SAS: Red Notice(2021)

Plot Summary

• Black Swans, a family-owned private military company led by American citizens William Lewis (Tom Wilkinson) and his adult children Grace (Ruby Rose) and Oliver (Owain Yeoman). Grace is the talented one and William's successor at the company. They were hired by SAS commander George Clements (Andy Serkis) to help a transnational gas pipeline clear through a remote village located at the fictional Gveli Pass in Georgia. Clements offers money to the villagers to vacate the village, but when they resist, a massacre ensues. Grace makes the decision to kill all the men and boys and leave the women to spread the fear. Grace sets the entire village ablaze.Their atrocities were secretly filmed by a little girl who led them to receive red notices and they were accused of crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court demanded that the UK extradite the accused to the Hague to stand trial, because they live in North London. It turned out Prime Minister Atwood (Ray Panthaki) was behind Clements. Atwood knew that if William takes the stand he will mention Clements and then the road leads straight to Atwood. He secretly ordered Clements to kill William on the scene instead of arresting to cover up the link. William and Grace knew that SAS was going to move on them, but William refused to vacate the UK, his home. SAS plans the raid and kills many of Black Swan's operatives including Olivia (Caroline Boulton). Grace manages to escape before SAS operatives or Clements can get to her. Clements shoots William point blank.SAS operator, Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan), who was at the "arrest" later takes his girlfriend, Dr. Sophie Hart (Hannah John-Kamen), on a romantic train journey from London to Paris where he intends to propose to her with his grandma's bequest, a ring that was said to be chopped off the finger of a Maharaja during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. But the remnants of the Black Swan led by Grace Lewis hijack their train while it is en route in the Channel Tunnel, taking all of the passengers on board hostage at gunpoint. Buckingham escapes from the train and uses his military skills to save the passengers, including his girlfriend, who is now among the hostages on board the train. Tom calls his unit friend in SAS Declan Smith (Tom Hopper) about spotting Grace on the train. But the SAS commander Major Bisset (Noel Clarke), seems to be a snitch for the Black Swan and relays his movements and position on the train to Grace. Grace takes over the pilot cabin and stops the train in the middle of the tunnel. Her team disables all cameras. Oliver reaches the team with the emergency response vehicles.Tom exits the train and manages to lock the attackers in the rescue tunnel. Grace blows the doors with an explosive, that shatters all windows on the train and spreads panic among the passengers. Declan orders Tom not to intervene, while a SAS team is dispatched to deal with the situation. Meanwhile the Black SWans seals the French side Tunnel and start drilling in the service tunnel from inside, up towards the ocean.. If the water gets in, it would flood the service tunnel.The SAS team sets up base on the other side of the sealed doors of the service tunnel. Clements wants the team to attacks, but Bisset says his job is save the hostages. Meanwhile Tom tries to get Sophie off the train, but she refuses to leave and uses her medical training to help the injured on the train. The SAS team enters the French tunnel and attacks the Black Swans in the rear carriage of the train. Only an attack from Oliver forces the SAS to withdraw who kill several black swans. Oliver detests that Grace has assumed De-Facto command of the Black Swans and treats him with condescension. The SAS report to Clements that the Black Swans knew they were coming.Grace calls Clements & Declan and says that she wants $500MM from the gas company, who hired SAS to hire them for their clean up job and an admission of cover-up from the UK PM. Grace asks Oliver to capture Tom, but Tom manages to escape again. Meanwhile Grace suspects that Sophie has made contact with Tom while she was in the bathroom, treating one of injured French girl, whom Tom rescued and got her to reach the SAS command center in the service tunnel. Tom keeps dropping Graces's men. Clements decides to enter the French tunnel and meet Grace. Grace kills Declan when he tries to negotiate for the hostages.Grace records her conversation with Clements (where he admits that the Black Swans were hired by the UK PM to clear out villages in the way of his gas pipeline) (Grace also tells Clements that she knows that a British Gas pipeline goes through the channel tunnel and if she is not paid, she will blow it up) (Tom meanwhile, finds the drill and climbs into the hole to find the gas pipeline. He finds the black swan operative rigging explosives to the pipeline and kills him, but the explosives are armed). Tom calls Declan and tells him about the gas pipeline and the explosives. Declan is revealed to be the snitch to Grace and not Bisset. Grace wants Declan to kill Tom. Declan tells Grace that Spohie is Tom's girlfriend and fiance. Grace uses Sophie's phone to lure Tom into the train. Grace shoots Oliver in order to get to Tom, but he manages to escape. Meanwhile Declan relays the official message to Grace that BritGas has agreed to the $500M payment. Grace uploads the recorded video into social mediaGrace escapes with Sophie through the gas pipeline (and exits at a gas pipe maintenance node in the middle of France) with Tom in pursuit. Once out of the pipe she blows it up with Tom escaping narrowly. The pipeline destroys the channel tunnel and is blown up all the way in either direction. Sophie gets hurt and asks Tom to drop Grace. Clements figures out that Declan is the snitch to Grace.Tom catches up with Grace and kills her after a struggle. Meanwhile Declan escapes Clements and is now the only surviving receipt of the $500 M ransom money paid by Brit Gas. Tom and Sophie get married in Spain.

Storyline

• Special Forces operator Tom Buckingham is taking Dr. Sophie Hart from London to Paris to propose. When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, Grace Lewis and her team of heavily-armed war criminals seize the train and hold hundreds of passengers hostage. Grace threatens to expose the British government's darkest secrets and blow up the Channel Tunnel if her ransom demands are not met. Unarmed and cut off from his counter-terror team, Tom is Sophie's and the other passengers' only hope to get out alive. Based on the best-selling novel by former SAS operator Andy McNab, SAS: RED NOTICE is a provocative and authentic portrayal of an emergency response operation and the singular mindset Tom needs to survive. — Vertical Entertainment Tom Buckingham, a suspended special forces operator, is taking Dr. Sophie Hart from London to Paris to propose. When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, heavily armed mercenaries, led by Grace Lewis, seize control of it and hold everyone hostage. Grace threatens to blow up the Channel Tunnel and declare economic war on a government that has its fair share of secrets to keep. Unarmed and cut off from his counter terror team, Tom is the only hope that Sophie and the other passengers have to make it out alive. To save them he must embrace the unique psychology that makes Grace such a formidable adversary.