![]() ![]() It's Personal: For Jessie, when she finds out her ex Don Jagger gets killed by Moncrief.In a much later scene, we see Leedy working to regain keyboard dexterity on his mangled hand in some following scenes (taking place over a few weeks). Fingore: Ty Moncrief cuts off a pair of Earl Leedy's fingers for them to be "found" alongside the mangled remains of "Leedy" that resulted from being flung out of an airplane by Explosive Decompression.Faux Affably Evil: Ty is calm, cool and polite, even as he murders innocent people.Fallen Hero: Moncrief used to be an exemplar DEA agent before turning evil.Extreme Sports Plot: Pete learns how to skydive so he can prove that the plane was really attacked and to bring down Moncrief.While Pete has a parachute, Ty isn't so lucky as he crashes through the windshield of his getaway truck. Ty himself meets his end after Pete jumps him out of the window.Pete's brother Terry isn't a villain, but he dies after being sucked out of the airplane after Ty and his men escape.But after they jump together and foil Ty's plans, Swoop finally talks to him. And even as Pete saves him from being beat up by Ty's man, he even has to get Jessie to express his thanks to him. After Pete participates in a practice jump, Swoop still ignores him. Except he ignores and doesn't acknowledge Pete (because he only talks to people he's jumped with) and has to get someone to talk to him through Pete. Defrosting Ice Queen: Swoop, the more ballsy member of Jessie's skydiving team, is a good and loyal friend to his team.But then Ty and his men kidnap him and use him to access the DEA computers to get the information they need. The Cracker: Earl Leedy is a criminal hacker whom Pete and Terry get tasked with escorting to a high-security prison.Unfortunately, it's one of her members of her team, Selkirk, that ends up grabbing it and during the jump, it fails to deploy, which results in serious injury for him. ![]() Chute Sabotage: Ty's men attempt to do this for Jessie's parachute.Pete ends up being suspended as he does his own investigating over the hijacking. Cassandra Truth: No one initially believes Pete when he recalls the events of the hi-jacking, only thinking it was Terry who acted like a loose cannon and no one would be able to make a parachute jump from a commercial airliner at 30,000 feet.Big Bad: Ty Moncrief is a former DEA agent turned renegade who steals information about undercover DEA agents and sells them to criminal organizations, resulting in their deaths.Artistic License: The fact that Ty and his men raid the DEA office on the Fourth of July, during the Independence Day Skydiving Exhibition in Washington, D.C., a typical no-fly zone area which has no security at all throughout the day.Actor Allusion: This wouldn't be the first time Gary Busey portrays a character that takes up skydiving.And later, when Ty and his men raid the DEA building, she even manages to fight and kill Ty's Dark Action Girl Kara Sellar. And she even shows initiative and goes aboard Ty's airplane and demands answers for Jagger's death before being pushed out the plane. Action Girl: Jessie Crossman is an ex-con turned skydiving instructor who helps Pete learn to skydive.Pete learns how to skydive in an attempt to stop him. Moncrief takes Leedy and uses him to get into computers to get the identities of undercover DEA agents and sells them to criminal organizations. Pete Nessip boards a plane alongside his brother Terry to escort computer expert Earl Leedy to prison when a group of terrorists led by Ty Moncrief hijack the plane and take Leedy with them, which results in several people killed, including Terry. Drop Zone is a 1994 action film starring Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler and Michael Jeter. ![]()
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