
After Bishop helps Steve to kill his attackers, he finds his father's gun and realizes that Bishop killed Harry.īishop and Steve kill Dean in an ambush. Bishop calls Steve, only to find that Steve has been ambushed. He then attempts to kill Bishop, who ultimately kills him in the ensuing struggle.īishop is later ambushed by Dean's henchmen, and after killing them, he discovers that Dean was behind the hit. He also reveals that Dean framed Harry and tricked Bishop into killing him. He confronts the hitman, who tells Bishop that he was paid by Dean to kill the others in South Africa and fake his own death, so that Dean could engineer the failed mission to cover up his own shady dealings. After the hit, Bishop and Steve fly home separately.Īt the airport, Bishop finds a supposed victim of the mission that Harry allegedly sold out.

The two decide to suffocate him instead, but are discovered after killing Vaughn and are forced into a shootout with the guards. While Bishop and Steve are preparing for the hit, Vaughn's doctor arrives and administers an IV of ketamine, which would inhibit the adrenaline's effects. Dean expresses disapproval of Bishop's usage of Steve, which violated the rules of contract arrangement.īishop's next contract is to kill cult leader Andrew Vaughn, whom he plans to inject with adrenaline to simulate a heart attack, for which the paramedics would administer a fatal dose of epinephrine. Burke fights back, using his size advantage and experience, but Steve manages to kill Burke after a lengthy fight. When Burke begins to undress, Steve attempts to strangle him with a belt as he had seen Bishop do on a former assignment. Bishop instructs Steve to slip a large dose of Rohypnol into Burke's drink to cause an overdose, but Steve ignores the instructions and goes with Burke to his apartment. The target, Burke, frequents the coffee shop and eventually invites Steve out for drinks. As Steve settles into a routine, Bishop escalates their training, taking him to observe a contract killing. Adopting a chihuahua, he instructs Steve to take the dog with him to a coffee shop each day at the same time. Following this, Steve asks Bishop to train him as a hitman. At the funeral, Bishop encounters Harry's son Steve, who he stops from trying to kill a would-be carjacker in a misguided attempt at vengeance.

Reluctantly, Bishop kills Harry with the latter's own gun and makes it look like a carjacking. Dean tells him about a failed mission in South Africa, in which several assassins were killed.ĭean reveals that only he and Harry knew the details of the mission, and that Harry had been paid for the contract details. Bishop's employer Dean confirms by phone that the contract is correct, whereupon Bishop requests a face-to-face meeting. Upon returning home to Louisiana, he meets with his friend and mentor Harry McKenna, who pays Bishop for his work. Hitman Arthur Bishop sneaks into the home of a Colombian cartel boss and drowns him in his own pool.
