Plot

A Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent.

A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in this thriller. Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career helping protect the president of the United States. David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) is a fellow Secret Service agent who learned most of what he knows from Garrison and holds him in great respect. When intelligence data suggests that there is a mole within the Secret Service who is part of a plot to assassinate President Ballentine (David Rasche), Garrison launches an investigation to ferret out the rogue agent, and asks Breckinridge to go over the evidence with a fine-toothed comb. Breckinridge is shocked when the clues point to Garrison as the traitor within the Secret Service, but his sense of duty compels him to see that his former mentor is placed under arrest. Garrison eludes his captors and struggles to prove his innocence while tracking down the real conspirator and eluding the agents who were once his colleagues. As Breckinridge leads the search for Garrison, another ranking agent, Jill Marin (Eva Longoria) plays devil's advocate, convinced that Garrison couldn't possibly be the rat in the house.

Entrusted with protecting Sarah Ballentine, the First Lady of the United States, suddenly, the veteran Secret Service agent, Pete Garrison, finds himself with the back to the wall. It's been nearly two long decades since he saved Ronald Reagan's life, and now, Garrison is being framed as a traitor, when someone murders a fellow agent before revealing confidential information about a dark plot to kill the President. Without a doubt, there's a mole in their midst; one who knows that Pete is harbouring a shocking secret, and he'll stop at nothing to incriminate him. Now, as his former best friend and protégé, David Breckinridge, tries to shed light on this thorny case, Garrison becomes the prime suspect. Can the heavily decorated agent prove his innocence and expose the one behind the assassination plot before it's too late?—Nick Riganas

The veteran agent of American secret serviceman, Pete Garrison, saved the life of president Ronald Reagan in the past and became a legend. Presently he is responsible for the personal security of the American president Ballentine and the first lady Sarah Ballentine, with whom he is having a love affair. When his informer, Walter, discloses that there is a traitor in the secret service and a plot to kill the president. His former friend, David Breckinridge, and the chief of the secret service, William Montrose, are in charge of the investigation and all the agents are submitted to a polygraph test. Due to his situation with Sarah, he is compromised with the results and accused of treachery. He escapes, and in spite of chased by the secret service, he conducts his own investigation trying to find who is responsible.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pete Garrison is a Secret Service Agent. Another agent wanted to talk to him but couldn't at the time. Later the man is killed. One of Pete's informants tells him that there's a plot to kill the President and whoever is going to do it has someone in the Secret Service. He believes this is what the agent, who was killed wanted to talk to Pete about. So an investigation is ordered and another agent, David Breckenridge, Pete's protégé is placed in charged. All agents are subjected to lie detector tests and Garrison fails but not because he's the one, but because he's been having an affair with the First Lady. Later more evidence is unearthed that incriminates Garrison even further which he says was planted. Breckenridge refuses to believe him because of some personal issues they have. So Garrison escapes and tries to find his informant, who's disappeared.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a Secret Service agent and bodyguards for the First Lady of USA Sarah Ballentine (Kim Basinger), with whom he is having an affair. He is an experienced agent, having been involved in saving Ronald Reagan's life during the Reagan assassination attempt.

A fellow agent and close friend, Charlie Merriweather (Clark Johnson), is later assassinated in front of his home. Earlier that day Charlie wanted to speak to Garrison about something important, but did not get the chance. Garrison gets wind from a trusted informant that the killing of Merriweather is related to an assassination plot against the President. The information provided by the informant revealed that a mole with access to the President John's (David Rasche) security detail had provided information to the assassins.

The Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division, led by Garrison's former protege and ex-friend David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) with rookie partner Jill Marin (Eva Longoria), is tasked with investigating the plot, which begins with polygraphs for every agent. Jill had trained under Garrison at the academy and Garrison had recommended that she work for David, whom he considers the best investigator at the Division. The PID is tasked with assessing and evaluating all threats made against the President.

Agents include Aziz Hassad (Raoul Bhaneja), Teddy Vargas (Yanna McIntosh), Davies (Joshua Peace), Turzanski (Geza Kovacs), Hugo Ortega (Danny A. Gonzales), and Welke (Jude Coffey).

Meanwhile, the mole discovers the discussion with the informant and Garrison's affair with the First Lady and attempts to blackmail him by luring him to a coffee shop known to be a meeting point for a Colombian cartel. After delaying for some time, Garrison is subjected to a polygraph.

The agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, William Montrose, decides to randomly select the means of transporting the president using a coin toss. As the President and first lady visit Camp David, Garrison's informant calls, demanding that his payment be made at a shopping mall food court. Garrison goes to meet him, but he disappears in the crowd, and an assassin tries to kill Garrison. The agents pursue the assassin, but he escapes. Pete is spotted by the FBI during their stakeout of the coffee shop. Simultaneously, the presidential helicopter is shot down by a surface-to-air missile outside of Camp David, though neither the President nor his wife was aboard (owing to Montrose's coin "deciding" to use the motorcade instead).

Garrison failed the polygraph test owing to concealing his affair with the First Lady. Along with failing the polygraph test (for lying about the affair), & the shooting of Marine one without the President in it, Garrison becomes unwittingly framed by the mole and becomes the prime suspect for providing the information to the assassins. Secret Service heads Director Overbrook (Chuck Shamata) & Deputy Director Cortes (Paul Calderon) think that Pete is cooperating with the Columbian drug lords to kill POTUS.

When Breckinridge confronts Garrison at his home and begins to interrogate him about his dealings with the plot, the source of the two's estrangement comes to light: Garrison supposedly had an affair with Breckinridge's wife Cindy (Kristin Lehman) and caused the breakup of their marriage, which he denies.

Garrison escapes capture and conducts an independent investigation of the assassination plot, while making brief contact with the First Lady to deny his involvement. He tries to contact the informant who gave him the tip but finds that he has been killed. He briefly encounters Breckinridge while finding the informant, but Breckinridge refuses to kill him, despite giving other agents "shoot to kill" orders. Using his contacts with sympathetic agents and family members, he stumbles onto an apartment rented by one of the assassins, whom he kills in a firefight. He finds information that the assassins are headed to Toronto to attack the president at the G8 summit. He leaves it in the apartment and tells Marin about it, but the Secret Service finds that the evidence and body of the assassin were removed before they arrived.

The President's wife discloses her affair with Garrison to Breckinridge, who now understands why Garrison failed his polygraph test. Together in Toronto, Garrison and Breckinridge learn that the assassins are former KGB operatives hired to kill the president by a Colombian cartel and the mole, William Montrose (Martin Donovan), who was never polygraphed.

Montrose is in charge of directing security at the G8 summit. The leader of the assassins, a man known as the Handler (Ritchie Coster), tells Montrose to give him the President, to which Montrose refuses, not caring if he goes to prison for treason or if the Handler kills him. The Handler then states that should Montrose not cooperate, his children and wife will be killed, showing a photo of each of them, leaving Montrose with no choice. The Handler then says that all Montrose has to do is jam the communication radios and nothing more. He then leaves Montrose to make the sad decision as well as leaving him the photos, saying "You can keep those; I got doubles".

Breckinridge and Garrison race to the summit, trying to whisk the President away to safety, with the assassins, dressed as RCMP ERT (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Emergency Response Team) operators, kill several agents and corner Montrose and the President in a tunnel.

Montrose reveals his treason to the President and purposely steps in front of one of the assassins, who kills him. Garrison, Breckinridge, and Marin arrive, rescuing the President and the First Lady and killing the assassins. As they reach the ground level, Montrose's handler comes forward dressed as an RCMP officer to perform the killings personally. He takes Sarah hostage and aims his pistol at the President, but Garrison shoots him dead.

In spite of these events, Garrison is forced to take an early retirement owing to the disclosure of his affair with the first lady, who looks on sadly from her window as Garrison leaves the White House. He does, however, make peace with Breckinridge, who finally realizes that Garrison did not sleep with his wife. Breckinridge tells Garrison that he has a date with her that evening.