"Good morning, Mr Briggs." "This man is Imry Rogosh, known to us as "The Monster."" "His specialty is mass murder in order to create political anarchy." "Here are some samples of his work." "North Africa, Bombay," "Rio de Janeiro." "Yesterday, Rogosh was discovered to have been in Los Angeles for a week." "He has bought airline tickets home for tomorrow night." "Considering Rogosh's history, the Secretary believes that thousands in the Los Angeles area might die unless Rogosh's plan is discovered and countered." "Dan, our experts consider Rogosh unbreakable by any known means." "Nevertheless, your mission, should you decide to accept, would be to break Rogosh fast." "Please destroy this recording by the usual method." "Rogosh!" "All right, back up, everybody." "Back up." "Back up." "Give him air." "Back up." "You, back up." "Come on, back up." "I told you to move." "All right, come on, you." "Back up." "Back up." "Get away from the ambulance." "Back up." "Give him air." "Back up." "Move over there." "Move." "Move!" "All right, driver, what happened?" "He'll be out for hours." " How badly hurt is he?" " Concussion." "No broken bones, no sign of internal injury." "Sonny did fine." "What about bruises?" "Yes, he'll have a number of them where the car struck him." "Would a bad beating leave the same kind of marks?" " Definitely." " Then we're ready." "Where am I?" "Somebody!" "Where am I?" "Hey, listen, where am I?" "What place is this?" "Nineteen hundred sixty" "eight?" "1968." "Legions!" "Somebody!" "Answer me!" "How long have I been here?" "How did I get here?" "What am I doing in Stefan Castle?" "You!" "Guard!" "All right, you, listening, what is all this?" "There has been some mistake." "I am lmry Rogosh." "Why am I a prisoner?" "He found the bug." "Good." "This way." "The prosecutor wants to see you again." "Again?" "Move!" "When Premier Emil Hatvany today lashed out at the new president of the United States." "He said that Whitcomb is merely continuing the policies of his predecessors." "Hatvany is the prime minister?" "The government revealed today the recent arrest of Colonel Klimi, head of special intelligence." "Also arrested were Klimi's deputy and several other persons in the bureau." "In sports today, the 10,000-metre record set by Arounayev in the 1968 Olympics was broken by a 19-year-old Swede." "You are the prosecutor?" " Why am I a prisoner here?" " Rogosh, stop it." "Colonel Klimi's implicated you up to your neck." " Klimi?" " Yes." "Yes." "He's confessed." "We don't really need it, but my orders are to get a confession out of you, too, before the trial." "Now, you know this business as well as I do." "Save us both time." "Save yourself from any more massages." "Once more." "How much have the Americans been paying you, huh?" "Last summer in Berlin, what did you do with those documents?" "How long have I been here?" "How long has Emil Hatvany been prime minister?" "What is this?" "A build up to a defence of insanity?" " All right, you're insane." " Wait." "Wait a minute." "Listen to me." "You want to know the truth?" "I don't know how I got here or why I'm here." "When I knew Klimi, he was a major, our intelligence attaché in Los Angeles." "Back in '66." "You have been his deputy for the past two years!" "No!" " Rogosh, for an intelligent man..." " Listen!" "The last thing I remember," "I was crossing a street in Los Angeles." "You heard of Los Angeles in America!" "You haven't been there in three years." "What year is this?" "'69." "You returned from America in late '66." " Something to do with an accident." " Yes, that's right." "I was hit by a car." "Hit by a car and then, I woke up this morning." "Three years." " I was in Los Angeles." " Send in Dr Zoltan." "Myself and another agent named Lazloff, we were being followed in the car." "Lazloff." "Find Lazloff!" "Lazloff." "Sir." "How are you, Rogosh?" "You know me?" "Why, Rogosh, we have been friends since the night you were arrested at the state reception." "Doctor..." "Doctor, a hypothetical question." "A man is hurt by a car." "Three years later, he remembers nothing since the accident." "Can this even happen?" "Yes." "It has been known to happen." "Delayed amnesia." "Not often." "Why?" "No reason." "It doesn't really matter." "No." "Insanity, amnesia." "These are no defence in capital crimes against the state." "Take him out." "You're not bad." "Not bad?" "Wait till you see me play my Falstaff." "Okay, he's bought it." "Now keep one thing firmly in mind." "He's brilliant." "And an expert." "Nobody push, no questions." "Let him continue doing all the work." " Let him dig for information." " How much time do we have?" "Can't tell yet, but don't rush it." "One little lump, and time runs out for a lot of people." "If my life were at stake, I would hate to have you defend me." "Thank you." "My aim is to inspire a complete lack of confidence." "Major!" "Colonel Klimi!" "Mr Lopek's here." "How are we today, Mr Rogosh?" "You don't look too good." "Well, well, we can get on with it." "There's no record of any of those accomplishments that you told me of." "And I can't get to those people you asked about." "Feshny and Bulgas have disappeared." "And Arkopin has been arrested, and so has your secretary." "And I can't get in there to talk to them." "And Lazloff?" "Lazloff?" "Well, don't you remember?" "He was shot last week." "I did my best at the trial." " What, you represented him?" " Yes." " And you're to be my advocate?" " Of course." "What am I accused of?" " What?" " Just tell me again." "Well, you've been denounced as an American agent along with Klimi and Lazloff and the others." "The others." " I think that perhaps..." " Sit down, Mr Lopek." "Who is that?" "That's your secretary." " Listen, I do think that another time..." " Be still, Mr Lopek, and listen to me." "I woke up this morning and found I have no memory of the past three years." " Is he there?" " Yes." "You know, it's very strange, Major Klimi." "The house has been changed to look like the prison wing of Stefan Castle." "I saw many guards in uniform, and I..." "Well, go on, Lazloff." "Well, sir, I even thought I saw you." "Since then I've been trying, but I can't remember." "I don't believe it." "I can't believe it." "Since 1966?" "It was October 31." "You don't remember anything you did after that?" "I do remember I bought tickets to leave Los Angeles on November 2, because on November 4..." "No, I mean more recently, like the past year or two." "Nothing." "Then you don't know if you're innocent or guilty of the charge?" " Of course, I'm innocent." " But you don't know for certain." "I'm afraid, Mr Rogosh, that I can't represent you." "I shouldn't have undertaken to defend you in the first place." "You toad!" "What can I do?" "The new regime is out to get Klimi, and you're caught in the middle." "You know these power struggles." "They might even try to arrest me." "You little worm!" "I'm not some clerk." "You're dealing with lmry Rogosh." "Guard!" "We heard." "It must have taken some self-control." "You'll never know." "He was supposed to leave on the second." "That's today." "Yes." "And whatever it is is supposed to happen on the fourth." "We have two days." "I don't know what it is they're doing, but I'm sure it's dangerous." " I want you to get into that place." " And get Rogosh out." "No." "Kill him." "You get to exercise now." " Out." " Wait." " Can I talk to her?" " No!" "No, wait." "Wait, wait." "I'll give you something." "Imry." "Dear..." "What?" " You were beaten?" " Yes, yes." "I don't know why." "I told them everything, anything." "Things that happened, things that didn't." "Anything I thought they wanted to hear." " What did they want to hear?" " Nothing." "Nothing seems to be any use." "Imry, I'm scared." "They don't want to believe." "They wanted me to say you were working for the Americans." " And did you?" " No." "No, that's the one thing I didn't." "But I don't think it's any help." "They know we didn't meet until after you came back from America." "Imry, the things I told them." "And what were they?" "All the private things." "I'm so ashamed." "There, there." "That's..." "That's all right." "Darling." "Listen, what else?" " What else did you tell them?" " Everything." "All the operations we did last year and the year before that." "They didn't care." "I tried, but they wouldn't listen." "All they wanted to hear about was America, nothing else, before or after." "They said the whole American operation was just a cover and that everything I told them about it was just hearsay." " Hearsay?" " Because I wasn't there." "I only know the little you told me about it." " The accident," " Yeah." "...the headaches, the..." "Imry, I'm so frightened." " I'm so frightened I'm going to die." " No, no, no." "Tell them I wasn't in America!" "I don't know anything." "I didn't do anything." "Of course." "Of course." "Come, sit down here." "There, that's nice." "Darling, listen to me." "What else did I tell you?" "Did I tell you who I saw in America?" " No." " Who I worked with?" " No." " Where I stayed?" "Lmry, help me." "They're going to kill me." "Help me." "Control yourself, darling!" "Darling, did I tell you about the operation itself?" "What?" " Tell me again." "What did I tell you?" " Listen..." "Darling, did I tell you about the cultures?" "I don't remember." "Yes, yes, yes." " Did you tell them?" " What?" "About the bacteria cultures?" "Darling, how many died?" "I have to know if I was successful." "How many died?" "Do you remember?" "Lmry, you know we agreed never to mention it." " Tell me." " Never to talk about it..." "How many died?" "What's the matter with you?" "Get out of here." "We know the MO is bacteriological." "No, that's all." "Soon as we know, you'll know." "Right." "Don't let the time pressure make you too eager." "Right." " No fake on the beating, Willy." " Thanks, pal." "Shall we?" "You hit like the woman." "Like..." "My little brother, man, he hit harder than you, man." "That's what you don't..." "Who is he?" "Student agitator." "Why bother, man?" "This country is one big prison!" " Shut up!" " Whoever you are, try and shut me up!" "They couldn't!" "I protest this entire country!" "Next time, stay in your own country!" "It's better there, man." " Better yet in the USA." " How would you know?" "I had scholarship there." "At UCLA." " In Los Angeles?" "When were you there?" " Two, three years ago." "Where you there in November of 1966?" "No, not till January after." "Then you missed the epidemic?" "Yes, thank God." "But not the riots." "They had martial law." " The panic lasted that long?" " Yeah." "There were demonstrations and looting." "That was a time." "What was the death toll?" "Do you remember?" "Not exactly." "Thousands, though." "Thousands." "We shot Lazloff, right?" "So why not shoot me?" "No, this way's more visual." "Besides, Rollin, you were born to hang." "Guard!" "Guard!" "Thank you very much for coming, Mr Lopek." "I apologise, believe me, I apologise for what happened." "I need your help." "I pay you any amount of money you want." "I have witnesses, two witnesses, to what happened in America." " Please." " I don't know." "I don't know." "People's prosecutor will proceed." "I intend to show that the accused, lmry Rogosh, was an accomplice of the traitor Klimi, already found guilty by this court and duly executed." "I will also show that Rogosh, three years ago, when in America, became a double agent." "No." "If the court please, my client categorically denies all the charges." "He wishes to offer proof that he is a loyal and devoted servant of the people's republic." "I ask the defence advocate, are you referring to certain supposed secret operations that the accused performed on behalf of the government?" " Yes." " This court has already attempted to find the files relating to such operations." "They were burnt by the traitors, Klimi and Lazloff." "Will the court please question Magda Brujetski?" "Call Magda Brujetski." "State your relationship to the accused, lmry Rogosh." "I worked in his department." "I was his secretary." "Was the relationship also not more intimate?" "Yes." "Did the accused ever talk to you about himself and Colonel Klimi?" "He said that in America they both became members of an underground group pledged to destroy our people's democratic government." "What have you done to her?" "It's a lie!" "My client asks that the witness be asked about the later operations she and he carried out after his return from America." "We are wasting time." " All right, answer the question." " I..." "I don't know what he's talking about." "When and where were these supposed later operations carried out, Mr Rogosh?" "Remove the witness." "Would the court please call John..." "May I respectfully address the court for a..." "Window, rifle." "Moment?" "When I was assigned to this case," "I took it with great misgivings about defending an enemy, an accused enemy of the state." " Sit down, Mr Lopek." " Excuse me, I, wish to make it clear, only for the record, that I am representing this man as an accommodation to this court which assigned me, and not out of any personal convictions or sympathies." " You can't do this to me!" " Guard!" "Mr Rogosh, be seated!" "What were you trying to say, Mr Lopek?" "My loyalty is completely to this people's republic, and I firmly..." "If the defence advocate is finished..." "I take only a moment more of your time only to apologise to this court for taking up its valuable time." "Would you please call John Makavaoo?" "Did you talk recently to the accused?" "From my cell, yes." "And what was the nature of the questions he asked you?" "All about Los Angeles." "Many, many questions about it." "Did you get the impression that, if released, he would go there?" "Yes." "Then in your opinion, he would defect to America if he could?" "Yes, I think so." "What?" "No, I never implied that!" "No, I was asking about the results of an assignment." "No, please, listen." "I'm a loyal and effective agent." "The accused will be seated." "No, no, please, I beg the court to be allowed to explain." "I had an assignment in Los Angeles." "It was the contamination of an entire city's water supply." " It was totally successful." " Your Honour..." "It's waterborne." "The accused will be allowed to continue but is warned that his story will be checked in every detail." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Please, I want it to be checked." "The burden of proof rests with the defendant, not with this court." " We will need more particulars." " Of course." " I used a botulin culture" " Your Honour a peculiarly deadly strain of bacteria and an extremely intense solution was prepared and contained in four hollow, small, plastic flasks." "Only four containers?" "You must understand the virulence of the culture and the strategic location in which the flasks were placed." " Your Honour, I don't..." " Each container was designed to be broken apart by a time mechanism." "And I placed one right at the major sluice gate of the Chatsworth Reservoir." "Chatsworth Reservoir." "Sluice gate." "This reservoir feeds the entire San Fernando Valley." "Your Honour, I can't..." "Over two million people live in this area." "The newspapers of November 4, 1966, and the weeks, even months, following will give you results far better than I can." "Thousands of deaths, complete panic, rioting, total civil disorder." "I placed another one, another container, in the Stone Canyon Reservoir pumping station." "It serves an area of three million people." "I placed a third container in the East Los Angeles main duct below the filter." "This I will draw the court a map." "Your Honour, this is highly irrelevant." "Very clever." "Beautifully done." "I commend all of you." "You fooled lmry Rogosh." "Almost." "This prison." "This trial." "My amnesia." "A fake." "All a fake." "I'm still in America." "So close, but there is still the fourth container with enough death to strike down tens of thousands of you." "Yes." "Yes." "You, the most ineffective." "You would be the leader." "Rogosh." "Rogosh." "Yes?" "The fourth one, Rogosh." "Where do we find the fourth one?" "Your cell has been hermetically sealed." "The time devices on the three containers have been reset." "We can open them by our signal." "Whether or not you leave the room alive depends on your telling us the location of the fourth container." "You have 15 seconds." "Garvey Reservoir." "The container is anchored at the main sluice gate." "Did you hear me?" "Garvey Reservoir!" "Main sluice gate!" "Yes, we heard." "They tricked me." "Imry, am I correct?" "You told them everything?" "But they tricked me, they tricked me." "I'm sorry we had to let a man like Rogosh live." "We didn't."