Beckett contacts Quan who demands that he provide him with a weapon and a way home. Finnegan blows up the police station to escape, which gives Beckett an opportunity to escape as well. In custody, Beckett sees Finnegan in another cell, who claims that he abandoned his wife and child because he felt "alive" in the jungle, but claims that he was "sold out" by the very people he worked for. Beckett kills the sniper but is arrested by Vietnamese authorities.
However, he fails to complete the mission and is shot at by a counter-sniper. Later that night, Beckett goes to the Club Cong, to kill Finnegan ( John Doman), while he is having a drink. Beckett tells Sydney that he just wants her and Neil to know how much they mean to him, as he never truly had a family of his own. Beckett is shaken due to the personal nature of his task and calls Sydney, forgetting the time difference. In Ho Chi Minh City, Beckett meets his contact, NSA-recruited Vietnamese police operative Quan ( Byron Mann). To spare Neil and Sydney from the painful truth, Beckett agrees to kill Finnegan, but demands that he conduct the mission alone, without a spotter, as he is unwilling to involve anyone else in such a personal mission. Finnegan has been marked for elimination because he has even aided terrorism after providing support for Jemaah Islamiyah, and is about to be captured by the Vietnamese authorities which would cause an international incident. Avery claims that Finnegan is the "head of the snake", and if he is killed, his child soldiers will have no leader and "the snake will die". He has amassed a large group of child soldiers and his group lives in the tunnels under the jungles of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. However, Finnegan went insane and is now a drug and weapons trafficker known as the "King Cobra". The CIA recruited him prior to the fall of Saigon and used him to run drugs out of Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. Avery reveals to Beckett that Finnegan's death was faked in Vietnam and he is actually still alive. She encourages Beckett to retire from the Marines for his health and hints that he should ask her on a date.īeckett is later approached by two officials from the Central Intelligence Agency, Director William Avery ( Denis Arndt) and Deputy Director Richard Addis (William Duffy). Beckett then dances with Paul's widow, Sydney ( Jeannetta Arnette), who later does an X-Ray on Beckett's hand and informs him that when he lost his trigger finger, he suffered nerve damage which is causing his digitorum tendon to trigger involuntary jerks of his other fingers on his injured hand.
Beckett reads a letter written given to him by Paul decades earlier just in case he did not make it to his son's wedding day. Beckett attends the wedding of Neil Finnegan (Ken Streutker), the son of his best friend, Paul Finnegan, who served with him in Vietnam and saved his life before he was killed just before the fall of Saigon. His commanding officer, Captain Laraby ( Troy Winbush) thinks he is too old and bull-headed to still be active duty. Some time after the events of Sniper 2, Thomas Beckett ( Tom Berenger) is still adjusting to his return in the U.S.