Ok here’s a new idea. Anthony (The self employed dealer) has little flashbacks hinting of his wifes murder. He believes that somebody shot her and stole the memory. Every night he searches the system ‘cognition’ to find the memory. One night he has a one night stand with an actress called ‘Leila’. the next day he posts it on Cognition and an anonymous user pops up. He offers Anthony $700,000 and an unknown memory. Anthony, being the risk taker, thinks that this unknown memory will be the murder and excepts. The money is transferred, and so is the memory. The memory is in fact his wife’s murder, it depicts him and his wife in their room and his brother having an argument with them, his brother then shoots his wife. The majority of the movie now is Anthony going on an action quest searching illegal Cognition markets looking for his brother, who is now a Memory Kingpin. Eventually he finds a man covered in scars on his face. This scarred man eventually gives Anthony the address of his brother, after being beaten up. Anthony finally gets to the users address, but here’s the twist, the person who opens the door is the actress, Anthony furiously enters waving his gun around asking for his brother. The actress, who Anthony has no recollection of (But we the audience do), Explains to Anthony what really happened, and that she is actually his wife. She transfers a memory to him, Anthony lays down and remmeber’s (Flashback). Anthony actually accidentally killed his Brother after his brother was arguing with him and waving his gun around. Anthony was so guilty and distraught that he told his wife (the actress) to take the memory, and on their anniversary, meet him and seduce him. The unknown user was actually his wife (The actress) who gave him the twisted version of the memory so that he would be led here, and hopefully understand the murder better and give himself in.

Here’s the other twist though, which i’m struggling to hint during the film, all of this was actually a set up by his brother to try and frame him for a murder he never committed, and never happened. the fact that his brother is pronounced dead anyway because he is a kingpin who is unknown by the authority, living under ground. The actress actress works for his brother, and his brother actually did kill his wife. To cover this up, his brother robbed Anthony of the memory, and told the actress to do the following to lead him to confessing to a murder of his brother, so that the authority would finally declare his brother dead so he can continue being the most powerful illegal user of Cognition.

There are many versions i could create instead of this, maybe the plot could be that he meets his brother and Anthony was actually the one who killed his wife, but was so guilty that he wanted rid of the memory until one day he could accept it and turn himself in.