PLOT
Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos are friends going to a suburban private Christian high school. They are fixated on playing with toy guns and real guns, and are often sent to the principals' office for disciplinary action. Once, while sent to the principal's office, they meet another student who often misbehaves in school, Anthony Sadler, and the three become friends. Spencer and Alek are from single mother homes and their mothers often stick up for them when called to the principal's office regarding their son's misconduct.
While working part-time at a local smoothie shop,Spencer greets a Marine recruiter who comes in for a smoothie. He asks the recruiter what branch he would choose if he could go back and do it over. The recruiter replies that the Air Force Pararescue save lives and seem to be doing a fine work on the field. Spencer is pumped up by the recruitment speeches and decides to start working out to throw off some extra weight he carries on his husky frame. After months and months of self-training and exercise, he loses weight and gets into much better physical shape. He enlists in the Air Force to become a Pararescueman.
Upon getting through basic training, he takes his exams to qualify for Pararescue but is turned down because of a visual defect of having poor depth perception. Disgruntled, he chooses from the other Airforce options left to him and is soon stationed abroad. His friend Alek has also enlisted and is in the Middle East. On Skype, Alek tells him that he is planning to visit a girlfriend in Germany and the two decide to rendezvous there for their next leave. Spencer calls his other friend Anthony and also talks him into going to Europe on a vacation. After meeting in Germany, they then decide to go to Amsterdam for a few days, and finally decide that its time to visit Paris when they leave Amsterdam Central Station on the 15:17 train to Paris.
On the train, nothing particuarly unusual happens until the passengers notice that one of the toilets has been locked for an unusually long time. When they knock on the door, a terrorist bursts out with firearms and begins struggling with passengers on the moving train. One man wrestles a semi-automatic rifle from the terrorist. The passengers begin to flee out of their seats and rush towards the forward cabins of the train to try to escape. Using a pistol, the terrorist shoots the passenger who took his rifle. Eventually, the terrorist approaches the next car where Spencer is sitting and who is without any firearms to protect himself. The moment Spencer sees him he drops into action deciding that his only hope, and the only hope of the remaining passengers, is that he should try a desperate all-out sprint towards the terrorist in the hope of subduing the terrorist before being hit by bullets fired from the terrorists' machine gun. By remarkable luck, the terrorists' gun jams as he is about to fire on Spencer and Spencer is able to begin knocking the gun out of the terrorist's hands and subduing him. Seeing Spencer's progress, Skarlatos, Sadler and other passengers join in to try to further subdue the terrorist and they finally knock him out. The police at the next station enter the train fully armed to find that Spencer has subdued the terrorist and they begin to treat the wounds inflicted on Spencer in his successful attempt to subdue the terrorist.
In a formal ceremony, Spencer and his friends are recognised as heroes of the French Republic for their gallantry and bravery in subduing the armed terrorist. The terrorist was discovered to have been armed with over 300 rounds of ammunition with the apparent aim of using all of the ammunition to wreck havoc on the unarmed passengers on-board the train. The odds of the particular misfire and jam of the cartridge in the terrorists' weapon was estimated on the scene at being over a thousand-to-one and highly unlikely to have been in Spencer's favour. French officials at the ceremony to honour Spencer's selfless act of valour acknowledge his bravery and he is awarded the French Legion of Honour in recognition of his act of courage.
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