The film takes place eight years after the events of the previous film, and since then, Sir Johnny English's career has been declining. Five years before the film's beginning, he was sent on a mission to Mozambique, but the mission went horribly wrong. Since then, he has been living in a cave in the Tibetan mountains, hiding from everyone out of shame, regret, and blame for the mission's failure. The film begins with the hero at a critical moral low, until he is given a second chance. British intelligence agency MI7 needs him again and needs to bring him back to foil a plot by a group of assassins planning to assassinate the Chinese...