The Devil's Own (1997)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #9 · April 22, 2026 · Crime / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for The Devil's Own (1997). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A narcotics detective in Baltimore becomes addicted to the heroin he confiscates from crime scenes and begins selling evidence to fund his habit while investigating a cartel murder.
2. A woman discovers her teenage son has been manipulating his classmates into committing petty crimes for his amusement and she chooses to protect him instead of reporting the incidents.
3. Someone anonymously sends photographs of infidelity to spouses throughout a suburb and the recipients form a group that escalates from surveillance to violent retribution against the unfaithful partners.
4. An immigration attorney realizes his clients are being deported based on falsified documents but continues accepting cases because he profits from their desperation and the system rewards his complicity.
5. Two childhood friends reunite after prison and plan a jewelry heist but one secretly works as an informant and the job ends with both men dead in a parking garage.
6. A man working for a militant organization travels to another country to purchase weapons and stays with a police officer's family, but the officer eventually becomes suspicious of his guest's true activities.