Construction executive John (Brad Pitt) and tech support consultant Jane (Angelina Jolie) are answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for "five or six" years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they were both secretly on the run from the Colombian authorities. Since the authorities were looking for tourists traveling alone after a recent assassination, the two claimed to be together to avoid being questioned. They quickly fell in love and got married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met; she claims she thought he looked like "the most beautiful 'mark'" she had ever seen, though her body language implies otherwise.