Though he knows he needs to ignore the crash and continue on his own mission to get out of danger, he finds himself torn because he is an American patriot and can't leave the possible survivors to the fate of torture and public execution by Al Qaeda.

At the crash site, most of the few survivors are cut down and their bodies desecrated by the crowd that forms around them, including newly arrived Al Qaeda operatives who shot down the helicopter.

Court Gentry has thrown his extraction plans to the wind and is exacting swift justice via a Barrett .50 caliber rifle from a distance.

The Gray Man's handler, Sir Donald Fitzroy, runs an international assassination and support network for his assets.

This is because LaurentGroup has invested billions of dollars into oil infrastructure with the current president of an African nation who will be leaving office soon.

Lloyd and Riegel set up a contest by contracting assassination teams from intelligence agencies all over the world from dictatorships with the lure of a $20 million prize on the head of the Gray Man.

Laurent employs hundreds of "pavement artists," people who scour pretty much any area looking for a person to provide intel to kill teams.

His reputation proceeds him as he has pulled off kills that both seemed impossible of some of the worst actors in the world, perpetrators of genocide, mafia bosses, etc.

Multiple times people ask him if he pulled off the Kiev operation, though there is doubt as the feat was so incredible it seemed impossible one man could do it.

He had encountered Szabo years earlier while working with a CIA kill team called the Goon Squad of which he was the point man.

Having just checked on him previously and throughout the last couple of hours while he was arranging everything, Szabo assures the kill team that The Gray Man is trapped.

However, Court has been planning his escape by removing the bullet powder from his ammunition and creating a bomb that will blow through the glass at the top and using a makeshift saw out of his necklace to cut a pipe to fill the cistern with liquid.

As the CIA kill team leader looks down, he asks Szabo what is going on, why did you drown the Gray Man, and all of a sudden, the top blows off and Gentry shoots out with a ton of water.

He arrives early in the morning, eats some rations, makes some hasty defensive preparations, and promptly falls asleep at 4:45am.

Before falling asleep Court had rolled a steel door mantrap in front of the entrance which deflected the grenade back out.

The explosion injures one of the Libyans and wakes up Court who kicks two bags of gear into the small cellar and takes cover.

The Libyans quickly recover and toss in a huge satchel charge which blows a big hole in the front of the house.

However, the door of the shed blows open and surprises the Libyan stationed at the back of the cabin as Court flies out on a snowmobile.

He rigs the snowmobile to go back down the hill as a distraction and jumps off the cliff sliding down and losing the rest of his gear and re aggravating his gunshot wound and adding a ton of other bruises and scrapes to his body.

The Swiss cops however are on the lookout for suspects from the cabin shootout and interrogate Court on the train because he fits the description of someone leaving the scene.

Court arrives in Brussels where he infiltrates the home of his trainer for the special CIA program that he was shaped in, a man named Maurice.

Court explains the situation and Maurice agrees to provide him with a clean car and gear to facilitate the hostage rescue and prevention of the CIA info being released.

As Court is about to leave, both men realized the pavement artists aren't there anymore and a kill squad must be en route.

Court makes his way to the car Maurice gave him which is a late model Mercedes S series filled with a modern M4, Mp5, pistols, and other gear.

Court does go to Paris in the hopes of recruiting a former helicopter pilot associate to help him infiltrate the chateau but realizes there is so much surveillance and so many kill teams that he is in danger and wouldn't be able to secure the man's help anyway.

The South Korean manages to stab The Gray Man as he ambushes him, though Court was able to prevent the knife from completely gutting his stomach by catching some of the blow with his umbrella hook.

Grievously injured, the Gray Man jumps into the Seine River and grabs onto a passing barge which drags him downstream.

There had been a time crunch by LaurentGroup because the president of Nigeria was about to leave office on this last day the threat he was going to pull their oil contract if The Gray Man was not killed before the deadline.

Gentry has used this opportunity to assault the property himself, eventually securing and destroying the CIA data and getting the Fitzroy family out safely.

Starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Dhanush, Wagner Moura, Julia Butters, and Jessica Henwick, filming commenced in 2021 on a $200 million budget.