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Tell me, how much do you love your family?
~ Kores Botha to Will Sawyer.
Light a man's house on fire, and you find out what he truly loves.
~ Botha's most famous quote.

Kores Botha is the main antagonist of the 2018 action thriller film Skyscraper. He is a freelance terrorist along with his right-hand Xia, who sets a massive fire in the 96th floor of "The Pearl", the world's tallest building, and kidnaps Will Sawyer's daughter.

He was portrayed by Roland Møller, who also played Aleksander Bremovych in Atomic Blonde.

Biography[]

Kores Botha is first seen inside the basement floor of the Pearl when one of his henchmen kills a mechanical engineer. He later greets Will Sawyer's family, initially friendly towards them, after on he contacts his strike team who after breaching the administration facility, hack into the anti-fire measures and lock Zhao out.

He orders them to seal all fire doors from 95 to the ground floor and to deactivate all anti-fire measures from 96 to the top floor, opening the shaft air vents and allowing the fire to accelerate upwards via fresh oxygen from the shafts. He then frames Will Sawyer as the mastermind of the attack.

Botha later ambushes Zhao's security team after Zhao reluctantly agrees to evacuate, and wounds Zhou's head of security, Okeke. Botha attempts to take Zhao hostage, but Okeke attacks him. Botha kills Okeke, but allows Zhao to escape and seal himself in his penthouse. 

Botha learns Sawyer and his family are in the building, and kidnaps Sawyer's daughter, using her to coerce Sawyer into gaining access to the penthouse for him.

Sawyer gains access to the penthouse in which a brief struggle ensues between him and Zhao whom Sawyer overpowers and later learns from him that Botha was originally a business partner of his who worked for three powerful crime syndicates. Botha came to Zhao and extorted payments from him by threatening to cripple his labor force, Zhao payed him but secretly hid tracking software within his wire transfer which allowed him to trace all transactions as Botha laundered money from him. After the syndicates discovered that they were compromised, they threatened to destroy Botha if he didn't retrieve the data, Sawyer and Zhao devise a plan to retrieve his daughter and stop Botha from obtaining the drive. 

Within the Pearl's sphere, Botha who is preparing to evacuate the building in a parachute is encountered by Sawyer and Zhao, Zhao demands to be giving a parachute to which Botha forces one of his men to give to him, Zhao then tosses the drive to distract them while Sawyer retrieves his daughter. Zhao activates the Pearl's mirror panels making it difficult for them to pinpoint each other while simultaneously, his strike team at the administration facility is wiped out by police.

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Botha falling to his death.

Following the struggle in the Pearl's sphere, Zhao is wounded while Botha's entire strike team is taken out by Sawyer, Botha manages to find Sawyer's daughter and holds her hostage with a grenade as he attempts to use her as leverage to force Sawyer to give him the drive or else threatens to kill her or them both, unbeknownst to him, the Sawyer he was talking to was a reflection of the real Sawyer who was standing behind him. Sawyer kicks Botha through a hole within the ground and drops the grenade after him, which explodes and kills Botha.

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