One night thief Deshaun Stagg, fleeing through Georgetown, Washington, D.C., is shot and killed by a man carrying a metal briefcase. A pizza deliveryman witnesses the crime and is also shot, but left in a coma. The following morning, a young woman is killed by a Washington Metro train in what is presumed to be a suicide.Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is distraught to learn the dead woman was Sonia Baker, a chief researcher on his staff. Collins, who is a military veteran, is leading an investigation into PointCorp, a private defense contractor with controversial operations involving mercenaries.State of Play 2009 Movie Download.
Collins tells his old college roommate and friend Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe), an investigative reporter for the fictional Washington Globe, that he had been having an affair with Sonia. She had sent him a cheerful video message on the morning of her death, which he believes indicates that she wasn’t suicidal.Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), a political reporter and Capitol Hill blogger for the online division of the Globe, discovers Sonia’s death occurred in one of the only three CCTV blind spots in the Metro camera system. Cal also finds a link between the shootings and Sonia’s death. Later, Cal is sought out by a homeless girl Mandi, who sells him photographs for $500 that her friend Deshaun Stagg had taken from the briefcase of the man who killed him.
The briefcase also contained a gun and peculiar handmade bullets. They are surveillance images of Sonia talking to a well-dressed man. Della visits the hospital where the pizza deliveryman is coming out of his coma. Before she can talk to him, he is shot through the window and killed by an unseen sniper. Later, while reviewing the CCTV footage of the Metro platform area where Sonia died, Della recognizes a man as the same person she just saw at the hospital prior to the deliveryman’s murder.