In The Usual Suspects, the conventional interpretation of events is that Kevin Spacey's character, Verbal Kint, had actually been the powerful, secretive crime lord Keyser Soze all along, setting up an elaborate plot to force skilled criminals who had incurred a debt to him to eliminate the only eye-witness to his identity. Among the criminals he forces into this venture is Dean Keaton, an ex corrupt cop and thief with a history of making witnesses dissappear. The narrative mostly takes plac..