All The Old Knives Cast & Character Guide
WARNING: Minor spoilers ahead for All the Old Knives.
Amazon's spy thriller All the Old Knives recruits a talented cast to portray characters connected to a past CIA disaster. Told through flashbacks between ex-lovers and CIA agents Henry and Celia, All the Old Knives slowly reveals that no character is exactly what they seem. In a quiet restaurant, the two discuss past case details, which aspects of the day don’t add up, whether Celia aided hijackers, and why she left Henry the next morning.
The Amazon Prime Original movie begins as CIA operative Henry Pelham is tasked with finding the inside mole from a Vienna crisis case eight years ago. All the Old Knives then flashes back to the fictional Flight 127 crisis where a terrorist group hijacks a plane headed for Austria, with the agents trying to decipher if extremist Ilyas Shushani is involved and, more urgently, how to save the passengers on board. However, the CIA's plan goes awry when realizing one of their own has fed the hijackers information.
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The majority of All the Old Knives’ tension relies on the chemistry of Henry and Celia at their present-day meeting. The twists prove to be satisfying by All the Old Knives’ ending when the truth is revealed, largely due to the actors’ performances. Here’s a breakdown of the cast and characters of Amazon Prime’s All the Old Knives.
Franchise star Chris Pine leads All the Old Knives’ cast as Henry Pelham, a CIA case officer sent to confirm whether his ex-lover Celia was Flight 127’s mole. As Henry plays mind games with ex-CIA agents in the present, his past proves to be even more troubling in connection to flight 127. Pine is known for starring in theStar Trek reboot film
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