Sheriff Ray Owens resigns
himself to a life of crime-fighting in the sleepy border town of Sommerton
Junction in Arizona. Owens left his LAPD post following a bungled
operation. He was left wracked with defeat after his partner was crippled
and his team was decimated. The crimes experienced in Sommerton range from
the Mayor parking his Camaro in the fire lane to vintage arms collector
Lewis Dinkum firing off guns at slabs of meat with the deputies. One
night, Gabriel Cortez, an international drug lord and race car driver,
makes a daring escape from FBI custody in Las Vegas and speeds off in a
modified Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1, taking Agent Ellen Richards as his
hostage as he races southbound toward Mexico at speeds over 200 mph.
Agent John Bannister has a blockade set up in Bullhead City, Arizona, but
Cortez's men mow down the cops on site and clear the road for him to
continue his getaway. Cortez also uses his extraordinary driving skills to
immobilize two SWAT vehicles headed toward Sommerton Junction. Before
flying to Arizona, Agent Bannister has his team do a financial background
check on all agents involved to learn about the mole, who has helped
Cortez's escape. At 4:30 A.M, Owens dispatches deputies Jerry Bailey and
Sarah Torrance to visit the residence of the local farmer Parsons, who has
suddenly missed his usual milk delivery at the diner. After discovering
that Parsons has been murdered, the deputies follow a trail of tire tracks
that lead them to Cortez's henchman Thomas Burrell and his mercenary
cutthroats, who are planting a mobile assault bridge across the canyon
that marks the U.S./Mexico border.
Bailey is fatally shot in the middle of a shootout between the deputies
and the thugs before Owens rushes in to bring his officers back to his
precinct. Shortly after being notified by Agent Bannister of Cortez's
presence, Owens gathers Torrance and senior Deputy Mike "Figgy" Figuerola.
He also deputizes jailed local Frank Martinez, a former US Marine who is a
veteran of the Iraq War with PTSD who developed a streak of never
finishing what he started; because Bailey was his friend, Martinez insists
that he will not falter. Finally, Owens recruits Dinkum to protect their
town. Dinkum agrees only if he becomes a deputy and if he keeps the gun
Owens had confiscated earlier. At 7:10 A.M., Owens and his deputies,
equipped with weapons from Dinkum's private museum, have the town's main
road barricaded with cars when Burrell and his men arrive, prompting a
lengthy firefight. Armed with a Tommy gun, Figuerola holds off the thugs
before being injured by a sniper.
Owens and Dinkum mow down a majority of the thugs with a Vickers machine
gun mounted on the back of a school bus with Martinez providing cover
fire, while Torrance snipes several gunmen on the rooftops. After Owens
kills Burrell, Cortez's Corvette eventually arrives in town, veering past
the barricade as Owens and the deputies shoot it. Cortez ejects Agent
Richards from the car before speeding through a corn field. Suddenly, he
encounters the mayor's Camaro commandeered by Owens before both cars
collide with a swather. A dazed Cortez continues his escape on foot, but
Owens meets him at the bridge. Owens ignores Cortez's bribe offers before
both men fight each other. Despite sustaining slashes and stab wounds from
Cortez's push dagger, Owens defeats Cortez and handcuffs him before
dragging him back into town using the battered and now roofless Camaro.
Agent Bannister arrives to take Cortez back into custody and arrests Agent
Richards for taking a bribe from Cortez and aiding in his escape. Deputies
Figuerola and Dinkum are taken to the hospital to be treated for their
wounds. Martinez turns in the deputy's badge, Bailey's badge, that Owens
had given him earlier. Owens tells him to keep it, as he earned it. As the
Mayor sees what is left of his Camaro, Owens warns him about parking in
the fire lane before he, Torrance and Martinez walk into the diner. |