The Perfect Assistant

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Movie
German title The Perfect Assistant
Original title The Perfect Assistant
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Douglas Jackson
script Shawn Howard ,
Christine Conradt
production Pierre David ,
Stefan Wodoslawsky ,
Neil Bregman
music Richard Bowers
occupation

The Perfect Assistant , also known as Perfect Secretary as a German DVD title , is an American thriller produced for television by director Douglas Jackson from 2008. In October 2012, the film was released on DVD in Germany, this time as Secretary 2 . It's not an actual sequel to Secretary from 2002.

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Rachel Partson is a seemingly eager, loyal, friendly, and always courteous secretary. She has been the executive assistant for three years for her manager David Wescott, with whom she is secretly in love, but who is happily married to his wife, Carol. Her half-sister Nora, who moved in with Rachel, tries to convince her to look for a suitable husband, but Rachel has already made her choice.

When David's wife falls ill, Rachel sees her chance by caring for him and his little daughter Isabelle. As time goes on, Rachel begins to enjoy replacing Carol. At dinner together, she learns from David that Carol has encephalitis from which she will probably never fully recover. But Carol is soon on the mend, and so Rachel decides to visit her in the hospital and kill her with an air-filled syringe.

Gradually, through skillful manipulation of circumstances, Rachel succeeds more and more often in participating in David and Isabelle's life. They finally share an apartment on a business trip to New York , and when David hands Rachel a present for her friendly service over a glass of champagne, she thinks she has reached the destination of her dreams. She tries to kiss David passionately, but David is not very pleased because he doesn't have the same feelings for her.

During the trip, Nora accidentally discovers a private video of David's family, which Rachel had secretly stolen from his house and increasingly notices that Rachel is probably suffering from an erotomania . Rachel, who has returned earlier than expected due to the incident in New York, catches Nora watching the video. During an argument, Nora is pushed down the stairs by Rachel and dies. Rachel reports this on 911 as an accident.

Slowly, David and other employees of the company notice more and more inconsistencies from the last time in connection with Rachel and so David decides to fire Rachel. However, she does not want to accept David's negative attitude and in her desperation tells herself that she was only fired so that he can meet her without being her boss. She waits in her car in front of his house until it comes home. Under the pretext of giving Isabelle a birthday present, she manages to speak to David and openly confess her love to him. However, David makes it clear to her that he does not love her and never will.

At a company party, Rachel bursts in unannounced with a gun and locks the door behind her. She blames the workforce for their firing and David's disapproval of her. She indicates that she wants to shoot David and herself so that they are "forever united in the hereafter". When she shoots an employee in the shoulder, David is able to take the gun from her.

The final sequence shows Rachel writing a letter to David from prison. In this, she writes that she knows that they are meant to be together forever.

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