
Six of Hearts rescues Stone and flies her to Iceland, where Parker has activated The Heart. They narrowly avoid an ambush by Parker's associates, who Stone evades by jumping off an ocean cliff, and is met by a Heart colleague. Stone manages to separate Keya from Parker by cutting the rope, and the two fall into the Senegal desert, where Stone learns The Heart can only now be unlocked using Keya's biometric data.

Stone intercepts them, but is unable to stop them from seizing control of The Heart and imploding the ship, jumping off at the last second and getting ahold of the rope they're on from a helicopter, with Keya on the lower end. Having learned from the hack that the Heart's command system is located in an airship high above western Africa, Parker and Keya fly to the ship. Nomad, one of four "Kings" who lead The Charter, meets with the other three Kings to discuss Parker, who is seeking revenge because of an MI6 operation in Chechnya eight years prior, where he was inadvertently left for dead after Charter destroyed a weapons cache. However, because of the circumstances, Nomad suspends Stone from duty. Stone manages to rip out the device, stopping the hack. When Stone is recovered and taken to Charter HQ, the device begins breaching security. Parker paralyzes Stone with poison before implanting a device within her to act as a trojan horse to infiltrate Charter systems. He admits to covertly murdering Mulvaney as part of his overall mission to find The Heart. Parker murders Yang and Bailey, revealing himself as a double agent working with Keya. After they escape, Stone reveals she is a Charter agent. Jack orders Stone to evacuate, but she refuses, going back to save the team at the expense of her cover. Upon arrival, they are ambushed by a squad of mercenaries. MI6 sends the team to track Keya down in Lisbon, with Stone still undercover. Concerned by the presence of a hacker she saw in the Alps, Stone breaks into Parker's family residence and uses his computer to identify her as Keya Dhawan, an orphan with links to Indian criminal syndicates. Back in London, Stone is reprimanded for nearly blowing her cover by Nomad, her Charter superior. Despite her success, the mission fails when Mulvaney takes cyanide and dies. Realizing that MI6 can't save Parker in time, Stone works with her operational contact, "Jack of Hearts," to save him. Stone, codenamed "Nine of Hearts," is an acclaimed field agent. It uses "The Heart," a predictive AI quantum computer capable of hacking into any digital device, to guide all operations. Stone feigns injury to allow contact with The Charter, her true employer, an agency dedicated to peacekeeping, working beyond the realms of government, and operating in absolute secrecy. Parker manages to extract Mulvaney to a cable car, but the rest of the team sees Mulvaney's men beginning to assemble at the bottom of the mountain for an ambush. The mission quagmires when Yang is caught trying to sedate Mulvaney, prompting a gunfight. Marines combat operation being livestreamed. In the Italian Alps at an ultra-exclusive ski resort that doubles as a casino, MI6 field agents Parker, Yang, and Bailey, supported by technician Rachel Stone, are tasked with extracting Mulvaney, an arms dealer who is there gambling on an actual in-session U.S. Heart of Stone was released on August 11, 2023, by Netflix. Filming took place in Europe from January to July of that year. Harper and Netflix were confirmed to serve as director and distributor respectively the following month, with the rest of the cast being confirmed in early 2022.

ĭevelopment began in December 2020, when Gadot signed on to star. Its plot follows an international intelligence operative who must embark on a dangerous mission to protect a mysterious artificial intelligence system known as "The Heart." She is tasked by the peacekeeping operation known as Charter to keep the object safe from falling into enemy hands. The film stars Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo, and Matthias Schweighöfer. Heart of Stone is a 2023 American spy action thriller film directed by Tom Harper from a screenplay by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder and a story by Rucka.
