Stanford University dropout Jerry Shaw learns that his identical twin brother Ethan, an officer in the U.S. Air Force, has been killed in a car crash. Following the funeral, he is surprised to find a large sum of money in his bank account and his apartment filled with firearms and bomb-making materials. Jerry receives a phone call from a woman who warns that the FBI is about to arrest him and he needs to run. Disbelieving the voice, he is caught by the FBI and interrogated by Supervising Agent Tom Morgan. While Morgan confers with Air Force OSI Special Agent Zoe Perez, the woman on the phone arranges for Jerry’s escape and directs him to Rachel Holloman, a single mother.
The woman on the phone is coercing Rachel by threatening her son Sam, who is aboard the Capitol Limited en route to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with his school band. The woman on the phone helps the two avoid law enforcement by controlling networked devices including traffic lights, mobile phones, automated cranes, and even power lines. Meanwhile, the caller redirects a crystalline explosive to a gemcutter, who cuts it and fixes it into a necklace. Another man steals Sam’s trumpet in Chicago and fits the crystal’s sonic trigger into the tubing before forwarding it to Sam in Washington. Agent Perez is summoned by Secretary of Defense George Callister to be read into Ethan’s job at the Pentagon.
Ethan monitored the Department of Defense’s top-secret intelligence-gathering supercomputer, the Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst. Callister leaves Pérez with Major William Bowman and ARIIA to investigate Ethan Shaw’s death. Simultaneously, Rachel and Jerry learn that the woman on the phone is actually ARIIA, and that she has “activated” them according to the Constitution’s authorization to recruit civilians for the national defense. Perez and Bowman find evidence that Ethan Shaw hid a microchip in ARIIA’s chamber and leave to brief Callister.
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Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: John Glenn, Travis Wright, Hillary Seitz
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson
Budget: $80,000,000.00
Revenue: $178,800,000.00
Categories: Mystery, Thriller, Action
