Final Cut

Van Gogh was riding his bicycle to work when a bearded young man, dressed in a long Middle Eastern-style shirt, shot him several times. Van Gogh begged for mercy, and reportedly said, in a peculiarly Dutch phrase, “Surely we can talk about this.” The young man then pulled out a knife, slit van Gogh’s throat from ear to ear, kicked the dying body, and walked away. Van Gogh, meanwhile, lay on the street with a letter pinned to his stomach by the killer’s knife.