One Battle After Another (2025) plot flowchart — contains full spoilers
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Causes The information she supplied lets Lockjaw target the former members.
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Reveals Corrects Bob's account The new account overturns what Willa had previously been told.
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Enables Distress signal Howard's alert gives the French 75 a chance to warn Bob before Lockjaw arrives.
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Enables Makes the convent her location Her move there gives Lockjaw a place to find when he traces her phone.
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Causes The discovery prompts the club's intervention against Lockjaw and Willa.
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Causes Finding her at the convent brings Lockjaw to the place where Deandra is arrested and Willa is seized.
Reveals Establishes paternity The test resolves the question of Willa's biological relationship to Lockjaw.
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Enables Freedom creates a chance to escape Once Avanti lets her go, Willa can use his car to get away.
Enables Pursuit brings them together Tim's pursuit puts him in the encounter Willa turns against him at the blind summit.
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Relationship
Pat and Perfidia are lovers
Pat and Perfidia are lovers and members of the far-left French 75.
Action
French 75 breaks detainees out
serious danger
The French 75 break detained immigrants out of Otay Mesa Detention Center, where Perfidia sexually humiliates commanding officer Lockjaw.
Transformation
Lockjaw fixates on Perfidia
After the breakout, Lockjaw becomes obsessed with Perfidia.
Decision
Lockjaw releases Perfidia conditionally
serious danger
Lockjaw catches Perfidia planting a bomb and lets her go after she agrees to his demand to meet him for sex.
Setup
Perfidia becomes pregnant
Soon after her encounter with Lockjaw, Perfidia becomes pregnant.
Setup
Charlene is born
Perfidia gives birth to a girl they name Charlene, and Pat tries to persuade Perfidia to settle down.
Relationship
Perfidia leaves her family
Instead of settling down, Perfidia abandons Pat and Charlene to continue her revolutionary activities.
Conflict
Perfidia arrested after robbery
emergency danger
Perfidia murders a security guard during a botched bank robbery and is arrested.
Decision
Lockjaw trades freedom for names
serious danger
Lockjaw arranges for Perfidia to avoid prison in exchange for information on key French 75 members.
Deception
Perfidia enters witness protection
serious danger
Perfidia provides the information and enters witness protection.
Loss
Lockjaw executes French 75 comrades
emergency danger
Lockjaw uses Perfidia's information to hunt down and summarily execute her comrades.
Rescue
Howard gives them new identities
serious danger
French 75 member Howard gives Pat and Charlene stolen identities as Bob and Willa Ferguson.
Journey
Perfidia flees to Mexico
serious danger
Perfidia flees witness protection for Mexico.
Setup
Bob and Willa live off-grid
Sixteen years later, Bob is a paranoid stoner living off-grid with teenage Willa in the sanctuary city of Baktan Cross; she resents his substance abuse.
Communication
Bob's story about her mother
Bob has told Willa that her mother was a hero who died when Willa was a baby.
Transformation
Lockjaw rises in security agencies
Through his anti-immigration efforts, Lockjaw becomes a colonel and a prominent figure within U.S. security agencies.
Communication
Club invites Lockjaw
The Christmas Adventurers Club invites Lockjaw to become a member.
Decision
Lockjaw targets Willa
serious danger
Seeking to hide his past interracial relationship with Perfidia, Lockjaw wants Willa killed.
Action
Avanti is sent after Howard
serious danger
Lockjaw sends bounty hunter Avanti Q to capture Howard.
Communication
Howard signals, then reveals location
serious danger
Howard transmits a distress signal to the French 75 before he is forced to reveal Bob and Willa's location.
Deception
Troops enter Baktan Cross
emergency danger
Using an immigration and drug enforcement operation as cover, Lockjaw sends troops to Baktan Cross.
Communication
French 75 warns Bob
serious danger
The French 75 warns Bob that Lockjaw's arrival is imminent.
Rescue
Deandra takes Willa to convent
serious danger
Deandra rescues Willa before her school dance is raided and takes her to a convent of revolutionary nuns.
Revelation
Willa learns mother's betrayal
At the convent, Willa is told the truth about her mother's betrayal.
Rescue
Sergio helps Bob escape
emergency danger
Bob escapes through a hidden tunnel with help from Sergio, Willa's karate sensei and a community leader; Sergio also evacuates immigrants through a hidden passage.
Communication
Bob learns the convent's location
serious danger
Another French 75 member tells Bob about the convent.
Setback
Bob is arrested on rooftops
serious danger
Bob flees across rooftops with Sergio's students, falls, and is arrested without being recognized.
Clue
Club finds evidence of past
serious danger
The club finds evidence of Lockjaw's relationship with Perfidia and that Willa may be his child.
Decision
Club sends Tim to kill
serious danger
The club sends member Tim Smith to kill Lockjaw and Willa.
Revelation
Lockjaw locates Willa by phone
serious danger
By tracing her phone, Lockjaw locates Willa at the convent.
Crisis
Deandra arrested, Willa held hostage
emergency danger
Deandra is arrested at the convent, and Lockjaw holds Willa hostage there.
Revelation
DNA confirms Lockjaw's paternity
serious danger
Lockjaw tests DNA in front of Willa, confirming that she is his biological daughter.
Rescue
Sergio gets Bob to convent
serious danger
Sergio arranges Bob's escape and drives him to the convent.
Rescue
Sergio diverts police
serious danger
When police pursue them, Sergio diverts the police so Bob can escape.
Setback
Bob fails to shoot Lockjaw
serious danger
Bob reaches the convent and fails to snipe Lockjaw with Sergio's rifle.
Decision
Avanti refuses, accepts militia delivery
serious danger
Lockjaw hires Avanti to kill Willa; Avanti refuses because of her age but agrees to deliver her to a far-right militia instead.
Action
Tim shoots Lockjaw
emergency danger
Tim shoots Lockjaw while Lockjaw is driving, causing him to crash.
Revelation
Bob finds Lockjaw at wreck
serious danger
While searching for Willa, Bob discovers Lockjaw's body at the crash site.
Rescue
Avanti frees Willa and dies
emergency danger
Avanti brings Willa to the militia, changes his mind and frees her, then is killed in a shootout with the militia.
Journey
Willa escapes, Tim pursues
emergency danger
Willa escapes with Avanti's car and pistol as Tim pursues her and Bob desperately tries to catch up.
Conflict
Willa kills Tim after countersign test
emergency danger
Willa exploits a blind summit to cause a crash, then shoots and kills Tim when he fails to respond with the revolutionary countersign.
Relationship
Bob talks Willa down
serious danger
Bob finds Willa, who demands the countersign; he talks her down, and they embrace.
Resolution
Club kills scarred Lockjaw
emergency danger
Some time later, a severely scarred Lockjaw is seemingly welcomed into the club, but the club fatally gases him.
Communication
Bob gives Willa Perfidia's letter
Returning home with Willa, Bob gives her Perfidia's letter, in which Perfidia apologizes and vows to someday reunite with her family.
Journey
Willa leaves for Oakland protest
Bob gives Willa his blessing as she departs for a protest in Oakland.
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