The third and final chapter of the Confidential Passion film noir. Black and white, 1950s.
Detective Clark Reed gets a midnight visit from Linda Dalton, an ice cold femme fatale, and her jittery assistant Harold in a too tight grey suit. She wants the photos and reports on her husband gone, and she s brought Harold as payment.
When Harold bends down to gather the spilled files, his trousers stretch tight and Clark can t look away, sweat at his temple, finger under his collar.
Linda sees everything and leaves Harold behind with one order : stay until the detective is satisfied you can keep a secret.
The blinds cut the two men into stripes of light, the boss s hat still on the desk, and Clark takes what was left for him. The series ends the way it lived : nobody innocent, everybody guilty.
