20 Recent Movie Plot Twists NOBODY Saw Coming
7. Sarah Was A Honey Trap - Relay
David Mackenzie's mostly-terrific new crime thriller Relay revolves around Ash (Riz Ahmed), a fixer who serves as a go-between for whistle-blowers and the companies they expose.
His latest case sees him trying to help whistle-blower Sarah Grant (Lily James) safely escape the reach of a corporation whose misdeeds she planned to expose.
In the third act Sarah is kidnapped by agents working for the corporation, and after Ash - who is now romantically interested in Sarah - races to rescue her, she ends up tasering him.
It's then revealed that Sarah is actually the leader of the operatives, and the entire whistle-blower story was false - it was actually part of a complex sting operation cooked up by the corporation to trap Ash because of a previous whistle-blower he helped escape.
Effectively Sarah was used as a honey trap to lure Ash out, force him to let his guard down, and then capture him.
Though it's an interesting and unexpected twist, it's also howlingly convoluted and so falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny.