Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Steven Seagal as the ex-Navy SEAL, Casey Ryback. Set on board a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles, it is the sequel to the 1992 film Under Siege also starring Seagal. The title refers to the railroading term that the subject train was travelling through dark territory, a section of railroad track that has no train signals and in which communications between train dispatchers and the railroad engineers were impossible.
The film was produced by Seagal along with Arnon Milchan and Steve Perry. The film's cast also included Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Morris Chestnut, Peter Greene, Kurtwood Smith and Katherine Heigl. In addition to Seagal, Nick Mancuso, Andy Romano, and Dale Dye also reprised their roles from the first film.
==Plot==
Following his retirement from the United States Navy, Casey Ryback settles in Denver, Colorado, where he runs a restaurant. When he receives news of the death of his estranged brother, James Ryback, in a plane crash, Casey meets James's daughter, Sarah, whom he will accompany to Los Angeles to attend his funeral. The two board the Grand Continental, a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles. On board, they befriend a steward/porter named Bobby Zachs and the train's chefs.
As the train reaches the Rocky Mountains, a group of terrorists flag it down and murder the engineer and brakeman. The group, led by former U.S. government employee and computer genius Travis Dane and his second-in-command Marcus Penn, cut the train phone lines and take the passengers and staff hostage, herding them into the last two cars. Bobby Zachs manage to slip away before being captured as a hostage. Casey kills one terrorist, then also slips away. Dane worked on Grazer One, a top secret military satellite tectonic weapon for underground targets. The military fired Dane, who later faked his suicide.
Dane threatens two former Department of Defense colleagues with burning needles in their eyes unless they reveal codes to take over Grazer. Despite their disclosures, after the codes are confirmed to work, they are thrown from the train over a deep valley.
Middle Eastern terrorists have offered Dane $1 billion to destroy the Eastern seaboard by using Grazer to target a nuclear reactor located under the Pentagon. Dane demonstrates Grazer to investors by destroying a Chinese biological weapons facility that was passing itself off as a fertilizer production plant. After one investor offers an additional $100 million, despite the weapon's primary intention for subterranean targets, Dane destroys an airliner carrying the investor's ex-wife.
The U.S. government has difficulty locating Dane or Grazer. When officials destroy what they think is Grazer, Dane explains the NSA's best intelligence satellite was destroyed. As long as the train keeps moving, his location cannot be determined.
With Zachs' help, Casey takes matters into his own hands. He faxes a message to the owner of the Mile High Cafe, who relays the word to Admiral Bates. Bates quickly understands that Dane and the terrorists are on the train, and reluctantly approves a mission by two F-117 stealth aircraft to destroy the train.
Zachs discovers that they are on the wrong tracks and are on a collision course with a Southern Pacific bulk freight train carrying gasoline tank cars. Casey kills the mercenaries one by one and releases the hostages, but Dane uses his computer skills to find the stealths and then re-target Grazer to knock them out before they complete their mission. Aware of Casey's past, Penn uses Sarah as a bait to lure him to a fight, but Casey gains the upper hand and fatally breaks his neck.
Casey finds Dane about to depart in a helicopter hovering over the train. When Dane informs Casey that there is no way to stop the satellite from destroying Washington, Casey shoots him. The bullet destroys his computer and injures Dane, who falls out of a window of the train. Control of the satellite is restored at the Pentagon and it is destroyed by remote control one second before it would have fired on the Pentagon, just before the two trains collide.
The crash happens on a trestle, resulting in an explosion that destroys the bridge and kills Scotty, the mercenary driving the train. Casey races through the exploding train, and grabs a rope ladder hanging from the helicopter. Dane, who survived the gunshot and the crash, also catches onto the ladder. He attempts to climb onto the helicopter, screaming that he and Casey should join forces. Casey shuts the door, severing Dane's fingers and he falls to his death in the inferno below.
Casey informs the Pentagon that the passengers are safe, having previously detached the last two cars from the rest of the train. Later on in Los Angeles, Sarah and Casey pay their final respects at James' gravestone.
== Cast ==
* Steven Seagal as Lieutenant Casey Ryback, a former Navy SEAL who now heads and manages a restaurant in Denver
* Eric Bogosian as Travis Dane, a crazed computer genius, cyberterrorist leader who designed the Grazer One satellite weapon for the US government before being dismissed for his mental instability
* Everett McGill as Marcus Penn, the mercenary commander & Dane's second-in-command who leads a team of mercenaries to hijack the Grand Continental train to set up the satellite equipment
* Katherine Heigl as Sarah Ryback, Casey's estranged niece whom he accompanies on the journey to her father's funeral
* Morris Chestnut as Bobby Zachs, an eager porter of the train who reluctantly helps Ryback with the hijacked train
* Nick Mancuso as Tom Breaker, the shady CIA director who assists ATAC on Grazer One
* Brenda Bakke as Captain Linda Gilder, a member of ATAC and one of Dane's former colleagues
* Peter Greene as Mercenary #1, Penn's lieutenant who was once instructed by Ryback at Fort Bragg
* Patrick Kilpatrick as Mercenary #2, One of Penn's mercenaries 
* Scott Sowers as Mercenary #3, One of Penn's mercenaries 
* Afifi Alaouie as Fatima, the sole female of Penn's mercenaries
* Andy Romano as Admiral Bates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Dale Dye as Captain Nick Garza, Admiral Bates' right-hand man
* Kurtwood Smith as Major General Stanley Cooper, an Air Force general who commands ATAC and Dane's former boss
* David Gianopoulos as Captain David Trilling, a member of ATAC and one of Dane's former colleagues
* Sandra Taylor as Kelly, a barmaid on board the train
* Jonathan Banks as Scotty, the mercenary driver under the orders of Penn to drive the locomotive of the Grand Continental train
* Royce D. Applegate as Ryback's cook who runs the restaurant when Ryback is absent
* Dale Payne as Train Conductor
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