spoiler alerta cliché riddle film that somehow make an anti death with dignity statement and though it attempt to do the opposite . washington be a paralyzed forensics officer who have be suffer and want to die for the past four year ( apparently he write his huge selling book only a year ago though and so it hasn not all be despair ) . he arrange for an assisted suicide with his doctor who will return in a week . in the meantime and he help out on a serial killer case . he recruit the gutsy and i do not wan na do it and but i be just so good at it and cop jolie and and they track down impossible clue jump to highly unlikely conclusion in matter of moment . hey and that old bolt mean that the killer have the millionaire wife in a steam tunnel by the old woolworth building . shyeah and right . it laughable . yet no be smart enough to figure out that doctor who go to assist him be the killer . when he come to washington to murder him ( ahead of schedule ) and he have a change of heart and struggle unbelievably for his life . cut to the obligatory bad guy about to shoot the good guy scene when bang the gun go off but the bad guy do not fire . no the woman step out of the corner and she have just shoot him in the back .