Paris was supposed to have gone smoothly, but it had certainly been far from that.

Your job: kill the French actor, Émile Portous. You know he's got protection, your go-between had told you that. While they waited backstage, you would pretend to be part of the tech team.

Whilst tampering with the ropes, however, one of his hired bodyguards walked past, his moustache twitching immediately. This would be difficult to play off; holding a rope with a sandbag on the other end, as well as a pocket knife in the other hand. Very compromising...

Long story short, he'd pounced, you'd slashed, and that's where our story picks up.