It just seems so bizarre. He knocks on doors all day and kills random people. :-/

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I doubt it. My best friends' brother in law is a bounty hunter and it's nothing like on TV.

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Hitmen don't do fancy stuff. They don't rope down from the roof and knife their target.
Most of the times they prepares their victims meal with some poision or just make it look like a random street mugging.
Or snipe them.

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> They don't rope down from the roof and knife their target.

I don't know where you got this from… Have you actually seen the movie? In the montage, he basically just goes from address to address and tricks/forces people into opening the door and then shoot them.

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Well, its a bit more complex than that. Security is the first concern. Where is the target? Some shitty apartment, a hotel, in a limo passing through, actually IN a jail, it all depends on the situation. Most killers have to deal with each hit on a case by case basis. No killer will make a name just doing snipe-shots, slit throats, poisonings, carbombings, ect.

The problem lies with every action having a reaction. If you snipe someone, the police will know you used a rifle, a general idea of the trajectory, and given your position, a good idea of WHERE you were sniping from. Wouldn't take them long to piece together that Joe Blow only stayed one night at the suspect hotel room, and hey, he left us some prints too! If you poison, then you had to have gotten in close, close enough to ensure the happy meal actually WENT to the target, instead of say, going to another customer or accidentally getting dumped in the trash, or on the floor. Did the building have cameras? Did the other employee's notice a strange new-hire? It all adds up.

Therein lies the main problem. Every killer who kills for money eventually has a profile developed by the feds. Given enough small little clues, they will home in, maybe even find out who the wanted man is, who his legit ID is. Random psycho killers usually don't have that problem, since they can hit random people at random locations, and the police rarely ever think that it might be one person behind the killings, unless there is something to tie them all together. Plus the psychos can generally operate out of the public eye, like the lone jogger at night, or some unlucky hunter in the woods. Professionals usually operate in cities, where they are constantly surrounded by people who may interrupt a hit, catch a glimpse of their face, or otherwise be able to help the police ID the hitman.

Leon's tactic could actually work very well. Alot of robberies gone bad look just like someone broke in, conned their way in, and then killed. It also minimizes the evidence he might leave at the scene, as well as minimizes the time he spends AT the scene, further dropping his chances of getting caught or spotted.

In the end, it boils down to luck. You could have the perfect hit all planned out, take out your target, only to get stopped by a traffic cop, who would call for backup from the odd vibe he got off you, and the slightest little thing may tip off that you have a weapon, or was otherwise involved in the murder nearby. The best killers know to choose their time carefully. Just because you have the target in your sights does not mean you have to pull the trigger then and there. You could just break into his home and wait for him to come to you instead, and give yourself a day or two until the body is found to get far away.

So, to summerize, Leon COULD accurately depict a days work, if that is that particular hitman's MO. But a professional would most likely not use the same technique over and over, especially if he lives in the same town he works in. If he did, he might as well just spraypaint "Professional Killer lives here" on the walls of his victim's homes.

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> MO

What does this mean?

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Modius Operandi (spelling?) Basicly means method of operation. How you usually do business.

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Modus.

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I sincerely doubt a hitman has anything like a "normal work day"! Most contract hitmen probably don't kill someone every day, they charge a high price and live on it between hits. Mafia hits are usually done by family members as opposed to outside contractors, and these guys would have plenty of other mafia activities to do on a daily basis besides hits.

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