During the film, Mair plays the stereotypical criminal, who goes by the name of 'Miss Davies', adding suspicion even further to her identity. She is seen as omniscient, and portrayed as secretive and sneaky, which a vendeta. Non verbal mise-en-scene is used to convey the character as criminal, for example when she is preparing herself to commit the murder she is seen putting on a black pair of gloves and then taking a gun out of her pocket. It shows her intelligence and apparent experience, as she has thought about little details that may give her away, whilst showing that she has thought about the crime she is about to commit.
The background music is a form of non diagetic sound used in the film, to increase tension and suspense, with the feeling that this character is a genuinely bad person. Towards the end of the sequence, she represents the typical criminal when she is bring questioned. She denies the allegations in a very smug and confident way, making gestures with her hands, showing her willingness to 'prove her innocence' and stay poker faced.
The representation of criminals in our Noir film differs slightly from that of criminals in the media today, as our film was of a different time (40's and 50's) so our interpretation of a criminal was different, leaning more towards the classic 'gangster' style criminal.
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