Image your a low level lowlife working for the Mob. Only you live about twenty years in the future. About thirty years after that, time travel will be invented and the only people who will use it are Mobsters. Instead of doing something cool with the tech, like say, going back in time and stealing all of Hitler’s artwork or beating Sutter to Sutter’s Mill, the Mob sends back people they don’t like so they can be killed in the past. This is where you come in, your a Looper and you kill people and get rid of their bodies…