The White House Siege was a domestic terrorist takeover that took place on Saturday, October 4, 2014, with Martin Walker and Eli Raphelson being the masterminds behind the attack.
The event resulted in the White House being taken over by a heavily-armed group of extremist paramilitary civilians and mercenaries. The crisis resulted in the deaths of the United States Secretary of Defense, Vice President Alvin Hammond and his team, and multiple Secret Service agents and federal officers. The mansion and its complex were heavily damaged, and also nearly destroyed by an airstrike that was called off seconds before it could occur. A total of two Presidents served very brief terms in office during the takeover.
Prelude[]
The events of the White House Siege were years in the making, culminating from a series of multiple factors and motivations.Emil Stenz was a former member of the United States Army 1st SFOD-D aka Delta Force, he once carried out black ops missions. Stenz was captured in Afghanistan by the Taliban, and detained for two years due to a botched plan by the American military which burned him. After he was released, Stenz suffered a psychotic break and blamed president James Sawyer for his misfortunes, swearing revenge on the United States Government, because the new Secretary of Defense shut down the mission, which revealed the people in the mission and compromised his identity. Additionally, Head of Presidential Security Detail Martin Walker's son was killed in a botched invasion of Iran, later found to be for nothing because Iran did not have nuclear weapons. Walker swirled into a psychotic revenge-driven rage, swearing revenge on President Sawyer for attempting to negotiate peace, meaning that his son will have died for nothing. Walker believes that combat is the only way for the world to solve its problems, believing that diplomacy fails. At this point in time, Walker teams up with corrupt Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, believes that Sawyer's peace treaty would make the United States vulnerable to terrorism, and takes a look at the list of credible threats against the president. Now aware of a shopping list that he could use as part of his takeover, Walker eventually meets Stenz and his band of mercenaries, which included Noah Motts, Skip Tyler, Carl Killick, Conrad Cern, Vadim, Chen, Bobby and Ritter. With numerous other mercenaries recruited, a unknown number of weapons smuggled into the U.S., and fake identities were created for the terrorists meant to participate in the raid, the plan was set in motion on October 4, 2014.
Events of the White House Siege[]
John Cale is a U.S. Capitol Police officer assigned to Raphelson after Cale saved Raphelson's nephew's life during a tour in Afghanistan. Cale is struggling to develop a better relationship with his daughter Emily, who has a strong enthusiasm for politics.
He hopes to impress her by getting a job with the United States Secret Service, but his hopes are dashed when the interview is conducted by Carol Finnerty a former college acquaintance of his who believes him to be unqualified due to a lack of respect for authority and follow-through. After lying to Emily about the outcome of the interview, she and Cale join a tour of the White House.
Meanwhile, a bomb is detonated at the center of the U.S. Capitol Building, resulting in a collapse of the rotunda and the deaths of 33 civilians ad three police officers. Raphelson, who was in the Capitol, remains unharmed and is taken to an underground command center with Finnerty while Vice President Alvin Hammond is taken aboard Air Force One. The White House is put on lockdown separating Cale from Emily (who had left the tour group to use the restroom). Meanwhile, disguised mercenaries led by Emil Stenz, start killing off most of the Secret Service agents and security personnel and take the tour group hostage, but Cale manages to take a gun and escapes a mercenary named Killick to go find his daughter. Following protocol, Martin Walker escorts Sawyer and his detail to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Once Sawyer gains access, Walker kills Sawyer's detail, revealing himself to be the real leader and his desire for revenge over his son who was killed in a botched black ops mission. Cale, who fails to find Emily, kills a mercenary and takes his gun and radio. Overhearing the radio, Cale locates and rescues President Sawyer.
Walker and Stenz bring in Skip Tyler to hack into the defense system, but they still require Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. They locate the remaining presidential line of succession, kill the Secretary of Defense, and place rest of the line of succession with the hostages. Emily, while hiding, records a video of the mercenaries and uploads it to YouTube before eventually being captured. Walker demands $400 million from the Federal Reserve as ransom for the hostages. Cale and Sawyer manage to reach out to command which tells Cale to get Sawyer out through underground tunnels. At the command center, Finnerty uses Emily's video to discover the mercenaries' identities, discovering that they used to work for various government agencies and radical political groups. They also discover that Walker has an inoperable tumor, suggesting his involvement to be a suicide mission and that the attack is not for ransom. Cale and Sawyer find the tunnel gate rigged with an explosive and are forced to escape with a presidential limousine. After giving chase with Stenz on the White House lawn, Cale and Sawyer are flipped into the White House pool after Cale gets distracted by Killick holding Emily at gunpoint. A gunfight erupts which results in an explosion that leaves Sawyer and Cale presumed dead. Hammond is then sworn in as acting President.
When Cale and Sawyer reveal they are still alive, they learn Hammond has ordered an aerial incursion to take back the White House. Knowing the mercenaries have Javelin surface-to-air missiles, Cale tries but fails to stop the mercenaries from shooting down the helicopters. Cale gets into a fight with Stenz and ends up dropping his White House passes for himself and Emily while escaping. Having already learned of Emily from the video, Stenz, knowing that she is Cale's daughter, takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Meanwhile, Tyler finishes the upload to NORAD and launches a missile at Air Force One, killing everyone on board including Hammond. Raphelson is then sworn in as acting President and reluctantly orders an air strike on the White House, which Cale is informed of.
Walker tells Cale over the White House intercom to surrender Sawyer or he will kill Emily. Sawyer ultimately surrenders himself to save Emily, knowing Cale could still save them if he was free. However, he refuses to activate the football. When Walker threatens to kill Emily again, the alarms and sprinklers are set off by Cale setting various rooms on fire. Tyler tries to escape by deactivating the bomb on the tunnel gate, but discovers that it has been tampered with so it goes off rather than disarm when he leaves. Killick finds Cale and tries to kill him, but is ambushed by Donnie the tour guide, bludgeoning Killick to death with a bronze clock. After freeing the hostages and entrusting Donnie to get them out safely, Cale is confronted by Stenz, who Cale kills with a grenade belt. Sawyer attacks a distracted Walker, who ultimately gains the upper hand and uses him to activate the football before supposedly shooting him dead. Using updated launch codes received by an anonymous source, Walker targets various cities in Iran, but before he initiates the launch, Cale crashes into the office in a presidential escort vehicle and kills Walker with a minigun at the last second.
When Finnerty arrives at the White House with Raphelson, Cale tells them Sawyer was killed. Raphelson then orders troops to be placed back into the Middle East, which would go against Sawyer's peace treaty. Cale reveals Raphelson had orchestrated the attack because of Raphelson's disagreement with Sawyer's treaty and proves it by having Finnerty call the call-back number on the pager. Sawyer then reveals himself and has Raphelson taken into custody, treating his taking of the Presidency as a coup d'état.
Aftermath[]
After Cale's successful rescue of President Sawyer, Cale's heroics inside the White House resulted in him being promoted to the Presidential Security Detail. While on the way to the hospital, Sawyer says that he is not leaving without his security detail and takes Cale and Emily on a personalized aerial tour of Washington, D.C. on his way to the hospital. As a result of the events, the leaders of Russia, China, Israel, France and Iran agree to Sawyer's peace treaty, allowing him to bring the peace he wanted.