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ジョン・マックレーン刑事は、ロスに住む妻ホリーと一緒にクリスマス休暇を過ごすため、吹雪の中ワシントンのダレス国際空港に迎えに来ていた。テレビではラテン・アメリカの麻薬王エスペランザ将軍の到着を報じており、反共主義者の元陸軍大佐スチュワートの姿を空港内で見かけていたマックレーンは大佐の部下らしき軍人たちがうろついているのに不審を覚え、後をつける。
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Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
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A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
