Eighteen months in the wake of outmaneuvering the FBI, the rest of the individuals from the Four Horsemen—J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney and Jack Wilder — are secluded from everything in New York City, anticipating further guidelines from The Eye, the mystery society of conjurers they've been enlisted into. Chart book, having become sick of sitting tight for a mission, searches out The Eye himself. His pursuit drives him to an underground passage in which he hears a voice that reveals to him that his hold up might arrive at an end. The Horseman handler FBI specialist Dylan Rhodes eventually relegates them another mission, uncovering degenerate representative Owen Case, whose new programming subtly takes information on its clients for Case's advantage. Lula May is added to the group to supplant previous part Henley Reeves, who has left the Horsemen in the wake of saying a final farewell to Atlas.

The Horsemen commandeer the dispatch party for the new programming, yet the show is hindered by a secretive person who uncovers to the world that Wilder, accepted to be dead, is really alive, and that Rhodes is their mole, compelling him to get away. While getting away from, the Horsemen enter their escape tube on a rooftop and develop in Macau, where they are caught by hired fighters and Chase McKinney, Merritt's twin sibling. The Horsemen are then brought before Chase's manager, innovation wonder Walter Mabry, Case's previous business accomplice, who faked his demise after Case stole Walter's organization. Mabry recruits the Horsemen into taking the information mining gadget created by Case to keep him from utilizing it. The chip permits the client to decode and get to any electronic gadget around the globe. The Horsemen consent to take the gadget.

They get supplies at a popular enchantment shop in Macau, keep running by Li and Bu, and subtly contact The Eye to mastermind to hand over the gadget after they take it. In the interim, Rhodes is marked a criminal and compelled to spring his opponent Thaddeus Bradley, whom Rhodes faults for the passing of his dad, out of prison for offer assistance.

The Horsemen penetrate the office and take the chip, in spite of being investigated and looked by security protect Allen Scott-Frank. Chart book is then stood up to by Mabry, uncovering that Atlas had been tricked into believing that Mabry was The Eye. Rhodes mediates and claims to recover the gadget yet is caught by Mabry's powers and taken to a close-by yacht where he learns Mabry is following up for the benefit of his dad, Arthur Tressler, whom Rhodes utilized the Horsemen to uncover in the primary film. Tressler places Rhodes in a reproduction of a similar safe that his dad kicked the bucket in and abandons him to suffocate, yet Rhodes escapes and is saved by the Horsemen. They find that the chip they had stolen has all the earmarks of being a fake.

Rhodes and the Horsemen communicate that they will perform live in London at midnight on New Year's Eve. Mabry and Tressler, suspecting that they have the PC chip, make scramble to London, where the Horsemen are playing out a progression of traps in the city. At the Shard, Mabry, Tressler and Chase find that Rhodes is as yet alive and catch the five, taking them on his private plane. Mabry takes the card from them and Rhodes and the other Horsemen, are tossed out of the plane as far as anyone knows in flight. Nonetheless, Tressler finds that the plane has never taken off, and rather is on a jump amidst the River Thames, their criminal exercises being communicate live to the world by the Horsemen all the while. Mabry, Tressler and Chase are captured and Rhodes, now passing by his genuine surname, 'Shrike', depends the data they've assembled on the genuine lawbreakers' exercises to the FBI, who permits him a go to get away.

Rhodes and the Horsemen are then taken to meet the pioneers of the Eye in a mystery library in Greenwich observatory. They find that the individuals from the Eye incorporate Li, Bu, Allen, and Bradley. Bradley uncovers that he was really Lionel Shrike's accomplice, and he had been taking on the appearance of his opponent as a major aspect of their arranged demonstration: he had uncovered Lionel's first demonstration wanting to be stunned by his second demonstration, just to desert the Eye after Lionel's passing. Before Bradley leaves, he requests that Rhodes be his successor in the Eye's administration and demand that the Horsemen enter a window ornament. The Horsemen, with Rhodes, go behind the shade, and discover an entryway behind it. They go into the room and discover a staircase; the camera zooms out to the stairs, framing an Eye.