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The Beekeeper is a 2024 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer and written by Kurt Wimmer. The film stars Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Phylicia Rashad, Jemma Redgrave and Jeremy Irons. When his good-hearted landlady commits suicide after losing her charity's funds to a phishing scam, former "Beekeeper" operative Adam Clay sets out on a brutal campaign for revenge upon those responsible. The Beekeeper was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios under the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer label on January 12, 2024. The film received generally positive reviews and has grossed $152.7 million worldwide, making it the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2024. Plot Retired schoolteacher Eloise Parker lives by herself in Hampden, Massachusetts, but she has a tenant in her barn, Adam Clay, who lives a quiet life as a beekeeper. Adam is a retired member of a classified anti-corruption program called the Beekeepers, whose members are so well-trained that they make the military look like a joke. One day, Eloise falls for a phishing scam perpetrated via a phone call where she's tricked into allowing a man to access her computer remotely, and she's robbed of over $2 million, the majority of which belongs to Safe Homes Foundation, a children's charity organization whose bank account she manages. Devastated by the realization that she's been scammed so badly, Eloise shoots herself in the head. Adam finds Eloise's body and is immediately arrested by FBI Special Agent Verona Parker, Eloise's daughter, who hastily accuses Adam of shooting Eloise, and then Verona learns about how Eloise was scammed. After Eloise's death is ruled a suicide because her fingerprints were the only prints on the gun, and there was no gunshot residue on Adam, Adam is released. Verona apologizes to Adam for her accusation, and tells him that the FBI cybercrimes office has said that the scammers who victimized Eloise have been operating for two years, but the FBI hasn't been able to identify any of the scammers. Verona vows to find the scammers, but Adam decides to hunt down the scammers himself, and make them pay for what they did to Eloise. Adam contacts the Beekeepers for help, and he receives an address for the scammers: United Data Group (UDG), a call center in Springfield run by Mickey Garnett. Adam scares off the employees and destroys the UDG building. Mickey informs his boss, Derek Danforth, a technology executive who runs Danforth Enterprises in Boston. Derek sends Mickey and some men to kill Adam. A violent confrontation ensues where Mickey's men destroy Adam's bee hives and the honey jars in the barn, before Adam gets the drop on them, kills Mickey's men, and severs Mickey's fingers on his right hand with a bandsaw. Mickey calls Derek while stopped at a bridge, informing him that Adam is a Beekeeper. Having followed Mickey, Adam drags him off the bridge with a truck to his death, and warns Derek that he's coming after him too. Derek informs former CIA director Wallace Westwyld, who is currently the head of security for Danforth Enterprises. Concerned, Wallace, who is not aware of Derek's scam, contacts the current CIA director, in hopes of stopping Adam. The director contacts the Beekeepers and learns that Adam has retired from the organization. The Beekeepers subsequently declare neutrality after Adam kills Anisette Landress, the Beekeeper who was sent to kill him. Meanwhile, Verona and her partner, Special Agent Matt Wiley, anticipate that Adam will deliver an assault on the Nine Star United Center in Boston, which oversees all of Derek's scam call centers. After informing FBI Deputy Director Jackson Prigg that Adam is a Beekeeper, they receive all the support they ask for. Wallace coordinates a group of ex-special forces personnel, led by a man named Pettis, revealing to them that the Beekeepers are a highly skilled and dangerous clandestine human intelligence organization tasked with protecting the United States, operating above and beyond governmental jurisdiction. To have a chance at stopping Adam, Wallace orders the group to secure the inside of the Nine Star Building, while the FBI places their own SWAT team around the perimeter. However, Rico Anzalone, the sleazy manager at Nine Star United, refuses to evacuate the employees because he doesn't want to miss out on any money that the scam can bring in. Rico's refusal enables Adam to quickly take down the FBI SWAT team without killing them, and infiltrate the building. After wiping out Pettis and his men, Adam proceeds to interrogate Rico by using a stapler to slam staples into him until he finally gives up Derek's identity. Verona informs FBI Deputy Director Prigg that Derek is the ringleader of the scammers, and that several U.S. government agencies use a security program made by Danforth Enterprises. Verona also brings up the point that not only will Adam attempt to kill Derek, but he may also kill Jessica, who is the president of the United States, the way a queen slayer bee would kill a queen bee who produced defective male offspring. As Adam eludes capture, Wallace advises Derek to stay with Jessica, under Secret Service protection. At Jessica's beachside mansion on the Massachusetts coast, Wallace hires a group of mercenaries led by a man named Lazarus. Lazarus previously had an encounter with a Beekeeper, and lost his leg, so he wears a prosthetic. Jessica is not aware of Derek's scam. Jessica and Derek sit in her late husband's office in the mansion with Prigg, who asks them about United Data Group. As it turns out, Derek had funded Jessica’s campaign with stolen money, and she learns about Derek's scam, and his exploitation of a CIA program during her campaign. The revelation leaves Jessica guilt-ridden, as she didn't know that the money was stolen. Jessica tells Derek that she's going to tell Adam and the entire nation the truth about Derek's activities, even if it gets her voted out of office. Verona and Wiley, plus Lazarus, find Adam outside, but Adam creates a distraction by setting off a bomb. Inside, Adam tears through Lazarus's men, and a number of Secret Service agents. Adam and Lazarus engage in a brutal fight that ends when Adam fatally stabs Lazarus. For telling Jessica the truth, Derek fatally shoots Prigg in the chest. As Adam approaches the door to the office, Wallace talks to Adam to persuade him to turn away at the last moment but Adam breaks a couple of Wallace's fingers, and makes his way into the office. Verona and Wiley also enter, thinking that Adam plans to kill both Derek and Jessica. But it turns out that Adam has no intention of killing Jessica, because he knows that she was not aware of Derek's scam. Derek, holding a gun on Jessica, refuses to stand down, and he prepares to kill Jessica for wanting to tell the nation the truth. Before Derek can pull the trigger, Adam kills Derek with a shot to the head, saving Jessica's life. Adam immediately jumps through.... Discover the Adam Wallace popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Adam Wallace books.