With assistance from his old colleagues and a nervous Stuart, Bryan gains entry to Malankov's heavily secured penthouse. Stuart confesses that his former business partner and ex- Spetsnaz operative, Oleg Malankov, murdered Lenore because Stuart owes him money Stuart exposed Bryan's identity to Malankov out of jealousy. Bryan kills the men, then abducts and interrogates Stuart using waterboarding. Bryan survives, hijacks another car, and follows the attackers to a roadside liquor store. Kim tells Bryan that she is pregnant, and that Stuart is acting scared and has hired bodyguards.īryan chases Stuart's car, but a pursuing SUV ambushes him, forcing his car over a cliff. He contacts Kim at Lenore's funeral via a camera hidden in his friend Sam's suit, and instructs her to maintain her 'very predictable schedule.' Bryan arranges to meet with her later and removes a surveillance bug, which Dotzler unknowingly planted on her. LAPD detectives arrive to arrest him, but Bryan hijacks the police cruiser and downloads phone records from an LAPD database onto a thumb drive. He retraces Lenore's final movements to a gas station and obtains the surveillance footage showing her being abducted by men with distinctive hand tattoos. Meanwhile, Inspector Frank Dotzler reviews Bryan's background.īryan retreats to a safe house equipped with weapons and surveillance electronics. LAPD units immediately appear to arrest him, but Bryan subdues two officers, leads other officers on a chase through the neighborhood, disappears into the sewer system, and escapes. When Bryan returns home, he discovers Lenore's body. The next morning, Bryan receives a text from Lenore asking to meet for breakfast. Lenore is kidnapped when she arrives for the bogus meeting. Stuart secretly uses Bryan's phone to arrange a meeting with Lenore, making it appear that Bryan sent and then deleted the message. Later, her husband, Stuart, tells Bryan never to see his wife again. Although she declines, she later shows up at his apartment and tells him about her marital problems, but says she wants to make it work. After an awkward visit, he invites his former wife, Lenore, to dinner. Former CIA officer Bryan Mills visits his daughter, Kim, to deliver an early birthday gift.

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