In East Germany, Dr. Wolfgang Gerstner leads the Kleins to a
warehouse and from there to an underground passage. He explains that it
leads beneath the Berlin Wall and into No Man's Land. Gerstner gives
them directions to follow once they emerge from the other side to clear
the minefield. After thanking Gerstner, the Kleins cross over only to
find Colonel Josef Batz and his soldiers waiting for them. Batz takes
the family into custody while Gerstner watches, satisfied.
Jim
goes to a golf course to get his briefing from a valve box. He is
informed that Gerstner runs a black market business in East Berlin and
smuggles refugees to the West for a high fee. Batz protects his
partner's operations but recent negotiations to bring down the Berlin
Wall threaten their business. To prevent the negotiations, the two men
have kidnapped the daughter of Karl Bruck, a negotiator working to
reunify the two countries. Gerstner has placed Brock's daughter Ilse
into a coma and is offering her return if Bruck sabotages the
negotiations. The IMF must find and rescue Ilse before it's too late and
take care of Gerstner and Batz.
At the team briefing, Jim
reviews the plan to go through Checkpoint Charlie. He and Casey will go
in as father and daughter, Grant on his own, and Nicholas and Max as
truck drivers bringing in tractor parts. Once in the country, the team
will use a warehouse for their operations. The West Germans have put a
press blackout on Ilse's abductions and the IMF only has 48 hours until
the negotiations begin. They figure that since Gerstner only has Batz to
protect him, they can use that against the doctor.
The IMF heads overseas and Nicholas and Max are pulled over at the checkpoint for an inspection.
Gerstner
goes to the warehouse and deactivates the security system. Entering his
secret room, he makes sure that Ilse is stable and then tells the
comatose girl that she'll pay the price if her father doesn't cooperate.
The
soldiers search the IMF truck but find nothing, while Jim and Casey go
through. However, when Grant goes through separately, he is immediately
taken aside while Max and Nicholas are waved through. Grant is brought
to security headquarters where Batz tells him that his papers are
clearly forgeries. While Grant stalls for time, Nicholas and Max pull up
outside and tap into Batz's phone line. Once it's 10 o'clock, Grant
informs Batz that he is a captain in the Cuban Armed Forces, trained in
Russia and working under Major Alexei Kirov of the KGB. He used forged
papers so that he would have an excuse to meet Batz privately once he
was arrested. Batz doesn't believe him but Grant tells him to call Kirov
and confirm his credentials. The colonel makes the call and Max and
Nicholas intercept the call. Nicholas impersonates Kirov and confirms
Grant's credentials, and then tells him to cooperate. Once Batz is
satisfied, Grant tells the colonel that he's there to confirm reports of
corruption and black market activity within Batz's organization and
asks for all of the security files.
Max and Nicholas meet Jim and
Casey at the warehouse. Claiming to be a refugee, Jim calls Gerstner
and asks for a meeting so that he can buy his way to the West. The
doctor agrees and they meet at a soccer stadium. The doctor is hesitant
to begin immediately, but Jim insists and Gerstner agrees in return for
five times his usual fee. Jim and Casey agree and Gerstner tells them to
come with him to his clinic and pay half of the money in advance.
While the other IMF agents are in the field, Nicholas and Max build up a fake prison cell in the warehouse.
At
the clinic, Jim pays half of the transit fee and Gerstner hides them in
a secret room. He tells them that they'll leave that night and to wait
until then. Once he leaves, Jim signals the team and Grant tells Batz
that he's leaving for an appointment. Batz has his men follow Grant but
the IMF agent easily loses them in the streets. The colonel then calls
Gerstner and warns him about the KGB investigation, warning him that
they've gone too far by abducting Ilse. Gerstner reminds his partner
that they're to avoid contact and not to call him again, and assures
Batz that he can handle Ilse. He then takes out a gun and goes back to
the hidden room.
Grant returns to the warehouse and sets up a camera to record the inside of the fake prison cell through a one-way mirror.
Gerstner
releases Jim and Casey and prepares to shoot them, saying there's been a
change in plans. Max and Nicholas arrive, dressed as East German
soldiers, and gas Gerstner unconscious. They then put him in the fake
cell in the warehouse, and Grant drugs the water with timed
hallucinogens rather than use noticeable injections. Max comes in and
interrogates Gerstner about his black market activities, leaves, and
Grant turns the lights on and off, making the hallucinating doctor think
that days have gone by. While Nicholas makes a Batz mask and Jim
applies fake bruises, Casey waits until Gerstner passes out and then
applies fake stubble to make him think considerable time has passed.
Once
Gerstner is fully disoriented, the team wakes him up and stages a scene
where the doctor can see Grant beat Jim, demanding to know about
Gerstner. Max goes into Gerstner's cell and makes sure he catches a
glimpse of Nicholas-as-Batz and Grant talking outside his cell. They
discuss how the West is offering $1 million for Ilse's return and
amnesty for the kidnapper. As Nicholas-as-Batz tells Grant that Gerstner
was responsible, Jim closes the door, cutting off Gerstner's view.
Gerstner insists that he's innocent and accuses Batz of selling him out.
He finally cracks and confesses and the IMF get it on tape.
As
Grant edits the tape, Max gives Gerstner an injection and informs him
that he's to be shot. Nicholas, out of the Batz disguise, brings Jim and
Casey in. Jim attacks Max, grabs his gun, and "kills" him and Max.
Gerstner promises to get them past the Wall if they free him, and tells
them the address of his warehouse before he passes out from the
injection.
Grant goes back to security headquarters and shows
Batz an edited version of Gerstner's tape that omits the part where he
gave up Batz. He tells the colonel that the doctor escaped before
implicating anyone and that Batz is to find and capture him. As Batz
turns away to start the search, Grant switches the VHS tape for an
unedited one with Gerstner's full confession. He then tells Batz to give
it to Kirov and leaves.
The rest of the team go to the warehouse
but set off the security system. The power goes out, shutting down
Ilse's life support machine. They find the secret panel, break in, and
manage to reconnect the power to revive her. Jim then has Casey stay
with the girl as she recovers while they bring in Gerstner.
Kirov
and his KGB agents receive a tip and go to arrest Batz in his office.
The major has no idea who Grant is and shows Batz the full tape of
Gerstner's confession, implicating Batz.
Max brings the
unconscious Gerstner into the warehouse while Jim tells Ilse that her
father will meet them on the other side of the Wall. Grant checks in and
warns the team that Kirov is on his way. They wake Gerstner up and Jim
prods him into taking them through. Still suffering from the
hallucinogens, Gerstner sees Nicholas and Max. Confused because he
thought that they were dead, Gerstner thinks that he's dreaming. When
Grant informs him that Batz has confessed, Gerstner staggers into the
hidden room only to discover that Ilse is gone. He hears police sirens
in the distance and crawls into the escape tunnel.
Outside, Casey
hides Ilse behind a false wall in the IMF truck. The team then gets in
and drives to Checkpoint Charlie. Jim, Casey, and Grant proceed on foot
while Nicholas and Max drive the truck to the checkpoint. One soldier
goes inside and starts to notice the false wall. However, Kirov's men
are waiting for Gerstner as he emerges from the tunnel and shoot him.
The soldier in the truck goes to investigate the gunfire and the other
soldiers wave Nicholas and Max through. When they arrive on the western
side of the Wall, the IMF reunited Ilse with her waiting father.
Written by Gadfly on Oct 6, 2018