Who is the criminal? Who is the victim? Knocking on the vault door of Sam Spade and Philip Marlow, The Butler Did It dissects and isolates the detective mystery movie. In a world of smoke, straightedged razors and flickering TV, entertaining a slumped body in an armchair, the thin line of who did it and who didn’t is erased. There is no trench coat-clad Humphrey Bogart to wrap up the case. The Who and by Who is for the imaginative speculation of the viewer to resolve.