In Emerald Bay, Florida, Lt. Mitch Buchannon and his group of lifeguards, incorporating second-in-order Stephanie Holden and veteran C. J. Parker, ensure the shorelines and the narrows as a major aspect of a world class division known as Baywatch. Having made more than 500 protects in his profession, Mitch is darling by the group, to the inconvenience of neighborhood beat cop Garner Ellerbee and Mitchs predominant, Captain Thorpe. Amid one of his morning watches, Mitch finds a little pocket of flakka sedate cleaned up close to the Huntley Club, which is presently under the responsibility for Victoria Leeds, who has been covertly fixing city councilman Rodriguez and others in endeavors to expand her stake in the straight. 

At the tryouts for imminent lifeguards, three individuals emerge: surfer Summer Quinn, an old companion of Holdens; Ronnie, a plump PC geek with a pulverize on C. J.; and Matt Brody, a previous Olympic gold decoration swimmer who went wrong to grass subsequent to regurgitating amid a hand off race. Summer and Ronnie both pass the trials, however Brody declines to partake, demanding his Olympic status and proposal letter qualifies him for have a place on the group. Mitch challenges Brody on a course of the previous picking, yet a suffocating lady and her children intrude on the test and they race to spare her. Mitch learns Brody needs to perform group benefit as a component of an unspecified supplication bargain, and that Thorpe demands restoring Brodys picture is important to persuade the city not to additionally cut Baywatchs financing. 

At the point when a private yacht bursts into flames, Brody defies requests and jumps specifically under the blazes, causing Holden and C. J. to need to spare him. The inhabitants are cleared, aside from the expired councilman Rodriguez. Ellerbee objects to Mitchs further investigative activities. Mitch and the posse go to a gathering held by Leeds to search for more proof yet without much fortunes as Brody makes a trick of himself getting alcoholic. Mitch, Brody, and Summer later penetrate the city funeral home, where they record two of Leeds men planting a misrepresented post-mortem examination answer to conceal the way that Rodriguez was killed on her requests. Shockingly, they are found, and however Mitch figures out how to curb and catch one of them, the account is obliterated and Ellerbee is compelled to discharge their suspect on an absence of proof. Infuriated, Thorpe undermines to flame Mitch on the off chance that he exceeds his power once more. 

Persuaded that Leeds is running medications out of the Huntley, Mitch and Brody go covert and sneak into the club kitchen, where they witness her specialists recovering the medications from barrels of fish and handling them. They contact Ellerbee, just to discover that another body has been found on the shoreline. Thorpe, infuriated that Mitch basically abandoned his post, fires him and names Brody as the new lieutenant. Brody acknowledges the activity reluctantly, and Mitch accepts a position as a cellphone salesperson. 

Subsequent to finding another pocket of flakka on the shoreline, Brody takes the second casualtys report from Ellerbee and conveys it to Summer, who affirms his doubt that the man was killed. Ronnie, after perceiving the casualty as his companion Dave, enables Brody to hack into Leeds servers, uncovering her intend to privatize the whole shoreline by methodicallly purchasing out or wiping out each contending entrepreneur. 

The group invades a private gathering on Leeds own yacht, finding how shes been utilizing the frame to pirate the medications. Brody is caught and set in a snare enclosure to be suffocated, and a bragging Leeds uncovers that she paid off the degenerate Thorpe to set Mitch up so he could legitimize terminating him before pushing the pen into the water. Just before Brody suffocates, Mitch shows up and spares him. The two get up to speed to Leeds, while Ronnie and C. J. dispatch firecrackers to keep her escape helicopter from landing. Similarly as they run out, an injured Mitch, having purposefully stung himself with an ocean urchin to support his adrenaline, utilizes a Roman flame to explode Leeds, sparing Brody by and by. Ellerbee arrives and arrests Leeds associates, apologizing to Mitch for questioning him. Thorpe arrives and starts to criticize Mitch for coming back to the shoreline. Accordingly, Brody punches Thorpe in the face. Thorpe is in this way captured for his part in Leeds arrangement. 

In the fallout, Ronnie and Brody start associations with C.J. also, Summer individually. Mitch, having been restored, formally enlists Summer, Ronnie, and Brody into Baywatch and acquaints them with their new skipper, Casey Jean (Pamela Anderson).