It's Not How You Play The Game, It's How TheGame Plays YOU!

A veteran CIA officer Nathan Muir( Robert Redford )who is a day away from retirement goes all out tosave his one-time prot間 " Boy Scout " Tom Bishop ( Brad Pitt ), who has gone rogue and detained in a foreignprison scheduled to die in 24 hours. Fearing an international incident,the CIA decides it's too great a risk to try and save him.

So it'ts up to Muir.With a new generation in charge of the agency,the old-school Muir is no longer an insider and must figure out how to outwit the organization he has served for so many years as he scrambles for details on Bishop's situation.

Muir hand-picked Bishop for the field when the younger man was a sharp-shooter in Vietnam,and taught him everything he knew. But a rift divided them long ago. Now, racing the clock, Muir recalls in a series of vivid flashbacks experiences they shared all over the world .He puts on his game facefor his superiors one last time as he describes recruiting the young rookie, training him in the high stakes game of espionage and meeting the woman who threatened their operation-and their friendship.