In Aleppo, Syria, a team
of US Navy SEALs, including Senior Chief Petty Officer John Kelly, rescue
a CIA operative taken hostage by a suspected pro-Assad paramilitary
group. The situation escalates as the SEALs discover that the captors are
actually Russian military, which CIA officer Robert Ritter denies. Three months
later, in apparent retaliation for their role in the mission, several members
of the team are covertly killed by Russian FSB operatives. Kelly's
pregnant wife Pam is murdered when the Russians break into their house. Kelly
kills all but one of the attackers before being rushed to the hospital with
near-fatal wounds.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C.,
Kelly's SEAL team leader and friend, Lt. Commander Karen Greer, meets with
Ritter and Secretary of Defense Thomas Clay to discuss how the FSB
discovered the SEALs' identities and review their response options. Leaked news
of Russia's unprecedented attack on American soil has caused the already-strained
relationship between the two nations to sour further, possibly causing a new
cold war. The CIA refuses to conduct an investigation into the murders,
motivating Greer to pass confidential information to Kelly.
Healed from his injuries, Kelly
tracks down the Russian diplomat, who issued the passports to the FSB
operatives, and forces him to give up the name of the surviving assassin before
killing him. Incarcerated for murder, Kelly bargains his way out by revealing
the escaped operative is Victor Rykov, an ex-Spetznaz officer who is
hiding in Murmansk, Russia. Despite Greer's objections, Clay allows Kelly
to participate in Rykov's capture on the condition that Kelly serves his
sentence after the mission.
Kelly flies to Murmansk with
Greer and a CIA black ops team, planning to HALO jump into Russia.
Intercepted and attacked by a Russian fighter, their plane crashes into
the Barents Sea. Kelly dives into the wreckage to recover essential
equipment, including a zodiac boat. The team arrives in Murmansk and
finds Ritter, whom Kelly suspects is to blame for the intelligence leaks.
Ritter swears he is not responsible and leads the team to Rykov. Kelly goes off
mission to confront Rykov, finding him wearing a suicide vest and
learns that he is a deep cover CIA asset. Rykov detonates his vest, killing
himself as the team becomes pinned down by sniper fire. As police arrive, the
team realizes that the mission was a set-up to have American soldiers killed on
Russian soil to start a war.
Kelly volunteers to cover the
team's escape; since he is a convicted murderer, his death could be plausibly
denied. Kelly buys the team time to reach safety but is badly injured. He then
uses an explosion as cover to steal a police uniform and hijacks an ambulance
to escape. Kelly and the surviving team members leave the country by boat.
Ritter officially reports Kelly as dead, allowing Kelly to hunt for the
traitor.
Back in D.C., Kelly confronts
Clay and forces him into his car. After Kelly threatens Clay's family, he
confesses to being behind the intelligence leaks and orchestrating the conflict
between the U.S. and Russia, intending to start a war with Russia to boost the
economy and unite the American people against a common enemy. Kelly drives the
car over a bridge and lets it sink to the bottom of the Potomac River,
drowning Clay. Kelly escapes with a recording of the confession, with the help
of Greer, who was waiting in the river with diving gear. At Washington
Union Station, Greer gives Kelly a new identity provided by Ritter, he leaves
to begin his new life as "John Clark".
One year later, Clark meets with
Ritter, newly promoted to Deputy Director, and proposes the creation of a
multinational counter-terrorism team, codename: Rainbow.
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