They kidnap Danz from his high-security prison to use as a bargaining chip. Fending off an attack which blows up their pockmarked house, the Smiths steal their neighbor's minivan and successfully destroy their attackers' three pursuing armored sedans, all while bickering over their fighting styles and newly revealed personal secrets.Īfter meeting with Eddie, the Smiths decide to fight together to preserve their marriage. John's best friend and co-worker, Eddie, turns down a bounty of $400,000 on each of them, but John and Jane find themselves under fire from an army of assassins. The renewed Smith partnership is quickly threatened by their employers, who join forces to eliminate the couple.
Jane finds she cannot shoot John either, and they share a passionate true love's kiss. John finds his feelings for Jane rekindled, and lays his gun down. In a protracted, evenly matched fight, they wind up with guns in each other's faces. When both are assigned to kill DIA prisoner Benjamin "the Tank" Danz during a transfer, they encounter each other on the job and the hit ends up botched Danz survives, while John and Jane are assigned to kill each other instead.Īfter escalating attempts on each other's lives, the Smiths' conflict culminates in a massive shootout that nearly demolishes their home. Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage-which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating-with their secretive work. They live in a large Colonial Revival house in the suburbs, and keep up appearances by reluctantly socializing with their "conventionally" wealthy neighbors. In reality, John and Jane are both skilled field operatives working for different contract killing firms, both among the best in their field, each concealing their true profession from the other. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they claimed to be together in order to avoid by Colombian authorities looking for a solo traveler. They have been married for "five or six" years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. Construction executive John and tech support consultant Jane are answering questions during marriage counselling.