"THE DECALOGUE 10" "He sacrificed everything for his noble passion his family, his professional" "perhaps even his emotions" "Taking leave of our late friend today the winner of eleven internaional gold medals and participant of many exhibitions" "I would like to offer my condolences to his family" "I bow down before this grave" "Farewell, my friend" "Just take a look at this tin-plated door, damn him" "Well?" "Wait a minute, let me see it" "Right." "An alarm device" "Stop yelling" "Shit." "Look" "Ah well, starved to death Get a strainer" "No good." "It's been nailed up" "But why?" "What do you mean, why?" "Why the alarm device why the padlocks and bars" "Dont' you know what kind of man Father was?" "Not too well" "And what about airing?" "No idea." "He probably never aired it" "No, thanks I have business later on" "Come on, it isn't much" "To Father" "Cheers Cheers" "How much is it worth, I wonder?" "I don't know But stamps are expensive nowadays" "Well, some three or four hundred thousand, I guess" "Yeah, this is our poverty Mother's wasted life" "No decent meals... no money" "Oh come on" "I say, he didn't even own a decent suit to be buried in" "I have sacrifice one of mine" "Tell me, what is it that makes one so... so greedy?" "So set on possessing?" "You should know You like to own things" "No." "I just use them I like to be comfortable" "But I couldn't understand the old man for a long time" "I say, it's ages since we last met" "Yeah, over two years" "Hey, look he collected press cuttings about you" "May I?" "Yes?" "My name's Bromski" "Are you the son?" "Yeah" "I'd like to talk to you" "I know this is not the best moment possible" "But you see that's how it is with business" "All right, what is it?" "Your father and I were friends I have here..." "Your father owed me two hundred twenty thousand zlotys" "He never told me" "I ought to get the money back in a few days" "Well, I know a funeral costs a lot So it does" "But perhaps I could find an equivalent here if you know what I mean" "To save you the trouble" "Here's my phone number" "Phone me in five days." "I'll try to raise the money for you" "Thank you so much If I get you right you aren't going to get rid of the collection for the time" "Of course you certainly have your reasons" "In your place I think I'd do the same" "Well, sorry for bothering you" "Dad owed a fellow two hundred twenty thousand" "That one was the first to come..." "As yet" "Nothing but rags" "Look, this was his way to iron pants." "Under the sheet" "What's this?" "Those cuttings about you" "And I thought he never even knew my name" "I say, I've heard such guys have a market or something" "Well?" "Would you like to have a try?" "What about that lame fellow who was here?" "No, he's too clever" "And what about your kid?" "Doesn't he collect stamps?" "He only likes planes" "Then why not give him these?" "Balloons or something" "Zeppelins All right, Zeppelins" "It's a series" "Polarfahrt this means they're German" "Uhm... 1931" "Which one's yours?" "This one here." "The first tenants" "Quite nice." "And tell the kid I have an LP for him" "He's not really a kid anymore" "Well, 'bye 'bye" "To the "Riviera" Club, please" "I'm glad we met" "I'm sorry." "I couldn't make it" "We'll go tomorrow" "Artur and I started talking after the funeral and we quite for got the time" "I haven't said anything" "No reception tomorrow" "Well, the day after tomorrow then I'll right him up" "I'm sorry, really I haven't said a word" "That's true, you haven't" "Your slippers" "This is from Grandpa, as a souvenir" "Gee, they're nice" "Grandpa died, you know" "He was buried a few hours ago" "Hey, what's that?" "You crying?" "Not really." "I've cried already" "Mum told me at dinner" "I'm sorry about Grandpa Aren't you?" "Have you had toothache?" "No" "I couldn't make it" "Mum was angry She shouted at me all day long" "Good morning" "I'd like to have this priced And possibly to find a purchaser" "Are you "Korzen"'s son?" "Yes this is but a fragment of his collection" "Yes." "Well, I could sell more I don't know" "Perhaps the whole of it" "Could you please wait a moment, sir?" "Our President would like to talk to you" "Good morning Good morning" "May I trouble you a minute, please?" "Why, of course" "There are two of you if I remember right" "Yes could we perhaps meet at your father's flat?" "Of course I'll write the address for you" "I know the address" "Well, gentlemen what are you planning to do?" "We'd like to sell it." "We need money" "How much of it" "Doesn't matter." "Just money" "I see" "Well, you can buy a 126 Fiat for this one" "And this one will get you two cars with Diesel engines" "And this series would be enough to buy a flat" "Er..." "I believe you don't realize..." "Well, and what is the value of the whole lot?" "Millions and millions" "Your father wanted to insure his collection for two hundred fifty million zlotys" "You see, your father put all his life in it" "It would be criminal to waste thirty years of somebody's life away" "Even if that somebody was just one's father whom one hardly knew at all" "Good-bye, gentlemen" "Good-bye" "Bloody hell" "Yeah." "Quite a surprise" "Hush..." "Mum's asleep" "Have you been at the office?" "Yes, in the morning" "But then I met Artur" "Mum tried to reach you several times" "Why?" "Here" "Are these autographs?" "Yes" "Of the entire group?" "Yeah, I guess so" "See what Artur wrote here?" "For Peter to make his life happier" "Nice, isn't it?" "I say, what have you done with those Zeppelins?" "I exchanged them for these Look how many I got" "Whom did you give them to?" "Tell me!" "All right, which one was it?" "Well?" "The one with glasses" "Stay here." "Don't go anywhere" "I have some business with you" "Yes sir Not here." "It's confidential" "Hey, what do you think you're doing Careful, Mister, or..." "You've cheated a kid" "One has to make a living" "He's my son" "Ah well, nearly everyone has parents nowadays" "I want that series with Zeppelins back" "I sold it" "To whom?" "Out with it" "To that fellow in Wspolna street" "Good afternoon" "Good afternoon, sir" "I have an unpleasant business with you" "A boy from Swietokrzyska street offered you a series of stamps" "You bought it for forty thousand" "I'm afraid that scamp cheated my son out of those stamps and gave him rubbish instead" "I don't know what you're talking about" "I see" "Say I'd like to buy something in your shop" "Well, a series of German stamps" "Polarfahrt with the Zeppelins in them." "From 1931" "Could we perhaps..." "Do you want to buy?" "Let's say I do" "We may discuss it" "Is this what you mean?" "Yes" "Well, it's for sale How much?" "Two hundred forty thousand" "The price isn't high" "Well, if that's so." "The next time I'll bring the police here" "I'm sorry" "It's all right you can use my phone, sir" "Well, do you want to use the phone or not?" "I've got a receipt here the former owner of the series was going abroad and sold the stamps to me for" "One hundred sixty-eight thousand" "Here's the stamp duty" "And this is my license Take a look, please" "That was your favourite group" "The city Death" "And now a short break" "You'll catch a cold" "I'm free now" "Things have turned out badly with the Zeppelins" "How's that?" "I'll tell you presently Those men are gangsters" "Ah yes, that fellow phoned me" "Father's creditor, you know I'm to meet him on Sunday" "Two hundred twenty thou', eh?" "Frecisely I have some ninety thousand" "I was saving to buy Peter some furniture" "But I've already told him I'm putting it off" "What does your wife say?" "She suspects me of having an affair" "Now I have to stay in town on Sunday instead of going to the country with her and it's sure to strengthen her suspicions" "And what about you?" "Have you got the money?" "Where from?" "I'm not the saving kind" "But I might sell the amplifier" "Don't you need it to play?" "It's not an instrument I paid about fifty dollars for it" "I guess I should get some seventy thousand back, how do you think?" "Yeah, that's it" "And the rest of money?" "The stamps?" "I don't know" "I'd rather that we don't sell them for the time being" "I mean, not until we have to..." "I feel the same" "Let them stay where they are" "Exactly" "'Bye" "Be seeing you" "Bye" "God damn you!" "I thought it was some stanger!" "What the hell are you doing here?" "Looking at the stamps" "I was here yesterday, too" "I didn't know I've been here today morning" "What's the matter?" "Have you been fired?" "No" "I'm anxious about this flat" "You know, all those safety devices are nothing, actually" "Anybody could have entered the flat just as you did" "Besides, I'm registered as tenant here" "Why, of course..." "I'll feel better, too" "Hey, take a look at what I found" "the only series in Poland" "And it's incomplete" "The blue one, the yellow one..." "The red one's missing" "Now listen this is what the old man wrote red Austriean mercury of 1851 stolen during the celebrated robbery in 1965" "Appeared for a short time in Cracow at J.'s." "Was it sold or exchanged?" "In 1968, before J. Left Poland" "News from K.B.R. It's now in Southern Poland" "Could M.W. Have it?" "Is there a chance?" "Just a sign, not money" "Half the note book is taken by such notes" "Figures, symbols" "Most of it, I just can't make out" "I've been reading for several hours" "The red Austrian Mercury" "It would look swell together with the other two wouldn't it?" "Yeah" "It's red" "They just slip down a rope or jump down and there they are It's just a few metres" "You mean, a grating?" "Yes, in both windows" "The ideas the old man had nailing them up" "A pane's just a pane, it's enough to break it and you're inside" "I say, Artur" "Yes?" "I forgot I ever had any problems" "I forgot everything" "Know what?" "I feel the same somehow" "Like many years ago when we were just kids and didn't care about the grown-ups' problems" "It's the same now as we sit here like this" "Nothing matters anymore" "Yes, one forgets... it's childish" "But nice" "Oh yes, very..." "Maybe the rest of your life simply isn't there if you don't want it to pester you" "Hey, I've just thought of something" "Find a stamp for me worth say about 200 thousand" "But it must be an official price printed in a catalogue or something" "Two hundred thousand?" "Yes" "With pleasure." "Wait a moment" "I found this" "How much is it worth?" "Where have you found it?" "At home" "Your own?" "Possibly" "Well, it's worth say, fifteen thousand" "I can buy from you... for three thousand" "No, five" "Four." "It's stolen property" "Ah well, O.K." "Here you are" "Thank you" "What are you doing?" "Shall we listen to it?" "Check the recording, you know" "It's worth, say, fifteen thousand" "I can buy it from you for three thousand No, five" "Four." "It's stolen property" "All right let's come to brass tacks" "What do you want?" "Three German stamps with Zeppelins issued in 1931" "I'm giving you four thousand for them and a brand new Sony cassette" "The recording only takes the first few metres" "And it's a ninety-minute cassette, see?" "Clever, that" "I had an inkling when you came in" "You should have followed your instinct" "Yeah, A fellow came to me the other day" "My brother" "Not as clever as you" "He didn't know everything then He didn't know you" "Do you want money, or the stamps?" "The latter" "I see" "You're the sons of..." "Yes" "I see" "Who is it?" "It's me, Jerzy" "Jerzy?" "Yes, it's me" "A moment" "What's that beast you have there?" "What was that?" "A dog." "I locked him in the bathroom" "My key doesn't fit the lock damn it" "I changed the lock" "They say you should do it from time to time" "Who says so?" "Friends of mine who know a thing or two" "Here's your new key" "The next time would you please tell me in advance" "I've spent half a day wondering about and trying to reach you on the phone" "And what about the dog?" "Just a dog" "Does he ever stop?" "Those friends told me to get one so I bought him" "Shall I let him out?" "O.K." "I'm afraid he might bite you" "But you've got to do something about him" "He should know I'm not a thief" "I'm scared of him myself" "Lokis!" "Lokis!" "To heel!" "Halt!" "Hey, wait" "To heel, Lokis!" "Heel, Lokis." "Halt!" "Gee, do something" "Halt!" "Down, Lokis!" "Down" "Christ!" "This is Jerzy." "A friend" "He's a friend" "Just look at him" "Jerzy is a friend" "Isn't he nice?" "What about the Zeppelins?" "It's all right, I've got them" "Over there" "Good doogie, good doggie" "Stroke him" "Hush, it's al right" "Good doggie, down, Lokis" "No... that's good" "On my way here, I came across that fellow with a limp, remember him?" "The one Father owed money" "What did he want?" "He was glad to see me, said he..." "To heel!" "Halt!" "He said he had friend in the neighbourhood" "Down, Lokis" "Did he come here?" "No, why?" "Down, Lokis." "Good doggie" "Sit down" "Let him have it" "What if he bites" "He won't" "Hey, what's that?" "Perhaps you should try with they left" "Good doggie, good Lokis" "See, he only accepts what you give him with your left hand" "He's your friend now" "Stroke him" "The left hand or the right?" "Come on, risk it" "Who's that?" "Get him, Lokis!" "Good doggie." "Keep guard" "Some beast, that dog" "I say, I might stay here for the night" "He'll get used to me this way" "Sure" "Where are the Zeppelins?" "Ah, yes" "That's shop-owner's quite a fellow" "Is he?" "Yeah." "Wants to talk to us" "Now, gentlemen" "Have you already come across the problem called the red Austrian Mercury?" "Well, we have" "Know its value?" "All we know there's one such stamp in Poland" "And I know who has it" "Your father tried to find out but couldn't... all those years" "As far as I know he was very particular about it" "If you gentlemen are interested, too" "We're rather out of cash my brother here even sold his car, but" "Oh, no, money's not the problem" "Well, what is the problem then?" "You see, gentlemen, I'd like us to meet again to discuss it" "Only you'd have to have some tests made" "What tests?" "Nothing special" "Blood group, sedimentation, urine..." "Yes" "As I told you this is not a financial problem the man I was telling you about lives in Tarnow" "You know, the owner of that red Austrian Mercury" "And what does he want?" "Just two stamps, a tiny series owned by a serious Szczecin businessman" "Well, what about him?" "That's a good question" "He in turn needs a small and inconspicuous stamp" "Which we have, right?" "But why on earth you needed our blood groups?" "No." "You haven't that stamp" "Who has, then?" "It so happens that..." "I do" "You're the one" "Why not me?" "He's got the right blood group" "You see, gentlemen the red Austrian Mercury is worth over two million" "But it's not for sale" "All of the parties involved care for an exchange only" "What about you?" "Is blood what you want?" "No." "A kidney" "My daughter is seriously ill" "A girl of sixteen" "I've been looking for someone" "your father was too old" "Hell, what am I supposed to do?" "Let them remove one of my kidneys?" "To get a bloody stamp?" "To get the red Austrian Mercury Yeah, from 1851" "You're right." "Why You have a family, wife and son" "No, I didn't mean that" "Why, it's a part of myself" "That's true." "In your place" "I wouldn't hesitate a minute" "What do I need that bloody kidney for" "I've got another one to live on" "A guy I know had his kidney removed over twenty years ago and he lives a normal life" "Likes his liquor and women and so on." "No problem at all" "And there's another thing" "I would also think about that girl" "To save the life of a young girl this counts, too" "It's so humane" "Artur!" "Come on I'm not trying to persuade you" "It's your kidney" "But it's our stamp, too" "One, two, three, four..." "There's something wrong" "Yeah, but it's just the question of practice" "Couldn't you go with us after all?" "Such a tour" "I can't" "You've been trapped, eh?" "A girl?" "Some girl" "Great" "Oh, sorry" "Good morning" "Yes?" "You see..." "I..." "Are you..." "Are you from the City Death?" "Actually, yes" "Gee" "I'm looking for my brother" "He's having his kidney removed right now" "Yes." "I've been there It'll be all right" "Really?" "I say, sir..." "May I touch you?" "Sure" "Are you sure there's no danger?" "Doctor?" "How are you?" "I'm fine As if nothing happened at all" "Have you got it?" "Really?" "Of course" "Christ..." "At last" "When did you get it?" "Ah, well, about a week ago" "Then why haven't you visited me to let me see it?" "I've been waiting all the time" "I feared he could have cheated us or something" "Or that you've decided to keep it for yourself" "I didn't know what to think" "I couldn't come" "What's the matter?" "Out with it" "During that operation, you know" "I stayed in the hospital and waited for news" "Yes?" "You see, we've been robbed" "Robbed of everything... everything" "Bloody fool of a dog" "They locked him in the bathroom" "I told you he should be poisoned" "Move!" "Get off!" "What the hell did you go to the hospital for?" "They could manage without you" "Does it ache?" "Hey, did you report it?" "Here" "Who are you, sir?" "A brother" "Yes, my brother's just been released from the hospital" "And how do you feel?" "How shall I feel in these circumstances?" "Do you know what was in this flat?" "Yes, I know well enough" "By the way, sir" "Your brother didn't know for sure" "The alarm apparatus in the window and balcony door had been disconnected" "From inside the flat" "I did it" "It hooted every time I put the grill on" "You know to be able to open the window" "I thought the grill was enough" "I see." "Your brother wasn't sure" "Well, good-bye, gentlemen" "Good-bye" "We'll get in touch with you, sir" "Here's my phone number in case you should want to see me" "Thank you" "You never told me About that alarm device" "I forgot" "This is all we have" "It's yours" "Why?" "The kidney was yours" "Besides, I don't want it" "Where are you going?" "What business is it of yours?" "I'm moving away" "I've found a job in a bar" "Leave me alone, will you?" "I don't care a damn about this here" "You wanted to see me, sir?" "Good afternoon" "Bye" "Yes?" "It's rather difficult to say" "You're sure to think the worst of me" "Don't worry about it" "I think you should..." "Well, check my brother..." "That dog, you know" "Only my brother could touch him and yet the robbers managed to lock him in the bathroom" "He says he spent many hours in the hall while I was operated on" "That's right he sat there all the time" "Later, he even lay in the nurses' duty room" "No, I didn't mean he did it" "But some of his friends, perhaps" "You know, the company he keeps..." "Thank you" "You've helped me a lot" "Good afternoon." "Sorry I'm late" "I..." "I just..." "You wanted to see me?" "Well, yes" "You think I'm crazy?" "No, why?" "Well, we spent so much time in each other's company and now I've invited you to have coffee with me" "Quite natural" "You see, we've talked a lot but..." "I just couldn't say it" "I suspect..." "I suspect my brother might be involved in this robbery" "Oh, God, what have I said" "You said you believed your brother might be involved" "I feel somehow" "Well, I don't really know it might be intuition only" "Oh yes, intuition is not be neglected as you very well know yourself" "Well, you've helped me a lot" "Just like they say in the movies" "But it's a fact" "Thank you, sir" "Can I help you?" "Thanks, I'm just looking for new stamps." "Have you any?" "Oh yes." "Fortieth anniversary of the police and Security Force" "Sixty zlotys" "A stamp with a seal on it, thirty" "And World Championships in Wrestling, twenty-five..." "I'd like one of each How much are they?" "One of each?" "One hundred and five zlotys" "I didn't expect you here" "And I didn't expect you" "Shut up, will you?" "Now!" "Artur" "I did something horrible" "I thought..." "So did I..." "But I said..." "I thought it was you..." "So did I..." "Jerzy" "What's this?" "Ah, I went to the post office and bought these" "It's a series"