No Other Choice (2025)

Chris O'Hara and his partner Gina are hosting a quiet dinner for their friends Brian and Pam at the suburban home they share when Bill, a colleague and fellow undercover officer, slips out to plant an electronic listening device in the O'Haras' house next door. Bill gains entry and places the bug, but he never makes it back to the table. Luella, a woman who has been hiding since she escaped an assassination attempt in Las Vegas, emerges from concealment in the O'Haras' home, knocks Bill unconscious, drags him into the basement, binds his hands and feet, seals his mouth with tape, slips a sack over his head, takes his handgun, and then returns upstairs convinced he is an assassin sent by Costanzo's operation. Chris notices Bill's prolonged absence, leaves the dinner early to check on him, peeks into the O'Haras' property and hears nothing after calling Bill's name, then heads back to finish the awkward evening. He receives a call from Maria, a woman he has been estranged from because he has refused to marry her, who tells him she is planning to move to Veracruz for a job. Chris abruptly tells her he will marry her and promises to do whatever is needed, but Maria refuses to continue the conversation by phone and ends the call.

Brian and Pam, unnerved by the tension at Chris and Gina's dinner, leave. After they depart Chris retrieves his service pistol and badge and drives to the O'Haras' house intending to locate Bill and to reveal to Brian and Pam the true identities of himself, Bill, and Gina. Back at the O'Haras' house, Luella shows Brian and Pam the bound man in the basement; because his head is covered, they do not recognize him. Luella refuses to summon police, insisting that if law enforcement gets involved they will extradite her to Las Vegas to testify against the mob boss Costanzo. She tells Brian and Pam she has no choice but to flee and, when asked about the man she has captive, announces she intends to kill him because she believes he came to assassinate her and that if he survives he will inform Costanzo which would bring the mob after them. Reluctantly, Brian and Pam assist Luella in putting the man into their car trunk. Chris and Gina spot the O'Haras moving a trunk into a vehicle, follow them in their own car, and trail Luella to a salmon processing plant by the bay.

Luella carries Bill down a pier on the plant's waterfront intending to execute him with a single shot to the back of his head and send his body into the water. Bill struggles, strikes Luella, and dives into the bay before she can pull the trigger. Luella fires at him repeatedly but cannot hit him. Chris and Gina drive directly onto the pier, confronting Luella; she aims at them but misses, and the weight of their car causes a section of the pier to collapse, forcing Luella to leap into the water to avoid being struck. Gina dives in and frees Bill from his bindings while Chris pursues Luella, disarms her and knocks her unconscious with a punch that breaks her nose. Chris, Gina, and Bill bring Luella ashore, use the O'Haras' car to transport her to the island hospital for treatment of her broken nose, and notify the Seattle Police Department of her location.

Unbeknownst to them, Hassrick, the lawyer who is ostensibly prosecuting Costanzo in court but who is actually on Costanzo's payroll, learns from Las Vegas that the Seattle P.D. has located Luella and tells Costanzo that he will fly to Seattle to collect her. Costanzo instructs Hassrick that he must find Luella's exact location immediately because Costanzo intends to make sure she cannot testify. Costanzo then places a call to Tony, a mob hitman, telling him there is work that needs to be done. Hassrick arrives at the hospital, meets with Luella, and organizes a plan to transport her safely; Luella insists she must see Brian and Pam before she will agree to be flown out because they do not know what happened to her. Gina and Hassrick agree that Luella will visit the O'Haras with Gina present, and Gina promises to stay with Luella until she boards the plane. Tony, already on the island, drives toward the O'Haras' residence carrying a high-powered sniper rifle.

While Chris and Bill pack their surveillance equipment and prepare to relocate from their house, they notice Gina arriving at the O'Haras with Luella along with Hassrick and detectives Wills and Gilliam. Chris and Bill observe another vehicle park nearby; Tony steps out, sets up a sniper rifle, and takes aim from a distance. Chris and Bill sprint toward the house shouting warnings, but Wills and Gilliam see them and, mistaking them for competing assassins, open fire. Gina shouts that Chris and Bill are fellow detectives; Wills orders Gilliam to call for backup. Tony fires a single round that non-fatally wounds Gilliam; later he enters the house and shoots Wills, wounding him as well. Brian and Pam take cover in the basement. Hassrick, meeting Tony inside, reveals Luella's location; Tony shoots and kills Hassrick on the spot.

Gina ushers Luella upstairs and onto a back balcony. Gina tells Luella to climb over the balcony's low wall and drop to the level below, then bolt to the shore. As Luella jumps down to escape, Gina lunges at Tony and knocks his rifle off the balcony onto the lawn, but Tony backhands her across the face. Luella injures her left leg during the landing and crawls to flee while Tony seizes Gina and brings her deeper into the house as a human shield. Chris and Bill confront Tony, who keeps them at bay by threatening to shoot Gina. Tony moves Gina to the pool area, urging Chris and Bill to allow him to kill Luella in exchange for releasing Gina. Chris and Bill refuse. At that moment Gina's Rottweiler Archie, who had earlier chased a neighbor's cat from the house, arrives at the pool, leaps at Tony and Gina, and knocks them both into the water. Tony resurfaces, tries to fire at Luella, but Gina throws herself between the shot and Luella and takes a bullet in her right shoulder. Chris and Bill return fire and shoot Tony dead.

Paramedics and Seattle police arrive at the scene. Gina is loaded into an ambulance with Luella riding along for medical attention. Chris and Bill say goodbye to Gina as the ambulance leaves. Bill drives Chris back to his apartment in Seattle. Chris enters, calls the number for Maria at her mother's home, and the call initially drops. When he reaches for the telephone base to redial, the phone cord slides out of the jack; Maria has returned to the apartment and has physically disconnected the line. Chris asks her to marry him; she answers yes. They kiss in the doorway while Bill, parked across the street with binoculars, watches and smiles.

Elsewhere, in a different city and in a different set of circumstances, Yoo Man-su is an experienced paper-industry professional whose career of twenty-five years at Solar Paper has allowed him to live comfortably in a renovated childhood house with his wife Mi-ri, his teenage stepson Si-one from Mi-ri's previous relationship, and their young daughter Ri-one, an introverted cello prodigy who is especially attached to the family's two dogs, Si-Two and Ri-Two. The family's life includes luxuries: Mi-ri takes tennis lessons and runs social games with friends; Man-su and Mi-ri take dance classes together. A corporate buyout by an American company closes the factory and throws thousands of workers, including Man-su, out of work. Man-su promises his family he will secure new employment within three months given his strong résumé.

Thirteen months pass. Man-su has not recovered his prior status; he works a low-paid retail job, endures humiliating interviews, and the family slashes their budget. They sell possessions, cancel subscription services, stop dance classes and tennis matches, and eventually surrender their dogs to Mi-ri's parents despite Ri-one's anguish. They trade their luxury cars for older, cheaper models. Ri-one's cello talent attracts a recommendation to an expensive advanced music program, which the family cannot afford. The mortgage lender serves them with a foreclosure notice; the prospective buyers for the house are the parents of Geon-ho, the best friend of Si-one. Mi-ri takes a part-time position as a dental assistant to a much-younger dentist named Oh Jin-ho. Man-su develops a severe toothache that he refuses to treat despite Mi-ri's insistence.

Searching for work at another paper company, Man-su visits Moon Paper and applies for a specialist position. There he is humiliated publicly by line manager Choi Seon-chul, who also cultivates an online influencer persona. Humiliated and desperate, Man-su follows Seon-chul home and contemplates killing him by dropping a heavy potted red pepper plant he buys for that purpose, but he ultimately does not carry out that act. Instead, Man-su concocts a scheme to secure employment by eliminating competition. He places a fictitious job advertisement under the name "Red Pepper Paper," designed to attract qualified paper-industry professionals, and waits for applicants. Among the respondents are two men whose credentials outshine his own: Goo Beom-mo, an unemployed alcoholic who lives with his wife Lee A-ra, a once-prominent stage actress struggling to find roles, and Ko Si-jo, a dependable shoe-store worker with a young daughter. Man-su retrieves a handgun that belonged to his father, a Vietnam War veteran, and resolves to murder both men as well as Seon-chul if necessary.

Man-su begins surveilling Beom-mo, looking for a moment to kill him. Beom-mo's life is unraveling: he cannot find work, drinks heavily, and tries to reconnect with his wife A-ra, who is frustrated by his alcoholism and lack of initiative. While staking out a picnic where Beom-mo and A-ra are present, Man-su is bitten by a rattlesnake and is saved when A-ra rushes him to medical help. Back at home, Mi-ri suggests Man-su change careers and downsize their lifestyle; Man-su refuses and insists on competing for another paper job. Beom-mo notices the fake advertisement and decides to give up drinking to apply. At a later time Man-su discovers A-ra in an affair with a younger actor. When Beom-mo returns home and confronts A-ra, Man-su cannot prevent the husband from discovering the liaison. On a subsequent attempt to eliminate Beom-mo, Man-su confronts a drunken Beom-mo at gunpoint; the confrontation escalates into a physical struggle among the three of them. A-ra seizes the firearm from Man-su during the melee and, in a sudden violent act born of long-held resentment, shoots and kills her husband Goo Beom-mo. Man-su flees the scene in shock.

That night, Man-su arrives late to a costume party where he sees Mi-ri dancing with her younger boss Jin-ho, which stings him with jealousy and humiliation. He returns to Beom-mo's house and watches A-ra and her lover bury Beom-mo and the gun in their garden. Man-su digs up the gun and takes possession of it. Returning home amid growing marital tension, Man-su and Mi-ri trade accusations of infidelity before they reconcile superficially.

Man-su turns his attention to Ko Si-jo, who is working at a shoe store and whom Man-su has befriended superficially to learn his routines. Man-su lures Si-jo to a highway under false pretenses, murders him there, and places Si-jo's body in the trunk of his own car. Around the same time Si-one and Geon-ho, trying to make quick money, steal iPhones from Geon-ho's father's shop but are caught by the police. Mi-ri and Man-su use the situation to coerce Geon-ho's father into saying his son was at fault so that Si-one can avoid legal consequences. Detectives visit Man-su's home to inquire about the disappearances of Beom-mo and Si-jo; Man-su overhears the detectives and Mi-ri grows suspicious of her husband's behavior.

Si-one witnesses Man-su attempting to dispose of Si-jo's body in the family greenhouse. Tormented by his nerves during the struggle to conceal the corpse, Man-su enwraps Si-jo's body in material, forms it into a compact bundle, and buries it beneath an apple tree in the family garden, concealing it beneath a layer of dirt along with the stolen iPhones Si-one and Geon-ho had taken.

At a later moment Man-su arranges a meeting with Choi Seon-chul at Seon-chul's country home, pretending collegiality while lacing Seon-chul's drinks to get him drunk. To avoid arousing suspicion, Man-su forces himself to drink as well and removes one of his own cavity-filled teeth to simulate heavy drinking; while Seon-chul slumbers or stumbles intoxicated, Man-su suffocates him to death and stages the scene to look like an alcohol-related demise. During the evening, Mi-ri grows alarmed by Si-one's nightmares and confides with Man-su via a phone call; she senses something is wrong but keeps her concern vague. At home Mi-ri digs up the apple tree and discovers human remains; frightened, she covers up the discovery and lies to Si-one about what she found to keep him calm. She calls Man-su while he finishes suffocating Seon-chul and tells him only that she has discovered a problem without giving details.

Man-su leaves Seon-chul's body laid out to appear as if he drank himself to death and returns home the following morning to a cold reception from Mi-ri. Time passes. Moon Paper hires Man-su as a manager to supervise its newly automated paper factory after the disappearances of two applicants who had competed for the same position. The company informs him that the factory will be fully automated and that his role is to oversee the machines during a trial run; the position is tenuous and could be eliminated if the trial proves successful. The salary he receives, however, gives him enough money to stave off foreclosure and allows his family to reclaim their dogs. The detectives revisit Man-su and inform him that Beom-mo and Si-jo had been former colleagues at Solar Paper, creating a connection between the victims. A-ra provides the police with an alibi and fabricates a narrative that Beom-mo had suicidal tendencies and actually owned the gun; she suggests he may have killed himself and further implies he could be connected to Si-jo's disappearance, which redirects police scrutiny away from her and away from Man-su.

On the morning Man-su reports to the automated factory for his first official day, his household reverts to a fragile normalcy: Si-one leaves to spend time with Geon-ho, and Mi-ri sits quietly in the house while Ri-one plays the cello for the dogs who have gradually accepted the music. Man-su walks into the hum of the paper machines, stands alone among the creaking equipment and the conveyor belts, and allows himself a private moment of triumph. He raises a glass or, in the solitude of that industrial quiet, allows a small, private smile to cross his face as he contemplates his preserved home, the returned dogs, and his new title. The film closes with Man-su alone in the factory's mechanical glow, celebrating his new position even as the truth about the deaths he has caused remains buried beneath the apple tree in his garden and hidden by A-ra's fabricated account to the detectives.

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