![]() Upon meeting Brain, Snake recognizes him as Harold Hellman, a former associate who left him and Fresno Bob for dead four years prior. Cabbie tells him that the President has been taken prisoner by the Duke of New York.Ĭabbie takes Snake to meet Brain and Maggie, who may help Snake meet the Duke. However, crazies pull her through the floor and kill her as Snake escapes.Īs Snake exits an alley, Cabbie – who listens to " Bandstand Boogie" on his radio – finds him and fends off the crazies with a molotov cocktail. He is pursued by a group of crazies and seeks refuge in a Chock full o'Nuts, where he encounters a woman who begs him to get her out of the prison. Snake tells Hauk about this development, but he is ordered to continue his search. He continues alone, fends off hostile prisoners, and finds that the President's bracelet is being worn by a drunk. This search leads Snake through an opera house, where he meets the enthusiastic cab driver Cabbie. He takes the elevator down and reaches the streets, following a homing signal from the President's vital signs bracelet. Snake flies a Gullfire glider into the penitentiary, landing on top of the World Trade Center. Snake is assured that once he completes his mission, the explosives will be deactivated. Snake is briefed on his assignment, and to ensure that he follows his orders, he is injected with microscopic capsules designed to explode and kill him in twenty-two hours. During this meeting, Plissken requests that Hauk call him "Snake." Plissken is brought to his office and is offered a Presidential pardon in exchange for rescuing the President within twenty-four hours. The Vice President contacts Hauk, who gets permission to go forward with his plan to send Snake Plissken into the prison to retrieve the President. Hauk and the policemen promptly leave the prison. ![]() Romero presents to them the President's severed finger, telling them the President will be killed if they harm him or fail to leave within thirty seconds. Hauk rounds up a group of policemen to retrieve the President, but once they enter the penitentiary, they find the pod empty and are confronted by Romero. The President is taken to a safety pod, which is ejected from the plane as it crashes. It has been hijacked by the National Liberation Front of America, who plan to crash the plane. It is soon learned that the jet is Air Force One, which holds the President of the United States, who is en route to the Hartford Summit with a tape concerning nuclear fusion. Rehme reports to commissioner Bob Hauk of a nearby jet facing trouble. 'Snake' Plissken, a war hero-turned bank robber, is processed at Liberty Island Security Control after robbing the Federal Reserve. The USPF successfully stops an escape-in-progress from the Manhattan Island prison by executing the prisoners. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out." ―Prologue There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. Synopsis " In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent.
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