Widowed single father and retired police officer Tom Cutler runs his own crime scene cleaning service.

Eight years earlier, Tom’s wife was murdered during a home invasion and robbery, which their young daughter Rose witnessed.

He enters using a key hidden under a potted plant, catalogues the crime scene and proceeds to clean up the blood and tissue using his own special mixture of chemicals.

Eddie suspects foul play, as John’s disappearance occurred the day before he was set to testify to a grand jury against corrupt former police commissioner Robert Vaughn.

Tom learns that Ann has been asked to visit the morgue by Detective Jim Vargas, who has been investigating John’s murder.

The coroner privately tells Tom that John had a vasectomy several years prior, indicating Ann’s previous pregnancy, which she had miscarried, was not his.

[4] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter gave it a positive review and wrote: "A neatly contained crime whodunit with a nifty setup and an expert lead performance from Samuel L.

"[5] Eddie Cockrell of Variety wrote: "Scrub away a needlessly fussy visual style, trendy narrative tweaks and a climax both morally repugnant and logically absurd, and there's a tough little noir about buried transgressions coming out of the past in Renny Harlin's lackluster thriller Cleaner.

Too mainstream to attract genre interest, and too tangled in its character motivations to sit well with the multiplex crowd, this is a minor stain that should fade quickly and leave only faint traces in ancillary.