Seven years after the events of the first film, Johnny English has been training in Tibet to move past the shame of a failed mission to protect the newly elected president in Mozambique, which cost him his knighthood. Called back into service by MI7 under his new boss Pamela Thornton, codenamed "Pegasus", English is sent to investigate a plot to assassinate the Chinese Premier during talks with the Prime Minister. He meets fellow agent and old acquaintance Simon Ambrose, MI7's quartermaster Patch Quartermain, and junior agent Colin Tucker, English's new assistant. The group move to Hong Kong to hopefully do something right by foiling the plot.