"Your wife, your daughter, your son." "Behind you, your parents." "The emotional circle's closed." "What are you feeling now?" "I feel vile." "Guilty." "I want to get out of here." "Ms Jarczyk?" "I'm happy, when he's unhappy." "Kaim?" "My sister's beside me." "Why did she want to die?" "You committed suicide." "Why?" "I wanted to unburden my father." "What do you want to do now?" "I'd like to hug him." "Go ahead!" "No," "it's impossible, I don't want to hear this." "Back over there, please." "Your wife?" "I don't love him." "I want him out of here." "But I haven't... there's nothing..." "And your son?" "My heart hurts." "I'd like Mother to stop hating Father." "It's your fault my daughter died." "And now my son's sick." "Leave me alone!" "All of you!" "It's not my fault!" "I don't even feel hatred." "Just contempt..." "We'll finish up tomorrow morning." "It's too bad we broke off." "Please go to your rooms." "Don't talk to each other, please." "And no television." "We'll meet for breakfast at 8.00 tomorrow." "He's still not here." "And it's already 8.15." "I'll go see what's up with him." "Mr Telak left us yesterday." "Please, don't take it personally." "What now?" "Is that it?" "Patients tend to react forcefully after such intensive therapy." "What about us?" "No, come on, that's just wrong!" "But I can't force anyone!" "The therapy's voluntary," "I barely persuaded him to do it anyway." "Isn't it weird?" "The whole family starts with an A." "Agata, Agnieszka and Antoni." "You'd rather we all began with a B?" "Bronislaw for me and Brigitte for you." " Bonaventura for me..." " That's a man's name." "Nope, it ends in an A, ergo, a woman's!" "I wouldn't want to start with a B." "Not to mention Grandpa Andrzej." "I saw one bacteria that was just so like you..." "Give me a break!" "Mommy, he's suffocating!" "He'll die!" "Oh, Jesus!" "30 degrees in the shade... and they didn't even crack open a window for him." " We need to call the police." " There's no time for that!" "Agnieszka!" "Stand back!" "Careful..." " All right..." "Here, boy, here!" " I've got some water." "Got it?" "There you are." "What's going on here?" "Some imbecile shut their dog in a car in this heat." "And you've gone one better!" " What was I supposed to do?" " The dog was suffocating!" "You've destroyed the car." "Your ID, please." "Here you are." "Excuse me." " Hello?" "Yes, what?" " They were all tight shut and..." "OK, fine, I'll be there ASAP." "If I must..." "I'll be happy to cover the cost, but as you can see, I'm a prosecutor and that very same day," "I'll have the owner in court for ill-treating an animal." "OK?" " Where are you going ASAP?" " I have to go to work..." "But it's Sunday!" " I do know it's not Tuesday!" " I was meant to go into the lab..." "So, work at home!" "I'll be back soon." " Who's in charge here?" " Lieutenant Smolar." "That's not Slawek Smolar, by any chance?" "I don't know!" "Smolar." "Thank you, you can go." ""Only mountains never meet..."" "You became a prosecutor?" "Well, we had to meet sooner or later." "Later would have been fine by me." "Sure..." "Fingerprints?" "None on the instrument itself." "And what's that in his eye?" "A skewer." "There was a set in the dining room." "He died around midnight." "There was nobody in this wing." "It's closed off from the hotel." "Theoretically, it'd be possible to break in, but why bother?" "So we have four suspects." "A psychologist and the people in therapy." "On the face of it, there's no motive." "On the face of it?" "Yeah." "I mean someone had to drive that skewer into his eye." "You don't do something like that without a reason." "The widow's arrived, Lieutenant." "Please accept my condolences." "How did it happen?" "In all probability, assault and robbery." "An accidental death." "He must have run into the burglar." "He received a fatal blow to the head from a sharp instrument." "He died at once." "The doctor says... he wouldn't even have felt any pain." "May I see him?" "That might not be the best idea..." "I want to say my farewells." "Evidence is still being collected." "Besides, it's not a pleasant sight." "As you wish." " May I go now?" " Of course." "But we'll have to talk." "Would you come and see me, please?" "How about tomorrow?" "Around noon?" "And the body?" "There'll have to be an autopsy." "But the funeral home will be able to collect him on Thursday." "Here's the number to a support center... for the families of crime victims." "It might help." " Will they bring back my husband?" " Kownacki, drive Mrs. Telak..." "No, thank you." "I've got the spare keys." "Odd..." "As if she really hasn't taken it in." "My wife wouldn't take it in either." "She was laughing even at the divorce hearing." "So why did you marry her?" "For her sense of humor." "And you..." "Did you get married?" " Hi!" "Got anything for me?" " Nothing for the jackals." "No politicians and no celebrities involved." "You're not nice." "And in front of the ladies, too." " Prosecutor Zieleniecka..." " Szacka." " Are you new in town, ma'am?" " I am." "Tip me off when you get anything." "Szacka?" "Get on with interviewing the witnesses, OK?" " Want to arrest someone?" " Right now, I don't have cause, do I?" "Put them through the wringer." "Find the killer, I'll lock him up." "They can't like you much at the prosecutor's office." "Not if they land you with a case like this." "Is this going to take long, Lieutenant?" "It's rather inconvenient." "We've already been here 3 hours." "I understand your irritation." "If it's any consolation, you're still in a better situation than the deceased." "Bad joke." "It's not a joke, it's the truth, doctor." "I have to question you." "And then we'll decide what next." "What next?" "You're not going to arrest us, are you?" "Now that, I'm afraid, I can't promise." "You're not going to believe who I met today." "Who?" "It doesn't matter." "Who?" "I love this." "First of all you want to tell me something, then you decide you don't want to talk about it." "It'd be better if you didn't start at all." "Who did you meet?" "I think I'll put Agnieszka down for ice-skating." "She's got such inborn grace..." "Agata, are you finally going to tell me who you met today?" "You don't tell me everything, either." "And you're surprised?" "You're a prosecutor, after all..." "Watch." "Belt." "How about my shoelaces, too?" "Shoes." "And what've I got there?" "A Kalashnikov?" "I don't know." "We'll see." " Can't you hurry it up?" " I'm sure we can." "Yes?" "Hello?" "It's Igor." " Go on." " I have some bad news, sir." " Henryk's dead." " What happened to him?" "I'm afraid it was an unfortunate accident." "Come to the airport." " We're going back." " What?" "Grab all that, honey, grab it." " Just what are you doing, sir?" " Can't you see?" "I'm through." "If this is how you treat passengers, nobody'll bother to fly at all!" "The weather's breaking, Mr Chairman." "I just don't get it." "Why've we come back..." "Take it easy, babe." "Go with the driver." "Maybe it's a good thing you turned us back." "A week with her and I'd probably have gone crazy." "Tell me what happened." "Henryk was murdered... on Saturday night." "At Przegorzaly Castle." " What the fuck was he doing there?" " Group therapy." "One of the others in the group could have killed him, or someone who knew he was going to be there." "Or a burglar, like the police are claiming." "Bullshit, not burglars." "They always say when they want to get the press off their backs." "What should we do?" "The initial procedure's already been set in motion." " That'll do for now." " Are you sure, sir?" "The person who killed him won't get far." "Who's running the investigation?" "Smolar at police HQ and Szacka at the D.A. 's Office." "Smolar..." " And who's this Szacka?" " New." "No experience." "That shouldn't be a problem then." "Well?" "Nothing." "Nothing?" " Nothing's also something." " What am I supposed to make of that?" "Nobody saw anything, nobody knows anything, nobody has any suspicions." "The whole group had been in therapy for a week." "Before that, they didn't know each other." "They say that Telak was deeply depressed... and they're so convincing I almost believe he committed suicide." "And your impression?" "Nice." "Nice." "Nobody was unnaturally composed." "Or agitated." "None of them gave anything away about themselves." "Henryk Telak was the first of the group to be the subject... of the family constellation method." "And what's that?" "Look it up on the Internet." "Hellinger's method is just a way... of bullshitting people out of their money." "Interview everyone who was around." "Someone might have seen something." "The windows and the door are barred." "The porter could have dozed off." "I really can't lock all four of them up." "Prohibit them from leaving the fold." " Pardon?" " Take their passports." "These days, one travels on one's ID, you know?" "In your opinion, what kind of man was Henryk Telak?" "Well, very unhappy." "Anyone who goes into psychotherapy is kinda' nuts, but he'd had exceptionally bad luck." "You know, his daughter committed suicide." "And six months after her funeral, he found out about his son's illness." "A congenital defect." "You found the body, right?" "It was before nine." "I ran off the terrace into the dining room..." "I found the body there, with that skewer in its eye." "That's it." "I started screaming." "Who arrived first?" "Ms Jarczyk." "Then Dr Rudzki... and finally, Kaim." "The doctor yelled that nobody should touch anything... until police arrives... and to get out because we were trampling on the evidence." "Which one of your group could have murdered Telak?" "I don't know." "I have no idea." "I see." "But if you had to take a guess, name one person then who would it be?" " Kaim, perhaps." "He played the role of Mr Telak's son in the session." "You could see that his father had wronged him badly." "So..." "I thought perhaps it was he..." "Out of revenge on his father..." "That he'd had no love, well, and generally..." "Yes, I felt hatred toward him." "And did you kill him?" " No." " And did you want to?" "No." "Honest to God, no." "And what do you think?" "Who killed him?" "How would I know that?" "The papers said it was a burglar." "An adult guy's supposed to kill... some other guy... because during a session... he pretended to be his unloved son, right?" "I don't know." "I did say that I don't know." "I was taking part in a constellation for the first time... and it's an experience close to losing consciousness." "The longer I stood there, the worse I felt and the less like myself." "OK, so now you're looking at me as if I've lost the plot, but I'll finish anyway." "I wasn't pretending to be his son." "I was clearly becoming him." "And please don't ask me how that's possible." "Which one of your group murdered Telak?" "Nobody, of course." "You surely can't be thinking that one of us is a murderer?" "You'll vouch for people you've only just met?" "Well, no..." "But, I mean, they're normal people," "I've heard their life stories." "It must've been some thug." "Since they're normal, how come they're having psychotherapy?" "No, that's not fair." "All of us have problems of some kind, but not everyone can cope with them on their own." " Hania?" " Why?" "The daughter committed suicide at the age of fifteen..." "I'll bet my life he molested her when she was a kid." "Hania sensed that and she could have killed him." "Like, in some kind of sleepwalking state, for example." "No, it's not right to throw accusations around." "It also came out during the therapy that..." "Mr Telak's wife hated him... and Ms Jarczyk played that hatred so evocatively..." "I don't know myself." "And what did you feel when you saw Mr Telak's body?" "First of all I was terrified." "And when I calmed down," "I felt a sense of relief." "I've never met anyone as wretched as him." "So I thought that perhaps somebody had done him a kindness." "There couldn't be any world where he'd be worse off... than he was here..." "My apologies." "But in my current state..." "I couldn't make it to your office." "At least I didn't miss the view." "Impressive, isn't it?" "You should come and visit me once it's dark." "Let's begin, otherwise I really will be here till nightfall." "Some coffee or tea?" "A glass of water will be fine, thank you." "When did you meet Mr Telak?" "I was organizing an international psychotherapists' conference." "Looking for a printer for the publication of the papers," "I came across his company, Polgrafex." "He was intrigued by the contents of the publication." "I told him that I try to help people... for whom life's lost its meaning." "That was when he told me about his daughter's suicide, his troubled relationship with his wife..." "I asked if perhaps he'd like to meet with me." "He wasn't sure, but a week later, he phoned." "We met once a week." "Then I decided to use systemic family constellations." "And they are?" "Bert Hellinger's family constellation method." "Other patients embody the subject's family members." "We build a model of the emotional relationships... to discover hidden dependencies." "But why do you limit it just to the family?" "Aren't emotional relationships between people who aren't related... often the most powerful?" "We're concerned with the archetypal love... which is not of our own choosing." "Love for our children, our parents and our grandparents... is thrust upon us by the law of nature." "If you'd like to read up on it..." "During therapy, did Telak tell you that he had enemies?" "Telak was a broken man, withdrawn, closed in on himself." "I don't think anyone in his circle paid him any attention." "Please set up your immediate family." "Barbara will be your wife." "Yes." "Kaim will be your son." "And Hania, your daughter." "But I..." "My daughter's dead." "Put her in place, please." "We'll place your dead parents here." "Your primary family." "So, this is how it looks, Henryk." "You can see your family." "What are you feeling?" "I feel vile." " Guilty." " Breathe, please, breathe deeply." "Sit down." "But what kind of theater's this?" "Do they receive a script beforehand?" "No, and what's more, they know almost nothing about Henryk." "They don't know that he ran away from home as a teenager, or that his parents died tragically." "Did you see what's happening there?" "Try and draw some conclusions from the way he placed them." "Telak is lonely." "His wife isn't standing beside him, his children aren't looking at him." "Think about what the children say." "They want to be together." "And they want to go to their grandparents." "What does that mean?" "They want to die." "But why?" "Out of love for their father." "He failed to give due reverence to his parents before their death." "He disturbed the systemic balance." "That means that someone must take atonement upon themselves... and it's most often a child, who enters as new into the system." "The child takes on the burden of restoring the equilibrium, takes on the guilt, anxiety and anger." "Watch what happens, please." "The son." "My heart hurts." "I'd like things to be better for Dad." "For Mother to stop hating him." "It's your fault my daughter died." "And now my son's sick." "Leave me alone!" "All of you!" "It's not my fault!" "I don't..." "Come on, how's it possible for Kaim's heart to be hurting?" "I mean, how can he feel physical pain?" "The morphogenic field theory... is used to explain Hellinger's therapy." "According to the theory, what we are doesn't only depend on genes, but also on an electromagnetic field." "Hellinger maintains that our spirit resonates with everything... that happens within the given family and is connected... not only with the living, but also with the dead." "While the constellation is being put in place, a stranger can enter that resonance." "And you believe this?" "Belief is meaningless, as far as I'm concerned." "What's important is whether it's effective or not." "I myself have witnessed how family secrets of which the patient... had no idea at all have emerged during the constellation." "Interesting." "It could provide a new investigation method." "Establishing the guilty... party on the basis of family constellations." " A sense of humor, too..." " I'm not joking." "If you'd tell me more about the other patients' case history, it could prove immensely helpful to the investigation." "I can't reveal my patients' secrets..." "Very well then." "Please give me all your recordings." "There's bound to be a clue in there somewhere." "I rather fear that they, too, are a professional secret." "May I remind you of the law?" "And may I remind you that a murder has been committed and that I, as a prosecutor, am investigating the case?" " I thought it was a police matter." " You thought wrong." "Now, sir, you're one of the chief suspects." "I could write out an arrest warrant... right here and now and call the police." "And then write out search warrant... and take all the recordings for myself." "Would you prefer to deal with it that way?" " You're joking." " By no means." "So?" "As you please." "Thank you very much." "Is this your first criminal investigation?" "It is." " And what did you work on in Tarnow?" " Economic frauds." "They have economic frauds in Tarnow?" "No." "Which is why they closed down the department." "Sit down, please." "The investigation will be tedious and laborious." "That's probably why I was assigned to it." "Don't be too hasty to pronounce judgment." "It's a fundamental sin for a prosecutor." "I read it your file that your maiden name's Zieleniecka." " Is Professor Zieleniecki any relation?" " My father." "Daddy." "Thanks to him we have our modern criminal law." "The police made a note... that Telak's wallet was found among his things." "Take a look at that wallet." "A wallet can speak volumes about its owner." "His wallet." "Of course." "Hello?" "Yup, he's here." "Oh, it's you." "Hi." "Things?" "Sure." "Personal." "Toothbrush, razor, that kind of stuff." "Pajamas." "Sure, there was a wallet." "Nothing interesting." "Look, I'm telling you, nothing interesting." "OK, I'll send it over." "New lady friend, huh?" "The prosecutor, idiot." "Supervising the investigation." "Prosecutor?" "Which one?" " Not that sperm whale Gajewska?" " She's new." "You don't know her." "New?" "Pretty?" "Depends on your taste." "A new prosecutor and you're going "Oh, it's you"?" "Keep your fucking nose out of it." "Curiosity killed the cat." "Whadd'ya want?" "We're investigators, right?" "She's a friend." "We studied law together." "Jablonski?" "Sling Telak's wallet in an envelope... and take it over to the D.A. 's Office." " Prosecutor..." "Szacka, it seems..." " Tell him to call me." "And Wolniak wants to talk to you, so call him." "He's fallen in love, I reckon!" "Look." "Where's the city police?" "They'll be copulating here in broad daylight before long." "Do they have any interests at all?" "Dope, fucking and computer games." "How's this country supposed to develop?" "Who's going to pay our pensions?" "You're not intending to live on a pension, Mr Chairman?" "Me, no." "Unfortunately, I have to work." "But all those people in Poland who fucking sweated for decades for a few cents, they're going to be kept by that lot?" "What a generation." "They did a survey recently in primary schools." "Fifty-five percent of them didn't know... what the Warsaw Uprising was." "Can you imagine that?" "No." "But young people have always been like that." "They don't read books." "They watch the school reading list on DVD." "On fast forward." "In 2009,67% of Poles hadn't read so much as one book a year." "When I was in high school, you fucking discussed books during breaks." "Kafka, Salinger, Gombrowicz." "And James Joyce." ""Ulysses"." "A sensation when they published it here." "Sold like hot cakes." "And is this the price we have to pay for democracy?" "The complete dumbing down of the nation." "Well?" "Does it look as if the Henryk matter will be all right?" "It looks like it'll be all right." "The prosecutor's drawing up the investigation schedule... and then we'll know more." " When will we get it?" " This evening." "Yes?" "Listen, I've remembered... hat he had some lottery tickets in his wallet." "Could you check and see, in case he won something?" "The widow would find it handy." "Couldn't this have waited till the morning, Lieutenant?" "I have no means of checking at this precise moment." "Good night." "Come and join us." "Dorota says she's not angry with you." "So what's her problem and how come it's with me?" "Seems you left her in a club." "Alone." "In the middle of the night." "What the fuck?" "Alone in a club, when there were at least a hundred of her friends there?" "Come and tell her yourself." "I'm going home." "I'm not in the mood." "I'm sorry I phoned during the night, but I'd had a couple of drinks and..." "No problem." "I can't talk now." "Yes?" " The police just sent this over." " Thank you." "Seven, eight, nine, seventeen, twelve, twenty-two." "I checked." "He didn't win anything with the numbers he picked." "You're asking me what's going on?" "You had the idea that if he'd won the lottery, his wife would gain by his death." "I just told you, he didn't win a thing." "Was it you, who told us to check whether... the deceased stabbed himself in the eye?" "Yes." "We have to be certain." "No bruising, cuts, stab wounds, signs of struggle... or bullet wounds ascertained on the limbs or torso." "The left eye is missing, multiple fractures to the left orbital bone." "Perhaps you'd like us to chop off his member, put it in formaline and leave it on your desk for you, ma'am?" "I imagine you're aware that the law contains a clause... regarding the profanation of remains." "I'll be waiting for the full autopsy details." "How do you all get to be such boring pen-pushers?" "You got a special school for that?" "Your client vomited before his death." " Get toxicology tests done." " Sure." "Even though the cause of death seems obvious." "Lesion to the brain brought about by a sharp instrument." "It was a fairly strong blow, though not sufficient to pierce the skull." "Could a woman have delivered the blow?" "Easily." "The orbital bone is thin, doesn't take much force to pierce it." "And could he have done it himself?" "Lt'd be the first time someone killed himself... like that as far as I know." "But I can't rule it out one hundred percent." "You read the interview records?" " Zilch." "Nothing to go on." " And have you been to his offices?" "An inspector went." "Conducted routine questioning." "Another zero." "He vomited before he died." "He was on medication." "Trankiloxil." "Sedatives." "There were two sets of prints on the bottle." "Telak's and Barbara Jarczyk's." "Excuse me." " Hi, what's up?" " Can you pick Agnieszka up?" "I'm caught up in something at the lab." "But I took the car in for service." "Hey, are you on the Old Square?" "I can hear the bugle." "Just passing by." "OK, listen, I'll pick her up." "I can't talk now." "I have to pick my daughter up from school." " I'll run you there." " If I go now, I can still make it." "It's no problem." "I've called Jarczyk back for further questioning." "Her fingerprints on that bottle need explaining." "And we have to interview Telak's wife and the son." "Have a look at the video of the therapy." "You believe that stuff?" "Give me a break." "The Hellinger method was banned in Germany..." " after a girl in Leipzig killed herself." " It could be the same here, if it turns out that Telak stabbed himself in the eye with that skewer." "Remember when Kashpirovsky was doing... his psychic healing thing on television?" "This grandma in Poznan... was watching the program." "She was alone in the apartment, five locks on the door, all locked, windows tight shut." "The program finished and... it turns out her gold watch was gone." "Hi!" "That's not Daddy." "I'm Slawek." "Your mom's driver." "Daddy said he couldn't make it." "I had to come from the office." "But Daddy promised we'd go for cream puffs after school." "No problem." "We'll go for cream puffs." "Well, OK then, I guess." "Thanks." "You didn't have to do that." "You've got a great daughter." "Thanks." "For your mercy is boundless." "Give us always to remember that our life is but short... and the hour of our death hidden from us." "May the Holy Spirit guide us through this world... in sanctity and righteousness, that we may serve you in the community of your Church, steadfast in faith, and with the full solace of hope... that we may come at last in joy to your Kingdom." "Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." "Let's get out of here." "Wolniak's taking photos." "Maybe we could head out of town for a while?" "It's Saturday." "I know this great new bar out in Lanckoroni." "For Saturday downtime, I have a family." "And friends, if need be." "We'll stick to a working relationship." "Please accept my sincere condolences." "You have no respect for the dead." "Have some self-respect, at least." " Take it easy." "I'm police." " Such are the police today." " Gimme the card." " Back off." "Gimme the card." "My husband was depressed." "I know he was in treatment, but he never shared the details with me." "I never met Dr Rudzki or any of the patients, either." "Why did your daughter commit suicide?" "Do I have to talk about that?" "This interview concerns a homicide." "Why does a fifteen-year-old decide to swallow a bottle of pills?" "Even God wouldn't be able to answer that question." "We thought it was a heart attack." "But we found a letter." ""My darling parents, Don't be upset I love you all, and you, Daddy, most of all."" "'You, Daddy' was in capital letters." "How did your husband take it?" "He as good as died." "Ended up in hospital." "Did he feel guilty?" "I know I'm being questioned in a homicide case, but could you possibly curb the number... of foolish questions, Lieutenant?" "Of course he felt guilty." "I felt guilty, too." "I feel guilty all the time." "Did you blame your husband for your daughter's death?" " I don't understand the question." " It's a simple one." "In her letter, she wrote that she especially loved her father." "Maybe their relations were closer?" "What the fuck are you insinuating, Lieutenant?" "What have you concocted in that... fucking twisted policeman's head of yours?" "Answer the question, please." "She loved her father more than anyone else in the family." "When she killed herself, the greater part of Henryk died." "The murderer didn't so much kill him as deliver the final blow." "Good morning." "I'm sorry, but we're not taking new orders at the moment." "I'm a prosecutor." "I'm investigating Mr Telak's case." "Yeah, right." "It's landed on my plate and I only started here six months ago." "The police have already been." "I told them I don't know who could have killed Mr Telak." " He was such a quiet man." " And yet..." "I'd like to see your recent orders." "Did he leave any private notes?" "No, no." "Mr Telak never made notes." " He recorded everything on his MP3." " Ah." "And where is it, this MP3?" "Not here." "He always kept it with him." "What did it look like?" "Kind of small and black, with a silver control disk." "Thank you very much." "The police already searched here." "They took all the gentleman's things." " He had a recorder." " Say what?" "Like a tiny tape recorder." "There weren't no tape recorder here." "I'd have noticed." "The police would've found it." "Sure, but he must have had it with him." "Maybe it's in a different room?" "Like, I don't know what a tape recorder looks like?" "The cleaner found a hearing aid... when she was cleaning under the bed, but that had to be the previous occupant's." "Where is it?" "Actually, I was meant to phone the gentleman from the police, only I mislaid..." " the phone number." " Excuse me." "May 23rd." "Polygrafex meeting with... printers' inks wholesaler, Polfarb." "Saturday June 4th." "Time: 11 PM." "I have to check." "Am I dreaming this?" "Daddy." "Daddy." "Is that you, princess?" "Daddy." "What's that?" "More of the therapy?" "Whose voice is that?" "No." "It was recorded at night, in his room." "Listen to the final recording." "Sunday, June 5th." "Time:" "Five after midnight." "To my wife, Jadwiga." "I apologize for talking to you like this." "It'd be easier to write a letter." "I've nothing left to live for." "You don't love me." "Maybe even hate me." "I found out today... that I'm to blame for Kasia's death and Bartek's illness." "Don't worry about money." "Igor runs a trust fund for me." "You're authorized to use the account." "They've also got my policy." "We have a kind of mutual insurance society." "The money'll help with Bartek's operation... if the chance comes up for a transplant abroad." "Bye, darling." "I always loved you more than you thought." "I don't believe it was suicide." "Can you picture it?" "A guy records a letter of farewell, then swallows some tablets, but gives up on the idea a moment later and vomits his guts up." "Gets dressed, packs, leaves." "But then changes his mind again, and sticks a skewer in his eye." "Have forensics run a phonoscopic analysis." "We need to know who was pretending to be his daughter." "And I'll find out who Igor is." " And the investigation's version?" " As I predicted, boss." "Henryk was murdered by one of the patients... under the influence of emotions related to the therapy." "People kill because they're drunk, or for money, or under orders, or out of political necessity." "And the prosecutor?" "Routine blah, blah, blah." "I wouldn't worry about it." " Why?" " Why?" "They're questioning the family, the patients, his customers." "I don't think that poses any danger to us." "We'll keep our finger on the pulse." "All right." "You can go." "Do you know what a phonoscopic analysis is?" "Kind of like fingerprints?" "Right?" "Something with the voice?" "Telak had a habit of recording everything." "He recorded something crucial to the investigation." "I wouldn't want to hear it." "It seemed to him that he was hallucinating." "He recorded it." "A conversation between Telak and his dead daughter." "We sent the material for analysis." "The results are unequivocal." "The person who stood outside Telak's door... pretending to be his daughter was you." "Is this some kind of a joke?" "No." "It's impossible." "I don't believe it." "This isn't a matter of what you believe." "You stand outside Telak's door pretending to be his daughter, pleading with him to come to you." "Telak's driven to such despair that he records a suicide letter... and then swallows a bottleful of sedatives." "The facts suggest... that since you failed to induce him to commit suicide, you decided to kill him yourself." "If you do nothing to clear this up, you'll be leaving here to be detained." "This is some kind of bad dream." "It can't be true, no, it just can't be." "Daddy." "Daddy." "Is that you, princess?" "I miss you, Daddy." "I miss you too, princess." "I have to go now." "Well?" "I'm listening." "It's my voice..." "But they're not my words." "I just remember that..." "that evening..." "I brushed my teeth with my finger... because I'd forgotten my toothbrush." "And then I went to bed." "I mean, I'm not a somnambulist." "I don't walk in my sleep." "I don't know how to explain this." "This is an arrest warrant." "I shan't sign it yet." "But you are the chief suspect." "Please don't leave the city and don't talk to anyone." "The slightest shadow of suspicion... that you're hampering the investigation... and you'll be detained that very same day." "Yes." "I understand." "I won't hamper anything." "I'm as anxious as anyone for this to be cleared up." "You can go now." "Give her a guardian angel." "Just a moment." "You can go in." "The prosecutor's waiting." "They won't let you out without this." "Sit down, please." "I have two questions." "Do you use sedatives?" "I don't understand." "Yes, I use them." "But doesn't everyone over the age of fifty these days?" "Often?" "Rarely, now." "I took some yesterday, though." "But there was a time when I had to take a pill every night." "Which is one of the reasons I ended up with Dr Rudzki." " What do you take?" " Trankiloxil." "It's a French medication." " Do you know why I'm asking?" " No." "An empty Trankiloxil bottle was found in Mr Telak's room." "The pathologist has ascertained that Mr Telak... took a large dose shortly before his death." "Your fingerprints are on that bottle." "Dear God." "Now I remember." "But surely you don't think that I could have..." "Well, I have to confess that such a thought did enter my head." "Dear God, how can one take it all in?" "The therapy, that corpse, the police and everything, this interview..." "What was it you forgot to tell us?" "On Saturday, after supper," "I ran into Mr Telak in the corridor." "He said he was very tense and asked if..." "I had anything that would help him sleep." "So, well," " I gave him that bottle." " How many pills were there?" " Over half." "There are thirty to a bottle." " And you weren't afraid that, in the state he was in, he'd take the lot?" "It would never have entered my head." ""So I thought that perhaps someone had done him a kindness." "Well, because there couldn't be any world... where he'd be worse off than he was here."" "Those are your words." "Tell me, did you give Mr Telak more tablets than he needed... in order to transport him to a better world?" " What you're saying is despicable." " Really?" "In any case, why did you conceal the matter of the tablets... when you were being questioned before?" "It would have stuck in my memory..." " Are you through?" " Yes, in point of fact." "You are the chief suspect." "I shan't arrest you today, but please don't leave the city and don't talk to anyone." "The slightest shadow of suspicion... that you're hampering the investigation... and I'll lock you up without hesitating." "I understand and I won't hamper the investigation." "Well, we've put the cat among the pigeons." "Now for some discreet surveillance." "And bug their mobiles." "It's done." "What're you thinking about?" "About you." " Something's happened?" " No." "So?" "What, specifically?" "That it'd be good if you won the lottery." "I'd have to play it." "Come up with a system, invest some money." "My deceased... he played." "He had the coupons in his wallet." "The same numbers every week." " And he didn't win." " No." "That's how people bet." "The date of their wedding or their kid's birthday." "Utterly moronic." "Why would a machine pick out the exact date of someone's wedding." "...7,8,9,17,19." "It can't be a birthday..." " Go to sleep." " Adds up to 82.8 and 2 is 10." "1 plus zero is 1." "It's meaningless..." "Hello?" "Hi, Agata." "I'm sure those numbers stand for a date." "I can sense it!" "I checked all the dates on file... and only one matches up with some of the numbers." "The date on his daughter's suicide letter." "Only, I don't know, could a guy be crazy enough to choose... the date of his own child's suicide as lucky numbers for the lottery?" "I never ran an investigation with a woman before." "I'll have to get used to it." "It opens up a whole new bunch of possibilities." "Parapsychology." "Intuition." "Hunches." "Numerology." "No, come on, listen, it's completely logical." "September 17 th 2003, at 22 hundred hours." "17,9, and 22 all appear in the numbers Telak picked." "So that leaves us with 19,8,7." "Or 19,7,8." "So... 1987 or 1978." "On September 17 th, Marian Kruk died tragically at the age of 52." "On September 17 th, Zdzislaw Kruk died tragically at the age of 26." "The first one placed by the wife, mother and family." "The second by the wife, daughter-in-law and family." "And three days later comes this." "On September 17 th, Kamil Sosnowski, beloved son and brother, was taken from us." "On September 17 th, our dear friend, Kamil Sosnowski, was murdered." "We will never forget you, Zibi and the gang." "The body of 22-year-old Kamil S. Was found... by his younger sister in their apartment." "The police maintain that the deceased... died on the evening of September 17 th." "In all likelihood, the burglars expected... to find the apartment empty, since the S. Family were on vacation at the time." "An intensive search for the perpetrators is under way." "It's not there." "The case is there, there's a catalogue number." " But the file's not there." " How come?" "Has someone taken it out?" "You reckon only a couple of files went missing after '89?" "Not just the security services', either." "But the communist police, as well." "They kept burning them." "So there's not a trace." "I can't operate like this." "I have to write reports, follow procedures." "I can't go on irrational hunches." "You're more independent." "Here's an address." "Captain Mamcarz." "He retired in '89 Kamil Sosnowski was his case." "Someone to see you, Captain." " Good afternoon." " I don't know you." "Szacka." "I'm a prosecutor." "I'm here on business." "What else?" "Don't bother." "Sit down." "What's up?" "Kamil Sosnowski." "Do you remember that case?" "Yes, I do." "You don't forget murders." "I was the first officer to arrive at the scene." "It was a horrible sight." "The body's in the bath, Captain, sir." "There's blood everywhere." "They slashed his throat." "A break-in." "He must've surprised them." "And so they killed him." "Hands and legs tied up." "Wounds on the body." "Must have been tortured." "To make him talk." "Tell them where the money's hidden." "Who found him?" "His sister." "She's in a state of shock." "The parents are on vacation." "Secure all the evidence." "When his folks get back, get a list of what's missing." "We sometimes pick up thieves when they use a receiver." "But not them." "This case was never cleared up because the security service... ordered us to close the investigation." "So you'd better go dig in the Institute of Security Archives." "If the communist security was involved, there might be a file on him." "I went to the Security Archives." "They told me to submit a request." "They do everything by the book." "You can't cut a single corner." " It's going to take at least a week." " Remember Kopec?" "My pal from the history course." "Leszek?" "It's Slawek." "You know?" "It showed up on your phone?" "Damn, can't hide a thing from you." "It's an unlisted phone, and the number still... shows up for you guys at the Archives?" "Listen, you remember Agata Zieleniecka?" "We were an item in the first year?" "And then she dumped me." "Now she needs to talk to you about something." "She'll drop by tomorrow." "Hello?" "Working." "You can work on the Old Square, too, you know." "OK, so tell me what's up." "I haven't got time." "He's on the ball, your husband." "Every time we're sitting like this, he has to phone and check you out." "Just don't kid yourself." "It doesn't mean a thing." "I dumped you?" "They threw me out." "I failed three exams." " Two." "You passed my father's." " Yeah, and that was the point." "For Daddy to get me through the course." "Arrange my application later." "Kind of a family arrangement, right?" "Nonsense." "If you want to know, I married a microbiologist." " Did you check out this Igor?" " Yup." "He's on the Supervisory Board of Telak's company." "He works for a brokerage house." "Sawin." "Over there, on Szczepanski Square." "Well then, I think I'll pay him a visit." "Good afternoon." "Agata Szacka." "I'm a prosecutor." "I'm investigating the Telak case." "Do forgive me, I wasn't prepared..." "It doesn't matter." "I'll only take a moment of your time." "I understand that your company... kept the books for Mr Telak's company?" "Investment consulting." "We're consultants." "We don't fill out tax returns." " May I?" " Be my guest." "And was Mr Telak wealthy?" "That very much depends upon what you understand by 'wealthy'." "I earn seven thousand net." "Well, in that case, yes, he was wealthy." "Near enough 500,000 in his account and 600,000 in assets." "I also hold his life insurance policy." "For half a million." "Life insurance?" "Will they pay out in the case of suicide?" "It's a private insurance policy." "A mutual assurance society." " Some water?" " No, thank you." " You're sure?" " Yes, thank you." "My dear lady, most insurance companies on the market will rob you blind." "We have no suicide exclusion clause." "You're very familiar with Mr Telak's finances." "We carry out audits of his company at the shareholders' request." "We also hold a few shares." "Then you can expect an inspection from the Prosecutor's Office." "We'll have to look into his finances." "Now, tell me, please, what's this mutual assurance society?" "It's a private venture." "Several dozen business entities... set up a joint fund." "Our company manages it." "I see." "Send me the documents related to the fund, please." "You know, I spent years... working economic crimes, so I know my way... around those matters better than I do with murder." "Of course." "Everything here is in perfect order." "And we use the very best lawyers." "No doubt." "I have one more question." "Does the name Kamil Sosnowski mean anything to you?" "No, I don't believe so." "And I was under the impression that it does." "However, if you should happen to recall anything..." "Of course." "Not so naive, eh?" "It looks like... we're not going to be able to pretend nothing's going on." "Calm down." "I didn't think they'd get on to it so fast." "Have a drink." "Our weapons are in those cupboards." "Commercial fraud, marital betrayal, corruption, political machination." "And over there, moral filth." "What are you frightened of?" "The truth will set you free." "That's what their pope said." "Bullshit." " You haven't changed a bit." " I honestly don't remember you." "Well no, because I knew you really from what Slawek used to say." "I used to see you around the campus, but I never had the courage to chat girls up." "Anyway, it's a good thing you got shot of that psycho." "Why's he a psycho?" "Well, you'd have to be a psycho to join the police." "They say exactly the same thing about the Security Archives." "They're wrong." "Here, you have to be a buffoon." "Listen, I checked." "We have no file on your fella." "No file?" "But how come?" "Well, the security service was on his back." "He was twenty when they registered him." "Perhaps he was active in student organizations." "Or his parents were opposition activists?" "But what does all this give us?" "The catalogues can only tell us where the files went." "Who took them out." "And when." "And gave them back." " Or didn't." "Apart from that, zilch." " They went wandering?" "The register shows that, in July '88, they were taken out by Department D." "And that means?" "To another archive, right?" "I don't know a thing for sure." "I can surmise, though." "And?" "I don't want to." "I'm just an archivist." "But I'll put you on to someone who's involved in all that." "An out-and-out bloodhound when it comes to ex-commie security thugs." "He's not frightened of anything." "He's single, his parents are dead and the word is he's got cancer." "Someone like that can take the risks." " What are you frightened of?" " I'm frightened." "If you knew what was in those files..." "if you'd read the denunciations, the informers' filth, seen the photos and all the time you knew that the truth will never come to light, that everything's going to be swept under the carpet... so that the establishment can sleep sound..." "Well, you know, not every secret should see the light of day." "Sometimes the harm it does costs too much." "For fuck's sake." "I just don't fucking believe it." "And this a prosecutor of the Republic of Poland speaking?" "I just don't fucking believe it." "Maybe he'll change your mind." "Karol Wenzel." " Good morning." " Morning." "Come inside please." "Are you afraid that I'm being followed?" "They know where I live." "Some coffee?" "At this time of day, the more, the better." "Talk to me." "Kamil Sosnowski, a student, found in the bath... with his throat cut, hands and legs bound." "In '87." "The case was killed stone dead, the records were cleaned up by Department D." "Then you know everything." "You just need to put the facts together." "Who else was found dumped in the water," " hands and legs bound?" " Father Popieluszko!" "That would mean Kamil... was murdered by the security service." "But why?" "Maybe it wasn't about him." "Maybe they wanted to subdue someone in his circle." " They were capable of mistakes, too." " Mistakes?" "It was rare, but it did happen." "You know how they operated." "Department 3 dealt with the opposition." "Department 4 dealt with the Church." "Surveillance, turning people into informers, entral card index, system of files and so on." "People think it was some kind of police-style bureaucracy, that the security service was full of the kind of fools... they show in films." "A dumb official collecting information nobody needs." "Incidentally, I can't stand those films... where they make a joke of the Communist security services." " Because?" " Because they're a pack of lies." "And the result?" "People think communist Poland... was this bizarre country, where maybe things were tough, but it was still amusing... and we all had a great time in fact." "And wasn't it a bit like that?" "I love those old comedies." "Why don't you ask Kamil Sosnowski?" "And there were hundreds of victims like that." "Fuck, don't you understand?" "They want you to believe it was like that?" "I'm sorry." " I was fifteen years old in '89." " And I was forty." "But that doesn't excuse you from knowing history." "I don't work at the Archives," "I don't dig into old security crimes on a daily basis." "And when I come here to discover something, I get bawled out." " Do you want me to go?" " All right." "Department D was disinformation and disintegration." "The people who did the dirty work." "Threats, kidnappings, beatings and murders, as well." "They weren't morons." "A direct hit, like in the case of Popieluszko, meant a scandal, a storm of protest in the West and a trial." "But if someone's mother gets murdered in the course of a break-in?" "That's how Aniela Piesiewicz died, but what the hell, accidents happen." "Someone's kid disappears, someone's wife gets burned to death in an apartment fire." "Bad luck." "But the people who were meant to take heed of the warning knew." "You know when they killed Piesiewicz's mother?" "On July 22nd." "'The People's Poland Day'." "That was the red murderers' calling card." " When did they kill Kamil Sosnowski?" " September 17 th..." "The Russian invasion in '39." "Any more questions?" "You said they were capable of mistakes?" "The officers didn't go do the job themselves." "They hired common criminals." "And a dimwit like that could get the wrong apartment." "We've got documentary evidence of such cases." "I came across Kamil's case... when I was analyzing the contents of Telak's wallet." "He was murdered last week." "And he had the date of Kamil's death noted down." "I'm wondering how it could be linked to the murder?" "What was his name?" "Telak?" "Chairman of Polgrafex Printers." "Apparently unassuming, but he left a great deal of money." "Do you know who owns Polgrafex?" "Polish Gambling Enterprises." "They've practically got the monopoly on running casinos in Poland." "But there's not a single tax officer... who's capable of hauling their asses in, because they're heaving with ex-service boys." "Both M.I. And Security." "If you're wondering whether this Telak... was connected to the communist security then he was." "For sure." "But as to whether he was mixed up in the boy's murder," "I can't help you there." "If he worked in 'D', well, they did... a very nice clean-up job there." "Destroyed the evidence, you mean?" "No, things like that don't get destroyed." "They'll be in a safe in a secluded villa somewhere." "Well?" " Well what, chief?" " Got anything?" "Not yet." "We're eliminating various theories." "That's not a lot." "Not a lot and a lot." "Depends." "Is it going to drag on much longer?" "I'm under pressure about this case." "Will there ever be a case where you won't be under pressure?" "I don't know, I don't know." "Do something." "What am I supposed to do?" "Put in a request to the prosecutor... for arrest warrants for the lot of them?" "Whatever." "Just get on the case." "I don't understand." "Other cases drag on for months, years even." "Good morning." "You intend to carry out the interrogation here?" "In a café?" "This isn't an interrogation." "You're not under any suspicion." "I'd just like to ask about a few facts from the past." "You have the entire police machine at your disposal." "Is it that difficult to find the murderer?" "Without the help of witnesses, we may never find him?" "I'd like to stop thinking about it." "Then please help us to clear up a few matters." "I don't know much." "My husband didn't confide in me." "I wasn't even aware that he'd saved so much money." "There are some dates he set great store by." "One in particular." "As if it had a special meaning." "Tell me, please, does the name Kamil Sosnowski mean anything to you?" "But how could you..." "Kamil was my boyfriend." "He died tragically." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't know." "Would you like some water?" "Shall we go to my place?" "I promised I'd be home early." "I'll come tomorrow." "Before noon." "Do something so we can spend the whole night together." "My folks won't be back till Sunday." "Friday, maybe." "I'll try." "That same night, they broke in and killed Kamil." "When we met..." "It was uncanny." "We fell straight into bed... and it was his first time and mine, too." "After his death, I didn't know what to do with myself." "And Henryk..." "Henryk took care of me." "We'd known each other for years." "He was the boy next door." "I knew he was in love with me." "Could Mr Telak have had anything to do with Kamil's death?" "Henryk?" "Just how, exactly." "It was thugs who killed Kamil... and the police never found the perpetrators and that's it." "Henryk wanted to marry me and it was all the same to me." "I thought to myself, let him be happy at any rate, since I can't be." "But, as you see, that's not how it works." "That marriage brought happiness to neither of us." "Nor to our children." "And Kamil's parents?" "His father was a doctor." "A psychiatrist." "And he lectured at the Medical School." "Soon after, they went abroad, to France, anyway," "I didn't know them at all." "I only saw them..." " for the first time at the funeral." " Were they with the opposition?" "At the Archives, they have a theory... that Kamil wasn't murdered by chance." "That the security service... might have been taking revenge on his parents." "I don't know anything about that." "You should ask at the university." "Professor Zdzislaw Sosnowski." "I'm convinced that the Kamil Sosnowski case..." " is linked to ours somehow." " Have you got anything concrete?" "The lottery numbers and a hunch." "You know, hunches are a female weapon." "Investigation is red tape and paperwork, not puzzle solving." "I go for the more romantic notion." "I've only just got free of economic crime." "Hey, what kind of a bar is this?" "A dive for criminals?" " Nothing but weirdoes." " Police, actually." "We meet up here to have a couple of shots and then walk home." "It's handy for me." "I live just around the corner." "Apartment 6,12 Lipowa Street." "So that's why you enticed me here!" "Easier for me to ask you up for a coffee." "Seemingly easier." "It isn't a question of topography." "I'm off." "You going to walk me to my car... or sit here and have those two shots of yours?" "Of course I'll walk you there." "You're so damn rational!" "You laugh at my intuition, but thanks to that, I hit on something." " I just don't know what, yet." " You know what?" "When you find out, tell me." "Right now, there's nothing to discuss." "You're right." "There's nothing to discuss." "Agata!" "Are you OK?" "Come here." "I'm here." "It's OK." "Hush now, hush." " Are you out of your mind?" " Where are you going?" "What was that about?" "Love?" "Or curiosity?" "Curiosity." "Unassuaged all those years." "What happened?" "Nothing." "Go back to sleep." "Where have you been at this time of night?" "Working." "You know?" "A car very nearly ran me down today." " What kind of car?" " It doesn't matter." "A black one." "Good morning." "There's some information regarding... the investigation you're conducting." "Do you want to make a statement?" "Here, in the parking lot?" "Not me." "The chairman." "Mr Osuchowski." "He invites you to join him for coffee." "But, I think, perhaps, I'll invite the chairman to join me." "That won't be necessary." "The chairman isn't a witness in the case." "He'd rather meet in a public place." "He clearly dislikes the D.A. 's Office." "And upon my word, I understand him." "Such a gloomy barrack." "Architecturally speaking, as well." "It's a somewhat unusual procedure." "I really must insist, though." "You won't regret it." "The chairman is a delightful man." "And erudite." "Very well." "Where am I supposed to go?" "It would be best if I take you and then drive you back." "The chairman is on the barge." "I'll wait in the car." "When you've finished your chat, I'll bring you back." "I made so bold as to order you a coffee." "A double espresso with a drop of milk." "And no sugar, naturally." "I'm not even going to ask how you know." "The fewer questions, the better." "I see that you like to dress neatly." "Elegantly." "Elegance starts at ten thousand zloty." "You dress neatly." "I see we're getting down to matters of finance." "I'm offering you 500000." "You can spend 50 on clothes... and use the rest to buy your daughter a little flat... and let it sit there and earn money while it waits for her." "Will you take a cut for the investment advice?" "The advice is free." "And naturally we'll assist you to document the income." "I'll give you an answer in a week." "Sit down, please." "You'll give me an answer now." "This isn't a job interview." "It's an offer of an enormous bribe." "You'll have to decide without consulting..." " either your husband or your lover." " And if I don't?" "It will cause me great regret." "You're young, you have a career ahead of you, but unfortunately you have chanced upon... a world which would be better left alone." "The money would make your life easier, though." "And the case will wind up on the very back burner anyway." "So why don't you just sit tight till it winds up there, then?" "What matters most to me is my own peace of mind... and that of my friends." "We don't feel threatened, but if you start stirring things up, then the matter will demand greater effort." "Which is why I'm offering you half a million." "There's still Lieutenant Smolar." "Lieutenant Smolar won't be a problem." "And you're not afraid that I might be recording this conversation?" "No, I'm not." "The question is whether or not I'm recording it." "And whether my technician... might edit the conversation so perfectly... that maybe your boss'll start wondering... how you could possibly have tried... to extract a bribe of half a million from me." "And all of this just to conceal the fact that your Department 'D'... ordered Telak to murder Kamil Sosnowski?" "You're mistaken." "Captain Telak acted completely of his own accord." "He was sorting out some personal problems." "He's back." "In about 30 minutes, you go up there." "You find anything valuable, it's yours." "It needs to look like a break-in." "But don't screw it up." "Make sure he's dead, before you leave." "I don't like wet work." "And who gives a fuck what you like?" "Lt'll be done, Captain, sir, and there'll be no fuck-ups." "I'm out of here." "30 minutes." "No longer." "And for that bit of license, he had a reprimand entered on his record." "I didn't see those records in the Archives." "Which doesn't mean they don't exist at all." "All that's in the Security Archives is what... is what my associates and I want to be there." "Are you disrespecting the very institution itself?" "Me?" "God forbid." "But their competence lies elsewhere." "Their investigations don't touch the service." "Just the people who collaborated with us." "Am I supposed to believe all this?" "And that this mutual assurance society... is full of ex-security thugs?" "No, you don't have to believe it." "It's not only ex-security officers." "Your own father, Professor Zieleniecki... is also insured by us for no mean sum." "And that money, naturally, will be coming to you." "That's the sorriest bluff I've heard in my life." "Forgive me, but you've lost the plot." "I'd be happy to help you find specialist help." "I've been having a lot of chats with psychiatrists recently." "I don't think you're quite crazy enough... to want to shoot me in front of witnesses?" "In front of what witnesses?" "Leave me with him." " What's the matter?" " There's no matter, Smolar." "Well, to be precise, the matter exists, but you don't exist in the matter." "Hang on, I put that wrong." "You exist." "And the matter exists." "But from now on, you and it are two separate entities." "Could you be a bit clearer, chief?" "You are to hand the Telak case over to Walendziak." "Tomorrow you're to go to Kielce." "There's rumors... that some thugs are hiding out somewhere in Kielce." "Now, hold on." "We both know Walendziak... couldn't catch a mouse even if he was a cat." "What's more, the investigation's almost done." "The prosecutor's going to be giving me..." " an arrest warrant later today." " Ah yes, Madam Prosecutor." "You know the Russian folk saying that ends..." ""...in your own backyard"?" "I'd rather not take things further, because then I'd have to enter a reprimand on your record." "They'll be waiting for you tomorrow in Kielce." "You know what?" "The prosecutor will wind the investigation up herself." "And you don't fucking scare me, because I know so many of your rackets... that you can stick your reprimand up your ass." "I knew a guy who drank to photos like that." "Goddamn fool came to a sorry end." " Where's your gun?" " Don't have it." "A cop without a gun?" "When I hit the vodka, I don't carry." "Who sent you, you shitheap?" "You wanted to grab my gun?" "Whadd'ya need my gun for?" "Good afternoon." "I need some information about Professor Zdzislaw Sosnowski." "Professor of psychiatry." "He used to lecture here." "Then he went abroad." "We have some information." "But it only goes as far as 1988." "I said a moment ago." "He went abroad." "He must have given up his academic career." "If he'd published anything, we'd have some information about it here." "Did he publish any books?" "Well, given that he was a professor..." "He published "The Methodology of Individual Psychotherapy"." "He also published a popular book in '83." ""Brainstorm"." "But he published that one under a pen name." "Cezary Rudzki." " What did you say?" "!" " Quiet, please!" "Cezary Rudzki." "I speak perfectly clearly." "Mr Zdzislaw Sosnowski, is that correct?" "Come in." "You wanted to avenge your son?" "After all these years." "By an utterly incredible coincidence," "I found out why my son died and thanks to whom." "I want to tell you something." "Get him out of here for a moment." " You can go." " But..." "Surely you can see the prisoner's condition?" "Go ahead." "I have to tell you something." "I've done a lot of bad things and I don't have the guilts." "But there's one thing that torments me." "That boy." "He was twenty years old and he begged me not to kill him." "It was me he begged." "Like he could sense I'm soft-hearted." "We killed him." "Why are you telling me?" "I'm not a priest." "I'm an atheist." "And the priest's bound by the secret of the confessional." "And I want you to go find that boy's father." "He's a doctor." "Here's his name." "He doesn't know who killed his son." " And who gave the order." " Order?" "Tell him, doctor." "The father." "Otherwise he'll never find out." "I even tried to come to terms with it." "To rationalize." "After all, I'm a psychologist." "When I lived in Paris, the whole thing seemed a long way away." "But back here in Krakow, it all came flooding back." "I just wanted to kill." "To shoot him." "Only that would be too easy." "My son was tortured for hours." "And that son of a bitch was going to die in a split second?" "So I decided to drive him to suicide." "I admit, it wasn't ethical." "I used a group of my patients to do it." "They weren't aware of a thing." "They were sure it was just normal therapy." "And Kwiatkowska?" "Outside the door... pretending to be Telak's daughter?" "She did that under hypnotism." "It wasn't difficult." "But it wasn't suicide." "No." "That night, I couldn't sleep." "I crept up to Telak's door." "There was silence." "I wondered if he'd swallowed the tablets." "Then, suddenly, I heard... the toilet flush and he came out of the bathroom." "He was dressed and ready to leave." "He said he was giving up on the therapy... and getting as far from this fucking whorehouse as he could." "My apologies." "That was a quote." "I saw that cynical gleam in his eye." "I grabbed the skewer." "I don't remember what happened next." "I just stabbed him." "God forgive me for doing it..." "Szacka." "I'd like to talk to Lieutenant Smolar." "Gone away?" "So where's he gone?" "What are you talking about?" "I'm actually writing out an arrest warrant." "OK, just put me on to someone." "Anyone." "There's no time." "Yes, Walendziak will do." "Hello?" "Lieutenant Walendziak?" "I'm writing out an arrest warrant for the Telak murder." "Cezary Rudzki." "Get some of your people and go straight... over to Rudzki's place." "18 Jozefa Street." "What's happened?" "Guy fell off the balcony." "Or jumped maybe." " From the fifth floor?" "" "I'm here." "Lieutenant Walendziak." "We're too late." "Let's go on up." " The door was open?" " Yup." " Has anyone been in there?" " Nope." "Nobody." "They said to secure it." "It was more than likely suicide." "He was the one who killed Telak." "He presumed we'd be coming to pick him up." "They sure made a mess." "There must've been a fight." "A mess isn't evidence of anything." "It'd be best to call in the scene of crime techies, let them collect the evidence." "Just in case." "I was here last week and there was a mess then as well." "What?" "What's happened?" "They only just brought him in." "He's had a shot, he'll be sleeping a while yet." "All swept up." "I have to be certain." "The investigation needs to be closed." "She shouldn't have any doubts." "It'd be better if she took the money." "A pretty little thing." "And such a lively intellect." "The main thing is that she grows up healthy, right?" "Don't you dare!" "Understand?" "Don't you dare!" "Come on, darling." "You should look out for your little girl's future." "While our offer's still on the table." "See you, Agnieszka." "Antoni, it's only for a few days." "Stop it." "I've agreed, haven't I?" " Hi, Dad." " Hello." "Antoni and Agnieszka have come to visit with you for a while." "And I've already sorted Irena out." "Is everything all right?" "Listen." "I wanted to ask you." "What company are you insured with?" "I don't remember." " You don't remember?" " Why?" "Do I have to remember?" "Is it that important?" "No." "You don't have to." "I'm frightened." "They could kill you." "They could kill me." "They took my child from outside the school." "Wanted to frighten me." "Well, they succeeded." "I'm as frightened as hell." "I'm being sent to Kielce." "They want me off the case." "Slawek, there's no case any more." "I'm closing the investigation." "Are you certain?" "Where's the sense now?" "They can do anything they want to do." "Nobody's capable of that." "Yes?" " Everything's in order, boss." " Which means?" "She's closed the case." "It's in writing." "Official." "Rudzki killed Telak and offed himself." "A resourceful girl." "Come in." "Sign it please." "So?" "Everything's been cleared up." "More or less." "You were right." "Your husband wasn't a good man." "What he did to you was terrible." "Terrible." "I don't know what to say." "I knew." "I'd known for some time." "You knew?" "Rudzki came to see me." "As soon as he persuaded my husband into therapy, he came to see me." "He told me... how Kamil had died." "But why did he tell you?" "He declared that I had a right to know." "Maybe he wanted to provoke me into something?" "I lived with it for months." "I lived... under one roof with Kamil's murderer." "Washed his clothes." "Made his breakfast." "Did Rudzki tell you that he wanted to kill him?" "Rudzki didn't kill him." "He wanted to drive him..." "He wanted him to kill himself." "What do you mean, didn't kill him?" "I was there." "I wanted to be there when he died." "But when I saw how craven..." "How he stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited..." "Then I grabbed the skewer..." "I killed him." "It's not true," ""An eye for an eye", it doesn't help in the least." "Rudzki told me to go home." " He cleaned up the evidence himself." " Just shut up, OK?" "Just stop talking such nonsense!" "Rudzki avenged his son and committed suicide!" "Do you understand?" "This investigation is closed." "Do you understand?" "Finished!" "Get out of here, please and don't come back." "If you both wanted to kill him, that's your problem, but I've had it up to here." "Get out of here!" "Get out of here!" "Now!" "Remember, when you get the money, take it out." "Doesn't matter if it's in a briefcase or an envelope." "I have to see it." "I have to have time to take the photos." "Take it out and flip through it, like you want to count it." "Are you sure you want to deal with it like this?" "It's the only way to get rid of them." "Send them down for a long, long time." "Will you be scared?" "This time I have to check you're not wired." "Of course." "Turn around, please." "I'm always delighted." "When I see how good sense wins out." "Here you are." "As agreed." "Five hundred thousand." "It's done." "He gave me the briefcase." "I saw the money." "Then came the shots." "How many... shots?" "Two, maybe..." "I don't know." "I was in a state of shock." "Let's go home."