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In March 2014, U.S. Marine Sergeant Henry Blackburn (Gideon Emery) of the 1st Recon Marines is deployed to Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan with his fellow squadmates Private First Class Jack Chaffin (Tony Denman), Lance Corporals David Montes (Ronan Summers) and Christian Matkovic (William Meredith), Staff Sergeant Steve Campo (Eric Loren), and Captain Quinton Cole (David Harewood), under the squad callsign Misfit 1-3. While on a mission to defuse an IED, Chaffin is wounded in an ambush by the People's Liberation and Resistance (PLR), an Iranian paramilitary group, moments before an earthquake devastates the city, though the squad successfully manages to escape. The next day, the PLR stages a coup d'etat in Iran, causing the United States to launch an invasion.
In October, after the U.S. Navy conducts an airstrike on Mehrabad Airport, Misfit is deployed into Tehran to perform battle damage assessment and apprehend the leader of the PLR, Faruk Al-Bashir (Ray Haratian). While investigating an underground bank vault in the target's suspected location, the squad learns that the PLR has acquired Russian suitcase nukes, with two of the three devices missing. Being overrun, Misfit requests backup from an M1 Abrams column, callsign Anvil 3 of the 1st Tank Battalion, including Sergeant Jonathan Miller. Miller facilitates Misfit's helicopter extraction, but his tank is disabled and overrun while the crew awaits the arrival of a Quick Reaction Force. Knocked out and taken prisoner, Miller is executed by Al-Bashir and a mysterious individual named Solomon (Mark Ivanir), with the event being filmed and posted on the Internet.
In November, Misfit manages to capture Al-Bashir, who is fatally wounded when they cause his escape vehicle to crash. In his dying moments, Al-Bashir reveals Solomon's plan is to detonate the nukes in Paris and New York City. From Al-Bashir's cellphone, Misfit gets a lead on Russian arms dealer Amir Kaffarov (Endre Hules), who was working with Solomon and Al-Bashir. They attempt to capture Kaffarov from his villa in northern Iran, but come into contact with a Russian paratrooper battalion, also after Kaffarov, and are forced to engage them. In the ensuing battle, Campo and Matkovic are killed in an enemy strafing run. Meanwhile, a Spetsnaz GRU squad led by Dimitri "Dima" Mayakovsky (Andre Sogliuzzo) assaults Kaffarov's villa. Kaffarov tries to bribe the squad but is beaten by Dima. Blackburn arrives at the villa and finds Dima with a deceased Kaffarov. Dima reveals Solomon's plot to Blackburn and requests his cooperation to prevent "a war between [their] nations." Meanwhile, Cole arrives on the scene and Blackburn is forced to shoot him before he can kill Dima, resulting in Blackburn's arrest and interrogation by the CIA in Hunters Point, Queens.
During Blackburn's captivity, Dima's squad attempts, but fails to stop the attack on Paris, and the nuke detonates, killing 80,000 people. Meanwhile, the CIA do not believe Blackburn's story since Solomon is a CIA asset, and there is no concrete proof of his involvement in the terrorist attacks. They instead believe that Russia is responsible for the attacks and that Dima has tricked Blackburn. After Montes is also brought into interrogation, he and Blackburn break out of captivity to stop the attack in New York. Evading police, Blackburn manages to sneak into a hijacked Long Island Rail Road train full of Solomon's men and explosive charges. He fights his way to the front car, where Solomon ambushes him. In the melee, Blackburn gains the upper hand by activating the detonator to the charges, causing the train to crash. Blackburn pursues Solomon through the sewers and up to street level. Having obtained a vehicle, Montes picks up Blackburn and engages Solomon and the PLR in a brief vehicular chase, ending with both cars crashing in Times Square. As a bewildered crowd watches on, Solomon shoots Montes. Still, Blackburn manages to kill Solomon by bludgeoning him to death with a brick in the ensuing brawl and prevents the nuclear bomb from detonating.
The epilogue reveals that Dima survived the Paris detonation, albeit suffering from radiation poisoning. He writes about the efforts of both himself and Blackburn to stop Solomon's plan "to set fire to the world." A knock comes from his door and Dima gets up to presumably defend himself.
In October, after the U.S. Navy conducts an airstrike on Mehrabad Airport, Misfit is deployed into Tehran to perform battle damage assessment and apprehend the leader of the PLR, Faruk Al-Bashir (Ray Haratian). While investigating an underground bank vault in the target's suspected location, the squad learns that the PLR has acquired Russian suitcase nukes, with two of the three devices missing. Being overrun, Misfit requests backup from an M1 Abrams column, callsign Anvil 3 of the 1st Tank Battalion, including Sergeant Jonathan Miller. Miller facilitates Misfit's helicopter extraction, but his tank is disabled and overrun while the crew awaits the arrival of a Quick Reaction Force. Knocked out and taken prisoner, Miller is executed by Al-Bashir and a mysterious individual named Solomon (Mark Ivanir), with the event being filmed and posted on the Internet.
In November, Misfit manages to capture Al-Bashir, who is fatally wounded when they cause his escape vehicle to crash. In his dying moments, Al-Bashir reveals Solomon's plan is to detonate the nukes in Paris and New York City. From Al-Bashir's cellphone, Misfit gets a lead on Russian arms dealer Amir Kaffarov (Endre Hules), who was working with Solomon and Al-Bashir. They attempt to capture Kaffarov from his villa in northern Iran, but come into contact with a Russian paratrooper battalion, also after Kaffarov, and are forced to engage them. In the ensuing battle, Campo and Matkovic are killed in an enemy strafing run. Meanwhile, a Spetsnaz GRU squad led by Dimitri "Dima" Mayakovsky (Andre Sogliuzzo) assaults Kaffarov's villa. Kaffarov tries to bribe the squad but is beaten by Dima. Blackburn arrives at the villa and finds Dima with a deceased Kaffarov. Dima reveals Solomon's plot to Blackburn and requests his cooperation to prevent "a war between [their] nations." Meanwhile, Cole arrives on the scene and Blackburn is forced to shoot him before he can kill Dima, resulting in Blackburn's arrest and interrogation by the CIA in Hunters Point, Queens.
During Blackburn's captivity, Dima's squad attempts, but fails to stop the attack on Paris, and the nuke detonates, killing 80,000 people. Meanwhile, the CIA do not believe Blackburn's story since Solomon is a CIA asset, and there is no concrete proof of his involvement in the terrorist attacks. They instead believe that Russia is responsible for the attacks and that Dima has tricked Blackburn. After Montes is also brought into interrogation, he and Blackburn break out of captivity to stop the attack in New York. Evading police, Blackburn manages to sneak into a hijacked Long Island Rail Road train full of Solomon's men and explosive charges. He fights his way to the front car, where Solomon ambushes him. In the melee, Blackburn gains the upper hand by activating the detonator to the charges, causing the train to crash. Blackburn pursues Solomon through the sewers and up to street level. Having obtained a vehicle, Montes picks up Blackburn and engages Solomon and the PLR in a brief vehicular chase, ending with both cars crashing in Times Square. As a bewildered crowd watches on, Solomon shoots Montes. Still, Blackburn manages to kill Solomon by bludgeoning him to death with a brick in the ensuing brawl and prevents the nuclear bomb from detonating.
The epilogue reveals that Dima survived the Paris detonation, albeit suffering from radiation poisoning. He writes about the efforts of both himself and Blackburn to stop Solomon's plan "to set fire to the world." A knock comes from his door and Dima gets up to presumably defend himself.
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