Through Dead Eyes (1999)

Plotzle Expert · E115 · June 24, 2026 · Thriller / Crime

Six plot descriptions for Through Dead Eyes (1999). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A narcotics officer working undercover for eighteen months can no longer distinguish his assumed criminal persona from his actual self and commits crimes to maintain his psychological balance.
2. A mortician in Cleveland discovers that corpses in his care retain final images in their retinas and he photographs them to blackmail the living involved in their deaths.
3. A serial killer strangles young women in the city while a weary detective enlists help from a blind psychic to capture the murderer in this crime thriller.
4. Two brothers inherit their father's pawn shop in Baltimore and find a logbook connecting purchased items to unsolved murders spanning three decades across the eastern seaboard.
5. An investment banker who lost everything in a Ponzi scheme assumes a dead vagrant's identity and lives undetected in the subway tunnels while stealing from former colleagues.
6. A grief counselor becomes obsessed with a widow's account of her husband's fatal car accident and begins following her through the city to validate inconsistencies in her story.