Airliner Sky Battle

Okay, ace at zero-one. You're past that.

Copy that, Gold Leader. Heading your way now.

Copy. Start your run.

Freelancer. Move to East. Second building.

Last confirmation, five minutes ago. 0300.

Going inside. We are a go.

GPS confirms location. Target inside.

Leave that C4. Stat.

C4, ready!

It's live. Stand back.

Let's go.

Stay on the lookout. And keep your weapons close.

He could be anywhere inside.

Mission control, he doesn't seem to be here.

Keep looking. We have to find him.

Check everywhere.

- Over here. - He's in here. By the gate.

- There's no way in! - It's locked.

Open it. Just open it.

Copy.

Hey! That's us.

He knew we were coming!

Charging in like a dog?

Typical Americans.

Zolotov...

But you are already too late.

Gold leader, are you seeing this?

Copy, ace zero-one! There's something wrong with my bird, too.

I'm going to push back on over to Winston and, uh...

Agh! My bird is unresponsive!

Rivers, get control!

What is Nikto Virus?

Shit! This bird is flying itself!

Two-zero-niner, mayday! Mayday! Bailout! Eject, eject!

It's not working! I repeat, eject is not working!

How did he know?

- Hi. - Hi.

- Welcome. - Thank you.

Yeah.

Hello. Welcome aboard.

- Hey. How are you? - Good. How are you?

Good.

Hi. Welcome aboard, guys.

- How you doing? - Great.

Hi. Welcome aboard.

Hi. Welcome aboard.

Welcome aboard.

Hi. Welcome aboard.

LaGuardia Tower to Circle Star 117,

fly straight out to advised runway,

23 Left, you are cleared for takeoff.

Roger that, LaGuardia Tower.

Circle Star 117, turning at our discretion

to 23 Left, cleared for takeoff.

Welcome aboard and thank you for flying

with Circle Star Airlines.

Our first priority on every flight is safety,

so before we take off, I'll be giving

a brief safety presentation.

Please make sure that all carry-on items

are correctly stowed in an overhead bin...

Hey!

All smaller items under the seat...

You take it easy with that foot, man?

Yeah. Sorry.

- Thanks. - Yeah!

...responsibilities of emergency exit seating

on your information card located in your seat pocket.

As we prepare to leave the gate, please make sure

your seatbelt is securely fastened.

It's fine, babe.

The flight attendant will take care of it in a second.

Total disregard for the rules.

Man, I can't stand people like that.

Oh, I know.

I hope that my mom is going to like you.

You're both sticklers for the rules.

Yeah? Hopefully, hopefully.

- You know I'm ticklish. - I know.

On behalf of everyone at Circle Star Airlines,

I'd like to thank for paying attention.

Now sit back, relax and enjoy the flight

and thank you for flying with Circle Star.

Sir? Please stow away your tablet.

Sure, no problem. Just trying to get this through.

Sir? Please.

Just give me one second, please. I'm almost there.

Got it.

- Can I? - No. Allow me.

- Thanks. - Mm-hm.

Yulia, the plane leaves in three hours.

Hurry up!

You got something you'd like to say to me?

I told you and your brother when you started

that this wasn't an easy job,

and you have to move fast or you're out.

Quickly!

Delta Romeo Foxtrot 66. No taxi clearance.

Cut engines and wait for instruction.

66! No clearance! Cut your engines!

Clear the runway.

We're experiencing a malfunction.

Unable to disengage the engines.

Negative, 66.

Charlie Sierra 117 maintains priority.

No clearance on 25 left beta.

Hold and wait for instructions.

Whoa, whoa! What are they doing?

Hey, they're coming right us!

There's not enough time to stop.

ATC, quick!

Tower! Charlie Sierra 117 on 25 left delta.

Bogey on collision course!

Requesting immediate instruction!

All right, we're going up!

Tower!

Up, up, up, up, up, up!

Turn left, turn left, turn left!

Nice and easy. Easy. Easy.

Check the pressure! Check the pressure!

Check the pressure!

- What the hell... - Captain! Captain!

I got it! I got it! Tight to the right!

To the right!

Easy, Mack. Easy.

- Easy. Easy, easy. - Whoa!

Mack, you good? Mack?

What were they thinking?

Man, we could have been killed! They came right at us!

I know.

Code Red! Code Red! 99.

Terrorist hijacking on Delta Romeo Foxtrot 66.

All aircraft grounded.

Divert course to the nearest airport.

Stand by.

They're routing us to Linden.

All right. Well, all right.

LaGuardia must be absolute chaos right now.

You bet your ass.

They must be locking it down by now.

Are you good?

Yeah.

Good.

Stage Two is ready.

Wonderful. Call Zolotov.

Da?

Stage One is complete.

For the family.

Never forgotten.

Sir?

Pinto?

What's wrong?

There's been a hijacking.

An airliner out of LaGuardia.

Walk with me, son.

Yes, sir.

What kind of plane? Where was it headed?

How many onboard?

Well, that's the good news, if you want to call it that.

It was an empty Descartes Airlines airliner

hijacked off the runway.

Then let's shoot the sucker down!

I need jets in the air immediately.

Sir, our fleet is still crippled by the virus

that attacked last night, the Nikto Virus.

What's the status there?

We have three teams from cyber working around the clock.

It doesn't affect passenger airliners,

but the jets are O.O.C.

Not good enough!

I need the problem fixed, and jets in the air A.S.A.P.

In the meantime, surface-to-air missiles.

Get me SAMs targeting that plane.

The virus seems to have affected anything

with a computer-aided assisted targeting.

They're rendered useless.

It's like the computers

are eating themselves from the inside.

How is that even possible?

I mean, our analysts have never seen anything like it.

The computers should not be vulnerable

to something like this.

Get me all the data on the hijacked plane.

General, so nice of you to join us.

Dr. Liu!

I shouldn't be surprised to see you.

You're a little over-dressed for the occasion.

I was pulled from a wedding.

The president has asked for my help.

Flight data is backed up on the Pentagon servers weekly.

The next upload is tonight at midnight.

If we can't devise an antivirus,

it will corrupt thousands of terabytes of intelligence data.

Thank you for lending your expertise.

What is it?

Ivan Zolotov.

He's claiming responsibility for the hijacking.

You know him?

By reputation.

He's the leader of Nikto, an expert on programming.