Erased – The sequel to Chuck Russell‘s Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger

In rural Virginia, retired Witness Protection (WP) specialist John Kruger (Arnold) – the legendary “Eraser” who once faked deaths and gave new identities to high-risk witnesses – is visited by new agents from his old workplace, led by one Steven Holabeek. They claim they are erasing him to protect him from the foreign terror group Emerging Justice, based on a CIA tip-off. In reality, these rogue agents are secretly working with the terrorists and plan to kill him. The official government won’t risk a diplomatic scandal with the terrorists’ home country – a powerful Middle Eastern ally – so the corrupt agents use the “protection” story as cover for the hit.

Meanwhile, Carina (Yennis Cheung), a sharp Chinese Internal Affairs investigator, has been quietly building a case against this exact rogue cell inside WP for months.

Kruger is placed in a secret underground facility, but the hit squad is interrupted by Carina. She saves him, and the unlikely partners team up. They escape from the black site using a massive digger, then hit the road. Presumed dead and missing an identity, Kruger experiences various complications – dodging police checks, scraping by without resources, and staying one step ahead of bounty hunters.

Carina and John follow the path to the rogue cell within the agency, using all their dirty tricks against them. They locate the fortified agency unit office in Colorado, whose basement neighbors a river. John simulates concrete weakness and opens a hole in the wall with a targeted micro explosion. “It’s like Judgment Day!” He surfs on the rushing floodwaters through the hole and takes out any surviving agents, while Carina downloads all the data from the servers.

It turns out the corrupt cell has been getting rid of inconvenient people – and worse – under the pretext of WP, doing the opposite of their job. Emerging Justice works with the turncoats to smuggle women under WP as white slaves to the Middle East. It’s the perfect crime, because those persons don’t exist officially.

John and Carina keep following the digital trail to Emerging Justice’s HQ in the mountains of the Middle East. To travel abroad, an old friend from the agency (Robert Redford) provides him with a fake passport and the new identity of Julian Cocker. In the mountainous region, John sneaks into the camp by hanging from a flying Reaper drone that Carina has hacked and is controlling from the ground. As John cleans up the place, the terrorist leader tries to escape on a helicopter. Carina throws a grappling hook on a rope from a nearby ridge, yanks him back, and shouts, “Get off the chopper!”

Finally, Arnold releases the abductees and says with a grin, “Relax. You’ve been unerased.”