South Africa, 1902
Orlando is The Duke of Oxford,
travels with his wife Emily, and son Conrad and their bodyguard Shola
to a camp where he meets with General Kitchener and his assistant Morton
Just as he and Kitchener begin to discuss their business
a sniper begins firing at the soldiers at the camp
Emily runs to protect her son, but is shot in the abdomen
before Shola finds the assassin and kills him
Orlando stays by Emily’s side as she dies
she tells him to protect Conrad and Orlando promised her
Conrad runs to his mother and Orlando hugs him
Twelve years later, Orlando and Conrad arrive back at their estate
he speaks to the nanny, Polly Watkins, while Conrad trains in combat with Shola
Later, Orlando takes Conrad to the Kingsman tailor shop,
where the former occasionally conducts business
Elsewhere, at a secret location
the Mad Monk Grigori Rasputin
arrives to join several other nefarious tyrants,
including Gavrilo Princip Erik Jan Hanussen Mata Hari and Alfred DuPont
They are met by their leader a hidden Scottish villain called The Shepherd
He assigns the members of his group different rings with animal icons
When Rasputin complains about getting a tortoise and wanting to switch with Princip,
The Shepherd demonstrates his cruelty by killing one of his beloved goats
and He then sends Princip out for his first task
Conrad joins his father as they ride through a parade
with Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie
Princip makes his assassination attempt, by hurling a bomb at the Archduke’s escort car,
but Conrad deflects the bomb with an umbrella hitting the car behind them
and They attempt to drive to safety
Princip is sitting near a café preparing to commit suicide with a cyanide pill
hidden in the ring for his failure
but he sees the Archduke’s car driving toward a dead end
Princip seizes the opportunity, and shoots both Ferdinand and Sophie
killing them before he is arrested
In the aftermath, Orlando worries as he knows European powers will come into conflict
He tells Conrad about three cousins King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II
and Tsar Nicholas II who are now the respective rulers of England Germany and Russia
The three have always been in conflict, but Orlando’s allegiance lies with King George
Hanussen acts as an advisor to Wilhelm, while Rasputin is close to Nicholas and his family
World War I soon breaks out
and devastates Europe for over two years
The Shepherd celebrates his organization’s victory
but he plans to have Russia pull out of the war
leaving Germany to direct its forces toward England
since The Shepherd holds a grudge against England for oppressing Scotland
Rasputin manipulates Nicholas and his wife
by slipping their son Alexei a candy laced with poison
then using his so-called holy powers to heal the boy
thereby convincing Nicholas to keep Russia out of the war
Orlando and Kitchener disagree on their stances regarding the war
with Conrad wanting to join the fight but Orlando refusing to let him endanger himself
Later on his ship
Kitchener expresses sorrow for the countless lives lost, while a nearby
submarine launches a missile that destroys Kitchener’s ship killing everyone on board
Orlando later receives a letter that Kitchener wrote before his death in
which he expressed regret for their last encounter
he then brings Conrad to meet with Polly and Shola
in their secret headquarters where they plan to take matters into their own hands
He tells them, that he visited Princip in his prison cell, and stopped two guards
from hanging him, by fighting them off and then getting information out of him
He knows of the villains’ organization and they plan to target Rasputin and kill him,
before his influence makes matters worse
Orlando also explains to Conrad that he is a pacifist because although he was a skilled killer
he felt that killing took away too much of his soul
The team travels to Russia with the plan being,
that they get Conrad to play into Rasputin’s fondness for young men
before tricking him into eating a poisoned Bakewell Tart
due to the Mad Monk’s love for sweet cakes
Orlando and Conrad infiltrate a dinner held by Rasputin,
but he finds Conrad boring and directs his interest toward Orlando
He brings Orlando into his chambers and claims he can heal Orlando’s injured leg
Rasputin performs a bizarre ritual where he licks the wound on Orlando’s leg,
before stuffing his face with half of the cake
However, Rasputin vomits the cake out
He guides Orlando outside to the frozen lake to dip his leg in
before revealing he knew that the cake was laced with cyanide
and because he takes poison every morning to develop an immunity to it
He attempts to drown Orlando before Conrad and Shola intervene
The two battle Rasputin, before Orlando comes to
Conrad fires a bullet that knocks Rasputin’s blade out of his hand, before he can kill Shola
but Rasputin goes to kill Conrad
Orlando stabs Rasputin in the chest
and drags him to the lake to drown him
Rasputin rises for one more kill attempt, but Polly shoots him in the head and kills him
The team returns home on the train and celebrates Conrad’s birthday
While he wants to continue the fight and head into battle, Orlando refuses to let his son get into it
later, Polly intercepts a message from Wilhelm’s secretary to Mexico
as they are trying to get Germany to join forces with them to attack the United States
President Woodrow Wilson is contacted and informed of this
but he dismisses it until he has concrete evidence and he refuses to get involved with the war
Meanwhile, Conrad switches places with a soldier Archie Reid and takes his place on the frontlines
he joins other British and Scottish soldiers against the German army
An informant for the British army runs toward them, but is incapacitated by a bomb
The General informs the soldiers, that they must recover the informant’s body
from the battlefield at night, and recover what he was carrying
Later that night, Conrad joins five other men, as they make a quiet confrontation with the Germans
They stab each other nearly being killed by a large German with a hammer
but a British soldier shoots the large German
leading to both sides opening fire on one another, and dropping explosives
Conrad runs to safety and encounters the informant, who just got his leg blown off
he breaks down in tears as he has now killed people
and did not even get to say goodbye to his father
and the informant comforts him
In the morning, Conrad carries the informant across the battlefield
The Germans spot them and begin to fire at them but the British army returns fire
Conrad and the informant are blown into the barracks by an explosive,
with the informant being killed
he delivers the item that the informant was carrying,
but when he tells the General that he is Archie
a soldier claiming to be friends with Archie
called Conrad out on being a liar
and accuses him of being a German spy, so he shoots Conrad in the head and kills him
Orlando is informed of his son’s death
A funeral is held, with Shola and Polly attending, and mourning Conrad
Orlando falls into a deep depression and begins drinking avoiding help from Polly
However, after speaking to King George,
Orlando decides to join Polly and Shola in completing the task to honor Conrad’s memory
It turns out the item Conrad recovered from the informant,
was written proof of the telegram sent by Wilhelm’s secretary
Hanussen and Hari arrive to find, The Shepherd dueling with another member
before learning that Wilson received the telegram
The Shepherd kills the other member,
and sends Hari to the United States to get Wilson under their thumb
Meanwhile, Nicholas steps down from the throne
Orlando travels to the United States as well,
where he finds that Hari already got to Wilson and has met with the Ambassador
he knows she is a villain and Hari attempts to attack him,
but Orlando subdues her and strangles her with her scarf
He then meets with the Ambassador and learns that Hari seduced Wilson and had it recorded
with the video being used as blackmail to keep the U.S. out of the war
Orlando, Polly and Shola scope out the villains’ hideout before making their plans to attack
Polly keeps watching with her rifle, while Shola goes to his own post
and Orlando plans to drop in on a plane with his parachute
The plane controls get stuck and the plane begins to hurdle toward the ground
Orlando manages to deploy his parachute, but he gets stuck midway at the bottom of a cliff
He manages to climb up using knives
and almost gets knocked over by The Shepherd’s goat but
Orlando grabs onto the goat’s horn and pulls himself up
then pets the goat to show, that he means no harm
The Shepherd sends DuPont to tr and blackmail Wilson in the hopes that he will step down
and the next president will be in their pocket
DuPont gets stuck on the elevator, going down when the British henchman
stops the lift to fight Orlando, who has made his way into the barn
Orlando fights the brute, while Polly fires at the other henchmen
Shola kills some men and hops onto the counterweight
cutting the rope to pull himself up, and sending DuPont falling to his death
Shola rises and decapitates the brute before saving Orlando
They then make their way to confront The Shepherd
Orlando gets him to step out
and it is revealed, that The Shepherd was Morton the whole time
He was working against Kitchener the whole time and had fired the missile that killed him
Orlando and Morton duel with Shola taking a non-fatally bullet for Orlando
The two then fight by the edge of the cliff with Morton nearly killing Orlando
until the goat, who had earlier got one of its horns cut off by Morton
impales Morton’s leg with its horn
Orlando rises and holds Morton over the edge
with the villain believing, that Orlando doesn’t have the nerve to drop him
only to be proven wrong moments later, and Morton is sent plummeting onto a pile of rocks
Orlando has the video of Hari, seducing Wilson sent to the President so he can burn it
and finally step into the war and WWI later ends
He speaks to King George, who informs him of the fates of his cousins
Wilhelm abdicates his position, but Nicholas and his whole family were murdered
Orlando then gathers with Shola,
Polly, King George, Archie and the Ambassador at the tailor shop
which he just purchased to set up as an undercover organization
Continuing to honor Conrad’s memory
Orlando gives the team codenames based on the Knights of the Round Table
which is something Conrad thought of as a kid
Orlando will be Arthur, Polly will be Galahad
Archie is Lancelot the Ambassador is Bedevere
George is Percival, and Shola is Merlin
Thus the Kingsman agency is born