A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical
weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages.
Their leader, a former highly-decorated U. S. general, demands
$100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of
soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied
compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets
carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area.
An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare
expert (Stanley Goodspeed) and a former Alcatraz escapee (John Mason),
is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz
and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.
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