Sometimes the Good Kill (2017)

Plotzle Expert · E68 · May 27, 2026 · Thriller / Drama

Six plot descriptions for Sometimes the Good Kill (2017). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A parole officer in Detroit begins a relationship with the brother of a man she recommended for early release who later committed suicide in county jail.
2. An aid worker returns from a humanitarian mission in rural Uganda and alienates his family by insisting his teenage daughter adopt the same austere lifestyle he witnessed abroad.
3. A philosophy professor believes his utilitarian ethics justify certain interventions and begins manipulating events in his small town to produce what he calculates as better overall outcomes.
4. A nun investigates two deaths at her abbey under orders from the new mother superior, uncovering dark secrets while confronting her own past to identify the killer among her fellow sisters.
5. Two estranged brothers inherit their father's failing pawn shop in Baltimore and discover he had been fencing stolen goods for a local gang expecting them to continue.
6. A hospice nurse administers fatal doses to terminal patients at their request but her supervisor discovers inconsistencies in medication logs and launches an internal review of her cases.