The Disappearance (film): Difference between revisions

Jay Mallory is a contract killer living in [[Montréal]] who works for an unknown international criminal organization. He returns home to his downtown apartment one cold winter day to find that his wife, Celandine, is gone. Mallory initially thinks that Celandine has left him of her own volition, since their marriage was a sometimes stormy, albeit passionate, relationship. However, words from Mallory’s main point of contact at the Organization, Burbank, indicate that Celandine’s disappearance may be associated with Mallory’s last hit. Shortly after their discussion, Burbank himself disappears.

The Organization assigns Mallory another job in [[Suffolk, England|Suffolk]], England. Mallory has a feeling that there is something unusual about this job – he is given little initial information, including not knowing who the target is – and that it is associated with Celandine’s disappearance. Despite feeling that he may be being set up, Mallory decides to take the job anyway to see how it plays out and if it leads him back to Celandine. Meanwhile, he has been told that his missing wife had an affair with an Englishman named Roland Deverell.

Mallory flies to London as instructed where he meets his new contact, Atkinson, who gives him a weapon to be used for the assassination, which they refer to as a “shy”. After renting a car and driving to rural Suffolk, Mallory begins to suspect the Organization plans to betray him since Burbank informed him earlier that the Organization often “retires” fellow members who are deemed no longer trustworthy or if they are felt to be no longer useful.

After breaking into the large country house of his target, Mallory is surprised and held at gunpoint by Roland Deverell, who says he is the Organization’s head whom Mallory has never met. Deverell informs Mallory that he has been expecting him to show up, and says Celandine has been having an affair with himself for a long time, that she left England the day before Mallory arrived, and that she orchestrated the hit. When Deverell attempts to kill Mallory, Mallory succeeds in killing him instead. He returns to London and flies back to Canada.