.
- I need to get in contact with one of them.
- Do some reckoning before the rescue?
- It'd be a great help to us, Colonel.
- If I may suggest...
- They've announced a press conference.
- Ah, of course.
Now that they got the world's attention,
they wanna manipulate the press. Perfect.
BEIRUT, MEDITERRANEAN BEACH
SATURDAY, JULY 20TH - 8:00AM
(priest chants in Greek)
(chants in Greek)
(shouting in Arabic)
? Oooh... ooh, ooh, ooh
Move them in... quickly!
Bring in the mattresses fast.
Give them to the dogs.