["It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays] 

I love Christmas, and I love that we're working Christmas Eve. I'll see you at lunch.

[man 1 grunts]

Good morning, Keegan.

Morning.

[man 2] Good morning, Day Shift TSOs. You've all been chosen to spend your Christmas Eve here with 200,000 impatient travelers.

Is this 'cause I'm Muslim?

Because I'm Black?

Is this because I'm white?

Airports turn people into such dickheads. 

♪ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♪ 

Excuse me. This isn't mine.

[unsettling music plays]

[cell phone chimes]

[unsettling music swells]

[man 3] Ethan, today is a day that you're gonna remember for a very long time, but if you handle it right, you're gonna have a chance to forget it. Just relax, OK?

[unsettling music continues] 

An associate of mine is gonna step into your line, and you are gonna make sure that his bag clears the machine. Listen, I work for the Department of Homeland Security.

[man 3] That's like the janitor at NASA calling himself an astronaut. Let's cancel the text, or we execute your girlfriend.

[unsettling music swells]

[music fades]

[man 3] Attaboy.

[woman on PA] Passengers bound for Chicago on Northwind Flight 827 …

[unsettling music resumes]

[man 3] You're a low-level TSO. You're going nowhere. I'm telling you how this goes.

One bag for one life.

[Ethan] Who the hell are you?

[man 3] I'm the guy you listen to. Ethan, are you listening?

[unsettling music continues]

[man 4] We have a 911 call placed from inside LAX.

[tires screech]

[high-pitched whirring]

[muffled shot]

[woman screaming]

[man 5] Everybody, back up!

[Ethan] You killed him. I gave you some pretty simple rules. You got cute. I'd say you killed him. You, I see, like to improvise.

[unsettling music builds]

[ding]

Sit right back down. You leave that post, there's gonna be consequences.

♪ It's the most … ♪

[dramatic music playing]

We gotta go.

♪ … wonderful time … ♪

[Ethan] I don't care what you do to me.

[man 3] Who said anything about you? You got 10 minutes before everybody in this airport dies. You think you can take control, huh? You're pathetic, and you're asleep.

[ding]

I guess I woke up.

♪ … of the year ♪

[dramatic music continues]

["It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" continues]

[song fades]