16. Revolution

Complete story — includes the ending

With banks failing and public discontent high, aging revolutionary Axel Kaspers ( Stephen Lang ) believes the time is ripe to galvanize public reaction and spark a populist uprising. With his daughter Birgit ( Tania Raymonde ) and low level drug dealer disciple Mel (Jas Anderson), Kaspers orchestrates the kidnapping of Continental Bankcorp president, Peter Evans ( John Rothman ). However, the carefully planned carjacking goes wrong when Evans resists and Kaspers shoots and kills Evans and his driver Jerry Delarossa ( Ezra Knight ). Kaspers later kills Mel and together with Birgit sets off a urea-based car bomb on Wall Street as a diversion. Detectives Nichols and Eames are joined by FBI Agent Carmen Martino ( Deirdre Lovejoy ) to investigate the murders and suspect a surviving member of the radical Baader-Meinhof gang is involved. After Kaspers has a one night stand with Rosalyn "Rosie" Griggs ( Kathleen McElfresh ), Birgit kills her and then uses her credit cards to buy bomb-making materials. The detectives track down Kaspers and arrest him, but his more radical daughter Birgit takes hostages in the Continental Bankcorp building and threatens to blow it up unless Kaspers is put on a plane to Cuba. Nichols takes Kaspers into the bank lobby and convinces him to admit to Birgit that she is more important to him than radical ideology. However as Nichols defuses the situation, an FBI sniper kills Birgit, knocking her backwards into Nichols' arms to prevent the tilt switch around her neck from detonating the bomb. Also stars Deirdre Lovejoy.