Three assassinations anchor this look at how state and terror networks kill their enemies without leaving fingerprints. The film reconstructs the 2001 suicide bombing that killed Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, disguised inside a camera and detonated by men posing as journalists just two days before September 11. It follows the 2006 poisoning of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, tracing the radioactive isotope polonium-210 from a London teapot back to the agents who delivered it. A third strand revisits the unsolved 1986 shooting of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, a case that still divides investigators decades later. Interviews and archival material lay out the tradecraft involved, from disguise and infiltration to the use of exotic poisons, and weigh the fingerprints of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the FSB in each case. Rather than dwelling on gore, the film treats each killing as a piece of political theater, asking what each assassin's employer wanted the world to see and fear.