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She doesn't die; the film mentions she was still moving, so it's just an attempt suicide


* TooBleakStoppedCaring: A reporter tries to pull back his divorced wife by repeatedly landing her fiance in jail, hiring a thug to give him counterfeit money, and kidnapping his mother. The divorcee, unaware of this, pulls an ExactWords ploy so she can tear up an interview he requested her to write because he made her late, even though she's aware loss of that interview could cost a man his life. They both work to expose a coverup by the mayor and the sheriff to kill a legally insane man so they can get reelected. All of the other reporters that appear on-screen are a bunch of sleaze-mongers just as relentlessly rotten. And of the five truly innocent people that appear, two are the film's {{Butt Monkey}}s, one is kidnapped as one of Walter's ploys to keep Hildy around, one is [[TheDitz a completely useless idiot]] (although ironically he is the DeusExMachina that saves Williams) and one [[DrivenToSuicide apparently kills herself]] after becoming collateral damage of said relentlessly rotten reporting. Not many good guys here.

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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: A reporter tries to pull back his divorced wife by repeatedly landing her fiance in jail, hiring a thug to give him counterfeit money, and kidnapping his mother. The divorcee, unaware of this, pulls an ExactWords ploy so she can tear up an interview he requested her to write because he made her late, even though she's aware loss of that interview could cost a man his life. They both work to expose a coverup by the mayor and the sheriff to kill a legally insane man so they can get reelected. All of the other reporters that appear on-screen are a bunch of sleaze-mongers just as relentlessly rotten. And of the five truly innocent people that appear, two are the film's {{Butt Monkey}}s, one is kidnapped as one of Walter's ploys to keep Hildy around, one is [[TheDitz a completely useless idiot]] (although ironically he is the DeusExMachina that saves Williams) and one [[DrivenToSuicide apparently kills attempts to kill herself]] after becoming collateral damage of said relentlessly rotten reporting. Not many good guys here.

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