Movie Story : Off-duty New York cop John McClane is stuck at Washington Dulles International Airport on a snowy Christmas Eve, waiting for his wife's flight to land. Terrorists seize control of the airport's air traffic control system to free a South American general and drug trafficker being transported to the United States. McClane must stop them alone while dealing with a clumsy airport police chief and a rigid anti-terrorist unit, all while planes full of passengers, including his wife, circle overhead running low on fuel.