Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman are locked in a tense cat-and-mouse chase in action thriller Carry-On.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows), the Netflix film follows young TSA officer Ethan Kopek who is blackmailed by a mysterious man into letting a dangerous package aboard a flight on Christmas Eve.
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Other cast members include Logan Marshall-Green, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Theo Rossi, Dean Norris, Sinqua Walls, Josh Brener and Curtiss Cook.
What happens to Ethan Kopek at the end of Carry-On?
After sneaking onto the flight through the cargo hold, Ethan manages to defuse the deadly nerve toxin bomb – albeit not without alerting the traveller (Jason Bateman) above.
Following a scuffle with the traveller, Ethan, who has already secretly removed one of the nerve toxin cylinders, manages to shove him inside a vacuum-sealed fridge with the toxin. The traveller accidentally smashes open the cylinder letting out the Novichok nerve agent, which kills him in gruesome fashion.
After the plane has landed safely, a flash-forward to a year later shows Ethan and his girlfriend Nora now have a baby together. They’re both heading through airport security to fly to Tahiti, alongside their friend Jason, who Ethan previously had to frame in order to protect Nora.
In the final scene, Ethan throws in the security tray his Los Angeles Police Department badge, confirming he is now working for the police.
Why was the traveller trying to kill everyone on the plane?
The mysterious traveller (Jason Bateman) was working for a US military contractor who was trying to ensure a bill, the defense for threatened democracies act, would pass through Congress so they would reap the financial rewards.
As deduced by LAPD detective Elena Cole, when the military contractors realised the bill lacked the support it needed to pass, they plotted an attack aboard the flight on Christmas Eve with the Russian Novichok nerve agent, in order to generate support around the bill and, in turn, raise demand for weapons across the US.
By pinning the attack on the Russians with the nerve agent, and killing 250 innocent people, including the one Congresswoman who supported the bill, they hoped the public outcry would effectively guarantee the bill’s success in Congress.
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