Jake Hopper (Steven Seagal) is a retired CIA agent and successful businessman in the private security business. Ten years before, as a CIA agent stationed in Thailand, things were going well until a fight with thugs results in his partner, Sunti (Byron Mann) escaping with his life after accidentally killing a woman. Jake called it quits and returned to the United States when his wife died, and Sunti became a Buddhist monk to atone for his sins. Jake has since been a devoted father to his now adult daughter Jessica (Sara Malakul Lane).