


After McCall leaves, Susan remarks to Brian that McCall was not actually looking for help, but was asking for permission. It is revealed that Teddy is ex- Spetsnaz, and that his real name is Nicolai Itchenko. McCall visits fellow retired, married operatives Susan ( Melissa Leo) and Brian Plummer ( Bill Pullman) in Virginia, who help him acquire intelligence on Pushkin's activities. McCall outsmarts his pursuers and completes more acts of vigilantism. Teddy determines McCall is the culprit surprised by the skill sets McCall possesses, Teddy decides to capture and press-gang him into service rather than kill him. Ralph passes his test and becomes a security guard at Home Mart. McCall confronts the corrupt policemen and forces them to pay back all the money they have extorted.

Meanwhile, Ralph withdraws his application for being a security guard at Home Mart to help out his mother at his family restaurant, which was set on fire by corrupt policemen as an act of extortion. Russian mafia leader Vladimir Pushkin ( Vladimir Kulich) sends his enforcer Teddy ( Marton Csokas) to Boston to find and eliminate the culprit. Failing in his nice approach, McCall's training kicks in and he kills Slavi and four of his men, removing all security camera footage. McCall enters a restaurant owned by the Russian mob and tries to convince Slavi to release Alina by paying him $9800, but Slavi declines the offer. McCall's teenaged friend Alina ( Chloë Grace Moretz), who was a child victim of sex trafficking by the Russian Mafia, is brutally beaten by her pimp, Slavi ( David Meunier). McCall has promised his recently deceased wife that he'd leave his old life behind. Robert McCall ( Denzel Washington) is a retired black ops government operative who lives in Boston, Massachusetts and works at a Home Mart hardware store, where he befriends many of his co-workers and also tries to help a security guard trainee named Ralphie pass his qualification exam.
