Jack Stone: Killed in Action

Jack Stone: Killed in Action is a 2015 action film made by Fox Way Studios. It is the second published Fox Way Studios film, as well as the first film in the "Jack Stone" series. The film was released on November 8th, 2015.

The film is directed by Tony Cole and it stars Tony Cole as Jack Stone, Thomas Sanford as General Doyle 'H' and as the Masked Assassin and Michael Coughlin as 003.

The film spawned six sequels: Jack Stone: Instruments of Armageddon in 2016, Jack Stone: For Queen and Country in 2017, Jack Stone: Second to None in 2017, Jack Stone: Rogue Albion in 2018, Jack Stone: Diamond Cutter in 2018 and Jack Stone: End of the Line in 2019 as well a spin-off series, Jack Stone Classified in 2020.

Synopsis
The Jack Stone franchise pays homage to the legendary James Bond film series, just with original characters and storylines. In his first adventure, Jack Stone, Agent 006 of the Secret Service, is sent to investigate the murder of one of his colleagues and retrieve a stolen harddrive - a harddrive, that in the wrong hands could have catastrophic consequences.

Plot
In Northern Scotland, 2015, agent 003 is returning from a successful mission. He stops at a bridge and calls the MI-X headquarters. He informs that he has the hard-drive in his possession, and is waiting for a ride back to London. Unbeknownst to him, he is being watched from the root of the river by the masked assassin, who takes his rifle out and shoots 003. While running up to the bridge, the masked assassin drops the magazine from his rifle. He takes the hard-drive off of 003 hands and walks away.

At the MI-X headquarters, General Doyle gets a phone call from the prime minister of the United Kingdom. What the prime minister says is unknown, but Doyle tells him that he understands the severity of the situation and that he will assign his best man with this mission. He puts on his headphones and says to pass him through the 006.

Somewhere in Belarus, Jack Stone, agent 006, is having a shootout with some local terrorists. His phone starts ringing. He answers and tells Doyle that he called him in a bad time. He shoots an assault rifle wielding terrorist and gets back to Doyle who tells him to get back to the headquarters as soon as possible. Jack puts his phone away and shoots one more bad guy, before trying to run away, leaving one alive. Thinking he is safe, Jack lowers his pistol only to have one be put against the back of his head. Jack throws away his pistol, but manages to disarm the terrorist who pulls out a knife. He tries to stab Jack, but Jack gets a hold of his hand and stabs him instead. Jack takes back his pistol and runs away. Jack returns to the MI-X headquarters and meets Doyle in his office. Doyle tells Jack that several weeks ago a hard drive containing the names of all agents working for the secret service, was stolen. He tells that 003 managed to successfully steal the hard-drive, but got killed in action, leading to the hard-drive being stolen once more and until the hard-drive is retrieved, no one on the secret service is safe. Doyle tells him that Jack must go to Scotland to retrieve the hard-drive. Before Jack leaves he asks for any 'gifts' from Doyle. Doyle gives him his repaired watch and a few flashbangs disguised as marble balls. Jack leaves for Scotland.

In Scotland, Jack reaches the bridge where 003 was murdered. He scouts from the bridge and sees a position on the side of the river, from where 003 could have been shot from. He goes there, but finds nothing and so returns. When walking back, he stumbles on the magazine that the masked assassin dropped when shooting 003. He identifies it as being from the same type of rifle 003 was shot with. Jack calls MI-X and informs them, but also sees two masked men walking up to the location, so he hides in the bushes near the river. He hears the men talk about getting rid of the evidence that was left behind by the masked assassin. Jack throws the magazine closer to the men and gets himself deeper into the bushes. One of the henchmen find the magazine and both are about to leave, but Jack's phone starts ringing, alerting them. The henchmen do not notice Jack until he shoots one of them. A shootout starts between the living henchman and Jack. Jack manages to shoot the henchman, and take back the magazine, but from behind he is approached by the masked assassin who knocks him out. Jack wakes up in a garage, tied to a chair. The masked assassin confirms that he knows who Jack is although Jack doesn't know who the masked assassin is. He also confirms that he isn't the one leading the operation, by saying: "Oh well. I pulled the trigger. But the decision itself came from above." He doesn't reveal much to Jack, but says that they have big plans. He tells him that Jack will either tell him what his superiors know or he will torture Jack until he tells him what his superiors know. Jack chooses the latter. The masked assassin leaves the garage as his henchmen start beating Jack up. While the henchmen are choosing from a variety of tools to torture Jack with, Jack manages to break his ties with a laser added to his wristwatch. He takes out the marble flashbangs and drops them, blinding the room. He grabs the other henchman, controlling his weapon and shoots the other. He breaks the neck of the one left alive.

The masked assassin peaks through the door, but when he sees Jack free, he starts running. Jack starts chasing him. The masked assassin leads Jack to an open field where Jack manages to shoot the assassin in the leg, who still, wounded, manages to disarm Jack. The assassin reaches for his pistol and so does Jack leading to both of them fighting for it. The assassin, knowing he can't defeat Jack wounded, pulls the pistol to his head. Jack tells the assassin that they can protect him, to which the assassin replies: "Not from them." The assassin shoots himself. Jack takes the hard-drive off from the assassin. He sees a small tattoo on the wrist of the assassin and takes a picture of it. Jack returns to the headquarters, and meets Doyle once again in his office. Doyle congratulates Jack and tells that now that the hard-drive is back, the agents working for the secret service are safe. Jack asks about the tattoo the masked assassin had and Doyle pulls out a small folder with the same symbol on it and the text: "the VORTEX crime syndicate".

Cast

 * Tony Cole as Jack Stone and as terrorist (uncredited)
 * Thomas Sandford as General Doyle 'H', as the masked assassin and as henchman (uncredited)
 * Michael Coughlin as 003 and as henchman
 * Alex Kaufmann as henchman

Locations

 * Europe
 * United Kingdom
 * Scotland
 * Bridge
 * The masked assassin's garage
 * Small field
 * England
 * London
 * MI-X headquarters
 * Doyle's first office
 * Belarus
 * Playground

Characters

 * Jack Stone
 * Howard Doyle
 * The masked assassin
 * 003
 * Prime minister of the United Kingdom (mentioned)

Items

 * The hard-drive
 * Jack's wristwatch
 * Marble flashbangs

Organizations

 * Secret Intelligence Service
 * MI-X
 * MI-5 (mentioned)
 * MI-6 (mentioned)
 * Vortex

Production
Jack Stone: Killed in Action was announced on the 31st of October, 2015, through a set photo published on Tony Cole's Instagram. The film itself was released on the 8th of November, 2015. The film might have been recorded during these nine days.

The film uses different songs from the "007" film series.