Selection Process

Three candidates are brought in for a final interview with the CIA.

The first candidate is handed a pistol and the agent conducting interviews explains the situation to him: "Your wife is a known spy. She is seated in the interview room behind this door. You are to go into the room and execute her to prove that you will be a capable field agent." The man enters the room and comes out minutes later in tears, hands the firearm back to the agent and tells him, "I can't do it!" as he walks out of the office.

The instructions are repeated to the next candidate and he is handed the pistol. After a few minutes he exits the room, hands the pistol back to the agent shaking his head and exits the building.

The agent repeats his instructions one last time and hands the pistol over to the last interviewee. Seconds after the door closes behind her the agent hears several shots followed by the sound of furniture scuffing across the floor, glass breaking, grunting and other mayhem. After a few minutes the candidate exits the interview room dripping in sweat and generally disheveled. The agent asks "What the fuck happened?!" to which the candidate replies, "Some asshole loaded the gun with blanks so I had to beat that motherfucker to death with the chair."