Conclusion: David "Rooster" (played by Al Pacino) is the perpetrator of a series of murders. Rooster never framed the blame for his partner. The criminal in prison at the beginning was Tom "Turk" (Robert De Niro) who used his gun to frame the crime, and Rooster watched his image of Turk's role as a police officer collapse and began a serial killing. But in his confession diary, he took the initiative to blame Turk, saying that he framed the suspect.
The reason why the audience is confused is largely because the director deliberately dug a hole. From the very beginning of the film, Tom "Turk" (Robert De Niro)'s narration, VCR narration is actually flashback/interlude, with Turk reciting the text from Rooster's confession notebook. Because of the reversal effect, Rooster's psychological activities in the film are all presented by the "substitute" Turk.
1. According to psychiatrists, criminals want and are not afraid to expose themselves. Rooster is generous from the start in the first-person narration of the internal police meeting (00:38 of the film), "Okay, I'm the killer." strip on line.
2. Turk asked at the police station gym if it was an "ex-cop" who committed the crime, and Rooster took the opportunity to name the old police captain who was fired a few years ago. However, during the follow-up investigation of the other two police inspectors, the captain of the old police station revealed that he had an alibi (passport, bills and transit visa) for a certain case, and the clue was interrupted. Because it was Turk who started, the two inspectors began to suspect that Turk was diverting their attention and focused the suspect on Turk. At the same time, they found a female police officer and asked for help in investigating the guns and personnel involved.
3. Rooster saw that he was setting fire to Turk, but the suspicion of Turk was about to be dismissed, and the shooting of Russian gangsters left a living hole, and he simply violently raped the female police officer in order to expose his identity earlier.
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