Terminal 2018

In a desolate train station, Bill (Simon Pegg) encounters a peculiar janitor named Clinton, who reveals that no trains will be arriving until an unearthly hour. As Bill searches for an alternative mode of transportation, he’s confronted by two petty thieves, Lenny (Matthew Lewis) and Raymond (Thomas Turgoose). With his quick wit and agility, Bill effortlessly outmaneuvers the duo, refusing to raise his voice in the process.

Seeking solace in a nearby all-night diner, Bill strikes up a conversation with Annie (Margot Robbie), a enigmatic waitress who’s drawn to his coughing fits. As they share a vodka-infused moment, Annie’s words are laced with a morbid curiosity, suggesting that death may not be the worst fate for someone like Bill, whose terminal illness has left him writhing in pain.

Bill confides in Annie about his uncertain future, claiming to be an English teacher, but his hesitations betray a nagging doubt – he’s convinced he’s met her before. As their conversation unfolds, Annie’s words take on a sinister tone, goading Bill to consider assisted suicide and even suggesting the most gruesome methods for a painless demise.

But beneath the surface, Annie harbors a dark secret. Her true intentions are revealed when she leads Bill to an abandoned shaft, challenging him to leap into the unknown. The once-calm Bill finally cracks under the pressure, his memories flooding back as he realizes that Annie was one of his students at a residential school where he perpetrated unspeakable abuses.

As the truth dawns on Bill, Annie’s cold calculation gives way to a calculating fury. With her pen, she ends Bill’s life, sending him tumbling down the shaft, his screams echoing through the desolate night.

As the curtain lifts on a pivotal moment three weeks prior, Annie finds herself bound in a twisted game of cat and mouse as she subdues Nigel Illing (Nick Moran) with chloroform, her actions marked by a calculated brutality. With her victim rendered unconscious, she sets about extracting a gruesome trophy from his person, a gruesome testament to the depths of her depravity. Her sinister employer, Mr. Franklyn, watches with calculating interest as Annie vanishes into the shadows, only to reappear in the confessional booth where their twisted bond is forged.

Fast-forwarding to the present, Mr. Franklyn’s instructions are carried out with precision by his two hit-men, Vince (Dexter Fletcher) and Alfred (Max Irons), who converge on the terminal to collect a mysterious briefcase. As they make their way to the café, where they often dine, they find themselves pondering the enigmatic nature of Mr. Franklyn’s summons, their curiosity piqued by the absence of Nigel Illing from the equation.

The briefcase itself yields few clues, containing only a packet of matches and an envelope filled with cash. The matches, it transpires, hail from a seedy strip joint, a revelation that leads Vince and Alfred down a rabbit hole of corruption and moral decay. Their journey culminates in a sordid French strip club, where they encounter the alluring Conejo (Jourdan Dunn), who serves as their gateway to the enigmatic Bunny (Annie) – a stripper with secrets as dark as her soul.

As the hit-men wait patiently for further instructions from Mr. Franklyn, they find themselves entwined in a complex web of deceit and betrayal. The catalyst for this descent into chaos arrives in the form of Clinton, the night supervisor at the railway station, who seeks to report their locker-breaking exploits to the authorities. Vince, ever the pragmatist, sees fit to grease the wheels of corruption with a well-placed bribe, ensuring Clinton’s silence.

Meanwhile, Vince and Alfred are summoned to an apartment where they receive instructions from Mr. Franklyn himself, only to be left waiting expectantly for further guidance. It is during this lull that Annie seizes her chance to manipulate events from behind the scenes, exploiting the vulnerability of the hit-men to further her own agenda.

As the plot thickens, Vince finds himself drawn into a web of deceit as he receives a tantalizing offer from Mr. Franklyn – double the reward for the murder of Alfred, an opportunity too great for him to resist. Little does Vince realize, however, that Annie has been manipulating events from behind the scenes, using her cunning and guile to turn Alfred against his erstwhile partner.

As the day wears on, Annie’s plan begins to unravel with deadly precision, her every move monitored by Mr. Franklyn from the safety of his lair, where a network of cameras and monitors provides him with a bird’s-eye view of the hit-men’s hideout and the café where they often dine. The stage is set for a confrontation that will test the very limits of survival, as Annie’s master plan hurtles towards its inevitable climax.

As Bill sits morosely in the abandoned air shaft’s dimly lit recesses, the enigmatic waitress seizes the opportunity to persuade him towards a final, desperate act. Her words paint a vivid picture of a profound abyss, one that Bill had previously described as his ultimate fate. Though he struggles to muster the courage to leap into the unknown, the waitress goads him with her taunts, unwittingly triggering a painful memory from his past as a schoolteacher. The ghosts of his troubled past converge as he realizes the woman before him is none other than one of his former students, a victim of his own abuse.

As the weight of this revelation crashes down upon him, the waitress seizes the pen that had previously been his tool of torment and plunges it into his neck. With a cruel smile, she sends Bill tumbling into the darkness, his screams echoing off the cold concrete walls.

Meanwhile, in a nearby high-rise apartment, Mr. Franklyn issues a chilling instruction to the hit-men, who are poised to strike. Vince, his eyes fixed intently on Annie’s unsuspecting form, raises his sniper rifle, only to be met with Alfred’s swift and decisive action. The older man disarms Vince, then turns his attention to Annie, whose presence has unwittingly foiled their plan.

As the dust settles, Alfred and Annie make a hasty exit from the apartment, only to stumble upon the janitor, who is arriving on the scene to clean up the aftermath of violence. Unbeknownst to them, their actions have merely delayed the inevitable.

Back at the train terminal, the waitress’s true intentions are revealed as she turns her attention to Alfred, her words laced with venomous deceit. With a cold-blooded precision, she terminates his life, and the janitor returns to find his latest victim. In a bizarre twist, the waitress and the janitor form an unlikely alliance, their joint mission to dispose of the bodies in a most unconventional manner.

As they ascend to the top of the air shaft, the darkness seems to swallow them whole, only to spit them back out into the cold light of day. The janitor, now revealed as Mr. Franklyn himself, sheds his disguise like a snake shedding its skin. His true identity exposed, he is met with a surprise visit from not one, but two doppelgangers - Annie and Bonnie, their identical faces twisted in malevolent glee.

As the twins’ vengeful gaze bore into his tormented soul, they bound Mr. Franklyn, once Clinton Sharp, with unyielding determination. The dark narrative of their mother’s tragic demise unfolded before him, a macabre tale of desperation and despair. It was revealed that she had been pursued by her partner, the very same man now helpless and tied at their mercy - Mr. Franklyn, the biological father they never knew. He had been the one who drove their mother to seek refuge in their flat, only to watch as he poured petrol around them, setting their home ablaze with an infernal fury. As she desperately pushed her twin daughters out a shattered window, she could not escape the flames that consumed her own life. The twins’ childhood was forever scarred by the horrors they endured at the orphanage, where they were preyed upon by the monstrous Bill. Now, as adults fueled by rage and a thirst for retribution, they confronted their father with an unspoken challenge: to account for his crimes and face the consequences of his own making. With calculated precision, they exacted their revenge, reducing him to a vegetative state before delivering the final blow, ending his reign of terror once and for all. As one, they emerged from the terminal, their bond forged in the fire of trauma and vengeance, forever changed by the cruel circumstances that had shaped their lives.