Six months later in Paris, a depressed and drunken Booker is astonished to find Quynh in his apartment. With renewed faith in their existence, the group tasks Copley with maintaining their secret and finding missions where they can have an effect. The rest of the group meets with Copley, who explains how his research revealed their past missions had a greater effect than they ever knew, with the descendants of people they had rescued going on to help the world in many different ways. She storms Merrick's London office and after she frees the rest of the immortals, they fight their way out through the rest of Merrick's security, with Nile saving Andy from Merrick by grabbing him and jumping out of a window, killing him.Īs punishment for his betrayal, the group sentence Booker to loneliness - forbidding Booker from contacting them for 100 years. Nile, having realized Booker sold out the group, arrives too late to intervene, but she convinces Copley to assist her in a rescue mission.
Copley has a change of heart when he sees that Merrick is willing to torture the immortals indefinitely to study them. As they are captured, however, Booker realizes that Andy is not healing. Booker locates Copley, while Nile separates from the group to reunite with her family.Īndy and Booker confront Copley, only for Booker to betray Andy and shoot her, arguing that Merrick might find a way to end the immortality they have both grown weary of. While Booker regenerates, Andy kills all of their assailants but is wounded and realizes she is not healing. The group is ambushed by Merrick's forces Joe and Nicky are captured while a seemingly deceased Booker is left behind. She is also told about the female immortal Quynh, the first of Andy's comrades, who was captured, accused of witchcraft, and lost to them when cast somewhere into the sea in an iron maiden, and has been continually drowning ever since. The group shares some of their past and reveal that they are not truly immortal: their ability to heal eventually stops, without warning, which happened to a previous immortal, Lykon. Andy brings Nile to a safe house in France, where she meets the rest of their team. Andy tracks down a confused Nile and extracts her from Afghanistan before military personnel can transfer her for further testing.Ĭopley shows the video of the ambush to pharmaceutical executive Steven Merrick, who sends operatives to capture the team. Later, she shares a disturbing dream with the other immortals, who are then alerted to her existence, as they experience dreams of any new immortals until found. Marine Nile Freeman has her throat slit while taking down a military target during a house search, only to recover without a scratch. After quickly recovering and killing their attackers, they realize that Copley set them up and remotely filmed their regeneration.
During the mission, which proves to be a ruse, they are ambushed and killed.
Breaking their rule of never working for the same employers twice, they accept a job from former CIA operative James Copley to rescue a group of kidnapped girls in South Sudan. Andromache of Scythia ("Andy"), Booker, Joe, and Nicky are centuries-old warriors with unexplained regenerative healing abilities who use their vast experience to work as mercenaries, taking missions that help people.