ARGYLLE is the story of a writer being chased by a dangerous organization. Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) is a successful spy novelist, who has written five volumes of Argylle. It’s about a secret agent named Aubrey Argylle (Henry Cavill) and his adventures. Elly’s fans are stunned not just by the edge-of-the-seat narrative in her books but also by how the events depicted have later happened in real life. She gets stuck while writing the sixth part and decides to meet her parents to get fresh ideas. While she is travelling on the train, she meets a dishevelled passenger Adian (Sam Rockwell). He reveals himself to be an actual spy and that her life is in danger. She rubbishes it off but the next second, she gets attacked by goons. Adian rescues her and then explains how the happenings in her books have raised eyebrows, especially the hacker angle. He also informs her that a real-life hacker, Bakunin (Stanley Morgan), was supposed to deliver a digital file, containing important information, to Adian at Albert Memorial, London. However, he never turned up. Adian asks Elly to switch on her thinking cap and guess why Bakunin was a no-show and where he must have kept the file. The goons, who attacked Elly, belong to the ‘Division’, a criminal organization, headed by Ritter (Bryan Cranston). They also wanted to locate the file and hence, they tried to kidnap Elly. Adian’s mission is to now save Elly from the Division and retrieve the file. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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