Los Angeles, 2018 – an armored car stops at a café. In a few moments, a team of thieves led by Ray Merrimen (Pablo Schreiber) attacks the car and tries to take control of it. The guards try to defend themselves and keep them in position, but the group of thieves kills them. The police make their appearance on the spot and go into a shootout with thieves. Eventually, Merrimen and his team fled with the armored car, but Ray reproved Donnie (O’Shea Jackson, Jr.) for killing the first guard.

The next morning, detective Nick “Big Nick” O’Brien (Gerard Butler) goes to investigate where the events happened. Nick and FBI agent Lobbin Bob Golightly are beginning to argue. Nick has long been in the footsteps of Merrimen, and the latter beats the detective because he has murdered one of his colleagues in the past. Nick finds Donnie at the bar where he works and talks with him in the beginning …

Afterwards, he takes Donnie into custody and takes him to a conspiratorial house where he is subjected to intense interrogation sessions on Merrimen’s plans. Donnie explains to agents that he has entered his gang just because he is a very good runner and Merrimen was impressed by his driver skills but that he does not know too much about his activities or what to plan further .