The Bricklayer is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Hanna Weg and Matt Johnson, based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Paul Lindsay under his pen name Noah Boyd, and starring Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev, Tim Blake Nelson, Ilfenesh Hadera, and Clifton Collins Jr.

The victims included an outspoken critic of U.S. intelligence activities across the world, and the CIA is being framed as being responsible.

Kate, a highly trained expert agent, scours surveillance footage and discovers former asset Victor Radek is alive and likely responsible.

They tell him that Radek, who had aligned himself with the CIA to gain asylum, had had his cover blown and his family killed by the Russians.

Vail enters a fancy party and meets his old flame and local CIA station chief, Tye.

The CIA receives a threat and ransom message from a person who wants to punish them for their wrongdoings, demanding a huge payment in Bitcoin.

Moments after, a bomb goes off leaving all of Sten’s crew dead, whereas Vail walks out safely.

Vail refuses to end the mission and tracks Kate, taking her place at the money transfer.

Vail enters a café backroom and finds a laptop to transfer the money and speaks with Radek.

Kate arrives and doesn't hesitate to shoot and kill Tye who is driving straight at her and Vail.

The case fully resolved, O'Malley offers Kate a promotion, but instead she decides to find another way to serve her county outside of the agency.

[4] Later that same month, it was announced that Tim Blake Nelson and Clifton Collins Jr. joined the cast.

[5] In May 2022, it was reported that Screen Media acquired the North American distribution rights to the film.

[6] However, Vertical Entertainment was reported in October 2023 to have picked up the rights and set a January 5, 2024 day-and-date release in the United States.

[10] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "There may be nothing memorable enough here to stir great enthusiasm for another Steve Vail outing, given basic genre components sufficiently generic to seem more MacGruber than 007.