The Killer

A mysterious killer, a skillful professional assassin, stakes out a Parisian hotel room. He prepares to kill an unnamed target who will check into the hotel room at an unspecified time with a sniper rifle. While waiting for the target, he practices yoga, eats, listens to The Smiths, and talks with his handler, an attorney named Hodges, on the phone. The killer narrates about most of these activities, stressing the routine, even boring, nature of his job, and about how his cynicism and lack of empathy benefits his job. The target eventually arrives in the company of a dominatrix. As the target watches the Dominatrix from the couch, the killer takes aim and fires but misses his mark, accidentally shooting the dominatrix, despite his meticulous methodical preparations. Bodyguards spot the killer and he flees. He successfully evades the police and flies to the United States under one of his numerous fake identities. He attempts to contact Hodges, but without success.