Adam Cassidy, Liam Hemsworth, is a low-level inventor who works for a powerful corporation led by Nicholas Wyatt, Gary Oldman. After a firing for insubordination, he uses the company’s credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club, triggering a coercive trap: Wyatt and his enforcer, Miles Meachum, threaten to have him arrested for fraud unless he becomes a corporate spy.
Wyatt and Meachum pull the strings to push Adam into a dangerous betrayal, and Adam is trained by Judith Bolton before infiltrating a rival company run by Jock Goddard, Harrison Ford. There, Adam supplies Goddard with advanced software capable of hacking into cellphones, software that could have serious military applications. As this fragile web of deceit tightens, FBI Agent Gamble interrogates Adam, revealing that three other Wyatt transfers to Goddard’s outfit were found dead, though Adam chooses to ignore the warning signs.
In the midst of the high-stakes covert work, Adam discovers Emma Jennings, Director of Marketing at Goddard’s company. He begins a tense, cautious relationship with Emma to gain access to files about Goddard’s upcoming projects, using charm and subterfuge to stay one step ahead. Meanwhile, Wyatt escalates his threats, threatening to kill Adam’s father, Frank Cassidy, if Adam does not steal a revolutionary prototype cellphone known as Occura, developed by Goddard.
As the pressure mounts, Bolton and Meachum monitor Adam’s every move, prompting him to destroy the cameras in his apartment. In retaliation, Meachum orchestrates a brutal hit, running over Adam’s friend Kevin with a car and leaving him hospitalized. Adam is then given 48 hours to steal the Occura prototype.
With limited time, Adam uses Emma’s thumbprint—lifted from a spoon—to bypass security and access the vault. In a tense confrontation, Goddard, intent on seizing Wyatt’s company, corners him, while Emma realizes Adam used her, adding personal stakes to the corporate crime spree. Adam hatches a plan and recruits Kevin to help, setting up a pivotal meeting between Wyatt and Goddard as Bolton’s true loyalties come into question; both men acknowledge the crimes they’ve committed to sabotage each other’s empires.
Adam secretly uses the same software to transmit their conversation to Kevin, whose computer recordings are handed to the FBI. Gamble and the agents close in, arresting Goddard, Wyatt, Bolton, and Meachum, and Adam is released for contributing to the investigation. In the aftermath, he launches a small Brooklyn startup with Kevin and their friends, and, after reconciling with Emma, seals the moment with a passionate kiss, signaling a new, steadier future built on honesty and collaboration.
