Assassin Project: Storyline and Victims

Victim 1: JERRY JENKINS

Character Inspiration: Mayor from The Taking of Pelham 123 portrayed by James Gandolfini.

Reason For Kill: Fraud

Time: 23:00 pm

This character is found with a bullet wound to his head. He had been taking a shower in his penthouse, when Vivian used a sniper to kill him. She had been sitting on a ledge on a building opposite his penthouse.

After each kill, Jim Washington sends a group of his agents to come and dispose of the body and make the crime seem staged. For this particular crime, the body had to be taken to the lab for an autopsy, as this man was in a position of power and his death would obviously be questioned.

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Victim 2: DERRIL SMITH

Character Inspiration: Sonny from A Bronx Tale (1993) portrayed by Chazz Palminteri.

Reason For Kill: He is the founder of ‘The Silk Road’, an online black market that is known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. It operates as a hidden service through the deep web.

Time: 2:00 am

Vivian sneaks into his warehouse, which is where he stores all of his illegal drugs. She find him in his informal ‘office’ and uses one of his own needles to overdose him with heroin. The agents on standby enter the warehouse and begin arresting employees and guards and seize the illegal narcotics.

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Victim 3: SIMON EDWARDS

Character Inspiration: George Harvey from The Lovely Bones (2009) portrayed by Stanley Tucci.

Reason For Kill: Human Trafficking

Time: 15:00 pm

Vivian discovers this man walking down an alley way as he had been stalking two young girls to be his next victims. She beats him up horrendously then proceeds to strangle him, as she allows her emotions (anger) to interfere with her mind.

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Victim 4: JIM WASHINGTON

Character Inspiration: Robert McCall from The Equalizer (2014) portrayed by Denzel Washington.

Reason For Kill: He killed her mother.

Time: 23:30 pm

Vivian and Jim are working late at night on their next assignment. They are eating take away food, when Vivian suddenly makes a flirtatious move on him. She gives him a glass of wine which she had previously drugged. Jim assumes they are about to get intimate. Once he feels dizzy, she proceeds to confront him angrily about the death of her mother. He tries to reason with her, but she doesn’t believe him so she stabs him once in the chest and once in the neck.

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VICTIMOLOGY:

All the victims are men who have who pose as a threat to the country or the exposure of confidential information and secrets in the government. Vivian attempts to kill the men without linking any emotion to the killing, but she does feel emotion in the third and fourth murders. This means that the first two murders are more clean-cut and better prepared, whereas the last two burn with anger and hint at the underlying theme of betrayal.

This is not the concrete version of events, but it is an outline for the storyline of this project.

Assassin Project: Vivian Mallory

PROFILE OF PROTAGONIST:

Name: Vivian Qistina Mallory

Name Meanings: life (ironic), justice, war counsellor
Age: 27
Height: 160cm
Weight: 57kg

Style of ‘elimination’: Organised and premeditated, she follows a set of rules in order to maintain her sanity. For example, she refuses to know any information about the victim’s family.

Character Inspirations: Assassin’s Creed (Fiora Cavazza), Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Catwoman (Selina Kyle).

BACKGROUND:

She is a trained female assassin who kills certain men in positions of high power, as they pose a threat to the country and the government. Her mother was murdered when she was only 3 years of age. She did not have the best relationship with her father, as he was absent in her life due to the fact that he was busy as an assassin as well. Her father did not realise that she knew what he really does. As a teenager she would often follow him and witness some of his ‘work’.

Her traits include; stubborn, patient, assertive, solitary, pragmatic, organised, meticulous and brave. Audience members who possess the same traits as Vivian will be able to relate to her.

Vivian typically has a serious attitude and a bold nature, creating many boundaries for herself in order to maintain her mind. She attempts to remain preoccupied and detached from society. She is distant from others because she is worried that if she lets her guard down, people will take advantage of her or somehow discover who she really is.

Her relationship with Jim, her mentor, is inspired by two films. Firstly, the father-daughter relationship in Hanna (2011) between Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) and Erik (Eric Bana). They have a deep trust in each other and we see how he trains his daughter to be an assassin. Secondly, the character portrayed by Kurt Russell in Furious 7 (2015) who provides weapons for the team. He refers to himself as “Mr. Nobody”.