Diamond goes to the Flamingo Dance Palace to meet a new client – she's a dance hall hostess. Before the stunningly beautiful Audrey (actress Marian Collier) is able to stammer out the details of why she needs protection, she gets pulled away to dance with a patron. Diamond watches in amusement and waits while she reluctantly dances until it's time for her break. As Audrey heads out the door ahead of Diamond, gentleman that he is, Diamond holds the door for another woman, and Audrey is shot dead a few feet away from him. Diamond knows only that Audrey wanted protection, but not from whom and not why. Even though his client is now dead, Diamond still wants to do a good job for her. He questions her roommate Claire, who seems not to care at all that Audrey's dead. Diamond continues to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding Claire and why she too works as a hostess at the dance hall.
It's interesting how this story plays out. It's not at all clear who's good and who's bad and where the audience's sympathy should lie. And I couldn't feel contempt for the killer after hearing the killer's motivation. Everyone's bad to some degree.
It's interesting how this story plays out. It's not at all clear who's good and who's bad and where the audience's sympathy should lie. And I couldn't feel contempt for the killer after hearing the killer's motivation. Everyone's bad to some degree.