Looper

Time travel,

has not yet been invented.

But 30 years from now,

it will have been.

It will be instantly outlawed,

used only in secret by the largest criminal organizations.

It's nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future.

I am told.

Tagging techniques, what not.

So when these criminal organizations in the future need someone gone,

they use specialized assassins,

in our present...

called loopers.

And so,

my employers in the future,

nab the target.

They zap him back to me,

their looper.

He appears...

hands tied and head sacked.

And I do the necessaries.

Collect my silver.

So the target is vanished from the future,

and I have just disposed of a body that technically does not exist.

Clean.

Bonjour Joe. Good morning Joe.

Bonjour Béatrix. Good morning Beatrix.

How is the French?

Slow.

How is the coffee?

Burnt.

Two Jed.

Hey Joe.

Be at the club tonight?

Yeah.

Four Jed.

Bang.

Walk around.

Around the bike.

I am not kidding! Wide... Hey, I don't...

around! Rude.

You shit! If you had a mama,

she didn't raise you right. That's funny.

Because I am going to pick your mother up later on my bike,

and I am gonna take my blunderbuss... Hey Seth.

Hey Joe.

That's new.

Yeah, thanks.

Goddamn thing won't fucking start.

So you going to the Belle?

Hey man!

So you bought a slat bike?

Yup.

How much that thing set you back?

How much?

I was gonna pull up in it tonight.

Well, congratulations.

You are pulling up with me instead.

Don't.

If we are going in, don't do that.

Chicks dig TKs. They do not.

Yes, they do.

It's tacky. Don't do it.

About 10 percent of the population,

has this TK mutation.

When it first appeared, everyone thought we were gonna get superheroes.

But it turns out this was it.

Now it's a bunch of assholes,

think they are blowing your mind floating quarters.

It's like this whole town.

Big heads,

small potatoes.

Full house tonight Joe.

We will stick backstage.

Just meeting up, in and out

Packing your blunderbusses?

Hardly. Right Seth?

I am with Joe.

Just meeting up, in and out. Go on.

Suzie!

Hey!

You working a shift tonight?

Yeah. Yeah?

Have a gat man bought me out already for the night.

Oh.

Sweetie, I have got to work.

Hey Joe.

What? Zach.

He is in there right now with Abe.

For what?

Closed his loop.

No shit?

There is a reason we are called...

loopers.

When we sign up for this job,

taking out the future's garbage,

we also agree to a very specific proviso.

Time travel in the future,

is so illegal,

that when our employers want to close our contracts,

they will also want to erase,

any trace of their relationship with us,

ever existing.

So if we are still alive 30 years from now,

they will find our older self,

zap him back to us,

and we will kill him like any other job.

This is called closing your loop.

And you get a golden payday,

you get a handshake,

and you get released from your contract.

Enjoy the next 30 years.

This job doesn't tend to attract the most...

forward-thinking people.

So we...

celebrating?

Yeah! Yeah!

Look out!

Shit.

Jesus.

Fuck Joe.

Envie d'être en for me. Want to feel fine.

Bonjour Joe. Good morning Joe.

Ravi de... glad to...

de te voir Béatrix. to see you Beatrix

Oh la la.

What's that, fourth loop closed this month?

Loop closed. Here we go.

Loop closed, baby!

Yeah.

Seth?

Jesus.

They could be here any minute.

Are they here? No. Who?

Christ.

Joe, Christ!

What are you doing? Give me the gun.

Right.

That's smart.

Get away from the window. Christ, Joe.

Just quiet down. You can protect me a little, right?

Just so they don't... What did you do?

Oh jeez.

This is like a nightmare.

This is a nightmare.

I knew then what he did,

so I don't know why I asked.

What did you do?

He...

He was singing.

Through the gag and sack,

but I could hear the tune.

Deep memories,

my mom...

in a dark room,

taking care of me, singing that tune.

Once I knew...

he was me...

I...

Joe, I could not.

I could not. I had to see.

He told me...

I remember, he told me,

there is a new...

holy terror boss man in the future,

and he is closing all the loops.

The Rainmaker, they call him.

He told me it.

Then he wanted a cigarette.

So...

I untied him,

and he gives me this look.

And he just starts running.

I had my blunderbuss,

so I know I have got about 15 strides till he is out of my range.

And they come and they go,

and I just watch him till he is gone.

This is called letting your loop run.

It's not a good thing.

What do I do?

You are the only friend I have got, Joe.

You have got to help me.

You are a fucking idiot coming here.

You can't be here.

I will give you some money that will...

Joe! A little money?

Where am I gonna go?

You hop a freight train. You beat it the hell out of town.

Just don't move.

Tell Court, watch the window outside.

You got it, window.

Kid Blue, Joe!

Come on! Just a minute!

Open this goddamn door!

I can't do anything for you, Seth.

You have got to hide me! Please, Joe!

Please hide me!

Please Christ!

Please buy me some time and then I will go!

Please?