Broken Harbor

Two years before the present, Sutton Holland lives in a small Baltimore apartment with her five-year-old son, Luca. She struggles financially as a waitress following her divorce from Roman Boyer, a former professional football player whose career ended after an injury led to an opioid addiction. Though she no longer trusts him, Sutton hopes Roman can still be a father to Luca. After Roman visits, Sutton discovers that Luca’s tablet and her grandmother’s gold locket are missing. She realizes Roman stole them to sell for drug money. That evening, two large men with Eastern European accents knock on her door, looking for Roman to collect a debt. When Sutton tells them he is not there, they force their way inside and brutally beat her as a “warning” to Roman, leaving her with severe injuries while Luca sleeps, unaware, in the next room.

Two years later, Sutton and seven-year-old Luca have relocated to Sparrow Falls, Oregon. Sutton now owns a bakery, The Mix Up, with an apartment above it, but she faces constant financial pressure. Luca is obsessed with hockey and his hero, a Seattle Sparks player nicknamed “The Reaper.” Sutton begins receiving texts from an unknown number she suspects is Roman, asking for money. While taking Luca to his first day of hockey camp, Sutton gets a flat tire and has a tense encounter with a tall, athletic man who offers to help. She is mortified to learn he is Copeland “Cope” Colson, a professional hockey player for the Sparks, also known as “The Reaper.” Cope is volunteering at the camp for good PR after a video of him punching a teammate, Marcus Warner, was leaked to the press. To Sutton’s dismay, Cope is not only Luca’s coach but also his idol. Her day worsens when her landlord, Rick Anderson, illegally raises the rent on her bakery and apartment to a price she cannot afford.

Cope quickly recognizes Luca’s natural talent for hockey. He is confronted by his brothers, Sheriff Trace Colson and builder Shep Colson, about his negative press coverage. Soon after, as Cope is forced to take a drug test due to an anonymous tip, Sutton receives more aggressive texts from Roman, and Cope finds her outside and comforts her. Shep confirms Rick’s rent increase is illegal. When Sutton informs Rick of this, he gives her a 10-day notice to vacate her apartment, which is legal because she rents it week-to-week. Her search for a new home is fruitless, and she has a disturbing encounter with a building manager who is also a parolee, forcing Trace to intervene. After her bakery’s water heater breaks and Rick refuses to fix it, a distraught Sutton accepts Cope’s offer for her and Luca to move in with him. Cope asks his sister’s boyfriend, Anson, to have a hacker named Dex find incriminating information on Rick.

Nearly two weeks after Sutton and Luca move in, Cope’s teammate and friend, Teddy Jackson, arrives to help coach the camp. The visit ends in tragedy when Trace arrives at Cope’s house with news that Teddy was killed in a car accident on his way back to Seattle. Cope is devastated and consumed by guilt, which triggers the trauma of losing his father and brother, Jacob, in a car accident when he was thirteen. The team’s owner, Linc, asks Cope to give the eulogy at the funeral in Seattle. Cope asks Sutton to go with him, but she panics and refuses, fearing the press coverage will reveal her location to Roman. Hurt, Cope pushes her away. After encouragement from Cope’s sister Arden, Sutton flies to Seattle, where she finds Cope having a panic attack outside the church and helps him through it. The press captures photos of them together. That night, Sutton comforts Cope through a violent nightmare, and he confesses he has carried guilt for seventeen years, believing he caused the accident that killed his father and brother by distracting his father while driving. He asks her to stay, and he sleeps soundly for the first time in over a decade. Soon after, Luca and then Sutton fall ill with the stomach flu. As Cope cares for her, he confesses that he is in love with her. While recovering, Sutton receives new threatening texts from Roman, who identified her from the funeral photos and now demands money.

The Colson family gathers at Cope’s house. Anson’s hacker, Dex, discovers Roman is now working as an enforcer for the Russian mob boss, Petrov. The press publishes Sutton’s full identity, including photos from her attack in Baltimore. Roman gives an interview to a gossip site, painting himself as the victim. To shift the media’s focus, Linc brings the entire Sparks team to Sparrow Falls for a week-long kids’ clinic. Luca learns about his father's past from a fellow camper and tearfully tells Sutton he wants Cope to be his dad. Cope comforts Luca, assuring him he is part of their family. Overwhelmed with emotion, Sutton tells Cope she loves him. At a celebratory barbeque, Roman, disguised as a caterer, ambushes and kidnaps Sutton. He holds her in the barn, demanding $20 million from Cope. Cope receives a text with a photo of Sutton tied up and is instructed to come alone, but he covertly texts Trace for backup. Just as Cope arrives, Sutton fights back and knocks Roman unconscious. Suddenly, Marcus Warner appears with a gun, shoots and kills Roman, and reveals he orchestrated the entire situation by finding Roman and manipulating him into kidnapping Sutton for money. Marcus confesses his lifelong, violent resentment of Cope, admitting he leaked stories to the press, filed the false steroid tip, and murdered Teddy by cutting his brake lines. As Trace and Anson arrive, Marcus uses Cope as a human shield. Cope fights back, and Marcus shoots him in the chest.

Sutton applies pressure to Cope’s wound as his heart stops, but paramedics revive him. Three weeks later, while Cope is recovering at home, Anson informs them that Petrov’s entire organization has been busted. Cope finally opens up to his mother about the guilt he has carried over his father and brother’s deaths. He then gifts Sutton the deed to the bakery building, which he had secretly bought from Rick, and her grandmother’s recovered locket. He proposes, and she accepts. Luca asks if Cope can officially be his dad, and Cope joyfully agrees.

Two years later, Sutton is pregnant with their first child. The family divides their time between Seattle and Sparrow Falls. Cope plays his final game with the Seattle Sparks, winning the championship before retiring. He has bought the local rink and plans to coach Luca’s hockey team. During the post-game celebration, Sutton and Luca hold up a poster revealing her pregnancy to Cope on the ice, surrounded by their family.