She steals injectable stimulant drugs and a gun and sets out to exact revenge on whoever poisoned her. Kate realizes that Stephen poisoned her, and after crashing a car, wakes up in a hospital to learn that she has acute radiation poisoning caused by Polonium-204 and only a day to live. Later, while preparing her sniper's nest, she starts getting symptoms of dizziness that cause her to miss the shot. The pair share a bottle of wine and have sex in her room. She tells Varrick that she will do one final mission, and then retire so she can start a new life.īefore the final mission, Kate meets a charismatic stranger, Stephen, at her hotel's bar.

While Kate's assignment is a success, this breach of her personal code to not kill in the presence of children leaves her in emotional turmoil. She ultimately shoots the target at Varrick's insistence. Kate is in Osaka to kill an officer of a powerful yakuza syndicate, but Kate resists taking the shot because a child has unexpectedly accompanied him. After she was left orphaned as a child, Varrick raised her as a father figure, giving her extensive training in weapons and combat and eventually inducting her into his private team of wetwork specialists. Kate is an assassin and expert sniper who eliminates targets chosen by her trusted mentor and handler, Varrick. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Winstead's performance but found the film 'disappointingly derivative of numerous other female assassin films', and was released on September 10, 2021, by Netflix. During Kate's final mission, she finds out that she has been poisoned and has at most a day to live, so she uses her last hours to get revenge and find out who set her up. The film follows Kate (Winstead), an assassin, whose mentor and handler (Harrelson) assigns her to kill a high-ranking yakuza boss. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, and Jun Kunimura. Kate is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and written by Umair Aleem.

Kate & Pippin by Martin Springett