Upon nearly reaching the 96th floor, Sawyer decides his only hope is to now scale the building from the outside by climbing up the girders and columns left exposed by the terrorist's sabotaging of the building, and makes it to his family. Akeke and the other workers are killed by Botha’s men, but Zhao escapes and seals himself in a penthouse. Zhao and Akeke, believing that Sarah, Georgia and Henry are dead, decide to evacuate all remaining personnel on board a helicopter, only to discover it was a trap set by Botha and that Pierce works for Botha. Zhao and Akeke send two security guards to rescue Sarah, Georgia, and Henry from the fire, but the guards are killed in an explosion that destroys the nearby elevator, forcing them to navigate through the fire to the top floors, having been told to by Sawyer in a phone call. Sawyer climbs a crane and breaks into the building, escaping Wu’s team. Inspector Wu sends a team of officers to capture Sawyer, as Wu wishes to question him. Sawyer, knowing that his family is trapped on the floors directly above the blazing fire, breaks free from the police. The police, believing that Sawyer is involved, capture him. A hacker cuts off the security systems above the 95th floor, before Xia shoots him so as to make sure they can’t be turned back on. The flames cause an impenetrable fire line on the 96th floor, cutting off all rescue operations from below to assist survivors on the upper floors. Botha and his team of mercenaries ignite the 96th floor of the building, blocking access to all higher floors and knocking out the computer controlled advanced fire extinguishing hardware meticulously constructed throughout the skyscraper. Botha’s subordinate Xia steals the tablet, before infiltrating the security site and killing everyone there.
Ben is mortally wounded, and warns Sawyer that Botha’s men will kill him for the tablet. Botha learns of the existence of the memory card and makes it a personal priority to retrieve the memory card in order to destroy it and the incriminating information it contains, because his bosses will kill him if he doesn’t.īen reveals he is working with Botha so that he can ruin Sawyer out of jealousy, before attacking Sawyer to steal the tablet. Zhao believes that the memory card they have created containing the money launderingtracking information on Botha will provide them with insurance against any attempt by Botha to extort money from them a second time. Zhao agree to the shakedown amounts, but not without carefully tracking and recording Botha's international money laundering scheme in his attempt to "legitimize" the funds he has extorted. Halfway through the construction process, rival gangsters under the control of Kores Botha, an international terrorist with ties to many major crime syndicates, decide to use their control of construction crews working on the skyscraper to extort millions of dollars in shakedown payments for preventing a massive strike of construction workers, potentially halting its progress.
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