L.A. Noire - The Golden Butterfly
Genre: Crime
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writer: John Malone
Based on the video game
Cast: Joe Alwyn, Brent Sexton, Brian F. O'Byrne, Jordan Gelber, Daniel Webber, Chris Zylka, Diane Kruger, Walter Perez, Doug Hutchinson, Caitlin Carmichael and Sean Astin
Plot: 1947 - Cole Phelps (Joe Alwyn) is at the Blue Room Jazz Club late at
night watching Elsa Lichtmann (Diane Kruger) finish singing her set.
When Elsa gets off-stage, she walks over to Phelps' table and says that
she has noticed him around the club a lot lately and asks if he caught
the jazz bug. Phelps says something like that, and offers to buy Elsa a
drink. They have a few drinks together until Phelps notices the time on
his watch. He abruptly gets up and leaves the club. Elsa lights up a
cigarette and watches Phelps leave.
The next morning, Phelps is at his desk nursing a hangover. Det. Rusty Galloway (Brent Sexton) enters the office and tells Phelps that they have a new case: white female dumped in plain sight off of Hill Street. When they arrive at the crime scene they find Captain James Donnelly (Brian F. O'Byrne) trying to fend off reporters and photographers. Donnelly gets them to disperse by telling them that he'll be holding a press conference as soon as he has the autopsy results, and that he's already assigned two of his finest detectives to the case fresh off from bringing down the sword of justice on Alonzo Mendez. Officer Enrique Gonzales (Walter Perez) approaches the detectives and tells them that he was the first one on the scene that morning. He tells them that a family out for a walk were the ones who discovered the body. Gonzales then leads the detectives over to the body. Malcolm Carruthers (Jordan Gelber) is already inspecting the body when they approach. Phelps looks through the victim's purse, discovering that the victim is named Deirdre Moller and that the money in the wallet rules out robbery as a motive. Carruthers expresses a feeling of deja vu with this victim and Celine Henry - both victims even had a ring roughly removed. Galloway dismisses the similarities with the Henry since that is a closed case. He suggests that it was probably another sad sack who list his temper with a broad who wouldn't put out. They have enough work to do without reopening closed cases. Phelps asks Carruthers to continue with the similarities. Carruthers says explains that both victims were severely battered, left on display. Both crime scenes even had smallish men's foot prints, very possibly another size 8. Carruthers calls over to some morgue workers to start loading up the body so that he can do the autopsy back at the morgue.
Phelps and Galloway arrive at the home of Deirdre Moller and knock at the door. Michelle Moller (Caitlin Carmichael), the victim's daughter answers the door. She says that her father isn't home right now, but should be back soon. The detectives ask her if she minds if they they look around until he comes back. Michelle lets the detectives come inside. She asks if they found her mom yet, and tells them that her dad has been out looking for her all morning and even called the police about it earlier. Phelps breaks the bad news to Michelle that her mother is dead. Michelle is sad and confused, but Phelps continues and asks when she last saw her mother. Michelle says it was yesterday. She went to a dance at her school. Her mom was supposed to pick her up but never showed up. Finally, her dad showed up instead to pick her up. Phelps asks Michelle if her dad ever hit her mom. Michelle says just once, and that her mom threatened to leave him if he ever did it again. After that her dad bought her mom a Golden Butterfly broach. Phelps thanks Michelle for answering his questions and gives her his condolences. Just then Hugo Moller (Sean Astin) enters the house and demands to know what's going on. Michelle gives her father a hug and tells him that the police are here. Hugo tells her to go to her room while he talks to the police. Hugo begins berating the detectives for talking to his daughter without his approval. Phelps tells Hugo that Deirdre was found murdered this morning. Shocked, Hugo has a seat. Phelps asks Hugo where he was last night. Hugo insists that he was home all night. Hugo insists he didn't kill his wife, in fact he just got back from filing a missing persons report on her. He says his wife left the house around 9:30 PM and never came home. He assumed that she went to get Michelle, but Michelle called for a ride saying Deirdre never picked her up. Phelps tells Hugo to make arrangements for his daughter and to come down to the precinct on his own power for questioning. Galloway is annoyed and suggests they just cuff him and bring him in now, but goes along with Phelps' plan begrudgingly.
Phelps and Galloway head over to the morgue to learn what Carruthers has concluded from the autopsy. Carruthers tells them that the cause of death was strangulation from a large rope, most likely the kind used for mooring boats. While they are at the morgue, the detectives receive word that Deirdre's car has been found in the parking lot of Belmont High School. Galloway suggests they head over their immediately to look for any clues. When they get there, they find Eli Rooney (Doug Hutchison) hiding behind the car watching a group of high school girls having cheerleading practice in the grass near the parking lot. When Rooney sees them he quickly zips up his pants and runs away from the detectives. Galloway comments that it isn't usually a good sign that somebody is running from the police and tells Phelps to go chase him down. Phelps chases him down and tackles him in the middle of the football field. Galloway catches back up and comments that he's glad he has a younger, physically fit partner to chase down the bad guys. Phelps pats Rooney down and finds the butterfly broach in his pocket. They cuff Rooney and start looking through Deirdre Moller's trunk where they find a blood stained rope. Phelps asks Rooney what he's doing around the school, and Rooney says that he likes to look at the kids. Galloway tells Rooney he's a world class creep and that he is under arrest.
Phelps and Galloway return to the police station. Donnelly tells them that Hugo Moller is waiting in one interview room, while Rooney is waiting in another. Galloway pulls Phelps aside and quietly suggests that they charge Rooney for the murder even if he didn't do it because even though he thinks Hugo probably murdered his wife in a fit of rage he doesn't think Hugo is an immediate danger to anyone. Rooney, on the other hand, poses more of a danger to society. Phelps goes in to interrogate Rooney. Phelps tells Rooney that they have plenty enough to charge him with the murder of Deirdre Moller: he was in possession of her butterfly broach, his fingerprints are likely on her car, he has a history of sexual deviancy and petty crime, and was within reach of the murder weapon. Rooney insists he didn't do it. Phelps tells Rooney to convince him otherwise, but he isn't able to argue against any of the evidence. He admits that he is a pedophile, but he isn't a murderer. Phelps suggests Rooney do a better job convincing a jury of that and leaves the interrogation room.
Phelps and Galloway tells Hugo Moller that he is free to leave the station and that they have arrested a suspect in the murder of his wife. Hugo begins walking out of the station, and Phelps tells him to take good care of Michelle since he's all she's got now. Hugo nods his head. Galloway tells Phelps that he thinks they did the right thing in charging Rooney and releasing Moller. Phelps says he hopes Galloway is right. Captain Donnelly commends the two detectives on their efficient detective work on the case, and comments that a pedophile and murderer like Rooney will surely be popular down with the brutes down at the county lockup.
1945 - During the war in the Pacific, Phelps and his unit have just captured a village. All of the enemy combatants are rounded up and brought to the center of the village. The Japanese prisoners appear quite sullen. One of the men under Phelps' command, Ira Hogeboom (Chris Zylka), asks why the Japs look so damn sad, and Phelps tells him that they are wondering why they haven't been executed yet. Phelps tells his men that the prisoners are feeling shame for being captured and that to them there is no greater shame than being taken prisoner. The Japanese soldiers would rather be executed. Phelps then asks his men if they know why what they're fighting for. One of the men, Courtney Sheldon (Daniel Webber) says that they're fighting the Japanese because they attacked Pearl Harbor. Phelps says yes, but do they know why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Hogeboom says it's because the Japs hate the American way of life. Phelps tells his men that the Japanese attacked the US because the US cut off their oil.
The next morning, Phelps is at his desk nursing a hangover. Det. Rusty Galloway (Brent Sexton) enters the office and tells Phelps that they have a new case: white female dumped in plain sight off of Hill Street. When they arrive at the crime scene they find Captain James Donnelly (Brian F. O'Byrne) trying to fend off reporters and photographers. Donnelly gets them to disperse by telling them that he'll be holding a press conference as soon as he has the autopsy results, and that he's already assigned two of his finest detectives to the case fresh off from bringing down the sword of justice on Alonzo Mendez. Officer Enrique Gonzales (Walter Perez) approaches the detectives and tells them that he was the first one on the scene that morning. He tells them that a family out for a walk were the ones who discovered the body. Gonzales then leads the detectives over to the body. Malcolm Carruthers (Jordan Gelber) is already inspecting the body when they approach. Phelps looks through the victim's purse, discovering that the victim is named Deirdre Moller and that the money in the wallet rules out robbery as a motive. Carruthers expresses a feeling of deja vu with this victim and Celine Henry - both victims even had a ring roughly removed. Galloway dismisses the similarities with the Henry since that is a closed case. He suggests that it was probably another sad sack who list his temper with a broad who wouldn't put out. They have enough work to do without reopening closed cases. Phelps asks Carruthers to continue with the similarities. Carruthers says explains that both victims were severely battered, left on display. Both crime scenes even had smallish men's foot prints, very possibly another size 8. Carruthers calls over to some morgue workers to start loading up the body so that he can do the autopsy back at the morgue.
Phelps and Galloway arrive at the home of Deirdre Moller and knock at the door. Michelle Moller (Caitlin Carmichael), the victim's daughter answers the door. She says that her father isn't home right now, but should be back soon. The detectives ask her if she minds if they they look around until he comes back. Michelle lets the detectives come inside. She asks if they found her mom yet, and tells them that her dad has been out looking for her all morning and even called the police about it earlier. Phelps breaks the bad news to Michelle that her mother is dead. Michelle is sad and confused, but Phelps continues and asks when she last saw her mother. Michelle says it was yesterday. She went to a dance at her school. Her mom was supposed to pick her up but never showed up. Finally, her dad showed up instead to pick her up. Phelps asks Michelle if her dad ever hit her mom. Michelle says just once, and that her mom threatened to leave him if he ever did it again. After that her dad bought her mom a Golden Butterfly broach. Phelps thanks Michelle for answering his questions and gives her his condolences. Just then Hugo Moller (Sean Astin) enters the house and demands to know what's going on. Michelle gives her father a hug and tells him that the police are here. Hugo tells her to go to her room while he talks to the police. Hugo begins berating the detectives for talking to his daughter without his approval. Phelps tells Hugo that Deirdre was found murdered this morning. Shocked, Hugo has a seat. Phelps asks Hugo where he was last night. Hugo insists that he was home all night. Hugo insists he didn't kill his wife, in fact he just got back from filing a missing persons report on her. He says his wife left the house around 9:30 PM and never came home. He assumed that she went to get Michelle, but Michelle called for a ride saying Deirdre never picked her up. Phelps tells Hugo to make arrangements for his daughter and to come down to the precinct on his own power for questioning. Galloway is annoyed and suggests they just cuff him and bring him in now, but goes along with Phelps' plan begrudgingly.
Phelps and Galloway head over to the morgue to learn what Carruthers has concluded from the autopsy. Carruthers tells them that the cause of death was strangulation from a large rope, most likely the kind used for mooring boats. While they are at the morgue, the detectives receive word that Deirdre's car has been found in the parking lot of Belmont High School. Galloway suggests they head over their immediately to look for any clues. When they get there, they find Eli Rooney (Doug Hutchison) hiding behind the car watching a group of high school girls having cheerleading practice in the grass near the parking lot. When Rooney sees them he quickly zips up his pants and runs away from the detectives. Galloway comments that it isn't usually a good sign that somebody is running from the police and tells Phelps to go chase him down. Phelps chases him down and tackles him in the middle of the football field. Galloway catches back up and comments that he's glad he has a younger, physically fit partner to chase down the bad guys. Phelps pats Rooney down and finds the butterfly broach in his pocket. They cuff Rooney and start looking through Deirdre Moller's trunk where they find a blood stained rope. Phelps asks Rooney what he's doing around the school, and Rooney says that he likes to look at the kids. Galloway tells Rooney he's a world class creep and that he is under arrest.
Phelps and Galloway return to the police station. Donnelly tells them that Hugo Moller is waiting in one interview room, while Rooney is waiting in another. Galloway pulls Phelps aside and quietly suggests that they charge Rooney for the murder even if he didn't do it because even though he thinks Hugo probably murdered his wife in a fit of rage he doesn't think Hugo is an immediate danger to anyone. Rooney, on the other hand, poses more of a danger to society. Phelps goes in to interrogate Rooney. Phelps tells Rooney that they have plenty enough to charge him with the murder of Deirdre Moller: he was in possession of her butterfly broach, his fingerprints are likely on her car, he has a history of sexual deviancy and petty crime, and was within reach of the murder weapon. Rooney insists he didn't do it. Phelps tells Rooney to convince him otherwise, but he isn't able to argue against any of the evidence. He admits that he is a pedophile, but he isn't a murderer. Phelps suggests Rooney do a better job convincing a jury of that and leaves the interrogation room.
Phelps and Galloway tells Hugo Moller that he is free to leave the station and that they have arrested a suspect in the murder of his wife. Hugo begins walking out of the station, and Phelps tells him to take good care of Michelle since he's all she's got now. Hugo nods his head. Galloway tells Phelps that he thinks they did the right thing in charging Rooney and releasing Moller. Phelps says he hopes Galloway is right. Captain Donnelly commends the two detectives on their efficient detective work on the case, and comments that a pedophile and murderer like Rooney will surely be popular down with the brutes down at the county lockup.
1945 - During the war in the Pacific, Phelps and his unit have just captured a village. All of the enemy combatants are rounded up and brought to the center of the village. The Japanese prisoners appear quite sullen. One of the men under Phelps' command, Ira Hogeboom (Chris Zylka), asks why the Japs look so damn sad, and Phelps tells him that they are wondering why they haven't been executed yet. Phelps tells his men that the prisoners are feeling shame for being captured and that to them there is no greater shame than being taken prisoner. The Japanese soldiers would rather be executed. Phelps then asks his men if they know why what they're fighting for. One of the men, Courtney Sheldon (Daniel Webber) says that they're fighting the Japanese because they attacked Pearl Harbor. Phelps says yes, but do they know why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Hogeboom says it's because the Japs hate the American way of life. Phelps tells his men that the Japanese attacked the US because the US cut off their oil.
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