Vargas' team attacks again, killing Carlos and his family, but Weston helps Frost escape. Weston tracks Frost to a township in Langa, where Frost meets Carlos Villar, an old friend and document forger, who provides him with travel documents but suggests that he leave his life of crime behind. Weston meets with Ana and admits he is in the CIA, urging her to return to Paris and to tell anyone who asks that they broke up a week ago in order to protect her. En route, Linklater suggests that Weston has joined Frost, which Barlow refutes. Linklater and Barlow go to South Africa themselves. When Whitford tells him "we'll take it from here", Weston decides to pursue Frost himself as Frost had warned him that when he heard that phrase, that was when Weston should become concerned about his own safety. After hearing that Weston fired at the police, Linklater orders him to visit the nearest American embassy for debriefing. Weston contacts Langley to report Frost's escape. Weston, detained by the police, escapes and is forced to fire at them. Barlow tells Weston to go to Cape Town Stadium where he retrieves a GPS device containing the location of another safe house, but Frost creates a diversion and escapes. Weston contacts Ana, giving her a cover story that his office has been threatened and suggesting she stay with friends when it appears their apartment is under surveillance. Linklater orders Weston to lay low and await further instructions.įrost begins to manipulate Weston, insisting that someone within the CIA gave away their location to the mercenaries and that Weston will be forced to take the fall if things go wrong. Weston contacts Barlow at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, along with Catherine Linklater, the operative in charge of Frost's interrogation and Kiefer's superior, and CIA Deputy Director Harlan Whitford, who is overseeing the operation. The mercenaries, led by Vargas, attack the safe house and kill Kiefer and his team. Weston watches uneasily as Kiefer's team waterboards Frost. Frost flees and, out of options, surrenders to the American consulate.Ī team led by veteran Daniel Kiefer transfers Frost to Weston's safe house in order to interrogate him for intelligence before he is returned to the US. A team of mercenaries attacks them and kills Wade. Barlow promises to revisit the issue in a few months.Įlsewhere in Cape Town, ex-CIA NOC operative turned international criminal Tobin Frost acquires a data storage device from rogue MI6 officer Alec Wade. Barlow tells him he is likely underqualified for the position, which frustrates Matt as he has not had a "houseguest" during his year long tenure, and thus has been unable to gain field experience. He calls his mentor and immediate superior, David Barlow, and inquires about a station in Paris, where he hopes to follow his live-in girlfriend Ana, a young French physician about to start her residency. In Cape Town, South Africa, junior CIA officer Matt Weston is serving as a "housekeeper", an operative in charge of securing and maintaining a local CIA safe house in case of an operation. It earned mixed reviews, with praise for Washington and Reynolds' performances, but criticisms for the screenplay and editing on the action scenes, and was a commercial success, earning $208 million worldwide against its $85 million budget. The film premiered in New York City on February 7, 2012, and was released in U.S. As the team of killers, who seem to be one step ahead of the pair, track them throughout Cape Town, Weston begins to wonder who to trust.įilming took place in Cape Town, South Africa. When the safe house is attacked by mercenaries who kill almost all the operatives, Weston flees with Frost in his charge, and they end up on the run. The film follows Matt Weston ( Ryan Reynolds), a CIA officer on a low-level posting in Cape Town who is in charge of a safe house where the CIA is interrogating Tobin Frost ( Denzel Washington), a veteran operative who has allegedly betrayed the agency. Safe House is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa.
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