Afterwards, ARIIA smuggles Jerry and Rachel into her observation theater under the Pentagon. Perez and Bowman find evidence which Ethan Shaw had hidden in ARIIA's chamber the night he died, and leave to brief Callister. Simultaneously, Rachel and Jerry learn that the woman on the phone is actually ARIIA, and that she has "activated" them according to the Constitution's authorization to recruit civilians for the national defense. Callister leaves Perez with Major William Bowman ( Anthony Mackie) and ARIIA to investigate Ethan Shaw's death. Ethan monitored the DOD's top secret intelligence-gathering supercomputer, the Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst (ARIIA). Another man ( Anthony Azizi) steals Sam's trumpet in Chicago and fits the crystal's sonic trigger into the tubing, before forwarding it to Sam in Washington, D.C.Īgent Perez is summoned by Secretary of Defense George Callister ( Michael Chiklis) to be read into Ethan's job at the Pentagon. Meanwhile, the woman on the phone redirects a crystal of powerful DOD explosive-hexamethylene-to a gemcutter, who cuts it and fixes it into a necklace. The woman on the phone helps the two avoid the Chicago police and FBI, using an ability to control networked devices, including traffic lights, mobile phones, automated cranes, and even power lines. The woman on the phone is coercing Rachel by threatening her son Sam ( Cameron Boyce), who is en route to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. While Morgan confers with Air Force OSI Special Agent Zoe Pérez ( Rosario Dawson), the woman on the phone arranges for Jerry's escape and directs him to Rachel Holloman ( Michelle Monaghan), a single mother. He receives a phone call from a woman ( Julianne Moore) who warns that the FBI is about to arrest him and he needs to run.ĭisbelieving, Jerry is caught by the FBI and interrogated by Supervising Agent Tom Morgan ( Billy Bob Thornton).
Later he finds his Chicago apartment filled with weapons, ammonium nitrate, classified DOD documents, and forged passports. Following the funeral, Jerry is surprised to find $750,000 in his bank account. Jerry Shaw ( Shia LaBeouf) is a Stanford University dropout who learns his identical twin brother Ethan, a first lieutenant in the US Air Force, has been killed.