Role/Play

Emma leads a double life: in the eyes of her family she is a devoted wife and the mother of Wyatt and Caroline, yet she also moves through the shadows as an assassin. Her frequent “business trips” create distance at home, causing missed anniversaries and a growing strain as she tries to keep the pieces of her life from slipping apart.

Her covert world buzzes with constant pressure. Emma’s handler, Raj, calls with dangerous assignments and reminders to stay under the radar. He’s suddenly confronted by another opportunity on the dark web—a fresh hit order tied to her former employer, Sovereign, who is keen to track her down. The tension between loyalty to her past life and the fragile normalcy she longs for sets the stakes high, and Emma is urged to maintain her cover even as the danger escalates.

To test the waters of a normal life, Emma and her husband, Dave, craft a risky plan to rekindle their intimacy: a hotel rendezvous that treats them as strangers, a kind of role-playing exercise designed to remind them of the spark that first brought them together. The reunion begins with cautious tenderness, but the past refuses to stay silent. In the hotel lobby, a man named Bob Kitterman recognizes Emma, hinting at their shared line of work and pressing her to reveal more than she will. Emma stays close to her assumed identity, even as Bob leaves with a cryptic sense of menace.

The evening continues with heavy drinking and a brittle, brittle fun between the couple, until they return to their room. Dave, exhausted, falls asleep, and Emma slips away toward Bob’s room with a plan to end the risk he poses. Bob tries to leverage a hefty cut from future assignments in exchange for his silence, but Emma refuses. In a decisive moment, she reveals she had spiked Bob’s drink earlier in the bar, incapacitating him and removing a dangerous loose end.

The next morning brings a harsh reckoning. Dave wakes to a disturbing reality and they both face the consequences of Emma’s dual life. Emma warns Raj that her plan is to disappear to Germany, while a supposed work emergency in Boise pulls her away. When Dave goes to the airport to fetch Emma, she is nowhere to be found and is not on the flight. The NYPD is quickly involved, and Dave finds himself under ordinary suspicion in a case that feels anything but ordinary. Special Agent Carver from ITIC arrives with a stark revelation: Emma has assumed a dead woman’s identity and has been leading a second life as an assassin.

Back home, Emma’s carefully concealed tools and documents are discovered. Carver’s arrival and Raj’s disappearance pull Dave into a web of danger, and the pursuit intensifies. Emma’s trail leads to Europe, where the pursuit continues as she moves through a world of shadowy operators and old loyalties. In Berlin, a new chapter unfolds as Emma reconnects with Raj and faces the reality that Sovereign will not easily relinquish her freedom.

A tense confrontation erupts as Emma fights to protect her family. She reveals a hidden past—her name once being Anna—and explains that her father worked for the secret service before founding Sovereign with Carver. The plan to escape a life of violence collides with the stubborn grip of those who want to pull her back. Emma’s drive to rescue her family becomes the driving force behind every decision she makes in the days that follow.

Four Sovereign operatives locate them, subdue them, and force Emma to confront the possibility of losing everything she has built. Tranquilized and taken to a forest compound, Carver reveals a chilling demand: return to Sovereign and kill Dave in order to secure the family’s safety. Emma and Dave are forced to act as a unit, walking through the woods and exchanging fragile trust for a chance at survival. In a moment of whispered confession, Emma reveals her intention to protect her children and to protect Dave, even if the price is danger.

The turning point arrives in a brutal confrontation with Carver’s mercenaries. Emma fights through a series of gunfights, relying on quick returns to the moment of danger and a stubborn refusal to surrender. A sniper’s shot—initially aimed at Emma—becomes a pivotal moment as she turns the tide and eliminates the threat, one by one, until the last foe collapses. Dave, still alive but wounded by the chaos, is kept away from harm as Emma continues to clear the way toward safety for their family.

In the compound’s last stand, Emma and Carver’s final mercenary engage in a climactic duel of bullets and grit. Emma ends the threat, but not the danger that Sovereign represents. Carver herself is gravely wounded, pleading for a mercy Emma declines, choosing to let her bleed out rather than finish the act. With Carver out of the way, Emma reunites with Dave and their children, and the family begins the slow, careful process of stepping back into a life that may finally feel normal—together, away from the shadows that once defined them.

What remains is a careful balance between love and loyalty, a hard-won sense of safety, and a closing sense of resolve: Emma’s family is her true mission, and their future will be fought for, not fled from. The story closes on a note of cautious hope, as they walk away from the danger of Sovereign, ready to face whatever comes next as a united, ordinary family who knows what they are capable of when they stand together.

Last Updated: November 22, 2025 at 15:57