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Action-packed! With Walker on the run from Juma's lookout and Juma's men tunneling to the White House, an imprisoned Kiefer tries to convince Buchanan to step in to do the torturing of Burnett, but Buchanan has suddenly grown a conscience on that score. Soon Juma and his men are inside and searching for Taylor. Moss rescues Walker and passes along her word that the White House is the target, seconds before Buchanan and the Secret Service would have figured it out anyway. Buchanan bravely takes the President's tracker to draw Juma's men away from Taylor and gets taken hostage, along with many other civilians. Freed when the alert comes out during his transfer, Kiefer gets Taylor into the White House lockdown room. That thwarts Juma's attempts to get to her, but allows him to bluff the Secret Service into pulling out of the building. With help from Academy Award Winner Jon Voight, Juma learns that Olivia's in the building, and should serve nicely as leverage to get the Prez to come out of her hidey hole. Meanwhile, Moss and Walker try to convince the oddly Australian Vice President to authorize the storming of the building, but they don't succeed. Neither does Olivia succeed in getting a signal out by Morse code when Aaron is wounded, and the two of them end up joining the hostages. And so do Kiefer and Taylor, when Juma threatens to kill Olivia. Hard to see anyone getting out of this one. Which I'm sure means that Kiefer's got Juma right where he wants him.

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