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See production notesIn 2023, as people across America prepare for the annual Purge, where all crimes are legalized, an anti-Purge resistance group formed by Carmelo Johns hacks into live feeds to denounce the NFFA. In L.A., waitress Eva Sanchez returns home to her daughter Cali and terminally ill father Rico. As Eva and Cali prepare to barricade themselves, Rico slips out to a waiting limousine. He has offered to be killed by a wealthy family in exchange for money paid to Eva and Cali. Meanwhile, estranged married couple Shane and Liz visit a grocery store, only to be harassed by a masked gang of skateboarders and dirt bikers. Their car breaks down after being tampered with by the biker gang. Off-duty LAPD sergeant Leo Barnes plots to kill Warren Grass. The day before the previous year's Purge, Warren struck Leo's son Nicholas while driving drunk, but was acquitted due to Nicholas dying on Purge night. Ignoring his ex-wife Janice's pleas, Leo loads up and drives out into the streets. As Liz and Shane try to find safer hiding places, the Purge commences. Eva and Cali notice NFFA paramilitary amassing in the street below, and the superintendent, Diego, enters her apartment. Diego is gunned down by a paramilitary platoon, which captures the women to offer them to their leader, Big Daddy. Leo passes by and rescues Eva and Cali after killing the troops and wounding Big Daddy. They find Shane and Liz hiding in Leo's car. The group flees just as Big Daddy fires at them. After Leo's car breaks down, the group flees on foot. As the group navigates the hostile streets, they find a paramilitary van surrounded by soldiers who were shot by the resistance fighters. After freeing Shane from a trap and taking guns from the abandoned truck, they head to the subways. They pass by a harmless homeless encampment, but soon after, find themselves being chased by a rampaging Pyrotechnic purging gang that invades the subway and sets the tunnel ablaze. Shane is wounded, but the group manages to escape after he and Liz destroy the gang's all-terrain vehicle and its propane tank with the salvaged guns. The group returns to the streets, but as they near Eva’s friend Tanya's apartment building, Eva unknowingly signals a traffic camera to identify them to the paramilitary troops. They reach Tanya's house, and Tanya's family takes them in. However, Tanya's sister Lorraine murders her sister for sleeping with her husband. The group leaves the family, only to be captured by the masked gang who ambushed Shane and Liz earlier. The gang sells them to an auction, taking them to a theater where upper-class Purgers bid on them for human hunting. After the group is forced into the arena, Leo subdues and kills a Purger, taking his weapon and night vision device, overpowering and killing several other attackers, before the head Purger calls in security. Shane is shot and killed by security forces just before the anti-Purge group attacks the compound, killing the security forces and remaining Purgers; Liz chooses to stay with the resistance fighters while Leo, Eva, and Cali leave. Leo steals a car and drives off with Eva and Cali, heading for Warren Grass. Despite Eva and Cali's pleas to abandon his revenge plans, Leo enters the house to confront Warren. As Leo exits the house, he is shot by Big Daddy, who reveals that the NFFA secretly dispatches death squads to increase the body count because the Purge has been eliminating too few people of the lower class. Just as Big Daddy is about to kill Leo, Warren kills Big Daddy, revealing that Leo chose to forgive and spare him. Just as Big Daddy's death squad appears and Eva, Cali, and Warren prepare to defend themselves, sirens blare to signal the end of the Purge (making Big Daddy's death legal and sparing Leo). Warren takes Eva, Cali, and Leo to the hospital as news and police helicopters fly over the city.
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Followed by: The Purge: Election Year
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Followed by: The Purge: Election Year
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See all quotesCali: What's your name? Sergeant: Shh. Cali: You're good with guns. I'm guessing you're either a cop or a criminal, huh? Sergeant: And I'm guessing you're either a pain in my ass or a pain in my ass.
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Cali: I know you. You once said that the market mentality would no longer keep the American people stunted. "We are outraged and we're fighting back." Carmelo Johns: Nice to meet you, too, young lady. Eva Sanchez: There's a lot of them out here. Carmelo Johns: Yeah, well, there's more of us. We're more pissed off. It's time for them to feel what it's like. Change only comes when their blood spills.
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Sergeant: [Dressing Shane's wound after he's shot] Get him to the hospital first thing after this is over. Liz: Yeah. Sergeant: You'll be okay. It's gonna hurt like a son of a bitch, but you're gonna be okay. Shane: Thanks. Liz: I can't thank you enough. Sergeant: That's what you get for being a hero.
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Cali: I'm gonna go get Papa for dinner. Eva Sanchez: He said don't bother him. Cali: Yeah. I just wanna see if he's awake. Cali: Mom! Eva Sanchez: What? What is it? Cali: Mom, come here! Eva Sanchez: What's wrong? Where's Papa? Cali: [Showing her the note he left] Look at this. Eva Sanchez: What is this? Cali: [Reads aloud' in Papa Rico's voice'] "Dearest Eva and Cali, my greatest heartache is seeing the two girls I love so much struggling in this world. I am dying, you know this. I'll be a martyr for a wealthy family tonight. They paid me for this service. $100,000 will be transferred into your accounts, my darlings. Take their money. Survive the night and live a safe life. I love you." Cali: I don't understand. Eva Sanchez: It's how the wealthy Purge, baby. They buy poor and sick people, and they take them in their homes and they kill them where they're safe. Cali: Oh, my God. It's just like Carmelo said. Why would Papa do that? I don't understand why he would do that. He's... okay,
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Cali: This is some high-tech shit. Yo, somebody spent a lot of money trying to do some heavy-duty Purging. Look at this. They're accessing the city's traffic cams. Looking for targets, I guess. Liz: Traffic cams are controlled by the government. How did they get into these? I mean, who are these people? Cali: Maybe you just answered your own question. Sergeant: Look at this. Seventh Street. Is that your building? Eva Sanchez: Yeah, but why is it all red? Sergeant: You're being targeted for something, along with all these other buildings. Here, here. All over the city. Eva Sanchez: All around the projects. Maybe you were right, Cali. Cali: Look, I'm telling you, this is the New Founding Fathers. The government... Shane: The truck is fucked. Sergeant: No good? Shane: No, the engine's all blown out or something. Cali: [Spotting a logo tagged on a brick wall] Hey, look at this. That's Carmelo's mark, Mom. I told Papa he was the real deal. His group took these fuckers out.
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Lorraine: All right. Bullet went right through. I can't believe you guys went through all that stuff. It's just insane! Get him to the hospital first thing after this is over. Sergeant: Yeah. Lorraine: You'll be okay. It's gonna hurt like a son of a bitch, but you're gonna be okay. Sergeant: Thanks. I can't thank you enough. Cali: That's what you get for being a hero. Sergeant: I need the car. Cali: I know. Barney: Come on, everybody. Eat, drink! Yes, I recommend drinking. It's the best way to get through the evening. And the food is delicious. Tanya: My mother's a wonderful cook. My sister's a testament to that. Lorraine: What the hell does that mean?! Roddy: That she's a good cook! Sergeant: You know, you didn't have to go this far. Just having us here was really enough. Barney: You guys have had a terrible night. Get some food in your system, and we'll get through this together. Excuse me. Cali? I can't believe nobody's drinking with me. What about you, tough guy? Want a drink? Serg
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