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Where's your male driven fact based logic now?

Not in my house.

Created on 2006-10-11 18:54:15 (#11364302), never updated

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Name:	Lisa Reisert
Website:	Horrorwood Land

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Character Name: Lisa Reisert
Fandom: Red Eye

Background Info: Lisa is a young woman, working in the hotel managing business for the Lux Atlantic in Miami, Florida. She is close to her father, but he always worries about her. She took a Red Eye flight to Miami coming back from her grandmother's funeral, and she met Jackson Rippner. She got a Baybreeze at the bar, when she usually orders a Seabreeze. She was attacked a few years ago in a parking lot and convinced herself over and over that it would never happen again. Jackson terrorized her on the flight, saying that her father would be killed if she didn't move someone's room at the hotel she manages. She stabbed him in the throat with a pen and ran. There was a showdown at her house, but she triumphed and is moving on with life.

Plot Summary: Lisa Reisert (played by Rachel McAdams) has a fear of flying, and after attending her grandmother's funeral in Dallas, Texas, she has to take a night flight (called a red-eye flight, hence the movie title) to Miami, Florida. She meets Jackson Rippner (played by Cillian Murphy), whom she initially finds charming and ends up having a drink with him to wait for their delayed flight to board. When they both bid goodbye to each other after their shared drink, they end up sitting next to each other on the plane, much to Lisa's surprise. After the plane has taken off, however, Rippner reveals that he is an operative working for a group who intends to assassinate the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, and Lisa is instrumental in their plans because of her job at the Lux Atlantic Hotel as acting manager. If she refuses to cooperate, then Rippner will prompt a hit-man to kill her father. Reisert has no way of getting help without jeopardizing her father's safety, and the longer she waits, the harder it will be to prevent the murder. She tries to alert the passengers and flight attendants of her flight, but in both attempts, Rippner thwarts her. The first attempt is when she writes a warning in a woman's book. When Jack finds out, he headbutts her unconscious. The next attempt was when Lisa goes into the bathroom and writes another warning on the mirror, Jack runs in when she tries to leave. Jack then starts choking her nearly strangling her, when he finally lets go of her throat he starts erasing the writing on the mirror while she is gasping for breath.

The assassination plan is to use a portable missile launcher from a boat in a nearby harbor and fire it at the hotel. The problem is that the Deputy Secretary likes to stay in a different suite, one that faces the city (away from the harbor). In order to assassinate him, Rippner must force Lisa, who is the manager of that hotel, to make a phone call from the airplane and order the hotel staff to change his reservation to a particular suite that faces the harbor. If she doesn't cooperate with Rippner, he will have her father murdered by a hit-man who is waiting just outside her father's house in Miami.

After one failed attempt due to turbulence from the storm in which the telephone was disconnected, Lisa successfully makes the phone call, and the hotel staff moves the politician to the targeted suite. The Secret Service checks and clears that room, and the Secretary settles in with his family. After the airplane lands and arrives at the gate, Lisa stabs Rippner in the windpipe with a pen, steals his cell phone and bolts off the plane into the terminal. She runs through the airport and steals a car so that she can drive to her father's house in order to save him before Rippner calls the hit man. On the way, she makes a cell phone call to the hotel to warn them to evacuate immediately and that the deputy director is a target of an assassination plot. The Secret Service gets the Secretary and his family out of the room just seconds before the Stinger missile is fired and the missile hits the hotel.

At the end of the film, Lisa rushes to her father's house to see if he's safe. She finds the hit-man right outside the front door, and she runs him over with the SUV. Lisa's father stumbles out of the kitchen, shocked at the man who was lying dead in the foyer and tells her that the police are already on their way. While Lisa calls her hotel to see if everything's alright, Jackson Rippner shows up and knocks out her father so that he can deal with her first. He chases her around the partially renovated house with a knife (nod to Jack the Ripper) and finally ends up throwing her down a flight of stairs. Grabbing the knife from where's Lisa's knocked it to with her hockey stick, Lisa crawls down the last few steps to where a gun is lying next to the dead man. She threatens Jackson with the gun but he still tries to get away and she shoots him. He kicks the gun out of her hand and grabs her by the hair when finally, Lisa's father shoots Rippner just as the police arrive, though whether he actually dies is unknown. At the hotel, the Homeland Secretary and the Secret Service are grateful to Lisa and her assistant Cynthia, who also helped save the day by pulling the fire alarm.

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