Untraceable, Lebedev - B

            A Russian defector, living in the German iteration of a witness protection program, attracts the attention of his former masters. They learn that he recently helped with the investigation of a mysterious poisoning case. He was uniquely positioned to advise on the matter. After all, he was the chemist who invented Neophyte.  Notwithstanding the fact that he is dying of cancer, the SVR sends a hit squad. While the old mans sits with a bottle in his hand reminiscing about the old days in his closed-off world of science and security, the two hitmen circle closer and closer. Meanwhile, the old pastor, a priest who survived years of communism, sees the defector for what he is - - a man hiding from his past. The thoughts of the defector, the pursuers and the priest are all vehicles for deep Russian introspection about life, death, despair, poison, the police state and the soul crushing evil that the totalitarian state inflicts on its people.