"I saw that thing again this morning." "Was it still?" "It shined like a star." "Was it still?" "A flying saucer." "Was it still?" "I don't want to see it anymore, I don't want to see that thing again." "Giorgio." "I knew you weren't cut out for this job, kid." "You'd better leave it alone, I feel sorry for your mother." "I feel sorry for you, too, but I did try." "I took you on because we're fellowcountry men." "But this work isn't for you." "Take it." "I feel sorry for your mother, I'll tell you again." "My mother." "My mother and I, you know everything about us." "Why don't you ever talk to me about my father?" "Forget it." "My father..." "Mother, he paid me." "What will you do now?" "I'm not cut out for this work..." "For this city, for this coldness." "I'm hungry for the hunger we had in the village, mother." "I remember the hunger very well..." "But hunger isn't nice." "What will you do now?" "I'll invent a job." "You don't invent a job." "I'll invent a job." "I'm getting married on Sunday, you'll be there, won't you?" "Your cousin's getting married." "It will be a great party..." "Like in the village." "The parties in the village weren't nice." "Everyone will be there, you as well." "I don't want to see anyone, they'll laugh at your marriage." "They'll laugh, they'll cry, they'll drink, they'll look for the sun in the bottles." "In the glasses." "We should've stayed on our land." "His smell disgusted me, the smell of old misery." "There's no smell here, nothing." "It doesn't even disgust me." "Sunday..." "Our people for your marriage, cousin." "All of our people, all of them." "What will you do now?" "How much, sir?" "It's not for sale, sir." "It's not for sale because you don't fish like this anymore." "Why the hell aren't you at work, Giorgio?" "I left, because it didn't suit me." "And now?" "What are you going to do?" "Your mother, you..." "In a city like this, how do you think you'll survive?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "You didn't like that job." "We're fellowcountry men, I want to help you." "You can work for me, it's tough but you'll make do." "For your mother, it's very fresh." "Are you thinking of something?" "Help me, Pelotta, I want to be a detective." "A detective, I've decided." "Go ahead..." "But where do I fit in?" "I'm serious." "All I can do is give you my basement near here." "I haven't used it for a while." "But if you need it?" "Take it." "A detective needs an office." "Or have you changed your mind?" "I'll be a detective, thank you." "I want to put an advert in the newspaper." "I was first." "Sure, and after her..." "It's my turn." "I want to put an advert in the newspaper." "Cavero..." "Giorgio Cavero?" "Is this you, Giorgio Cavero?" "It's me, it really is me." "Good, come to the police station." "Police station?" "Inspector Petra wants to talk to you." "Don't worry, it's nothing serious." "The usual formalities." "Well, Mr. Basta?" "Is that all?" "There have been two attacks in the last few days." "What do they have to do with me?" "Someone's been starting fires in certain places..." "We know about your political beliefs." "Lucky you, I don't even know them myself." "Look, look at the fire..." "The fire is an idea, better, an ideology..." "Something pure, uncontaminated." "From the caves to today, to tomorrow..." "Fire can be a real ideological choice..." "Not imposed." "Fire." "Mr. Basta, you can go." "Shall we put him under surveillance?" "There's no need." "He has political protection, we'd end up being watched ourselves." "Let him do what he wants, while he can..." "But things will change, then we'll get him." "People like him have friends until they get their hands dirty with their attacks..." "And risk their lives." "Then someone throws them out to sea." "They throw them at us." "What is it?" "That guy, the one from the advert." "Bring him in, hurry." "Surname and name?" "Giorgio Cavero." "Surname and name?" "Cavero, Giorgio." "Age?" "Thirty three years." "Age?" "Almost thirty three." "Profession?" "I don't know." "It says detective, here." "Private investigator." "Yes!" "It's true." "It's false." "In order to be a private investigator you need a police license." "This license has never been issued." "I didn't know, what do I have to do to get it?" "Nothing." "Stop poking around in police business..." "Above all, in delicate moments like this." "All I want to do..." "You'll never get the license." "And if you're an investigator without a license..." "You'll be in trouble, serious trouble." "You have the word of inspector Petra." "What do I have to do?" "Go to hell." "Inspector!" "Go back to the hole you came from." "In the land that spat you out." "Don't let me see you around, hide yourself, it's better." "Hide?" "Hide yourself." "And stay as you are, a good for nothing." "Cavero, Giorgio." "Giorgio Cavero?" "Detective?" "Who are you?" "I want one thing from you;" "proof." "100,000 for this, Giorgio Cavero." "You and I will meet again in two months." "Two months, exactly." "Same day, same time." "And I will give you 100,000." "If you give me the proof..." "Real proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "The real proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "Have you understood what I'm asking?" "I'll give you an advance for this." "You must search, investigate..." "Ask, find." "Use every means." "Dig anywhere, anywhere you believe." "Don't be afraid to do harm, never be afraid." "Know that this proof really exists." "Otherwise I won't be prepared to pay." "You must succeed." "You must find this proof and give it to me." "Two months, and the 100,000 is yours." "Two months, remember that..." "I'll be waiting here for you in two months." "Two months, exactly." "Same day, same time." "Look, mother, we're rich." "With this money we can..." "Throw it away, Giorgio." "It's cursed." "Mother, I..." "I'm getting married on Sunday." "You're Mara, right?" "Don't you remember me?" "Giorgio, Giorgio." "You've grown." "We've both grown since we left the village." "Listen, Mara..." "Drink, Giorgio, come on." "Some wine?" "Do you want some, Mara?" "What do you do now?" "I'm a detective." "This wine is disgusting, have you tried it?" "No." "You're right, Pelotta." "And bad wine makes a bad party." "We need our wine, from the village." "It's a word, a word." "Why don't you want to talk to me?" "When we were kids..." "Giorgio." "What is it, mother?" "The guests say the wine is bad." "What can I do?" "You had some bottles with you when you arrived." "Bottles?" "Which bottles?" "You had them, our wine..." "From our land, fetch them Giorgio." "You're mistaken, mother." "If you have them, let's see them." "Mother, I came with nothing." "You had some bottles." "Look under the table." "Why don't you?" "Why do you want to ruin my party?" "Cut it out." "I tell you I didn't bring anything." "If it really means a lot to you, then look." "These..." "These bottles?" "These, yes." "You could've opened them earlier." "Do you believe me?" "I've never seen those bottles before." "Cheers." "Thanks." "Are you in some kind of trouble?" "I don't know." "At first I thought it was luck." "It always seems that way." "Do you feel like talking about it?" "Sooner or later I'll have to." "Someone has to help me understand." "I have friends who will listen to you." "...he gave me the money, and left." "Don't you believe me?" "Why should we believe you?" "Why shouldn't we believe you?" "They ran away from home precisely because they don't know what to believe anymore." "Why did you bring him here?" "Is he going to fight for our cause as well Pelotta?" "It's the community that must decide..." "That means us." "What do you think?" "It's not a bad idea, for the rest..." "Look, I didn't ask for anything, I'm not looking for friends." "Not in the day, or at night." "It was you who..." "Speak calmly." "That's how we do things." "I brought you here because I like you." "We're friends here." "I was a policeman." "One night, I ran away." "Perhaps they're still looking for me, perhaps they don't remember me anymore." "Does it bother you?" "I think he's okay." "Me too." "But stop making up stories." "I'm not making it up!" "Did I make this up, Gavetta?" "Go on, have a good look." "Am I making this up?" "It's real money." "Then your story is real as well." "It's a good story, thinking about it." "He was a lunatic, lucky you." "Lunatic?" "Do you think he's a lunatic?" "Tell us about this man." "Lunatics don't give away money." "And why not?" "Because they don't." "What was he like?" "Why this strange story about Jesus Christ?" "The proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "I believe this matter hides something very serious..." "Dangerous, even." "I'd start spending the money..." "It's the best idea." "You don't throw away so much money for a simple curiosity." "Perhaps it isn't just curiosity." "I saw that man, I don't know how to say it but..." "You believed he was sincere?" "So sincere it was frightening." "Sincere or not, forget the 100,000..." "Because Jesus Christ never existed." "The nuns invented him, like they invented the swallows." "Yes, swallows don't exist." "But Jesus did exist, and they burnt him alive." "He was one of us." "Idiot, he was crucified." "Isn't it the same thing?" "I've never been to America..." "But it exists." "America doesn't exist." "Are you going?" "What are you going to do?" "Are you thinking of the 100,000?" "I'm not thinking about anything, goodbye." "Hello, Mara." "Very well, now you know..." "Well?" "Who's saying anything?" "All I said was 'hello Mara'." "Something wrong?" "You didn't even want to talk to me." "And I was thinking..." "What a fool." "Who authorised you to think?" "Do I disgust you?" "These, do they disgust you?" "You don't disgust me, I like you." "You see, I do this job..." "But I do it in this city, do you understand?" "No." "I sleep with the locals, people I don't know." "All cold, all the same." "I could never sleep with someone from the village." "From my land, with you." "I pay, Mara." "I need it, for my daughter." "Let's go." "You have a daughter?" "All prostitutes have one." "Didn't you know?" "Let's go now, you paid." "You've brought me to a nice place, well?" "Come here." "I don't feel like it." "Come on." "Don't tell me you want to talk." "That man wasn't crazy..." "He was being serious, and he really did pay." "Find proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "Where do I start?" "What are you talking about?" "Do you believe in Christ, Mara?" "I was paid to show he really did exist." "Do you believe?" "And you?" "I wouldn't know how to answer..." "But I find it all rather pointless." "100,000." "You don't just throw that kind of money away." "What is this all about?" "I'll tell you from the start." "All I can tell you is that if you've accepted the task and you were paid for this, you need to get to work." "Otherwise you should've said no straight away." "But where do I start?" "Don't ask me." "It's late, I have to go now." "Do you believe in Jesus?" "Yes." "That's already a start." "But I feel he is distant, very distant." "It was nice talking to you, we can meet again if you like?" "Do you really mean that?" "Sure." "You paid." "Go on." "Is she always like this?" "They're all like this." "Keep it, lady." "Keep it." "But it's for my daughter." "It doesn't matter." "Go to hell." "Perhaps you can help me?" "With what, sir?" "I'm looking for something but those books are very confusing." "What?" "Some proof, not just words..." "Proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "You're mistaken..." "What interests you is over there." "I've been there..." "I've been searching for three days." "But I don't need words, do you understand?" "Don't disturb the other customers, sir." "We obey a rule of silence." "But what silence?" "I need to talk, to listen..." "To know." "What do all these books represent?" "They only serve to hide the truth." "What do you know about Jesus Christ?" "What do you know?" "And you?" "And you?" "Come on, answer me." "Tell me if there's anything in these books that proves he existed." "Enough, this behaviour won't be tolerated." "Leave." "I'm not leaving..." "If I don't know the truth." "Very well, throw him out." "Stay back, stay back, bastards." "You and your silence, you and your books." "They should be burnt, all of them." "Yes, burn them, burn all of them." "Enough." "Hello." "He's a friend of mine." "If he's your friend, take him away from here." "What did you say before, Giorgio?" "I don't remember, forgive me." "Yes, you said they should burn them..." "Burn all of them." "Is that what he said?" "Yes, inspector." ""They should all be burnt."" "Could you recognise him?" "I saw him clearly..." "Make no mistake about it." "Then forget about him." "When the time comes to remember him I'll let you know, thank you." "Can't we bring him in now?" "Not yet." "Our informant knows where to find him." "Hello, Giorgio, how is your investigation going?" "I found him in the library..." "He was looking for proof of the existence of Christ." "Lunacy." "Have you really decided get to the bottom of this?" "Why shouldn't I?" "That's what I've been paid for." "And I'll be paid a lot more when I succeed." "We all know it's not about the money, you've become obstinate." "You're a fool." "How do you think this Jesus Christ existed?" "If he was real, things would be different..." "Not just then, but now as well." "Why didn't Jesus..." "He couldn't do everything." "You forget they killed him." "If he had done everything then we wouldn't be free." "Do you believe he existed?" "I don't believe, I know." "And he still exists." "If it wasn't like that..." "I wouldn't be just any old tramp." "What do tramps have to do with Jesus?" "I believe in him and this is why I'd never give up my rags my freedom, my serenity, for all the riches in the world." "If he didn't exist I'd be ashamed of being poor." "But I'm proud." "You hear that?" "He's proud of being poor, but not all poor people share his pride." "...for the cold, the hunger, the misery." "If Jesus really existed then why didn't he get rid of the anger of the poor?" "The ones you speak of are the false poor." "What do you think?" "It would be great if he had existed..." "If I met him, I would be his..." "I'd follow him anywhere, I'd love him..." "I would believe in him." "If you find him, call me." "Me too." "Me first." "Hey, you, friend of the night." "I'm talking to you, detective." "Detective." "We're alone and we don't want to meet." "Come with me, friend of the night." "Who meets at night, in a deserted square..." "Should be greeted like a brother." "You called me detective, how do you know?" "It's easy, just like the night-owls recognise each other..." "The brothers of the night." "I've heard a lot about you..." "Of your strange story." "The incident at the library is in all the newspapers..." "The articles mention a strange man who is looking for proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "A detective searching at night, in a city like this for proof that will lead him to the truth about Christ..." "That detective, it can only be you." "Or am I mistaken, brother of the night?" "Goodnight, brother of the night." "And if I really could help you?" "You?" "Why not?" "I don't know what they've written in the newspapers..." "I don't know what they say about me, but you know a lot about me..." "Too much for my liking." "This is precisely why I can help you." "Proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "They offered you 100,000." "It's not enough!" "I can give you a lot more." "10, 100, 1000 times more..." "For 10, 100, 1000 times less." "One million, friend of the night..." "One million, brother of the night." "And all I ask is proof of the existence of this cane." "You see, the real mystery of the world isn't the invisible..." "But the visible." "I'd like to meet the man who can give me proof of the existence of this cane..." "Of this city, of this square..." "Of this night, of us two, of my words..." "Everything is an illusion, friend of the night..." "Everything!" "It's a desperate cause, unless you see things as they really are." "I want that proof, I feel I can get it." "With my help, yes, but don't look too far." "Don't poke around in the air for something you've lost in your pocket." "You want the money, and you want to achieve your goal..." "To profit in the success." "This is just the beginning for a young brother of the night." "Then you'll become the father of the night and the master of the night." "I don't know why, but I know I want to try..." "Yes!" "I want that proof." "And you can have it..." "Tomorrow, tonight, now..." "Just a little ingenuity." "So many things have been said about Jesus Christ over the years." "So much proof has been collected on the stage of this great theatre..." "While the lead actor has always been missing." "Proof?" "Simple, we'll invent it." "Any old proof." "But false, naturally." "False?" "How many false things have been said about Christ?" "And how many people have died for those lies?" "I accept that many have also survived clinging to him." "But they're still lies." "And people are still looking for proof to this day." "What do you say, brother of the night, shall we make up this proof?" "No." "Don't be stupid." "A rich client, full of money..." "And a poor kid like you, it must be so confusing." "But on a night like this, in a moment..." "No." "Think about the money, brother of the night." "Money you could never have, 100,000." "You can have the most beautiful women." "No." "100,000 from an eccentric client." "Some stupid false proof..." "In place of real proof, that could never exist..." "You'll solve everything." "No." "I mentioned women, but also everything it can buy..." "You could see the world, meet people who would otherwise turn you away." "You could buy everything with that money..." "Everything!" "I said no." "Friend of the night." "And that poor eccentric client will come to you for the proof he asked for..." "And when he finds out you can't give it to him..." "He'll be very, very sad." "He just wants to deceived..." "Why dissapoint him?" "He'll be content with false proof." "No..." "Gentleman of the night." "Then you really are a poor fool!" "For what absurd reason won't you play the game?" "It's all false." "Everything!" "It's all an illusion." "Make yourself and others happy, it takes so little." "It doesn't cost anything!" "You'll all be happy." "Go back." "Giorgio, I'm going to the hospital to see one of the girls..." "She had an accident." "Giorgio, why don't you come as well?" "You've been hiding in there for weeks, listen to me..." "Come out of there." "Out." "You made a fast recovery." "Right, I couldn't believe it when they brought you here after the accident." "I'm upset for her, she won't make it." "Don't think about it, there's nothing you can do." "I don't like leaving her to die alone." "You've already recovered!" "And you've stopped hiding away in that room like a lunatic." "The doctor said she's about to die." "Listen to me..." "Go, leave me alone with her." "You're about to die, so you must know." "You pray, so you must know." "Help me." "You believe, you believe in Christ." "If you see him, if you hear him..." "Speak, tell me something about him." "Something that will help me, I'm looking for proof." "Something." "You must know, speak." "You see him, stop praying." "There's no need to pray anymore." "I have a question for you, father." "Get in line with the others." "Enough." "Dear God, enough." "Out of here." "Why?" "I have an important question, get out of here." "Go." "What is your question?" "You are a priest..." "And you must know." "I'm looking for proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "Proof." "What proof?" "This proof only exists in faith." "Proof I can show." "Something concrete." "I don't know anything more concrete than faith." "Do you have faith?" "Me?" "You're looking for Christ, here was just here." "He was among those you sent away from his home." "He was in their simplicity, in their faith..." "Even in their sins, he was one of them." "There's someone among us that no one can recognise." "These are words, I asked for proof." "I'll find it, I swear I'll find it." "How much?" "Listen here." "How much?" "Giorgio." "What's wrong?" "Please..." "What's wrong?" "Shall we look together?" "What the hell is Mara doing?" "Has she gone mad?" "Do you believe in Jesus Christ?" "Speak..." "What can you tell me about him?" "Get out of here." "Do you believe in Christ?" "Don't be afraid to talk." "Do you believe?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "I'm sorry, Giorgio." "Just one word would've been enough." "Something that would've put us on the right path." "We'll find it, if we keep looking." "But do you want me with you?" "Thank you, Mara." "I want to look with you, and I want to quit this job." "I don't know why." "I haven't become honest through guilt..." "I feel like looking, and then..." "It will be what it will be." "I won't ask you for anything..." "Just let me be close to you." "And I'd like you to come with me tomorrow morning." "To see your daughter?" "Yes." "I want to take her away from the college..." "I want her to always be with me." "There's something inside me that burns, that I can't explain." "It might be faith." "It might be hope." "But also fear." "Inspector Petra wants to see you, Cavero, Giorgio." "Go peacefully, I'll wait for you." "What's wrong?" "Nothing..." "The usual formalities, don't worry." "No, I didn't mean me." "It's you..." "Are you in trouble?" "Is it serious?" "If you don't want to talk about it." "If you want to get it off your chest, I'm just a nobody..." "It would be pointless." "It's the first time I've seen a policeman cry." "It's pointless, I told you, besides..." "It's about my son." "My only son, understand?" "He has to die, he's about to die." "Perhaps he's already dead, perhaps." "He's only eight, my son." "A terrible illness, one that doesn't forgive." "A real bastard because it goes after children." "There's always hope." "No, the doctors say he only has a few hours left." "That's what they said, as though I'm not a man." "I say there's hope, we must always have hope for our children." "I had to leave, besides there was no point me being there." "There was nothing I could do except watch him die." "I say you must have hope, please believe me..." "I'm nobody special, but..." "It's pointless, your kind words won't change anything." "Please, tell me you want to believe." "You must believe." "If a man really believes..." "With all his soul, with all his strength..." "No one can stop him." "If you believe this..." "God, how can I tell you?" "Why do you want to deceive me?" "Believe in yourself, find the courage..." "Ask, want, shout it out!" "Please." "Believe." "Yes, deep down I still have faith." "I won't give up, I want to believe." "If that is so, your son will recover." "What are you doing here?" "I don't know." "You don't look like someone who's done something serious." "Let go of me." "Get your hands off me." "Who do you think you are?" "Look at him." "It's him, the troublemaker." "Yes, look at him." "It is you, the one who comes to the park..." "Asking about Jesus Christ." "Poor fool, you're crazy." "I knew you'd end up in here, I knew it." "It's true." "What?" "That you're crazy, like she said." "I don't know." "Strange." "Crazy people always say no." "Listen here..." "Is it true you go around asking people about Jesus?" "Do you believe in Christ?" "You're crazy, you're crazy." "You end up here for serious things, things that count..." "Women, blood, money, that kind of thing." "Crazy." "Cut it out." "Ending up here because he's looking for Christ..." "It's the saddest thing I've ever heard." "I agree, your excellency, but there's been another fire." "We can just wait for him to..." "Yes, yes..." "I understand, but I have responsibilities." "What if tomorrow..." "Okay, your excellency." "I'll do as you say, as I've always done." "No, don't worry." "Excuse my tone..." "But understand, I'm faithful and I remain faithful..." "But these games..." "I don't need to understand, right." "I don't need to know." "You'll be the one tell me when it's the right time." "Then we'll get him, let me get that Basta." "I..." "Okay, I won't mention any names." "But tell me when I can arrest him?" "No, no, believe me, I don't have..." "But I..." "I'll wait for your signal." "Trust me, trust me." "Thank you, your excellency." "Still here, Cavero, Giorgio?" "I hoped you were smarter, as smart as someone like you can be." "To hide away in the dark, to not upset me." "I have no intention of upsetting you." "Good, then why are you causing so much trouble?" "What is this story about Jesus Christ?" "Why are you troubling people?" "We've received many complaints about you." "Your name keeps popping up too often." "I'm not involved in your matters, inspector..." "I'm just looking for proof..." "You must stop." "I don't want to see you again." "Will you grant me this small favour?" "No." "No?" "Do you think you can say no to me so easily?" "I can't lock you up, you know that." "We know that." "You stop people in the street..." "You molest them, people are upset." "I don't ask anyone who they are?" "I only ask if they know someone." "I already told you to hide yourself, but you..." "I'll only hide when I know someone is looking for me..." "Just like the person I am looking for is hiding from me." "Not before, inspector." "These times are strange..." "Where sheep look for shepherds." "Stop looking." "Put a rest to all of this." "I don't want to..." "I have a question for you." "Stop it." "I won't stop looking, asking, investigating..." "Arrest me if you like, but I won't..." "That's enough." "It's not enough!" "A question, just one question." "Do you believe in Christ?" "You meet all kinds of people..." "The most miserable types, do you believe?" "As a policeman there's nothing I can do to you, you haven't violated the law..." "You give me no reason to arrest you, but I can't stand you." "Hide yourself, because I'll come looking." "And as a man, not a policeman..." "I'll teach you a lesson." "You'll live only for your disability vouchers." "Yes, at the theatre, just for a moment." "One of the girls is trying out to be a ballerina." "Which one of the two?" "I don't know their names." "But it means a lot to her, she asked if you'd come to see her." "Why me?" "Let's go, Giorgio." "We're going, Mara." ""Get ready for carnival."" ""Great prizes for the best mask."" ""Everyone to the theatre, it will be the greatest night of the year."" ""Everyone to the theatre, it will be the greatest night of the year."" ""It will be your party." "Bring your masks."" ""Get ready for carnival!"" "I am the director, I am the king." "I have art in my hands and I can bestow it to you..." "I can raise you up, and I can destroy you." "I have a vision of what I want in my eyes." "Of what I want to create, it's art." "The art I give to you..." "Because you'll make it real..." "And sanctify it in dance." "I do not want him." "I cannot dance with him." "Do I disgust you?" "I'm old." "It offends you to dance with me, I know." "But..." "He's a monster, I don't want him with me." "You cannot decide, I am the king!" "You can't." "I can show you what real art is." "You are art, you can ask for whatever you want." "Ask, and you'll have it." "I don't want that man anymore." "You are art?" "You are beauty?" "No." "You're a poor thing..." "That poor thing called youth." "Youth, an illness one recovers from very quickly." "You're nothing, because you're not truth." "I am beauty." "The old man, destroyed, sick." "You are false, young..." "So you're also ugly." "I am the only truth." "The only beauty." "You said 'anything'." "I want him to go." "I don't want to see him again." "If you want my head..." "Sure, I'll go." "But one day someone will ask for yours." "And it will happen when you're old enough and destroyed..." "When you really are beautiful, when you can give everything..." "And they won't understand you." "I'll go, I'll go." "My time has passed." "It's not fair, he's right!" "Truth is on his side." "You can't send him away." "She's the one who should go, he should dance." "People have a right to see the truth." "That's enough!" "What does this fellow want?" "Throw him out..." "Out of my kingdom." "Thank you, thank you, friend." "You must stay, only you." "My time has passed, I'm leaving." "Farewell." "You didn't have to waste your words on me, friend." "There's nothing more real than the beauty of my old body." "Your words are nothing, compared to my reality." "Who doesn't have eyes to see, could ever have ears to hear?" "My time has passed." "One must know how to toast in defeat as well." "Champagne!" "We must laugh." "Let's enjoy ourselves." "Take it." "A toast." "Away." "Away with those sad faces, it's carnival." "A last dance before leaving the stage." "For you." "My time has passed." ""In a few moments we'll choose the best mask."" ""We'll choose the king of the carnival."" ""Great prizes to be had."" ""Get ready, it's the deciding moment."" ""We must elect the king of the carnival."" ""The greatest party of the year." "Any one of you could win."" ""Let's find the best mask." "Great prizes, great prizes."" "Let's go, Mara." ""It's him, yes, we've found him."" ""He's our king, the man without a mask."" ""Bring him to the stage for the coronation."" ""He who has the best mask;" "the man without a mask."" ""Let him up, collect your crown."" ""And your wonderful prizes, worthy of any king for a night."" "You are our king." "You're a bastard." "A damned bastard." "But Gavetta, I..." "You never think about us." "No, you just run away." "You don't care if we're cold and hungry." "The friends of the night are only good for your foolish search for Jesus Christ." "Would it have hurt to stay on that stage a while longer?" "You could've collected the prizes, given them to us if they offended you." "We could've sold them, made something." "No, you're just thinking of your Jesus Christ and that lunatic and his money." "You're not a friend, Giorgio, you're just a bastard." "Die and go to hell." "Say what you want but I don't think he's a fool." "He's a bastard." "He keeps looking, like a madman..." "I helped him, too." "We all have." "I think he'll succeed." "I think so too." "I hope so for his sake." "Rubbish, they're dreams..." "Stupid things." "Pointless." "Perhaps there's something horrible behind it..." "That he's knows or won't say." "You're wrong." "He want to search, he wants to find it." "You waste your time searching for nothing and throw away the things that matter." "What are these things that matter?" "You know, otherwise you wouldn't be out here in the cold." "And you're hungry, right?" "Perhaps." "Why didn't he collect the prizes?" "We could've sold them." "Why couldn't he just wear that cardboard crown?" "There are things that don't have a price." "Go to hell." "I may be hungry, I may be cold..." "But I'm a free man." "He's not one of us anymore, if he stays, I'm going." "Come, brother of the night." "It's him or me." "Goodbye, then, you've lost a brother of the night." "Perhaps you never were one, Gavetta." "I don't know what to do anymore?" "I've searched everywhere, friends." "The proof of the existence of Christ." "What if he didn't?" "Christ must have existed." "How can we accept all of the rest if he didn't?" "He must have." "Yes, he must have!" "He was just like us." "He was cold." "He was thirsty." "He was hungry." "And you believe..." "You really think he was the son of God?" "Yes." "We're all God's children." "He came here to tell us." "I swear I'll meet him." "He's looking for us." "Yes, yes..." "I'm searching for him." "Perhaps he's searching for me as well." "He's looking for us." "This is our hope, brothers of the night..." "The certainty." "We will meet." "We're on the same path." "Thank you, your excellency." "I'll act immediately, I have a witness." "All I needed was your confirmation." "Thank you." "Now you can remember." "Thank you, inspector." "The night of the fire, that man..." "I saw him perfectly, it's him." "Of course." "I'll have him brought to the police station for formal identification." "Inspector." "Hello, Gavetta." "Every now and then you show yourself." "Something important?" "For you, yes." "It's about that man." "The man who's looking for proof of the existence of Christ." "Cavero, Giorgio." "You can get him tonight, I know where he is." "Can we make it a clean operation?" "He always walks around alone." "Where the tramps gather." "Tramps like me." "You can go." "Take the money." "You must take it." "You aren't a policeman anymore..." "You have to settle with being an informant." "Something important, guys, for the special group." "No uniforms." "That lunatic Basta isn't protected any more." "They've thrown him out to sea." "I want him here." "You know what to do." "Then there's that fool..." "The one who goes around troubling people with stories about Christ." "Teach him a lesson." "Yes, don't hold back." "Until he learns his lesson." "...and he is also on the path, waiting to be recognised." "They didn't burn him, they crucified him." "Fire can't destroy everything." "I think I got it wrong again." "Enough, there are no ideologies in fire." "Go to hell." "Let's look for this proof..." "Brothers of the night, come with me." "They've fallen asleep." "They're both there, the arsonist and that lunatic, Giorgio." "Who do we go after?" "Giorgio." "He moved again, Mara." "Giorgio." "It was bad but it's over now, how do you feel?" "What day is it?" "Tell me, what day is it?" "You've been like that for a while." "Please." "Tomorrow, the deadline is tomorrow." "We still have one more night, we'll give it our best." "It's pointless, that proof doesn't exist." "Don't speak like that, you know that's not true." "And if it does exist, I won't be the one to find it." "Please, you're close, closer than you think." "No, it's late, I'm tired of looking." "Don't you understand?" "God, how can I tell you?" "You have to figure it out for yourself." "You have to get there..." "Because no one can tell you certain things." "No one can give them to you." "I would like to..." "God, it's so easy to understand..." "But so difficult to say." "So difficult to believe." "Don't give up now, I'm begging you." "I've decided, I don't want to talk about it anymore." "No." "I don't know what will happen tomorrow." "I'll stop looking." "I'll go to the client..." "Let's end this." "Don't be so sad..." "We have all this time to organise a party." "It might be the last great night of the brothers of the night." "Yes." "A party." "A party for all of us, for my failure." "You haven't failed." "Please don't give up." "I don't want to talk about it anymore" "There's enough money left for a marvelous party." "Buy the nicest things, we'll have the party here." "And it will be alive until dawn." "When you go..." "To leave me alone." "Why did you invite me as well, Giorgio?" "Because it's a party, you had to be here." "It's your party, not mine." "Be careful." "Outside is night." "Tomorrow morning..." "Don't talk about tomorrow morning." "Don't talk about anything, you'll leave at dawn." "And I'll be alone, tomorrow is mine." "Only mine, Mara." "Two months exactly, as I said." "And the proof?" "I've come to pay, Giorgio Cavero." "But what?" "What do you want to pay?" "I didn't find anything because you asked me for the impossible." "I understand, 100,000 isn't enough." "It's always like this." "How much do you then, to give me what I asked you to find?" "I'm not asking for anything because I didn't find anything." "How can I tell you?" "Proving the existence of Christ is madness." "You're wrong." "But if he did exist..." "I wasn't able to..." "No, you're wrong." "You've completed your mission." "You have found proof of the existence of Jesus Christ." "And the proof is here, you just need to go and get it." "The only thing you have to do is enter this church." "I don't know who your father is..." "And you've always been strange, I've never understood you." "I had to adandon my land for you, run away." "Someone I didn't know told me you would be born." "Your mother, Maria, is right." "And I ran away from our land..." "Because of you, like her." "They said I was your father, it's not true." "I was expecting you." "You arrived when my time had passed." "I am John the Baptist." "Where do you think you're running off to?" "It's too late." "Don't you remember?" "I offered you the chance to not face the reality but you didn't listen." "One false proof would've been enough, friend and brother of the night." "You said no, you resisted temptation." "You wanted to say no to wealth, luxury, women..." "To everything I, Satan, could've offered you." "Now..." "You will remain alone." "You belong to yourself." "You entered the temple and you chased out the merchants." "I spent my life looking for you, and when you appeared..." "I didn't recognise you." "You were good to me, you were good to me, cousin." "There was no wine at my poor wedding, and you gave it to me." "I was dead and I came back to life, my name is Lazarus." "You told me to have faith, to hope, to believe..." "You gave me the strength to do it, then you said my son would be cured..." "And he was cured." "He was among us, I remember." "But I didn't know who he was." "I recognised him immediately..." "That's what saved me." "I struggled to understand you." "But I did that night when they had to choose between you and me..." "Between you and Barabas." "We were fishermen, you made us fishermen of souls." "You gave us faith, making us look for it." "You asked us to follow you, we did." "You are with the one you were looking for." "I betrayed you because you ran away." "You just talked, you didn't act." "Judas, Judas Escarriot." "If you really are who they say you are..." "Why didn't you break our chains of misery, of hunger?" "Why didn't you clean us of our mud?" "Fight with us, for us?" "I'll never understand you, words aren't enough for me." "You changed me, like you changed all the others." "And those who aren't the same any more, because of you..." "They'll change the world without the need to hurt others." "I was a poor prostitute, but I was the only one who understood." "I felt it that day, when the children ran to you." "And they played with you." "And you made them smile." "Let the children come to me." "I understood, I knew." "But I didn't want to tell you, I couldn't tell you." "You had to figure it out for yourself." "Now you know, and you know we'll continue to live for you..." "And you will live in us because we love you how you loved us giving us a new life, you were looking for yourself." "And a part of you was in us, in our suffering you took from us." "You found yourself." "Our suffering mirrored in you isn't suffering anymore." "Someone was looking for you, someone you were looking for..." "You found each other." "We believe in you." "You are the proof I was looking for." "And this money belongs to you now." "Give it to Ceasar!" "I was looking for you..." "Jesus of Nazareth." "December 2009 and June 2010"