
The traumatized and disoriented Tate flees from the crime scene to his friend Reeta's apartment. Tate regains control, but he does not understand why he killed his girlfriend or why he has begun to experience fragmented memories of another person's-Vos'-life. Vos discovers she cannot leave Tate's body or overpower his will. Tate instead stabs himself in the skull in an act of rebellion, damaging his implant.

Vos attempts to flee the scene by forcing Tate to shoot himself but discovers she cannot make him pull the trigger. The hit is only a partial success as Ava dies, but not Parse. She tells Girder she feels guilty for killing it.ĭespite her fragile mental state and fatigue, Vos agrees to perform a major hit on wealthy CEO John Parse and his daughter, Ava, by possessing Ava's fiancé, Colin Tate.

In a debriefing session meant to reconnect her with her real identity, Vos sorts through a series of objects associated with personal memories and pauses on a butterfly that she pinned and framed as a child. Vos' handler, retired assassin Girder, is critical of her desire to remain connected to her family and expresses the belief that Vos would be a better killer without personal attachments. Thoughts of violence haunt her domestic life, such as when putting Ira to bed and having sex with Michael. She "practices" assuming her normal persona the same way she practices impersonating her hosts. She returns to her own body by forcing the host to commit suicide at the end of each job.ĭue to the amount of time she spends imitating other people, Vos struggles with increasing detachment from her own identity and cannot fully separate her work from her interactions with her husband, Michael, and son, Ira. Through an implant installed in the unwitting host's brain, Vos can use a special machine to insert her consciousness into their minds.

In an alternate 2008, Tasya Vos is an assassin who takes control of others' bodies to carry out her hits.

It received positive reviews, with praise for its originality and Riseborough and Abbott's performances. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020, and was released in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2020, by Neon and Elevation Pictures, while Signature Entertainment distributed the United Kingdom release on November 27, 2020. Riseborough portrays an assassin who performs her assignments through possessing the bodies of other individuals, but finds herself fighting to control the body of her current host (Abbott). It stars Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott, with Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in supporting roles. Possessor is a 2020 science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg.
