Margaret, a
Manhattan District Attorney, panics after a young man ("the Kid") dies in her hotel room. She calls a number given to her for just such an emergency by someone she trusts, and secures the services of an unnamed professional
fixer. He arrives to dispose of the Kid, who Margaret explains was jumping on the bed and fell into a glass drinks cart. Another unnamed fixer arrives, sent by the hotel's unseen owner, Pam, who saw everything via hidden cameras. To protect the hotel's reputation and the D.A.'s career, the two women urge the fixers to work together, much to their chagrin. The fixers initially refuse, but Margaret privately reminds her fixer that he has been captured on the hidden surveillance footage, and quotes what her contact had told her about the fixer when providing his number: "You take a job, you give your word, and that word is the measure of a man." The fixers reluctantly join forces, providing Margaret with an alibi and change of clothes, and sending her home. They find a large stash of drugs in the Kid's bag, which the hotel owner orders them to return to its original owners to avoid further trouble. Margaret's fixer deftly moves the body to the trunk of his car using a luggage cart, only to discover that the Kid is still alive but overdosing on drugs. Knocking the Kid out and stowing him in the trunk, the fixers suspect the drugs belong to a shipment of pure drugs recently stolen from the
Albanian mafia. They take the young man to a Chinatown restaurant, where an underground medic operates a clandestine clinic. The Kid, however, escapes in his underwear, leading the fixers on a chase through the city. Catching him and sobering him up with pills from the medic, the fixers interrogate the Kid. He explains that he agreed to deliver the drugs as a favor to his friend Diego, a bartender at a nightclub. While waiting for the address to be sent via a
pager, the Kid had met Margaret in an upscale hotel bar. After going to her room, he'd secretly tried the drugs on a whim. The trio go to Diego's nightclub so the Kid can pick up the pager which had been left behind the bar. The fixers get caught up in a
kolo (a wedding dance) and are recognized by Dimitri, a dangerous Croatian mobster for whom they had each previously worked alone. They save themselves by convincing Dimitri they are not working together against him, and leave separately. The fixers deduce that drug kingpin Lagrange is Diego's employer, that he likely stole the Albanians' shipment, and that the Kid is being
framed. The address for the drop, Lagrange's warehouse, is received to the pager. Though the fixers expect the Kid will be killed, they agree to let him make the delivery of the returned drugs. The fixers watch from a car as the Kid enters the warehouse, but are ambushed by the Albanians and by Dimitri's bodyguards. They shoot their attackers dead and make their way inside to find that Lagrange's men and the Albanians have all killed one another, and the Kid has survived by hiding inside a car trunk. Realizing that both fixers' clients would prefer that the Kid die, they prepare to kill him, but have a change of heart. After accompanying the Kid home on the subway, they threaten him and his father to keep quiet about the entire incident. Having breakfast at a diner in
Brighton Beach, Margaret's fixer asks Pam's fixer how Pam convinced him to collaborate. He says she told him, "You take a job, you give your word, and that word is the measure of a man." Realizing the same person employs them both, they conclude that their employer orchestrated everything, and that they were meant to die in the warehouse. They suddenly notice that several hitmen are gathering outside. They duck for cover and begin loading their weapons, and make a deal to tell one another their names if they survive. The movie ends as they begin firing out of the diner at the hitmen. ==Cast==