Meanwhile, while being followed by Valentine, Ava finds a security container belonging to her husband, finally establishing definitive proof of Yuri's guilt. He pays a doctor to forge a phony death certificate and remove the bullets from Vitaly's body, but one bullet remains, and Yuri is apprehended by federal agents. Yuri ships his brother's remains back to the United States. He is gunned down by the militia, and while Yuri is spared due to his relationship with Baptiste Sr., he only receives half of the diamonds he was promised.
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Vitaly then steals a pair of grenades and uses them to destroy a truck full of weapons, accidentally killing Baptiste's son. Unable to stomach his guilt, Vitaly pleads with Yuri to abandon the deal, but his brother refuses knowing that Baptiste's men will kill them for refusing to hand over the guns. Yuri picks up Vitaly to assist him with a major deal in Sierra Leone, where a militia force allied with Baptiste is visibly preparing to destroy a refugee camp. When Baptiste visits him in person and offers him the largest payday of his career, a stash of valuable blood diamonds, Yuri goes back to crime. To please his wife, Yuri tries to legitimize his business, but soon becomes frustrated with the difficulties and lower earnings of honest work. Valentine then tells Ava her husband is an arms dealer, prompting her to confront him. Yuri escapes arrest by landing in a remote area and giving away all of his cargo to the locals. During one flight into Africa in 2001, Yuri's plane is intercepted by Valentine and forced to land. ( Eamonn Walker), a ruthless dictator engaged in a brutal civil war in Liberia. Yuri then expands his business to Africa, where he begins a business relationship with Andre Baptiste Sr. He lures childhood crush Ava Fontaine ( Bridget Moynahan) to a false photo shoot, and they subsequently get married and have a son.įollowing the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yuri flies to Ukraine and illegally buys Russian tanks, guns, and munitions through his uncle, a former Soviet general who is overseeing the distribution of weapons to the Ukrainian army. Yuri quietly checks Vitaly into a drug rehabilitation clinic and continues his business alone. Vitaly becomes addicted to cocaine after a Colombian drug lord forces the brothers to accept several kilos of cocaine to pay for an arms sale of numerous Glock 17 pistols.
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Valentine represents a unique threat to Yuri because he is after glory, not money, and thus cannot be bought off. As Yuri begins to prosper by exploiting his growing network of business connections, he comes to the attention of Interpol and in particular, an idealistic agent named Jack Valentine ( Ethan Hawke). The two brothers get their first big break during the 1982 Lebanon War, where they sell weapons to both Israeli and Lebanese troops despite witnessing the same weapons being used to commit war crimes and other atrocities. After successfully completing his first sale of Uzi sub machine gun to a local mobster, Yuri convinces his younger brother, Vitaly ( Jared Leto), to become his partner.
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The incident inspires him to go into the arms trade Yuri muses that the constant need for weapons is the similar to the human need for food and drink, thus he can make a fortune. In the early 1980s, Yuri Orlov ( Nicolas Cage), the eldest son of a family of Ukrainian refugees, is visiting a Brighton Beach restaurant, where he witnesses a Russian mobster kill two would-be assassins holding Kalashnikov rifles.