"INVESTIGATION" "OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION" "SOME SCENES WERE SHOT AT THE ISTITUTO ROMANO DI BENI STABILI" "ANY REFERENCE TO LIVING PERSONS" "OR REAL EVENTS IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL" "JUSTICE" "SCIENCE" "How will you kill me this time?" "I'll slit your throat." "Hello?" "Hello, Police?" "Why don't you answer?" "Are you asleep?" "There's been a murder." "Yes, there's been a murder." "Via del Tempio, 1 ." "Not Via del Tempo, idiot!" "Via del Tempio, 1 !" "Augusta Terzi." "Apartment 1 ." "Have you got that?" "Repeat it to me." "After you." " After you." " Go ahead." "POLICE" " One moment!" " Congratulations, sir!" " Congratulations, sir!" " Congratulations!" "Congratulations, sir." "We did it, at last!" "We couldn't go on any longer without a proper address!" "We really needed a man like you." "The political situation is favourable, sir." "I have my ideas, don't worry about a thing." "Goodbye." "Piantone, get me a dozen glasses." " What is it?" "What's up?" " Good evening, sir." "A murder." " "Via del Tempo, 1 ."" " Tempio." ""Mrs Augusta Terzi."" " When did they call?" " 10-20 minutes ago." " 10 or 20 minutes?" " I don't know, they didn't say." "MURDER SQUAD CHIEF" "Precise." "You need to be precise." "We've checked the name and street." "I'm going." "This slapdash attitude is what gives suspects the chance to create alibis." "You'll realise once I'm gone." ""Officer shoots." Who is it?" "OFFICER SHOOTS." "WORKER WOUNDED" "We don't know him." "He must've dropped his gun and a shot went off." "That's the most likely theory." "Go to Via del Tempio." "Congratulations." "Cheer up, come on!" "No more long faces, please!" "Ma'am, don't worry." "Your son'll only get ten years or so!" "It's got nothing to do with me now, I'm done!" "Lamantia, Lo Cascio, Mangiaracina, Terrè!" "Let's go, all of you!" "Let's go!" "You're getting rid of this bloodsucker at last, huh?" "Let's go." "Panunzio." "Panunzio!" "Let's get Officer Panunzio to open a bottle." " Here he is." " Congratulations, sir!" " Congratulations!" " Toruzzo, come with me." " Officer Mangani!" " You're coming with me, okay?" "Congratulations!" "Congratulations." "It'll sure be hard to replace you." "Nonsense!" "That's rubbish!" "Total nonsense!" " Where's Officer Panunzio?" " He's there." " Here I am, sir." " Here he is!" " Officer Panunzio!" " Shall we go on through?" "Well, have you got Proietti to confess or not?" " He insists it's suicide." " Confess." "Drink up!" " Champagne will make things clear." " It's already clear." " I'm innocent!" " We can tell." "She killed herself to get me into trouble." "Yes." "Or maybe she lost her balance, she had a dizzy spell." "I don't know!" " You pushed her." " No, I was sleeping, like when you found me!" "I was sleeping." "And anyway I'm a violent type." "I'd have killed her, I'd have strangled that whore!" "Drink up, innocent man." "Drink up!" "Everyone's innocent here." "The only guilty one here... is me!" "Silence for a moment." "It's not out of adulation for a superior officer who is also a fraternal friend that I'm telling you that no one deserves a promotion more than you." "During these years, out of 102 murders that we've dealt with, only 10 have been unsolved." "And I'm sure that during these difficult times the political section at your orders will be just as efficient as the Murder Squad." "And with the wish that you obtain the same success" "I raise my glass and make a toast to your health and to your marvellous career!" " Cheers!" " Cheers!" "Enough of this grovelling!" " The party's over." " Confirmed!" "Via del Tempio, 1 ." "Confirmed." "Via del Tempio, 1 ." "Mangani, Panunzio!" "Let's go." "I'll meet you there." "One moment, a photo." "Thank you, sir." "Hey, what's the news?" " He's her husband." " Great." "What is it?" "There's a collection of clippings from the crime news." "There's also a photo of you." "Look." " Where is she?" " Next door." "Uncover her." " Hey, did you see?" " The jewellery box is empty." " What's this?" " 300,000 liras in cash." "Libertine, D'Annunzio-style." "We haven't found any underwear anywhere in the house." " Not even a pair of panties." " What a mess." "They were in bed together, they were making love." " Sir, any traces of an orgasm?" " Not yet, no." "Cover her up." "You, pick up that bottle, that glass." "Didn't the other tenants see or hear anything?" "They're gathering names." "Don't you feel well?" " Who lives next door?" " A famous surgeon." "A man above suspicion." "Who is the apartment registered to?" "To the victim." " So will the husband inherit it?" " They separated three years ago." "Arrest him." "Question him." "Look at these." "The victim posed for photos in crime scene style." "There's an entire collection." "I think it's an amateur's work, it's quite infantile too." "What do you think?" "Get on the bed." "Turn around." "I'll show you how we found the Coccia di Morto whore." " The hostess!" " There, great." " Now come with me." " Where?" "The German hostess." "She made love with a Turk during a transatlantic flight." "We found her strangled, in the Fiumicino airport toilets." "Stop!" "Now what do you want to do?" "The one of the promising young singer?" "Yes." "Parioli, 1967." "Young singer." "She was raped and covered in records." "All polyphonic and sacred music." "A mystic, erotic murder." "The killer, an ex-seminarist, was found minutes later while, satisfied, he listened to the victim's voice in front of a jukebox." "He wasn't a seminarist, idiot." "He was an organ player." "Don't move." "Shall we do the one of the young revolutionary?" "Yes, yes." "The young revolutionary student." "She was suffocated by the orderly at the Sociology faculty with 10,000 lira notes and raped after her death." "Don't move!" "Open your legs." "There, like that, don't move." "Swine!" "There!" "Don't you get turned on when you find them like this?" "Yes, sometimes." "I did get turned on once by a particular thing." "Listen." "A piece of equipment." " What was it?" " No, I'm embarrassed to say." "Let him through." " Sir." " What is it?" " I think he's a clothed idiot." " Who?" " The killer." " Why is he an idiot?" "Not just an idiot, but superficial too, and presumptuous." "He pretended it was a robbery by taking the jewels, but he left 300,000 liras by the bed." "Then he got dressed, washed and used the victim's French soap." " So?" " He put on his shoes, dipped them in the blood, leaving footprints everywhere." "I think he's an idiot." "Don't you agree?" "He's an idiot." "You'd better hope it was her husband, so you'll be done soon." "Well, 3 years." "I heard that the husband..." "A homosexual." "Yes, that thing." " Well?" " Naked!" " Was she raped?" " No, she'd made love willingly." "Then she was killed." "There aren't signs of violence in the house." "Take note: the atmosphere is sexual, morbid, D'Annunzio-style." "And then blood, blood and more blood." "Get out, I'll drive." "Is it true she had a nice body?" "Her skin was like velvet, like that of a true courtesan of this city." "One particular for your leftist consumers:" "there is no sign of any underwear anywhere in the house." " Fetishism?" " Nonsense, she wore none at all." " Formidable!" "A great headline." " Patanè, do me a favour." " Write about her husband." " All right." "Don't worry." "Inspector!" "Don't you know me?" "Am I speaking to the famous and powerful Murder Squad chief?" "No, you don't know me, you've never met me." "Do I hang around with cops?" "Who am I?" "I could be a thief, a madwoman, a killer, one of the 30 killers who freely roam this city." "What's my name?" "Find out for yourself, if you're so smart." "You let yourself be photographed, you give interviews..." "By the way, try to lose weight." "Inspector, help!" "Help!" "Someone's entering my house, I can hear their footsteps." "I've been receiving threats for months, anonymous calls..." "It's someone who wants to rape me." "Here he is!" "He's got no trousers on!" "How horrid!" "I'm alone, naked." "I'll die being raped, it's my destiny." "Help!" "You always wear dark clothes, you're always in mourning." "Don't get your hopes up, I don't find you attractive, you're too average-Italian, you have too much hair." "It's clear you sweat a lot." "I bet you smell like shoe polish, right?" "Like all cops." "Tell me the truth." "A cop has many secrets, like a priest." "It's your mind that turns me on, I'm an admirer of the police." "I'd love to be an informer." "I'd do anything to be questioned by you." "Get that whore of your sister to do it!" "Who is it?" "Police." "Who else could it be?" "A thief or a cop." " Who's been here?" " A man." "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "Why have you called me?" "I'll tell you right away that I don't spend money on women." " Nice!" "You should have called the Vice Squad, not the Murder Squad." " What do you take me for?" " What do you want?" "Pure entertainment." "All these millionaires, how did you meet them?" "Always by phone, huh?" "You're good!" "What a smart cop!" "But there's a mistake here." "In '66 I was alone." "Like a dog." "Stand up!" "Toruzzo, how are you?" "How are you?" "Gentlemen, I hope you like the novelty of all being gathered here together, somewhat American-style!" "I can tell you that for what we need to do there's too few of us." " That's right." " There should be more of us." "Sit down." "From today I'll be in charge of the political section." "You all know that until now I've dealt with killers and I've had a certain success." "It's not without a reason that they have put me, in this moment, in charge of the political section." "This was decided because common crimes and political crimes are becoming increasingly similar, and the differences between them are becoming non-existent." "Make sure you remember this well." "Every criminal can turn out to be a subversive, every subversive can turn out to be a criminal." "In the city we have been entrusted with subversives and criminals have already laid down their web which we have to destroy." "What difference is there between a gang of robbers who attack a bank and organised, institutionalised and legalised subversion?" "None." "The two actions have the same objective albeit having different methods:" "the overturning of the current social order." "6,000 prostitutes on record, a 20% increase in strikes and occupation of public and private buildings," "2,000 brothels discovered, 30 attempted attacks on State properties in one year," "200 rapes in one year, 50,000 secondary school students take to the streets in protest, a 30% increase in robberies and attacks on banks," "10,000 previous offenders among the subversives, 600 homosexuals on record, over 70 groups of young subversives who act outside parliamentary limits, a 50% increase in fraudulent bankruptcy, an huge number of political magazines urging people to revolt!" "The use of freedom is a threat to traditional powers, to the authorities." "The use of freedom which tends to make every citizen a judge, that prevents us from carrying out our sacred duties!" "We are guarding the law that we want to remain unchanged, etched in time." "The people are minors, the city is sick." "Others have the duty of teaching and treating people." "Our duty is to repress them!" "Repression is our remedy!" "Repression is civility!" " Well said." " Well said, sir!" " Well said, sir!" " That needed to be said!" "Don't applaud me, this isn't to do with me, I don't know..." "In moderation, in moderation." "Let's get back to work now!" " Bravo!" " Bravo!" "In this section we have the communists, then the partisans, the Trotskyists, the Maoists, then the anarchists." " And the government parties?" " Over here." "Here we have the catholic groups and then the social democrats, then the rightist oppositions." "With progress, logically, all this will be destroyed and it'll all be put into two tiny rooms." "This way, please." "Canes, come here." "I'd like to look at all the files concerning my colleagues at the Murder Squad, as a joke." "2 weeks ago we started entering the details of every archived case into this." "This is real progress." " Let's test it." " All right." "Let's imagine that the Terzi murder has a political motive." " What's the exact address?" " Via del Tempio, 1 ." " What district?" " The centre." "Let's ask the regulator if any socially or politically dangerous individuals live in Via del Tempio." " How does it work?" " Like this." "What's happening?" "America's here, the revolution!" "An old acquaintance lives in Via del Tempio, 1 , someone who is socially and politically dangerous." " Antonio Pace." " Yes." "Born in Ravenna on March 24th 1946, a chemistry student, member of the Faculty Council." "Subversive, passionate, crazy, dangerous." " Is his phone being bugged?" " Of course, sir." "Since May 1968." "Nice jailbird face!" "I'll send him to the dock." "Sir." "Come on in, sir." "Hello again." " Reverend..." " No, dear child, it's best we don't." "Thank you." " Hi." " Hi." "Hi." " Do you want a cigar?" " Thanks." "Here." "Sit down." "Well, are you happy?" "Well, you know, happy..." "In 1917 in Caporetto, General Cadorna became responsible." "This centre-left formation of the current year could become the Caporetto of those in power." "There's tension in Italy, tension!" "I'd be less worried if I had more men at my disposal." "I need a hundred more men and larger funds to pay the informers more." "I'll speak to the minister." " I would like..." " Go on." " I would really like..." " Go on." " Listen..." " Go on." "To rent three apartments in a quiet and tranquil district, in Prati, for my informers because I'd like to establish a relationship that is more..." " More?" " Confidential." "All right." "But, officially, I don't know anything." "My office has prepared another list of 630 people whose phones need to be intercepted." "I don't know if you think it's necessary to ask for authorization on this matter." "You decide." " Anything else?" " Yes." "That woman that was killed 3 days ago..." "Who, Mrs Terzi?" "Exactly, Augusta Terzi." "Good-looking woman." "I saw the photos." "I knew her." "Yes, I had an affair with her." "How was that?" "Good?" "Well..." "I wanted to ask you if you think it's necessary to inform the investigators of the circumstances." "I don't know." "What do you think?" "Bye." " Bye." " Bye." "Bye." "I don't know, you know..." "I think her husband did it." "Bye." "Send Panunzio in." "Good morning, sir." "I brought you a souvenir photo of the glorious Murder Squad." "Sit down." "Yes, I know, my cousin is a communist, a trade union secretary." "But what can I do about that?" "He never sets foot in my house." "Besides, I never see him." "In fact, yes, to be honest I do see him, but once a year, at Christmas." "Sir, I've only got two years to go." "Don't transfer me." "I have two children who are studying," "I have to keep a close check on them." "How's the Terzi murder investigation going?" "We've got a good lead." "Forensics found a blue silk thread in the victim's nail which looks like it was ripped off a tie." "But wasn't the killer naked?" "Yes." "So you think he was naked but wearing a tie!" "Right, no one thought of that." "Panunzio!" "Panunzio!" "Is the husband being questioned?" "Yes, sir." "They started last night." " Any fingerprints?" " None of any interest." " Only yours, sir." " Mine?" " Mine?" " Yes, on a handle and..." "Panunzio!" "And on a coffee cup, sir." "You must've been feeling sleepy." "This was in the shower." "We all went in there," "Officer Mangani too, remember?" "And then in the kitchen." "Here, in the kitchen." "There too, but we all went in there too and you must've absent-mindedly picked something up." "And then on the phone." "Where is it?" "Here, on the phone." "But undoubtedly, you made a call that night." "I clearly remember that you made a call." "And then on a liqueur glass." "But you didn't feel well that night, remember?" "And you had a glass of Fernet." "I poured it." "Do you remember?" "I even noted it down." "Don't you feel well, sir?" "So gentleman or lady that you are, can you tell us when you began your homosexual activities?" "Was it before or after you separated from Augusta Terzi?" " Why did your wife throw you out?" " Because he squandered everything!" " He spent money in the park!" " It's not that simple." "You can't say these things." "I loved her!" "Good evening, we're doing all right." "He's exhausted. 2 or 3 of my special questions and he'll cave in." "Go ahead and cry." "So, are you ready?" "Artist, hippie, faggot that you are, will you talk?" " You'd better, we know about you." "Its evident, of course!" "You're a big faggot, she was pretty so you killed her." " That's what happened." " That's not true!" " Talk." "Relax, relax." " I want my lawyer!" " Right, we're in America!" " I want my lawyer!" " Change the code and I'll get him." "You're an artist, a sensitive person." "Try to help us." " Of course he'll help us." " He's going to tell us everything now." "Let's start from the beginning again." "The Sunday your wife, Augusta Terzi, was killed, what time did you come back from Fregene?" " I told you." " Tell us again." " At 4:00 pm." " And then?" "I took the car and headed for Rome." "There was a traffic jam, loads of people, thousands." "Fabulous!" "I know, it doesn't seem true." "He really is queer." "So now traffic jams are alibis!" "Too easy!" "I told you everything I know about her, about me, about everyone!" "You haven't told us everything." "Or at least, not of your own accord." "The fact that you used your poor wife to advance with your career is something your colleague told us, you'd never have told us!" "I'll wake you up, do you want to see?" "Question me and let's do something." "Don't sleep." " Leave me alone." " I like it when you question me." "You're so suspicious, you look like my father." "Come on, question me!" "Question me!" "Just to begin, get off the bed." "Get off the bed!" "Get on your knees, stay up straight!" "Stay up straight!" "I get it, silence is always scary." "Stay up straight!" "Now try to imagine that you have terrible hours ahead, cruel questions, threats, the lot!" "Try to remember those things from your life you've forgotten about." "Try to remember the most shameful images of your life." "I can find out everything about you because the State lets me find out everything about everyone." " Stay up straight!" " Bastard." "I want you to think that I know everything about you." "By so doing, you'll start feeling guilty." "I've had enough." "Question me, ask me questions." "Do you want me to ask you questions?" " Yes." " Talk then." "Talk, talk." "Tell me shameful things." "Talk." "Only if you confess everything, your weakness, your minor daily embarrassments, will you obtain my forgiveness and my protection." "I get it." "You're treating me like a child." "We all go back to behaving like children, especially when faced with the authorities in power." "In other words, when faced with me as I represent power." "Stay up straight!" "The law." "Stay up straight!" "The law." "All laws, the known laws and the unknown laws." "The suspect goes back to behaving like a child." "And I become the father, the unchallengeable model." "My face becomes that of God, of conscience." "It's just an act to touch deep cords, secret emotions." "Don't get upset, here." "I'm explaining a mentality to you." "What do you expect?" "This is what the authorities base themselves on." "University professors," "party leaders, tax collectors, station masters." "Come, I'll show you how we found the Mandrione whore." "You know, we end up being similar, us cops and criminals, with our words, our habits." "Sometimes even with our mannerisms." "You're like a kid, more than any other man I've known." "You shouldn't have said that, that I'm a child." "You shouldn't have said that, you got that?" "The others are kids, do you understand?" "Stop lying to us about the traffic jam!" "No, no, wait a moment." "Listen, we'll leave you alone to reflect, in solitude." "So you can think about what you must say and do, all right?" "Let's go." " Mangani, you shout too much." " I shout too much..." "I learnt from you!" "He's starting to be in the way." " Why doesn't he do his job?" " You're right." "It's a way of holding up the investigation." "Shit!" "Have some coffee." "If I'm not wrong, you decorated the Moroni's house." " Yes." " I heard about it." "There are some interesting solutions." "Liberty-style, right?" "Mr Terzi, when did you last see poor Mrs Augusta?" "Three days before she died." "She was blackmailing me, you know." "I often received anonymous calls." "A man's voice." " It was him." " Who?" "The guy who was with my wife." "They were doing it on purpose." "He was calling me." "His tone was that of someone who was used to being in charge." " Why would she blackmail you?" " They liked making me suffer, humiliating me." "What was she blackmailing you about?" "Once he called and said to me that he would report me as a transvestite." "I think he was a powerful man." "A military officer, I don't know..." "Maybe from the finance police." "Augusta loved powerful men." " His name, the name of this man..." " I don't know his name." "If I did, I wouldn't be here." "I think he's the killer." "I have this feeling." " Have you forgotten his name?" " No, I've never known it." "Don't worry, everything will be okay." "Thanks." "Well?" " I think he's innocent!" " Oh yes, innocent!" "I think he's innocent." "At 4:00 pm on Sunday, August 24th" "I killed Mrs Augusta Terzi with cold determination." " Determination." "There's just one mitigating circumstance." "The victim was playing with me." "She always played with me." " I left clues everywhere." " Clues." " Not to confuse the investigation..." " Not to confuse the investigation!" " But to prove..." " To prove..." "Not to confuse the investigation!" " But to prove..." " To prove, to prove..." " To prove..." " To prove..." " To prove..." " My unsuspectability." "My unsuspectability!" "All the same..." "All the same..." "When you had an innocent man sentenced in your place, your..." "Your unsuspectability has not been proven." "POST OFFICE" "1 .2 kg." "900 liras." "Is this parcel going to Police Headquarters?" "That's what the address says, can't you see?" "Hello?" "I want to speak to Mr Patanè, crime news section." "One moment." " Crime news section." " Hello, Mr Patanè?" "Who's speaking?" "I can't tell you my name, your phone's being bugged." " Is this a joke?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "The Murder Squad have received a parcel containing the jewels of the victim, Augusta Terzi, the killer's shoe and a razor blade." "That exonerates the husband." "There's no point muffling your voice." "I recognise who you are." "In 1948 2,000 slogans praising Stalin were removed," "50 for Lenin, 1 ,000 for Togliatti." " 30 for Tito." " 300 for the Duce." " 41 1 for the Common Man's Front." "In '56, instead, the Stalin ones drop to 100." " A huge drop." " What about Togliatti?" "No change." "In '58, a hundred or so "Long live Khrushchev", 50 Mao Tses" "and 500 "Down with Stalin" also appeared." "Sir, orders from above were not to remove them, of course." "Last year the "Long live Mao" slogans reached 3,000." "Ho Chi Minh reached 10,000," "Che Guevara 1 ,000, Marcuse 1 1 , "long live" and "down with."" "A new fact: we noticed a couple of "long lives" for a certain Sade." "The marquis!" "For the current year we predict 10,000 "Long live Mao", 500 "Long live Trotsky" and a dozen "Long live Amendola"" "and maybe even 600 "Long live Stalin."" "What are they doing?" "Go and have a look." "Check if they have permits and where they're going." "The youths!" "Who write on walls!" "Young students, young workmen who go around at night, who talk about revolution on the phone, in universities!" "Tonnes of red paint to insult us!" "I know what we need!" "It'll take more than a team of painters to destroy this anti-authoritarian and subversive trend!" "Pace went to the Murder Squad." " To talk to who?" " To Mangani." "KILLER" "Our young colleagues have to go back to school." "They have to go to university, to factories!" "Let them grow beards and long hair." "Let them wear greasy overalls." "We have to know everything, we have to control everything, using our children too if need be!" "Good morning, sir." "Thanks." "I'm excited, we're having dinner with Faietta..." "Something serious has happened, 50 female workers have been fired, all trade union activists." "I can assure that Mao doesn't want a war." "Do you know him?" " I'm fed up!" " They'll notice!" "Only I notice if you're not around!" "The phones are being bugged, I can't talk." " You can't talk, but I..." " Hush!" "We're being bugged!" "At this moment I have two great stories." "The first one is erotic and pornographic." "And the second..." " Good morning, sir." " Antonio Pace's phone recording." "Right away." " The Terzi case." " What's going on?" "News, important news." "I'll let you know." " Good morning, sir." " Good morning." "Sign, a signature please." "Thanks." "The party is crazy today and is refusing any possibility of dialogue." " Antonio, where did you go?" " To the police." "To the political section?" "Are they starting again?" " No!" "To the Murder Squad." " Why?" "About the woman who got killed in my building." " Have they involved you?" " No, they want to know if any tenants saw anything." " What did you say?" " You're asking me?" "Nothing." " Not even that you slept with her?" " Bastard." " Shut up!" "We're being bugged." "I want to speak to the officer on duty at the surveillance section." "Dear colleague you who have the awful task of illegally spying on the birth of the Italian revolution, you're being exploited too, as son of the people!" "Join us or at least ask for a pay rise!" "Turn it off." " One moment, sir." " What is it?" "The ideas are abominable, except for that last phrase." "Sir, after 30 years of service we still get 140,000 liras a month." " So?" " If I didn't get help from culture..." " Meaning?" " I sell books with payment plans, sir." "What's that got to do with me?" "I'll report you!" "Sir..." "Hello?" "I want to speak to Mr Patanè, crime news section." "One moment." " Crime news section." " Hello, Mr Patanè?" "Who's speaking?" "I can't tell you my name, your phone's being bugged." " Is this a joke?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "The Murder Squad received a parcel containing the jewels of the victim, Augusta Terzi..." "Listen, who do you think it is?" "...the killer's shoe and a razor blade." " One of them is Patanè." " Yes, but what about the other one?" "This parcel, have you received it?" "Yes." "And what's more, the news about it was published an hour earlier." "So it can't be the husband because he's being held by us." "But it can be the husband's accomplice." "I think Terzi's husband is completely innocent and he should be released." "Brigadier, I'm responsible for this case and the husband stays in jail." " All right." " Okay, Biglia?" "Okay, he stays in jail." "Don't you see?" "The husband is innocent." "It's best we hold the husband at least until the general public have forgotten about him." "You're a bureaucrat, public opinion scares you." "Don't let it get to you, don't worry." "He acts like a Bourbon, like in the days of the Two Sicilies!" "He just wants to impress the Ministry and the general public." "He's old school, destined to disappear, don't worry." "What do you want?" "Here!" "Now what should I say?" " To who?" " Mangani." "About what?" "He wants to know whether I know the person who called me, about the parcel with the jewels." " You're asking me?" " It was you that called me!" "Think about it." "How could I call you if the parcel hadn't yet arrived at the station?" "It was you that called me!" "Don't go around saying that I call you." "I don't call you!" "I favour you and you have to be careful." "This machine makes good coffee." "I know, but I can't drink coffee." "Try the cappuccino." "Can we have this machine removed from here?" "You, Nisticò, get to work!" "You get lost too, please!" "Get lost!" "Bye." "Sir, may I?" "I need your advice." "What's the matter?" "Come with me." " If we don't help one another..." " Sir, a phonogram." "Now what is it?" "In this city it's not just whores who get killed, but order too and social equilibrium." "Three occupations in 24 hours:" "squatters, students and teachers." "Teachers!" "Italians, in six months, have been on strike for 81 million hours." " Have you got a painkiller?" " No." "Do you think that Terzi's husband is innocent?" "Of course." "There's only one way to prove his innocence:" "to find the owner of the blue tie." "We need to track him down." "Your blue tie, the one you wore on the night of the murder..." " Where did you buy it?" " From Cenci, at the Pantheon." "They sold two of them." "One to you, who's not involved." "And the other to a woman." "Augusta Terzi." "So it was the victim who gave the tie to the killer." "It was the victim who gave the tie to the killer." "Going on their relationship, I would exclude that the tie was a gift for her husband." " That's logical." "Exclude him." "I..." "What can I do for you?" "How can I help you?" "Do you want my blue tie?" "You can go to my house, get my housekeeper to give it to you." "She's there in the mornings." " Have you got a painkiller?" " Can I really go to your house?" "Do you see?" "Three occupations in 24 hours." "Students, squatters and teachers." "Teachers!" " Can I go?" " Look, to this stuff..." " You know what?" "I prefer murders." " Of course." "Thanks, sir." "TURN OF EVENTS IN TERZI CASE" "So can I go to your house if I need the tie?" "How gross!" "Take that vest off, your mother'll never find out anyway." "And change your shirt, you look like a Swiss waiter." "You wear short socks like a priest, like a seminarist." "In fact, like that which you are, a cop." "Don't you have a lighter-coloured suit, a more cheerful one, a more normal one?" " No." "If people see you in the street, they'll move away because it's obvious you're a cop." "You smell like a cell, like an archive, like a security room." "At least priests smell of incense." "Get the authorities to buy you a deodorant." "I could kill you with my own bare hands." "How very brave!" "You carry on the investigations, who would find out?" " Excuse me, could you do me a favour?" " Of course." "I need you to go in there and buy all the blue ties they have." "See the ones in the window?" "Why don't you do it?" "If I do it, they'll think I'm a competitor, they'll take advantage of me." "Do me this favour." "They'll cost a lot of money, 50-60.000 liras!" "All right, whatever it is." "Tell me something:" "why all the blue ties?" "I'm a producer of a theatre show." "It's called "50 blue ties for 50 dolls."" "Great." "Do me this favour." "I'll wait over there." " Where?" " Under the colonnade." "But..." "Well..." " Come this way." " Okay." "Here you are." "4,000 liras change." "You know what happened?" "Let me tell you." "They thought I was from the police, they even gave me a big discount." "One of them even called me "Sergeant"!" "Well, here." "Count them, there are 25." " What's your profession?" " Sorry?" " What's your profession?" " Me?" " I'm a plumber." " A plumber." " I work when I want!" " Who do you vote for?" "Why do you ask?" "Why do you care?" "Tell me who you vote for!" "For whoever I want to!" "Why are you asking me this?" "I'll take one of these ties, the rest are yours." "What?" "What's all this about?" " I want an explanation, dear sir!" " I'll give you an explanation." "Take these 24 ties to the police immediately, to the Murder Squad, because I don't work for a theatre," "I'm a killer." " What did you say?" " I'm a killer." "A killer." "Don't you read the papers?" "Remember the woman who was killed in Via del Tempio?" "I killed her." "What are you saying?" "A well-mannered man like you?" " You're joking with me." " No, I'm not joking." "You're in trouble." "Why am I in trouble?" "I've done nothing." "Be quiet for a moment!" "I'll explain how this works." "Whoever comes into contact with a killer is in trouble." "Go to the police, to the Murder Squad." "Give them a detailed description of me." "Tell them the exact time, place and nature of our meeting." "Please, take a good look at me." "Describe me in detail." "Look at me." "It's not every day that you come into close contact with a killer." "Take a look, try to remember how I comb my hair, if I have a moustache or not, how I'm dressed, if I'm wearing a tie." "At least give me the time to go home to see my wife and son." " Go to the police!" " Give me time!" " Do you want to give me a shave?" " Don't be stupid." "Act like a citizen!" " Listen to me." " Go!" " Go to the police!" " Listen!" "Sir!" " Go to the police!" " Come here." "Come on, go through the red light." "Don't worry about the law." "No!" "Go on, go through the red light!" "Go on!" " You want me to?" " Yes, go on!" " Go on, you can do anything." " I'll do it." "Go on!" "Go!" "There, go on." "I'm going!" "I'm going!" "You see?" "Now that the street cop's coming, show him your identification badge." "Show him you're an important man, make him tremble." " Treat him badly." " Licence and registration document." "I'm on duty." " Go on, please!" " Sorry, sir." "You can commit any crime, I'm telling you." "No!" "Great!" "You looked like the beheaded woman from Castel Gandolfo." "Aquatic rape." "Could you kill me on this beach without getting caught?" "This would be the story:" "how a cop commits murder on a beach without getting caught." "The car attendant saw me, so did the ticket collector," "and the lifeguards." "The people from the cabin next to ours saw me." "At a first glance the car attendant seemed the most dangerous." "Come off it!" "A car attendant that reports a big shot like you!" "Impossible." "In order to be caught, you'd have to sign your name on a crime." "Otherwise, who'd think of you?" "Augusta, don't make me do something illegal, that'd be so easy in my position." "Go on, plan a great crime." "I would cut your head off and hide it." "In fact, I'd feed it to the fish." "Your body would be found at sunset in your cabin by a lifeguard." "The magistrate that would come from Latina would only find you the next day in a state of advanced decomposition." "What the...?" "Bitch!" "What the...?" "Soon said." "The poisoning of the water and the air proceeds undisturbed." "The sea is a dumping ground." "Out of 300 municipalities located along 8.000 km of coastline..." "Augusta!" "...have sewers with no filtering systems." "Augusta, stop messing around." "Come out." "The sea is polluted by hydrocarbons." "The oil rigs, the refineries, the expansion of coastal settlements..." "Augusta, come on." "This chaos would be resolved with a demolition order!" "Augusta!" "Use the shoe mats, sir." "The man who works with you came this morning, the young one from Naples." "What's his name?" " Who, Biglia?" " Yes, Biglia." " What did he want?" " I don't know, he wanted a tie." "But I didn't give it to him." "How could you when I'm wearing it?" "So there must be two then." "Because I saw the other one yesterday inside a rubber shoe." "He wanted to see your shoes too!" "I knew right away he was a nosey parker, he asked me loads of questions." " What did he want to know?" " If you ever had women round." " What else?" " If you had a girlfriend." " Is that all?" " And what you do on Sundays." " Go next door, please." "I need to work." " I need to finish, sir." "Later, later." "MURDER SQUAD" "Good morning!" "How's it going, Murder Squad officers?" "It's a nice life in the political section, huh?" "Good morning." "To save you time I've brought you my tie." "What's up?" "Calm down, come this way." "Let go of me!" "What's he done?" " Murder." " I'd do it again!" "He killed his employer." "Excuse me, can I have a minute?" "There's a guy..." "What's going on today, will you tell me?" "Nothing, he's probably a mythomaniac." "This man would like to ask you some questions." "Who is he?" " Well?" " Sorry, sir." "Maybe..." "Did I say "maybe"?" "There's no doubt I made a mistake." "What are you referring to?" " I mistook you for someone else." " Like who?" "He thought he recognised you." "He said that this morning a strange man gave him money to buy all those ties." "Then he told him he was Augusta Terzi's killer." " Let him speak!" " Go on, talk!" "Thanks." "This is what happened:" "I met this man who told me to hurry to the police station." " Who was he?" " I don't know, a madman." "Maybe he was one of these producers of theatre shows, or films, maybe." "I fell for it, of course." "But he warned me I'd get into trouble." " What's your profession?" " Me?" " I'm a plumber." " A tinsmith." " A plumber." " A plumber, a tinsmith." " That's the old name for it." " Say that you're a tinsmith!" " Yes, I'm a tinsmith." " What did you say?" "As you rightly said, I'm a tinsmith." " You needn't worry." " Can you assure me about that?" " Don't worry." " Thank you." " You're a citizen." " Thank you." "We have to respect citizens." "Great." "Thank you, sir." "Mangani, come with me a moment, please." "Yes, sir." " What are you playing at?" " We'll settle this later." "You intended this to be an accusation, without any guarantee of procedural nature." " It was Biglia, not me." " Mangani, I'll destroy you!" " Watch out!" " Go on, get back to your offices!" "What are you doing?" "Get to work!" "Sir, it's my fault." "I made a mistake, I've got bad eyesight." "It's only natural." "It can't be him, he's dressed in blue and the other man had a cream suit." " Let go of my arm!" " You know what I'll do?" "I'll detain both Terzi's husband and this idiot, the tinsmith, the guy with the ties." " What do you say?" " Do what you need to do," "I'll do what I need to do." "Now, my dear tinsmith, you have to tell me the truth!" "Because you're involved an I'll nail you!" "I got a cappuccino, but it's too sweet." "You're stupid!" "You need half a bitter coffee with sweet milk." "Nisticò, I'll send you back to Piazza Navona to gather information!" "Take this machine away!" "I'm not here for anyone." " Sir, are you alone?" " Yes." "I wanted to ask you whether you'd authorised checks regarding me in relation to the Terzi case?" "I'll ask the officer on duty for a detailed report and then we'll talk about it tonight at dinner." "No." "That's not enough!" "I want all the Murder Squad to be investigated!" "I've got a bomb in my office, ready to attack their systems, their public and private lives!" "There's plenty for everyone." " And you know that!" " All right, but at your own risk." "Of course!" "Traffic!" "I need to collect three recordings, Political Section." "The chief's orders are that I can't release anything." " When did this order arrive?" " I can't say." "Was it a written order or by phone?" "Sir, don't insist." "What do you care if I take three tapes for a few hours?" "I care a great deal!" "I'd lose my job, sir." "We all care about our careers." "Exactly, I care about mine." "Try to understand." "Will you do me this favour?" "Go on." "My goodness, they're bombs!" "Down there!" "Down there!" " To the ventilator!" " Stop, go to your positions!" " Where was it?" " To the ventilator!" "Please, only officers on duty." "All others go back." "You too, go!" " It's here, sir." "This way." " Be careful." " Be careful." " This way." "This is serious." " Let me through." " Let him through." " Don't touch anything." " Don't touch." "Don't touch anything, this time they've ruined themselves." "Attention!" "Here they are, they're coming." "That's enough, it's incredible." "I was informed now, there were another two at 6:30 pm, one at American Express and the other at the Palace of Justice." "Please, let us through." "Please, let us through." "This is where the explosion took place." "In my modest opinion, we need to take action, we know them all, each and every one of them!" "We have to show them our determination!" "This has to stop!" "Carte blanche for everyone!" "Is that clear?" " Crystal clear." " Good." "Please, let us through." "#We want no condescending saviours# #to rule us from their judgement hall,# #we workers ask not for their favours# #let us consult for all!" "#" "#We ask for justice always!" "#" "#No longer servants, nor lords!" "#" "Down with the rulers!" "Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" " Policemen, you're our brothers." " Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" " Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" " Power to the working classes!" "Mao!" "Ho Chi Minh!" "Down with the rulers!" "Anarchy!" "Anarchy!" " Sir." " What does he want?" "Go away!" "No to war!" "Yes to guerrilla warfare!" "No to war!" "Yes to guerrilla warfare!" "Inspector!" "Come on!" "Please, let's keep moving!" "Check all their records." "Utmost discretion with the press though." " How many informers out of this lot?" " 5." "Let them stay together until tonight." "What do you want?" "What do you want?" "You were looking at me." "Me?" "I've got bad eyesight, you needn't worry." "Mind your own business!" "Hello?" "Yes, I'm alone." "I'm busy, so go on." "Alone." "Alone!" "Are you having a fit ofjealousy over the phone?" "Why don't you have my phone tapped?" "Have me followed too or put a camera under my sheets." "You've got 500 men at your disposal." "Get them to follow me." "That way you'll know who I'm with and what I'm doing." ""I think it's time our relationship came to an end."" "Augusta, I'll stick this penny dreadful goodbye letter in between your legs!" "Are you running away?" "I'm not making a scene because I'm jealous." "Augusta, you can do what you like." "You can get screwed by whoever you want, I don't care." "But I want to know, you have to tell me, I want to see it." "We have to be in this together." "You can't put me in this condition." "I'm a respectable man!" "I represent power, Augusta!" "You should worship the ground I work on." "Understood, you bitch?" "Who is this Pace?" "Bitch!" "If you must know, he's a friend who lives upstairs, he's young, handsome and a revolutionary too." "A revolutionary!" " I'll beat you, you know!" " Get your hands off me, idiot." "You're not at the police station now, you're in my house." "Go away!" "I'm not one of those wretches you arrest, understood?" "You make love like a child because that's what you are!" " Stop shouting!" " Maybe you still wet the bed because you're a nobody!" "You're a nobody!" "You're sexually incompetent." " Do you understand?" " Get your hands off me!" "You're incompetent!" "You're a child!" " Take your hands off me!" " Do you understand?" "You're a child!" "At ease, sit down." " Nice sunset!" " We've been standing for 16 hours." "Be patient, we'll send them to the station." " Sir, we're tired." " Here." "Hooray for the cultural revolution!" "#The red flag will triumph!" "#" "#The red flag will triumph!" "#" "Sir, they have the same names as 30 years ago." "Revolution is like syphilis, it's in their blood." " Good evening, sir." " Good evening." "Sir, I can't take anymore of this." "What a nuisance!" "Murderers, fascists!" "You see, sir, not even jail unites them." "In 2 hours they've divided into four small groups." "It's like a chain reaction." "Luckily they've split up, otherwise it'd be harder for us." "I want to question Antonio Pace, he's well-informed." "But first send me the one next to him, the one with the moustache." "Servants of the rulers!" "Servants of the rulers!" "Come on, lift those hands up!" "Keep all your weight on your knees." "You're not a horse that walks on four legs!" "You're a democratic citizen, you're not a horse." "You're not a horse." "Would you rather drink another litre of salty water or stay on your knees?" "I don't know, you decide." "If you stand up, you have to drink it all." "If you do that, you have to drink all of it." "All of it." "Nothing." "Get back on your knees then." "You shouldn't have drunk it." "You could get out of here in 10 minutes, have a nice drink of fresh, clear water." ""Clear, sweet and fresh water!"" "Student, I don't want to put you on trial." "We're not the GPU, we're not the SS." "We're the police in a democratic country." "We're very happy when we can spare a citizen a harsh sentence." "And you're a young man, why would I want to ruin you?" "Stay up straight!" "You can be Marxist, an anarchist, a situationist, Mao, Lin Biao." "You can read the Little Red Book, you can do what you want." "You're not a horse, you're a democratic citizen." "And I have to respect you." "But terrorist attacks, the intimidations, the bombs, what the hell have they got to do with democracy?" "!" "If you tell me who bombed American Express and the police, you'll be acting like a democratic and coherent citizen." "I know it wasn't you." "But I'm sure you know the name of the person who did it." "Give me some water." "We don't want you to sing." "We want you to act like a democrat." "We're modern men, we're civilised." "What is this democracy?" "Let's say it." "It's the harbinger of socialism." "I, for example, vote for the socialists." "Don't be afraid." "I'm your confessor, everyone's talked here." "Nothing will happen to you, my lips are sealed." "Nothing gets out of here." "Do you want to tell the truth?" "Do you want to tell the truth?" "Will you tell me this name?" "That it was Pace, Pace, Pace that planted the bomb the day he came to the station!" " Yes." " Did he prepare them?" "Mattone, send in Antonio Pace." "This one's done." "Come on, get up." "It's over, you're free to go." "When you need something, call me." "I didn't want to." "Canes, Mattone, leave us alone." "Go grab a coffee." "Leave me alone with my comrade." "A comrade of yours accused you." "You don't get out ofjail with a degree." "At most you get out as a bank robber." "Antonio Pace, born in Ravenna in 1946." "Ex chemistry student." "Individualistic anarchist." "Sentenced to 3 months in prison in 1968 for resisting the forces of order." "Why all the shouting?" "Do you know who I am?" "I think you were the woman downstairs' lover, the one who got killed." " Who was it and when?" "I think you killed her on Sunday, August 24th." "At what time?" "I think you killed her between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm, when I met you at the gate, as you know." "As everything's so clear for you, report me." " You'd like that." " Report me!" "You're here and this is where you stay." "A criminal leading the repression." " It's perfect." " You have to report me!" " I made a mistake, but I want to pay." " It's perfect!" " Don't shout!" " Do your job." "You have to report me because I am a person who..." "Open up!" "I'll call you when we next take action." "I've got you in the palm of my hand!" "What are you doing?" "Come here, don't be childish, let's talk." "Please, let's be sensible." " I want to go out, let me out." " Get him!" "Don't worry, release him." "Release him, it's nothing." "Release him." "The student, understood?" ""I've got you in the palm of my hand", understood?" ""I've got you..."" "MURDER SQUAD" "How are you?" "Were you called in about the Botta murder too?" "No, I'm here about the Terzi case." "Oh, that pretty woman who was killed with a razor blade." "Be quiet." "I told you to be quiet." "Good morning, sir." " How are you?" " I'm very well." " Pallottella." " Present." " It's your turn, come in." " Wait." "I'll go." "Pallottella, come on!" "Close the door." "Come in, Pallottella." "Come on in, you good-for-nothing scoundrel." "Come on in, you son of a bitch." "Petty officer, cop." "You will never fully understand the meaning of my actions, of my sacrifice, with which I intend to reaffirm in all its purity the concept of authority." " You incompetent fools!" " What did I do?" "I'll give you Augusta Terzi's killer." "Thanks." "From this moment I'm at the disposal of the law." "When you want to question me, I'll be at home." "Holy cow!" " These things happen." " They shouldn't happen." "Don't worry." "You'll be home by this afternoon." "I hope so." " Oh god!" " Please, come this way." "Where?" "As from today you can recognise me." "Don't worry." "No, I don't know you." "No, no, I don't know anyone!" "Help!" "I don't know anyone!" "What did you do?" "What did you do?" "Didn't you think about us, your colleagues?" "Do your job." "Article 247." ""Cases in which house arrest is consented."" ""When the circumstances of the facts"" ""and the moral qualities of the detainee allow for it,"" ""the public prosecutor,"" ""or the magistrate, can give permission,"" ""while awaiting to be remanded in jail,"" ""the detainee may remain temporarily"" ""under house arrest."" "Sir, everyone's next door." "Come with me." "Gentlemen, Your Honour." "Your Honour." "I'm sorry for troubling so many people." "Eat it." "Where were you, my dear colleague, between 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm on the afternoon on which Mrs Terzi was killed?" "Your Honour, gentlemen." "I was there because I killed her." "Can you prove that you were at her house?" "Your Honour, I have some bad news for you." "There's a witness who saw me." "Unfortunately, the student Antonio Pace, a known subversive, saw me entering the building." " That's not true." "The student Antonio Pace has a cast-iron alibi." "He was out of Rome that afternoon." "I questioned him for hours and with my own method." "Your Honour, the bloody footprints found inside Augusta Terzi's apartment, without wanting to interfere in the investigation, but they're from my left shoe." "My dear friend, there are thousands of shoes of the same size and the same style." "I have an identical pair myself." "Me too." "That may be, but in the apartment" "I left my fingerprints over everything." "Even on the shower tap because, Your Honour, I had a shower after doing the deed." "How strange!" "On the taps, the glasses and the handles everyone's fingerprints were found except yours." "Yes, but the blue thread that was found under her nail belonged to my tie." "So give us the tie with the missing thread." "I got rid of it." "Why?" "Because in that moment I felt torn between confessing my crime and putting you on my heels and using my limited power to cover things." "A scion, a disassociation, a neurosis." "It's an illness caused by the prolonged and permanent use of power, a work-related illness, let's say, that happens to many people who hold the reins of our small society." " I'm absolutely fine." " Enough with psychology!" "You need evidence to prove you're the culprit, sir." "Not just words, but facts!" "Yes, but I made that poor idiot that we arrested buy the 25 blue ties." "That's not true, he didn't recognise you." "Right, but between us, we can say it:" "he denied as he was afraid, when he realised what I was, in other words, a cop." "Don't you dare pass offensive judgements on any of us, our colleagues, the Corps or the institutions." "Let's get to the point." "What would the motive have been?" "She was mocking me!" "She was mocking me and the institution too!" " And therefore all of you, gentlemen!" " That motive can't be proven." "Excuse me, Your Honour." "Gentlemen, excuse me, this is a private matter." "One moment." " Well?" " A bit of discretion, Your Honour." "Next to you, every passing day, my childishness became apparent, and my total incompetence." "Absurd, improbable, unfathomable!" " So I killed her out ofjealousy!" " You didn't know her." "Go on, prove it." "She wasn't your lover, nobody ever saw you together." "You're right." "One moment, gentlemen." "I'm going to get the proof of my culpability." "One moment, gentlemen." "One moment and I'll be back." "You killed a useless person." "Someone else would have killed me." "I was destined to die like this sooner or later." "Do as they say." "Think about your colleagues." "Think about your career." "Your Honour, gentlemen, this photograph proves that the victim was photographed in this apartment." "Go head, look at the furniture, the floor!" "Here the victim is expressing some of her erotic moments that are combined D'Annunzio-style with crime reports that I used to feed my obsession with amateur photography." "How disgusting!" "I'm confirming my version of the facts!" "It's really shocking, he's immature." "I told you he had no real spirit and this is how it ended." " I'll write a memorial!" " Cheers!" "To our good health." " I'll do what you want." " Good!" "Good thinking, son." "Do you have something to say?" " I confess my innocence." " Good." "Here you are, sign this." "Everything's fine, don't worry." "Gentlemen, colleagues, remember that there's an enemy on the loose who knows the facts and who will use them against me and against us all." "Against power!" "Against God!" "That's a score that needs settling." "Please." "Come in, gentlemen." ""WHATEVER HE MAY SEEM TO US,"" ""HE IS YET A SERVANT OF THE LAW,"" ""THAT IS, HE BELONGS TO THE LAW"" ""AND AS SUCH IS SET BEYOND HUMAN JUDGEMENT" KAFKA" "INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION" "Subtitles by STUDIO ASCI" " Crema"