We open outside of an airport where Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) sits in his SUV. He looks tired. We see him add alcohol to his coffee and drink from it. He masks the alcohol on his breath with mint spray. Bill looks at a picture of his young daughter. He gets a call from someone, apparently a supervisor. He argues with the person, and then loses the call when he cannot hear as a plane is taking off right near him.
Bill stands outside the terminal and lights a cigarette, trying to pull himself together. A young man, Tom Bowen (Scoot McNairy) asks for a light and asks where he is going. Bill doesn’t respond to him. Bowen says he is going to Amsterdam. Bill still doesn’t respond to him, lost in his thoughts and surveying the crowd.
Bill gets his supervisor on the phone and argues with him, saying he cannot stay in London for 3 days. Bill tells him he will do “what he has to.”
Bill tries to get through security quickly, but a fellow passenger Zack White (Nate Parker) is talking on his phone and holding up the line. Bill goes around him passive aggressively. “Am I in your way?” Zack asks, shaking his head, believing Bill is the one with the problem. Bill dumps in his items, one being a small roll of duct tape into the bin and goes through security as normal.
Bill goes to the bathroom to wash up. A man, Jack Hammond (Anson Mount) offers him eye drops for the long flight. Bill declines them.
Bill looks around the terminal at the various passengers. He sees a woman, Jen Summers (Julianne Moore) argue with an attendant as she was supposed to get a window seat. Bill notices a young girl, Becca (Quinn McColgan) flying alone. A flight attendant comes to bring her onto the flight. Bill notices she accidentally dropped her toy bear. When Becca gets to the threshold of the plane, she hesitates as she is afraid to fly. One of the flight attendants, Nancy (Michelle Dockery) tries to calm her, saying flying isn’t as bad as she thinks. Bill shows up and returns Becca’s bear. Bill asks her what the bear’s name is. Becca says his name is Henry. Bill says Henry looks a bit scared and perhaps she could help him. Becca takes the bear back and is calmed enough to get on the plane.
As Bill sits down in his seat (with Zack as his passenger) he sees Jen unsuccessfully try to switch her seat with someone. When she looks at Zack, Bill glares at him, and Zack agrees to give up his seat for her. As she sits down, Jen flags down Nancy for a gin and tonic. Bill says make it two.
Nancy goes to the front of the plane to make the drinks where she meets another attendant, Gwen (Lupita Nyong’o). Nancy thanks Gwen for being on the flight since another girl called out. Nancy asks the Captain, David McMillan (Linus Roache) and the co-pilot Kyle Rice (Jason Bulter Harner) if they want anything before takeoff. They both say no. As Nancy returns to her duties, Rice lets his gaze linger a second longer. “You naughty boy,” McMillan says (Rice and Nancy are apparently involved).
Nancy gives Jen her drink and Bill a bottle of water. Jen notices this. Bill shakes his head and says, “It’s not my lucky day.”
Bill texts on his secure line that everything is fine and they are a go.
The plane takes off and Jen notices his discomfort. Bill wraps a blue ribbon around his hand for comfort. Bill explains it was his daughter’s, who is now 17. When she was younger she used to tie a ribbon to herself before bed and made him guess every morning where she put it. He apparently needed it more than her.
Jen tells him she is going to get some sleep.
As the flight progresses, Bill keeps getting his chair kicked by a couple fooling around behind him. Not wanting to deal with that, Bill goes to the bathroom and tapes up the smoke alarm so he can have a cigarette in peace.
A short while later, Bill returns to his seat. When he is apparently about to get some sleep, a message arrives. “Are you ready to do your duty Marshall?” Bill asks who it is, and a message replies, one of the passengers. Bill texts that using the channel is a federal offense. The texter replies that so is smoking in the bathroom.
“Do I have your attention?” The mystery texter asks. The person tells Bill to set his timer watch to 20 minutes. Bill asks why. The mystery texter says that someone will die then. Bill asks what they want. The mystery threat demands 150 million dollars. The threat warns Bill he has 20 minutes to transfer the funds or someone dies.
Jack Hammond, the man Bill bumped into earlier, is revealed to be a secondary air marshal. Hammond says they are breaking protocol even speaking to each other. Bill is aggressive, think Hammond is sending the texts but after seeing his phone, is shown not to be. Bill explains the threat, but Hammond thinks they shouldn’t inform anyone until something tangible happens (and thinks it is a joke someone is playing). However, Bill goes to warn the Captain.
Bill gets Nancy to get Captain McMillan who is apprised about the situation. Bill learns they could divert the flight in the event of a hijacking/terrorism plot but the alternate landing spots (such as Iceland) are just as far away as their destination of London. Furthermore, he is confused about how it could happen. “We're midway across the Atlantic. How do you kill someone in a crowded plane and get away with it?” McMillan asks.
Bill learns that while there are cameras and audio in the Black Box he cannot play them back during the flight. However, he can look at the security cameras of the cabins. Getting Nancy and Jen (trusting her since she was next to him the whole time), Bill begins to text the hijacker in order to buy them time to look at the passengers and see who is using a phone.
Bill begins to text with the hijacker saying he needs more time to transfer the money. Turbulence messes with the camera picture but they are able to pick out a few suspects; Tom Bowen, Austin Reilly (Corey Stoll), Charles Wheeler (Frank Deal) and Dr. Fahim Nasir (Omar Metwally).
Nancy gives Bill a plane phone connecting him to the TSA and his liaison Agent Marenick (Shea Whigham). Bill tries to explain what is happening, but Marenick doesn’t buy what is going on. As he tries to reply with further explanations, Bill gets another text from the hijacker.
“How’s your daughter Bill?” This text stuns him.
Bill sees Hammond get into an airplane bathroom and angrily confronts him again. Hammond demeanor suddenly changes, saying he had money problems and he can cut Bill in. Bill isn’t having any of it. Hammond then begins to fight Bill and they proceed to grapple in the narrow bathroom. Hammond tries to get his gun but it clatters to the floor. He goes to reach for it, as Bill has him in a headlock. As Hammond tries to point it Bill’s way, Bill begs him to stop what he is doing. Hammond refuses, so Bill is forced to break his neck. Bill sees Hammond’s phone. It’s broken.
Bill’s watch timer runs out. He quickly and covertly shuts the bathroom and rigs the door to say it is occupied. His phone buzzes again. “Sorry you had to do that Bill,” the hijacker says.
Bill talks to McMillan only to learn that the account that he told them to look up was in his name. Bill realizes he is being framed for hijacking and the McMillan is willing to believe him. However, protocol states he has to take his badge and gun. McMillan tells him to sit back down and wait out the flight so everything can be sorted out when they land. McMillan asks to speak to the other Marshall (Hammond) but Bill lies about his whereabouts. Bill then takes Hammond’s gun from his belongings.
Bill goes back to the bathroom where Hammond’s dead body is and takes his phone. Jen sees him with it and shows him how to fix it. Bill powers it back up and finds garbled text apparently between Hammond and the real hijacker. The hijacker knew that Hammond was transporting drugs. Bill looks at Hammond’s suitcase and finds a huge brick of cocaine (that is what Hammond was talking about “cutting” Bill in on).
Nancy asks about Hammond and no longer able to keep up a ruse, reveals his dead body. Nancy begins to panic so Bill has to hold a hand to her mouth to keep her from screaming. Bill tells her he is being set up for something. He reveals Hammond was trafficking drugs, and he pulled a gun on Bill, and he had no choice but to defend himself. Bill tells Nancy that something is going on and whoever is behind it is trying to pin it on 2 bad federal agents. “I could never do this,” Bill says. “I need you to believe me.”
“I believe you,” Nancy says.
In order to search out the hijacker, Bill pretends to call out a random search, using the lists of suspects he acquired. The pilots hear this phony search and contact TSA, thinking Bill is a hijacker for sure now. Bill goes through his list, though having to deal with some unruly passengers in the process. In his run through, he recognizes Bowen and freaks out as he was told by him that he was going to Amsterdam. Bill forcibly yanks Bowen up and drags him out of his aisle. Bowen bumps into Wheeler on his way out. Bill interrogates Bowen at the front of the plane. As he does however, Marenick calls him back telling Bowen, and everyone else on the plane is clean except for him. Marenick now believes Bill to be the hijacker given the account number, his behavior and that he apparently threatened his supervisor earlier that he will do “what he has to.” Bill tries to get through to Marenick but Marenick relieves him of his Marshall status, telling him to stand down.
Bill asks Bowen why he asked him where he was going earlier. Bowen said he was paid 100 bucks to do so, apparently as a prank. Bowen, at Bill’s insistence, searches the plane and picks out a passenger Michael Tate, as who told him to do it. Tate, however, has no clue about it. Bill ties up Bowen’s wrist and plops him in an empty chair. As he watches the counter tick down again, he gets another text. “I never said the target was a passenger.”
Bill looks at Nancy, thinking she is next. “NANCY!” he screams, running down the aisle. Suddenly, turbulence hits the plane, hard. Bill is knocked down and left temporarily shaken up. Bill races to the cockpit only to find out that McMillan is having a seizure. Bill finds Dr. Nasir to help, while one of Bill’s suspects, Austin Reilly, a former cop is getting annoyed about not being told anything.
McMillan dies. There was nothing Nasir could have done. Apparently he was poisoned.
Bill is pinged with more texts.
“That was exciting.”
“You’re good at wasting time.”
“Pretty soon you’ll run out of passengers.”
“Then it’ll be just you and me.”
Bill gets another call from Marenick, who is trying to talk Bill down. Bill tells him to transfer money and then freeze it after the plane lands. Marenick tells him that won’t happen as it makes Bill look guilty. Marenick asks why they haven’t shut down the wireless network, but Bill says he needs it up to track the real hijacker. Marenick tells him they can no longer speak to suspected terrorist.
Bill takes his gun back and tells Rice to lock the cockpit and not let anyone in until they land. Rice complies.
Bill returns to his seat to find Jen speaking with Zack. Zack was apparently going to London for an interview at phone Security Company. Zack relates that if you put a virus in the code of a photograph you can cause a phone to ring. Seeing they can track the hijacker once and for all, Bill tells Zack to set the program up.
However, the passengers, having being thrown out business class on Bill’s orders, are getting unruly. To keep them calm and obedient, Bill claims that they will be offered a year’s worth of international travel if they just do what he says. That buys him some time.
Bill talks to Rice, who is distant. Rice reveals he has been ordered to divert, not speak to him anymore and cut the network. Bill pleads for 5 minutes to prove his innocence. Rice tells him he has 5 minutes.
A few of the passengers, including Reilly conspire to take Bill down. Nancy sees them and tells them to sit down.
Bill comes down and tells them to put their hands up in the air, every single person, while he makes his call. When he does, a phone pings and it belongs to Wheeler. Bill takes him up front with Wheeler denying it to be his phone. As Bill tries to question him, Wheeler begins to convulse. Bill tells Nancy to get Nasir again. Once more however, it is no good. Wheeler dies before anything can be done. Bill realizes he was played; the man was a plant by the hijacker to waste his time.
Nasir comes back to the passengers and Reilly gets him to admit that Wheeler and McMillan are dead. Everyone begins to believe that Bill is the bad guy.
Bill sits in the bathroom and smokes. He notices smoke dissipating behind a towel dispenser. He pulls it away and notices there is an open space straight into the cockpit. He finds two empty pens and sees they could be screwed together for a makeshift blow gun. He examines Wheeler and finds a poison dart that killed him. He realizes that McMillan died the same way.
Bill goes to an elderly passenger who he saw use the restroom earlier. She tells him Jen was the next person after her. Bill confronts Jen about this and her want of a window seat, thinking she is involved in the plot. Bill believes it to be Psychology 101; she got to know him, she helped him with the phone etc. all to eliminate her as a suspect in his mind. Jen angrily denounces his theories, and explains her want of a window seat. She had heart surgery a few years ago (Bill noticed her scar earlier) however they told her they couldn’t fix what she had, so basically her heart is a ticking time bomb that will fail on her and there will be nothing she can do. So since she is forced to travel so much, she likes window seats because if she is going to die on that particular day at least she will be looking at something beautiful instead of the back of an airplane seat. Bill apologizes and pours her a drink.
“I hate flying,” Bill admits to her.
The passengers turn on the TV’s only to see that the news networks have labeled Bill as a terrorist, who had become an alcoholic burnout since being expelled from the NYPD, getting divorced, and losing his 8 year old daughter to cancer. Panic grows in the cabin.
Jen sees the report too and learns the truth about Olivia (and somewhat understanding why he lied). Bill watches as his life and integrity are torn to shreds by the news media. One commentator talks about how they trust Marshall’s with their lives yet they are allowed to just walk by security. “Walk by security?” Bill ponders then his face goes white. He looks again at Hammond’s suitcase and tears open the cocaine package. There is a bomb in the middle. “OH GOD,” Bill says.
Bill and Jen try to access the hijacker’s phone but fail. Instead it boots up an automated text manifesto apparently by Bill saying he “has no choice” and starts a timer for 30 minutes.
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As he goes back out into the cabin to warn everyone, he is hit with an extinguisher by Reilly and rushed by four other passengers. Bill fights back and even breaks Reilly’s nose but is eventually subdued. Bill tries to tell them about the bomb, but Reilly isn’t having any of it. Suddenly, Bowen comes up with Bill’s gun and asks him if there really is a bomb on the plane. Bill says it is true and Bowen orders the rest of the passengers away from Bill.
Bill gets up and tells everyone that everything they heard about him is true. He is a burnout alcoholic who lost his family. His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia at age 5 and instead of being there for his child he worked because he was so afraid of being there when she died. He was not a great father and he is not the best person. However, he has nothing to do with what is going on. “I'm not hijacking this plane. I’M TRYING TO SAVE IT!” Bill screams.
Convinced, Bowen gives Bill back his gun. Bill tells Reilly to cut Bowen loose from his restraints.
Bill shows some of the key passengers the bomb and relates it is pressure sensitive so disarming it will be impossible as will be tossing it out of the plane. Bill relates a plan to let it blow at the back of the plane, packed deep into luggage so the pressure of the blast will be equalized, still allowing them to land. The passengers are wary about letting it blow, but Bill says they need to have a plan in place. One passenger asks why they just don’t pay the ransom. Bill relates that he realizes this was never about the money. In fact, he was never supposed to find the bomb in the first place.
Two fighter jets begin to shadow the plane and direct Rice to follow their instructions. Rice tells them about the bomb but is ordered not to deviate. Bill tells Rice he needs to go down to 8000 feet for the controlled explosion but Rice says he needs at least 10 minutes because going down now will make the fighter jets think Bill is going to crash the plane and thus force them to take preventive measures. Bill agrees, but tells Rice when the time comes, he needs to descend no matter what happens.
The passengers begin to work together and stack the luggage over the bomb. Bill gives O’Reilly Hammond’s gun as he is a cop and can direct the passengers in an orderly fashion.
Meanwhile, Becca is crouched near the bomb, too frightened to move. Bill calms her, saying he used to have a daughter like her, and she had a “magic ribbon” that kept her safe. Bill ties it around her wrist.
“Are you bribing me?” Becca asks bluntly.
Bill laughs. “Yes I am.”
Bill directs her to his seat with Jen. Becca asks for the window seat and to keep her calm, Jen switches with her.
Marenick calls again telling Bill they transferred the money and he can stop what he is doing. Bill tells him they need to descend in order to control the explosion of the bomb. If he can do that, he can stop the hijacker. Marenick tells him everyone knows he is the hijacker; the passengers are taking video of him hurting passengers.
“What video?” Bill asks.
Bill notices a young man filming him and asks to see the phone. Bill looks at a video of him interrogating Bowen. He sees Bowen knock into Wheeler.
Bowen realizes Bill is on to him. As Reilly passes by him, Bowen gets up and takes his gun, pointing it at Reilly’s head. When Bill won’t back down, Bowen pulls the trigger, only to find it unloaded. Reilly fights back and takes the gun back. “You gave me an unloaded gun!” Reilly says, though obviously glad to be alive. Bill tells him the bullets are back at his seat. As Bill causes Bowen to step back (with a knife being Bowen’s only weapon), Reilly goes for Bill’s bag but doesn’t find any bullets.
“Looking for these?” Zack says, showing him a clip of ammo. Zack puts Reilly in a headlock, loads the weapon and shoots him, startling Bill.
Bill is disarmed by Bowen, who then stabs his knife into a nearby seat. With two guns now pointed at him, Bill tries to apologize for whatever he did to Bowen, trying to stop him from hurting everyone else. Bowen says Bill has nothing to apologize for; in fact he is Bowen’s hero. Bill will be, once he is blamed for the hijacking and the destruction of the plane. Bowen then outlays his entire scheme; the entire hijacking was a classic “false flag” operation:
Bowen relates how the entire country was asleep during 9/11 and it cost him his father. He joined the military to make those responsible pay only to spend years in a war that didn’t make sense to him. The country continues to be unsafe and no one will wake up to the fact. However, if someone like an U.S. Air Marshall were to hijack a plane and cause the deaths of hundreds, America would wake up to the problems it faces. It is only through blood that the country agrees to act, Bowen notes.
Zack (who is revealed to be a former U.S. solider as well) reveals parachutes that he had planned to use so he and Bowen could jump out once the bomb blew up at 8000 feet. Bill says they will never get the money since the account is in his name. Zack reveals it is actually a trust in his name, and when he dies, the money gets diverted into numerous accounts in an untraceable manner.
Bill then counters that the plane is now considered a classified threat they will never get their chance. The fighter jets will shoot them out of the sky first. Zack still believes they can get away, but Bowen reveals he knew they weren’t getting off the plane alive. Bowen designed the plan to be a suicide mission, something Zack didn’t sign up for obviously.
Bill pleads with Zack saying he obviously doesn’t want to die, so he needs to help disarm the bomb. When Zack hesitates, apparently unwilling to die for Bowen’s plan, Bowen shoots him. Zack’s gun drops to the floor.
When Rice hears gunshots, he asks permission to divert. He is refused. He begins to descend anyway.
The mass turbulence knocks Bowen back and causes him to shoot out a window, causing decompression in the cabin. He begins to struggle with Bill as the plane continues to descend. Seeing Bowen about to shoot Bill, Nancy grabs a seat buckle and smacks him with it. Bowen knocks her out in turn.
Rice gets to 8000 feet and the force of stabilizing causes Zack’s gun to fly up near Bill’s hand. Bill sees it and grabs it. As his body flies back due to the stabilization, Bill fires off one shot, killing Bowen via a bullet to the head.
As the passengers, rush to the front of the plane, Zack, still alive, gets up and grabs Bowen’s knife. Bill stands up and holds up a parachute that Zack planned to use.
“Am I in your way Asshole?” Bill snarls.
Bill and Zack get into a hand to hand fight. Bill tries to strangle Zack with an air mask, but he cuts through it with the knife. Bill gets in a few more hits, and then chokes him out. Bill then rushes the front of the plane.
The bomb timer expires just as Zack picks himself up. He is the blast radius. The bomb goes off, incinerating Zack completely.
The explosion caused fuselage damage and an engine to explode. Rice tries his best to keep the plane level so he can land at an airport in Iceland. As they land, the landing gear fails horribly, causing them to skid the ground. The area of the cabin where Jen and Becca are sitting is peeling away and Bill and Jen barely get Becca out of her seat and hold on to her as where she was sitting is torn away.
The plane finally gets to a full stop. There are no other casualties. The passengers and crew are evacuated. Gwen hugs Nancy, obviously overcome with the ordeal. Rice finds Nancy and they embrace, walking off together (confirming McMillan’s suspicion that they were in a relationship).
Becca finds Bill and hugs him for saving her. She gives him back his daughter’s ribbon saying she doesn’t need it anymore, but he clearly does. Becca is then given a phone by Gwen so she can talk to her father.
Newscasters now report that Bill Marks, the supposed hijacker actually saved the plane, and killed those responsible for the terrorist plot.
Bill sees O’Reilly getting wheeled away by medics. Zack’s shot only hit his shoulder thankfully. They part on good terms.
As he is patched up by EMS, Bill gets a call from Marenick. Now obviously understanding what happened, Marenick apologizes profusely to Bill and tells him he did good up there. Marenick then jokes “We’re going to need that money back.”
“What money?” Bill asks smirking, and hangs up.
Bill finds Jen and thanks her for everything. He asks her why she stood by him, through everything. Jen tells him she could tell he was a good man, and that his daughter would be proud of what he did.
Jen asks where they are. Bill tells her it is Iceland. Jen says she actually has never seen it before, though she has flown there. Bill asks her where she is headed. “That depends…” she says. They smile at each other and laugh, implying a connection between the two.
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Bill stands outside the terminal and lights a cigarette, trying to pull himself together. A young man, Tom Bowen (Scoot McNairy) asks for a light and asks where he is going. Bill doesn’t respond to him. Bowen says he is going to Amsterdam. Bill still doesn’t respond to him, lost in his thoughts and surveying the crowd.
Bill gets his supervisor on the phone and argues with him, saying he cannot stay in London for 3 days. Bill tells him he will do “what he has to.”
Bill tries to get through security quickly, but a fellow passenger Zack White (Nate Parker) is talking on his phone and holding up the line. Bill goes around him passive aggressively. “Am I in your way?” Zack asks, shaking his head, believing Bill is the one with the problem. Bill dumps in his items, one being a small roll of duct tape into the bin and goes through security as normal.
Bill goes to the bathroom to wash up. A man, Jack Hammond (Anson Mount) offers him eye drops for the long flight. Bill declines them.
Bill looks around the terminal at the various passengers. He sees a woman, Jen Summers (Julianne Moore) argue with an attendant as she was supposed to get a window seat. Bill notices a young girl, Becca (Quinn McColgan) flying alone. A flight attendant comes to bring her onto the flight. Bill notices she accidentally dropped her toy bear. When Becca gets to the threshold of the plane, she hesitates as she is afraid to fly. One of the flight attendants, Nancy (Michelle Dockery) tries to calm her, saying flying isn’t as bad as she thinks. Bill shows up and returns Becca’s bear. Bill asks her what the bear’s name is. Becca says his name is Henry. Bill says Henry looks a bit scared and perhaps she could help him. Becca takes the bear back and is calmed enough to get on the plane.
As Bill sits down in his seat (with Zack as his passenger) he sees Jen unsuccessfully try to switch her seat with someone. When she looks at Zack, Bill glares at him, and Zack agrees to give up his seat for her. As she sits down, Jen flags down Nancy for a gin and tonic. Bill says make it two.
Nancy goes to the front of the plane to make the drinks where she meets another attendant, Gwen (Lupita Nyong’o). Nancy thanks Gwen for being on the flight since another girl called out. Nancy asks the Captain, David McMillan (Linus Roache) and the co-pilot Kyle Rice (Jason Bulter Harner) if they want anything before takeoff. They both say no. As Nancy returns to her duties, Rice lets his gaze linger a second longer. “You naughty boy,” McMillan says (Rice and Nancy are apparently involved).
Nancy gives Jen her drink and Bill a bottle of water. Jen notices this. Bill shakes his head and says, “It’s not my lucky day.”
Bill texts on his secure line that everything is fine and they are a go.
The plane takes off and Jen notices his discomfort. Bill wraps a blue ribbon around his hand for comfort. Bill explains it was his daughter’s, who is now 17. When she was younger she used to tie a ribbon to herself before bed and made him guess every morning where she put it. He apparently needed it more than her.
Jen tells him she is going to get some sleep.
As the flight progresses, Bill keeps getting his chair kicked by a couple fooling around behind him. Not wanting to deal with that, Bill goes to the bathroom and tapes up the smoke alarm so he can have a cigarette in peace.
A short while later, Bill returns to his seat. When he is apparently about to get some sleep, a message arrives. “Are you ready to do your duty Marshall?” Bill asks who it is, and a message replies, one of the passengers. Bill texts that using the channel is a federal offense. The texter replies that so is smoking in the bathroom.
“Do I have your attention?” The mystery texter asks. The person tells Bill to set his timer watch to 20 minutes. Bill asks why. The mystery texter says that someone will die then. Bill asks what they want. The mystery threat demands 150 million dollars. The threat warns Bill he has 20 minutes to transfer the funds or someone dies.
Jack Hammond, the man Bill bumped into earlier, is revealed to be a secondary air marshal. Hammond says they are breaking protocol even speaking to each other. Bill is aggressive, think Hammond is sending the texts but after seeing his phone, is shown not to be. Bill explains the threat, but Hammond thinks they shouldn’t inform anyone until something tangible happens (and thinks it is a joke someone is playing). However, Bill goes to warn the Captain.
Bill gets Nancy to get Captain McMillan who is apprised about the situation. Bill learns they could divert the flight in the event of a hijacking/terrorism plot but the alternate landing spots (such as Iceland) are just as far away as their destination of London. Furthermore, he is confused about how it could happen. “We're midway across the Atlantic. How do you kill someone in a crowded plane and get away with it?” McMillan asks.
Bill learns that while there are cameras and audio in the Black Box he cannot play them back during the flight. However, he can look at the security cameras of the cabins. Getting Nancy and Jen (trusting her since she was next to him the whole time), Bill begins to text the hijacker in order to buy them time to look at the passengers and see who is using a phone.
Bill begins to text with the hijacker saying he needs more time to transfer the money. Turbulence messes with the camera picture but they are able to pick out a few suspects; Tom Bowen, Austin Reilly (Corey Stoll), Charles Wheeler (Frank Deal) and Dr. Fahim Nasir (Omar Metwally).
Nancy gives Bill a plane phone connecting him to the TSA and his liaison Agent Marenick (Shea Whigham). Bill tries to explain what is happening, but Marenick doesn’t buy what is going on. As he tries to reply with further explanations, Bill gets another text from the hijacker.
“How’s your daughter Bill?” This text stuns him.
Bill sees Hammond get into an airplane bathroom and angrily confronts him again. Hammond demeanor suddenly changes, saying he had money problems and he can cut Bill in. Bill isn’t having any of it. Hammond then begins to fight Bill and they proceed to grapple in the narrow bathroom. Hammond tries to get his gun but it clatters to the floor. He goes to reach for it, as Bill has him in a headlock. As Hammond tries to point it Bill’s way, Bill begs him to stop what he is doing. Hammond refuses, so Bill is forced to break his neck. Bill sees Hammond’s phone. It’s broken.
Bill’s watch timer runs out. He quickly and covertly shuts the bathroom and rigs the door to say it is occupied. His phone buzzes again. “Sorry you had to do that Bill,” the hijacker says.
Bill talks to McMillan only to learn that the account that he told them to look up was in his name. Bill realizes he is being framed for hijacking and the McMillan is willing to believe him. However, protocol states he has to take his badge and gun. McMillan tells him to sit back down and wait out the flight so everything can be sorted out when they land. McMillan asks to speak to the other Marshall (Hammond) but Bill lies about his whereabouts. Bill then takes Hammond’s gun from his belongings.
Bill goes back to the bathroom where Hammond’s dead body is and takes his phone. Jen sees him with it and shows him how to fix it. Bill powers it back up and finds garbled text apparently between Hammond and the real hijacker. The hijacker knew that Hammond was transporting drugs. Bill looks at Hammond’s suitcase and finds a huge brick of cocaine (that is what Hammond was talking about “cutting” Bill in on).
Nancy asks about Hammond and no longer able to keep up a ruse, reveals his dead body. Nancy begins to panic so Bill has to hold a hand to her mouth to keep her from screaming. Bill tells her he is being set up for something. He reveals Hammond was trafficking drugs, and he pulled a gun on Bill, and he had no choice but to defend himself. Bill tells Nancy that something is going on and whoever is behind it is trying to pin it on 2 bad federal agents. “I could never do this,” Bill says. “I need you to believe me.”
“I believe you,” Nancy says.
In order to search out the hijacker, Bill pretends to call out a random search, using the lists of suspects he acquired. The pilots hear this phony search and contact TSA, thinking Bill is a hijacker for sure now. Bill goes through his list, though having to deal with some unruly passengers in the process. In his run through, he recognizes Bowen and freaks out as he was told by him that he was going to Amsterdam. Bill forcibly yanks Bowen up and drags him out of his aisle. Bowen bumps into Wheeler on his way out. Bill interrogates Bowen at the front of the plane. As he does however, Marenick calls him back telling Bowen, and everyone else on the plane is clean except for him. Marenick now believes Bill to be the hijacker given the account number, his behavior and that he apparently threatened his supervisor earlier that he will do “what he has to.” Bill tries to get through to Marenick but Marenick relieves him of his Marshall status, telling him to stand down.
Bill asks Bowen why he asked him where he was going earlier. Bowen said he was paid 100 bucks to do so, apparently as a prank. Bowen, at Bill’s insistence, searches the plane and picks out a passenger Michael Tate, as who told him to do it. Tate, however, has no clue about it. Bill ties up Bowen’s wrist and plops him in an empty chair. As he watches the counter tick down again, he gets another text. “I never said the target was a passenger.”
Bill looks at Nancy, thinking she is next. “NANCY!” he screams, running down the aisle. Suddenly, turbulence hits the plane, hard. Bill is knocked down and left temporarily shaken up. Bill races to the cockpit only to find out that McMillan is having a seizure. Bill finds Dr. Nasir to help, while one of Bill’s suspects, Austin Reilly, a former cop is getting annoyed about not being told anything.
McMillan dies. There was nothing Nasir could have done. Apparently he was poisoned.
Bill is pinged with more texts.
“That was exciting.”
“You’re good at wasting time.”
“Pretty soon you’ll run out of passengers.”
“Then it’ll be just you and me.”
Bill gets another call from Marenick, who is trying to talk Bill down. Bill tells him to transfer money and then freeze it after the plane lands. Marenick tells him that won’t happen as it makes Bill look guilty. Marenick asks why they haven’t shut down the wireless network, but Bill says he needs it up to track the real hijacker. Marenick tells him they can no longer speak to suspected terrorist.
Bill takes his gun back and tells Rice to lock the cockpit and not let anyone in until they land. Rice complies.
Bill returns to his seat to find Jen speaking with Zack. Zack was apparently going to London for an interview at phone Security Company. Zack relates that if you put a virus in the code of a photograph you can cause a phone to ring. Seeing they can track the hijacker once and for all, Bill tells Zack to set the program up.
However, the passengers, having being thrown out business class on Bill’s orders, are getting unruly. To keep them calm and obedient, Bill claims that they will be offered a year’s worth of international travel if they just do what he says. That buys him some time.
Bill talks to Rice, who is distant. Rice reveals he has been ordered to divert, not speak to him anymore and cut the network. Bill pleads for 5 minutes to prove his innocence. Rice tells him he has 5 minutes.
A few of the passengers, including Reilly conspire to take Bill down. Nancy sees them and tells them to sit down.
Bill comes down and tells them to put their hands up in the air, every single person, while he makes his call. When he does, a phone pings and it belongs to Wheeler. Bill takes him up front with Wheeler denying it to be his phone. As Bill tries to question him, Wheeler begins to convulse. Bill tells Nancy to get Nasir again. Once more however, it is no good. Wheeler dies before anything can be done. Bill realizes he was played; the man was a plant by the hijacker to waste his time.
Nasir comes back to the passengers and Reilly gets him to admit that Wheeler and McMillan are dead. Everyone begins to believe that Bill is the bad guy.
Bill sits in the bathroom and smokes. He notices smoke dissipating behind a towel dispenser. He pulls it away and notices there is an open space straight into the cockpit. He finds two empty pens and sees they could be screwed together for a makeshift blow gun. He examines Wheeler and finds a poison dart that killed him. He realizes that McMillan died the same way.
Bill goes to an elderly passenger who he saw use the restroom earlier. She tells him Jen was the next person after her. Bill confronts Jen about this and her want of a window seat, thinking she is involved in the plot. Bill believes it to be Psychology 101; she got to know him, she helped him with the phone etc. all to eliminate her as a suspect in his mind. Jen angrily denounces his theories, and explains her want of a window seat. She had heart surgery a few years ago (Bill noticed her scar earlier) however they told her they couldn’t fix what she had, so basically her heart is a ticking time bomb that will fail on her and there will be nothing she can do. So since she is forced to travel so much, she likes window seats because if she is going to die on that particular day at least she will be looking at something beautiful instead of the back of an airplane seat. Bill apologizes and pours her a drink.
“I hate flying,” Bill admits to her.
The passengers turn on the TV’s only to see that the news networks have labeled Bill as a terrorist, who had become an alcoholic burnout since being expelled from the NYPD, getting divorced, and losing his 8 year old daughter to cancer. Panic grows in the cabin.
Jen sees the report too and learns the truth about Olivia (and somewhat understanding why he lied). Bill watches as his life and integrity are torn to shreds by the news media. One commentator talks about how they trust Marshall’s with their lives yet they are allowed to just walk by security. “Walk by security?” Bill ponders then his face goes white. He looks again at Hammond’s suitcase and tears open the cocaine package. There is a bomb in the middle. “OH GOD,” Bill says.
Bill and Jen try to access the hijacker’s phone but fail. Instead it boots up an automated text manifesto apparently by Bill saying he “has no choice” and starts a timer for 30 minutes.
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As he goes back out into the cabin to warn everyone, he is hit with an extinguisher by Reilly and rushed by four other passengers. Bill fights back and even breaks Reilly’s nose but is eventually subdued. Bill tries to tell them about the bomb, but Reilly isn’t having any of it. Suddenly, Bowen comes up with Bill’s gun and asks him if there really is a bomb on the plane. Bill says it is true and Bowen orders the rest of the passengers away from Bill.
Bill gets up and tells everyone that everything they heard about him is true. He is a burnout alcoholic who lost his family. His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia at age 5 and instead of being there for his child he worked because he was so afraid of being there when she died. He was not a great father and he is not the best person. However, he has nothing to do with what is going on. “I'm not hijacking this plane. I’M TRYING TO SAVE IT!” Bill screams.
Convinced, Bowen gives Bill back his gun. Bill tells Reilly to cut Bowen loose from his restraints.
Bill shows some of the key passengers the bomb and relates it is pressure sensitive so disarming it will be impossible as will be tossing it out of the plane. Bill relates a plan to let it blow at the back of the plane, packed deep into luggage so the pressure of the blast will be equalized, still allowing them to land. The passengers are wary about letting it blow, but Bill says they need to have a plan in place. One passenger asks why they just don’t pay the ransom. Bill relates that he realizes this was never about the money. In fact, he was never supposed to find the bomb in the first place.
Two fighter jets begin to shadow the plane and direct Rice to follow their instructions. Rice tells them about the bomb but is ordered not to deviate. Bill tells Rice he needs to go down to 8000 feet for the controlled explosion but Rice says he needs at least 10 minutes because going down now will make the fighter jets think Bill is going to crash the plane and thus force them to take preventive measures. Bill agrees, but tells Rice when the time comes, he needs to descend no matter what happens.
The passengers begin to work together and stack the luggage over the bomb. Bill gives O’Reilly Hammond’s gun as he is a cop and can direct the passengers in an orderly fashion.
Meanwhile, Becca is crouched near the bomb, too frightened to move. Bill calms her, saying he used to have a daughter like her, and she had a “magic ribbon” that kept her safe. Bill ties it around her wrist.
“Are you bribing me?” Becca asks bluntly.
Bill laughs. “Yes I am.”
Bill directs her to his seat with Jen. Becca asks for the window seat and to keep her calm, Jen switches with her.
Marenick calls again telling Bill they transferred the money and he can stop what he is doing. Bill tells him they need to descend in order to control the explosion of the bomb. If he can do that, he can stop the hijacker. Marenick tells him everyone knows he is the hijacker; the passengers are taking video of him hurting passengers.
“What video?” Bill asks.
Bill notices a young man filming him and asks to see the phone. Bill looks at a video of him interrogating Bowen. He sees Bowen knock into Wheeler.
Bowen realizes Bill is on to him. As Reilly passes by him, Bowen gets up and takes his gun, pointing it at Reilly’s head. When Bill won’t back down, Bowen pulls the trigger, only to find it unloaded. Reilly fights back and takes the gun back. “You gave me an unloaded gun!” Reilly says, though obviously glad to be alive. Bill tells him the bullets are back at his seat. As Bill causes Bowen to step back (with a knife being Bowen’s only weapon), Reilly goes for Bill’s bag but doesn’t find any bullets.
“Looking for these?” Zack says, showing him a clip of ammo. Zack puts Reilly in a headlock, loads the weapon and shoots him, startling Bill.
Bill is disarmed by Bowen, who then stabs his knife into a nearby seat. With two guns now pointed at him, Bill tries to apologize for whatever he did to Bowen, trying to stop him from hurting everyone else. Bowen says Bill has nothing to apologize for; in fact he is Bowen’s hero. Bill will be, once he is blamed for the hijacking and the destruction of the plane. Bowen then outlays his entire scheme; the entire hijacking was a classic “false flag” operation:
Bowen relates how the entire country was asleep during 9/11 and it cost him his father. He joined the military to make those responsible pay only to spend years in a war that didn’t make sense to him. The country continues to be unsafe and no one will wake up to the fact. However, if someone like an U.S. Air Marshall were to hijack a plane and cause the deaths of hundreds, America would wake up to the problems it faces. It is only through blood that the country agrees to act, Bowen notes.
Zack (who is revealed to be a former U.S. solider as well) reveals parachutes that he had planned to use so he and Bowen could jump out once the bomb blew up at 8000 feet. Bill says they will never get the money since the account is in his name. Zack reveals it is actually a trust in his name, and when he dies, the money gets diverted into numerous accounts in an untraceable manner.
Bill then counters that the plane is now considered a classified threat they will never get their chance. The fighter jets will shoot them out of the sky first. Zack still believes they can get away, but Bowen reveals he knew they weren’t getting off the plane alive. Bowen designed the plan to be a suicide mission, something Zack didn’t sign up for obviously.
Bill pleads with Zack saying he obviously doesn’t want to die, so he needs to help disarm the bomb. When Zack hesitates, apparently unwilling to die for Bowen’s plan, Bowen shoots him. Zack’s gun drops to the floor.
When Rice hears gunshots, he asks permission to divert. He is refused. He begins to descend anyway.
The mass turbulence knocks Bowen back and causes him to shoot out a window, causing decompression in the cabin. He begins to struggle with Bill as the plane continues to descend. Seeing Bowen about to shoot Bill, Nancy grabs a seat buckle and smacks him with it. Bowen knocks her out in turn.
Rice gets to 8000 feet and the force of stabilizing causes Zack’s gun to fly up near Bill’s hand. Bill sees it and grabs it. As his body flies back due to the stabilization, Bill fires off one shot, killing Bowen via a bullet to the head.
As the passengers, rush to the front of the plane, Zack, still alive, gets up and grabs Bowen’s knife. Bill stands up and holds up a parachute that Zack planned to use.
“Am I in your way Asshole?” Bill snarls.
Bill and Zack get into a hand to hand fight. Bill tries to strangle Zack with an air mask, but he cuts through it with the knife. Bill gets in a few more hits, and then chokes him out. Bill then rushes the front of the plane.
The bomb timer expires just as Zack picks himself up. He is the blast radius. The bomb goes off, incinerating Zack completely.
The explosion caused fuselage damage and an engine to explode. Rice tries his best to keep the plane level so he can land at an airport in Iceland. As they land, the landing gear fails horribly, causing them to skid the ground. The area of the cabin where Jen and Becca are sitting is peeling away and Bill and Jen barely get Becca out of her seat and hold on to her as where she was sitting is torn away.
The plane finally gets to a full stop. There are no other casualties. The passengers and crew are evacuated. Gwen hugs Nancy, obviously overcome with the ordeal. Rice finds Nancy and they embrace, walking off together (confirming McMillan’s suspicion that they were in a relationship).
Becca finds Bill and hugs him for saving her. She gives him back his daughter’s ribbon saying she doesn’t need it anymore, but he clearly does. Becca is then given a phone by Gwen so she can talk to her father.
Newscasters now report that Bill Marks, the supposed hijacker actually saved the plane, and killed those responsible for the terrorist plot.
Bill sees O’Reilly getting wheeled away by medics. Zack’s shot only hit his shoulder thankfully. They part on good terms.
As he is patched up by EMS, Bill gets a call from Marenick. Now obviously understanding what happened, Marenick apologizes profusely to Bill and tells him he did good up there. Marenick then jokes “We’re going to need that money back.”
“What money?” Bill asks smirking, and hangs up.
Bill finds Jen and thanks her for everything. He asks her why she stood by him, through everything. Jen tells him she could tell he was a good man, and that his daughter would be proud of what he did.
Jen asks where they are. Bill tells her it is Iceland. Jen says she actually has never seen it before, though she has flown there. Bill asks her where she is headed. “That depends…” she says. They smile at each other and laugh, implying a connection between the two.
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