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Firewall
Jack Stanfield is chief of security of Landrock Pacific Bank in downtown Seattle. He is visited by a collection agency, claiming he owes $95,000 to their online gambling site. Believing the incident is due to an identity theft, Jack entrusts his colleague Harry Romano to take care of the claim. Jack goes out for a drink with Harry who introduces him to Bill Cox, a potential partner. After they leave, Cox climbs into Jack's car and forces him at gunpoint to drive home. There, Jack finds his wife Beth and his two children unharmed, but under surveillance by Cox's man, Willy.
The next morning, Jack is instructed to transfer $10,000 from each of the bank's 10,000 largest depositors – $100 million total – to Cox's offshore accounts. Cox rigs him with a camera and microphone to hinder his ability to ask anyone for help. At Landrock Bank, Cox visits Jack under the alias Bill Redmond, requesting a tour of the bank's security system. On the way back home, Jack attempts to bribe Willy to betray Cox, to no avail. After Willy slipped up (unaware that Jack slipped the camera onto his secretary Janet), Cox kills him. At home, Jack attempts an escape with his family, but is foiled when they discovered Willy's dead body in the car. In retaliation, Cox gives Jack's son Andy a cookie containing nut products, sending him into anaphylactic shock. Cox withholds the treatment, an EpiPen, until Jack acquiesces to their plan.
The next day, Cox forces Jack to fire Janet, fearing she is growing suspicious. Jack complies, but it doesn't end well. Jack initiates a wire transfer to send the money to Cox's offshore accounts. Before leaving, Jack uses an employee's camera phone to take a picture of the account information on the screen. Cox then begins covering his tracks. He forces Jack to delete security data and surveillance tapes and use a virus to cripple the building's system into disarray. Returning home, Jack finds the house empty except for Liam, Cox's enforcer. After realizing that Cox never had any intention of letting him and his family live from the beginning, so as to cover up his crimes, Jack overpowers and kills Liam with a heavy glass blender. He calls Harry, but he does not answer. Jack goes to Harry's house to inquire about Cox, but hearing and witnessing the two entering the house, he goes to hide, where he watches Cox killing Harry with his gun that was confiscated earlier. Beth, held at gunpoint, leaves a message suggesting an affair on Harry's answering machine, implicating Jack in his colleague's death. In addition, the $95,000 debt will be considered motive for Jack embezzling the bank's money.
Jack turns to Janet and reveals the truth. She agrees to help him retrieve the phone with the picture of Cox's account information. Jack hacks into Cox's Cayman Island accounts and transfers the money away. He calls Cox with Liam's phone and they arrange to free his family in exchange for returning the money. During the conversation, Jack hears the family dog Rusty in the background and realizes he can locate his family by the GPS tracking unit in the dog's collar. Cox's gang ditches the dog during mid-drive, but Jack managed to track them to an abandoned farmhouse. He tells Janet to call 911 and approaches the house.
Vel, Cox's tech guy, takes pity on the family and attempts to intervene with killing the family, forcing Cox to kill him. Jack's daughter Sarah runs out of the house. Another henchman, Pim, chases after her, but Jack kills him by ramming him with Janet's car, then hits an RV that explodes and destroys the car. Cox takes Beth and Andy to the upper floor, but Jack enters the house and engages him in a final showdown. Their fight eventually leads them into the ditch Cox had dug for Jack's family. Cox temporarily gains the upper hand, but Jack impales him with a pickaxe, killing him and saving his family. Jack reconciles with them before they head back home together.