snake is sent into manhattan in a stealth glider landing atop the world trade center he tracks the presidents life-monitor bracelet to a vaudeville theater only to find it on the wrist of an insane old man he meets "cabbie" who takes snake in his armored taxi cab to harold "brain" hellman an advisor to the duke and a former associate of snakes brain tells snake that the duke plans to unify the gangs in a mass exodus across the heavily guarded queensboro bridge using the president as a human shield and a map brain has created to avoid the landmines snake forces brain and his girlfriend maggie to lead him to the dukes compound at grand central terminal he finds the president but is captured by the dukes men