"Czech Television" "The Leading Co-Producer of Czech Films" "Funded by the Czech State Fund for Czech Cinematography" "ONE WAY TICKET" "In the late 1970s Pavel Gregor and others invented a method for manufacturing pervitin for intravenous application." "This global sensation has taken hundreds of thousands of lives." "Oh boy!" "I love being home alone!" "Turn that down!" "It's too loud!" "I'm off to work." "My parents didn't have much time for me." "My mother was strict." "My dad was more lax." "I felt ambivalent toward them both." "I had a brother from my mother's first marriage." "And a sister from my father's first marriage." "My brother lived with us." "My sister lived elsewhere." "My brother was ten years older." "He was my role model." "I followed his rules." " Want to see something?" " Sure!" "WOW!" "You still just pee with yours?" "I had a lot of energy." "Today you'd call me hyperactive." "Teachers complained about my behavior." "I got average grades." "My parents were always at work, so I grew up on the street." ""I'll never fight again."" "I had various circles of friends." "Another betrayal!" " Shut up!" "Same tactics." "Same as those German pigs!" "One of the girls in our gang had more experience." "She had a job at a famous disco." "One day she introduced us to different substances." "We tried dry-cleaning fluid and a special kind of gasoline." "Inhaling them gave you hallucinations. it wasn't always fun." "Usually we were being chased or seeing demons." "We didn't yet see it as doing drugs." "Just dangerous play." "A discovery." "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs requests that we repeat:" "Our borders have been invaded against our governments wishes." "Troops have surrounded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" "Soon we will cease broadcasting." "The Soviet infantry is about to occupy Czechoslovak Radio." "On behalf of the entire staff here at Czechoslovak Radio we ask you to remain as calm as possible." "Any type of resistance would be pointless." "We are not surrendering..." "How can you sit here?" "...To avoid bloodshed." "In this situation bloodshed is pointless." " You knew the whole time." "Bastard!" " Remain as calm as possible." "There were no drugs here then." "No heroin or meth like in the West." "We looked for substances that produced similar effects" "Mostly pharmaceuticals." "Unfortunately I managed to hide my drug use for a long time." "My parents had no idea." "They knew about experiments with alcohol and tobacco." "Drugs did not officially exist in Socialist Czechoslovakia." "Socialist citizens had no need for drugs." "Back then it was popular to belong to a gang." "I lived near two famous pubs, U Fleku and U Zpevacku." "I started hanging out with the hippies there." "Those same people started using the drug in '79 and '80." "Later they became meth cooks." "At the time I had no idea" "I'd end up prosecuting those same people years later." "How paradoxical." "I wanted to be a cop for one simple reason." "I'd only have to do 5 months of mandatory military service." "I enlisted in the service I joined the police force" "After 5 months in the service in Frydek-Mistek," "I became a policeman." "Zdenek Zavazal, Nickname "FIFA"" "He became a policeman when he was young." "Was assigned to the Department for Teens and Drug Abuse." "After 1989 he joined the Prague Drug Enforcement Center." "In 1999 he began working major international cases." "Not there!" "There's still puke there from last time." " I get sick thinking about it." " My fault." "It won't happen again" "Fine." "Stop bringing everyone who gives you something here." "I'll get beakers, you get drops." "You get the chemicals, and lets go." " Can't you get Ritalin, Zuzana?" " There's none to be found." " I've got drops already." " Want to drink it with us?" "Stop it!" "Excuse me." "If you want Ritalin, there's some at my house." "Solutan, too." "My mom's crazy." "Tomorrow she leaves for the spa." "The medicine chest is full, so..." "There weren't so many addicts back then." "The gangs knew each other." "They were communities." "They accepted you if you could bring something to the group." "A friend at a pharmacy." "A doctor friend to write you prescriptions." "You couldn't just come looking for drugs." "They wouldn't accept you." "They didn't sell to each other." "Distribution did exist." "But it wasn't widespread like it is today." "How did we get drugs?" "Each gang member had a job." "Ligeros lives up to its name!" "Cheap yet strong!" "1973 marked the start of my three-year period of" ""experimentation with drugs."" "Three years is quite a long time for an experiment." "At the time I tried every drug available." "There were probably no more than ten meth cooks in Prague." "10 would be about right." "In any case somehow we knew about them." "An arrest required possession of the drug or equipment for it to be possession or proof of production." "Or an eyewitness account, which isn't always sufficient" "Not much was known here about drugs back then." "So we consulted literature on toxicology and other fields." "We had fragmentary information unless someone went abroad." "We knew it was dangerous." "At the time there were three drug-related deaths." "The largest ever opiate heist was done by a 17-year old boy." "He stole 11 crates of opiates from a drug warehouse." "He drove it to his dad's cottage in a dodgem." "Although he got caught, he rose through the ranks." "The gang made him their leader." "I didn't know that." "Shut up, idiot!" "That's ridiculous." "Asshole!" "I was the only gang member who always had a job." "Despite my drug use I worked for 30 years." "A few members were lifeguards who worked in winter or summer." "They had seasonal jobs so they were covered." "No one else in the gang worked." "I had money so I had no need to commit crimes back then." "Robbing a pharmacy carried a two-year sentence." "I didn't want the risks so I worked instead." "The kids were always hungry." "I'd buy them each a cheese plate for five crowns and toast." "They'd give me drugs in return, so I wasn't committing a crime..." "I played tennis at Sparta." "One Sunday a man and his wife were walking through the park." "He asked what my ranking was." "I said tenth in the country." "He said, "Come with me." "I'll make you Not."" "It was a karmic encounter." "I got dressed and left with a stranger." "Because he insisted that I would be top seed." "Two years later I was national champion in the 1500-meter dash." "DAN HORYNA" "Lead singer of famous rock group Vitacit in the 1970s and 1980s." "Battled drug addition for most of his life." "Was among the first to use pervitin intravenously." "My decent parents taught me a healthy attitude toward life." "To be conventional." "In fifth grade I began learning English, drawing, singing." "I later took singing from Professor Jeny." "He was a soprano at the National Theater." "He trained me for a career in opera." "He loved my voice." "He believed I'd become a world-class tenor." "Trouble was my older brother played drums in the band Tranzit." "I was drawn to rock and roll." "I took up the drums and guitar." "Ligeros lives up to its name!" "Cheap yet strong!" "The party's over, ladies and gentlemen." "You were great." "Goodbye!" " Got a minute?" " What for?" "You were great." "Got a minute?" " Kiss mine... faggot!" " This isn't about me." "Get it?" "Get what?" "I know who you are." "I just wanted you to meet my friends." "Why?" "You're cool." "We might have something for you." "I saw you on stage." "Try some." "You'll love it!" "What is it?" "Try it and see." "Then you'll do ten concerts like that in a row." "Right!" "Fuck off." "Pervitin already existed, but in liquid form." "It burned your mucous membranes." "It burned your mouth." "Your tongue fell apart." "There'd be holes in it..." "Hope to God Slovak won't be spoken at the Castle!" "That was the day Husak was elected President." "So they suspected I had secret information." "Get up, punk!" "I made a political mistake." "I was a bad element." "They threw me off the team." "They interrupted my studies." "I became a social outcast." "I started going to pubs where the hippies hung out." "Until '81 they'd put me in jail before all federal holidays." "We didn't want them to come to our homes." "Instead we'd inform them we were at the Nemec's house." "They'd send the paddy wagon there to pick us up." "So they always picked up 10 people at the Nemec's place." "Perhaps I'm the only singer who's experience what Jim Morrison did." "I got arrested on stage." "Know what I've been thinking?" "No." "You could create an instant antidepressant from drugs." "Bullshit." "You want to kill yourself." "Take this and you feel better." "You want to live." "I didn't want to kill myself because I was depressed." "Why, then?" "It was summer vacation." "I had a gorgeous girl." "Everything." "I didn't want it to end" "So I slit my wrists." "You're crazy." "Why?" "Don't you do drugs so you can feel happy whenever you want?" "Why a fast-acting antidepressant if you're happy all the time?" "It's not for me." "I've got to go." "You animal!" "I'll kill you." "Get out!" "Hear me?" "I hope you die." "Never come here again or I'll kill you." "Animal!" "When uppers wear off you get impulsive and aggressive." "You can't control your behavior." "I realized that drugs did things I didn't like." "I decided to stop using them." "I spent time with new friends who weren't involved in drugs." "I went into active duty and became an elite soldier." "Like Rambo." "I was declared the top chemist out of around 10,000 soldiers." "I won a military chemical pentathlon." "I took up martial arts." "I received three belts in Karate." "I completely forgot about drugs and managed to live without them." "Knowing that life could be good without drugs helped me later on." "We got married and had a son named Daniel." "The first year of marriage was great." "Hi!" "Won't the light wake him?" "He cried all day." "He'll sleep through anything." " Pick him up." " That's okay." "I'm wiped out from work." "I have to be up early tomorrow." "I'll come home early tomorrow so you can have time off." " Good night!" " 'Night!" "No way!" " Hi!" " Hi!" "What's new?" " Still studying chemistry?" " No." "Not for a long time." " How long?" " I'm married." " It's good." "You should try it, too." " Not me." " Congratulations." " Thanks." "I'm into something new." "Interested?" "Nope." "This gives me access to every shelf in this library." " So what?" " Know what you can find here?" "No idea." "The holes liquid Pervitin burned in my mouth pissed me off." "You can't talk or eat." "I don't have to tell you." "I found some studies on Hitler's chemical weapons." "The bastards knew how to make it into powder." "When you inject it you're in paradise." "Nothing nasty." "One injection sends you flying." " How'd they make it?" " There were forty steps involved." "I can do it better." " Want in?" " No." "I told you I quit." "Think about it." "Know what it would be?" "Forget cocaine." "Pervitin at full speed." "And you're going to sell it." " What the hell are you doing?" " I'm a nurse." "I know what I'm doing." "It has legs and a head, and ifs moving." " I can't see a thing." " You don't get it." " What's going on here?" " Don't yell!" "Go to bed!" "Serious cases of non-alcoholic drug addiction existed then." "The regime didn't want to publicize the problem." "The problem was kept secret." "Anyone who engaged in self-harm was subject to prosecution." "Self-dosage of all drugs was criminal activity." "Pack a bag." "Toothbrush." "Bathrobe." "Meet me and our son at the hospital." "We have parasites." "No one knows what it is." "Hello." "I'm Pavel Gregor." "I was told to come." "Just a moment." "Mr. Gregor is here." "Quite a process ensued." "Urinalysis was performed." "The age of the hole was determined." "Everything was up to the doctor." "Was the hole over a week old?" "Was it the result of blood work?" "Get undressed." "Strip." "Who are you?" "Where's my wife?" "I'm with the police." "I want to talk to my wife." "How do you and your wife get along?" "I'm Zdenek Zavazal." "I'm investigating illegal narcotic use." "How am I involved?" "I've been clean more than six years." "I've done nothing wrong." "My wife is here." "Why can't I see her?" "Are you all right?" "What's going on here?" "It was a parasite." "Want to see it?" "It's in a jar in the room" "Are you taking pills?" "Please tell me." "I was right." "The drugs had made her psychotic." "She was sent to rehab." "I signed her out." "Luckily my son wasn't cut up." "I made a poor choice." "My wife kept abusing drugs." "I felt she was taking too much." "I had a great idea." "If I did drugs, too, there would be less left for her." "So I went back to drugs after six years of sobriety." "Why'd you give her that shit?" "You know she has a child." " She showed up alone." " Go to hell!" "Stop playing games." "You're hooked, too." "Don't say you're helping her." "You're screwed." "Just like us." "You just refuse to accept it." "He was highly educated in pharmacology and chemistry." "Together we tried out 42 patents for Pervitin." "He modified 3 recipes for home use that required less equipment." "Nowadays only the quickest of these methods is still used." "The other two are more costly." "I'm sure they've been forgotten." "Pervitin was a Czech drug." "After the Revolution it was made in Poland and other countries." "Awful stuff." "The Czechs can't be beat." "If Czechs decide to do something, you know what we're like." "No one can beat us." "It took 15 minutes before the liquid form took effect." "Then you'd vibrate." "When you shoot up there's no wait." "I was one of the first in the country to inject it." "What a rush!" "First it hits your body." "You hair grows." "You sweat." "Your lungs expand so you can't breathe through it." "Your body hair stands on end." "Your mind is so overwhelmed that you have to start moving." "If ifs strong you lose all control at first." "So?" "Everything seems like ifs going in slow motion." "You take in fifteen things at the same time." "Your intellectual capacity increases by 25 to 30%." "You can't control it." "You can't prioritize." "Everything grabs your attention." "If you drive you can see two crossroads up the road." "And it doesn't distract you.You take in far more information at once." "And you can't organize it." "The problem was that this drug was legal until 1984." "Manufacturing it was legal." "Look!" "Holy shit!" "Police." "I'm coming in." "We've already met." "Nice." "Have some." "No one underage." "Got it?" "No one underage?" "No more cops." "Got it?" "Why are you doing this?" "If that had been my wife I'd never forget it." "How can you get high?" "I'm starting to see that drugs do kill." "My wife died a year after we divorced." "There was no one to restrain her drug use." "My son came to live with me." "I remained alone with him." "My brother who was my role model said you should try everything." "I tried drugs before him." "He didn't start until 1981." "Seven years later he died of an overdose." "There were about 200 people in the crowd I knew then." "Of the ten still alive, eight are sick and homeless." "Everyone else is dead." "They were five years younger than me." "So I'm convinced that drugs kill Addicts suffer constantly." "Drugs or no drugs, life is impossible." "So they choose suicide." "Would you look after him?" "I have work to do." "Just for a few months." "Then I'll be better." "Nonsense!" "You sound like your brother." "Know what happened in a few months?" "He sat home and rotted." "You will, too." "At least for once act..." " What?" " Don't let me down." "I'm not like dad." "Get out." "Get out of here!" "Hear me?" "Get out, you..." "Get out, junkie!" "The psychiatrists Rubes and Skala opened a center for drug addicts." "I heard that registered addicts were not subject to prosecution." "I marched myself down there and registered as an addict." "Looks great!" "Thank you." " Enjoy!" " Thanks!" "Once you were registered the cops left you alone." "If the cops caught you high they could only send you to the psychiatric hospital." "That was our safe house." "If you acted "inappropriately, "" "meaning you were high and causing trouble." "If the cops caught you, you'd pretend to be crazy." "They'd take you to the psych hospital." "The people here knew us." "They'd admit us." "Next day they'd discharge us." "By then the cops were gone." "Zuzana!" "Zuzana, come out!" "Please!" "Tell me the number, please!" "I'll be invisible like you." "Please tell me!" "Zuzka!" "Please come out!" "Zuzka, please!" " Where are we going?" " For questioning." "Bullshit!" "To the psych hospital!" "Step on it!" "I got remarried." "We had a daughter." "So we had two children." "My wife agreed to marry me if I didn't take drugs." "I kept my promise." "I learned that the longer and more often you take drugs, the harder it is to stay away from them." "I stayed clean only 19 months." "I mistakenly visited the gang and thought, "Just this once."" "It's never just once." "It's twice, three times..." "My habit was back." "I kept it secret." "I continued working." "Until my brother died in 1987." "Then my father died." "It was rough." "I abused drugs more often." "Then I became addicted." "The gang would give you drugs once or twice." "After that they'd either be out, or they'd want something for it." "I got sick of making deals and going to see the gang." "I had studied science." "I started making drugs for personal consumption." "It didn't cost much." "I had huge amounts of drugs." "As a result my health and social standing quickly declined." "We have a new ring of cooks who share recipes." "Here are their names." "Divvy them up." "Pavel Gregor's on the list, but I'll take him." "He was an addict." "Now he's a cook." "But he's no fool." "I'll try to somehow help him." "Why favor... this Gregor guy?" "Stay out of it." "After the Revolution of 1989 we opened the department." "There were 15 or 20 of us." "We each had our findings from our respective precincts." "Our knowledge was comprehensive." "We didn't use the telephone." "We presented our findings and combined them." "We drove around Prague and went on drug raids." "With time we hired more people." "We became a major headquarters that was located in an office like under the regime." "Specific groups were formed that targeted pervitin, cocaine, heroin, marihuana." "I worked on pervitin." "I infiltrated the cooks." "There so few that we could raid them all in a single night." "Sometimes a bond formed... between cop and junkie." "Not like drinking buddies." "He knew I was the investigator and he was breaking the law." "It was understood:" "If you break the law I'll arrest you." "Nice apartment!" "Thanks." "Kind of messy, but who cleans nowadays." "I don't" "Everything seems to be in order." "I hear you've been doing stupid things lately." "Must be some mistake." "Probably." "In any case, I'll have to check on you more often." "Inspections will continue." "Fifa was a good cop." "Most of all, he was fair." "Sure I was on the other side." "They were policemen." "They chased us." "I did things I shouldn't have." "They rightly tried to stop us." " A little." " They succeeded." "Rarely, Pavlik." "Pavel was desperate." "He knew he was breaking the law." "He's no different from you or me." "Educated." "He worked." "Had a family." "He got involved in something he couldn't get out of." "So why hurt a guy like that?" "Dealers today target children." "Pavel's heart wasn't in it." "So we became friends." "We keep running into each other." "Why are you here this late?" "I'm going home to bed." "I have to get up early." "What's in the bag?" "Just curious." "What's this for?" "Sorry, Pavel." "Keep this." "I've got a question." "There's a new cook in Prague." "He's been supplying Charles Square for two months." "He's supplying half the town." "Know who it is?" " You can't be serious." " I need more time." "Go to hell!" "Enough already!" "I don't get your point." "Pavel Gregor is the largest producer of pervitin in Prague." "You act like you were lovers." "Stop exaggerating." " I know him." " How can you be sure?" " He only cooks for himself." " You stupid fuck." "Guess who's supplying downtown." " Pavel!" "Open up!" " Who's there?" "Fifa!" "Coming." "Move away from the door." "I'm about to vomit." "Is that you, Monika?" "Open the door!" "If you're hiding something..." " What's wrong?" " I feel sick." "Get away from the door or I'll puke all over you!" "Open the door!" "Now!" "You screwed up, Pavel." "You can't get emotionally involved in your cases." "A village cop arrests his friends, their kids." "He has to do his job." "I didn't arrest Pavel because I was angry." "I could've arrested him before, but that time he went too far." "I couldn't look the other way any more." "I tried to be careful about the way I took drugs." "Nowadays ifs fashionable." "They call it "harm reduction, " which is safe using." "Back then I used my own needles." "I was really careful." "I used clean water." "Everything." "There were emergencies." "I scored in an apartment I didn't want to be in." "I left thinking I'd shoot up somewhere else." "The people made me uncomfortable." "Nothing was open under Communism at 3 a.m." "You waited forever for a night bus." "No 24-hour gas stations." "Buildings were locked." "Not a single water source." "I needed my fix so bad." "I put the powder in the syringe." "I spat into it for half an hour." "I shook it to get rid of the bubbles." "Then I shot up." "It was horrible." "Only half the stuff dissolved." "That's how desperate addicts get." "I'll have you rot in here if you keep doing this." "You are moving to a new place." "Anytime I drop by I want it smelling like roses." "Understand?" "Has your wife been here?" "Can't you move in with her?" "I do drugs." "I have another chick." "What do you think?" "I joined Vitacit in 1979" "I resumed my studies." "I attended music school in the evenings." "I was so busy I hardly used." "In 1981 I had some bad Pervitin." "That landed me in I.C.U." "Cardiac arrest." " "Sober Yet High on Rock"" " I stayed clean for 10 years." "When I played in the 1980's I was clean." "I put a record outwith Merlin." "We were on our way." "A new career." "Prague became the Amsterdam of the East." "Pervitin was everywhere." "I'd just divorced my second wife." "I'd had a fight with the band We were at a pub." "Some random chick picked me up." "She wanted to make love with me." "I agreed to leave with her." "I paid and we left." "She took me to an apartment." "There was a cook there." "I blew off the chick." "I wanted to do drugs again." "In 1991 I used for exactly seven months." "It was pitiful, so I remember it." "Worst thing was that after 10 years of sobriety I thought I was cured." "In 1996 I got out of jail after 9 months." "My marriage fell apart." "They couldn't handle worrying about me." "We decided to divorce." "I still supported my family, but I didn't live with them." "I lived in 13 junkie flats." "Six or eight addicts inhabit a filthy environment." "No one ever cleans." "Needles strewn about." "Vomit everywhere." "Back then taking drugs was a group experience." "A few of us would share drug-induced realities completely different than what we endured under Communism." "Whereas in the 1990s drugs were being sold." "It was a business." "Just business." "People from all over Europe came here to buy Pervitin." "Word spread that Czech Pervitin was much stronger than cocaine." "Pervitin became an export item." "In Germany everyone could see that you were a junkie." ""Got any Czech-0?" they'd ask." "They called it Czech-0." "Not pervitin" "A gram of pervitin cost 1000." "Same as a gram of coke." "A dose of coke lasts 8 hours." "Pervitin lasts 48 hours, plus ifs more hallucinogenic." "I experienced what a lot of people do." "In 1991 I went into a drug-induced psychosis." "I didn't seek help so it lasted two years." "Those were the most intense two years of my life." "I couldn't distinguish what was going on in my head from reality" "I had delusions of persecution." "Everyone was plotting against me." "I don't have fond memories." "I suffered incredible loneliness and hopelessness." "People often choose suicide because it is so unbearable." "Hang on." "Zavazal residence." "Hello?" "Who's this?" "What do you want to do in this state?" "When I was fifteen..." "You don't know this because you were always gone." "I was on the bed." "Someone opened the door." "Dad came in and fucked me." "I survived." "I'll survive this, too." "Hi." " What's up?" " Can I ask a favor?" "Can I hide something I don't want to lose here?" "The cops keep coming to my place." "They catch me with this and I'm screwed." "Me, too." "I don't know." "For how long?" "A few days." "What are you gawking at, fucking junkie?" "I haven't done anything." "I'm acting nice." "Be nice to me, too." "Animals!" "It was pretty sad." "My fellow policemen played a dirty trick." "I'm not saying that's how it goes." "They knew what they were doing and what the risks were." "They knew criminal law better than some cops." "The exact articles." "Jail time." "They knew full well." "How's things?" "Don't be mad at me." "I'm not responsible." "I'd never do this." "No problem." "This is hell, huh?" "In here." "Hell is here." "Right here!" "Here..." "It was a miracle I survived." "Experts calculated the force equaled 1200 grams of TNT." "I should have been blown to bits, but I wasn't." "I didn't even lose consciousness I was seriously injured." "I suffered burns from the fire and the acid." "180 glass shards went into me, 2 got in my eyes." "I had a 7x9 mm shard in my right eye." "A 2x3 mm shard remained in my left eye." "I went blind." "I couldn't handle it." "I'd never see my children again." "My friends." "My veins." "I couldn't handle it." "A mind-altering substance exploded in a Prague apartment." "One person was injured." "He was likely manufacturing drugs" "Firefighters, rescue workers, and policed arrived immediately." "The blast could have endangered other residents in the building." "Firefighters were called to the scene twice." "They arrived around 6 p.m. when the blast occurred." "Then they helped police remove an explosive device from the flat." "Investigators discovered that an unknown substance exploded in the hands of a man who was apparently manufacturing drugs." "He suffered serious injuries and was taken to the hospital" "The building was evacuated because of the possibility of further explosions." "Residents can only return to the house at their own risk." "The bomb squad discovered another substance that they immediately removed as a security measure." "It is not yet known what charges the perpetrator will face." "They took me to the hospital." "Surgeons gave me 200 stitches without anesthesia." "They didn't know what I had in my system." "The blast punctured my eardrums, so I underwent plastic surgery." "My hearing is impaired, but I'm not deaf." "I've had four eye surgeries." "I'm blind in my right eye." "My sight in my left eye is poor, but I can see." "Four days later they discharged me." "My girlfriend took me to the detox ward." "The doctors used medicine to help me through detox." ""Introduce yourself, Mr Horyna." So I did." ""What do you expect from us?"" "What do you say in that situation?" "You've hit bottom." "You are lost." "I said I wanted to learn to get joy from life." "He was stunned." "He said, "I've never heard that before."" "Everyone talks about abstinence." "I told him abstinence wasn't my problem." "I'd been clean for ten years, then six." "He said, "I like that."" ""We can't help you, but we can help you learn."" "It's true." "When you quit drugs you focus on suffering in abstinence." "Life without drugs has no meaning." "DAN HORYNA Currently works as a therapist." "Performs with the group Merlin." "Lives by Buddhist philosophy." "One day I decided to quit." "My life is completely different." "I don't want to forget what I used to do." "I've entered a new phase." "I'm moving in a new direction." "I'll probably never talk about these memories again." "ZDENEK ZAVAZAL, Nickname FIFA Left the police force." "Works in hospitality." "Fathered his second child in 2009." "Sure it was like a game of cat and mouse." "But I agree." "When Dedek and I were bored and we'd go visit Pavel." "We made them even more nervous." "We rode around town." "They never knew when I'd show up." "Who'd be in his apartment." "We were buddies." "A cops can always find a buddy at a shooting gallery." "Someone he can work with." "Sure I didn't talk to Pavel the way we're talking now." " I'd yell at him." "I was furious." " Fifa was a fair cop, meaning..." " Could you tell right away?" " I could." "He never tricked me." "We knew exactly how far I could go." "He never hit me like other cops did." "He never broke the law." "If you hadn't invented it, would things be different?" "Someone else would have." "That's for certain." "It might have taken a few more years." "Maybe a few months." "Still you can see I always defend him in some way." "We have a bond." "I didn't invent pervitin." "Ifs been around since 1928." "No, of course not." "My dad spent a month in detox where you work." "That was five or six years ago." "When we started making this film he said he found a letter." "I'd written dad a letter." "He gave it to you." "His therapist." "You wrote some notes on it." "Dad has the letter that contains my writing and your writing." "I thought that was an amazing connection." "It was last week he told me you were his therapist here." "PAVEL GREGOR Received his university degree." "Works as a therapist at the Bohnice Rehab Clinic." "Clean and sober for 12 years." "Written, Photographed and Directed by" "Production Designer Costumes" "Edited by Sound" "Coproducers" "Produced by" "This film is dedicated to the memory of Pavel Melounek" "Subtitled by Lisette Saint Germain for FILMPRINT s.r.o."