Viva Cordova - Plot

Plot

In the first free election to be held in the state for years, Latin American dictator General Valdes suffers a defeat at the hands of pro-democracy candidate Juan Cordova, who intends to expose his opponent's corruption. While making his victory speech, an explosion at the government building sees Cordova only narrowly escape death. Dorina Cordova suspects that Valdes and his followers are responsible and begs her husband to strengthen his personal security arrangements before he starts his investigation, but Cordova is determined to be a "man of the people" and refuses to recruit a single bodyguard. Still worried, Dorina contacts WIN.

In London, Shane Weston briefs the McClaines and Sam Loover: Joe 90 will pose as Dorina Cordova's English cousin to protect the president without raising his suspicions. When Joe arrives at the Cordovas' residence, Dorina cannot believe that a child is to be responsible for her husband's safety; however, Joe has acquired the brain impulses of a WIN agent from the BIG RAT and proves his abilities with a shooting and karate demonstration. The boy accompanies the Cordovas in the presidential car en route to a mountain hotel. Exhausted from his election campaign, Cordova falls asleep — but the chauffeur, Garincia, is an infiltrator for Valdes and the car is being driven into an ambush. Flying overhead in a helijet, Professor McClaine and Loover report that there is a roadblock ahead. Garincia throws himself out of the car, yet Joe's knowledge and experience enables him to bring it back under control without waking Cordova. Joe navigates an alternative route to the hotel and Mac and Sam dispose of a pursuing van by whipping up dust from the ground, forcing the enemy off the road.

That evening, a bar waiter at the hotel slips a drug into Cordova's drink. Joe and Dorina interrupt the president as he raises the glass to his lips, Dorina complaining of a headache. At dawn, the waiter enters Cordova's room armed with a knife, only to be knocked unconscious, bound, gagged and locked inside a wardrobe by Joe. Valdes himself has secretly arrived in the vicinity of the hotel, and instructs two divers to attach an explosive device to Cordova's line while the president fishes on a lake. Anticipating the danger, Joe enters the water in his diving suit and engages the henchmen, torpedoing one with his propulsion vehicle and body-slamming the other. With the failure of this last, desperate attempt on Cordova's life, Valdes is arrested and imprisoned, while Cordova remains peacefully ignorant of Joe's timely interventions.