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NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jeremy

The film opens in Aleppo, where Navy SEAL John Kelly (Michael B. Jordan) is with his team infiltrating what is allegedly a Syrian safe house to recover a CIA operative taken hostage. As the team heads in and takes out other gunmen, Kelly finds out that the men are ex-Russian military and that the place is a Russian arms depot, which was not disclosed to them. The hostage is recovered, but more gunmen attack, and one of Kelly’s men is killed in the shootout before the Russian assassins are taken out. The team flies out just as the place gets bombed, and Kelly almost fights his superior Deputy Director Robert Ritter (Jamie Bell) for not giving them full information on the captors.

Three months later, Kelly is having a party with his pregnant wife Pam (Lauren London) and other friends. Meanwhile, one member of Kelly’s team, Rowdy King (Luke Mitchell), is taking the garbage outside his house when a van runs him over and leaves him dead. Another man, Keith Webb (Cam Gigandet), is talking to his wife on the way home from work, when the same van is in front of him. A man gets out and shoots Webb dead so his wife can hear.

Pam goes to bed while Kelly listens to music in the basement. The men from the van sneak around his house and cut the power. Kelly soon notices something suspicious and grabs a gun before investigating. The gunmen reach his bedroom and shoot Pam to death in bed, also killing her unborn child. One of the gunmen shoots one of his men dead and leaves him in the bedroom. Kelly kills the other two men before fighting and wounding the last man (Brett Gelman). He gets a brief look at the man’s face before he escapes. Kelly, who was just shot, weakly crawls to the bedroom to find his wife dead.

Ritter debriefs the rest of the team on the attacks, but his wording of the situation hits a nerve with the team’s Lieutenant Commander Karen Greer (Jodie Turner-Smith) due to Ritter suggesting the men targeted were involved with something dirty. Greer visits Kelly as he recovers, and he tells her that he didn’t kill the third man in the bedroom. He asks for a name for anyone who may have had involvement in sending those men.

While Kelly goes through recovery, Greer and Ritter meet with Secretary of Defense Thomas Clay (Guy Pearce) and CIA Director Sarah Dillard (Lucy Russell). It is disclosed that one of the victims in the previous mission was the son of head of the Federal Security Service. Knowing that the murders are foreign attacks on American soil, Clay wants to sweep this under the rug for fear that talks of conflicts between Russia and the U.S. may lead to another cold war.

Greer gives Kelly the name of the man who gave passports to the gunmen, Andre Vaseliev (Merab Ninidze). Kelly tracks Vaseliev down and tails his security team. He manages to get cops to stop one of the vans before cornering Vaseliev’s car at the airport. He pins the car down and kills the driver before setting the car on fire and getting inside. He orders Vaseliev to give up a name, but he tells Kelly that death follows him wherever he goes. Kelly shoots him once until Vaseliev gives up the name Viktor Rykov. Kelly shoots Vaseliev in the head before officers show up to arrest him.

In prison, Kelly talks to Greer and gives her Rykov’s name. Later, a guard orders Kelly to go with him, but he refuses since he isn’t told where. Armed guards show up, but Kelly prepared by plugging a sink to wet the floor. He fights the guards until U.S. Marshal Kevin Townsend (Michael Akinsulire) comes in with a phone for Kelly. Greer is on the other end telling him to go with Townsend because he can trust him. Kelly is escorted to meet with Greer, Ritter, Clay, and Dillard, where he identifies Rykov in a photo lineup. Clay agrees to allow Kelly to join a team to extract Rykov from Russia, but he must return to jail after.

Kelly and Greer fly with a black ops team to make a HALO insertion. Kelly tells Greer that he feels that if he went home earlier instead of doing another tour, he would still have Pam and their baby. Russian fighter pilots then fly near the plane and fire a missile at them, hitting the wing and sending the plane crashing into the Barents Sea. Most of the team makes it out alive.

The team takes a boat to Murmansk to meet with Ritter. Kelly confronts him over intelligence leaks that may have been the reason why the Russians knew where to detect them. In a heated argument, Ritter says he is just trying to get to Rykov, but he was not responsible for the leaks.

The team then heads on with the mission. They track Rykov to an apartment building, but Kelly goes off on his own against orders to finish Rykov himself. He finds Rykov strapped with a suicide vest, telling Kelly that both of them are pawns working for the same king, revealing himself as a deep cover agent with the CIA. He blows himself up, which causes part of the building to come down. A sniper then begins firing upon the team, killing one member, Dallas (Todd Lasance). Police also arrive on the scene. As the team hides, they come to the realization that they were set up to get caught as part of an attack to initiate a U.S.-Russian war. Kelly offers himself as a distraction to give the team a chance to run. He diverts the police away from the building and then takes out the sniper before getting an officer and stealing his uniform to escape. He steals and ambulance and rejoins the team as they get away by boat.

Kelly returns to D.C. and finds Clay in a bathroom. He incapacitates him and drives away with him. Kelly threatens Clay’s family until he reveals that the mission was a set-up to start a war in the hopes that a new cold war may boost the U.S. economy to unite the country against a common enemy. Kelly then drives the car off the bridge, and Clay, who is handcuffed, drowns. Kelly prepares to drown as well, even seeing a vision of Pam talking to him near a campfire. He says he misses her, but she assures him she is always with him.

Kelly is given a funeral, but it is revealed that Greer used scuba gear to rescue him. She brings him to a train station so that he can start a new life. He is even given a new identity: John Clark.

Midway through the credits, Clark meets with Ritter a year later. He tells him that, to prevent future conflicts, he would like to put together a team, codename “Rainbow”. Ritter tells Clark it’s good to have him back, to which he says that it’s good to be back.

Navy SEAL John Kelly and his team become targets of Russian FSB agents after a job in Aleppo occurs due to misinformation. Kelly survives a hit on his house, but his pregnant wife Pam is murdered, along with two other members of the team. Kelly learns the name of the surviving gunman, Viktor Rykov, and is given clearance to join a black ops team in getting Rykov.

In Russia, the team is shot down from the sky by Russian fighters due to intelligence leaks, which Kelly blames on Deputy Director Robert Ritter, but he is not responsible and is every bit as determined to see Rykov put away. As the team goes off to extract Rykov, Kelly goes to kill him personally, but Rykov is strapped with a suicide vest and reveals he is working under the CIA before blowing himself up. A sniper starts shooting at the team, and they soon realize they were set up to look like they orchestrated a foreign attack. Kelly helps the team escape.

Kelly figures the plan was set up by Secretary of Defense Thomas Clay, who wanted to start a new cold war to boost the U.S. economy by creating conflict. Kelly drives a van with Clay into the river and prepares to die himself, but is saved by Lt. Commander Karen Greer, who helps him fake his death and establish a new identity as John Clark. He later tells Ritter he plans to create a team called "Rainbow".