"Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion" " How will you kill me this time?" " I will cut your throat." "Hello?" "Hello, Central Police?" "Why don't they answer?" "Are they sleeping?" "There has been a crime." "Yes, there has been a crime." "Via del Tempio, 1." "Not Via del Tempo, idiot!" "Via del Tempio!" "Augusta Terzi." "Appartment 1." "Have you understood?" "Did you make a note?" "Repeat it." "Please." " Please." " Please." " One moment!" "Best wishes, doctor!" "Best wishes, doctor." "He gave the correct address!" "We could use a man like him." "The political situation is favorable." "No worries, doctor." "Piantone, get me fifteen glasses." " What's happening?" " Doctor, there has been a homicide." " "Via del Tempo, 1. "" " Tempio." ""Mrs. Augusta Terzi. "" " When did they phone?" " Ten or twenty minutes ago." " Ten or twenty minutes?" " I don't know, they did not specify." "It is essential to be precise." "We have checked road and name." "I'm about to leave." "You are giving the suspects a chance to create an alibi." "They will understand that we are no longer there." ""Agent shoots. " Who is he?" "I don't know him." " He fired by mistake, of course." " That is the more probable version." "Go to Via del Tempio." "Congratulations." "You should be happy!" "Why the sad face?" "Be quiet." "Your child will be out of jail in ten years!" "I am no longer responsible." "I have finished!" "Lamantia, Lo Cascio, Mangiaracina, Terrè!" "Let's go!" "Finally you are getting rid of me!" "Let's go." "Panunzio!" "Let's open a bottle for Doctor Panunzio." " Here you are." " Best wishes, doctor!" "You come with me." " Doctor Mangani!" " You will come with me, do you understand?" "Congratulations!" "It will be difficult for me to replace you." "No!" "What are you saying?" " Where is Doctor Panunzio?" " He is there." "I am here." "Doctor Panunzio!" "Did Proietti confess yet?" " He says it was suicide." " He will confess." "Let's drink!" " The champagne will clear his thoughts." " I am innocent!" " Of course." " She was killed to frame me." "Perhaps she lost balance, and twisted her neck." "I don't know!" " You threw her downstairs." " No, I was asleep  just as you found me!" "I am a violent person." "I would have strangled that bitch!" "Drink, innocent one." "Drink!" "We are all innocent here." "In here the only guilty one  is me!" "Quiet." "I don't need to praise an outstanding colleague who is also like a brother." "However, no one deserves a promotion more than you." "In recent years we have had 102 cases of homicide." "Only ten remain unsolved." "At this difficult time, with you in the Security Division  they will become as efficient as the Homicide Division." "I wish you the same success." "I lift my glass  and I toast to your health and to your career!" "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Enough of this praise." " This isn't the Carnival season." "Confirmed." "Via del Tempio, 1." "Confirmed." "Via del Tempio, 1." "Mangani, Panunzio!" "Let's go." "I'll catch up with you." "Hello, have you anything to say to me?" " It's the the husband." " Fine." " What is it?" " A scrapbook." "There is even a photograph of you." "Look." " Where is the body?" " Over here." "Let me see her." " Have you seen this?" " It's an empty jewel case." " This money?" " 300.000 liras in cash." "Libertine, D'Annunzio style." "We have found no underwear in the appartment." " Nor any pants." " It's disorderly." "They went to bed together, to make love." " Any traces of orgasm?" " No." "Cover up." "Pick up that bottle and glass." "Have the tenants seen anything?" "We are collecting the names." "Are you feeling ill?" " Who lives there?" " A famous surgeon." "An individual above any suspicion." "Who owns the appartment?" "The victim." " Does the husband inherit everything?" " They were separated three years ago." "Bring him in and question him." "Look here." "The scapbook has photographs of the victim posing." "There is a whole collection here." "In my opinion, the work of a dilettante, even childish." "Don't you agree?" "Thrown on the bed." "Turned over." "I'll show you how we found that trollop." "No!" " Come with me." " Where?" "A German hostess made love to a Turk on an intercontinental flight." "We found her strangled in the restroom of Fiumicino Airport." "Lie still!" " Now, what do you want to do?" " The young singer." "Yes." "Parioli, 1967." "The young singer ends up strangled, and covered by tiny scratches." "Covered by disks of sacred polyphonic music, it was a mystical erotic crime." "The murderer is an ex-seminarist." "They find him a few minutes later  listening to the voice of the victim on a juke-box." " He's an organist." " Don't move." "Shall we do the one with the revolutionary youth?" "A young revolutionary student girl is suffocated  by an Professor of Sociology, with 10.000 lira bills." "She is violated afterwards." "Still!" " Legs wide, don't move." " Damn!" " Thats it!" " Does it excite you to find them like that?" "Yes, I am excited by a certain detail." "An appliance." " Which appliance?" " No, I'm ashamed to say." "Let me through." " Doctor." " What is it?" " In my opinion he is an idiot." " Who?" " The murderer." " Why is he an idiot?" "He is an idiot, superficial and conceited." "He took the jewels to make it look like a robbery, but left the 300,000 liras behind." "He then washed and got dressed, using the victim's French soap." " Then?" " He has walked on the blood  leaving tracks everywhere." "For us these are important clues." "He is an idiot." "Don't you agree?" "He's an idiot." "Let's hope she was killed by the husband, so that it doesn't drag on." " Then?" " Naked!" " Has she been violated?" " No, she's been making love." "Then she was killed." "There are no signs of violence." "Write:" "There is a morbid, D'Annunzio-style atmosphere inside." "There is a lot of blood." "Leave, leave." "I'm driving." "The victim had a beautiful body?" "She had the velvety skin of a courtesan." "Tell your readers there is no underwear inside." " Fetishism?" " No, she didn't wear them." " Excellent!" "I'll put that in the title." " Patanè, do me a favour." " Insist on the husband." " All right." "Commissioner!" "Don't you know me?" "Am I speaking to the chief of the Department of Homicide?" "You have never seen me." "Do I meet with police officers?" "Who is it?" "I could be a thief." "A maniac, a murderer." "One of the thirty murderers that roam free in this city." "Do you want to know my name?" "Find out yourself, you're so good." "You let yourself be photographed, you release interviews." "By the way, try to lose some weight." "Commissioner, help!" "Somebody is trying to get inside my house, I can hear his footsteps." "For months I've been receiving threats, letters and anonymous phonecalls." "Somebody wants to rape me." "See!" "He doesn't wear trousers!" "How awful!" "I am alone and naked." "I'll be violated, it's my destiny." "Help!" "You always wear dark suits, as if in mourning." "Have no illusions, physically you do not interest me." "You have the shape of an average Italian, and too much hair." "You sweat a lot." "You smell like shoe polish  as all police officers do." "Tell me the truth." "A police officer has a lot of secrets, like a priest." "Your mind excites me, I admire the police." "I am a groupie." "I would do anything to be interrogated by you." "Ask that whore sister of yours!" "Who's there?" "Police." "You could only be a thief or a cop." " Who has been here?" " A man." "Who are you?" "What did you want?" "Why did you phone me?" "I'll tell you right off, I don't spend money on women." "How charming!" "You should be calling the uniformed police, not the Homicide Department." " What's your opinion of me?" " What's your point?" "To amuse myself." "How did you come to know all these millionaires?" "Always on the phone, right?" "I must say, you are a good policeman!" "However, there is an error here." "In '66 I was single." "Like a stray dog." "On your feet!" "Toruzzo, how are you?" "How are you?" "Gentlemen, I hope you appreciate the new situation." "Our being all reunited here  American style!" "We're too few for the work that needs to be done." " That's right." " We'd need more people." "Sit down." "From today on, I take over as head of the Security Department." "Until yesterday I was busy with murders, with success." "There is a precise reason why they have chosen me  at this time to lead the Security Department." "It is because the political and the non-political crimes  are by now nearly indistinguishable." "Remember this well." "Underneath every criminal hides a subversive person." "Underneath every subversive individual there hides a criminal." "In the city under our control  subversives and criminals have already spun their invisible web  that we have to destroy." "What is the difference between a gang that robs a bank  and organized subversion, legalized and institutionalized?" "None." "They have the same objective  even if they use different methods." "They want to upset the social order." "6,000 registered prostitutes, an increase of 20% in strikes and. ." "... house occupations, 2,000 brothels." "In one year, thirty attacks on state property  and 200 cases of rape." "50,000 middle school students demonstrating." "An increase of 30% in bank robberies." "An estimated 10,000 subversives and 600 registered homosexuals." "70 groups of subversive youths gathering outside the parliament." "Fraudulent bankruptcies increased by 50%." "There are a lot of political magazines that encourage this revolt!" "The exercise of freedom is a constant threat to the establishment  and to the constituted authorities." "Freedom makes every citizen a judge  and prevents us from doing our jobs!" "We defend the law  which has to be unchangeable and eternal!" "The perps are underage, the city is sick." "Others have the task of education and hygiene." "Our duty is to repress!" "Repression is our vaccine!" "Repression is civilization!" " Well done!" "." " Compliments, doctor!" "Bravo, doctor!" "Do not applaud me, I'm a modest man." "Let's get to work." "Well done!" "Here there are Communists, Partisans, Trotskyists, Maoists and Anarchists." " The government parties?" " Over here." "Here are the Catholic files, after that the Social Democrats  and the opposition of the Right." "As we progress, this will be destroyed  what remains will be put in two little rooms." "Let's go to this part." "Hey, come here." "I'd like to see what there is on my colleagues in the homicide department." "Of course." "For two weeks we have been entering data into the archive." "This is true progress." " Let's do a test." " All right." "We imagine that the Terzi murder has a political background." " What is the address?" " Via del Tempio, 1." "It's in the city centre." "We asked the computer if, in Via del Tempio  there are socially and politically dangerous individuals." " What does it show?" " This." "What is happening?" "The revolution from America has arrived!" "In Via del Tempio, 1 lives a man  reported to be socially and politically dangerous." "Pace, Antonio." "Born in Ravenna March 24th, 1946." "Studies chemistry." "Member of the student council." "Subversive, fanatical, dangerous." " Is he under telephone surveillance?" " Certainly, doctor." "Since May 1968." "Of course it is authorized." "He has the face of a criminal!" "I'll send him to prison." "Doctor, please come inside." "Goodbye." " Reverend..." " Son, it is better not to." " Hello." " Hello." " Hello." "Do you want a cigar?" " Yes, thanks." "Take one." "Please sit down." "Well, are you satisfied?" "In 1917, at the Battle of Caporetto, command was handed to General Cadorna." "This coalition between centre and left-wing parties is like a Caporetto ... with respect to who rules the country." "There is a lot of tension in the country." "I would be more comfortable with a larger organization." "I need a hundred more men, and funds to pay the informants." "I will speak to the minister." " I would want..." " I hear you." " Would want..." " Speak." " Listen." " Yes." "I would like you to rent three apartments in a calm area like Prati  for my informants." "I want to establish a more confidential contact with them." "Agreed." "However, officially I don't know anything." "My office has prepared a list of 630 persons  to put under telephone surveillance." "Will you make an authorization?" "Certainly." " Anything else?" " Yes." " The lady who was killed three days ago..." " Mrs. Terzi?" "Yes, Augusta Terzi." "She was a beautiful woman, I have seen the photos." "I knew her." "Yes, I had a relationship with her." "How was it?" "Good?" "Well..." "I wanted to ask you if you think it's necessary  to inform the investigators of this circumstance." "I don't know." "What do you think?" "Goodbye." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Goodbye." "I don't know..." "In my opinion, she was killed by the husband." "Goodbye." "Bring in Panunzio." "Good morning, doctor." "I have brought you a souvenir photo, of the glorious Homicide Department." "Take a seat." "I know, my cousin is a communist." "He is the secretary of a labor union, but what can I do about it?" "He never comes to my home, I never see him." "In fact I do see him, but only once each year, at Christmas." "Doctor, in two years I retire." "Do not transfer me." "I have two kids who study, I have to check on them often." "How is the investigation of the Terzi murder going?" "We have a good lead." "Under the fingernails the forensic investigator has found a fibre of blue silk  torn from a tie." " The murderer was naked?" " Yes." "According to you, he was naked with a tie?" "That's true, nobody had thought of it." "Panunzio!" "Panunzio!" "Have you questioned the husband?" "Yes, doctor." "We are questioning him tonight." " Fingerprints?" " None of interest." " Doctor, there were only yours." " Mine?" " My prints?" " Yes, on a handle." "Panunzio!" "And even on a cup of coffee." "Perhaps you were sleepy." "These prints were in the shower." "All of us entered there  even Doctor Mangani." "Your prints were even in the kitchen." "everybody went in there." "Perhaps you were distracted, and touched something without taking precautions." "Your prints were even on the telephone." "However, certainly that evening you used the phone." "I remember well that you phoned." "We have found your prints on a glass of liqueur." "That evening you felt ill  and I poured you a glass of Fernet." "Remember?" "I have it written down in a notebook." "Feeling bad?" "So, are you a man or a woman?" "When did you begin your homosexual practices?" "Before or after the separation from Augusta Terzi?" " Why did your wife kick you out?" " Because he threw money away!" " He threw the money in the garden!" " It is not that simple, you are mistaken." "We were fond of each other!" "He is destroyed." "Two or three more questions and he will confess it all." "Artist, hippy, fairy!" "Want to confess?" "It fits together, we know all about you." "It is only logical!" "You're a fairy, she was beautiful, and you killed her." " It is not true!" " Calm yourself." " I want my lawyer!" " We're not in America." "When the code changes, call him." "You're an artist, a sensitive person." "Try to help yourself." "Sure, he will help." "He will say it all calmly." "Start again." "At what time did you return from Fregene on the Sunday of the homicide?" " I've told you." " Repeat it." "At 4 o'clock." "Then I took the car and left for Rome." "There was a large crowd of people." "Thousands!" "It was fabulous!" "I know, it seems improbable." " He is a "poof" indeed!" "The crowd is an alibi!" "I have told you all that I know!" "You haven't told everything." "You have not spoken spontaneously." "You used your wife to advance your career!" "She said so to one of your colleagues!" "I'll wake you up." "Question me, don't sleep." " Leave me alone." " I like it when you question me." "You are very suspicious, just like my father." "Come on, question me!" "Get out of bed." "Get out of bed and on your knees." "Sit straight!" "Straight!" "I understand, silence always invokes fear." "Straighten up!" "Imagine that you're to face terrible hours  cruel questions, deception, extortion." "You'll remember parts of your life you have forgotten about." "You'll remember the shameful images from your life." "You'll see that I am able to know all about you." "The state provides all the means necessary to know an individual." " Straight!" " Asshole." "I will convince you that I know all about you." "To provoke a guilt complex." "I am tired." "Interrogate me, give me the questions." " You want the questions do you?" " Yes." "Then speak." "Tell me the most shameful things." "Confess your weakness and little daily shames." " Only then will I forgive you." " I understand." "You treat them as children." "Everyone comes back to childhood, when confronted by authority." "I represent power." "Straight!" "The law." "Straight!" "The law." "All laws known and unknown." "The suspect returns to being a child." "I become the father." "It's an unassailable model." "I assume the position of God and of the conscience." "It's a setup to discover secret and profound feelings." "Don't shiver, take this." "I want to explain to you a mental condition." "Authority is grounded on these foundations." "University teachers... party leaders, tax solicitors, station masters." "Come, I'll show you how we found the whore of Mandrione." "In the end we police officers take on the features of the criminals  their words and habits." "Sometime even their gestures." "You're like a child, more so than other men I have known." "You shouldn't have said that  that I am a child." "You shouldn't have said that, understand?" "The others are children." "Stop talking about the crowd!" "Wait." "We leave you to think things over." "Think well about what to say and do." "Let's go away." " Mangani, you're always shouting." " I have learned it from you." " He is always interfering." " He has reasons, doctor." "He hampers the investigations." "Prick!" "Drink some coffee." " You have furnished the Moroni house." " Yes." "There are some interesting solutions in the Art Nouveau style, right?" "Mr. Terzi, when did you see Augusta the last time?" "Three days before her death." "I was being threatened." "I have often received anonymous phonecalls from a man." " From him." " Who?" "My wife's lover." "They were in agreement, he phoned me." "He used the tone of someone accustomed to command." " Why did they threaten you?" " They loved to see me suffer." "They wanted to humiliate me." "What was the form of these threats?" "He once said on the phone that he would have me registered  as a transvestite" "I think he was an important man." "Perhaps a soldier  or an agent of the Fraud Department of the police." "Augusta loved powerful men." " What is the name of this man?" " I don't know." "If I knew it, I would not be here." "In my opinion he is the murderer." "I have a feeling he is." " So you have forgotten his name?" " No, I have never known it." "Stay calm, it will all end well." "Thank you." "Well?" "To me he seems innocent!" "For me he is innocent." ""At 16:00 on Sunday 24th of August... "" ""..." "I killed Mrs. Augusta Terzi... "" ""... with cold determination. "" " Determination." "" I have only one weak spot." "The victim was always playing... "" "Games with me." " " I have left clues everywhere... "" " Clues." " " not to mislead... "" " Not to mislead the investigations!" " " but to test... "" " To test..." "Not to mislead the investigations!" " " but to test... "" " To test." "To test!" " To test." " "To test. "" " To test." " " my... "" "My being above suspicion!" "Still..." "Still..." "When you make an innocent guilty  your..." "Your being above suspicion  is not proven." "1. 2 kilograms." "900 liras." "Does this package go to police headquarters?" "It's written there, isn't it?" "Hello?" "I would like to speak to Patanè of the Cronaca." " Cronaca." " Hello, Patanè?" " Who's speaking?" " I cannot say my name." " Your telephone is monitored." " Is this a joke?" "The department of homicide will redeive a package  with the jewels of Augusta Terzi, a shoe belonging to the killer  and a razorblade." " This excludes the husband." " You are not camouflaging your voice." "I have recognized you." "2,000 graffiti in favor of Stalin were removed in 1948  50 for Lenin and 1,000 for Togliatti." " 30 for Tito." " 300 for the Duce." " 411 for the ordinary man." "In 1956 hovever, there were only a hundred writings for Stalin." " That is an enormous decrease." " Togliatti?" "Unchanged." "In 1958 there were about one hundred writings for Krutchev, 50 for Mao Tse Tung  and 500 writings against Stalin." "Obviously, on orders from above, these were not removed" "Last year there were 3,000 writings for Mao, 10,000 for Ho Chi Minh  1,000 for Che Guevara and eleven for Marcuse." " Some writings for a certain Sade." " The marquis!" "This year we anticipate 10,000 writings for Mao, 500 for Trotsky  about ten in favour of Amendola and about 500 for Stalin." "What are they up to?" "Go check on them, and see where they go." "The youth!" "They write on the walls!" "Young students and young workers take turns at night!" "They speak of revolution on the phone, in the faculty and in the departments!" "Use tons of red paint to make insults." "I know what I would give them!" "Your squadron of paint removers is not enough  to discourage this subversive bunch!" " Pace is in the homicide department." " Who is he speaking to?" "With Mangani." "Our young colleagues have to come back to school." "They will go to the university and in the factories with their long hair." "Wearing overalls stained with fat." "We have to know and check everyone." "We will use even our own children!" "Good morning." ""I guarantee that Mao doesn't want the war. "" " Good morning, doctor." " The interception of Antonio Pace." "At once." "There is important news on the Terzi case." "I will inform you." " Good morning, doctor." " Good morning." "Doctor, sign here." "Thank you." ""Antonio, what did you say?"" " "To the security office of the Police" - "Start again?"" ""No, they called me in because of the woman who was murdered in my building. "" " "They have involved you?" - "They asked me if I knew anything. "" " "So what did you say?" - "Nothing. "" " "Did they know you two had a relationship?"" " Pig." ""Stop, our phones are tapped. "" ""I want to speak to the sergeant in charge of interceptions. "" ""Comrade sergeant, you are spying on the birth of the Italian revolution. "" ""Even you are being exploited, you're a child of the people!"" ""Unite with us or ask for a raise!"" "Turn it off." "Wait, doctor." "The ideas are all wrong, except the last sentence." "After thirty years of service, I still make only 140,000 lira each month." " And so?" " Culture helps me." " How?" " I sell books at inflated rates." "This is of no interest to me, I will report this!" "Doctor." ""I would like to speak to Patanè of the Cronaca. "" " "Cronaca, who's speaking?" - "I cannot say my name. "" """ " Your telephone is monitored." " Is this a joke?"" ""The department of homicide will receive a package... "" ""... with the jewels of Augusta Terzi... "" " What do you think of this?" " " The shoe of the killer... "" " One is Patanè." " Who is the other?" "Have you received the package?" "Yes, besides that this notice was given an hour ago." "That means it can't be the husband, because he is here with us." "It may be an accomplice of the husband." "In my opinion, Terzi's husband is innocent, and we have to release him." "I am responsible for this case, and the husband stays in custody." "Very well, we keep him in custody." "You don't understand, the husband is innocent." "It is necessary to hold the husband here to calm public opinion." "You're a bureaucrat, public opinion frightens you." "Stay calm, don't worry." "He believes we're living in the kingdom of Sicily at the time of Borboni!" "He thinks only of public opinion." "He is old and destined to disappear, don't worry." "What do you want?" "Look here!" "What am I going to say to him this time?" " To whom?" " Mangani." "About what?" "He wants know if I know the person who phoned me." "He asked about the package." " Why are you asking me about it?" " You phoned me." "Be rational." "I couldn't have called you if the package was not yet in headquarters." "You phoned me!" "You don't have to repeat that I phoned you." "I did not phone you!" "I'm favoring you, and therefore you should be careful." "This machine makes good coffee." "Unfortunately I'm unable to drink coffee." "Take a cappuccino." " Take this machine away!" "Nisticò, get to work!" "Hello." "Doctor, I need your advice." "What is happening to you?" "Come with me." " We have to help each other." " Doctor, a phonogram." "What's this?" "In this city not only are whores being killed  but also order and social stability." "In 24 hours three house occupations, students and teachers." "In six months Italians have striked 81 million hours." " Do you have a painkiller?" " No." " You agree that Terzi's husband is innocent?" " Certainly." "To demonstrate his innocence I have to find  who has the blue tie." " Yes, it will be necessary to find him." "The evening of the crime you wore a blue tie." " Where did you buy it?" " From "Cenci " by the Pantheon." "Cenci remembers having sold a tie identical to yours  to a lady." " Augusta Terzi." "Then the victim gave the tie to her murderer." "The victim gave the tie to her murderer." "I would exclude that she gave it to the husband." "It seems logical to me, exclude it." "I..." "What can I do?" "What can I do to help you?" "Do you want my blue tie?" "Just go to my house." "Ask the cleaning lady, she will give it to you." "You will find her in the mornings." " Do you have a painkiller?" " Can I go to your house?" "Yes." "Do you understand?" "Three occupations in 24 hours." "Students, barricades with the teachers." "Teachers!" " Can I leave?" " When this stuff arrives  I prefer homicide." " Of course." "Thank you, doctor." "Then really can I go to your home for the tie?" "How disgusting!" "Take off that undershirt, your mother will never know about it." "And those short black socks you are wearing, like a priest." "In the Sacristy." "Don't you have a more cheerful suit?" " No." " People avoid men who dress like you." "It's clear that you are a police officer, stinking of barracks and files." "Of cells." "At least a priest smells of incense." "They should give you free deodorant." "I would kill you with my hands." "What courage!" "You conduct the investigations." " Could I ask you for a favor?" " Sure." "Go in there, and buy all the blue ties on display." " Why don't you go yourself?" " They would believe I was a competitor  and would take advantage of it." " They will cost 50,000 lira!" "Yes, that's ok." "Why do you want all the blue ties?" "I am the producer of a theatrical show." "The title of the show is "50 blue ties for 50 big babies"." " Well done!" "." " I'll wait down there." " Where?" " Under the colonnade." "But..." " Bring them to me." " Yes." "There are 4,000 liras left." "Do you know what happened?" "They believed I worked in police headquarters and gave me a discount." "They even called me "marshal"!" "Here are the ties." "I counted them, there are 25." " What is your work?" " Why?" " What is your work?" " Mine?" " I am a plumber." " A plumber!" " I work when I want!" " Who do you vote for?" "Why?" "Why is that of interest to you?" " I'm asking who you vote for!" " That is none of your business!" "I take only one tie, the others you keep." "Why?" "You have to give me an explanation, mister!" "I'll explain it now." "You have to take these 24 ties to police headquarters." "Go to the homicide department." "I am not a theatrical producer." "I am a murderer." " What?" " A murderer." "A murderer." "You read the newspapers." "Remember the murdered lady in Via del Tempio?" "I killed her." "What are you saying?" "You are a decent person." " You are playing around with me." " No, I'm not playing around." "You are in trouble." "Why?" "I haven't done anything." "Be quiet!" "I will explain it all." "Anyone who comes into contact with a murderer is in trouble." "Go to headquarters, Homicide Department and describe me well." "Describes details like the time, place and circumstances of our meeting." "Please, look closely at me." "Describe me in detail." "It is rare to be this close to the face of a murderer." "Look me over, try to remember how my hair is combed." "See if I have whiskers, how I am dressed..." "Please give me time to go home and say hello to my wife and child." " Go to the headquarters!" " I'm staying here!" "Don't be a clown, it is your duty as a good citizen!" " Listen." " Go!" " Go to headquarters!" " Listen to me." "Mister!" " Go to headquarters!" " Come back here." "Cross on red, ignore the law." "No!" "Do it, cross on red!" "Do you want to cross on red?" "Yes, you are capable of anything." "Let's go!" "I go!" "I go!" "Did you see that?" "Show your ID card to the officer." "Tell him you are an important man, frighten him." " Treat him badly." " Licence and registration." " I am on duty." "Please!" " Excuse me, doctor." "You can commit any crime, believe me." "No!" "Good!" "You resemble the beheaded one at Castel Gandolfo." "Aquatic rape." "Would you be capable of killing me on the beach without being discovered?" "Can a police officer kill someone on the beach without being discovered?" "I was seen by the car park attendant, the ticket salesman." "The beach-attendants." "The people near the beach hut have seen me." "The car park attendant seems like the most dangerous one." "A car park attendant would never accuse an important person like you." "To be caught, you would have to sign a crime with your name." "Don't tempt me with illegality, it's too easy in my position." "Courage, let's plan a beautiful crime." "I would cut your throat and hide you." "I would throw you into the sea with the fish." "At sunset a bathing attendant would find your body in a hut." "The magistrate from Latina would see you the next day  in a state of advanced decomposition." "What are you doing?" "Bitch!" ""The poisoning of water and air continues. "" ""The sea is a dustbin. "" ""The 300 communes on the coast... "" "Augusta!" ""There are no purification plans. "" "Augusta, quit the joke." "Get out." ""The coastal waters are polluted... "" ""... by hydrocarbons from oil. "" "Augusta, let's go." "I'll give an order of demolition for these houses!" "Augusta!" "Doctor, put on protecion." "This morning the young Napolitan who works with you came around." " Who?" "Biglia?" " Yes." " What did he want?" " He was looking for a tie." " I did not give it to him." " Of course, I have it on me!" "Then you have two." "Yesterday I saw the other in a rubber shoe." "He even wanted to see your shoes." "I understood at once that he was a snoop, he asked a lot of questions." " What did he want to know?" " He asked if you meet women here." " Then?" " If you are engaged." " And then what?" " What you were doing on Sunday." " Get out of here, I have to work." " I have not finished." "Finish later." "Good morning!" " How are you doing, homicide workers?" "Life is good at the Security Department!" "Good morning." "I have brought my tie, not to waste your time." "What is it?" "What has he done?" " Homicide." " I would do it again!" "He has killed his employer." "Can you come?" "There is a man..." "What's been happening this morning?" "Nothing, he is probably a mythomaniac." "This gentleman wants to ask you some questions." "Who is he?" " Well?" " Excuse me, doctor." "Perhaps..." "No, I have certainly made a mistake." "On what matter?" " I have confused you with another." " With who?" "At first, he thought he recognized you." "He says that this morning a strange man gave him money  to buy all those ties." "Then he told him he was the murderer of Augusta Terzi." " Let him speak!" " Thank you." "It happened like this:" "I met an individual." "He told me to go to police headquarters." " Who was he?" " I don't know, perhaps he was crazy." "Perhaps he was the manager of a theatre or a cinema." "I believed him." "He warned me that I would end up in trouble." " What kind of work do you do?" " I..." " I am a plumber." " He's a plumber." " A plumber." " A plumber." " You said plumber once." " A plumber!" " Yes, it is true." " What did you say?" " You are right." " Don't worry about it." " Are you sure?" "Thank you." " Be calm." "You are a citizen." "We have to respect a citizen." "Thank you, doctor." "Mangani." "Come with me, please." "Yes." "Afterwards, let's do the accounts." "This should have been done as confrontation, but no procedural rules were respected." " Get back inside." " Mangani, I dismiss you!" " Be careful!" " No!" "return to your offices!" "Doctor, it is my fault." "I was confused, I did not look closely." " Take him away away." " That man had a different suit." " Listen." " Dont touch me!" "I will ask to hold back Terzi's husband and this idiot." " Do you agree?" " Do as you want." "I will do what I have to do." "Dear stagnaro, you have to tell the truth!" "You are involved in this and I will find out how!" "I didn't like the cappuccino." "It requires equal parts bitter coffee and sweet milk." "Nisticò, I'm sending you to gather information at Piazza Navona!" "Get rid of this machine!" "Don't let anyone in." " Commander, are you alone?" " Yes." "Have you authorized checks on me in connection with the Terzi case?" "I will ask for a detailed report from the employee in charge." "We will talk tonight over dinner." "This is not good enough!" "The whole Homicide Department must be subjected to investigation!" "In my office we are ready to investigate their systems  their public and private lives!" " Very well, but now you are threatening me." " Sure I am!" "I need to collect three recordings for the Security Department." "I'm not allowed to give out anything, by orders of the director." " When did you receive the order?" " I cannot say." "Was it a written order or by telephone?" "Doctor, don't insist." "Would you be able give me the three tapes for two hours?" "Doctor, I would lose my job." " The career matters to all of us." " Even to me." "Try to understand." "Want to favor my career?" "Then help me." " To the ventilator!" " Stop, return to your places!" " Where did it happen?" " By the ventilator!" "Please, only security agents." "Even you, stay away." " Doctor, it is is here." "Come." " Stay calm." " Stay calm!" " It's in this part." "It's a bad situation." "Let me pass." " Don't touch anything." " Don't touch." "This time they have gone too far." "Attention!" "They're coming." "Now it is enough, it is unbelievable." "at 18:30 there were two other explosions  to the American Express and the Palazzo di Giustizia." "Please, let us through." "The explosion happened here." "We need to act decisively, we know them all." "We must show our determination!" "Enough with the tolerance!" "Understood?" "Yes." " Well." "Please, let us through." "Overthrow the government!" "Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" " Police officers, you are our brothers." "Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" "Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" " Power to the working class!" "Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" "Death to the leadership!" "Anarchy!" "anarchy!" " Doctor." " What do you want?" "Go away!" "War no!" "Guerilla yes!" "War no!" "Guerilla yes!" " Commissioner!" " Go!" "Get inside!" "Check all the identification cards." "For now, don't talk to the press." " Do we have informants among them?" " Yes, five." "What do you want?" "What do you want?" "You looked at me." "I?" "I am nearly blind." "Mind your own business!" "Hello?" "Yes, I am alone." "I'm cold, speak." "I am alone." "Alone!" "You want to create a jealousy scene on the phone?" "Then put a bug on my telephone and start following me." "Put a television camera underneath my sheets." "You have 500 men at your command, one of them can surely follow me." "That way you will always know who I'm with and what I'm doing." ""The time has come to end our relationship. "" "Augusta, this dismissal letter would fit well in a serial novel." "I'm leaving it here between your legs!" "Are you leaving?" "Augusta, I am not jealous." "You can do whatever you want." "Sleep with whoever you want." "But tell me first, I have to know." "Augusta, do not put me in this condition." "I am a respectable person!" "Augusta, I represent the power!" "You should be kissing the earth where I walk, you bitch!" "Who is Pace?" "That shit!" "He is my friend and lives up here." "He is young, beautiful and even revolutionary." " Revolutionary!" "I'll beat you!" " Don't touch me, moron." "You are not in headquarters now, you're in my home." "Go away!" "I am not one of those wrecks you arrest." "You make love like a child because you are a child!" " Stop shouting." " Perhaps you still wet the bed." "You are nobody!" "You are sexually incompetent." " Do you understand?" " Don't beat me!" " You're incompetent!" " Don't touch me." " You're a child!" " Don't touch me." "Stand relaxed, sit down." " Beautiful sunset!" " We've been on our feet for 16 hours." "You may return to your barracks soon." " Doctor, we are tired." " Hold this." "Doctor, they have the same names as thirty years ago." "They have the revolution in their blood." " Good evening, doctor." " Good evening." "Doctor, do not tolerate them anymore." "Assassins, fascists!" "Inform yourselves!" "Inform yourselves!" "The cell doesn't unite them either." "In two hours, four groups have formed." "Fortunately, they are divided, otherwise it would be difficult for us." "I want to question Antonio Pace." "But first, the boy near him with the whiskers." "Servants of the leadership!" "Up!" "don't lean on your hands." "The weigh of the body has to be on the knees." "You're not a horse, walking on four legs!" "You're a democratic citizen, not a horse." "Would you rather drink another liter of saltwater  or stay on your knees?" "You decide." "If you want to stand up, you must drink all the water." "You have to drink it all." "All." "Nothing." "Then kneel again." "It is not necessary for you to drink." "In ten minutes you could be drinking fresh and pure water." "" clear, sweet and fresh water!"" "Student, I don't want to imprison you." "We are not the Gestapo or the SS." "We are the police of a democratic country." "We are pleased when we avoid sentencing a citizen." "You are young, I don't want to ruin you." "Stay upright!" "You can be Marxist, anarchist  situationist and Maoist." "You can read the red book, you can behave how you like." "You are not a horse, you're a democratic citizen." "I have to respect you." "However the terrorist explosions." "The intimidations and the bombs." "What the fuck has that to do with democracy?" "If you tell me who put the bomb in headquarters and in American Express  then you act as a democratic and coherent citizen." "I know it wasn't you." "However you certainly know the name of the person who committed the crime." "Give me some water." "We do not ask you to rat on your friends." "We want you to act as a democratic citizen." "We speak to modern men." "What is democracy?" "Let's admit it." "It's the beginning of socialism." "I, for example, vote socialist." "Don't be afraid." "I am your confessor, they all have spoken to me." "Nothing will happen to you, I am a "vault"." "This whole building is a great vault." "Tell the truth." "Tell the truth." "Say his name!" "Pace put the bomb there when you were visiting headquarters!" " Yes." " He prepared the bombs?" "Yes." "Mattone, bring in Antonio Paace." "This one is through." "Up." "You are free." "If you need something, phone me." "I didn't want to!" "Canes, Mattone, leave us alone." "Go drink some coffee." "Leave me alone with the comrade." "A comrade of yours has accused you." "In prison there aren't professors, but there are bank robbers." "Antonio Pace, born in Ravenna 1946." "Ex chemistry student." "Anarchist individualist." "Convicted to three months of prison in 1968  for resisting the police." "Why are you shouting?" "Do you know who I am?" "You're the lover of the lady who was killed on the floor below." " By who and when?" " In my opinion you killed her  Sunday the 24th of August." " At what time?" "I my opinion you killed her between 5:00 and 7:00." "At that time I saw you at the gate." " If you are so sure, accuse me." " I would love to." " Accuse me!" " Here you are, and here you stay!" " A murdering criminal directing the repression." " Accuse me!" " It is perfect." " You have to accuse me!" " I have made a mistake, but I want to pay." " It is perfect!" " Don't shout!" " Do your job." "You have to accuse me because I am a person..." "Open!" "For the next "action" I'll phone you." "You're in my power!" "What are you doing?" "Come here, don't behave like a child." "Be reasonable." "I want out, let me go." "He has not done nothing, release him." "The student!" "Understand?" ""You are in my power. " Understand?" "How are you?" "Silence." "Even you have come for the Botta crime?" " No, I am here for the Terzi crime." " The woman killed with a blade." "I told you to shut up." " Good morning, doctor." " How are you?" "I am fine." "Pallottella." " I am here." " It is your turn." " No." "I'll go." "Pallottella, come!" "Close the door." "Come forward, Pallottella." "Ruffiano, come forward." "Enter, son of a bitch." "You petty clerk, "copper"." "You never understood the meaning of my gestures and of my sacrifice." "I want to affirm the concept of authority in its purest form." " You incompetent!" " What have I done?" "I give you the murderer of Augusta Terzi." "Thank you." "From this moment I am at the disposition of justice." "If you want to question me, I will be at home." "My God!" " These things happen." " I have made a mistake." " This morning you will go home." " Sure." " My God!" " Please, this way." "Where?" "Now you may recognize me." "No, I don't know you." "I don't know anyone!" "Help!" "I don't know anyone!" "What have you done?" "You have not thought about us?" "We are your colleagues." "Do what you have to." "Article 247." ""Cases where house arrest may be used. "" "" When the circumstances... "" ""... and the moral state of the arrested allows it... "" ""... the attorney of the republic... "" ""... and the magistrate may declare... "" ""... that instead of jailtime... "" ""... the arrested shall stay, temporarily, in a state of arrest... "" ""... in his residence. "" "Doctor, they are all here." "Come." "Doctors, excellencies." "Excellency." "I am sorry to have disturbed so many important persons." "Eat." "Dear colleague, where were you from 3:00 to 7:00  on the day of the murder of Augusta Terzi?" "Excellency, doctors." "I was there." "I killed her." " Can you prove you were in her house?" " I have to give you bad news." "There was a witness to my presence." "The subversive student Pace  saw me enter the building." "Not true, the student Antonio Pace has an ironclad alibi." "He was out of Rome that afternoon." "I have questioned him for hours my own way." "Excellency, the bloody tracks  found in the home of Augusta Terzi  they belong to my left shoe." "My friend, there exists a lot of shoes of the same size  and of the same type." "I have an identical pair." "Me too." "In the apartment I have left my fingerprints everywhere." "Even on the faucets of the shower." "Doctors, excellencies." "After the murder I washed myself." "It is strange." "On faucets, glasses and handles there were no prints of yours." "However, the blue fibre under her fingernail belongs to a tie of mine." " Then give us that tie." " I have destroyed it." " Why?" " At that moment I didn't know  if I should confess to the crime  or use my small powers to cover up the traces." "You have had a a dissociation, a neurosis." "However it is a contracted illness due to the prolonged use of power." "It is an illness common to a lot of powerful persons  in our little society." " I'm doing well." " Enough with the psychology!" "You need evidence to show your guilt." "Not words, but facts!" "I bought the 25 blue ties through that poor, deficient man." " No, he did not recognize you." " He denied it because he was afraid." "When he understood I was a police officer..." "Do not make offensive remarks against us  and our nation's important institutions." " Speak of the facts." " What's your motive?" " She was playing games with me!" "She was playing games with me and our institutions!" " Even with you, gentlemen!" " That is not a demonstrable motive." "Excuse me, Excellency." "Gentlemen, excuse me." "It is a private matter." "Come." "Excellency, a little discretion." "Each day in her company revealed my incompetence as a human being." "It is absurd, unlikely, science fiction!" " Then I have killed her because of jealousy!" " You did not know her." "Prove it." "She was not your lover, nobody has seen you two together." "You are right, gentlemen." "One moment." "I'll go gather the evidence of my guilt." "I'll return quickly." "You have killed a useless person." "Someone else would have killed me, I was destined to die like that." "Do what they say." "Think of your colleagues." "Think of your career." "These photos show that the victim was photographed here." "Check the furnishings and the floor!" "The victim plays out erotic scenarios  in D'Annunzio-type settings." "What a disgrace!" "I confirm my version of the facts!" "He is an immature person." "He lacks corporal spirit, so he's ended up like this." " I will write a memorial!" " Cheers!" "Health." " I will do what you want." "Well!" "Bravo, son." "Do you want to say something?" " I confess my innocence." " Well done!" "." "Sign here." "Good, be calm." "Doctors, colleagues." "There is an enemy walking freely who knows the facts." "He won't use them only against me, but against all of us." "Against the powers that be and against God!" "That is an open case." "Welcome." "Have a seat, gentlemen." ""Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law;" "that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment. . ""