Campus Boyz 2

While studying nonlinear cryptography at MIT, James Clayton helps to create "Spartacus", a surveillance program that can enslave any computer's audiovisual hardware. Showcasing the software at a campus job fair, James impresses Bill Rudolph, a representative from Dell, and is later approached by Walter Burke, who recruits James to join the Central Intelligence Agency. Hoping to find answers to his father Edward's mysterious death in a plane crash in Peru years ago, James passes the initial security screenings and is bused with the rest of his class to the Farm in rural Virginia, where they undergo training as prospective CIA operatives. James develops an attraction to fellow trainee Layla Moore and a rivalry with Zack, his competition for top of the class, while Burke eventually confirms that Edward was a spy. During a public training exercise, James and Layla are abducted by masked assailants, and James is isolated, tortured and interrogated about the Farm and his instructors. After resisting for days, James breaks when he is told about Layla's brutal treatment, and he gives up Burke's name. The experience is revealed to be an exercise observed by the class, including Layla; James has failed and is removed from the Farm. Burke seeks a despondent James and explains that his discharge was merely a cover story; that he has been selected as a non-official cover operative (NOC) tasked to investigate Layla, who Burke suspects is a sleeper agent working to steal the CIA computer virus "ICE-9", which transmits via the electrical grid and could disable all electrical devices on the planet, thus behaving similarly to the particle from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Under the guise of working in a low-level data-entry position at CIA headquarters, James reunites with Layla, who now works in the agency's Directorate of Science & Technology, and they begin a romantic relationship. He discovers evidence of ICE-9 on her computer, so Burke gives him a sidearm. Evading a bug planted by Layla, James witnesses her passing a message to another agent at Union Station. He follows the agent, leading to a shootout, and the man is killed in the scuffle and revealed to be Zack. James informs Burke and offers to bring in Layla, running her off the road and confronting her at gunpoint. Layla tells James that he is not a NOC, that Zack is, and that she was officially tasked by the agency to steal ICE-9 as part of assessing their security protocols. Letting Layla go, James confronts Burke, who claims that his gun is loaded with blanks, and that Zack's death was faked. However, the gun goes off, proving that Burke is the real traitor. Burke pursues James through an abandoned warehouse, taunting him with an explanation of his plan to manipulate James into acquiring ICE-9 for Burke to sell for $3 million, while incriminating James as a failed operative gone rogue, and declaring that James's father was never an agent. James sets up a laptop that runs Spartacus, which fails to connect but leads Burke to believe that it has successfully transmitted his confession to the agency. Chasing James outside, Burke is met by a CIA strike team led by Farm instructor Dennis Slayne. Believing that they are there to arrest him, Burke launches into a tirade revealing his grievances against the agency, as well as his own crimes, and Slayne directs the team to target Burke instead. Realizing that he has incriminated himself, Burke raises his empty gun and is shot dead. After a tearful embrace with Layla, James is driven to headquarters for a debriefing with Slayne, who alludes that Edward was a fellow agent after all.