Why not a love story instead of a buddy story? A pro assassin (man or woman) falls in love with the (woman or man) who hires him/her to kill her/him so the family can collect the insurance.

And after they fall in love, why don’t they decide to kill the loan shark instead? Isn’t that an ultimate solution to the financial problem?

>>must accept his own son?s death

What is your objective goal in posting another logline to this story? Is it to “accept” that fact that your earlier ideas weren’t satisfactory? Or is your objective goal to write a logline that ignites enthusiasm, gives you the impetus and focus to write the script?

Shouldn’t an objective goal always be forward looking to a desire future, not backward to a regretted past?

Of course, working through the grieving process of his dead son is a valid subjective need. But why is he guilt ridden? Grieving over the loss doesn’t necessarily entail guilt.

So he can’t make kids laugh. So he get’s fired. So what? What are the dramatic consequences that follow from that? What’s the worse thing that will happen to him, that he will do as a result? Why should we in the audience worry about his losing his job?