Plot: In the year 2077, Tech 49 Jack Harper (Tom Cruise)
is one of the last drone repairmen stationed on Earth, which was nearly
destroyed 60 years earlier due to the destruction of Earth's moon and an invasion by aliens known as Scavs. From "Tower 49", a base standing above the remains of New York City, Jack and his romantic partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) work as a team to protect the Hydrorigs and to secure and send Earth's remaining resources to a massive tetrahedral
space station – called the Tet – that was humanity’s escape vessel.
Their mission control commander is Sally, who guides them from the Tet
through Jack’s recon and repair trips. The two expect to leave Earth and
join the other survivors at a colony on Titan
in two weeks. Although Jack and Victoria had their memories wiped five
years prior for security purposes, Jack has recurring dreams about a
mysterious woman on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in a time before the war.
One day out on patrol Jack rescues a woman, Julia (Olga Kurylenko),
from a downed pre-invasion spacecraft. He recognizes her as the woman
from his dreams. Julia says her ship – the “Odyssey” – was a NASA mission, and she and Jack retrieve the ship’s flight recorder. They are captured by Scavs, who are revealed to be humans living in an underground stronghold. Their leader, Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman),
claims the alien invasion was a lie and demands that Jack reprogram a
captured drone to destroy the Tet. When Jack refuses, Malcolm releases
the captives but urges them to seek the truth in the “high radiation zone” that Jack is forbidden from entering.
Jack and Julia climb the ruins of the Empire State Building on the
way back, where Julia tells Jack she is his wife: Jack’s dreams were
flashbacks to when he proposed to her on the observation deck. Victoria
sees them re-unite via her video link to Jack’s ship and, when they
return, refuses them entry. When she informs Sally that she and Jack are
no longer an effective team, Sally activates a drone that kills
Victoria. Before the drone can kill Jack, Julia uses the weapons on
Jack's ship to destroy the drone.
Pursued by more drones, Jack and Julia crash in the radiation zone. Jack comes face to face with Tech 52, a clone
of himself. He fights the clone, who begins experiencing memory
flashbacks before Jack renders him unconscious, but Julia is
accidentally shot during the struggle. Jack impersonates Tech 52 to
steal a medkit from Tower 52 to heal Julia's wounds, and there
encounters a clone of Victoria.
Shocked, Jack and Julia return to Beech, who tells them the
disturbing truth: there is no colony on Titan, the Tet is in fact an
alien artificial intelligence that seized Earth for the planet's resources, and that Jack is a clone of the original Jack Harper, an astronaut
from 2017. The Tet initially used Harper's clones as an invading army,
then later switched to drones programmed to kill humans on sight, thus
forcing the survivors to disguise themselves as the Scavs. The Tet now
uses Harper's clones to maintain the drones and thereby maintain its
dominance. Hearing this, Jack agrees to reprogram the stolen drone to
deliver a nuclear bomb into the Tet. When leaving the underground
stronghold with the reprogrammed drone they are attacked by three other
drones. The drones enter the base and wreak havoc inside, destroying the
reprogrammed drone in the process. The humans finally manage to destroy
the three drones, but are forced to find another way to deliver the
nuclear bomb to the Tet. Jack proposes to deliver the bomb himself.
Julia suggests that she accompany Jack, as Sally had already requested
that he bring her to the Tet. This is apparently so that Julia can be
cloned to replace Victoria as Jack’s partner in order to become a more
effective team (although this is only indirectly implied and not
explicitly confirmed). Jack places Julia into a sleeping capsule and
tells Sally they are on their way.
During the flight, Jack listens to the Odyssey's flight recorder, which reveals that he and Victoria were originally pilots on the Odyssey
mission to Titan, which was reassigned by NASA shortly before launch to
explore the newly-discovered Tet. Sally was their supervisor at NASA
mission control, with other personnel including Julia on board in
sleeping capsules. Upon approach, the Tet drew them in with a tractor beam. Recognizing that capture was imminent, Jack was able to jettison the passengers, who orbited for 60 years in suspended animation before crashing to Earth.
As the flight recording finishes, Jack enters the Tet. He sees
thousands of clones of himself and Victoria incubating. When the ship
enters the central chamber, Jack is met by a sentient tetrahedral
structure that seems to have assumed the identity of Jack’s former NASA
mission control supervisor Sally. She welcomes Jack home while
simultaneously sending drones to annihilate the resistance. Jack
presents the sleeping capsule to Sally and opens it to reveal Beech
instead of Julia, who simultaneously emerges from another sleeping
capsule in a secret forest retreat Jack had built for himself. The two
men trigger the nuclear bomb and destroy the Tet. The destruction of the
Tet also deactivates the remaining drones around the world. Humanity is
apparently saved by Jack and Beech's sacrifice.
Three years later, Julia lives a peaceful life with her young
daughter in the forest retreat on the recovering Earth. She and her
daughter then see members of the human resistance. A figure walks out of
the crowd, and it is revealed to be Tech 52.
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