At the beginning he says, "No one who can afford me needs to waste time winning me to some cause."
His compound in the DR was impressive. And Hodges (the lawyer) says, "You've got more money than you could ever spend."
$250K per hit? Four jobs a year is $1M.
If you want to take out a high ranking politician, king or president that operation will be north $100 Mill
A high profile CEO or a celebrity will be around $1 Mill
Taking out your X new BF will be $200K or less.
Those are clean jobs and payment in crypto.
Something tells me he avoided the first two types of jobs (too many law enforcement eyes after the fact).
At the end, he was hesitant about confronting The Client (CEO type) but did so anyway because it had become personal.
The figure for the third type seems believable.
If you go on the dark web you can find contract killers but you need to go deep for the real stuff.
shareBased on his performance, I'd say minimum wage. He should have apprenticed under Charles Bronson.
shareI got the impression that was his first miss. Before then, he was batting 1.000.
And after a second watch, I got the feeling he almost wanted to miss.
I really couldn't buy into the whole idea of him rambling in his head and listening to music while he worked. I'd rather watch Bronson do his thing in the Mechanic with no dialogue.
shareI can't imagine doing that kind of work while listening to music either. Seems like it would be a real distraction. But I guess everyone approaches their work differently.
DW II has my all-time favorite Bronson line: You believe in Jesus? Well, you're gonna meet him.
"DW II has my all-time favorite Bronson line: You believe in Jesus? Well, you're gonna meet him."
Doesn't Clint Eastwood kill the same guy in one of the Dirty Harry movies?
Good memory! Yep, same guy was in Sudden Impact. Harry threw a molotov cocktail on his windshield and he wound up driving off a pier.
shareThis keeps bothering me... he did not miss, someone stepped in front of the shot but the shot was true.
That would be my story and I would stick to it!
In these types of situations the staffer (Hodges) always makes more than the grunt. They take the financial risk and make the sale-- its the way of the world. So because he is not hired directly he is taking 50% home at best.
shareGood point. Management always takes a bigger share. So for the Paris job, what do you think would have been his cut? On his first call to Hodges he says, "It's been five days. I'll give it today and tomorrow." So it's essentially a week's worth of work.
shareNot sure if it is my imagination, but when the billionaire mentioned it was an extra $150k for clean up, the Killer seemed visibly shocked. My interpretation is that he was taken aback by how little his life was worth to Hodges. So I'd guess the fee is minimum $300k for a straightforward 3 day job.
share$100K/day would make sense for a billionaire client.
shareThe billionaire says it was an extra $150, but that would have to cover the lawyer's fee plus two assassins. Assuming they're all getting the same, that'd be $50k for a hit, although I'm sure rates would vary. Although, notably, the two killers don't stick around to finish the job, so it was probably $50k just to go down to the Dominican for a day. This raises other questions about why there was no follow-up, but that's maybe for another thread.
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