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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Lou, Joyce, Conway entitled The Killer Inside Me?
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conversations.value: The Killer Inside Me (2010 film): In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town — patient, dependable, and well-liked.\nHowever, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes.\nAs a teenager, Lou was caught raping a five-year-old girl by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to the crime and served prison time to protect Lou.\nAfter being released, Mike was hired by the construction firm of Chester Conway (Ned Beatty).\nMike died on the job after slipping and falling off a beam.\nLou believes that Conway planned the accident.\nAt the request of Sheriff Bob Maples (Tom Bower), Lou visits Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba), a prostitute who is having an affair with Conway's son, Elmer (Jay Ferguson).\nWhen Joyce objects to Lou's treatment of her, he violently beats her until her buttocks are bruised.\nJoyce enjoys pain, and she and Lou begin a passionate love affair.\nJoyce suggests that Lou would never leave town with her, but they devise a plot to extort $10,000 from the Conways.\nSheriff Maples and Chester Conway ask Lou to oversee the pay-off.\nLou has another plan: he brutally beats Joyce until he thinks that she is dead (she is not), and when Elmer arrives, Lou shoots and kills him.\nHe then plants the gun on Joyce, hoping to make the scene look like the two have killed each other.\nJoyce survives the ordeal.\nThen Conway announces his intention to see her executed for killing Elmer.\nLou's reputation begins to falter: his girlfriend and fiancee Amy (Kate Hudson) doubts him as infidel, and the county district attorney Howard Hendricks (Simon Baker), who has arrived in town to investigate the murders, suspects that Lou could be the killer.\nLou accompanies Sheriff Maples and Conway in taking Joyce to the hospital in Fort Worth; Conway wants her alive so he can interrogate her.\nLou waits in a hotel room while the surgery takes place.\nMaples tells him that Joyce died on the operating table.\nLou and Maples return to west Texas.\nBack at his home, Lou discovers explicit photographs of a woman inside a Bible.\nThe woman was Helene, a housekeeper and babysitter of his youth who bears a resemblance to Joyce.\nLou recalls that Helene introduced him to sadomasochism, urging him to strike her.\nLou burns the photos.\nHendricks arrests Johnnie Pappas (Liam Aiken), a local youth whom Lou had previously befriended as a suspect in the murders of Elmer and Joyce.\nHe was found with one of the $20 bills that Elmer was supposed to give to Joyce in the pay-off; Conway had the bills marked in order to blackmail Joyce if she didn't leave town.\nBecause Lou is close to Johnnie, Hendricks asks Lou to persuade him to confess, but it was Lou himself who had given Johnnie the marked $20 bill as a tip.\nIn the prison cell Lou confesses to Johnnie that he was the one responsible.\nWhen they are out of sight, Lou hangs Johnnie and makes it appear as a suicide.\nJohnnie's death only makes the town more suspicious of Lou.\nJournalist and union organizer Joe Rothman (Elias Koteas), who had previously suggested that Conway had Lou's foster brother Mike killed, implies that he knows that Lou killed Elmer and Joyce.\nLou coaxes Amy to elope with him as he proposes to her.\nDue to Lou's violent nature, she acquiesces to his desire to spank her.\nAn alcoholic bum (Brent Briscoe) whom Lou had previously burnt with a cigar has been trailing Lou, and knows that he was responsible for the murders of Elmer and Joyce.\nHe expects $5,000 to keep quiet with Lou agreeing.\nUpon the day, on which Lou and Amy had planned to elope; Lou beats Amy to death, and when the bum witnesses her body, he runs for help.\nLou chases the bum, shouting that he has murdered Amy.\nAnother deputy, Jeff Plummer (Matthew Maher) opens fire on the bum, and shoots him dead.\nThe next morning, Plummer informs Lou of Maples suicide, convinced of Lou's guilt and heartbroken over his crimes.\nHendricks and Plummer try to get a confession from Lou, who cockily refuses.\nThey have a letter that Amy intended to give to him before they eloped, in which Amy begs him to come clean.\nLou is arrested, and after a week in prison is sent to an insane asylum.\nWhile he is there, he suffers hallucinations of Amy and Helene.\nAfter a few weeks, a slick lawyer named Billy Boy Walker (Bill Pullman) has him released and drives him home.\nWalker has been hired by Joe Rothman to protect the union man.\nLou tells Walker his whole story and concludes that he doesn't want anyone else to die.\nLost in his violent fantasies, Lou douses his home in gasoline and alcohol, arms himself with a knife, and sits waiting in his study for a retribution to arrive.\nAs police vehicles and armed policemen arrive, Lou sees a car pull up with Hendricks, Conway, Plummer and the still-alive Joyce.\nAs Joyce tells Lou that she refused to cooperate with the authorities, Lou tells her he loves her, and stabs her.\nPlummer opens fire, hitting both Joyce and Lou and igniting the gasoline in the house.\nOutside, the approaching policemen see the house explode in a huge fireball, which it appears Lou has ignited to kill himself.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Lou, Killer, Inside entitled The Killer Inside Me?
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conversations.value: The Killer Inside Me (1976 film): Usually a law officer is a figure of trust in a small community.\nUnfortunately for the residents of a small Montana town, Lou Ford is an exception.\nBehind his easygoing, likeable shell is an intensely violent core resulting from an abusive childhood.\nIn a diner one day Lou sees his dead father and hears voices, the first hint that he may have mental problems.\nWhen Lou gets involved with a local prostitute's blackmail schemes, the carefully crafted facade he maintains begins to unravel into a vicious killing spree that leads to a thought-provoking and disturbing conclusion.
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conversations.value: The Killer Inside Me (1976 film): Usually a law officer is a figure of trust in a small community.\nUnfortunately for the residents of a small Montana town, Lou Ford is an exception.\nBehind his easygoing, likeable shell is an intensely violent core resulting from an abusive childhood.\nIn a diner one day Lou sees his dead father and hears voices, the first hint that he may have mental problems.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Lou, Joyce, Ford entitled The Killer Inside Me? Start with the sentence 'The Killer Inside Me: The story is told through the eyes of its protagonist, Lou Ford, a 29-year-old deputy sheriff in a small Texas town'.
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conversations.value: The Killer Inside Me: The story is told through the eyes of its protagonist, Lou Ford, a 29-year-old deputy sheriff in a small Texas town.\nFord appears to be a regular, small-town cop leading an unremarkable existence; beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, depraved sociopath with sadistic sexual tastes.\nFord\'s main outlet for his dark urges is the relatively benign habit of deliberately needling people with clichés and platitudes despite their obvious boredom: "If there\'s anything worse than a bore," says Lou, "it\'s a corny bore".\nDespite having a steady girlfriend, Ford falls into a sadomasochistic relationship with a prostitute named Joyce Lakeland.\nFord describes their affair as unlocking "the sickness" that has plagued him since adolescence, when he sexually abused a little girl, a crime for which his elder foster brother Mike took the blame to spare Lou from prison.\nAfter serving a jail term, Mike died at a construction site.\nLou blamed a local construction magnate for Mike\'s death, suspecting he was murdered.\nTo exact revenge, Lou and Joyce blackmail the construction magnate to avoid exposing his son\'s affair with Joyce.\nHowever, Lou double-crosses Joyce: He ferociously batters her, and shoots the construction magnate\'s son, hoping to make the crimes appear to be a lovers\' spat gone wrong.\nDespite the savage beating, it\'s revealed that Joyce survives, albeit in a coma.\nFord builds a solid alibi and frames other people for the double homicide.\nHowever, to successfully frame others when the evidence starts to go against him, he has to commit additional murders.\nThese only increase suspicion against him however, and his mask of sanity begins to crumble under the pressure.