Spy Game

“It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.”

On the morning he is due to retire, CIA veteran Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) learns that his former protégé Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) has been arrested in China and sentenced to die at dawn in Beijing. Agency brass, led by Charles Harker (Stephen Dillane), would rather let it happen than face a scandal. Tony Scott sets Muir against the clock, and what he's up against is whether an agency that trains its people to trust no one owes them anything when they're caught.