
The commander is in England. The drone pilot is in America. The terrorist is in Kenya. And the authority to strike is up in the air.
Plot outline
Cast
- Faisa Hassan
- Aisha Takow
- Armaan Haggio
- Helen Mirren
- Bob Chappell
- Alex Gallafent
- Aaron Paul
- Babou Ceesay
- Carl Beukes
- Kate Liquorish
- Richard Stephenson
- Gabriella Pinto
- Tylan Wray
- Hossain Dahir
- Mondé Sibisi
- Warren Masemola
- Ahmed Mohamed Ali
- Alan Rickman
- Phoebe Fox
- Lemogang Tsipa
- Paul Spauling
- Gavin Hood
- Kenneth Fok
- Zak Rowlands
- Henry Pilime
- Sammy Maina
- Hassan Abdullah
- Ebby Weyime
- Vusi Kunene
- Mohammed Ali Sahra
- Chaltu Ahmed
- Francis Chouler
- Ed Suter
- Richard McCabe
- Jeremy Northam
- Monica Dolan
- Roberto Kyle
- Omar Abu Kadir
- Kim Engelbrecht
- James Gracie
- Barkhad Abdi
- Dileef Rahim
- Robert Omache
- Istar Takow
- Bronson Mwangi
- Lex King
- Andrew Ahula
- Hilowli Hassan
- Abdi Mohamed Osman
- Dek Hassan
- Ali Mohamed
- Ma Mohamed
- John Heffernan
- Iain Glen
- Jessica Jones
- Daniel Fox
- Graham Hopkins
- Michael O'Keefe
- Sonia Esguiera
- Mohamed Abdirahmaan
- Mohamed Fidow
- Laila Robins
- Sabrina Hassan
- Fatima Mohamed Mohamud
- Timayare Shamso Hassan
- Fowzia Dahir
- Abdilatief Takow
- Fatumo Sheknoor Ali
- Hamdi Adam Shire
- Thelma Mabina
- Sandile Ntobla
- Armand Aucamp
- Tyrone Keogh
- Luke Tyler
- Meganne Young
Plots
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
Colonel Katherine Powell (Dame Helen Mirren) is a U.K.-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from "capture" to "kill". But as American pilot Lieutenant Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of U.S. and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Working with her American counterparts and the Kenyan military, British Colonel Katherine Powell (Dame Helen Mirren) is about to launch an operation that, if successful, will lead to the capture of the Number 2, 3, and 5 terrorists on the American list of most wanted terrorists in East Africa. Amongst the group they hope to arrest are British nationals Susan Helen Danford, now known as Ayesha Al-Hady (Lex King), her husband, and a recently radicalized young man who just arrived from the U.K. There is also a radicalized American in the group. Her plan to capture the group goes awry when they suddenly decamp to a new location and Powell wants to move to Plan B: a kill mission. The result is a debate amongst those in charge - in London, there is Powell's commanding officer Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman), a junior minister and the British Attorney General; the British Foreign Secretary is at a trade conference; and the U.S. Secretary of State is in China - on whether they can proceed. From somewhere in the U.S. Midwest, Lieutenant Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is flying the U.S. drone in the sky above Nairobi, and is the man who will ultimately pull the trigger if the kill mission is approved. Complicating matters, however, is the sudden appearance in the "kill zone" of a young girl selling bread. Do they proceed knowing there will be collateral damage?