

Mike runs into the hotel and fights Armando, managing to pull his mask off but finding himself stunned when he sees Armando's face. Eventually, Mike picks up and joins Marcus in going to find Remy, but once they get to his hotel, Remy's body hits Marcus's (actually Theresa's) car. He asks Marcus for help, who then tries to contact Mike, but he ignores Marcus since he sees him as a quitter. Marcus gets a call from a snitch named Carver Remy (Ivo Nandi), who claims that Armando is following him and trying to kill him. He dies before Mike can get any info out of him. A shootout begins, and Mike tries to get Grassie out of there, but after fighting off the other thugs, Grassie is blown back by an explosion and is impaled by a forklift. Mike quickly catches that Grassie is trying to rip the guys off and will get himself killed. Mike and the team go to a warehouse where Grassie is going to make a drop. Mike quickly butts heads with Rafe since he's a smart-ass, but Kelly and Dorn respect Mike's status as a detective. Mike goes to Captain Howard, who begrudgingly has him go along with AMMO to find Grassie. He visits a retired criminal named Manny The Butcher (DJ Khaled) and beats his hand with a hammer until he gives up the name of a guy named Booker Grassie (Rory Markham), who would have info on the owner of the motorcycle, and therefore the shooter. Mike takes it upon himself to find his shooter. He goes to Rita for help but is also met with the same refusal.


After learning Mike is awake, Armando uploads his bodycam footage of him shooting Mike. He delivers a speech at the wedding before later asking Marcus to help him catch the shooter, but Marcus refuses, fearing someone else will get hurt, and he insists that he is retired. Six months later, Megan and Reggie get married, and Mike has recovered from his injuries. They proceed to go after a judge, a forensics analyst, and a prosecutor, killing them all in broad daylight. Meanwhile, Isabel chastises Armando for going after Mike so soon, as she deliberately wants him to die last so that he suffers watching others die. Rita and Howard then order AMMO - Kelly (Vanessa Hudgens), Dorn (Alexander Ludwig), and Rafe (Charles Melton) - to do what they can do investigate Mike's shooter. Marcus prays to God that Mike be saved, with the promise that Marcus will never bring anymore violence into the world. He gets away as the officers rush to help Mike. The two go outside to have a foot race, and as Mike takes the lead, Armando rides up on a motorcycle and shoots Mike down. Marcus knows they are getting too old for all the crazy things they used to get into, and he urges Mike to settle down, though he disagrees. She informs them that she is also now heading AMMO (Advanced Miami Metro Operations), which employs a younger team of officers. They encounter a woman named Rita (Paola Nunez), who has just been promoted to lieutenant and is also Mike's ex. Mike and Marcus's fellow officers, including Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano), gather at a bar to celebrate Marcus becoming a grandfather. A crook named Lorenzo Rodriguez, AKA Zway-Lo (Nicky Jam), joins him. He then orders the remaining men to step up if they wish to work loyally under his family. With their guns drawn on Armando, he retaliates by stabbing everyone rapidly. Armando goes to the docks to pull out a crate filled with money with intent to work with other gangsters, but these gangsters try to screw him over and take the majority shares of the money. He frees her, and they return to their home to plot revenge on behalf of her late husband Benito, with Mike being their intended final target. Other guards take Isabel outside, only for her son Armando (Jacob Scipio) to help her kill off all the other guards. Isabel grabs a knife off the guard and stabs her, with the other inmates jumping in and stabbing her to death. In a Mexican prison, inmate Isabel Aretas (Kate Del Castillo) is muttering an incantation that draws a guard's attention. His wife Theresa (Therese Randle) and Megan's fiance Reggie (Dennis Greene) are there as well, informing Marcus that the boy is named after him. They arrive at a hospital and run inside as they head to the room where Marcus's daughter Megan (Bianca Bethune) has given birth to a baby boy. This third 'Bad Boys' film starts with Detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) speeding through the streets of Miami with other cops following them.
