Covert Ops: The Extraction

Steve Barker, a sardonic, PTSD-afflicted British ex-soldier, and his girlfriend and fellow operative Lucy disembark a Caribbean cruise in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The holiday cover is thin — they are there to meet a contact about a covert extraction mission. Before they even reach shore, Steve has already silently killed a man on the ship's deck using a spoon. In San Juan, they link up with teammates Simon, Derek, and George, and at Fort Castillo San Cristobal they meet Bear, a well-connected fixer who reveals that two young people — American James Rapson and Peruvian Ana Martinez — were entrapped by a corrupt customs official and are now held for ransom by a drug cartel operating in the rainforest of a nearby Caribbean island called Saint Ann. The fee is one million dollars, half up front. The team recces the fort for ambush vulnerabilities, then splits up across Old San Juan to acquire weapons, communications equipment, and jungle clothing. A nighttime arms deal in a derelict warehouse explodes into a firefight; Steve and Lucy kill two attackers, while the team subdues and executes a third outside. The arms dealer flees with part of their money but the weapons are secured. Connecting an ominous blue-striped envelope found on one attacker to a recurring criminal network from a previous mission on Saint Halb, the team suspects they are already being tracked. Skipping the compromised boat transport, the team hires ex-Army Air Corps pilot Butch and his Eurocopter Dolphin to insert them onto Saint Ann at dawn. George is boot-kicked out the helicopter door. On the ground, they navigate dense rainforest, encounter a jaguar, cross a raging river with a vine rope, survive an attempted robbery in the village of Barble, and make contact in the rundown town of Hyde with local intelligence source Tennille. She confirms the hostages are still at the camp but warns that cartel boss Aron has arrived with six ex-special-forces bodyguards, and the cartel plans to relocate within two weeks. Meanwhile, at the camp, Aron and his enforcer Ryan terrorise the four hostages — James, Ana, Eliza, and Ralf — executing a debtor in front of them and loading a drug shipment onto a truck. The prisoners have been held in a bamboo cell for two months in deteriorating health, with no light and minimal food. Back in Hyde, as Steve's team retrieves their stashed weapons, three cartel scouts ambush them; Steve, Derek, and George kill two and a sniper shot saves Lucy from execution by a third. A sketch of the camp layout found on the dead scout accelerates their timeline. With the camp location confirmed and their cover partially blown, Steve leads the team back into the jungle on a direct route to the abandoned house Tennille marked as a forward staging point, two kilometres from the cartel compound. The team plans to assault before Aron can move or execute the hostages, relying on George and Lucy's sniper positions, Derek's communications, and Steve and Simon's close-quarters assault to extract James and Ana — and the additional hostages Eliza and Ralf — and return them alive to San Juan.