Twenty years before the events of Hitman: Absolution, Agent 47 arrives at a ICA training facility in the mountains and is greeted by ICA handler Diana Burnwood. 47 goes through rigorous training programs, psych evaluations, and a thorough background check, although they find very little of 47's previous life. While Burnwood believes that 47 will be a invaluable asset to the ICA, the facility's training director is displeased that there is nothing from 47's past that they can use as leverage against him and plots to have him fail the final test. Learning of this plot, Burnwood assists 47 in completing the final test. 47 is soon made a full agent of ICA and Diana is assigned to him as his handler.

Back in present day, 47 is sent to Paris to assassinate fashion mogul Viktor Novikov and former fashion model Dahlia Morgolis, two top officials of an international spy ring named IAGO which plans to expose the identities of several deep cover operatives for MI5. Infiltrating an exclusive fashion show in Novikov's mansion, 47 manages to assassinate both Targets and flees unnoticed. Sometime before his own assassination, Novikov exchanges information to an unknown individual, claiming that information was not easy to obtain