John Wick: Chapter One opens with the titular hero mourning the death of his recently deceased
wife, Helen.
Not wanting John to be alone in his grief, Helen arranged for him to receive a gift of
a puppy before her death.
When a trio of Russian gangsters see John Wick driving a classic car, they break into
his home, beat him unconscious, kill his dog, and steal his car.
Unfortunately for the gangsters, John Wick is actually a retired assassin who is now
coming out of retirement to exact his revenge.
John visits his old friend, chop shop owner Aurelio, who confirms that the gangsters tried
to hire him to work on the car, but he refused.
Aurelio also warns John that one of the gangsters, Iosef, is the son of Russian mafia boss Viggo
Tarasov.
John had previously worked for Viggo as an assassin, renowned and feared as the Baba
Yaga, but left his criminal life behind to marry Helen.
Viggo tries to convince John to forgive Iosef, but the hitman refuses, forcing Viggo to send
his men to hunt and kill John, while also placing a $2 million bounty on John’s head.
John then checks into the Continental, a hotel catering to the criminal underworld.
All criminal activities are forbidden at the Continental, including murder, allowing John
a brief respite.
While staying at the hotel, John gets help from his old friends, the hotel’s owner,
Winston, and concierge, Charon, in planning his revenge against Iosef and his lackeys.
As Viggo becomes desperate to save his son, he hires an assassin named Ms. Perkins to
break the Continental’s rules and murder John in his sleep.
John’s old mentor, Marcus, manages to alert John of this scheme, allowing the hit man
to subdue Ms. Perkins and escape.
While John is away, he has an assassin friend named Harry watch over the subdued Perkins.
When Perkins escapes and murders Harry, Winston has Perkins executed for breaking the Continental’s
rules.
With Marcus’ help, John attacks Viggo and his men, forcing the mafia boss to give up
his son’s location.
After John finally kills Iosef, Viggo takes revenge of his own, killing Marcus and drawing
John into a final confrontation.
During the final fight, John kills Viggo and his men, but is seriously injured in the process.
After breaking into a nearby animal clinic to treat his injuries, John adopts a pit bull
puppy and the two walk home together.
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In John Wick: Chapter Two, the titular assassin is paid a visit by a man named Santino D’Antonio,
the boss of the Camorra crime gang.
Years ago, Santino had helped John complete an impossible task for Viggo that bought his
freedom to live a simple life with Helen.
In exchange, John made a blood oath with Santino, swearing on a marker to help him in the future,
and so now Santino has arrived to call John into his service.
Although John at first refuses, his old friend Winston warns him that by refusing to help
Santino he is breaking one of the two unbreakable rules: no killing on Continental grounds and
honoring every marker.
And so, John agrees to help Santino, who tasks the assassin with killing his sister, Gianna.
Gianna has a seat at the “High Table”, a council of twelve underworld crime bosses,
and with her death, Santino could claim her position of power.
When John confronts Gianna in Rome, the crime boss realizes there is nothing she can do
to evade death and attempts to take matters into her own hands.
John shoots the dying Gianna in the head to fulfill his marker, but becomes the target
of Gianna’s loyal bodyguard, Cassian.
As Cassian attempts to enact revenge, John is also pursued by Santino’s henchmen, led
by the mute assassin Ares, who want to kill John to tie up loose ends.
Under the guise of avenging his sister, Santino puts out a $7 million bounty on John’s head.
Upon returning to New York, John is hunted and attacked by a series of assassins, who
he successfully fights off.
In a final fight with Cassian, John kills his attacker, but is seriously injured in
the process.
John takes refuge with an underground boss known as the Bowery King, whose men all pose
as homeless people.
When John explains his intent to kill Santino, now a member of the High Table, the Bowery
King gives John a gun with seven bullets and reveals Santino’s location.
In John’s quest to kill Santino and remove the bounty on his head, the assassin kills
all of Santino’s henchmen, including Ares.
Santino flees to the Continental, where despite Winston’s warnings, John breaks the most
important rule and kills his target.
As the film comes to a close, the Camorra doubles the bounty on John’s head, making
him a highly wanted man around the world.
And for killing on Continental grounds, Winston is forced by the High Table to label John
excommunicado, terminating his access to all underworld resources.
The assassin then flees with his dog, knowing he was completely on his own to fight an onslaught
of the world’s greatest killers.
In John Wick: Chapter 3, the titular assassin leaves his dog in the care of Charon while
fighting off a constant stream of the world’s deadliest killers.
John then goes to the Director, head of a Russian crime syndicate, to ask for help securing
safe passage to Casablanca.
Once there, John seeks out his old friend, Sofia, the manager of the Moroccan Continental.
Using a marker from their past, John is able to convince Sofia to help him find the Elder,
the only person more powerful than the High Table.
With Sofia’s highly trained attack dogs, the duo manage to fight their way to the mysterious
Elder.
John asks the Elder to forgive his transgressions and allow him to live out the rest of his
life in peace, which the Elder agrees to if John agrees to kill Winston and remain subservient
to the High Table moving forward.
John swears an oath to the Elder, cutting off his finger and giving his wedding ring
as a sign of loyalty.
Meanwhile, a High Table Adjudicator hires a deadly assassin known as Zero and visits
both Winston and the Bowery King to inform them that they had seven days to abdicate
from their positions due to helping John Wick, or face the consequences of their actions.
For her own part in John’s escape, the Director is stabbed in both hands by Zero.
When the seven days are up and the Bowery King refuses to abdicate, Zero’s men slaughter
the Bowery King’s loyal assassins, before Zero viciously slices the King, critically
injuring him.
John Wick returns to the New York Continental just as the Adjudicator and Zero arrive to
accept Winston’s resignation.
Winston refuses to abdicate and John refuses to kill his friend, prompting the Adjudicator
to revoke the Continental’s neutral status.
And so, Zero leads his men and an army of High Table enforcers into the Continental
to murder John, Winston, and their loyal friend, Charon.
Winston and Charon supply John with weapons to fight off their attackers, which he successfully
does until it is only himself and Zero remaining.
After a lengthy, brutal battle, John defeats Zero and leaves him to die.
On the roof of the Continental, Winston reluctantly pledges fealty to the Adjudicator and the
High Table.
In exchange for being given back control of the Continental, Winston shoots John, causing
him to fall off the roof and plummet to the street below.
Fortunately, Winston didn’t shoot to kill, and the seriously injured John is rescued
by one of the Bowery King’s surviving assassins, the Tick Tock Man, and taken to a secret underground
bunker.
There, John is reunited with the Bowery King, and the two ailing assassins agree to work
together to take down the High Table once and for all.
And that’s everything you need to know before watching John Wick: Chapter Four.
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