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.[She was a former college sweetheart and would-be lover, but he never felt emotionally attached to her." She revealed that she was babysitting in 1963, 32 years earlier, when little Mikey Myers lived across the street, and he heard a voice the night that he murdered his sister: "It told him to kill his family.[Later, we learn the two strange onlookers are "Baron" Kurtz and Dr.Winkel, later identified in the film.The Woman is Harry""s Czech grieving mistress/girlfriend Anna Schmidt, a Russian exile and refugee.] After the ceremony, Martins is given a ride to town by cynical British military police officer Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), who is stationed in the British sector of Vienna.She then engaged in an argumentative confrontation with her mother about eating, telling her: "Why don""t I just eat the whole goddamn tray, go throw up, and come back for seconds, all right?"Chef Freddy wheeled in a sterling silver chafing dish on a trolley, pinned Greta into her baby chair, exclaimed: "Bon appetit, bitch," and served her a platter of a miniature Greta doll, introduced with: "Filet de Barbie!" He filleted the doll with his claw-like bladed fingers, and force-fed Greta with the dissected doll""s innards.