Tell me your name.
Tell me who you really are.
Because until there's a name, everything is a lie.
I'm entitled to know who you are.
All right. Then at least explain to me what the hell is going on.
Plane's on fire.
I'm aware the plane's on fire.
I'm also aware that we lost the captain and the first officer to smoke inhalation.
And I let a guy claiming to be an insurance salesman in...
because he promised he could handle it.
I'm not an insurance salesman.
I'm private security. I'm protecting a client.
I'm protecting everybody on this flight at this point.
Have a seat. I could use the help.
My help?
You do realize I'm just a stewardess.
Flight attendant.
Have a seat.
In my business, the cyber-security business, you're nothing but a name.
Which was why Casper felt safe coming to me.
I'm sorry, Mr. Tennant. Casper?
Is that a person's name?
An alias.
Occasionally, I'll hire freelance hackers to test our security defenses.
Casper is one of the best.
He's also one of the most paranoid.
All I've ever known is a screen name.
Casper's latest attack exposed a flaw in the architecture of the Internet itself.
Imagine being able to bypass any security measure.
Any firewall.
Any password.
What are you saying?
That your guy is sitting on some sort of skeleton key to the Internet?
No.
The skeleton key.
The end of information security as we know it.
Casper agreed to fly to my headquarters in Seattle...
to deliver the key and help us patch the flaw that allows it to work.
He was due to arrive tonight.
But then last night, someone broke into my office.
They killed a security guard to get access to my computer.
The only thing they accessed was my correspondence with Casper.
So they have all of his flight information.
I assume you told Casper not to board.
I have no way to contact Casper. Casper contacts me.
That's the number one rule with these people:
"Always remain anonymous."
Can you help me?
With this thing, you could hack into the Federal Reserve, steal billions.
Air-traffic control, crash planes in midair.
So any thief or terrorist in the world would kill to get their hands on it.
Casper will be anonymous before he gets on the plane.
He'll be protected by Tennant's men when he gets off...
but if you know what flight he's on, he's just one of a few dozen passengers.
Whoever broke into Tennant's office is gonna try to grab Casper on this flight.
Board the plane, identify the principal and threat...
neutralize the latter, save the former, the world keeps spinning.
Right. You are Martin Gill.
Head of sales for Quality Mutual Insurance.
Corporate's just tagged you to open a new branch in Seattle. Mazeltov.
Insurance salesman. Lovely.
It'd be a way to chat people up without drawing any attention.
You have that pen thing you used on that job in Nashville?
Detonator?
No, the one with the little syringe on it.
Yeah. Why, you want it?
Identify the threat, sell him insurance, pop him full of ketamine.
He wakes up in a squad car.
Sounds like a plan. Flight's in three hours, get moving.
Oh, just, uh, one more thing.
There's two jobs to be done at once. Two unknowns to identify.
It'd be nice to have you on the plane with me.
So I'll guard the hacker and you neutralize the threat.
Exactly.
Well, there's just the question now of your cover.
Why are you smiling?
One salesman yapping at the passengers, that's one thing.
But two, it's just downright suspicious. We can't really do that.
Plus, one of us should be able to have free range of the plane.
Why are you...? Why the hell is he smiling?
What do you want?
Yeah, what's a guy gotta do to get a drink around here?
Oh, that's really funny.
We'll see how funny it is when I'm serving time in federal prison.
I told you, my buddy at TSA's got that covered.
What are you so upset about?
I got the hard part. All you do is walk around and talk to people.
Greetings from the flight deck.
Current temperature in Seattle is 52 degrees and raining.
Hey, a little help!
Oakland Center, Pacific National 234.
Oakland Center, Pacific National 234, do you copy?
Don't bother. The fire must have reached the radio antenna. We don't have time.
So, what do we do?
We gotta get enough air to put out that fire.
So we speed up, we open the landing-gear doors.
Open the ram vents that control the cabin pressure.
The switch for the landing gear, it's right there. Pull it.
Oh, it's not working.
- Are you sure? - Pretty sure.
Huh.
All right, hold the yoke.
- What are you doing? - Looking it up in the manual.
The manual? You said you had a plan. I thought you knew what you were doing.
I know the radio antenna is located midway down the fuselage.
Past that is a conduit relay for the wires that control everything on this plane.
Bingo.
If we don't put that fire out before it reaches the relay, we have problems.
What kind of problems?
The crashing kind.
I'll open these, see if I can get more wind.
Well, don't crank it.
You could depressurize the cabin.
What's the thermostat doing?
It's going up. Fast.
This fire's closing in.
Son of a bitch!
Oh, my God. He's been shot. Somebody help!
Okay. Hold on.
Okay.
Here, take this. Put it on the wound and apply pressure.
Buddy, buddy, listen to me.
Come on. You're gonna be fine.
We're gonna get down on the ground, get you to a hospital.
You're gonna be fine, okay?
Listen to me. Look at me. Stay here with him.
Keep him talking. Don't let him close his eyes.
Hey! Hey!
Are we gonna make it?
The temperature's still rising.
So, uh... - Laura. - Laura.
You seem to be taking this pretty well.
They do train us for this stuff, you know.
Hijackings, engine failures, disease outbreaks.
You sat through training for hijackings, engine failures, and disease outbreaks...
and you still took the job.
Using small talk to keep me calm?
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Wanted more adventure in my life.
To be honest, I've been thinking about a career move.
What, and give up all this?
What about you?
How does somebody become a bodyguard?
Oh, I hated my old job.
Felt I had more potential.
Well...
I guess we have some things in common then.
So you're protecting someone from a threat back there?
What's that?
Any idea who the threat is?
Not yet.
If the threat to Casper's on the plane, it's gonna be on that list.
I crossed off all the regular commuters and everyone who boarded in London.
Hey, listen, what about 12-C?
He seems nervous.
No, I caught him dozing a little while ago.
12-F is looking forward to the prom next week.
11-D called not one, but two women to pick him up at the airport.
What about the guy in the aisle seat? I saw a bulge in his jacket.
- Air marshal. - Really?
Yeah. Came through the exit lane when I went through security.
Nobody stopped him.
Not gonna get any answers from the list. Know what I'm thinking?
Hardly ever.
We pull a Crazy Eddie.
Put on a show, see who reacts.
See who's too preoccupied planning an abduction to care.
Hmm.
Any idea who here can take one for the team?
Oh, yeah, I got an idea.
- Another bourbon and cola, would you? - Right away.
Got me sitting here, waiting.
You know, I take this flight three times a month.
The least you people can do is keep me well-served.
I meant stewardesses.
All right, then, sir.
There you are, sir.
- Thank you. - My pleasure.
- Oh, my God. - Oh, no.
- What the hell? - Oh, no.
I'm so sorry. Oh, I apologize. Here's a tissue to wipe...
- Just one? Can I have another one? - Of course.
We have cornstarch in the galley if you can wait.
- Cornstarch? What am I gonna do with...? - It'll soak that up.
Look at this.
Can I have some help? Look at me, I'm, like... I'm soaked.
- I'm wet. - I have some baby powder...
Can I talk to...? Where is...? What is with you and these...?
Someone's targeting a client of mine.
Hacker. Recently broke through Phil Tennant's latest firewall.
These are the hackers Tennant hires on a regular basis.
One of them's behind the threat.
And, dude, you're gonna help me figure out which one.
Ah. "Reliant1864, BlueHorseshoe, DoctorBell-15, RubberPoultry."
- I take it you know who these guys are. - Of course.
These guys are world-class. It also means they're ghosts.
You're giving screen names. I can't do anything.
All right, dude.
Here.
Phone numbers of six of the best break-in crews in Seattle.
Guy we're looking for called one of them to arrange a hit on Tennant's offices. Here.
Purchase history. Every ticket on Pacific National's flight 234...
from San Francisco to Seattle.
Dude, that's three distinct data sets.
You can't find a way to triangulate an answer?
Tell me if one of Tennant's hackers isn't behind this?
Could I do it?
Yeah, theoretically, but what makes you think I'd want to?
It's cool.
I'll get started.
Take your phone call.
- This is Guerrero. - It's Winston.
Oh, hey, dude. Could I get a gin and tonic and an extra bag of pretzels?
Look, I'm closing in on Casper.
I'm down to five names on the manifest. Run them for me.
I want you to look for programming experience...
Give me their names. I'll get Sergei on it.
- Who the hell is Sergei? - A friend of mine.
I called him to figure out who's behind the threat. He's a real smart-ass.
Expert at data mining.
He's not using my computer, is he?
Don't worry. Your passwords are safe with me.
I didn't give you my passwords.
Just give me those names. I'll get right on it.
Excuse me. Is this seat taken?
Ah. If I have to sit alone in these flights, I go absolutely stir-crazy.
Martin Gill.
Vincent Morgan.
So, what brings you to Seattle? Work?
Did you know there are killers on this plane, Vincent?
Heart disease, diabetes, mesothelioma.
Silent killers claiming the lives of thousands of men your age every year.
Hmm.
You wanna tell me why you're really on this plane?
I'm not very good at this.
I hate flying.
So I took a couple of Percocets.
Are you sure you didn't take more than a couple?
What?
Hey, you there?
Yup.
- False alarm. What do you got? - I just got off the phone with the pilots.
You'll never guess what's gonna happen in about 10 seconds.
We're changing course.
Yeah. Electrical malfunction that keeps tripping the breakers.
Nothing catastrophic, but we'll have to divert to Portland.
You thinking what I'm thinking?
One way to sneak Casper past Tennant's men is not to let him get to Seattle.
Mm-hm. Force the plane down in Portland.
Another set of kidnappers waiting on the ground.
I'm gonna go to the back and see what I can see.
Excuse me, Vincent.
It sounds like you're underwater.
I know.
Circuits look all right.
Scratch that.
Panel's been tampered with.
You were right.
Looks like our threat used this to divert the plane.
Winston, I got him.
I was worried there for a minute.
Yeah, well, rest easy.
I promise, no more surprises at least until we land.
Ugh.
Cabin pressure's at the red line. We can't open up these vents.
It's not gonna be enough, is it?
- Really hoped it wouldn't come to this. - What?
We need more air flow to put out the fire.
The strongest winds are blowing above us.
The fire's below us.
Not for long.
We're gonna flip the plane.
I'm sorry, you wanna do what to the plane?
I wanna flip it.
It will put the fire into the airstream above us. It'll blow it out like a candle.
What difference does it make if the fire's out if you end up crashing the plane?
What difference does it make if the plane is right-side up and the fire kills us?
Done right, it's a one G maneuver. Done plenty of one G maneuvers.
I've done a Cuban Eight. Did a hammerhead, once.
- You ever done this? - Yeah.
On a simulator.
It was a very good simulator.
Oh, my God.
I know it sounds crazy, but the only thing that matters is putting this fire out.
If you got any better ideas, I'm all ears.
- Yeah? - Hey.
Bet you can't guess what's gonna happen in 10 seconds.
You're kidding me.
You are kidding me.
It's gonna be fine. You're gonna get a little jostled around back there.
Make sure everyone is on the left side of the plane, especially Casper.
I don't want to have come this far and lose our protectee to a broken neck.
Yeah.
All right, I got Casper.
So, dude, did you find the hacker yet?
Negative. Please tell me you found something to help me find Casper.
Nope. Ran a background on the names. Nobody stands out as the hacker.
- There's nobody else on that list. - Well, maybe you got the profile wrong.
My profile is not wrong.
It's just thin.
We're looking for a human being...
between the ages of 16 and 60, who boarded in San Francisco.
You sure about that last part?
Tennant traced one of Casper's IMs to the Haight...
so, yeah, I'm pretty sure he boarded in...
What?
Hey, how hard would it be to forge a boarding pass?
Federal air marshal. Turn around.
Let me see your hands.
What happened here?
I thought I saw something.
I came to check it out and this guy pops around and attacks me.
Give me some ID.
Slowly.
All right.
No offense, but I got no way of knowing who was attacking who.
I'm gonna have to cuff you. Against the wall. Hands behind your back.
Excuse me. Mind if I sit down?
Phew. Boy, my feet are killing me.
How's your trip so far?
Oh, fine.
I noticed on the manifest you boarded in London. Holiday?
Yeah.
Unless you didn't board in London, of course.
- Excuse me? - Hmm?
Oh, no, I was just saying, "Unless, of course, you didn't board in London."
Could have bought your ticket there and boarded...
when the plane touched down. All you'd need is a forged boarding pass.
That way, anybody looking for a hacker from San Francisco would look past you.
- I don't know what you're talking about. - Hmm.
No baggage claim checks.
You flew all the way to London for two weeks and didn't check any bags.
You're Casper.
And you're not a flight attendant.
Tennant hired me to keep you safe.
Tennant never said anything about sending someone.
That was before he knew you were in danger.
Listen.
You're right to take precautions. There are people after you.
After that skeleton key.
Now, I don't want you to worry. My partner and I are professionals.
We've got the situation completely under control.
Would you excuse me just a moment?
- Federal air marshal. - Uh, excuse me. What's going on?
There was a fight in the galley. This man was involved.
There's another man, he's unconscious. One of them snuck a gun on board.
How'd they do that?
Probably bribed a ground crew guy to plant the gun before takeoff.
I don't know anything more.
I'm gonna restrain them both till we land. Notify the cockpit.
Tell them we need police assistance.
I'll get the other guy, bring him up here.
- You stay here, keep an eye on him. - Oh, yeah. Okay.
What? What am I supposed to do? He had a gun and that little badge thing.
Well, listen, I found the hacker.
And the threat's out cold.
I don't know what to do about Portland. Things could be worse.
Like what? Maybe a second kidnapper on the plane with us, for example?
Second kidnapper?
There's a phone in my pocket. I got it from the saboteur in the back.
Don't be shy.
Check the inbox.
All right. I'm gonna go get Casper. Bring her up here so you can watch her.
I'll get started looking for our second bad guy.
You smell smoke?
Up here. Up here.
The smoke must have gotten into the oxygen supply...
and overwhelmed them.
- Where's that smoke coming from? - I don't know.
Computer says there's no fire in engines or in cargo.
It's in the fuselage. Frayed wire must have ignited the insulation.
How did you get loose?
What's important is putting that fire out and I can help.
Help? For all I know, you could have started this in the first place.
- Back away from the cockpit. - I get it.
It's confusing. We got a pilot down.
We need to act, unless you've got a plan...
I'm going in there. Air-traffic control can talk me through this.
By the time they talk you through that panel, this'll be over. Trust me.
I know what I'm doing.
- We should listen to him. - Shut up.
Hey, it's simple. You go in there and lock that door, everybody dies, period.
Stop!
What the hell are you doing?
He has a plan. You don't.
You're making a huge mistake.
Look out!
I'm entitled to know who you are.
Have a seat. I could use the help.
My help?
You do realize I'm just a stewardess.
Flight attendant.
Have a seat.
I'm sorry, you're gonna do what to the plane?
- I wanna flip it. - Oh, my God.
When the plane starts to roll, stay on the cabin wall.
Try to get to the ceiling as fast as you can.
I shouldn't be worried, right? It's all under control?
It's gonna be fine.
All right.
Are you ready to do this?
There's a pretty good chance we're about to die, isn't there?
What answer are you looking for?
I just thought I'd be more afraid.
That's your adrenaline.
Let's go.
Keep the throttle steady.
Laura, we gotta stay like this until the fire's out.
I think it's working.
All right.
Now for the hard part. I'm gonna flip us back.
- Uh-oh. - What?
I lost the stick.
Thruster too. Controls aren't responding.
What does that mean?
In technical terms?
I think I broke the plane.
Engines are lit. Controls aren't responding. We're stuck.
I think it's the flight computer. It's
switched to autopilot and just locked us out.
Why?
I don't know, but we gotta talk to somebody who does.
Well, how long can we stay like this?
Not for long.
At this angle of descent, we're headed for some storm clouds.
And at this speed, we should be in them in about 10 minutes.
- Well, what happens then? - Well...
I'm fairly certain the plane gets ripped apart.
Good news. The fire's out.
Your maneuver must have crashed the computer.
Couldn't process what was happening.
I know how it feels.
What if we shut it off?
- Could we get the controls? - Controls, sure.
But we can't roll the plane back safely without the computer's help.
Couldn't we just reboot the computer?
Winston, it's a passenger jet, not a laptop.
Actually, he's not that far off.
I imagine the flight computer's a couple years old.
Probably like 800 megahertz processing power.
- Sure. - Well, most laptops are just as powerful.
Mine certainly is.
What are you saying?
If I could download the management software to my laptop...
we wouldn't need the plane's computer. We'd use mine.
You wanna replace the flight computer with a laptop?
Coffee maker in your galley, they flew to the moon...
with a chip one-tenth that size. These are not advanced systems.
Okay, so where do we get the software?
This is the manufacturer's internal network.
Oh, the skeleton key.
- Downloading now. - How long?
- Five minutes. - We'll be in the storm by then.
It's cutting it close, but we don't have any other choice.
Brooke says we have to patch the computer in manually.
Where's the avionics bay?
It's behind the wheel well. I can't find any access panels.
It's on the bottom. Avionics aren't meant to be accessed in the air.
There's a vent on this end of the cargo compartment.
We'll have to crawl but it's big enough to get into the wheel well.
That's not on the schematic. Are you sure?
Yes, I'm sure.
I used to date a ground crew guy. I know things about the plane I shouldn't.
- Do I need to explain more? - Sure.
Won't it be cold as hell down there?
You mean up there. Yeah, it's gonna be freezing.
What if you go all that way and there's no vent?
The vent is there.
I know it.
I trusted you. Now you gotta trust me.
Look, man, I'm sorry about the whole storming-the-cockpit thing.
And you think this is gonna make up for it?
Well, I can't worry about that right now. The saboteur you pulled out...
there's somebody else who's helping him.
Look, you wanna tell me what this is all about?
I'll tell you when we're on the ground.
- What's he waiting for? - What?
The second guy. His buddy's been chained up ever since we opened the cockpit.
All that confusion, he had every opportunity to help his friend.
Why didn't he?
We got about five minutes until the storm hits. We should move.
I'm about to do the craziest thing in my life and I don't even know your name.
I think we both know it isn't Martin Gill.
It's Christopher Chance.
Is it?
Laptop's ready.
Let's go.
Guerrero, man, bad news.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I struck out.
- Can't find who hired the kidnappers. - You're kidding.
If there was a connection there, it would have come up. I threw the book at it.
Ahem. Anyways, um... I'm really sorry.
- There's anything I can do, let me know. - Thanks, dude.
Hey, Sergei.
Let me ask you a question.
Yeah, shoot.
Say a guy comes to you, says, "Here's a key.
This key will open any safe anywhere."
Money, jewels, secrets in this world, suddenly at your fingertips.
Now, that would be tempting, my friend. Don't you think?
Yeah. Yeah, it would be.
Do you take it?
- No. - That's right.
You and I both know something that powerful would make you a target.
But let's just say, um, hypothetically, someone like, uh...
I don't know, you, were to identify a hacker...
with plans to steal the keys to the entire Internet.
And let's say you were to lie about it to someone like, uh...
say, me, so that you could strike your own deal and get rich quick.
I guess what I'm saying, Sergei, is you and I would have real problems.
Mostly you.
Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
I just thought of something.
What do you know?
It worked.
Found your guy.
Folks, when the plane starts to roll, I want you to keep your heads down.
Just try to get strapped in as quickly as you can.
Okay.
That lightning looks close.
All right, come on now. Settle in.
The plane could roll any second.
- Winston, you there? - Yeah, go ahead.
We're going into the wheel well. I'll signal you when the computer's hooked up.
Brooke says it's gonna take a couple of minutes for the software to engage.
Just make sure that you're back inside the plane by then.
Believe me, no one's looking to hang around here.
Hey. They're in the wheel well. Get ready.
We're running out of time.
Okay, Winston, we're on.
Computer's up.
They're disengaging it now.
Get out of there.
Hey.
Seat belt light's on.
Let's go.
Are you looking for this?
I took it in the cargo bay.
If I asked for permission, you would have said no.
You knew.
Let's go down inside. We'll talk about it.
I'm not going to prison.
That's not what I'm suggesting.
You said before you're looking for a career change.
So what?
I come work for you?
Pay taxes? Get a dog?
I'm wearing the clothes of a dead woman.
I killed her to get on this plane. This is what I do.
You're not as stuck as you think you are.
There is another way.
How would you know?
Like I said earlier, I used to hate my job too.
Okay, everybody, hold on.
Tell me your name.
Answer it. Go on.
Nick Chepekian?
Yes.
The same Nick Chepekian that hired the kidnappers on flight 234?
Put a team of goons on the tarmac waiting to capture the hacker known as Casper?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Nick, say a guy comes to you, says, "Here's a key.
This key will open any safe anywhere."
Do you take it?
You think Laura got our descriptions to that second team on the ground?
Heads up. TSA with cornrows.
Mr. Chance.
Guerrero sent us.
That way. We got a car waiting at the back exit.
Figured you wouldn't wanna answer any questions with the police.
Hey, what about that team they sent to pick up Casper?
Don't worry about them.
Stay behind me.
- Well, Mr. Tennant, this is Casper. - It's Brooke.
Brooke Hamill.
It's nice to meet you, Brooke. I'm glad you made it.
Please, come in.
So Tennant got us a couple of first-class tickets to fly home.
Yeah?
- Yeah. That was nice of him, right? - Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, um, we're fine to fly home, right?
- Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah.
- We should take the train. - Hmm.
You all right?
Can I ask you a question?
Do you remember what you said when we started?
I told you you could take that flight attendant uniform and shove it up...
No, no, no, not today. In the beginning.
Oh.
Yeah, I told you you weren't as stuck as you thought.
I told you there was another way.
How'd you know I'd go for it?
I didn't.
Huh.
Let's go home.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, um, you know, for the record...
this is the last time I'm going in the field with you.
Right.
Look, I don't give a damn how many unknown variables there are.
Uh-huh. - Yeah, you think I'm joking, right?
Look into my eyes. I'm not joking.
Watch the road, will you?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Do you feel unsafe? Hold on a second while I flip the car upside down.
Then maybe you'll feel better.