Edward Bailey

"I didn't see that one coming."

- Dr. Edward Bailey

Dr. Edward Bailey is the main antagonist in the 2013 film RED 2.

He is portrayed by Anthony Hopkins.

Biography
Bailey is a highly intelligent physicist who designed a bomb during the Cold War era for a secret operation codenamed Nightshade. The operation involved smuggling a nuclear weapon into Russia piece by piece, but Bailey was eventually sent to an asylum for the criminally insane and held there for thirty-two years and heard his wife and his son died.

Frank Moses and Victoria Winslow gain entry to the asylum to question Bailey about the bomb, and though he is unhelpful at first, he reveals to them that the bomb is in Moscow. Bailey then accompanies the pair and after retrieving the bomb from within the Kremlin, Frank learns that Bailey had actually been imprisoned not because he built the bomb, but because he had wanted to detonate it to destroy the Soviet Union. Bailey ends up shooting Katya (who had once had a relationship with Frank), and frames him for her murder before departing. As Bailey escapes to a London embassy, Frank convinces top contract killer Han Cho-Bai to help him stop Bailey and retrieve the bomb from him.

Later, Bailey sets off the bomb timer and kidnaps Frank's girlfriend Sarah Moses before travelling to an airport to escape the explosion. Frank and his companions follow and Frank manages to save Sarah, but Bailey forces him to take the bomb with him before departing in a private plane. Unbeknownst to him, Frank had managed to sneak the bomb on board the plane before disembarking, and as Bailey is flying away, he hears the bomb beeping in a hidden compartment. Accepting his fate and claiming that he "didn't see that one coming", the bomb explodes and kills him.