The Killer

Plot Summary

• Zee (Nathalie Emmanuel) is a professional hit woman living in Paris who is regularly employed by Finn (Sam Worthington), an Irishman working for crime lord Jules Gobert (Eric Cantona), to eliminate Gobert's rivals in the drug business. Finn meets Zee at an abandoned church to deliver her assignments.Her violent lifestyle has left her with few things to enjoy, including the friendship of an old high-class tailor named Tessier (Tcheky Karyo), who provides her with disguises for her jobs, keeping a goldfish, and solving crossword puzzles. In the underworld, she has become infamous as the Queen of the Dead. Tessier designs clothing that specifically hide the arms Zee carriers from being detected by metal scanners.Finn contracts Zee to kill the members of a drug gang from Marseille partying in a local nightclub where a young American singer named Jenn Clark (Diana Silvers) is performing.At about the same time, a police inspector named Sey (Omar Sy), and his partner Jax (Gregory Montel) try to arrest Jenn's drug-dealing boyfriend "Coco" (Hugo Diego Garcia), but Coco escapes, injures Jax and takes a hostage, forcing Sey to kill him after a lengthy chase through the streets of Paris. Jax recently found out that his wife is pregnant.At the time of his death, Coco was listening to a demo recording of one of Jenn's songs, leading Sey onto Jenn's trail. In spite of the gangsters receiving texts that Coco has been killed, Zee eliminates them all, but in the carnage, Jenn hits the back of her head in a fall, causing her to go blind. Although obliged to kill all present, Zee spares Jenn as not an involved "civilian". Upon learning this, Finn sends her to the hospital Jenn is kept in to finish the job.Posing as a vice-consul from the US embassy, Zee gains access to Jenn's room but again spares her. Just then Sey enters to take Jenn's statement about the nightclub murders, but due to her traumatic shock, Jenn remembers little. Sey becomes suspicious of Zee and calls the US Embassy to check on whom they sent to meet Jenn. Sey's suspicions are confirmed when they reply that nobody from the consulate was sent to meet Jenn. Sey tries to follow Zee, but she disappears.Gobert meets Finn and says that he gave prince Majeb Bin Faheem 75 million Euros to buy the drugs shipment, which was stolen. Finn says that Sey is after Faheem and will eventually find his trail.Sey connects Gobert to a recent theft of a large load of heroin from Arabian prince Majeb Bin Faheem (Said Taghmaoui), who is dealing with Gobert. Sey interviews Faheem who says that his private plane landed in Paris and was surrounded by seemingly French custom officers, who removed a number of bags from his cargo hold. The bags contained 75 million euros of cocaine, but Faheem tells Sey that the custom officers made a mistake, as there was nothing on the plane. The men who conducted the theft were the same gang who was found killed at the nightclub.However, his investigations are stymied by his superiors, who fear its impact on their careers, especially since some of the gangsters involved in both crimes were dirty cops working for Gobert. Additionally, it is revealed that Finn is responsible for the heroin theft since he intends to corner the Paris drug market for himself.Zee admits to Finn that she did not kill Jenn due the presence of a cop. Finn knows that Zee is making an excuse and says that he has sent another squad to take care of Jenn. Before Finn's thugs can assassinate Jenn at the same hospital where Sey is visiting Jax, Zee arrives to take her to safety. During the resulting shootout, killing multiple staff and patients, Zee and Sey briefly meet face-to-face before Zee escapes and takes Jenn to her apartment. After Jenn identifies Zee as the killer from the night club, she reveals that she is an involved "civilian", as she and Coco have stolen Bin Faheem's heroin shipment from its original thieves, thus having set off the subsequent string of murders.Zee meets with Finn and lies that she has eliminated Jenn, but Finn later learns the truth. Sey tracks Zee down from the CCTV footage from the hospital and from the nightclub, and has her arrested, and while questioning her, he learns that she was involved in one of his earlier cases against another drug dealer, thereby saving his life. Zee escapes custody, only to find that Jenn has been kidnapped by Finn's men and learns from Tessier that he was coerced by a cop to inform him when Zee contacts him.Gobert demands of Finn to have Zee assassinate Bin Faheem for his failure to deliver the drugs, but Finn has Gobert killed instead. Then he arranges for Sey to be framed by planting the stolen drugs in his office, forcing him to go into hiding, and tasks Zee with eliminating him, promising her and Jenn's freedom in return.However, when Zee sees Sey meeting Jax at the appointed place and one of Finn's assassins waiting to kill her after her hit, she realizes the set-up, kills the assassin, exposes Jax as being on Finn's take, and teams up with Sey to bring Finn down. They retrieve the heroin Jenn had stolen and arrange an exchange of the drugs for Jenn at an abandoned church.The meeting results in a violent fight between Zee, Sey and Finn and his assassins, during which the drugs are destroyed by an explosive charge set by Sey and Jenn recovers her sight. As Finn prepares to kill Zee, she distracts him with a silly question, allowing Sey to slide her a gun which she uses to shoot Finn. After secretly watching Jenn being reunited with her mother, she calls Sey, telling him that she is planning to change her life, and they share a light-heart goodbye.

Storyline

• The kinetic action thriller follows Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler, Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee's alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.