One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
John McClane
Holly McClane
Stuart
Major Grant
General Ramon Esperanza
Richard Thornberg
Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Leslie Barnes
Trudeau
Marvin
Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
Garber
Sgt. Al Powell
Baker
Thompson
O'Reilly
Burke
Kahn
Cochrane
Miller
Shockley
Blue Light Team
Northeast Plane - Navigator
Northeast Plane - Older Woman
Windsor Plane - Pilot
Windsor Plane - Navigator
Windsor Plane - Stewardess
Windsor Plane - Stewardess
Foreign Military Plane - Pilot
Foreign Military Plane - Young Corporal
WNTW Cameraman
WNTW Chopper Pilot
WZDC - Victor
WZDC Newscaster
WZDC Newscaster
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Sgt. Vito Lorenzo
Rent-A-Car Girl
Justice Man
Airport Cop
Capt. Lorenzo's Secretary (uncredited)
Screenplay
Producer
Director
Executive Producer