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Not expecting her husband to stop by, Harry overhears secret arrangements Helen makes with a man called Simon (Bill Paxton). Harry suspects his wife is cheating on him, and he makes use of the Omega Sector resources at his disposal to get to the bottom of things. Gib consoles him saying, “Same thing happened to me with wife number two, 'member? I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day, and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer.”

He soon learns that Simon has a knack for warming his way into women’s hearts by pretending to work as a covert agent. In the real sense, he is a used car salesman.

Alongside his fellow Omega agents, Harry orchestrates a kidnap to frighten Simon into staying away from Helen. Using a voice-distortion device, he also interrogates his wife and learns that a desperate need for adventure is what made her consider stepping out of their marriage. In a chivalrous attempt to provide her with the thrilling experience she needs, he stages a spy mission and has her seduce a mysterious figure in a hotel room. It turns out that her target is Harry in disguise. Aziz’s men break the romantic moment by bursting in and kidnapping the couple.

Helen meets Simon at the 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles. The Hotel Marquis is where she posed as a lady of the night called Doris for the rendezvous with Harry in disguise.

For when Harry threatens Simon, the crew filmed at the Sepulveda Dam in Encino. Hop onto bus 240 or the CE573 to get to the “True Lies” location.

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The extremists take the two to a hideaway in the Florida Keys. Harry learns that the group paid Juno to help steal four MIRV nuclear warheads into the country. They pulled it off by hiding the missiles in priceless antique statues.

Aziz and Harry get into a lighthearted banter to diffuse the tension after the leader of the sect reveal one of the atomic weapons. He asks Harry if he knows what it is and with a smile, the covert agent responds, “this is an espresso machine.”

Aziz’s demands to the government include having the military should retreat from the Persian Gulf forever. If they don’t heed his demands, he threatens to detonate the weapons in major U.S. cities. To demonstrate the gravity of the matter, Aziz also plans to detonate one of the warheads on the uninhabited island.

The group also administers a truth serum on Harry, and he confesses his double life in front of Helen. When she asks if he has ever killed anyone, Harry responds, “yeah, but they were all bad.”

With most of the scenes filmed on-location, naturally, the crew also filmed the Key West sequences on the island. Besides hosting the “True Lies” production crew, productions like “Scarface” and “2 Fast 2 Furious” feature sequences were filmed on the island.

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Eventually, Harry manages to escape with Helen just as one warhead is scheduled to explode in 90 minutes. The couple also witnesses other warheads loaded onto vehicles that bypass the U.S. Customs via the Overseas Highway.

In the ensuing melee, Harry kills most of Aziz’s men. Amazed by her husband’s braveness, Helen remarks, “I married Rambo!” The couple gets separated and once again, Aziz escapes and takes one of the missiles with him.

Juno captures Helen and takes her along with the convoy. Gib and other agents catch up with Harry, before using two Marine Harrier Jump Jets to destroy a segment of the Seven Mile Bridge. That subsequently stops the convoy, and Harry rescues his wife from Juno’s limo right before the vehicle plummets off the Highway.

The Overseas Highway in Key Largo was the setting for part of the bridge escape sequence. For the bridge destruction scene, the crew actually filmed at the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys.

Joining Bahia Honda Key and Key Vaca, the Old Seven Mile formerly functioned as a railway bridge. It dates to 1910 and once had the Overseas Highway US1 running through it. The “True Lies” location seen on the screen is the new bridge replaced in 1982.

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The warhead on the island detonates as members of the public watch, but no one is killed. Gib informs the couple that Aziz’s men kidnaped their daughter and they have her holed up at a downtown Miami skyscraper. The extremists are also threatening to launch their last warhead at the location.

Harry hops into one of the Harriers and drives off to save his daughter. Gib points out that it has been 10 years since Harry drove one of the Harriers. Harry responds, “if I break it, they can take it out of my pay.” Some of the “True Lies” scenes were filmed at various studios. The Greenwich Studios at 12100 Ivan Tors Boulevard provided the setting for some of the sequences.

Founded by the legendary producer Ivan Tors in 1964, the studio went up on the market in 2017, with a $15 million price tag attached. The production team also made use of the Falls Lake Backlot at Universal Studios during filming.

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Faisil manages to infiltrate the Miami building, posing as a member of the news team Aziz requests. He kills several of the extremists, and Dana flees to the rooftop of the building with the missile control key. She climbs onto a tower crane, threatening to drop the detonator. Aziz, who is pursuing her, nearly catches up but Harry arrives in the nick of time. He rescues his confused daughter, and following a tense struggle, Harry corners Aziz.

As the villain dangles precariously from his gun belt, right next to the plane’s wing-mounted missile, Harry fires while delivering his famous line, “you’re fired!” The missile aimed at one of the terrorist helicopters kills Aziz and the rest of his men.

The Colonial Bank Center at 1200 Brickell Avenue in Miami served as the backdrop for the “True Lies” scene.

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The family eventually reunites, and a year later, Helen joins Harry working as an Omega agent. On a mission at a formal event, the couple meets Simon.

Helen’s former flame is working as a waiter but still pulling his shtick, pretending to be a spy. After they confront him, he runs away fearing for his life. Waiting for their contact, the couple while the night away, passionately dancing the tango.

All the while, he ignores Gib who is telling him through the radio, “Harry, you do not have time to tango, buddy. You copy?” The film crew converted the Rosecliff Mansion at 548 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island into a “True Lies” film set for the ballroom scenes. However, for Harry and Helen’s final tango, the crew set up shop at the Millennium Biltmore’s Crystal Ballroom.

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