Murder at 1600

At a time of international incident, the body of a young female staffer is found in a White House wash room…

• Director:Dwight H. Little
• Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:107 minutes

Cast

Wesley Snipes : Detective Regis
Diane Lane : Nina Chance
Daniel Benzali : Spikings
Dennis Miller : Detective Stengel
Alan Alda : Jordan

In a restroom in the White House in Washington, D.C., a janitor finds White House secretary Carla Town (Mary Moore) dead. Washington, D.C. homicide Detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), detective of the Washington police homicide department whose apartment house is awaiting demolition in favor of a parking lot, is put on the case. At the White House, Regis is introduced to Secret Service chief Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), national security adviser Alvin Jordan (Alan Alda) and Secret Service agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane). Spikings assigns Nina, a former Olympic gold-class sharpshooter, to keep an eye on Regis.

Parallel to this, the White House has to deal with an impending international crisis: U.S. President Jack Neil (Ronny Cox) has been trying to deal with a situation where Americans are being held hostage in North Korea, and some people – including several members of his inner council and Vice President Gordon Dylan – think Jack is not handling it the right way. Some people think Jack should send troops to North Korea to rescue the hostages.

Regis and Nina discover that Carla had an appointment in New York City and a flight from New York to the Virgin Islands, with no intention of returning to the USA. Coroner Jimmy Foley (Richard Blackburn) then tells Regis and Nina that whoever had sex with Carla on the night of the murder used a condom, meaning that no DNA was left. White House janitor Cory Allen Luchessi (Tony Nappo) was apparently unaccounted for on the night of the murder and had once attempted to make a pass at Carla; he is arrested and questioned, but his testimony and a clearly set-up piece of evidence lead Regis to suspect that the Secret Service may be involved. That night, Regis finds his apartment burgled; the culprit escapes, and in a subsequent search, a hidden bug is found.

In a picture of Carla, Regis sees Secret Service agent Burton Cash (Nigel Bennett), who is in charge of Kyle Neil (Tate Donovan), the son of Jack Neil and First Lady Kitty Neil (Diane Baker). Regis figures out that it was Kyle who had sex with Carla on the night of the murder. At the dance club, Regis talks to a young woman who says that Kyle once bragged that he shared Carla with his father. Carla’s uncle’s company, Brookline Associates, is Jack’s leading East Coast fundraiser and Brookline also owns the apartment Carla lived in. Read more

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