When a plane crashes carrying Bryan Mills and a key witness in a murder investigation, a wounded Mills must call upon the survival skills his father taught him to overcome the elements, find a way out of the woods and protect the witness from a lethal team of mercenaries on their tail. Meanwhile, Santana organizes a 'go big or go home' plan to locate the downed plane.

When the President's emergency "football" is stolen, Bryan and the team must recover it before classified national security measures fall into dangerous hands.

Hart must find a way to stop an exiled former journalist from leaking the names of government assets abroad before innocent lives are taken.