In the form of an office memo, he explains to the firm's Claims Manager Barton Keyes (Edward G.Robinson) how he committed the "perfect" crime hat wastooperfect:Office memorandum.'Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager, Los Angeles, July 16, 1938.Dear Keyes: I suppose you'll call this a confession when you hear it.Well, I don't like he word 'confession.' I just want to set you right about something you couldn't see because it was smack up against your nose.When she arrived at his door, he still declined to accompany her, claiming: "I've got a lot of thinking to do.In the prison yard, Luthor climbed up a ladder into a hot-air rescue balloon piloted by his moll girlfriend Eve Teschmacher (Valerie Perrine), but Otis (too heavy as "ballast" for the balloon) was left behind.Fell" at the counter.He was also told that the "FBI through Interpol requested a copy" of the videotape from the perfume shop.