John Patrick Mason

Captain John Patrick Mason is the deuteragonist of the Michael Bay movie The Rock. He is a former MI6 agent and SAS officer who was imprisoned on Alcatraz years ago. He was later sent to Alcatraz to help Stanley Goodspeed to defeat the Marines, rescue the hostages, and diffuse the missiles. He is portrayed by the late Sean Connery, who also played Marko Ramius and James Bond.
==Bio==
John Patrick Mason was a Captain of the British SAS on a mission to obtain the microphone files of President John Edgar Hoover. He obtained them but was caught at the Canadian border. He was held without trial for thirty-three years until he gave up the microfilms, which he never did.
Mason was imprisoned in the Alcatraz prison in 1962. On the following year, he escaped from his containment, but was recaptured and held somewhere else. This would later come in handy, as his being the only inmate to escape Alcatraz gave him an intimate knowledge of the prison.
When disillusioned USMC Force Recon officer Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel sought to compensate the families of fellow Raider marines who died under his command, he and several other Force Recon Marines stole sixteen missiles from a U.S. Navy weapons facility, each loaded with the (illegal) nerve agent VX. They took over Alcatraz island, taking eighty-one tourists hostage, and threatening the federal government into giving $100 million from a slush fund to Hummel, who would then distribute it to the families of the marines who died under his command. If they refused or failed to do so, he claimed that he would fire the missiles at San Francisco.
With few options, the federal government called on Mason to help. Initially, a SEAL Team from the U.S. Navy would be sent to the island to remedy the problem, but the Marines discovered the move and wiped out the entire SEAL force.
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