U.S. Marshals

***U.S. Marshals*** is a 1998 spin-off of the film *The Fugitive*, from which Tommy Lee Jones reprises his role as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard.

## Plot

In New York City, cameras capture an exchange where two Diplomatic Security Service agents are killed.

Sometime later, in Chicago, tow truck driver Mark Warren is involved in a motor vehicle accident and is taken to the hospital. A handgun is found inside of his truck.

U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard leads a raid and Warren's girlfriend Marie Bineaux pays his hospital as they prepare to leave the hospital. However, Warren is arrested.

The Marshals, sans Gerard, watch news coverage of the earlier raid as Gerard joins them in celebration.

Warren learns he has been arrested for carrying a handgun and is questioned in the double homicide of the DSS agents, as his fingerprints were found at the crime scene. The detectives also discover that he is actually fugitive Mark Roberts and he is taken to be extradited to New York.

Gerard is reprimanded by Marshal Catherine Walsh for physically assaulting one of the prisoners and is assigned to escort a prisoner to Memphis, the same flight Roberts is on. Another prisoner aboard the plane unveils a zip gun as Roberts tries to pick his handcuffs. The prisoner tries to shoot Roberts, but misses, causing the plane to depressurize. The plane is forced to make an emergency landing. Roberts manages to escape during the evacuation and a manhunt is ordered, Gerard taking the helm of it.

The Marshals join Gerard and DSS personnel inform him that Roberts is the prime suspect in the double murder and assign Special Agent John Royce to join the search for Roberts.

Meanwhile, Roberts hijacks a semi truck.

As Royce reports the Marshals' finding of the zip gun to the DSS, Gerard arrests him for obstruction of a federal investigation. However, Royce picks his cuffs by using parts of Marshal Renfro's sunglasses.

After the truck driver's wife tips off a highway patrolman, Roberts forces the driver to flee, pushing the patrolman's car off of the road. Roberts escapes just before this incident is reported to the Marshals, who quickly pick up the trail through a nearby swamp. Royce spots Roberts in a tree and chases him, despite Gerard's orders not to. Roberts manages to hold up Royce at gunpoint, but is soon confronted by Gerard and tries to negotiate. Roberts shoots Gerard and escapes from Royce, managing to get away.

Gerard is hospitalized, but without major injury, as he was hit in his bulletproof vest. Walsh visits him, urging him to be successful in catching Roberts.

Roberts calls Marie and reveals to her that he committed the double killing while working for the government, but was set up, as he did not realize they were DSS agents. He reaches New York on his hunt for the conspirator, by searching for Chinese diplomat Xiang Chen, who was also in the garage during the double murder.

Back in Chicago, the Marshals speak to Marie, who claims to not know Roberts. However, she does express her doubt that Roberts is guilty. They then search for airplane mechanic Kevin Jeters, who was bribed to smuggle the zip gun onto the plane. They also meet Chen, who murders Jeters and escapes.

The Marshals intercept a recording of Roberts and Marie and are given footage of the garage during the murder, noting Chen's presence and that it appears that the assailant was acting out of self-defense. Gerard also notes that the fingerprint match is impossible as the killer is wearing gloves. They confront DSS Director Bertram Lamb, who admits that Roberts is actually former special forces operative Mark Sheridan. The DSS believed Sheridan was selling secrets to China and was meeting with Chen, but was confronted by the agents, who he killed.

The Marshals discover the apartment Sheridan had been hiding in as other operatives tail Marie. In the apartment, they discover that Sheridan had set up surveillance cameras outside the Chinese consulate. Sheridan meets with Marie inside a dress store, but he escapes before the Marshals can reach him.

The Marshals find Chen and tail him, observing him exchange a briefcase with an unidentified man. Gerard and Marshal Newman pursue the man with the briefcase, who has boarded a taxi, as Renfro and Royce stay on Chen and Biggs and Cooper follow Gerard. They tail the man to the Queens Hill Cemetery chapel, where he leaves the briefcase and have the NYPD stop the man. Renfro and Royce lose Chen and are ordered to the cemetery.

Cooper and Biggs spot DSS agent Frank Barrows arriving with a funeral procession. Newman follows Barrows into the chapel just as a disguised Sheridan arrives, observed by Gerard. Barrows retrieves the briefcase and is confronted by Sheridan, who accuses him of being the agent guilty of exposing secrets to China and setting him up. Barrows reveals he was not working alone, but does not reveal who else is responsible for the conspiracy.

Sheridan leads Barrows out of the chapel at gunpoint as an armed Chen kills Barrows. A firefight ensues between Sheridan, the Marshals, and Chen. Sheridan escapes with Marie as Biggs and Cooper reach Chen. Renfro and Royce crash into Sheridan and Marie as they reach the cemetery. Sheridan and Marie escape the wreckage on foot, Gerard closely following. Sheridan is forced to leave behind Marie, who is arrested by Newman. Royce joins the pursuit of Sheridan and Newman follows.

Newman stays on the ground floor to wait for the police as Gerard and Royce chase Sheridan to an upper floor, soon joined by Newman. Sheridan ambushes Royce and a struggle ensues. Royce prepares to execute Sheridan when Newman discovers them. Royce shoots Newman and Sheridan runs to the roof. Gerard arrives and pursues Sheridan, Royce having claimed that Sheridan shot Newman. Sheridan manages to escape on a pulley system and jumps onto a subway.

Newman is rushed to the hospital, but is dead on arrival. A new lead is discovered, locating Sheridan at a loading dock in Bayonne, New Jersey on a freighter bound for Canada. Gerard and Royce set out to find Sheridan to kill him.

They find Sheridan and Gerard pursues him. The two fight until Gerard very nearly kills Sheridan before giving up to find his gun. Sheridan wields it and gains the upper hand on Gerard, but Royce reaches them and shoots Sheridan in the shoulder.

At the hospital, Gerard discovers that the gun that killed Newman was one he previously teased Royce for carrying. Gerard goes to get coffee and Royce visits Sheridan in his hospital room and reveals himself to have been working with Barrows. He prepares to kill him as Gerard enters, stating his knowledge that Royce killed Newman. Royce tries to shoot Gerard, but finds that his gun has been unloaded. He feigns surrender as he reaches for his sidearm, which Sheridan spots and warns Gerard, who then fatally shoots Royce.

With the conspiracy revealed, the charges against Sheridan are dropped and he is reunited with Marie. Gerard returns to his team and apologizes to them and set out to honor Newman with a drink.

## Cast

* Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Gerard
* Wesley Snipes as Sheridan
* Robert Downey, Jr. as Royce
* Joe Pantoliano as Renfro
* Daniel Roebuck as Biggs
* Tom Wood as Newman
* LaTanya Richardson as Cooper
* Irène Jacob as Marie Bineaux
* Kate Nelligan as Walsh
* Patrick Malahide as Lamb
* Rick Snyder as Barrows
* Michael Paul Chan as Chen
* Johnny Lee Davenport as Deputy Henry
* Donald Li as Detective Kim
* Marc Vann as Deputy Jackson
* Michael Guido as Distracted Driver
* Robert Mohler as Young Cop
* Richard Lexsee as Fireman
* Dado as Female Cop
* Karen Vaccaro as Hospital Cashier
* David Kersnar as Desk Sergeant
* Tony Fitzpatrick as Greg Conroy
* Don Gibb as Mike Conroy
* Cynthia S. Baker as Mama Conroy
* Susan Hart as Greg's Girlfriend
* Vaitaire Bandera as Stacia Vera
* Don Herion as Detective Caldwell
* Len Bajenski as Deputy Hollander
* Matt DeCaro as Deputy Stern
* Thomas Rosales, Jr. as 727 Prisoner
* James Sie as Ling
* Christian Payton as 727 Deputy #5
* Steve King as 727 Pilot
* Tracy Letts as Sheriff Poe
* Mark Morettini as Cop #1
* Kent Reed as Trooper with Dogs
* Ray Toler as Earl
* Brenda Pickleman as Martha
* Max Maxwell as Roadblock Trooper
* Peter Burns as State Trooper Captain
* Roy Hytower as Tracker
* Ian Barford as Royce's Guide
* Robert Kurcz as Kidnapped Man
* Rose M. Abdoo as Donna
* Lorenzo Clemons as Stark
* Stephen A. Cinabaro as Undercover Deputy
* Clifford T. Frazier as Minister
* Mindy Bell as Deputy Holt
* Richard Thomsen as Doorman
* Yasen Peyankov as Janitor
* Meg Thalken as Saks Saleswoman
* Lennox Brown as Man in Green Cap
* Varen Black as News Reporter
* Ammar Daraiseh as Drugstore Clerk
* Romanos Isaac as Ship's First Officer
* Richard Pickren as Prosecutor
* Lynn Wilde as Caldwell's Wife
* Amy E. Jacobsen as New York Reporter
* Cliff Teinert as Swamp Tracker
* Ellen Hearn as Reporter #4
* Janet Contursi as Chicago Nurse
* George J. Hynek, Jr. as New York Paramedic #1
* Wendell Thomas as New York Paramedic #2
* E. Glenn Ward, Jr. as Elderly Resident #1
* Marie Ware as Elderly Resident #2
* Rick LeFevour as Deputy #10
* Jim Fierro as Deputy #6
* Michael Braun as 727 Co-Pilot
* Perry D. Sullivan as 727 Navigator
* Terry G. Rochford as NTSB Agent
* Tony Paris as Newman's Guide
* Ed Fernandez as Detective #1
* Richard Wilkie as Detective #2
* Rick Edwards as 727 Deputy #7
* Dale Chick Bernhardt as Royce's Guide
* Tressana Alouane as Mike's Girlfriend
* Ralph J. Lucci as Bartender
* Louis Young as Reporter #3
* David A. Bales as Man in Taxi
* Vince DeMentri as Reporter
* Chris Bean as Bar Patron