Raphelson is sworn in as president and orders an air strike on the White House. Hacking into NORAD, Tyler launches a missile at Air Force One from Piketon, Ohio, killing Hammond and everyone on board. Learning Emily's identity from the video, Stenz takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Cale and Sawyer, still alive, learn Hammond has ordered an aerial incursion to re-acquire the White House, but the mercenaries shoot down the helicopters.
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With Sawyer and Cale presumed dead in an explosion in the cabana, the 25th amendment is invoked Hammond is sworn in as president. They escape in the presidential limo but are chased by Stenz and fall into the White House pool. Cale and Sawyer try to escape via a secret tunnel, but find the exit rigged with explosives. Cale and Sawyer contact the command structure via a scrambled satellite phone in the residence, whereas Finnerty uses Emily's YouTube video to discover the mercenaries' identities. Killick catches Emily filming the intruders on her phone and takes her hostage. Walker brings in ex- NSA analyst Skip Tyler to hack the PEOC's defense system, but requires Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. Cale kills a mercenary, taking his weapon and radio, and rescues Sawyer after overhearing Walker. Inside, Walker kills Sawyer's detail, including fellow agent Ted Hope, revealing himself as the leader of the attack, apparently seeking vengeance against Sawyer for his Marine son, Kevin Walker, who was killed in a botched mission in Iran the year prior. Retiring Head of the Presidential Detail Special Agent-in-Charge Martin Walker brings Sawyer to the PEOC beneath the White House Library. The tour group is taken hostage in the Blue Room by white nationalist Carl Killick, but Cale escapes to search for Emily, separated during the tour. A team of mercenaries led by ex- Delta Force operative Emil Stenz infiltrate the White House and overwhelm the Secret Service, seizing the building. Finnerty escorts Raphelson to an underground command center in the Pentagon, while Vice President Alvin Hammond is taken aboard Air Force One.
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Meanwhile, a bomb is detonated in the United States Capitol, collapsing the rotunda and sending Washington, D.C. His interviewer, Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge Carol Finnerty, a college acquaintance, deems him unqualified for the job. Cale hopes to impress his daughter Emily by interviewing for the Secret Service Presidential Detail, getting tickets for them to tour the White House. Divorced veteran John Cale works as a Capitol Police officer assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, whose nephew, Corporal Dawson, he saved while serving in Afghanistan. U.S. President James Sawyer makes a controversial proposal to remove military forces from the Middle East.