Modus Operandi (2010)

Plotzle Expert · Puzzle #2 · April 29, 2026 · Action / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for Modus Operandi (2010). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A disgraced surgeon in Budapest performs experimental procedures on trafficked refugees while his assistant documents everything and plans to sell the evidence to rival criminal networks for asylum.
2. Two mercenaries are hired to extract a warlord's accountant from Nairobi but the target reveals their employer already executed both their families as insurance against betrayal.
3. An intelligence analyst develops a signature interrogation method that breaks detainees within hours but slowly erases her ability to distinguish between suspects and innocents during each session.
4. When a cartel enforcer's pattern of eliminating witnesses gets decoded by federal agents, his handler sends him to a remote compound where previous operatives were retired permanently.
5. When two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from a top presidential candidate, a covert CIA branch recruits a widowed black ops agent by offering him his wife's killer's identity in exchange.
6. A forensic accountant in Singapore discovers his teenage daughter has been selling classified financial data to syndicate operatives and decides to eliminate the buyers himself.