A year after the events in Paris, on a trip to Istanbul, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) gets a surprise visit from his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), and his ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen). The happy reunion turns sour when Lenore is taken by gangsters serving Murad (Rade Šerbedžija), the employer of the men in the Paris apartment (where Amanda was found dead) and the father of Marko Hoxha, whom Bryan killed in the first film. With his wife held hostage and Kim on the run, Mills must rely on his lethal skills to track down his wife and eliminate all who stand in his way.