Tom is wounded and disarmed, and Frankie prepares to kill him but realizes he too has been shot. Tom convinces Megan that only he can save Frankie from being killed by the authorities, and she directs him to the boat.Īt the dock, Tom sneaks aboard as Frankie sets sail with the missiles, leading to a shootout. Downstairs, Tom interrupts a cocktail party and confronts the judge, before recognizing Megan from a photo in Frankie's bag, but Frankie escapes. The resulting explosion allows Frankie to kill Burke and his men, and he drives off with the missiles.įrankie goes to Megan at the Fitzsimmons' residence, determined to complete his mission and deliver the missiles to Ireland.
Demanding the money, Burke presents Frankie with the missiles as well as Sean's severed head, and Frankie hands over a duffel bag rigged with a bomb. With Eddie dead, Tom is questioned by the FBI and their British counterparts and realizes that they intend to kill Frankie, who meets Burke at an abandoned warehouse. Stuck in traffic en route to the police station, Frankie overpowers Tom and takes his gun, mortally wounding Eddie when he draws his own gun, but is forced to flee without the money. Confronted by Tom, Frankie reveals his true identity, but Tom has called Eddie and they arrest him. Realizing that the intruders were searching Frankie's room in the basement, Tom discovers the duffel bag of cash. Frankie confronts Burke for sending his men to steal the money, shooting one of the attackers in the knee, but Burke reveals that he is holding Sean hostage and demands payment for the missiles. Frankie arrives and he and Tom fight off the intruders as Sheila calls the police, but they are held at gunpoint until sirens approach and the assailants flee. He comes clean to Sheila and they return home, only to be confronted by masked intruders. Megan later warns Frankie that MacDuff has been killed by British authorities and they must postpone the deal, much to Burke's displeasure.Īfter lying to protect his partner, Eddie Diaz, for fatally shooting an unarmed thief in the back, a guilt-stricken Tom decides to retire from the force.
Fitzsimmons has the money for the deal delivered to Frankie by Megan Doherty, another IRA operative posing as his family's nanny, and Frankie hides the duffel bag of cash in the O'Meara's basement. Frankie cuts a deal with black market arms dealer and Irish mobster Billy Burke to receive the missiles in several weeks time. Sean reunites with Frankie, acquiring an old fishing boat to smuggle the missiles home. Believing that "Rory" is an immigrant construction worker, Tom and his family welcome Frankie into their home. American Judge Peter Fitzsimmons, a longtime IRA supporter, arranges for him to stay with NYPD Sergeant Tom O'Meara, his wife Sheila, and their three daughters on Staten Island. Under the alias "Rory Devaney", Frankie arrives in New York City to buy missiles. Pursued by a British Army helicopter, Frankie's commander Martin MacDuff decides that the IRA needs Stinger missiles to fight back. Two of the IRA gunmen are killed, but Frankie and his comrade Sean Phelan escape.
Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three fellow IRA members are ambushed by the British Army and Special Reconnaissance Unit agents. In 1972 Northern Ireland, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses his father gunned down for Irish republican sympathies. The plan is complicated by an Irish-American policeman (Ford), whom the IRA member has come to regard as family. The plot revolves around a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Pitt) who comes to the United States to obtain black market anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down British helicopters in Northern Ireland. The film was written by Vincent Patrick, David Aaron Cohen, and Kevin Jarre. Pakula, who died the next year, and the final film photographed by Gordon Willis, who retired soon after. It was the final film directed by Alan J. The Devil's Own is a 1997 American action thriller film starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, with Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles, Margaret Colin, and Treat Williams in supporting roles.
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