Cyrus Grissom

"Ladies and gentemen, this is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to Con Air."

- Cyrus Grissom after taking over the Jailbird

Cyrus Grissom (a.k.a. Cyrus the Virus) is the main villain of the movie Con Air.

He was portrayed by famed villain actor John Malkovich, who also played Mitch Leary from In the Line of Fire.

Character Biography
He is first seen being boarded onto the Jailbird plane along with several other inmates. When an inmate named Pinball starts a fire and opens the locks, Cyrus takes over and calls the flight, Con Air. His boss is Francisco Cindino, a South American drug lord.

If all went as planned, Cyrus and his gang would have lived in a country with no extradition charges. Upon discovering his plane being taken by his boss who betrayed him, Cyrus executes Cindino. When the Jailbird crashed into Las Vegas, Cyrus and 2 other inmates named Diamond Dog and Swamp Thing try to escape on a fire truck. Cameron Poe a former U.S. Army Ranger and Larkin a U.S. Marshall chase after the villain on police motorcycles. In a scuffle on the truck, Poe handcuffs Cyrus to the ladder then leaves him to die under a rock crusher, which falls on his head.