The romantic shenanigans are the stuff of Hollywood, but the film's fake contract killer is based on a real man profiled in a Texas Monthly article. Yes. Completely legal up to the moment you talk to someone about performing a contract.Conspiracy to commit murder is illegal. The film ends on that note of optimism: Gary imploring his college class to be open to transformation as he raises two children with Madison. He is assigned to kill a man in El Paso, Texas, where he grew up and where his brother lives in residence at a nursing home due to severe Alzheimer's disease. The film follows a CIA agent and his team as they work to prevent a terrorist attack on New Year's Eve. Gary Johnson is the most sought-after professional killer in Houston. In the past decade, he's been hired to kill more than sixty people. Here are some prime examples of films from the early 1940s to the present where hitmen and contract killing are crucial plot elements. In the early days of Texas, there was no such thing as a wrongful death lawsuit.