While they wait, they have Peter take their picture with Kim's phone. Amanda immediately accepts and Kim reluctantly agrees. He suggests they all share a taxi for the expensive ride downtown. In Paris, while standing in the line for a taxi at the airport, the two girls meet a friendly, handsome young Parisian named Peter (Nicolas Giraud). Bryan is angry, but it is too late to do anything about it. He confronts Lenore who admits that the girls are actually going to follow the rock band U2 on their European tour, not just stay in Paris. At the airport, as Bryan is retrieving Kim's luggage from the car, he sees a map of Europe with several cities circled in a pocket of Kim's luggage. The next day, Bryan shows up at Stuart's mansion with the signed consent, a pre-paid international cell phone, and some conditions: 1) Bryan must take Kim to the airport 2) Kim must call Bryan when she lands in Paris and 3) Kim must call Bryan every night to tell him the address and phone number of any new place at which she will be sleeping. She wants their daughter to experience life. Lenore tears into Bryan for being too cautious. Bryan says he will consider the matter, but Kim takes it as a "no" and becomes very upset. Bryan is reluctant to agree, knowing the dangers of the wrong parts of Paris and feeling Kim is too young, but Kim explains she'll be staying with Amanda's cousin's and spend most of her time in museums.
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Bryan is very excited and plans to let Kim know about Sheerah's offer however, Lenore comes to the lunch also and it becomes clear he was invited only to sign the parental-consent form Kim needs to take a vacation to Paris with her friend Amanda ( Katie Cassidy). As a "Thank You," Sheerah offers to help Bryan's daughter with a vocal coach and a manager if she has any natural talent. Bryan escorts Sheerah away from the crowd, but is confronted with a knife-wielding assailant that Bryan quickly takes down. At the concert, things get anxious for a moment when security is distracted by a mob of fans breaking through. Sheerah answers, "Tell her to pick another career." Bryan gets a phone call from Kim inviting him to lunch. After her vocal warm-up Bryan asks the pop star, Sheerah ( Holly Valance) for advice to give his daughter who also wishes to be a singer. One of them, Sam ( Leland Orser) invites Bryan to make some quick cash working security with them by escorting a female pop star to her nearby concert. Three friends, all also retired agents, drop by for poker, steaks and beer. Later, Bryan is alone in his small modest apartment. The daughter is extremely pleased with her gift however, she is soon distracted by her wealthy stepfather Stuart's ( Xander Berkeley) gift of a large horse. As Bryan arrives at a luxury mansion, Kim's mother Lenore ( Famke Janssen) is very cold toward him, criticizing his choice of a gift and that he has even showed in the first place. He is at an electronics store and is carefully choosing a karaoke device for his beloved 17-year-old daughter Kim's ( Maggie Grace) birthday. Bryan ( Liam Neeson) is a retired Government Agent.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls.
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When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris.
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Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.