Frank also finds a bag that contains magazines with Frank on the cover, news articles about Strode's 12-year-old daughter's murder, and Frank's legal defense of the suspect, who was freed on a technicality. Frank then sneaks into the police station and finds that Hank Strode was assigned to patrol that particular district on the night of the murders.Īfter several days of following Strode, Frank enters Strode's house and finds a police jacket with gold fibers coming loose from an embroidered sleeve badge. Shivers says that a police officer committed the murders. Frank shows his family picture to Shivers, who witnessed the murders from his shelter. Shivers working in the kitchen of a diner they fight. Frank takes her to his home for her safety.įrank finds Mr. She explains that she worked with them for a year, stealing drugs from the hospital for them. Frank suddenly appears and incapacitates them. After he drops Alma off, Russian gang members appear and ask Alma if she is going to continue supplying drugs to them. Shivers” (Clint Dyer), who works as a cook at the local diner. As he drives Alma home later, she reveals that the shelter Frank investigated was the home of a man called “Mr. Alma learns about his family’s death and the yard, and she befriends him.įrank attempts to find the potential witness who lives in a makeshift shelter, but he loses him. Later, Alma approaches to return his wallet, which he left at her place. On the way, he adopts a dog previously owned by his attackers. A nurse, Alma ( Paz Vega), arrives and brings him to her home to treat his injuries. He encounters Russian thugs and defeats them, though he is injured in the process by a bullet. He then takes a Stoic vow of silence until the case is solved and sets out to learn the skills required to do so.Īfter learning combat skills with masters of karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Frank goes to the train yard, where the crime took place, to investigate. Frank reads parts of the book and changes his attitude about what he should do next and how he should proceed, adopting a Stoic philosophy. Later, when getting involved in a fight to help a child prostitute, Frank falls through a window of a book store, where he fortuitously grabs Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations to help stop the bleeding of a leg wound. However, when Strode informs Frank that his family's case has become “cold," Frank leaves, dismayed and depressed. Lustiger suspects that the murderers belong to the Russian mafia, which operates in the area of the crime.Īfter subjecting himself to beatings in an illegal mixed martial arts ring to atone for his perceived guilt for the murders, Frank is rescued by Pittsburgh police officer Hank Strode ( Karl Urban), whom Frank met earlier at the station. Frank visits the police station to discuss the murders, and Detective Lustiger ( Johnathan Schaech) informs him that the police found a gold fiber at the murder scene. After the funeral, Frank's father-in-law Chuck ( Robert Forster) confronts him and tells him not to speak to him anymore. Before the murder, Sue sent a video of Olivia's performance to Frank. The wife and daughter of Pittsburgh lawyer Frank Valera ( Antonio Banderas), Sue ( Cristina Serafini) and Olivia, are killed shortly after a talent show in which Olivia sings a song for Frank, and their bodies are dumped in a hole near the train yard.
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