Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle picks up after Runaway: A Road Adventure, as protagonists Brian Basco and Gina Timmins go on the run with $20 million. Much of Runaway 2 takes place in flashback sequences, narrated by Brian via instant messages to his hacker friend Sushi Douglas. The story begins when Brian and Gina's vacation in Hawaii goes awry: during a plane ride, their pilot experiences health problems over Mala Island. Brian pushes Gina out of the plane with the only parachute and then crash lands in the island's jungles. A sniper seemingly shoots Gina with a tranquilizer dart as she falls; her parachute sinks into a lake. Brian awakens aboard the plane and finds that the pilot has vanished. Exiting the jungle, Brian stumbles across an American military camp near the lake in which Gina had landed. He meets with the soldiers' leader, Colonel Kordsmeier, who refuses to provide information about the parachute or the military's presence.