In this episode Mark talks about the 1997 action thriller film "Con Air" directed by Simon West, written by Scott Rosenberg and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film stars Nicholas Cage as Cameron Poe, an honourably discharged Army Ranger Sergeant who was sentenced to prison for unintentionally killing one of three men trying to attack him and his wife, Tricia (played by Monica Potter), who was pregnant with his unborn daughter, Casey Poe (played by Landry Allbright). After spending 8 years in prison Cameron Poe is eventually paroled and boards the "Jailbird" flying prison transport aircraft, along with his diabetic friend, Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell (played by Mykelti Williamson) - however he finds himself having to contend with and survive the hijacking of the plane by several other inmates, including Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (played by John Malkovich), Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones (played by Ving Rhames, Johnny "Johnny 23" Baca (played by Danny Trejo), and Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene (played by Steve Buscemi) - and while secretly working with U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin (played John Cusack) and attempting to not be killed along with the other convicts by DEA agent Duncan Malloy (played by Colm Meaney), all that Cameron Poe wants is to finally be reunited with his wife, Tricia, and meet his daughter, Casey, for the first time... but in this throughly enjoyable, action-packed and bombastic film nothing turns out as simple as anybody wants them too.
