Dublin in Pieces

In 1963, professional thief turned CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) extracts Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander), daughter of Udo Teller (Christian Berkel), an alleged Nazi scientist turned United States collaborator at the end of World War II, from East Berlin, evading KGB operative Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer). Gaby does not know Udo, as she was left to be raised by a mechanic almost two decades ago. Udo was Hitler's favorite rocket scientist. Solo tells Gaby that Udo was working for the Americans after the war and was associated with the US nuclear program. But he disappeared 2 years ago. Solo shows pictures of Udo taken in Rome. Gaby agree to collaborate with Solo, when she realizes that the KGB is after her and they would torture her to get the information that she does not have. Illya Kuryakin was briefed on Solo prior to the mission. Solo joined the US army when he was 18 and was posted to Europe during WWII. He stayed back as part of the occupying force and made profits by stealing and selling high end arts and antiquities. He taught himself many languages and was hunted by the police of 4 countries. After he was caught, he came to the attention of the CIA, who recruited him rather than let him waste in jail. Solo is CIA's most successful and prolific agent. Solo was ordered to get Gaby by his superiors as they want to trace Udo, who might be collaborating with private terrorists to build a private nuclear bomb. Gaby might know the location of her uncle Rudi (Gaby's mother's brother), who might know where Udo is currently. Udo was working on a process to simply the process of making enriched uranium, making it possible for anyone to build a bomb. Solo smuggles Gaby out of East Berlin, using a zip line from the roof of an apartment building on the border between the East and the West. Solo later reports to his superior, Saunders (Jared Harris), who reveals that Teller's uncle Rudi (Sylvester Groth) works in a shipping company owned by Alexander (Luca Calvani) and Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki), a wealthy couple of Nazi sympathizers who intend to use Teller's father to build their own private nuclear weapon. Solo did not want to get involved in the mission, but was forced by Saunders, under the threat of going back to complete his prison sentence. Solo was afraid by the strength displayed by Kuryakin during his pursuit of Solo and Gaby through East Berlin. Due to the potentially world-ending nature of this crisis, the CIA and KGB have reluctantly teamed up and Solo and Kuryakin are ordered to stop the Vinciguerras from succeeding, with both men secretly assigned to steal Udo Teller's research for their respective governments. Unknown to Solo, the KGB operative is told to not let Gaby escape, and to kill Solo if necessary. The trio travels to Rome, where Teller and Kuryakin pose as an engaged couple and Solo as an antiquities dealer as their respective covers. Solo deduces they are being monitored and instructs Kuryakin not to react to provocation so as to preserve this cover. Despite their hostilities towards each other, Kuryakin heeds his advice and does not react when his father's prized watch is stolen by the goons sent by Vinciguerra's to determine their covers. Later, at an auto racing event promoted by the Vinciguerras, Solo and Teller take turns flirting with the host couple to lure out information about Teller's father, while Kuryakin acquires evidence the Vinciguerras were recently exposed to radiation, indicating that their weapon is near completion. Solo and Kuryakin begrudgingly join forces to break into a Vinciguerra shipping yard, in which they find traces of uranium. After accidentally setting off the alarm, they escape into the water only to find their way blocked. During the ensuing scuffle with the guards, Kuryakin nearly drowns in the waters but is saved by Solo. Although a suspicious Victoria pursues them with her henchmen, Solo and Kuryakin manage to slip past into their own rooms undetected, and Victoria and Solo spend the night together. The following day, Teller meets with Rudi and Alexander to discuss a job but unexpectedly betrays Solo & Kuryakin to them, forcing him to escape, while Solo is sedated and captured by Victoria and taken to a nearby warehouse to be tortured by Rudi. Solo is saved by Kuryakin, allowing Rudi to reveal that the weapon is hidden in an island fortress, where Teller has been reunited with her father. Udo pretends to resume work on the weapon to protect her, which has a secondary decoy that can home in on it for added impact, but although Teller attempts to help her father escape and sabotage the warhead, Victoria discovers the deception and kills him. Meanwhile, Solo and Kuryakin are approached by Alexander Waverly (Hugh Grant), a high-ranking MI6 operative who reveals that Teller is an undercover agent under his employ. He and his Royal Marines help Solo and Kuryakin infiltrate the Vinciguerras' compound. Alexander Vinciguerra attempts to escape with Teller and the warhead but is intercepted by Kuryakin and killed. Solo retrieves the disc with Teller's research. However, the warhead Vinciguerra was taking with him was the decoy, allowing Victoria to leave undetected on another boat with the real one. Solo is able to contact her via radio and keep her on the line long enough for Waverly to locate her and launch the homing decoy, simultaneously destroying the weapon and the boat, taking Victoria with it, while Solo retrieves the disc with Teller's father's research. Kuryakin confronts Solo in his hotel room, intending to kill him and steal the disc, but changes his mind when Solo produces his father's watch, which he had retrieved. The two appear to destroy the disc so as to prevent both their countries from gaining the upper hand in the nuclear race. They then reunite with Teller and Waverly, who reveals that the trio has been reassigned to a new international organization under his command. He then deploys them on a new mission in Istanbul under their new code-name: U.N.C.L.E.