Spy Game (2001)

On the eve of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent faces a revelation. The news cuts deep - his former protégé, now entangled in a web of espionage, has been arrested in China. Worse, a grim fate awaits him as a death sentence looms the next morning in the heart of Beijing. Shockingly, whispers within the agency suggest a harrowing possibility - allowing this tragic outcome to unfold in order to avert the looming specter of an international scandal.