The Offence

Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery) has been a steady and reliable policeman for many years. However, something snaps in him during his interrogation of Baxter (Ian Bannen), a suspected child molester, and he kills the man. Before he dies under increasingly brutal questioning by Johnson, Baxter calls attention to the strange moral ambiguity of his questioner. Johnson is suspended from the force while this incident is being investigated, and it eventually comes out that he was molested as a child.