The Enemy
East Germany border with Switzerland. A man who drives his own car wants to cross it. However, the customs guard (Leen Ducienne & Nicolas de Pruyssenaere) has got his photo. The man tries to drive on…
The Enemy
East Germany border with Switzerland. A man who drives his own car wants to cross it. However, the customs guard (Leen Ducienne & Nicolas de Pruyssenaere) has got his photo. The man tries to drive on anyway. His car is set on fire, but the man has escaped alive and hidden himself. Switch to Canada, present day. Michael "Mike" Ashton (Luke Perry) is a Canadian genetist of Dutch descent. He teleworks from home mainly, and has taken a student for the summer. His father, Dr George Ashton (Horst Buchholz), a retired genetist, has been living with him for a year. He gets deeply upset because Julie (Louisa Millwood-Haigh), the genetics student, has entered his room where he's playing with his Escalextrix. Mike apologize to Julie for his father's behaviour. He tells him that, after his father's divorce, they've never been close, and that he's been really difficult to live with since he moved in a year ago. Julie tells him that her parents are divorced as well, but that they are still close. Julie and Mike go to pick a packe to the post office. Three thugs fill her because they've confused her with him, because of the woodman-checked red shirt she was wearing. Sgt Penny Johnson (Olivia d'Abo), Supt Robert Ogilvie (Roger Moore), and Insp. John Cregar (Tom Conti) appear to investigage. Mike worked on a herbicide which George used to work in as well. They leave, but Penny comes back, because she thinks Mike is still in danger. George runs away, and Ogilvie wants to register Mike's home. Penny is put out of the case, but she gets some images of a cash machine camera, and she sees Mannek (Hendrick Häse), a mercenary sometimes hired by the CIA. She tells Mike that Ogilvie works for the M6, and she herself works for the CIA. She kills one of the thugs who are following them everywhere. She tells him that George didn't come from Holland, but from East Germany, where he worked in a dangerous mass-destruction weapon. Natalya Vladik (Ann Overstall Comfort) tells him that he was been investigated. Julie enters Cegar's office, and uses it. When Cegar enters, she speaks to him non-chalantly, as if she had been awaiting him reading a magazine. They get a computer image of George by computer: he is in Louxemburg withdrawing money. They visit Paris. They meet Russel Henty at the airport. After a road persecution, George Ashton's car falls down a bridge while he is being shot at by the two remaining thugs. Again, he's thought to be dead, bu his body doesn't appear. Penny, Ogilvie and Cegar join again. Penny thinks Mannek was the one who killed Mannek, her mate. When he died, she took on his case. Ogilvie and Cegar showed Mike a photo of the prototype genetic virus encapsulated. The thing disappeared, and nobody knows where it is. Ogilvie and Cegar convinced George Ashton to work on an antidote. He agreed, but wanted to do it at Mike's home, not in a M6's laboratory. Mike is convinced now. He looks in his father's staff and documents in a parking lot, warehouse... because nobody can possibly know what to look for better than him. Mike complains his father's records are chaotic. His father phones him, alive. Mannek has kidnapped him, and will kill him if they don't give him the weapon, but George he prefers to die. George tells him to remember a train journey they made, when he was good at finding things. In a meeting, Ogilvie and Cegar think that Mike has got too much pressure over him, and that he might give in to the thugs' threats. Cegar talks to Penny aside, and he tells her that, when Mike finds the antidote, she should make sure that somebody else apart from Ogilvie must know it. He doesn't trust Ogilvie because all the mess started when George Ashton told Ogilvie that he'd found the antidote. Mannek says he's prepared a bomb with te toxine and it will go on in some hours. Mike realises that his father talked about the train to Quebec. George had a board with the trains timing, but with wrong stops. Mike realises that the railway model construction is a kind of model of the genetic formula for the antidote. 2 masked men enter the home andstart shooting crazily. Penny and Mike run away with a laptop computer. But the laptop batery is low. They try plug it in to a telephone line, but they lost the energy anyway. However, a weird Goth cashier girl (Mascha Litterscheid) gets the entrance number. With that, they start working. Mike realises that the pesticide investigation he's been carrying out is an essential part of his father's own research, but he's to guess which of those investigations is the right one. When Mike finally finds it, Penny french-kisses him. When Penny has just left with the floppy disc, Mannek phones. When Penny returns, after having given the floppy disc to Ogilvie, Mike has gone to look to his father. The bomb blows off in downtown Quebec. Journalists realise that the city hall must have known about it because the answer of the firefighters and police peope has been so quick. They follow Mike, who hides the disc inside the steering wheel of his car. He puts the rolled disc within a bottle with acid -which looks like water- He rescues his father, and Penny saves him by shooting a snapper who was about to shoot him. Cegar is with Mannek, and they run after Mike, Penny and George. Ogilvie appears, and everybody realises that Cegar is with the bad guys. George wants to disappear, because he realises there will always be somebody else after him. He tries to destroy the disc, but George tells him that the disc is empty, and that the liquid is water, not acid. Mike and his father hug each other for the first time. When Ogilvie asks about George Ashton, Mike tells him that George is dead. Mike gives the disc and the water bottle to Ogilvie. He leaves with Penny.
The Enemy
Action,Crime,Thriller
Film Details
East Germany border with Switzerland. A man who drives his own car wants to cross it. However, the customs guard (Leen Ducienne & Nicolas de Pruyssenaere) has got his photo.
The man tries to drive on anyway. His car is set on fire, but the man has escaped alive and hidden himself. Switch to Canada, present day.
Michael "Mike" Ashton (Luke Perry) is a Canadian genetist of Dutch descent. He teleworks from home mainly, and has taken a student for the summer. His father, Dr George Ashton (Horst Buchholz), a retired genetist, has been living with him for a year.
He gets deeply upset because Julie (Louisa Millwood-Haigh), the genetics student, has entered his room where he's playing with his Escalextrix. Mike apologize to Julie for his father's behaviour. He tells him that, after his father's divorce, they've never been close, and that he's been really difficult to live with since he moved in a year ago.
Julie tells him that her parents are divorced as well, but that they are still close. Julie and Mike go to pick a packe to the post office. Three thugs fill her because they've confused her with him, because of the woodman-checked red shirt she was wearing.
Sgt Penny Johnson (Olivia d'Abo), Supt Robert Ogilvie (Roger Moore), and Insp. John Cregar (Tom Conti) appear to investigage. Mike worked on a herbicide which George used to work in as well.
They leave, but Penny comes back, because she thinks Mike is still in danger. George runs away, and Ogilvie wants to register Mike's home. Penny is put out of the case, but she gets some images of a cash machine camera, and she sees Mannek (Hendrick Häse), a mercenary sometimes hired by the CIA.
She tells Mike that Ogilvie works for the M6, and she herself works for the CIA. She kills one of the thugs who are following them everywhere. She tells him that George didn't come from Holland, but from East Germany, where he worked in a dangerous mass-destruction weapon.
Natalya Vladik (Ann Overstall Comfort) tells him that he was been investigated. Julie enters Cegar's office, and uses it. When Cegar enters, she speaks to him non-chalantly, as if she had been awaiting him reading a magazine.
They get a computer image of George by computer: he is in Louxemburg withdrawing money. They visit Paris. They meet Russel Henty at the airport.
After a road persecution, George Ashton's car falls down a bridge while he is being shot at by the two remaining thugs. Again, he's thought to be dead, bu his body doesn't appear. Penny, Ogilvie and Cegar join again.
Penny thinks Mannek was the one who killed Mannek, her mate. When he died, she took on his case. Ogilvie and Cegar showed Mike a photo of the prototype genetic virus encapsulated.
The thing disappeared, and nobody knows where it is. Ogilvie and Cegar convinced George Ashton to work on an antidote. He agreed, but wanted to do it at Mike's home, not in a M6's laboratory.
Mike is convinced now. He looks in his father's staff and documents in a parking lot, warehouse... because nobody can possibly know what to look for better than him.
Mike complains his father's records are chaotic. His father phones him, alive. Mannek has kidnapped him, and will kill him if they don't give him the weapon, but George he prefers to die.
George tells him to remember a train journey they made, when he was good at finding things. In a meeting, Ogilvie and Cegar think that Mike has got too much pressure over him, and that he might give in to the thugs' threats. Cegar talks to Penny aside, and he tells her that, when Mike finds the antidote, she should make sure that somebody else apart from Ogilvie must know it.
He doesn't trust Ogilvie because all the mess started when George Ashton told Ogilvie that he'd found the antidote. Mannek says he's prepared a bomb with te toxine and it will go on in some hours. Mike realises that his father talked about the train to Quebec.
George had a board with the trains timing, but with wrong stops. Mike realises that the railway model construction is a kind of model of the genetic formula for the antidote. 2 masked men enter the home andstart shooting crazily.
Penny and Mike run away with a laptop computer. But the laptop batery is low. They try plug it in to a telephone line, but they lost the energy anyway.
However, a weird Goth cashier girl (Mascha Litterscheid) gets the entrance number. With that, they start working. Mike realises that the pesticide investigation he's been carrying out is an essential part of his father's own research, but he's to guess which of those investigations is the right one.
When Mike finally finds it, Penny french-kisses him. When Penny has just left with the floppy disc, Mannek phones. When Penny returns, after having given the floppy disc to Ogilvie, Mike has gone to look to his father.
The bomb blows off in downtown Quebec. Journalists realise that the city hall must have known about it because the answer of the firefighters and police peope has been so quick. They follow Mike, who hides the disc inside the steering wheel of his car.
He puts the rolled disc within a bottle with acid -which looks like water- He rescues his father, and Penny saves him by shooting a snapper who was about to shoot him. Cegar is with Mannek, and they run after Mike, Penny and George. Ogilvie appears, and everybody realises that Cegar is with the bad guys.
George wants to disappear, because he realises there will always be somebody else after him. He tries to destroy the disc, but George tells him that the disc is empty, and that the liquid is water, not acid. Mike and his father hug each other for the first time.
When Ogilvie asks about George Ashton, Mike tells him that George is dead. Mike gives the disc and the water bottle to Ogilvie. He leaves with Penny..