James explained to Siti who he was and told her that he was a Japanese TV producer who specialized in hidden camera prank videos and that he needed pretty actresses to pull off these pranks. Siti was skeptical at first but eventually, she would accept. Siti felt like a celebrity traveling in these private jets and getting all of these designer clothes. Siti grew up in a very poor family who lived in a tiny town in a jungle in Indonesia. Siti’s family not only was poor but they couldn’t afford for Siti to go to high school. Siti had to provide for her family and her son. She never had much wealth which is why she felt so grateful for all these clothes and vacations. Everything felt so surreal to Siti.

Siti had no idea why the production crew had all of a sudden started ghosting her so she thought to herself “Oh this is a prank. They ghosted me because I’m a part of the next big prank”. Siti turned around and asked the policeman if this was a prank and he, very sternly, said “No this is real, you are being arrested." 

So what happened? The “production crew” were actually secret government agents. And this high-paying “prank” was actually a successful assassination. The man that Siti and Đoàn attacked was a man named Kim Jong-Nam which is North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un’s brother. The perfume and oil were chemicals, which by themselves are totally harmless, but mixed together creates a lethal VX nerve agent. Kim Jong-Nam died 20 minutes after the attack on his way to the hospital, after having a seizure. He died in the most painful, excruciating pain ever. Siti and Đoàn both were charged with the murder of Kim Jong-Nam and eventually were proven guilty on account of the fact that CCTV camera footage showed that they were handling these very dangerous chemicals so casually as if they didn’t know what they were.

I personally believe that if Siti and Đoàn had done research on this and actually looked into these producers more thoroughly, they could have prevented this. But with that being said if Siti and Đoàn weren’t the ones to do it, some other unsuspecting victims would have been tricked into pulling this “prank”. It is also WIDELY believed that Kim Jong-nam was murdered on the orders of Kim Jong-Un. I also believe this to be true. I think that Siti and Đoàn should have gotten a less harsh penalty on account of the fact that they literally had no idea what they were doing.