Blink (1994)

Michael Apted's formulaic crime-mystery stalker thriller (similar to Wait Until Dark (1967) and the subsequent The Eye (2008)) starred Madeleine Stowe as blinded Emma Brody, a Celtic folk musician-violinist in a hip band called the Drovers, whose sight was damaged 20 years earlier when as an 8 year-old child (Heather Schwartz), her crazed mother (Marilyn Dodds Frank) smashed her head into a mirror, calling her a "little whore" because she was putting on make-up.

Living independently with guide dog Ralphie, Emma's sight was slowly being restored after a corneal transplant operation. While still experiencing problems with her sight from a phenomenon of "perceptual delay" (she was exasperated: "I can't see things that are right in front of me, and I can see things that couldn't be there"), she became a 'witness' to a murder six weeks after her operation. She heard noises upstairs from her victimized apartment neighbor Valerie Wheaton (Joy Gregory) - who it was learned two days afterwards was strangled, then raped and had her wrists slashed (postmortem), and was left in her bathtub with a Russian cross necklace.

There was a second similar murder of Nina Getz with the same circumstances. Emma reported the incident to smart-mouthed, skeptical and cocky Chicago Detective John Hallstrom (Aidan Quinn), who was assigned to investigate. Sarcastically, she told him that she "saw" a mysterious and shadowy man descend the stairs - sensing his strong soapy and sweaty smell and remembering his voice (he whispered to her: "Yeah. It's all right. I took care of it. Go back to bed"). It would be the next morning until what she saw, the killer's face, was registered - but with other odd flashbacks, it was unclear what her blurred visions or sightings actually were.

Emma reported that the dead neighbor had a "noisy lover" - named "Oh, baby!" During the case, Hallstrom's dirty-minded buddies at the police station kept teasing him about his romantic interest in his pretty witness: "We'll throw in a C-note if you sink the salami," and his boss angrily urged: "Why don't you just go ahead and f--k her and get on with the goddamn case!", although he claimed he was going by the book: "You think I'm gonna waste this body on a ball-bustin' blind broad who can't see it?"

As he pieced together clues with Emma, the detective realized the killer drained his victims of blood after raping their dead bodies: "This guy just wants a body, a f--kin' blowup doll that won't fly out the window when you squeeze it too hard." While the killer appeared to stalk the semi-defenseless but feisty Emma - the case's dubious but "key" witness, Hallstrom eventually made love to her (although he claimed: "I don't want to f--k her"), in the predictable romantic and sexy sub-plot, temporarily sidetracking the homicide case.

After their second passionate love-making, she told him: "I think I could fall in love with you," although she soon doubted his sincerity when he became a busy workaholic after more victims were located - a third victim Margaret Tattersall (Lucy Childs) in Milwaukee, and a fourth in Indiana. She confronted him, called him a "prick," and threatened for him to stay away: "What the hell am I to you? One of your little conquests? I've seen your friends smirk at me."

Red herrings were proposed to throw the viewer off, including the implication that Emma's eye doctor Dr. Pierce (Peter Friedman), a spurned paramour, was the killer. The case discovered a mix-up regarding Emma's address in her hospital file - the cause of the erroneous murder of Emma's neighbor Valerie. The killer's victims, except for Valerie, were all people who had received donated organs (corneal transplant for Emma, skin grafts for Nina, kidney transplant for Margaret, and a heart transplant for the fourth victim) from deceased donor Leslie Davison, a girl the killer had been obsessed with.

The murderer was eventually identified as Neal Booker (Paul Dillon), a quiet and unassuming orderly at the hospital where Leslie had been a nurse and where Emma had her eye operation. In the conclusion, Emma stood face-to-face with the delusional murderer in a garage across the street from his home - he at first thought Emma was Leslie. She fought him off, as he threatened: "I'm taking back the eyes you stole" - until she shot him point-blank, after which the police arrived. Emma and Hallstrom was reunited - and they open-mouth kissed before they walked off to breakfast.

China Moon (1994)

A contemporary, twisting neo-noir thriller set in Florida similar to Body Heat (1981) marked the directorial debut film for John Bailey.

Madeleine Stowe starred as unhappily married femme fatale wife Rachel Munro, in an abusive marriage to unfaithful bank tycoon husband Rupert Munroe (Charles Dance), who was engaged in an affair with his curly-haired blonde bank secretary Adele (Patricia Healy) - seen under the opening credits.

After striking up a friendship with serious, honorable and skilled small-town Florida homicide detective Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris), Rachel accompanied him on a nighttime canoe ride under a full "China Moon" - the moon resembled "a big old plate of china." Bodine described how his grandmother had said "people would get affected by them, that they'd do strange things." He complimented Rachel: "You're so beautiful," and encouraged her to go swimming in the warm Camelia Lake water as he often did. She stood up in the boat, and uninhibitedly disrobed for skinny-dipping in front of him. When he joined her in the water, she enticed him: "Put your arms around me. That's better" and they passionately kissed.

Afterwards, she cried due to his tenderness, confessing: "I haven't had much of that," but wouldn't admit her marital difficulties to him. They began their own torrid affair - during which she told him: "I'm in a trap. I can't get out of it." Rather than obtaining a legal divorce, she contemplated killing her husband with a recently-purchased 9 millimeter gun. The plot became tangled and complex when she decided to run away with Kyle, but then was forced to kill her drunken husband in self-defense with two shots.

She convinced Kyle to help her cover up the murder, but then he became a prime suspect himself when it appeared that his gun was used in the killing. She professed that she was telling the truth about everything, although he was indignant about secrets she had kept from him, and he called her a "stranger." He grabbed her neck and accused her of lying: "You were just f--king me, weren't you? I was loving you, and you were f--king me!"

When the plot finally became untangled in the conclusion, an unexonerated Kyle lay dead, after which Rachel shot and killed Kyle's scheming rookie cop partner Lamar Dickey (Benicio del Toro).

Color of Night (1994)

In this psychological thriller by director Richard Rush, some of the more sultry sex scenes were cut from the NC-17 rated film for a lesser rating of R, and the restored Director's Cut included an extra 17 minutes. This film was the sex-ploitative winner of the 1995 Razzie Award for Worst Picture, although Maxim Magazine awarded it as having the #1 Hottest Movie Sex Scene ever.

Distraught New York City psychoanalyst Dr. Bill Capa (big-name star Bruce Willis) with stress-induced, psychosomatic color blindness, quit his practice and traveled to LA, to stay with analyst/author friend Dr. Robert Moore (Scott Bakula). When Moore was violently stabbed to death in his office after-hours, Bill reluctantly took over Moore's Monday group therapy sessions and lived in his ultra-modern vacated house, while attempting to find the murderer when considered a suspect himself by Lt. Hector Martinez (Ruben Blades).

One of the five patients was 16 year-old bespectacled drug user Richie Dexter (Jane March), a volatile "genuine nut case" who had gender-confusion issues and spoke with a stutter. Meanwhile, he was seduced by an exotic female - a torrid, provocative, sexually-advancing and insatiable Rose (Jane March in a dual role), calling herself Miss Fender Bender after she rear-ended his car. She unexpectedly reappeared, invited herself to a dinner date, and made out with him as they called for a taxi.

During their first passionate and sensual encounter, both displayed full-frontal nudity, beginning in the pool (with underwater sex), and then into the bedroom. In the dining room, she offered him a cooked plate of food, as the camera slowly panned up her chest while she proposed: "But if you don't like this, I have something else for you." They continued their love-making in a steamy shower, but then she mysteriously disappeared from his bed.

In the meantime, lesbian girlfriend Bonnie (remarkably close in resemblance to Rose) was cavorting with oversexed Sondra Dorio (Lesley Ann Warren), one of the therapy patients, who had confessed in the initial therapy session that she was both a nymphomaniac ("I want sex all the time") and a kleptomaniac. During one visit, Bonnie told Sondra: "Nobody appreciates you the way that I do" before she left - sharing a same-sex kiss, and a subsequent visit led to a longer sex scene between them.

A little later in the film, Rose again surprised Dr. Capa for more sex - meeting him in his kitchen (where she cooked him a meal wearing only an apron), and joining him in a soapy bathtub, etc. On her next visit, she opened her blouse, revealing her right breast to Capa - she asked: "So, what color are my nipples?" By film's end, Rose was revealed to be role-playing the sexually-confused "Richie," whose overprotective brother Dale (Andrew Lowery) had committed two murders, fearing that Rose's identity would be revealed.

The Swimming Pool Sequence

Not in the R-rated version

The Cool Surface (1994)

This dramatic thriller from writer/director Erik Anjou went straight to video and late-night cable, but then was resurrected on DVD after its sexy co-star Teri Hatcher hit the big time with Desperate Housewives and it became known that she had two topless scenes in this film. See also Teri Hatcher's nude role in Heaven's Prisoners (1996).

Hatcher was featured as Dani Payson, an aspiring actress who became intimately involved with her playwright neighbor Jarvis Scott (Robert Patrick) who was still suffering from his former girlfriend's suspicious suicidal death (an overdose -- or a stabbing?).

She became a key character in his potboiler novel (based on their own love-making encounters) and the lead actress in the subsequent film adaptation - basically playing herself. This led to Scott's insanely jealous feelings of betrayal and revenge.

Della'morte Della'more (1994, It.) (aka Cemetery Man (1996))

Buxom Finnish-born Italian model Anna Falchi starred (credited as "She") opposite British actor Rupert Everett (as Francesco Dellamorte, meaning 'of the dead' in Italian) in this intensely erotic, sexy and gory horror film - a supernatural romance (and comedy!) from director Michele Soavi.

Dellamorte was a restless cemetery keeper at Buffalora Cemetery in Northern Italy where the corpses came back to life as zombies ("ones that return") every seven days - requiring re-extermination.

He met an exotic, stunningly gorgeous, voluptuous widow (Anna Falchi), wearing black at the cemetery where she was mourning the recent death of her elderly husband during a funeral. After being turned on by the ossuaries in the cemetery's mausoleum, they had very passionate sex one late night on top of her late husband's grave. She was killed for her unfaithfulness by her husband's zombie appearance after he clawed his way out of his grave and bit her.

Francesco dispatched the husband, and kept in mind her promise with her dying words: "Nothing will separate us...not even death." He waited seven days for her zombie return from the grave to shoot her and give her eternal peace.

As the story progressed however, She (all characters played by Falchi) kept reappearing or reincarnating in his confused, mad, depressed and weird life as various female personas (a self-generating hallucination?) resembling his lost love. She first appeared as a frigid woman who feared the male member (Dellamorte took medicinal injections to become impotent), and then as a young prostitute who was paying off her college tuition.

Dream Lover (1994)

In this erotic thriller, beautiful and sensual Lena Mathers (Madchen Amick) played the part of a mysterious and gorgeous femme fatale, who married successful architect and recent divorcee Ray Reardon (James Spader) after an accidental (?) encounter, dream dates, storybook sex and romance.

But Ray quickly learned that he had been duped for his money while she was duplicitous regarding her identity, her friends, the bruises on her leg, her afternoon disappearances to conduct an affair with his friend Larry (Fredric Lehne), and her past.

He finally sought deadly revenge, although it cost him his sanity and freedom.

Embrace of the Vampire (1994)

Director Anne Goursaud's R-rated erotic horror/thriller was a melding of vampires and blatant erotic sexuality of the soft-porn variety. The film was most noted for Alyssa Milano (a former TV sitcom Who's the Boss? child star) showing off her enhanced chest. The film's tagline: "The innocence is over" could have as well applied to the 'good girl' image that was shed by Milano as a result of this film.

It told the story of a virginal, repressed college freshman named Charlotte Wells (Milano), unknowingly the reincarnation of a Transylvanian Princess (June 1986 Playboy Playmate Rebecca Ferratti), who was pursued and under the spell of a handsome, kinky vampirish demon-lover and soulmate (Martin Kemp), who must have her join him in three days - or die.

He first approached her by appearing in her torrid, lustful dreams in the few days before her 18th birthday.

The most memorable scene was the sensual encounter during a topless photo session between Charlotte and bisexual photographer Sarah (Charlotte Lewis) who introduced her to lesbianism - she was photographed topless while Sarah teased her hair, lightly touched her chest, placed Charlotte's own hand on her right breast, lightly caressed her face and lips - and then kissed her. Later in the film, the two further explored their sexual feelings for each other, with more intimate touching and kissing.

Sensual Topless Photo Shoot

There was also a dreamy, kinky foursome sequence - a fantasy orgy scene that Charlotte imagined.

Exit to Eden (1994)

Anne Rice's (pseudonym Anne Rampling) 1985 novel of the same name was turned into an R-rated unfunny comedic film with plentiful nudity by director Garry Marshall.

It told about a resort island named Eden specializing in fantasies and bizarre sexual activities for its clients. Rosie O'Donnell also was featured in an unnecessary and secondary subplot as undercover police detective Sheila Kingston who was trailing diamong smugglers at the resort - she had to dress up in black leather and bondage outfits - as part of the slapstick and gag jokes about kinky S&M.

In one scene, Sheila was approached and asked: "How can I fulfill your fantasy?" to which she responded: "Go paint my house!"

One of the resort's guests, sexually-repressed, submissive photographer Elliot Slater (Paul Mercurio) fell for the club's dominatrix leader Lisa Emerson (Dana Delany appearing with a rare full-frontal scene and other nudity).

In a food fetish scene involving a croissant, cinnamon in a shaker, and a stick of butter (during which Lisa asked pertinently while smiling: "Did you see Last Tango in Paris?"), a kneeling Elliot applied butter with his finger to Lisa's croissant and then with the full stick buttered up her left breast - he then did the same with some sprinkled cinnamon as she said: "Oh, Australian kink." He responded: "Bon appetit" as he licked her nipple and she bit into the buttered and cinnamoned croissant.

Exotica (1994, Can.)

Canadian film maker Atom Egoyan's mature, discomforting and haunting meditative masterpiece (told with non-linear reverse chronology and flashbacks), his first art-house success in the US, was about obsession, alienation, jealousy and voyeurism. It was very different than the erotic (or exotic) thriller it was marketed as. It was more of a psychological drama with multiple storylines (two love triangles) and connections between characters that were slowly revealed.

It specifically examined the painful relationship-bond established between two individuals in a club called Exotica:

• Francis Brown (Bruce Greenwood), a Toronto strip club regular, and a lonely government revenue auditor
• Christina or "Chrissy" (Mia Kirshner), a sultry brunette table/lap dancer (often introduced: "What is it that gives a schoolgirl her special innocence?")

She was outfitted as a teenaged school girl (with white shirt, tartan-plaid skirt, and knee socks) and often talked or privately danced for $5 for Francis to the tune of Leonard Cohen's "Everyone Knows." His daughter had been murdered and he was also grieving the traffic accident death of his unfaithful wife - a possible suicide. His visits to the club to see Christina, his former babysitter, helped him 'resurrect' his daughter in his mind and ease his paternal pain. At the same time, Christina was having a lesbian affair with Zoe.

[Note: Francis' current babysitter Tracey Brown (Sarah Polley), (although unnecessary - "There's no baby to sit"), was the daughter of his wheel-chaired brother Harold (Victor Garber) - who was having an affair with Francis' wife before Francis' daughter was tragically murdered and his wife died in a car accident. Eric and Christina were the two in the search party who discovered Francis' daughter's discarded corpse.]

Other associated relationships included:

• the long, dark-haired club DJ Eric (Elias Koteas) - Christina's jealous and possessive ex-boyfriend
• the club's pregnant owner Zoe (Arsinee Khanjian) - impregnated by Eric through a contractual arrangement
• gay, meek, secretive, and bespectacled exotic pet-shop owner Thomas (Don McKellar) who would ritualistically pick up male partners at the opera

Francis uncovered the fact of Thomas' criminal behavior (suspected illegal smuggling rare bird eggs). At the same time, Eric persuaded Francis to touch Christina (strictly forbidden by the club's policies), and Eric barred him from the club. Francis made a blackmailing deal with Thomas - he would overlook Thomas' smuggling if he visited Exotica to speak to Christina and assisted him in killing Eric. However, Francis and Eric ended up embracing, in empathy toward each other's circumstances, when all the interconnected relationships were fully revealed.

The Getaway (1994)

Roger Donaldson's action thriller was a more explicit and revealing remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1972 escape/chase film (starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw). It was produced in various versions including an uncut, unrated one. The two stars in this remake were:

• released Mexican prison con Doc McCoy (Alec Baldwin)
• wife Carol (Kim Basinger, Baldwin's real-life wife at the time)

The two experienced passionate sex scenes together while on the lam. They were being pursued by the law and by crooked partner Jack Benyon (James Woods).

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Neil Jordan's R-rated sexy horror/drama featured major stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt (and young pre-teen Kirsten Dunst who kissed Pitt) in a centuries-old relationship as blood-sucking vampires - it was based on Anne Rice's best-selling novel.

In a ceremonial theatrical 'performance' (that required a real human sacrifice) in the Theatre des Vampires before a live audience, Laure Marsac was featured as a Mortal Woman on Stage who was stripped naked by Antonio Banderas (as Armand) and then had her blood drained by the group of vampires.

Killing Zoe (1994)

This nihilistic, Generation X cult crime thriller (executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino) about a violent bank robbery-heist in Paris (on Bastille Day) was directed by first-timer Roger Avary.

Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004)) played the part of an escort/art student named Zoe, in a very small role. Scruffy, laid-back and calm safe-cracker Zed (Eric Stoltz) had asked his taxi-cab driver to procure a prostitute ("wife for the night"), and she soon arrived at his hotel room door. She spoke French and then changed to English, announcing her fee as 1,000 francs (around $200) for the night: "I don't do weird stuff, a condom, and you have to pay in advance...blow job included." "'Weird stuff' included "peeing on me" - she elaborated, and she noted that they both had "Z names."

After he paid her for sex, he watched as she slowly and sensuously undressed, first removing her black bra in front of him (and asking: "Slow enough for you") before she removed his pants and climbed atop him. The original silent vampire classic Nosferatu (1922) by F. W. Murnau played soundlessly on the room's TV, intercut with their sex scene to create an unsettling atmosphere. However, they were instantly and blissfully connected to each other. After sex, she immediately admitted that she liked him. She called him an uncharacteristically "good person" compared to the "creeps" she usually met. She said that they had "body language. We fit together...we clicked. You made me orgasm." She honestly claimed she never orgasmed with other often-fat clients. "And you make me feel safe. That's maybe more important than the orgasm. You know, it may be the integral part of the orgasm...So I really mean it, what I'm telling you, Zed. I like you very much...It's my choice to be here."

She described that she had a "day job, three times a week -- very boring, but one day there will be only my art...I don't paint. I make things. Object(s). Not like sculpture. Like life. What I do, I do it only for the objects." She denied that she was a typical prostitute, but was more of a real person: "the difference is a prostitute would have lied to you about (her) orgasm. I didn't lie." They passionately kissed, continued talking and soon fell asleep in each other's arms until his strung-out (HIV-infected), long-haired, unpredictable robbery friend-childhood buddy Eric (Jean-Hugues Anglade) arrived early in the morning and threw her out.

After an extended and chaotic night of carousing (drinking, shooting up heroin, smoking dope, pill-popping and night-clubbing), Zed joined a motley group of criminals to assault the bank - and to make matters more complicated, Zoe was discovered to be a clerk at the bank - her day job. When the robbery went completely awry in the bloody climax, hostage Zoe saved injured Zed from annihilation by the increasingly-psychopathic Eric and the police, claiming that he was a bank customer.

In the film's last line of dialogue, as she drove him away in her car, she promised: "You'll get well. Then I'll show you the real Paris."

The Last Seduction (1994)

John Dahl's modern-day dark noir featured lethal, sexy, amoral, self-serving, cold-blooded, manipulative and brainy femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino, whose superb performance wasn't Oscar nominated due to invalidation since it aired first on HBO cable TV). [She followed in the footsteps of two other great femme fatales in film noir - Jane Greer and Barbara Stanwyck.] The sequel was director Terry Marcel's Last Seduction 2 (1998) with Joan Severance.

She first absconded with her physician husband Clay's (Bill Pullman) $700,000 of pharmaceutical-cocaine drug money, and fled from NYC to Upper State New York to the small town of Beston near Buffalo. In the local Ray's Bar after she was ignored by the bartender, she muttered: "Who's a girl gotta suck around here to get a drink?" She was approached by the local, gullible bar pickup stud Mike Swale (Peter Berg) who bragged about his size: "I'm hung like a horse. Think about it." She responded: "Mr. Ed, let's see," and then opened his pants as he sat next to her in a booth to sample his manly goods: "I believe what we're looking for is a certain horse-like quality?" She seduced and propositioned him: "No names. Meet me outside." They went to his place to spend the night, after which she began scheming with her lawyer Frank Griffith (J.T. Walsh) to divorce her husband and abscond with the money. (He memorably asked her: "Anyone check you for a heartbeat lately?")

She took a job in a local company, Interstate Insurance, as Director of Lead Generation, claiming she was alias Wendy Kroy (an acronym for New York) and was fleeing from her abusive husband. Hiding out, she took residence at the Beston Motor Court (and soon after rented a house), and frequented Ray's Bar occasionally. She made love to Mike again, in an alley behind the smoky saloon while hanging on a chain-link fence and straddling him with his pants down to his ankles. When he asked, "Where do I fit in?" she coldy replied: "You're my designated f--k." Bumping and grinding later on top of him in the back of her Jeep, she admitted to her frequent sex partner: "I'm a total f--king bitch." He complained that he was being kept at arm's length like a "sex object." To keep him at bay, she stated: "F--king doesn't have to be anything more than f--king."

Scheming, she tricked Clay's black private detective Harlan (Bill Nunn) (who was hired to find her and get the funds back, and had traced her to Beston) into becoming distracted by showing his large penis to her while she was driving: "Is it true what they say?...You know, size?...Now, come on, I was wondering for real. Let me see it...Come on, let me see it. I've never seen one before. I'll show you my ass…Show me!...I'm driving. You go first." After he agreed and asked: "Will you shut the f--k up if I show you?", he unbuckled his seat belt and unzipped his fly to expose himself. She deliberately sped up and crashed the car into a utility pole, killing him by propelling him through the windshield.

She took a taxi to Buffalo to the Erie County Municipal Building where she identified Mike's earlier unwitting and mistaken marriage to a trans-sexual named Trish (Serena) - and then conducted an interview with Trish. She tricked Mike into thinking she had taken a weekend trip to Miami to murder Lance Collier, a cheating and abusive husband who deserved death. She claimed about the murder-for-profit scheme: "I did it for us, Mike," and wouldn't listen to his objections: "Spare me your brain with countrified morality. The world's better off without Lance Collier" - and showed him a case of payoff cash (her own!) as "f--king evidence." When he was astonished at her brashness, she threw the love-sick Mike out of her house. She resisted Mike's later apologies (she told him: "You have a way of making a woman feel like a one-way train ticket"), claiming that he needed to be her equal ("a relationship of equals") in order to show his commitment and interest in her. He replied: "Murder is commitment?" When Mike acquiesed, she cleverly convinced him into duplicating her scheme to show his love - to murder Clay (who was trumped up to be an unfaithful husband/cheater and wife beater in New York named 'Cahill'), claiming the payout by the widow would be over three million ("You, me, three million bucks, New York City, Mike. It's reasonable"). And then to convince Mike to "pull up stakes" to leave Beston and accept her plan, she faked a letter from Trish to Mike asserting that she was returning to Beston to be with him.

The murder plan (an "unpleasant chore") to stab Clay in his NYC apartment went awry when Mike went chicken and yelled: "I can't do it, Wendy, I can't do it" - and then he saw their wedding picture. He realized that the victim was not 'Cahill' but Wendy's husband, and that he had been seduced into committing her husband's murder. Wendy entered the apartment to check on the killing, where she found both Clay and Mike had teamed up, and Mike knew of her deception ("So you were gonna have me kill your husband"). In a clever double-cross, Bridget killed her own husband by spraying Mace down his throat, after kissing him, and then calmly told her naive boyfriend: "Now we have a future." Then to complete the deception, she aggravated the 'intruder' Mike to rape her by first removing her pants and displaying old fashioned men's underwear, reinforcing Mike's fears of being homosexual. She then taunted him about Trish: "You should have told me you never slept with a man before. Must have been some wild night, you getting married so fast." She angered him over his damaged marriage:

"He couldn't believe it - had to keep the goods hidden for a whole two days. What did he tell ya - that little bobbly thing in the back of your throat was a clitoris!? You married a man, you farm faggot!...I'm Trish. Rape me."

She also self-incriminated Mike by surreptitiously recording their conversation and the crime/rape confessional role-play on a 911 call, including the accusation that she repeatedly screamed out: "You killed my husband." Mike was arrested, jailed and obviously out-maneuvered and set-up for the crime, and he was destined for the electric chair. The one remaining shred of evidence, Clay's apartment label reading "Cahill," was taken by rape-victim and widow Bridget in the final scene - she burned it in the back of a chauffeured limousine. She slyly smiled, finally free with the cash.