Who killed the assassin?

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The hitman who killed the judges in The Pelican Brief has gotten himself close to Julia Roberts's character and is about to do her in when someone shoots him instead at the last second. Who killed the assassin? How'd they know who he was and when he would make his move?



Best Answer

It was done by CIA.

At the end of the movie, the FBI director Voyles has this conversation with Darby

From the script:

DARBY
Who killed the man who masqueraded as Gavin Verheek?

VOYLES
You mean the assassin, Khamel. Off the record, the man who killed Khamel is a contract operative hired independently by the C.I.A.

As to how did they know - Voyles was of course very suspicious and refused to follow President's order to "back off" from the investigation. CIA was also interested in removing this famous terrorist and both organizations were informed that he most likely has arrived in Denver.




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Who killed all the assassins?

Shay, from Assassin's Creed Rogue, was responsible for eliminating quite a few major assassins and templars. Here's a look at each one he killed. Assassin's Creed offers fans of the series a unique character with Shay Cormac. Shay started out as an assassin, but betrayed them after a mission gone wrong in Portugal.

Who is the number 1 assassin?

One-time hitman Julio Santana (right) stopped counting after he reached 492 kills.

Who killed the Hashashin?

The Assassins' Victims He was killed in October of 1092 by an Assassin disguised as a Sufi mystic, and a Sunni caliph named Mustarshid fell to Assassin daggers in 1131 during a succession dispute.

Who was the 4 president assassinated?

Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald).



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