"Recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital" "Salvatore Frolo murders Antonio Tindari whom he holds responsible for the death of his wife and daughter." "Captain Corrado Cattani, in charge of the investigation alongside the courageous Judge Silvia Conti, with whom he is slowly falling in love, begins to put together the pieces of a vague and barbaric puzzle." "During the course of this lengthy investigation Corrado meets up again with Tano Cariddi." "Who is secretly vast sums of Mafia money into the stock market." "For this reason, he arranges a marriage of convenience with the young Ester Rasi, the daughter of a wealthy businessman." "Tano, with the help of the sinister Espinosa, drives him to suicide." "Meanwhile Ester, who has discovered Tano's true colors, has decided to remain close to Tano to bring about his downfall." "At the same time Tano is preparing his stroke of genius:" "The purchase of the International Insurance Securities." "Also collaborating in this shady scheme are Espinosa, Sen. Salimbeni, and other, anonymous figures of the Mafia high command." "A train carrying a lethal cargo towards the south of Italy seals the wicked deal." "Following his own instinct and maintaining a promise made to the hospitalized Salvatore Frolo, Corrado rediscovers" "Lorella, the daughter Frolo thought was dead." "Corrado welcomes her into the community of Brother Bernardo, one of the few friends on whom Corrado can still count." "Judge Silvia Conti joins him at the orphanage and Corrado anxiously awaits the discovery of new details." "They are warned via telephone by the girl of the existence of a stranger who agress to meet with Corrado." "Who is the man that Lorella has been calling her father?" "THE OCTOPUS 4" "Part Six" "I'll stay here for a while, Captain." "There's hot coffee in the kitchen." "Open up." " I'm not to be disturbed." " OK." "International Insurance Securities." "Antinari Bank 14%" "Market share 31%" "No, thank you." " When did the Puppeteer leave?" " This evening, with Santuzzo." "He called the airport first to confirm there was a flight..." "And where was he going?" "Did you hear the phone conversation?" "I wrote it all down." "Fine." "We'll take care of it." "International Securities Antinari Bank: 14%" "Others: 86% Majority shareholding: 31%" "Begin now." "Barton 5402" "Selis 4635" "International Insurance Securities 12472" "Tano will be back later." "He's gone to Ascona." "Why Ascona?" " At the Villa Pausania?" " I don't know." " Why?" "Who is at the Villa?" " Espinosa." " Who is Espinosa?" " Somebody important." "Somebody I didn't think that Tano knew about." "He's an art collector." "Do you remember that antique doll I have in my study?" "Espinosa has been asking me about it for years..." "Trevi is on the way with two others." "Where's my daughter?" "He had these on him." "He, on the other hand, was unarmed." "You?" "Who are you?" "I'm the one you think I am." "The Puppeteer." "She's magnificent." "You can't imagine how many times I asked your father for it." "I had almost given up on ever obtaining it and now, well..." "And now, I really don't know... how to thank you." "Come, I want to show you something." "See?" "The entire collection is made of five dolls." "The good... the evil, the pain, the joy." "The four sentiments that rule mankind." "And then there is this one, deceit." "I've never liked this doll." "It is frightening." "It's true." "The craftsman that made it was Danish, called Kristensen and by all accounts he was a Freemason, but in those times, even Mozart was." "And are you also?" "I am... a bit of everything, a bit of this and a bit of that." "A bit like this doll here." "Sorry, you'll have to excuse me." "I like to joke a little." "Let's talk business then." "Tell me, what would you like in exchange for this beauty?" "Nothing." "It's a gift to you." "My father often told me he had few friends, and that you were one of them." "Isn't that so?" "Are you really going to give me this gift, for nothing in return?" "Yes." "I just want one thing." "I want to know the truth about my father." "I want to know why he killed himself." "And what makes you think that I could help with this?" "You were the last person who saw him." "Our chauffer told me." "Why did he come to you that afternoon?" "He came with a business proposal, I had to unfortunately turn down." "Why?" "I was already engaged in business with somebody else." "Who?" "This I can't tell you." "It was Tano Cariddi, wasn't it?" "Please tell me the truth, was it he?" "Yes." "But your husband has nothing to do with your father's death." "And neither do I for that matter." "Your father made that decision, of his free will, because he was a lonely man." "He was tired... and very depressed." "This is the truth." "There are no other reasons." "He has decoded those numbers." "Hamburg, Molineux, Amsterdam, Naples." "You can't imagine how much it's worth to a collector when he finally gains the last piece to a collection, and the mosaic is complete." "What are you thinking?" "Nothing." "I mean... what's this?" "It's a game, a very complicated game." "Here, have a look..." "It's all about getting a train to arrive at a destination... overcoming whatever obstacles." "And you, do you play this game alone?" "Your innocence is disarming." "Your husband is very fortunate." "No..." "I don't play it alone." "But, at the end I will be the winner." "The first time I saw Lorella... she was at the nuns' college, and just a few months old." "Her name isn't Lorella." "It's Paola, Paola Frolo!" "To me she is Lorella." "That's the name the nuns gave her and that's the name that remains." "I took her with me." "She always cried in those early days..." "She cried so much because her mother was killed by Tindari!" "And it was at your command!" "What do you know about what was going on?" "It wasn't Tindari at all who did the deed." "In fact, it was he who threw himself down the slope when they all left, and pulled the young girl out of the flames." "I may have commanded a few deaths in my time, but what do I care about admitting to one more or one less at this stage of my life, but not this, this I didn't want." "I didn't want them to get her, didn't want it to happen to a child not with a woman and a child." "Wth Frolo, yes!" "He had disobeyed and betrayed, and he should have died!" "But that swine disappeared, and so the families decided that whoever doesn't pay with blood, will pay with tears." "It was 1970." "The year when something... began to poison us, from the inside." "They say that if a mouse enters your room at night time, it may eat your toes without you even realizing it." "You see, the teeth have some type of fluid that numbs, so you wouldn't even notice the pain." "That's how it was for us." "That evil mouse, that treacherous mouse... was drugs." "We accepted drugs without a second thought." "While there were those that pumped their veins with the stuff, and poisoned their blood, we let it poison our minds." "Over a short time, all of a sudden, oaths were struck up, pacts, rules that had stood for centuries were overturned." "In the name of drugs, anything was allowed." "Robbing your father, betraying your wife, killing your brother, and even... having a woman and her daughter burned alive." "But, I didn't come hear to preach." "I came to find out who besides yourselves knows about Lorella." "Nobody." "And nobody will know about it." "Look, you don't give the orders anymore!" "Wait one moment, Captain!" "You've trodden all over the Puppeteer, isn't that enough?" "What else do you want?" "I want to take her back to her father, her real father." "Don't do it, Captain!" "That man you're calling her real father is nothing to her." "By doing this she'll lose two fathers at once." "The one in front of you will spend the rest of his days in jail, and the other because he barely exists anymore." "He is only a wreck of a man." "What are you thinking?" "You coming here and taking the moral ground." "You still want to rule the roost, the left and the right!" "You, you're the scum of the Earth!" "I'm thinking about Lorella!" "You should do the same!" "I've kept it all from her for so many years, and now if her family, who want me dead and out the way, if they find out she is alive, and that she is the thing most important to me," "then they'll kill her!" "Do you understand?" "You'll have to take her away, far away, out of the country." "She has to be Lorella De Pisis, to all and forever!" "If you can do this for me..." "I will tell you about the last 30 years in the Mafia." "You see, that man you call a "wreck"" "I made a promise to him, and I'm going to maintain that promise." "I'm not making any pacts with you." "Let me through, I want to get through!" "Leave me!" " I know that he is in there!" " Get down!" "Stay still, seated!" "Dad!" "What's happening, Dad?" "Who are they?" "What do they want?" "Nothing, nothing, Lori... nothing." "What do they want from us?" "Why do they have guns?" "Don't be afraid, I'm here now." "All will be taken care of, don't worry." "Can you leave us alone for a few moments?" "All right." "We'll wait out here." "Just five minutes." "Listen carefully Lori, there's only a little time." "They'll tell you plenty of horrible things about me." "And they'll all be true." "You have to accept his proposal." "It's so important that he speaks." "He knows names we wouldn't even imagine, even beyond suspicion." "You must accept!" "And Frolo?" "Does he have to keep thinking his daughter is dead?" "Fine." "But tell me, what kind of justice is that?" "A justice that continues to ask its victims to pay for all evil." "It's all we have." "Otherwise there is their way of avenging wrongs." "Is that what you prefer?" "Do you want to resort to their ways?" "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?" "Go to Lorella, tell her everything and you become like him." "Vendetta for vendetta!" "But it won't be the right justice..." "No, we're different, you and I..." "Why do you keep talking to me about justice, about law?" "All those high and mighty principles?" "I'm just thinking about Frolo, about Faeti, who was killed like a dog." "I'm also thinking about your husband." "Don't you think I think of him too?" "What do you know about what things are worth?" "Do you think you alone have suffered?" "I am a judge, and I have to decide." "I must choose." "For all." "Sure, but don't choose for me." "I'll choose alone." "Give me your hand." "Come here." "Go!" "What's this?" "What's happening?" "They've come to get him." "You need to take him away." "Go!" "Up!" "Move it!" "Listen, there are at least ten men out there!" "But before I give you back to them, I'll kill you!" "They didn't come here to save me." "They want to kill me." "I don't believe you!" "I don't believe you!" "It's the truth, I swear it!" " They're coming!" " Quick, over there." "Go!" "Put your weapons down." "There are only children here." " What do you want?" " Tell us where the Puppeteer is!" "I don't know who you're talking about..." " Where is he?" " I don't know." " No!" "Stop!" " Go inside, all of you." "Inside!" "So, they came in two." "We know that much." "Why do you say no?" "Speak!" "Do you want to see how your kids are going to end up?" "Hey, do you want to see?" "Look!" "Look!" "Leave the children alone!" "No!" "No!" "Come with me!" "Bernardo!" "No, leave him." "No!" " Stop it!" " Where do you think you're going?" "I told you they wanted to kill me." "I have no other choice." "Walk!" " Let them out!" " Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Here he is, he's all yours." "Now, let those children out of there." "Where have you left Santuzzo?" "We want him as well!" " Dad!" " What are you doing!" "Stop!" "Let me go!" "Trevi!" "Corrado!" "Corrado!" "The children!" "Help me!" "Come here, come with me!" "Come on!" "Bernardo!" "Bernardo!" "Stay there, stay down where there's no fire yet." "Stay close to that side." "All together, stay close." "Be strong... we'll get you out now." " Dad!" " Lorella!" "Come here, I'll help you." "Santuzzo!" "Out, everyone out!" "Everyone out!" "Get on the bus!" "Greta!" "Greta, where are you?" "Silvia!" "Get them out of here, get them in the van!" "Get out!" "Quickly!" "Quickly!" "Trevi!" "Take him!" "Silvia!" "Silvia, I can't find Greta!" "Greta, where are you?" "Greta!" "Greta!" "Sweetheart, my treasure, come here!" "Corrado, I've found her!" "Careful!" "Quick, let's get out of here!" "Run!" "Go Trevi, go!" "Attention all vehicles!" "Attention all vehicles!" "Attention all vehicles!" "Attention all vehicles!" "There seems to be a war going on down there, units are being called from all over." "Even the vehicles from the fourth sector are converging at the spot." "Captain, there's an urgent call..." "A helicopter has been requested in the gas meter area of town." "An exchange of shots between two sides has been reported." " Do we have any other information?" " No, sir" "Call the helipad and get them to direct a helicopter to the zone." " They're right behind us!" " Down!" "Don't move!" "Stay down!" "Don't let him pass!" "Don't get up!" "Stay down!" "Quadri wait!" "I have to speak with Corrado." "There's no time now!" " It's important, please!" " Get in, quickly!" "They're right on our tail!" "I can't get away from them." "There's only one clip left." "Give me your gun!" "It's empty." "Where are the damned police?" "Where the hell are we, in a desert?" "Trevi, I'm going to get you to swing to the left, do it!" "Down children, everyone down!" "Keep your heads down!" "Please, I'm warning you Captain, get it right!" "If this thing stops now, it won't start up again!" "Go, swing to the left, now!" "Hurry!" "We've found them." "It looks like a massacre from here." "We're going down to get a better look." "One of the two cars is in flames." "There are also some children." "OK, let's go." "Come on!" "International Insurance Securities." "International Securities." "Antinari Bank: 13%" "Others: 86% Majority Shareholding: 31%" "Antinari Bank 13%" "International Insurance Securities." "Yes, everything is going smoothly." "No, don't worry about a thing, just keep on selling." "Good." "And don't let go of MEDIAREZ, or else they'll nail us." "Always keep your eyes on BARTON and SELIS." "We'll soon have to start the turnaround scheme." "Yes." "What does the Fair Trading Association think about that?" "In 45 minutes exactly you will start buying up FRESIA, SMAT and PRIMAR." "Where are you taking them now?" "I don't know." "We'll think of a place." "Try and stay calm, we'll organize everything." "You see, it's destiny." "The children's church, I'll never be able to finish it." "It's all your fault, you tried to be the hero, and now look at the chaos you've created!" " Corrado, with you... at times... aigh!" " Calm down, relax." "My leg!" "And you are?" "May we ask your name?" "Silvia Conti, the Judge." "I'm Officer Maurizio Trevi." "First Rank of the Force." "Special Squad." " And you?" " I am Captain Cattani." "Are you aware there's a warrant for your arrest?" "Yes, I know." "And now, tell me what's been going on here, if you please." "OK." "I'll be right there." "But sir, where are you rushing off to?" "Your coffee..." "In regards to coffee, is there a drop for me?" "Why not?" "I've just made it." "Please take a seat." "Thank you." " Here it is, just made." " Ah, good!" " What could have happened?" " How am I supposed to know?" "Around here, there's something new every day." "...and in the end... well, you can figure out the rest." "I really don't know how we even made it here." "I don't know how we got them out alive." "And who is she?" "A girl that gives a hand to Brother Bernardo now and then." "Here they are." "Tell him I'll wait for him out here." "Ester!" "Had a few knocks?" "Why have you come here?" "I've worked out what the names in Tano's diary were." "Do you remember?" "It has to do with the route of a train." "How did you work that out?" "I went to Ascona, a tiny Swiss village near Locarno, to a man called Espinosa." "He sometimes does business with Tano." "Anyway, there on his table, was a map of the train routes..." " What could it be?" " I don't know!" " Perhaps he knows." " Who is he?" "A very important man, one who knows a lot, even about Tano..." "And that woman?" "That is Silvia." "I know, but, do you love her?" "Yes." "I should be happy." "Tano will be arrested soon." "And I'll have what I've always wanted." "But instead, I feel so lonely." " You're important to me." " Important?" "Yes, I care about you." "It's different for me." "From the first time I saw you..." "I don't know... how stupid of me!" " No..." " Yes." "Why haven't you always held me like this?" "Why?" "Off you go now." "That's what is important." "Go!" "I'll wait for you here." "We're talking about a train that is crossing half of Europe." "A train loaded with 500 tons of radioactive waste:" "Poisons, fuels, radioactive agents." "The train of death!" "It's supposed to travel down to Naples, from there, it will be unloaded and then the stuff will be shipped to a small abandoned island called Tirene." "It won't even be stopped at any inspection points." "Nobody is to stop that train, and nobody will stop it!" "It is protected by those high up." " By who?" " By so many." "Are you able to tell us exactly where to find him at this minute?" "Is it in Italy?" "We're off!" " We're coming!" " All right." "Get in." "Quick!" "Now, you have to go, Greta..." "I want to stay with you and Corrado." "We'll come tomorrow." "Right now we have to take care of Bernardo." "Did they hurt him?" "Not greatly." "You'll see tomorrow, he'll come as well." "They'll take you back to Switzerland tomorrow." "They've promised me." "And have you remembered your promise?" "You have to forget that I even exist." "Is that a promise?" "Bye, Lori." "Yes, Judge Conti is fine." "It was she who told me how the events unfolded here." "I'm warning you - your maximum efforts are mandatory." "Exactly." "Yes." "OK, thank you." "I've just invited all magistrates involved in Mafia cases." "We need to keep the affair as secretive as possible." "If that man speaks up without knowing what we have taken, then just maybe this time we can get our hands on the high command." "But, if that helicopter manages to intercept that train in time, then all these efforts will be in vain - they will escape to all corners." "Get me Clipton." "I hear you, go ahead." "I understand." "Yes, I understand." "OK." " What are you doing?" " It's an order from Central." "Have they all gone mad?" "That train has to be stopped!" "It's been decided - we're to keep an eye on it, but not stop it." "International Insurance Securities." "International Insurance Securities." "I've just received the figures from New York." "They're the same as those from Frankfurt." "Just like I thought, the overseas markets will let us do it." "The shares are up all the time, and the brokers are still selling." "Now is the time to come out in the open!" "Buy it all!" "Buy everything that gets offered to you!" "Yes!" "Now!" "Go!" "Get those share prices to double." "At that point BARTON and SELIS will surely get snatched up." "International Securities." "Antinari Bank 25% ...by mid-morning the volume of trading was positively alarming." "Without warning or e xplanation, a massive amount of international capital entered the market causing the share price to crash, creating panic stricken moments for investors and speculators alike." "International Insurance Securities were on the verge of collapse, and this chaos ensued for over an hour, when they were mysteriously rescued." "Again, without explanation, their price increased steadily... causing all the investors to sell off their shares." "But the question remains." "Who is buying?" "Who is putting great amounts of capital at risk in just one day of seemingly crazed trading like this one?" "Talk of price fixing has been on e veryone's lips, that is, illegal speculative maneuvers..." "It's me, I've got the latest news." "The Puppeteer..." "I knew it was you." " You shit!" " What are you saying Giugni?" " I assure you..." " Shut up!" "Bartoli, Tirie, Caria, Salvati, Ceresa, Brocchieri, Lifredi and I..." "These are the names of the Mafia high command in the 1970's." "The ones that decided to accept the trafficking of drugs." "So, to this day, four of the mentioned have been eliminated." "Lifredi, they shot him, while he was sitting at a traffic light, sitting inside his own car." "Those responsible for the killing were my men:" "Sciarra, Corona, Busacca and Ritolo." "On the other hand, Tirie and Caria were done by Santuzzo, who is just over there, and he will confirm it for you." "The last was Brocchieri." "He was poisoned." "The executor, Sciarra." "It sparked a family feud between them... it lasted years." "And the names of the dead?" "If you need them," "I can give them to you, one by one." "Many were buried at sea, in deep waters, roughly a kilometer off the coast of Altavilla." "That is, when they weren't thrown into barrels of acid." "If we didn't want them found by the roadside, that's how and where we'd get rid of them." "There must be at least 200." "Actually the Mafia high command was made up of twelve people, actually eleven... because the one who was supposed to replace me, was my brother, Salvo." "He is dead, at my orders." "Now, can you tell us about the relationships between the Mafia and the political representatives?" " Do you want me to give names?" " Yes." " But, everyone knows these names!" " Please tell me then." "Do you really want to know these names?" "In that case, let's decide which of the two of us will be killed off first, you or I." "You don't have to worry yourself about me." "Just refer to the question." "For example what do you know about Senator Salimbeni?" "He had dealings with us, but only for a short time, not long." "It was Tano Cariddi who put us in touch with him." "Therefore, are you telling us that the banker," "Tano Carridi is part of the Mafia?" "He was never a major player... but he is definitely one of us!" "He belongs to us!" "It was we who put him at the helm of the bank." "We made him grow, until he has become what he is today." "We were the ones to give 500 billion in liquid assets, with which today, perhaps at this very moment, he is buying on our behalf a majority stake in the" "International Insurance Securities Group." "It's almost 2:00 p.m., this means that..." "He's already done it!" "Antinari Bank 27%" "Antinari Bank 31%" "International Insurance Securities Market share 31%" "International Insurance Securities Antinari Bank 31%" "Right at this very moment, as you can see, Gaetano Cariddi is leaving his office at Antinari Bank after a day of e xtraordinary achie vement on the financial markets today." "Journalists and photographers are scrambling around, hoping to get closer." "Let's hope we can hear his comments live." "Will this change the political makeup of the group?" "Do you feel satisfied with your triumph or are you considering crossing over in the future?" "Mr. Cariddi, will you be making a statement?" "What will your ne xt move be now that you are the leading stakeholder of the International Insurance Securities Group?" "Can you tell us just one thing:" "Are you a happy man today?" "Yes." "Tell me, didn't you have a graduation today?" "My God!" "I completely forgot!" "Mind what you say, or you'll never get out of prison!" "Come on!" "Yes, it's me." "I'm here." "No, nothing." "All is fine." "The Puppeteer is dead." "That was Milan." "The old man has left us." "Throughout this story, there is still another person, a very important person," "perhaps the most important of all!" "He was the one who gave us the opportunity to do a hositle takeover of the International Securities Group." "He was the one who set up the train deal." "His name is..." "Antonio Espinosa." "I don't know this Espinosa character." "I don't even know the Senator Salimbeni, but..." "I do know they are the two faces of a witch's medal:" "On one side there is a snake, which is cleverly masked in the grass," "on the other side there is the falcon... you can see the falcon, but you'll never be able to capture it because it flies so high, it's too far up." "Is there someone who can confirm this statement?" "Santuzzo Salieri." "He's the only one who has remained loyal to me, loyal to the end." "He refuses to open his mouth." "Bring him here." "It's all over, Santuzzo." "You can speak up now." "There, now you know everything." "It was Ester Rasi who first mentioned the train and Espinosa." "Where is Espinosa now?" "Just outside our borders in Switzerland." "And Ester?" "With all that's happened I've lost track of her." "I'm afraid she may have gone back to Tano's house." "I don't want her to be there." "I'd like to go and bring her back, perhaps with Trevi..." "No, for the time being, Captain, you're not going anywhere." " I really must go!" " No!" "We are preparing all kinds of warrants for arrest in that area!" "The police squads are trying to coordinate the arrests simultaneously, and if you turn up, you'll jeopardize the entire operation." "But, there is one thing you can do." "Please, tell me..." "You must bring someone back here... but without arresting that person." "Come in." "What's this farce about?" "Good evening Senator." "Do you remember me?" "Cattani." "What are you doing here?" "What do you want?" "We'll let these gentlemen wait for us in the other room." " But that's not right!" " Trevi..." "Naturally, they won't be able to receive or make any calls or receive any visitors." "Captain, you need to fill me in on all the details..." "You know Senator, it seems that money stolen from citizens in the form of kickbacks and other corruption, is equal to a crime against the State." "Over 100 billion lire in the last few years." "Pretty impressive isn't it?" "If it weren't for people like you... we could wipe out our national debt." "This time Cattani, you've really gone too far!" " I am..." " Spare us the wisecracks, it's useless." "There's no one left to fool." "You're... you're mad!" "Look here Senator, I won't lay a finger on you," "I won't even reach for you... even though I'd like to smash your face to pieces." "I'm just asking that you come with me, to the Prosecutor's Office, where someone wants to interrogate you." "I ask this favor of you." "Please, sir." "This way, please." "He's here." "Come in Senator, please have a seat." "Thank you so much for accepting our invitation." "And also many thanks to you, Captain Cattani." "Wth the powers invested in me by the Italian public, and the Parliamentary Commission assembled here in front of me, and in consideration of new elements that have come to light in the last few hours, and with the highest regard for the judicial process" "in this current inquiry," "I uphold the request of Prosecutor Falisci to arrange for your immediate transfer to Milan for an extraordinary judicial session." "We are to hear your reply, Senator." "And so to Gaetano Carridi, the mastermind behind this e xtraordinary financial feat, who had challenged all economic rules, which had seemed an unpenetrable fortress until now, has fallen." "The International Insurance Securities Group which is the cornerstone of the Italian stock market, passed to his hands through an amazing stock trading maneuver that will probably go down in the annals of history." "With this victory, Tano Carridi will secure his position as head of this financial group which until now has been without a leader." "A group for which their past president, Fillipo Rasi had fought long and hard." "Have you heard the news?" "Well done, Tano." "Bravo!" "My compliments!" "An extraordinary financial feat!" "An incredible stock exchange maneuver!" "Well done!" "I don't like being made fun of, you know that." "Is that so, well, and that's all I've been doing lately... and who would have known you don't like it?" "What's happening to you?" " Are you drunk?" " No!" "I am lucid!" "I am lucid and I always have been!" "I've learned it all from you." "You've taught me how to kill without allowing people to shout." "Strength is not enough is it?" "As long as there are threats and blackmail." "That's how it was with my father wasn't it?" "Perhaps you should have done the same with me, prevented me from thinking too much!" "You should have had me live in terror, like all the others!" "But instead, you fell in love with me!" "Wth me, of all people!" "I've hated you like I've hated no other!" " It's not true!" " Oh yes, its so true... and if you want to hear the truth, making love with you disgusted me!" "Having to sleep next to you and waking up next to you, having to smile sweetly and to touch you, it made me sick!" "It was all repulsive!" "You know, I have always betrayed you!" "Always!" "I don't believe it." "It's not true!" "I spied on you, stole from your pockets, even killed another." "And do you want to know who was receiving all this information?" "Enough!" "You couldn't have been doing this!" "It's not true!" "To Corrado!" "To Captain Cattani!" " Tell me it's not true!" " Yes, it is!" "Tell me it's not true!" "He knows everything!" "You may have won today but tomorrow you'll go back to the way you've always been." "A pathetic, vulgar loser like so many others." "A nothing, a nobody!" " What's up?" " Let's go and get Ester..." " But Falisci said that..." " Fine." "I'll go alone." "Wait." "This is the train." "It has just passed through." "You wait here." "Yes." "Speaking, it's me." "No, it hasn't gone to plan, there have been some problems." "What happened?" "Answer me!" "Tell me, tell me now!" "I am burning everything..." "Yes, everything." "You should do the same, Espinosa!" "Fire is such a beautiful thing!" "You've arrived." "I was expecting you." "Where's Ester?" "She wanted to come to you," "but I couldn't give her to you." "You understand don't you?" "You've already taken Greta, the bank, everything..." "What do you want with her?" " Where is she?" " Shhh... she's sleeping." "It's taken such a long time to find some peace..." "Ester!" "Ester!" "I had to do it." "She wanted to go, to leave." "She also wanted out, just like the others." "This way she won't leave anymore." "We'll always remain here, in this enormous house," "just us two together, forever..." "She was only 20 years old!" "Captain!" "No, Captain!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Leave him!" "Let go!" "20 years old!" "Passport, please." "Here it is." " Go through." " Thank you." "This is also going." "Unfortunately, as you can see, Captain, I'm leaving." "I shouldn't, but I'll allow you to have... ten minutes." "You may consider it a privilege." "So many who seek me out only get a mere five minutes." "But your determination deserves a medal." "Are you armed by any chance?" "I've been told by some that you are a crusader against evil... that you like to fight against the dragon..." "But, forgive me Captain, in that case, if I am the evil one, did you think you could defeat me with this pistol?" "Come on!" "Look!" "Look at these treasures!" "Does it seem to you the house of a villain?" "I'm a collector, and that there," "that is my most prized collection." "It is a collection of souls." "Here we are, inside here there's an important investor," "and here is a public official... and this is one of the most successful European bankers, and another is a government minister." "I collect... their hidden disease, their rot, their secrets." "To blackmail them." "Blackmail?" "No, Captain, blackmail doesn't exist in our world." "Only contracts exist for the exchange of commodities like these items of secret information." "For democracy to exist there needs to be corruption it's as necessary as lubricant in an engine." "A little nauseating and dirty, but nonetheless, you can't do without it." "But now your deal has fallen through." "What does that mean?" "Let me furnish you with some information..." "Tano Cariddi has been arrested," "Senator Salimbeni is answering to Parliament, and the International Insurance Securities Group takeover failed." "Soon your train, too, will be stopped." "You've lost, Espinosa." "Is that all?" "I believe so, and I think that should be enough." "So, you've managed to put a spoke in the wheel." "Well done." "My compliments." "But... you've got it all wrong." "Yes, you're quite wrong, Captain." "I haven't lost at all." "And do you want to know why?" "...because the ones that really command and decide are on my side." "That train was just the first of many trains to come." "There will be others, because the whole world agrees." "Yes, the whole world!" "This business is necessary, for many of the world's governments..." "We will carry on with it, whether the rest of you like it or not!" "We?" "Who is this we?" "We who command." "Those of us who are in control." "We're even above the law that you champion." "You know Captain, men like me are a lot like... artists who know how to create masterpieces by coming various materials." "Using diamonds with clay, gold with copper, and grey stone with the colors of a palette." "Do you follow?" "My only concern is to bring together high finance, crime and political power." "All together!" "This is power." "Your time is over, Captain." "This time it's really over!" "In every sense of the word." "Are you going to have me killed?" "No." "Not now." "And not here." " And no, not me." " Who, then?" "By the force of our institution." "You're an intelligent man, Captain." "You understand, don't you?" "You've learned too much." "It's the end of the line for you." "I can't let you take another step." "Espinosa!" "Remember this, wherever you go, I will follow you." "I'll be there as far as I can go!" "Goodbye, Captain... and my compliments to your valor." " What's happened now?" " Nothing." "It was I who asked that you come here." "Before you leave, I'd like you to meet somebody." "It's a man who's not very well..." "and who was a friend of your father's." "He even held you on his knee, once upon a time." "His name is Salvatore Frolo, but everyone called him Acidduzzu." " Acidduzzu?" " Yes." "It means "little bird."" "Come on." "You see, I held my promise." "I brought her to you." "Look how beautiful she is." "He's unable to move." "He can't even speak, but he wanted to see you." "He has good eyes." "Let's go." "Come on." "Poor little bird!" "I remember one of my teachers told us about the North Star." "If I remember correctly, it was in May, and I... that night, instead of sleeping" "I crept so quietly and slowly... up to the attic, over some stairs and arrived on the little terrace." "I could still hear the teacher's words," ""Look for the..." "Little Bear lying between Cepheus, the Dragon, and the Big Bear." "And then climb up, up, up until you reach the helm of the ship, and there, up there you'll see the North Star." "It's fixed up there." "It has guided many a sailor for centuries and centuries."" "That night in the sky... there were billions of stars, and I felt so, so lost..." "so small and confused." "I was only eight years old." "Where was Pegasus?" "Orion?" "The Pleiades?" "Where was the Bear?" "I thought... how am I supposed to find something so small, yet so important?" "All by myself?" "How does one do it?" "We won't see each other for a while." "I have to go." "I must." "Here I am." "We interrupt this program for breaking news regarding a terrible tragedy." "At 7:30 a.m. This morning" "Captain Corrado Cattani was brutally assassinated." "The ambush occurred in a courtyard of the Hospital Maggiore of Milan, and lasted only seconds." "In a coordinated attack, the assassins fired a storm of shots that left his body riddled with more than 70 bullets." "Unfortunately, Cattani, who in the hours beforehand, had just finished giving his testimony at the trial against the high command of the Mafia, was disarmed this morning, and at his request unescorted." "You have said, and you have written, that he was an irresponsible man, a pathetic man," "that he lived detached from the real world," "Yes, in truth, that's exactly how he was." "You said that he didn't respect the rules, that he was headstrong, that he never looked back." "Ridiculous isn't it?" "Furthermore, he was ambitious and wanted to accomplish so much." "Well, look where he got to!" "Write it, tell it as it is!" "And now, go, all of you!" "Go away!" "I swear to you Corrado, I swear." "I won't leave a stone unturned, not until I have found them... found them all!" "THE END"