Assassins
Robert Rath is a paid assassin who wants nothing more
than to get out of 'the business', haunted by the memory of murdering his own mentor Nicolai years ago. Rath is a quiet, morose professional who is on an assignment to kill someone
when someone else gets to the 'mark' before he does.
That person turns out to be Miguel Bain, a fellow assassin and a competitive sociopath.
Rath then has the trouble of trying to figure out who sent Bain,
the contractor offers him one last job that could financially allow him to retire:
killing the four Dutch buyers and the computer hacker named Electra
and retrieve a disk that contains sensitive information.
Electra has set up cameras in all the rooms of the apartment block
where she lives and watches them like watching television.
Bain is assigned to kill Electra as well. Bain kills the four Dutch buyers
who turn out to be Interpol agents and Rath comes to kill Electra
but for the first time has a change of heart.
His pay for the job is given to him in a briefcase in exchange for the disk.
The briefcase actually contains a bomb placed by his own contractor in an attempt to kill him.
Luckily Electra had swapped the disk, not sure if Rath was coming back or not.
The contractor takes the chance and hires Bain to terminate him;
now having become a target along with Electra, he must try and extract enough money
out of his contractor so he can disappear for good, while avoiding the bloodthirsty Bain.
Rath's contractor turns out to be none other than Nicolai himself
who also hired Bain to track down Electra and the disk.
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