U.S. Marshals

US Marshals is a 1998 action thriller, it follows Samuel Gerald and is a follow up to the 1993 film The Fugitive.
== Summary ==
Gerard and his team pursue another fugitive, Mark Sheridan, played by Wesley Snipes, who attempts to escape government officials following an international conspiracy scandal. The cast features Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, and LaTanya Richardson, several of whom portrayed Deputy Marshals in the previous film.
== Plot ==
Two Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents are killed while trying to intercept a briefcase exchange taking place in a United Nations parking garage. The murders are caught on a security camera, but the criminal escapes with top secret information.
Months later, Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team corner the Conroy Brothers and their families at their house and celebrate afterwards especially after seeing it on the news. Meanwhile tow truck driver Mark Warren is arrested for an illegal weapons possession charge following a vehicular collision in Chicago. Through a fingerprint check, the police determine that he is actually federal fugitive Mark Roberts, wanted for a homicide. That night, Roberts boards a prisoner transport aircraft back to New York via Memphis, sharing the flight with Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard, who is escorting prisoners unrelated to Roberts' case. Roberts thwarts an assassination attempt by a Chinese prisoner with an improvised firearm, but the bullet blows a window that depressurizes the cabin, killing the prisoner and another marshal. The pilots attempt an emergency landing but the damaged plane crashes into the Ohio River in southern Illinois. With the plane sinking, Gerard assists in rescuing fellow marshals and officers while they retrieve the surviving prisoners, but discovers Roberts has escaped. Eight hours later, DSS Special Agent John Royce is assigned to join Gerard's team and other officers to hunt Roberts, much to Gerard's reluctance to his potential in assistance.
Roberts flees to New York City, after escaping a near death encounter with law enforcement, with Gerard and his team cornering him in a swampland in Kentucky. Arriving in New York days later, he secures money, weapons and fake identification from a former fellow US Marine of  Force Recon. Roberts begins conducting surveillance on a Chinese diplomat named Xiang Chen. In Chicago, Gerard and the Marshals pursue several leads, including Roberts' girlfriend Marie Bineaux as well as the airplane mechanic who hid the zip gun, whom the Marshals find murdered by Chen. Gerard and his colleagues manage to access surveillance footage of the murders in the parking garage and realize that Roberts acted in self-defense and was wearing gloves; thus he wouldn't have been identified by fingerprints at the scene as was earlier claimed. Confronted with the evidence, DSS Director Bertram Lamb admits to Gerard and his senior supervisor that Mark Roberts is in fact Mark Sheridan, a former CIA Special Activities Division operative and a former Force Recon Marine, that seemingly went rogue during an investigation to uncover a mole within the U.S. State Department that had been selling classified intelligence to the Chinese government. Chen was the contact delivering the money to Sheridan for the information and when DSS agents tried to apprehend him, Sheridan killed them in self-defense and fled the scene.
Eventually, Gerard and his team catch up with Sheridan in Queens Hill Cemetery where he meets with, and threatens to expose, DSS Special Agent Frank Barrows as one of the conspirators who framed him. Chen tries to assassinate Sheridan as he leaves the cemetery, but inadvertently kills Barrows instead. Sheridan escapes to a nearby retirement home followed by Gerard, Royce and Deputy Marshal Noah Newman. Meanwhile, Chen is caught and detained by Deputy Marshals Savannah Cooper and Bob Biggs. At the senior care facility, Newman overhears a physical struggle and walks into a room where he witnesses Royce holding Sheridan at gunpoint. Royce suddenly shoots Newman with his gun and later lies to his associates, claiming Sheridan shot Newman. Sheridan escapes by swinging from the building onto the roof of a passing train. Newman dies of his gunshot wounds en route to the hospital.
After retrieving fingerprints from an abandoned vehicle at a marine loading dock, Gerard tracks down Sheridan on a freighter ship bound for Canada. Rinfro tries to reason with Gerard saying that while he is upset that Newman is gone, what Gerard is about to do is wrong. During a scuffle between Sheridan and Gerard aboard the vessel, Royce shoots Sheridan, injuring him. Sheridan is later taken into custody. Gerard begins to suspect Royce may be the mole when he notices the firearm that shot Newman had its serial number filed off (in an attempt to hide it), was actually Royce's own gun earlier. Left alone to guard Sheridan's hospital room, Royce wakes Sheridan up to murder him, but Gerard steps in, confronts and kills Royce first (he emptied Royce's gun earlier). After leaving the hospital, Sheridan's charges are dropped as he is exonerated and released. Gerard and his team depart to honor Newman's legacy.
== Cast ==
* Tommy Lee Jones as Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard
* Wesley Snipes as Mark J. Sheridan / Mark Roberts / Mark Warren
* Robert Downey Jr. as DSS Special Agent John Royce
* Joe Pantoliano as Deputy U.S. Marshal Cosmo Renfro
* Daniel Roebuck as Deputy U.S. Marshal Bobby Biggs
* Tom Wood as Deputy U.S. Marshal Noah Newman
* LaTanya Richardson as Deputy U.S. Marshal Savannah Cooper
* Irène Jacob as Marie Bineaux
* Kate Nelligan as U.S. Marshal Catherine Walsh
* Patrick Malahide as DSS Director Bertram Lamb
* Rick Snyder as DSS Special Agent Frank Barrows
* Michael Paul Chan as MSS Agent Xiang Chen
* James Sie as Vincent Ling
* Tracy Letts as Sheriff Poe
* Len Bajenski as Deputy Hollander
* Donald Gibb as Mike Conroy
* Tony Fitzpatrick as Greg Conroy
* Cynthia Baker as Mama Conroy
* Susan Hart as Greg's Girlfriend
* Johnny Lee Davenport as Deputy U.S. Marshal Henry
* Vaitiare Hirshon as Stacia Vela
* Lorenzo Clemons as Stark
== Production ==
Filming locations included, Metropolis, Illinois; Bay City; Shawneetown; Chicago (all Illinois); New York; Benton, Kentucky; and at Reelfoot Lake, (Walnut Log) in Obion County, Tennessee. The same building used for the Marshals headquarters in the first film is used again in this film.
== Trivia ==
* The film is almost a remake of The Fugitive as both feature Gerard chasing a wrongfully accused man in a cross country chase.
* Despite taking place after The Fugitive, the film is considered by many as a spin off rather than a sequel.
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