"BETWEEN YOUR LEGS" "Dad's here!" "Dad!" " How's my favorite girl?" " About to go to bed." " Did you bring me a present?" " Of course." "It's lovely, Dad!" "Look, Luisa!" "He's going to sleep with me!" "Your bed's like a zoo as it is." " We were expecting you tomorrow." " The meeting was cancelled." " Did my wife call?" " Yes." "She'll be back late." "C'mon, missy." " Bedtime." " Give me a kiss." "See you tomorrow, Dad!" "I'm sorry, I'll gather up my things now." "There's no rush." "Have you eaten?" "I hate airplane food." "I'm going to fix something." "I could make enough for two." "If you don't mind." "I took a bath with the child." "That's all right." "I hadn't planned on sleeping over." "This must be yours." "Thanks." "How do you like your meat?" "Well done or rare?" "Very rare." "Don't hurt her!" "Don't hurt her!" "Stop it!" "Stop!" "At times, life offers very cruel solutions to make one aware of one's reality." "They gave me 14 stitches and I left home forever." "wife called all my patients one by one and managed to get more than half to stop visiting me." "The child hasn't spoken to me since then." "It's difficult to find one person in this world who doesn't have sexual problems." "But most people don't suffer pain or anxiety because of them." "Nor are they troubled 24 hours a day like we are." "If we're here, it's because we've tried to change our behavior and couldn't." "And after many doubts and endless attempts, we're scared by the amount of energy we devote to our addiction." "By how we steal time from work, from our family, from our social life." "The Association of Sex Addicts Anonymous doesn't guarantee results." "I'm saying that because I don't want anyone expecting miracles." "We aren't a religious association." "We don't accept money." "We aren't connected to any sect or any scientific, medical or cultural institution." "We are just a group of citizens gathered together for one end." "To regain control of our sexuality." "That's why it's important that each of us accepts he's ill and needs help." "They are, of course, absolutely confidential, so don't worry." "And the advantage we sex addicts have is you can't see it in our faces." "I must warn you that we don't admit thrill seekers or exhibitionists." "All we're interested in is getting back to our old selves." "Nothing else." "Well, take all the time you need to fill in the forms." "I'm sorry, I have to leave." "Do you think "true love" will help you to be free of "lust", give up masturbation or stop being so promiscuous?" "Do you have a destructive or sexual need..." "This hasn't happened since I was a kid." "Lately, my socks keep falling down." "Do you turn to sex..." "A. To escape from reality." "B. To ease your anxiety." "C. Or simply because you can't help it." ""To escape from reality." "Because you can't help it. "" "It all began eight months ago, on July 14." "Look, I'm in a hurry." "The plane leaves at 12.30." "Don't worry, you won't miss it." "The airport will respect the 10 minutes silence too." "Can't you see everyone's future is at stake?" "Don't think I'm not very sorry for that boy." "In America, they sort this out in no time." "The gas chamber or an injection." "After 48 hours of unbearable anguish, ETA has assassinated a29 year old man." "He was the latest victim of terrorism." "And at present, the whole country is preparing to keep ten minutes of silence in his memory, determined not to tolerate that things continue like this." "There is a unanimous cry in all our minds." "Stop!" "Madrid has come to a standstill." "Big cities like Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Seville are sharing in this family's sorrow and asking why." "You go crazy stuck in here all day." "I work sixteen hours a day." "So if a woman gives you the come-on, what do you do?" "Did you ask to be born with a dick between your legs?" "Neither did I." "I'm not going to mouth off that I dip it every week, but one day a pretty girl stops you, she gets in." "She's wearing a perfume that drives you crazy." "A few glances in the mirror." "You turn off the radio, she starts talking, she rubs her stockings." "No condom, and you're fucked for good." "I didn't give it to my wife, but it was a miracle." "Can you imagine, with two kids?" "K]now what I mean?" "My Juani threw me out and she was right." "But I love her." "That's why I pray a lot." "CHARACTER:" "TAXI DRIVER..." "I want God to know I'm a good man who had a weak moment." "Look, you'll make it." "Your flight left 5 minutes ago." "I could get you on a flight for Prague in two hours time." "You could rent a car there and drive to Munich." "If that's all there is, yes." "I hate these things." "Great timing." "The battery's dead." "Use this." "I've never missed a plane before." "Have you?" "My husband's picking me up." "We can give you a lift." "Thanks, but I think I'll take a walk around Prague." "You say Prague and your eyes light up." "Yes, it's a city I love, especially at night." "There's a little hotel, near the bridge." "The Three Ostriches." "I'm going there." "It's awful about that boy, isn't it?" "What boy?" "The one they killed." "I know nothing about it." "I don't watch television or read the newspapers." "Everything horrifies me." "I'm odd, I know." "My name's Javier." "The name on my I.D. is Azucena." "But it might be Almudena." "It's a complicated story." "Want to hear it?" "Yes." "I was born one of triplets, but after two days, I was different from the others." "We were like day and night." "If they were like dolls, I was like a chimpanzee." "We grew, and so did the difference." "I was much taller and my feet were enormous." "We were only ten when my mother, a translator, fell in love with a German woman and abandoned us." "Dad, helpless in that situation, divided us up among the families of his closest friends." "Margarita went to Cordoba." "Violeta was educated in Madrid." "And I went to the Fabras in Andorra." "Narcis Fabra's official job was estate management, but his real source of income was smuggling." " And if it were a lie?" " What?" " What I'm telling you." " I don't understand." "There are women who'd invent anything to seem interesting." "And men too, I suppose." "I don't know." "I decided long ago not to waste time finding out about them." "It doesn't matter if it's a lie." "Carry on." "Someone's got a huge erection." "What?" "The waiter." "Because of the blonde." "Every time he serves her, she rubs her knee against him." "I feel ridiculous telling you my life." "But you can't leave me hanging on." "When Franco died, the rich people here wanted to get their money out." "Fabra made a lot, helping them transfer it to Switzerland, via Andorra." "To prevent the Spanish police infiltrating from the set-up, he hired a detective." "I was sixteen." "And I fell in love with him." "But at the beginning he avoided me." "He was scared because I was under age." "I needed some bait to hook him." "I showed him recent photos of my sisters, and told him my suspicions." "I told him that I was convinced that I was someone else and the life that I was living wasn't really mine." "I must go to the bathroom." "To inject myself." "Don't be scared." "I'm a diabetic." "And don't worry." "I don't want you to miss the end of my story." "What's your mobile number?" "909 006046." "But your battery's dead." "People used to use "Have you got a light?"" "Now it's "My battery's dead"." "The thing is, he was anxious to fuck me as I was to be fucked, and he started investigating." "He went to Barcelona and called me to say he had to see me for he'd made an important discovery." "I used a school trip as my excuse for going away." "I changed my clothes in the taxi I took to meet him." "I put on high heels, a short skirt and stockings." "I wet my panties a few times out of sheer excitement." "We met in a cemetery." "My skirt slipped between my legs." "It tickled me." "I felt as if I were walking naked among the dead." "He pointed to a gravestone." "What I saw chilled my blood." "It was a girl identical to my sisters." "Under the photo, her name:" "Almudena." "And her date of birth, which was also mine." "He said that, on that same day, triplets and twins were born." "Some nurse got confused and mixed us up." " Still there?" " Yes." "Wait a minute." "I have to inject myself." "Azucena." "Eccentric." "Diabetic." " Pricktease..." " That's it." "Something's missing." "I could only tell you that if you shared something very intimate with me too." "A story about me?" "Yes." "Something that you've never told anyone." "All right." "But by telephone..." "I'm not moving from here." "All right." "It might be a good idea if you went to the bathroom too." "You've never done this before, have you?" "Done what?" "Opened Pandora's box." "I'd just arrived in Madrid, I was 25, and had two scripts which no producer was interested in." "I had lodgings I could barely afford." "And from my room I could hear over a hundred couples fucking next door." "One day the girl from the next room came in." "A very young hooker who'd become my friend." "She knew I was broke and she made a business proposal." "She was expecting a very kinky client who'd been promised an orgy, but her partner had let her down." "Anyway, I just had to strip off, dance with them, and, when I was told to, piss on top of him." "In return, they'd pay three weeks rent for me." "I followed her advice and drank four pints of water just to be sure." "We undressed." "The client put his arms around both of us." "Judith kept dancing and pulled my shorts down to my knees." "Then she got astride him." "I lay down on the bed so as not to move too much." "My bladder was about to burst." ""Have you ever been arrested for a crime involving sex?"" ""Once. "" "K]eep it." "Thank you." "Never." "You've just taken a very important step." "It's probably the first time you've answered something that's been torturing you for a long time." "But first you have to acknowledge your problem aloud." "I want you, one by one, to repeat:" "I'm sick." "I'm a sex addict." "I need help." "Any volunteers?" "I'm sick, I'm a sex addict and I need help." "I'm sick, I'm a sex addict and I need help." "Where can I get information?" " About what?" " The accident." "What accident?" " My fiancee was on that plane!" "What plane?" "Where are you going?" "You and I can't talk." " Why not?" " Because we're dead." "Our plane crashed." "There were no survivors." "Did you call your wife to say you missed the plane?" "You son of a bitch!" "How could you do this to me, you son of a bitch?" " Selfish bastard!" " Lola..." "Please, forgive me." "I knew nothing about it." "I was asleep until a minute ago." "I swear it." "I'm sick." "I'm a sex addict." "I need help." "I need help." "I'm sick." "I'm a sex addict." "I'm sick, I'm a sex addict and I need help." "Well!" "Hello" "I was here with..." "I'm going to the bar." "May I join you?" "If you're meeting..." "No!" "Well, then?" "I'll be eating." "We could eat together." "I'm in a hurry." "I start work on the radio in an hour." "Talk show host?" "No, I answer the telephone." "The telephone." "One of those programs where people with nothing to do phone in." "Yeah." " I don't want to be rude but..." " No, no." "I know what you mean, but the thing is sooner or later we'll have to get to know each other, unless..." "You've thought too of not going back tomorrow?" "Well, if you want, we can have dinner together." "On one condition." "We won't talk about sex." "If we order two cheeseburgers, we get extra french fries." "Have you tasted ostrich meat?" "Yes, but it makes me a bit sad." "Why's that?" "It reminds me of the ostriches in Walt Disney's "Fantasia"." "I hate that film." "So do I." "When you eat duck, do you think of Donald Duck?" "It's only natural that we're embarrassed." "When two people meet, after a very long time, and if he's lucky, one discovers that the other has an unspeakable secret." "We started at the end." "I do it over the phone." "I do it in the mornings." "I deserve it." "I always talk too much." "When you were in the therapy and you said that about "I'm sick", did you mean it?" "Hello." "Don't you remember me?" "No." "The guy with the cocker." "No, I'm sorry." "In Berlin Park." "You must remember." "I don't know what you mean." "I waited for you the next day, and the next, and the next." "She doesn't know you." "Can you take our order?" "We're in a hurry." "Yes." " What'll you have?" " Well..." "The salad with strawberries..." " ... and celery." " Salad for me too, and some water." "Do you remember this?" "You couldn't forget this!" "Let go!" "Leave me alone!" "I've got a really cute dog." "Domingo." "But he's more like an actor than a dog." "I walk him every morning at ten o'clock." "You wouldn't believe how many men walk their dogs at that time." "All different, but all with one thing in common." "You do that, and they don't care about the dog, the time, or the place." "There's a Chinese man who sells sandwiches outside the radio." "Thanks a lot." "You want ham?" " I'll have ham." "What do you do?" " I'm a scriptwriter." " Are you serious?" " I seriously try." "For the movies?" " Yes." " I go to lots." "Maybe I've seen one of yours." " They're very funny." " Thank you." "But it's odd." " How do you mean?" " You seem so serious." "We're running late." "We're on the air in two minutes." "Javier, these are my fellow workers, but they're all crazy." "Hello." "I've brought something to warm you up." "Where did you find him?" "Is he free if you send in 50 coffee jar labels?" "69." "Hello." "Yes, good evening." "It's the grand fuck in 90 seconds, guys!" "You're disgusting!" "Horacio, I've got a good one." " Can we start with it?" " Maybe." "He's called Agustin, and his wife's taken up with the father." "Her father?" "No, with her father-in-law." "Five seconds, four, three,..." "Signature tune." "You aren't asleep." "Maybe you can't." "Maybe you don't want to." "If you won't go out because it's raining and you don't want to get your clothes wet, bare yourself in front of the telephone and call us." "Have you thought what would become of you and me if words didn't exist?" "How long have you known her?" "Just a minute." "You won't report it?" "Since when has he made you do it?" "Wait a minute." "SEXUAL ABUSE" "Hold on, Maribel." "I'll put you through." "No, we don't do horoscopes." "Yes, I'll tell him." "Have you got the results?" "LEUK]EMIA" "Have you seen another doctor?" "Just a moment, please." "You're 16?" "And when did you discover you liked men?" "Just a minute." "TORMENTED GAY" "No, ma'am." "Take my word." "Swallowing semen is dangerous." "Yes, good evening." "From Bilbao?" "But your wife?" " Coffee for everyone?" " Liters of it." "It's the only way to put up with people's hassles." "Can I have your autograph?" "It's you, isn't it?" "Come on, don't be shy." "I never judge people, and I never forget a voice." "I hear a voice and I've got it for good." "You heard me being interviewed on the radio." "I heard you on the tapes." "What tapes?" "I've heard all of them." "Or maybe not." "There are so many and they're so hard to get.." "You must be making a load from that nonsense." "K]now how much they asked for the last one?" "A hundred bucks, man." "They get me so fucking horny." "I don't get it." "All right, I get the message." "My motto is live and let live." "But give me a signature." "MOBILE SEX" "Hey, who had the great idea of the plane that crashed?" "Your stories drive me crazy." "So does telling you mine." "But I need to see you, I'm dying to eat your pussy." " There was a waiting list." " What?" "There were only two free seats left." "Ours." "Two people took them, and died instead of us." "They were called Azucena and Javier, like us." " We're going to do it now." " I'm in a meeting." "I can't wait, bastard!" "I can wait for an order from the store, or for my mother." "Get ready, slut." "My wife's left me." " That's a good start." " Bitch!" " You're doing better." " You ruined my life!" "The program's ending." "Can I have the tape back?" "Where did you get this?" "You know The Cock?" "Pancho?" "No, he isn't here yet." "He usually comes in at 1 o'clock." "Is there any message?" "Is anything wrong?" "No." "No, there isn't." "You're here, but you're not." "Well..." "I'll get that taxi." "Taxi!" "Are you free?" " Where are you going?" " To Legazpi." "Get in." " I'll take you home." " No, I'd rather..." "Really, I will." "My car's in the parking lot." " Get in." " Look..." "I don't want anything between us." "Neither do I." "What's it to be, ma'am?" "I don't like the taxi driver." "Please, come with me." "Got a cigarette?" "Would you mind holding me?" "I'm very lonely." "I'm so lonely." "I've never been as lonely as I am now." "Forgive me." "Don't worry." "First it was my turn." "Now it's yours." "We were behaving like two psychopaths." "Want to tell me about it?" "Do you want to hear it?" "Yes." "All of it?" "As much as you can tell from here to my front door." "There must be dozens of tapes circulating." "Hundreds." "All my fantasies available for everyone." "And I have a horrible feeling." "Like I'd been raped." "You wouldn't be so together." "You're right." "My problem is I can't stand reality." "I need stories." " That's why I hooked up with her." " She must have told you good ones." "And how." "I like your haircut." " Are you sure it was this floor?" " Yes." "Tell me one." "One what?" "A story." "Hers?" "No, yours." "I'd better not." "As you wish." "We'd get excited." "We'd what?" "We'd get excited, you said?" "you been thinking..." " ... that I..." " Me?" "All I said..." "The last time I got excited was so long ago I can't remember." "The men I pick up on the street don't excite me in the least." "You don't have to explain." " Look, where's your car?" " It must be here." "It's a Volvo." "I don't understand brand names!" "Tell me if it's black, white, or whatever!" "It's big, family-sized, and it's green." "I need an analgesic." "I have to go home." "All right." "I'll tell you a story." "Where are you going?" "You need the keys to get into the house!" "I'm sorry, but I've got no idea where the car is." "Speak to me." " Speak to me." " You speak to me." " Are your eyes closed?" " No." "Don't do anything without a condom." "I can do lots of things without it!" " You want to go more slower?" " I can't talk, I get distracted." "No, it's much more exciting to say what you're thinking." "Talk to me." "Talk to me." "The antibiotic!" "What?" "I have to give it to my daughter." "What do you mean?" "Like it or not, we're both sick." "I should have taken that taxi." "Felix!" "Why aren't you in bed?" "It's after four o'clock." "What's wrong?" "You fell asleep with your lenses in." "Fuck!" "That's very dangerous." "You can get a detached retina." "I'll give the child her medicine." "I've got ten days vacation." "I didn't know that." "I'll take the child skiing." "If she gets better, that is." "Her temperature's down." " Then we'll go on Sunday." "Why didn't you tell me?" " I did." " Well, I didn't hear you." "It doesn't matter." "We never have the same plans." " Where's the antibiotic?" " They're really stuck." " Where's Domingo?" " Sleeping, I suppose." "He always comes to greet me." "He smells me from the door." "Domingo..." "Here, boy!" "Domingo!" "Will you give me some drops?" " What did you do to him?" " What?" " What did you do to Domingo?" " Nothing." " He's dead, in the kitchen." " Don't talk shit!" "He's still breathing." "Get the vet's card." "It's stuck on the fridge door." "On the fridge door!" "Did you hear?" "Yes." " Good evening, Mr. Orilla." " Hello." "Has Pancho arrived?" "Yes." "He may be in the bathroom." "Thank you." "Javier!" "I'm surprised to see you." "The last time, you said you'd never come back." " How are you?" " Hello." "Well, the triumphant couple of the moment!" "When's the next big hit?" " We're getting inspired." "If you need another partner, you know my number." "You're first on the list." "If he could stab us in the back, he would." " Are you with anyone?" " No." "Are you?" "We have to talk, but not here." "Are you with Lola?" "Yes." "Are you really telling me you're with my wife?" "This is a delicate subject." "I don't think this is..." "Come here." "How long's it been?" "Look, I'll tell her to go home." "Whose home?" " Does that matter?" " Of course it does, Claudio." "Everything matters!" "Or maybe not!" "A meteorite might kill us all tomorrow!" "I'll get her a taxi and we'll go to the office." "Have you the keys?" "You're a fucking creep!" "Javier, be careful, I'll hurt you!" "You'll be sorry!" "God, how disgusting!" "Fucking hell!" "Look at my shirt!" "My tie, my fucking shoes!" " I have to write this scene!" " Yeah, sure." "Get a pencil and paper." "I'd rather you'd broken my nose." "It's occupied." "We didn't want to come out." ""I won't go out until I speak with Javier. " She said that a thousand times." "I wanted to tell you." "I told Lola." "I said I felt lousy every time I saw you." "For God's sake, our offices are next to each other." "We didn't want to cheat on you." "We just met in a shop, had a coffee and started talking about you." "We were very worried about you." "You'll admit that recently you've been very odd." "Look." "Both from Loewe." "A fortune." "Lend me your shirt." "I'm alone, Claudio." "I live in a hotel with two suitcases and a computer." "Claudio?" "Yes." "Anything wrong?" "No, I'll going out now." "I stained my shirt." "How did you do..." "It's nothing." "Javier had a stomach problem." "Lola!" "Let go of me!" "Lola!" "I hate scenes, Javier." "Please, leave me alone." "I just need to know why." "Why?" "I think you're the one who has to answer questions." "I heard the tapes." "They're disgusting." "I'm sorry." "I'm even sorrier that I can't help you because I'm your wife but I don't know who you are." "Shit!" "Ernest Hemingway in person!" " I hear you're looking for me." " Yes." "You and I have to talk about some tapes." "Yes?" " Azucena?" " Azucena." "It's for you." "Who is it?" "Guess who." "Hello." "Hello." "That's why I never wanted pets." "You suffer too much." "Do you mind?" "We're in the bar across the street." "Give me a kiss." "Get some cigarettes." "All right." "I hope it's not serious." "Good evening." "You have to do me this favor." "I really can't, Jareno." "The boss gave me one day's leave and I need at least three." "I promised my daughter I'd take her skiing." "Anyway, I doubt if going after her will help you." "All that shows is how weak you are." "Her lover died in the crash and Carola had a leg amputated." "If I don't go, I'll lose her forever." "I'll shoot myself." "What if she tells you to leave?" "She needs me now." "She didn't need you when she went off with someone else." "She's alone!" "Did she ask for help?" "She can't be on her own." "I won't let her rot in that hospital." "With all the good women there are around, women who could make you happy." "I found the woman who makes me happy." "She's in Melilla, waiting for me." " What do I owe?" " For Saturday!" "Lottery ticket?" "I'll bring you luck." "It ends in 21." "The day we got married." "You see?" " I don't see anything." " It's a sign." "They send us signs all the time, but we don't want to see them." "Who sends us signs?" " I'll have one." " Now I have to buy one." "Two." "I'll do it on one condition." "Take mine too." "From that day, I spent more time with whores than with my family." "And obviously, my money was soon gone." "I had to sell the business for nothing." "A business that had withstood every crisis." "Sleep well?" "I never closed my eyes." "Neither did I." "Did you find the car?" "Yes." "My children and grandchildren are ashamed of me." "I live alone in a boarding house." "I work at what I can, bits and pieces, running errands." "And when I get some money, I go back to the club." "They always welcome me with open arms." "I don't know why, but I was aroused." "And not because I suddenly realized I liked men." "What really aroused me was that it was my girlfriend's brother." "And that we were in his room and all the family were in the house and could have caught us." "In fairness, I must say that he didn't seduce me." "But he didn't refuse either." "But it was I who fucked him." "In eight minutes, my brilliant future was blown apart." "There was no wedding, but I'd no regrets." "I wouldd discovered a new pleasure and I became what I jokingly called a sexual terrorist." "The first time was in the local butcher shop." "I'd forgotten the minced meat for the dog." "The butcher was getting married the next day and he was closing up." "He asked my advice." "He had his suit in the backroom but he had two different ties." "One very plain, the other horrible." "I chose the first one." "He asked me to help him do the knot on the tie." "I saw the danger, but I wasn't scared." "In fact, I concentrated." "And when I was on the second knot, he started to fondle my ass under my skirt." "I reacted by pulling harder than necessary for he had a very powerful neck." "And also I realized that he liked that pressure." "Everything smelt of meat." "The shop, the suit." "Him." "He fucked me three times, in succession, and without getting from me a no or a yes, or even a moan." "Nothing he could take with him to Cancun on his honeymoon." "I've never seen a man so sad and so repentant." "I liked seeing him like that." "So much so, that I keep looking for that in every man I meet." "At first, it gave me pleasure." "But not anymore." "Suddenly it didn't." "The problem is I don't know if I can change." "Every morning I say that I won't go to the park to walk the dog." "But even as I say it, I'm fixing the leash to his collar." "I can't help it." "Didn't I give it to you?" "No, because if you'd given it to me I'd have put it in my glasses case, like always." " Go on, open the car." " Why?" "Maybe you left the ticket inside." "Look under the mat." "Remember when you thought you'd lost your Visa card." "Here it is." "Listen." "What?" "Come here." "There's something inside." " Where?" " In that car!" "It's probably a rat, or a cat." "What if it's a bomb?" "Begona, don't go all dramatic." "Get in the car." "I can't hear anything." "Well, we heard something." "Go on, tell him." "Yes, there was something." "How long has that car been there?" "I've been in the firm over a year and it was always there." "Why not call the bomb disposal unit?" "Look, ma'am." "If we call them and there's nothing, we all look ridiculous." "There may be something there or not, but no one will make me feel ridiculous for being a responsible citizen." "Fuck what they think." "But for 170,000 pesetas a month I'm not risking my life." " Where are you going?" " K]eep away!" " It might be dangerous!" " Manuel, where are you going?" "Where I fucking want to!" "I'm hungry, I want to eat." "I hate car parks!" "I swear, tomorrow I'm selling the car." "Manuel!" "There's a man in here." "His head's covered in blood." "He looks dead." "I'm working." "What do you want?" "They're still bitching at you." "I said I didn't want to see you again and..." "We're going on a trip, Juani." " You're crazy." " No!" "We're going to Paris." "You, me and the kids." "To Eurodisney." "I've got the money here for the tickets." "Where did you get this from?" "That doesn't matter." "Why doesn't it matter?" "I'm going to die." "But my kids will have a memory of me they won't forget." "Did you steal it?" "I can't steal." "Look, I'm very busy..." "This is moving fast, Juani." "Fucking fast." "The salon's got more time than I have." "Have you seen your nails?" "A body." "Naked, with its head crushed, in the boot of an trunk car." "Looks like someone was settling a score." "Has the body been identified?" "Not yet." "Go to the morgue and start the investigation." "Very well." "Who are you taking?" "Anastasio and Rojas." "Anastasio?" "He drives well." "Felix." "When you hear from that idiot Jareno, let me know." "I hope he gets sorted out." "Good evening." "Don't be in such a hurry." "To be honest, I feel a bit embarrassed with you." " So do I, but I think..." " We can only meet in the group." "It's a pity." "Why is it a pity?" "We have everything in our favor for an honest relationship." "What kind of relationship?" "Let's eliminate possibilities." " We don't want to be lovers." " No, I've got no lovers." " Friends?" " With our track record?" "That would be hard." "We'll be confidants." "All right." "But we're not a couple of kindred spirits." "No!" "That's horrible!" "My first impression is that he was struck with a sharp object." "Both blows seriously affected the corresponding lobes and also the cerebellum." "This produced an immediate loss of balance, muscular coordination, vision and perception." "In a few words, he seemed dead but he hadn't died." "I'd say the poor man was alive for ten or twelve hours in the boot of that car before he died." "Maybe tomorrow we'll hit the jackpot with the prints." "I vote crime of passion." "He looked more like a dealer." "No one takes such trouble to hide a dealer's body." "From one day to the next, for no apparent reason, we stopped having..." "How about one for the road?" "A friend of mine's opened a high-class sauna." "I haven't been yet, but if you feel like trying it..." "Look, it's on that corner." " Not coming, boss?" " No, I'll go pick up my wife." "You're a good husband." "And she's a good wife." "See you tomorrow." "Rest up." "Have fun." "Well, well." "You're full of surprises." "If he says you've felt nothing till a man's sucked you off, don't believe him." "I'm worried about Miranda." "She urgently needs someone to fill her life." "Javier..." "I'm going straight home." "My husband's working and I don't like the child being alone." "You never said what he did." "No, I never did." " Do you have to go home now?" " Yes." " I'm sorry." " It isn't your fault." "Whatever happens to you from now on is my fault." "Don't be smarmy." "But I am." "At least wait until I turn my back before you laugh at me." "I won't let you say the first thing that comes into your head." "What if we're each other's solution?" "You can't forget last night." "Can you?" "Want to come to my place and tell a story?" "My girlfriends and I can't sleep cos no one wants to tell us a story." "How old are you?" "My favorite is Pinnochio." "I like it when his nose grows." "I said how old are you?" "I'm eighteen!" "Eighteen and two months, I swear!" "You're nowhere near it!" " Your I.D." " It's in my bag." "May I get my bag?" "Bastard!" "Felix..." "Yes?" "I've just finished at the radio station." "What are you going to do?" "I won't be off for a few hours." "Why?" "We might have a drink with Blanca and the boys." "No problem." "I'll take Celia to school tomorow." "All right." "Thanks." " So long." " Bye." "I always ask my characters three questions." "Which ones?" "What do they want?" "What do they need?" "What do they get?" "And?" "What do you want?" "Right now?" "Yes, at this moment." "The same as you." "Sex?" "What do you need?" "I don't know." "What everyone needs, I guess." "To be loved." "What do you get?" "A sick feeling." "I feel sick." "Can you pull in somewhere?" "What do you want?" "I've come to take you home." "There's no place for me." "I'll look after you." "You can go back to where you came from." "I don't care that you went off with someone else." "Don't touch me!" "You don't know what you're saying." "It's the tranquilizers." "The only person I ever loved was killed in that accident!" "My tragedy was not to die with him." "I don't care if you don't love me, Carola." "I love you." "I can't stand you." "Go away for once and for all!" "After being in bed with a real man, are you really asking me to sleep with you again?" "Check out this license plate." "Let me know what you find." " Is that about our corpse?" " No, it's personal." "Boss, we've got new data." "We found remains of sperm and pubic hair in the car." "Apparently, someone used it for a private party." "You heard Jareno gave himself up?" "Is that all you can talk about?" "Forensic called." "A second study showed that the body was torn in the anal area." "So he was a faggot." "According to her, there's another possibility." "He was a heterosexual who used a vibrator." "These are the reports of missing persons in Madrid in the last 48 hours." "Only one coincides with your case." "Jareno went a bit overboard, didn't he?" "Yes, thank you." "You look awful." "At least you look better after a few hours sleep." "This one is from Central." "Claudia Sanchez, a cleaner, is surprised her boss isn't at home." "She says he never goes away without leaving instructions about the cat." "His name is Jacinto Vega, 29, single, profession: dubbing actor." " Apparently..." " What's a dubbing actor?" "I've got bad news for you." "Harrison Ford's voice isn't Harrison Ford's." "Rojas!" "Find the cleaner and show her the photos." "Yes, sir." "You start asking for a search warrant." "It takes forever." "You'll have to let us take you to that sauna." "It's fun putting on a condom in a jacuzzi." "I've got the data on the Volvo." "It belongs to Oriunda P.C., a TV and film production company." "It's insured for Javier Orilla Fabregat." "That's the phone number and address." "By the way, Jareno..." "Yes, I know." "He killed his wife." "The latest news is he's escaped." "His pals will have helped him." "Pigs help each other, we all know that." "Oriunda, good morning." "...inform of the removal of a body found in the trunk of a car, color brown, model Dodge, license number H5290." "Mom... need moisturizing cream." "I'm going to Merche's." "Why do you need it?" "Shit, are you stupid?" "I'm going skiing, remember?" "One girl got hepatitis so I'm going instead." "Just as well, after Dad let me down." "When are you going?" "Mom!" "In two hours." "I told you yesterday." "I'll be back in a minute." "Yes?" "Did anything happen to you last night?" "What, to me?" "I found blood on your pillow." "And on your shirt." "No, I just had a nose bleed." "Like when I was a kid." "But are you all right?" "Not bad." "Miranda..." "You never call me at work." "I got a fright." "You got a fright?" "That's new." "I found a note in your jacket." "I don't know if it's important." "Did you read it?" "No." "Then tear it up." "It has to do with a very complicated case I'm working on." "What case?" "You're never interested in my cases." "Yes, that's true." "Murder." "We've got a suspect but we can't rush it because he's a guy with influence." "You might know him." "Who, me?" "Yes, he works in film and you see so many movies." "Rojas is waiting for us in Hortaleza St." "The cleaner recognized the photo." "Listen, love, I have to hang up." "All right." "So long." "Policeman kills his wife in a hospital in Melilla." "Hello." "Hello." "I'm sorry I called you at the office but..." "You're even prettier by day." "I was anxious to see you too." "Why?" "I think I know what I want, need and hope to get." "I've thought a lot about it, and the therapy we need is us." "I think I was very lucky to meet you." "I doubt if I'll find anyone who knows me like you do." "I want to be with you." "Without a time limit." "Starting right now and far away." "We can go where you want." "All I need is a table and a chair to write." "Domingo!" "I've scared you, haven't I?" "I'm going too fast." "I know we're not the kind of people who guarantee..." "You asked me what my husband did." "Yes." "He's a policeman." "He's investigating a murder case." "You remember the Dodge in the car park?" "The Dodge where we...?" "Yes." "They found a body in the trunk." "What?" "In the car where we were." "Isn't it horrible?" "Yes, it's horrible, but..." "Felix says they suspect someone connected with movies." "There are hundreds of us." "I know." "It's just a coincidence." "I don't know." "He told me in a very strange way." "You say..." "in a very strange way You say I know you but I don't." " Did you tell him about us?" " No." "But is he a jealous man?" "Does he trust you?" "He's crazy about me." "Crazy." " He never talks of his work but..." " He's told you this." "Don't you think it odd?" " What if he's followed us?" " Felix?" "Since the night of the Dodge." "When I got home he was asleep." "And he was to go on vacation." "But he didn't go." " What do you mean?" " I don't know." "I'm guessing." "Hurt people do silly things." "Even if I wanted to, I can't." "I'd be leaving too many things behind." "What's behind is behind." "He never spoke of his family, but you could see that they had money." "For instance, he owned this apartment." "Did he have visitors?" "Very few, and none while I was here." "Well, there was one time I caught him with a woman." "I got the impression she was married." "Why's that?" "One morning, I arrived at nine o'clock as usual." "He'd usually be at the gym by then, but the lights were on... .. and I could smell expensive perfume." "If nothing else, I've got a good nose." "And also there was a good leather bag on the sofa." "Did you open it?" "He's dead, he'll never know." "A bit." "I opened it a bit." "And?" "Like I said, the perfume was French." "What else?" "A fine gold wedding ring with diamonds in the shape of a wave." "And a mobile phone." "Did you see her?" "No, he rushed out in his dressing gown and told me to come back later." "A neighbor says he often saw an elegant woman leaving here and he noticed her perfume too." "She must bathe in it." "Rojas..." "We'll need a list of the calls made from this number." "Very well." "You take a look around the house." "Have you ever seen this man?" "Be careful, Celia." "Put on cream." "Remember the last time." "Mom, I'm not five years old!" "Bye." "Celia!" "Has she gone?" "Yes, she's gone." "What are your plans?" "Will we have lunch?" "How about sharing a shower?" "I've got my period." "That never used to matter." "Why are you barefoot?" "Didn't I buy you slippers?" "They're in the bathroom." "No, they're in the bedroom." "You have to buy me shorts." "Why don't you try buying me some of those modern ones?" "Calvin whatsit." "Here." " Your men are on the phone." " Get them to call back." "You're to call back." "They're asking if they can go for lunch." "Fuck!" "Yes?" " The shower..." " Turn it off." "You're like my kids." "You've got the list of calls?" "All right, and whose numbers are repeated?" "Oriunda?" "A cinema and TV producer?" "Are you sure?" "Oriunda, yes." "Claudio Undarroa and Javier Orilla." "We'll have to pay them a visit today." "Well, after I've eaten." "I want the lab boys to analyze some pubic hairs." "In case they coincide with those in the Dodge." "It's nice being at home, isn't it?" "At home we've got everything we need." "The business is going great." "We can't let our hearts rule us." "Don't you think it would be stupid to wreck..." "Fuck!" "How did you get the tapes?" "Claudio, you know you can't fool me." "How did you get them?" "If you keep denying it, you're fucked." "That night in The Cock, I spoke to Pancho." "He said he just distributed the tapes." "To get them, he sent the orders to a post-office." "I discovered that it belongs to another company you have." "It's a record company." "It's a front." "I've got your catalogue." "You also offer material filmed illegally with a hidden camera." "What will our actors think when they discover you've used our shoots to invade their privacy?" "You'll go straight to jail." "Did you set it up?" "Tell me the truth." "Did you set it up?" "What has that slut got against you, Javier?" "The telephone nut." "That Azucena hates you!" "She gave you the tapes?" "Last July, a guy called Vega came to see me." "He had some tapes a friend had given him." "He said they might interest me." "I recognized your voice and thought it was a joke." "What did he want?" "He said his friend thought the tapes were works of art." "She wanted listeners, and needed help to get them into circulation." "I said I couldn't do a lousy thing like that to a partner." "But he insisted." "He obviously wanted to hurt you as well." "Why?" "I don't know." "What was his name again?" "Tell Mr. Orillo that I really admire him, that I saw his last film several times, that I hope he likes my script, and that please, when he can, would he sign This autograph album." "Your stories are improbable." "Your characters act illogically." "Your style of dialogue is deadly boring." "Therefore, I would ask you to refrain from punishing this production company with further literary output." "Sincerely, Javier Orilla." "The bastard had me by the balls." "He insinuated that if I didn't help, a certain catalogue of secret videos could fall into police hands." "What could I do?" "K]ill yourself." "Jump out the window and burst like the sack of shit you are." "Wake up!" "How many Valium did you take?" "What...?" "Yes, how many?" "Me?" "Why are you here?" "I've come to give myself up." "Where would I go?" "It's over, I'm not running anymore." "Jail scares me less than starting over again." "I've been a policeman since I was 20." "I can't do anything else." "Where's Miranda?" "I saw her get in a taxi." "She had a bag with her, and the dog." "Here." "Jareno, you know I can't have you staying here." "What are you looking for?" "My gun." "She must have taken it." "Or dumped it somewhere." "Women hate guns, you know that." "Carola used to say that when a man has a gun,... he ends up using it." "Don't be crazy." "Don't be like me." "Think of your daughter." "I'll call them to come and get you." "All right?" "All right." "Do what you have to do." "Fuck!" "Jareno!" "You think they'll buy it that a guy goes to Melilla, kills his wife, comes back to Madrid and kills himself in your house?" "And with your gun?" "That's what happened." "I don't care if they swallow it or not." "Where's that fucking coffee?" "What did you take?" "A cough syrup that made me sleepy." "This looks very odd, Felix." "Let's see... .. how we can make as little fuss as possible." "In the meantime, you're not to move." "Got that?" "Yes, sir." "Felix..." "You're not to move from here." "Yes, sir." "Rojas..." "I need your help." "I'm forbidden to leave here, but I've got things to do." "Don't you destroy yourself too." "Just an hour." "I'll be back at seven o'clock." "And if fatso finds out?" "You know nothing." "I take full responsibility." " Hello, Diana." " Hello." "I didn't know where to go." "Hold all my calls, please." "Very well." "Javier..." "I can't go home anymore." "Move into my hotel." "You still want us to go away?" " I think they won't let us." " Why?" "I'm sure Felix senses about us.." "...and he's plotting to get rid of you." " Do you trust me?" " Yes." " Then everything's fine." " All right." "Yes?" "Javier, I'm sorry to interrupt." "There's a police officer here." " He wants to see you urgently." " I'll be right out." " It's Felix!" " You don't know that." "I'm sure of it." "Please, don't let him find me." "Good afternoon." "I'm Javier Orilla." "Inspector Feijo, from Homicide." "I'd like a word with you to check out some information." "Is the meeting room free?" "I'm sorry, it's being used right now." "Then we'll go across the street for a coffee." "No, I'd rather not move from here." "I gave this number for a call I'm expecting." "As you wish." "But I have to make a call of my own." "Very well." "Is it him?" "Yes." "It's no crime for you to be here." "I can't." "We'll tell him the truth." "He can't stop us from going awaytogether." "He'll stop us." "Where does that door lead?" " It's a bathroom." " Come on, Domingo." "Look, you're not a child." " And he isn't your father." " You don't know him." "He's a policeman, he's on duty all the time." "Domingo!" "Quiet!" "Please, have a seat." "I'm investigating the presumed homicide of this person." "His name is Jacinto Vega." "Yes, I remember him." "What was your relationship?" "Solely professional, if you can call it a relationship." "About a year ago, he started bringing us scripts." "I don't usually remember author's names but I can't forget his." "Why's that?" "He was pestering us for several months, sending us terrible scripts." "He phoned constantly." "He was such a pest I had to send him a tough letter so he'd leave us alone." "It's odd, we searched his house from top to bottom and didn't find one script." "He probably burned them all after he got my letter." "Could you get me one of his script?" "I'd like to read one." "It might give us a new angle." "If we're not interested, we return them." "If no one comes for them, we destroy them." "And you had no further contact with him?" "Not since then, and that was about a year ago." "So how do you explain that he kept ringing here until the day he was killed?" "I've got no idea." "I see." "May I have some coffee?" "Please do." "The body was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in a parking lot in Plaza de Espana." "Did you know that?" "No." "It seems it was left there late on Monday night." "We've checked the security tapes which record the entry of all vehicles." "And your car appears." "Yes, I parked there on Monday evening." "It's a bit far from this office, isn't it?" "On Monday, I started therapy in a center near there." "You parked in the evening, went to the therapy, and then you took it out." "Not immediately." "Why?" "I met a woman." "I spent most of the night with her." "Just as well for you." "If it were necessary, but it won't be, you'd have a good alibi with that woman." "I'd rather not." "Why's that?" "She's married." "I don't want to hurt her." "I've fallen in love." "Life's strange." "You think you've seen it all, and suddenly you find a woman with whom you feel something new." "Someone who shares your desires, even the most intimate ones." "I met her at a meeting of sex addicts." "Ever heard of that?" "Is that a bathroom?" "Yes." "I'd like to wash my face." "It's not working." "There's another outside." "I'll take you, and while I'm out I'll speak to my partner because he's about to leave." "There it is." "Not with 120." "After that, you'll have to let me..." "Hang up." " What's up?" " There's a cop in my office." "Your friend Vega has been murdered." "He's asking me questions." "Murdered?" "What is this?" "It seems he phoned here a lot." "He thinks it was to me, but you know it wasn't." "My God!" "My God!" "Had you anything to do with his death?" "How could you think that?" "I haven't told him about the tapes yet, but if he pushes me..." "Don't be scared." "Come with me." "Where?" "With me." "I've never hurt you." "I know that, but I'm going with him." "How can you say that?" "You don't even know who he is." "Do you know who I am?" "That man killed someone." "He didn't do it." "He did!" "That's what you'd like, but it isn't so." "And if I prove it?" "When I married you, you had killed someone too." "Mr. Feijo, two other detectives are asking for you." "Felix..." "The boss found out." "Come with us before things get more complicated." "If you aren't back in 30 minutes he'll have you arrested." "I won't let you destroy your life." "I won't do it." "Javier, you must help me." "Think of my children, my parents, the scandal." "Get rid of him and then call your lawyer." "It was you, bastard!" "I know and I'll prove it!" "You won't get away with it!" "Claudio!" "Claudio!" "Don't be so stupid!" "You've behaved very stupidly, Felix, but now that it's all resolved you're no longer under arrest." "The case isn't closed yet." "For me it is." "It all fits." "Number One corpse was blackmailing Number Two corpse." "He threatened to expose his filthy business." "And Number Two killed him." "Javier Orilla is the killer." "Is this a personal thing?" "You followed a trail." "Good intuition, but you had the wrong man." "Learn to admit your mistakes if you want my chair some day." "There's still a loose end." "The woman on the phone, Azucena, Vega's accomplice." "I want to keep digging." "You're taking that vacation you're due." "Jareno's funeral is tomorrow afternoon." "No, that isn't right." "No, it's the eyes." "Her eyes were much bigger." "Yes, that's more like it." "Can we try the mouth?" "That's it." "Want to tell me about it?" "Not tonight." "Was it unpleasant?" "You could say that." "Should I phone room service and order some supper?" "I spoke to my financial adviser." "Once I've sorted out money matters with Lola and everyone, we'll still have enough to live off the interest for five years." "And that woman?" "What woman?" "Azucena." "Hasn't she called you again?" "No." "Aren't you afraid she'll reappear?" "I don't think she'd risk it." "Aren't you curious?" "Not in the slightest." "It's best if you've decided not to call her." "Take one of these." "It'll do you good." "Tell me the post-office." "I will, but I want no trouble." "Who is it?" " Guess who?" " Well, the storyteller!" " I want to see you now." " No." "You and I, never." "You know that's the condition." "You've got a lot to tell me." "Your voice is strange." " I have to see you now." " I'm hanging up." "If not, I'm sure the police will love to hear the tapes." " The tapes?" " There's a station near here." "You look awful, Javier." "Say what you want." "Tell me whatever stories you like." "I don't care." "I know what you're up to." "You're soaked." "May I take off your raincoat?" "You're going to tell me everything!" "You're very tense." "What have you taken?" "Look at your eyes." "You're hot." "Someone got you hot and it wasn't me." "Feel better?" "Do you want to talk?" "I have a headache." "Shall I stay with you?" "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "I listened to those tapes, you bitch." "Why did you do it?" "In the end, his stories were good." "Which ones?" "The ones you never read and give you and hundreds of others a hard-on." "My friend Vega wrote them all." "I acted them out." "What did you call his scripts?" "Improbable." "Illogical." "Deadly boring." "The story of the triplets." "The lovers killed in a plane crash while they were fucking." "Those were the stories that hooked you, bastard." "They hooked you because they're better than yours." "He and I made you tell the stories you didn't dare to." "I'll give you a massage." "We have to make an effort." "We have to forget what happened and think that everything begins today." "Please, don't reject me." "Javier!" "It's me, Miranda!" "Please, don't reject me." "Please, don't reject me." "Please!" "Please!" "Hello." "How are you?" "Coming back from Eurodisney with the kids." "Enjoy it?" "Fucking great." "And you?" "Fine." "Can I ask you something that's been bugging me?" " No." " Why did you choose me?" "How did you know I'd accept?" "I risked it." "That's him, isn't it?" "No, forget it." "Fancy that, and he looks so innocent." "He asked me to carry a package." "Just another service." "With all his cases, you could've got more out of him." "C'mon, love." "I'm afraid your flight to London is delayed for technical reasons, but I've got two cancellations on a flight leaving in 20 minutes." "No one's on the waiting list?" "No, so if you want..." " And can we check in the dog?" " Yes." "You're sure you don't want to ask me any questions?" "I already know the answers." "What answers?" "I love you, I need you and I've managed to get you." "But please, hold my hand very tightly when the plane takes off." "Good morning." "Ticket for the lottery?" "No, but..." "Check this one." "Just a minute." "Congratulations!" "You're a lucky man."