The American (2010)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #9 · March 10, 2026 · Crime / Drama

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

1. An assassin travels to a small Italian town to wait for instructions, where he begins relationships with locals and takes on a weapons-building assignment while trying to maintain his guarded existence.
2. A naturalized citizen from Ecuador operates a loan shark business in Queens and destroys his relationship with his daughter when she discovers he manipulates immigrant families into debt.
3. Someone witnesses a gang execution in a border town and the perpetrators relocate him to Minneapolis under coercion where he works in their distribution network as penance for surviving.
4. Two brothers launder money through a failing car dealership in Nevada and the younger one begins skimming profits to fund a gambling addiction that endangers their arrangement with suppliers.
5. An aging man believes his patriotic devotion validates the vigilante murders he commits against those he deems unworthy of citizenship but his ideology crumbles as dementia erodes his memory.
6. A Detroit teenager sells counterfeit documents to undocumented workers while his mother unknowingly uses her restaurant as a front and both face separate investigations that converge during a raid.