Predator (1987)
A Special Forces team is hunted by a deadly predator while on a rescue mission.
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Characters/Groups
General Phillips - R.G. Armstrong
Predator, Helicopter Pilot - Kevin Peter Hall
Russian Officer - Sven Ole Thorsen
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Detailed Synopsis
A spaceship flies across space before jettisoning a smaller object towards Earth. A helicopter lands and a group of men disembark, Mac, Blain, Billy (Predator)|Billy, Poncho and Hawkins. Dutch (Predator)|Dutch, the Team Leader is the last to disembark. They get into a jeep which drives them towards a building. Dutch gets out of the jeep and shakes hands with General Phillips who briefs him on the mission of rescuing a cabinet minister who went down with a helicopter. When Dutch asks why his Team was chosen for the mission, Dillon (Predator)|Dillon speaks from the next room. He walks over to Dutch and they clasp hands while testing each other's strength. They go further over the mission and Dillon tells Dutch that he is going with him. The team takes a helicopter over the jungle. During the trip, Pancho tests the agility of awareness of Hawkins, while Blain gets upset when everyone turns down his chewing tobacco. They arrive at the landing zone and rappel to the ground. They come across the helicopter wreck and Pancho and Dillon uses a grappling hook to climb up to it. Pancho returns to Dutch and tells him the helicopter looks like a surveillance chopper and not one used to escort government officials. Billy tells Dutch two men were taken from the helicopter by twelve rebels and that later, six men wearing government issue boots followed behind. As Billy is drinking from a vine, he notices something peculiar about a tree. he climbs the tree and finds the bodies of four men skinned alive and gutted hanging from it including Jim Hopper, a Green Beret Dutch knew out of Fort Bragg. He questions Dillon about it, but Dillon denies knowing anything. Billy tells Dutch that there was a firefight in which the Green Berets were firing in different directions. They arrive at the rebel camp and Dutch watches as a Russian Officer (Predator)|Russian Officer shoots one of the hostages in the head. They attack the rebel base, killing numerous rebels and the Russian Officer. During the attack, Anna (Predator)|Anna tries to sneak up on Dutch, but he butt strokes her to the face. Mac tells Dutch that the other hostage was killed and the cabinet minister turned out to be really from the CIA. Dillon walks into the room Dutch is in and Dutch accuses him of lying to him. Dillon admits to it and tells Dutch he and his team are expendable assets to be used. Hawkins tells Dutch that the area is surrounded by guerrillas. Dillon grabs Anna and tells Dutch they are taking her along in order to gather intelligence. The Predator walks into the destroyed camp and mimics the voices of the team. Anna tries to escape but is stopped by Pancho. Billy stops and when Dillon asks him what it is, he tells him there is something in the trees. While Pancho is guarding Anna, she hits him with a branch and starts running away. Hawkins chases after her