Where do contract killers go to retire? In new Prime Video drama series The Assassin, it’s a sun-kissed Greek island, where former gun-for-hire Julie (Miss Austen’s Keeley Hawes) is growing old disgracefully, as she spends her days drinking, sunbathing and arguing with the locals in a picturesque coastal village.
But when her grown-up son Edward (The Good Doctor’s Freddie Highmore) arrives looking for answers about his father, and Julie is approached to come out of retirement for one last job, the dysfunctional duo find themselves on the run as events take a deadly and terrifying turn.
