A kind-hearted landlady commits suicide after falling victim to a phishing scam, leading former "Beekeeper" operative Adam Clay to set out on a brutal campaign for revenge upon those responsible.
Adam Clay is a beekeeper, but someone very important to him is scammed and driven to harm. However, what these power and money hungry scammers don't know, is that Clay is an agent in a classified program called Beekeepers, and they underestimate how much of a threat he is. Adam sets out on a quest of vengeance, where he hunts and kills those responsible for the incident.
SPOILERS: In Hampden, Massachusetts, Adam Clay is a beekeeper who has several hives of bees. He rents some space in a barn owned by retired teacher Eloise Parker, a widow who owns and lives in the house on the property. While they both live alone, the two are friendly with one another -- Clay sees Eloise as the only person who ever took care of him. While checking some things on her laptop computer, Eloise sees a warning about two viruses in the system. She calls the number on the screen, and connects to a call center that's located in Springfield, Massachusetts, not aware that it's a phishing scam. The call center's manager, Mickey Garnett, cons Eloise out of everything -- including more than $2,000,000 that's in the account of Safe Homes Foundation, a children's charity whose account she manages. Devastated by the realization that she got scammed out of so much, Eloise shoots herself in the head. Adam finds Eloise's body in her house, and he's immediately arrested by Eloise's daughter, Boston-based FBI Special Agent Verona Parker, who hastily accuses Adam of shooting Eloise. Verona learns that Eloise was scammed out of every penny she had. Adam is quickly cleared when Eloise's death is ruled a suicide because there was no gunshot residue on Adam, and Eloise's fingerprints were the only prints on the gun. Verona apologizes to Adam for her accusation, and she tells him that the FBI cyber-crimes office has told her that the scammer crew that victimized Eloise has been operating for two years, but the FBI hasn't been able to identify any of the scammers. Verona vows to find the scammers, but Adam, enraged by what happened, decides to hunt down the scammers himself, and make them pay for what they did to Eloise. Upon learning the hard way that Adam is after them, Garnett explains the situation to the crew's ringleader, 28-year-old tech executive Derek Danforth, who runs a Boston-based corporation called Danforth Enterprises. Derek assigns the company's head of security, former CIA director Wallace Westwyld, to find a way to stop Adam. But Wallace learns that Adam is a retired member of a classified program called the Beekeepers, whose members are tasked with fighting different forms of corruption, operating above and beyond governmental jurisdiction. The Beekeepers are so efficient and well-trained that they make the military look like a joke. Wallace realizes that Adam is a man who should be feared by people like Derek. Adam proves to be an unstoppable force, and Derek, Garnett, and the rest of the scammers have no idea what kind of scorched-Earth hell Adam is about to unleash on them.—Todd Baldridge
The beekeeper Adam Clay farms his bees and produces honey in a barn rented from the gentle landlady Eloise Parker, who treats him with affection. When she falls in a phishing scam, all her money, credit cards and the money of a charity institution that she is the administrator immediately vanishes from her account and she commits suicide. Adam visits her during the night and is surprised by her daughter, the FBI Agent Verona Parker that believes he is the killer. But soon the investigation shows that it was suicide, Adam is released, and Verona shows him what happened to her mother. Adam is a retired and skilled agent from a secret program called Beekeeper and resolves to find the responsible for the death of Eloise. He finds the address of the scammer and kills the responsible scammers and burns their building to the ashes. Now he is hunting down the owner of the scam, who is connected to important people while Verona and her partner Agent Matt Wiley follow his track of destruction and death.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In rural Massachusetts, Eloise Parker is a retired school teacher living a lonely life, but shares a warm friendship with Adam Clay, a quiet beekeeper living in her barn. Eloise falls for a phishing scam that bankrupts her and steals her life savings, including more than $2 million from her charity. A devastated Eloise shoots herself. Adam discovers her body and is arrested by FBI agent Verona Parker, Eloise's daughter. After being cleared and released, Adam contacts a mysterious group called the Beekeepers to track down the scammers as he wants to exact revenge for Eloise's death.
They trace it to a nearby call center run by Mickey Garnett. Adam storms the call center and burns it down. Mickey's boss Derek Danforth orders Mickey to kill Adam, who dispatches Mickey's men at the barn and amputates some of Mickey's fingers with a handsaw. Mickey escapes and calls Derek, but is caught and dragged off a bridge by Adam, who threatens Derek over Mickey's phone.
Derek informs Wallace Westwyld, a former CIA director-turned-security director for Derek's tech firm Danforth Enterprises, of Adam's threat. Recognizing Adam as a former Beekeeper, Wallace alerts current CIA director Janet Harward, who dispatches Anisette, an active Beekeeper, to kill him, but Adam repels Anisette's ambush at a gas station near Springfield and burns her to death; the Beekeepers promptly declare neutrality. Wallace organizes an ex-special forces protective team led by Pettis and briefs them on the Beekeepers-an elite clandestine human intelligence organization that operates outside governmental checks and balances, tasked with protecting the United States and the global system, akin to worker policing and how beekeepers maintain bee colonies. Like worker bees, Beekeepers technically continue to work for the organization until death, but Adam considers himself retired and views his pursuit of Derek as personal.
Verona and her partner Matt Wiley, who have been investigating Adam's chaos, anticipate his next target is the Nine Star United Center in Boston, which oversees Derek's global scam call centers. FBI deputy director Jackson Prigg authorizes an FBI SWAT deployment to secure the area, but they are beat there by Pettis's team, who order them out. However, Nine Star executive Rico Anzalone's refusal to obey Pettis and evacuate the Nine Star employees causes confusion that enables Adam to incapacitate the FBI SWAT team, kill Pettis and his men, and interrogate Anzalone. Verona, Wiley and the Boston Police Department arrest Anzalone and the Nine Star employees, but Adam disarms Wiley and escapes. Investigating Nine Star, Verona and Wiley learns that Derek is the son of Jessica Danforth, former Danforth Enterprises CEO and current U.S. President, who they fear Adam will kill next, owing to the behavior of worker bees to kill their queen bee if it produces an "inferior son".
Verona, Wiley and Prigg join the Secret Service Counter Assault Team and Derek's mercenary security detail, led by veteran Beekeeper-killer Lazarus, to secure a party at the Danforths' coastal mansion, where Derek believes he will be safe as Beekeepers would not harm close associates of the President. Adam sneaks in regardless and, after being spotted by Verona, fights his way through mercenaries and CAT agents to reach the Danforths in their office, killing Lazarus in a brutal knife-fight and injuring Wallace when he orders Adam to stand down. Meanwhile, Prigg confronts Derek, who admits to misusing Wallace's CIA algorithms to organize scams and rig Jessica's election by flipping the necessary swing counties in her favor. A horrified Jessica announces that she will expose Derek's crimes to the public even if it adversely affects her position, prompting an enraged Derek to shoot Prigg and take Jessica hostage just as Adam, Verona and Wiley enter the room. When Derek tries to execute Jessica, Adam shoots him, saving her life, and flees through a window. Verona gives chase and holds Adam at gunpoint, but ultimately decides to leave him. Adam retrieves his hidden scuba set at the beach and disappears into the sea.
