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Disillusioned U.S. Brigadier General Francis Hummel and his second-in-command Major Tom Baxter lead a group of rogue [[United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance|Force Recon Marines]] in stealing fifteen [[M55 (rocket)|M55 rockets]] filled with VX poison gas, a potent chemical weapon capable of killing any living organism in seconds. The next day, Hummel and his men seize control of [[Alcatraz Island]], taking the tourists and guards hostage. He threatens to launch the rockets at San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays him $100{{space}}million from a covert slush fund, which he will distribute to his men and the families of the 83 Recon Marines who died on convert missions under his command, but whose sacrifices were not compensated, honored, or acknowledged.
The [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] and the FBI plot to retake the island using a [[United States Navy SEALs|U.S. Navy SEAL]] team led by [[Commander]] Anderson, FBI chemical weapons specialist Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, and elderly British former [[Special Air Service|SAS]] captain John Mason. The only man to escape Alcatraz, Mason has been imprisoned for three decades, disavowed by the British government, and his existence concealed by the FBI. FBI Director James Womack deceives Mason with the offer of a pardon and acquiesces to his request to move to a hotel, from which Mason escapes. After Mason leads the FBI on a destructive car chase through San Francisco, Goodspeed finds him meeting with his estranged daughter Jade. As the FBI arrives, Mason expresses his regret to her for not being in her life. At the mission command center, Mason negotiates to join the team on Alcatraz, while Goodspeed fails to convince his pregnant girlfriend
The team infiltrates Alcatraz, but Hummel's men are alerted to their presence and ambush them in a shower room. Hummel tries to convince Anderson to surrender, but his new allies, Captains Darrow and Frye, deliberately cause a disturbance that results in a shootout. Anderson's team are killed, except for Mason and Goodspeed who remain undetected. Believing the mission a failure, Mason prepares to leave until Goodspeed reveals the truth about the VX, which also threatens Jade.
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The ransom deadline passes, leading Darrow and Frye to pressure Hummel into firing a rocket, but he redirects it to detonate harmlessly in the sea. Hummel explains the rockets were a bluff and he never intended to kill anyone, declaring the mission over. Realizing they will not be paid, Darrow and Frye kill Baxter and mortally wound Hummel, who tells Goodspeed the location of the last rocket before dying. Meanwhile, an airstrike is initiated to blanket Alcatraz with experimental thermite plasma bombs, which will neutralize the gas and incinerate everyone on the island. Goodspeed and Mason kill the remaining Marines, including Darrow and Frye, before signalling to abort the attack, but not before one bomb is dropped. The blast throws Goodspeed into the bay, but Mason saves him.
Goodspeed remotely confirms the missions success but claims that Mason was vaporized in the blast. The pair part ways amicably after Mason recommends Goodspeed take a trip to Fort Walton, Kansas. Sometime later, the now-married Goodspeed and Carla hastily drive away from a Kansas church after recovering the microfilm. Goodspeed asks
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