The movie opens with a brief flash-forward where Government assassin Peter Devereaux blasts his trainee, David Mason, for disobeying orders in an operation that was supposed to thwart an assassination but ended up causing a child’s death. Five years later, David is ordered to kill a former Russian double-agent named Natalia (played by Mediha Musilovic) who broke into the office of the soon-to-be-elected president, Arkady Federov.