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Detective-Sergeant Johnson (Connery), has been a police officer for 20 years, and is deeply affected by the murders, rapes, and other serious crimes he has investigated.

His anger surfaces while interrogating a suspected child molester, Baxter (Ian Bannen in a BAFTA-nominated role), whom he brutally beats and kills. Johnson is suspended, goes home for the night to his unloving wife (Vivien Merchant). The following day, Johnson is interrogated by Detective Superintendent Cartwright (Trevor Howard), and during the long interrogation flashbacks show the events during the night when Johnson killed Baxter.

It is not revealed if Baxter is the culprit in the molestation case and the implication of Cartwright's interrogation and the flashbacks is left for the viewer to decide. Has Johnson, having murdered a possibly innocent Baxter been reduced to the same level as the child molesters and murderers he is supposedly protecting society from? In the words of Baxter to Johnson 'Don't beat me for thoughts in your head'.

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