Talk:The Contract (2006 film)

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Needs more detail
I considered writing it myself, but didn't have the time to bother formatting it for wikipedia's ridiculous rules. Here's an outline for anyone who cares to do it:

Places: Woodburn, WA

Events: Two years prior to the events of the movie, Ray's wife died of cancer (he still wears a pink bracelet). Some time just before the beginning of the movie, Chris was caught smoking (or just in posession of?) marajuana, and is unable to participate in the baseball game. This leads Ray to decide they need to "bond" by going on a camping trip, which eventually puts them right in the path of Frank Cardon.


 * 1) New team member hired at the last second
 * 2) Lydell Hammond, Jr. killed via faked "hit and run" to bring his father into the open
 * 3) Most of the characters in the movie believe the President of the United States is the target, as he's coming to the area soon
 * 4) Car accident; Cardon is caught
 * 5) Carden's team determines to rescue him, block the road the Federal Marshalls are using to take Carden to D.C.
 * 6) Carden's vehicle goes over the edge; Carden and Marshall go into the river
 * 7) Ray Keene and his son, hiking in the wilderness, see the two men coming down the river. The Marshall asks Ray to take custody of Cardon
 * 8) A tow truck driver calls in the site of the accident and is subsequently killed by Cardon's team
 * 9) Chris sees the tow truck driver get shot and the three of them head into the wilderness
 * 10) While disposing of the corpse of the tow truck driver, the female member of the delegation from DC contacts "The New Guy" and tells him she'll pay him $500K USD to do away with Cardon, who has become a liability.
 * 11) Chris leads the way as he previously has been in the area as part of Outward Bound
 * 12) By way of Chris' previous experience with the terrain, they are able to repeatedly elude Carden's team
 * 13) They come across two hikers, a man and a woman, trying to rebuild a broken relationship; the couple argue often until the man is killed by Carden's team
 * 14) The killer was actually aiming at Cardon to collect his $500K USD reward from "Gwen"
 * 15) Carden's team gets ahold of a helicopter by pretending to be hikers in danger; Ray eventually kills the tracker from Carden's team and uses the man's machine gun to bring down the chopper
 * 16) The groups finally meet at a log cabin
 * 17) Ray decides to let Frank go rather than risk the lives of his son and the woman
 * 18) A member of Cardon's team (Royko?) goes in too early and injures Chris
 * 19) In fury, Ray beats the man with his fists. The movie does not make it clear whether Royko lives or dies. Meanwhile, Cardon is checking to see if Chris is OK
 * 20) Another member of Frank's team storms the cabin and attacks Ray with a knife, only to be shot by the woman just as he gains the upper hand
 * 21) The New Guy tries to kill Frank as he exits the cabin with Chris as a hostage; a search chopper which had seen the small arms fire blinds him at the last second
 * 22) Frank realizes a member of his own team is trying to kill him but decides to execute the contract anyway
 * 23) The audience finally sees that Gwen is playing both sides against the middle
 * 24) Keene, at home, is watching the television and worrying about his son, when a phrase Cardon used to describe his targets is used on a news program in reference to Lydell Hammon, Sr.
 * 25) Keene goes to the Hammond funeral and interrupts Frank before he can kill Hammond, Sr. - in the process of interrogating Cardon about his son's whereabouts, he inadvertently saves Frank's life from The New Guy
 * 26) Frank manages to sneak up on The New Guy and kill him, but has missed his window of opportunity
 * 27) Frank tells Ray where Chris is
 * 28) Chris and Ray are reunited
 * 29) Frank finds Gwen in DC and tells her to stay away from the Keenes or he will come after her
 * 30) The Keenes are seen at a picnic with the woman the met in the woods, with obvious romantic overtones

Plot Hole?
No mobile phone coverage, but the bad guys are still able to access the internet? I guess, maybe it was a different service provider. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.31.24.2 (talk) 12:49, 3 October 2010 (UTC)