25: Joe meets someone new and falls in love with her. Joe shows Fon, his love interest, his wound. Fon touches Joe. They communicate without speaking. The birth of something new.
45: Joe with Fon on a date, touching again, this time they touch an elephant. He takes a call that involves his employer who he learns has become his antagonist. Minutes later, as an elephant observes, Joe will throw away heroin as a sign he will spare the life of his student. Now that I'm aware.
-45: Joe with Fon and with Fon's mother. Her mother asks where he is from and what is his work. Joe lies and says he's a banker. Discovery.
60: Joe with Fon in a holy cave, once again together without words. Joe's actions indicate he's realizing life is sacred. There's no going back now.
-25: The student's girlfriend is kidnapped, the student asks Joe if this is his last job. Joe says yeah. At the end of the movie Joe dies, it was his last job. The final turning point.