Editing Speed 2: Cruise Control (section)

==Plot==
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[[Los Angeles Police Department]] (LAPD) cop Alex Shaw is on a motorcycle chasing a vehicle with stolen goods. After he catches the driver of the vehicle, his girlfriend Annie Porter encounters him during her driving test. She discovers that Alex is on the [[SWAT]] team and concludes that he mistakenly told her that he was on beach patrol. As an apology, Alex surprises her with a [[Caribbean]] cruise on ''[[Seabourn Legend]]''.

Aboard the ship, deranged passenger John Geiger, a former employee of the cruise company, [[security hacker|hacks]] into the ship's computer system, sabotages the communication systems, and kills Captain Pollard. After blowing up two of the ship's engines, Geiger calls the [[bridge (nautical)|bridge]] to notify the [[Chief mate|first officer]], Juliano, of Pollard's death and order him to evacuate the ship. While passengers evacuate, Drew, a young girl who is deaf, becomes trapped in an elevator, and a group of people also become trapped behind locked [[fire door]]s in a hallway filling with smoke. As Annie and Alex attempt to board the last [[lifeboat (rescue)|lifeboat]], Geiger programs the ship to continue sailing. When the winch lowering the lifeboat jams, Alex jumps back onboard to rescue the passengers from falling overboard, while Annie and Juliano utilize the ship's gangplank to get them back on deck.

Realizing that Geiger has hijacked the ship, Alex accompanies Juliano to the cabin, but Geiger remotely detonates explosives inside the room. Annie and Dante, the ship's photographer, notice the people trapped behind the fire doors, utilizing a [[chainsaw]] to cut the door open and facilitate their escape. Meanwhile, Alex orders the [[navigator]], Merced, to flood the ship's decks and decelerate it by opening the [[Ballast tank|ballast]] doors. As the ship floods, Alex notices Drew on a monitor after she climbs out of the elevator and enters the ballast room to rescue her. Noticing Geiger fleeing from the vault, Alex ambushes him, but Geiger escapes by shutting the fire door in front of him. Using the ship's intercom, Geiger explains that he designed the ship's autopilot system and is pursuing his revenge plot against the cruise line after being dismissed when he contracted [[copper poisoning]]. He escapes from Alex by attaching a grenade to a door.

As the crew notices that Geiger has programmed the ship to crash into an [[oil tanker]] off the coast of [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]], Alex decides to prevent the crash by diving underneath the ship and jamming the propeller with a steel cable. Geiger jams the cable winch while Alex is underwater, causing it to break off the ship and free the cable. He then abducts Annie and absconds with her on a lifeboat.

To avert a collision, Alex and Dante venture into the ship's [[bilge]] pump room and maneuver the [[bow thruster]]s, steering it away from the oil tanker. The ship screeches down the side of the tanker and heads into a marina before crashing into a Saint Martin town and grinding to a halt. Alex hijacks a speed boat to pursue Annie, whom Geiger has dragged onto a [[seaplane]]; he employs a harpoon gun to tether himself to the plane from the boat and reels himself in through the water. Eventually, he climbs onto the plane and retrieves Annie, and both escape on one of the plane's [[float (nautical)|floats]], which lands on the ocean surface. Geiger attempts to escape over the oil tanker but loses control of the plane, which becomes impaled on the tanker's foremast; in the ensuing explosion, both vehicles are destroyed and Geiger perishes. The members of the tanker crew, however, launched their lifeboat just prior to the destruction. As the couple return to shore in the speed boat, Alex gives Annie an engagement ring, proposing marriage, and she happily accepts.