1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,005 2 00:00:02,006 --> 00:00:32,006 3 00:01:14,047 --> 00:01:20,199 A Pure Formality 4 00:04:09,087 --> 00:04:12,679 You'll catch your death of pneumonia, mister. 5 00:04:18,527 --> 00:04:23,121 Please... let's see some ID. 6 00:04:33,247 --> 00:04:35,686 I must've... 7 00:04:35,687 --> 00:04:39,200 I must've let it in... 8 00:04:50,607 --> 00:04:53,802 Pneumonia for sure, mister. 9 00:05:08,887 --> 00:05:12,036 You'll be warmer. 10 00:05:13,447 --> 00:05:16,086 How long am I to stay in this shithouse? 11 00:05:16,087 --> 00:05:17,806 Relax. 12 00:05:17,807 --> 00:05:19,846 The Inspector's been told. 13 00:05:19,847 --> 00:05:21,326 He's on his way. 14 00:05:21,327 --> 00:05:24,806 At least you're dry. 15 00:05:24,807 --> 00:05:27,806 You must be joking! 16 00:05:27,807 --> 00:05:33,004 It's like a cheap American film. When do you read me my rights? 17 00:05:33,287 --> 00:05:37,482 You can take off your shoes if you want. 18 00:05:44,927 --> 00:05:48,962 I wet myself. 19 00:05:50,847 --> 00:05:53,566 It happens sometimes. 20 00:05:53,567 --> 00:05:56,522 When you're old. 21 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:00,756 Isn't that so? 22 00:06:19,327 --> 00:06:22,086 I have to make a call. Where's the phone? 23 00:06:22,087 --> 00:06:24,766 Sorry, that's not possible. 24 00:06:24,767 --> 00:06:26,646 What d'you mean - not possible? 25 00:06:26,647 --> 00:06:29,446 It's my right! I have to tell them I'll be late. 26 00:06:29,447 --> 00:06:31,446 Drop it, it's not possible. 27 00:06:31,447 --> 00:06:34,166 Ask the Inspector when he gets here. 28 00:06:34,167 --> 00:06:36,806 Whoever you are, 29 00:06:36,807 --> 00:06:39,046 I'll also tell him 30 00:06:39,047 --> 00:06:41,046 how you treated me. You're in trouble. 31 00:06:41,047 --> 00:06:42,766 I'm not some nobody! 32 00:06:42,767 --> 00:06:45,126 I don't have the honor of knowing you. 33 00:06:45,127 --> 00:06:48,646 But whoever you are, you'll see we don't play favorites here! 34 00:06:48,647 --> 00:06:51,206 Get that through your head! 35 00:06:51,207 --> 00:06:55,198 Tell the Inspector anything you like. 36 00:07:19,287 --> 00:07:23,801 Can you tell me the time or do I have to wait for Bogart? 37 00:07:25,367 --> 00:07:28,739 It's 9:15. 38 00:07:29,087 --> 00:07:33,645 9:15. Shit. Oh, shit! 39 00:07:53,567 --> 00:07:54,806 Shut up! 40 00:07:54,807 --> 00:07:58,086 - Out that whistling! It drives me nuts! - Sit down!... 41 00:07:58,087 --> 00:08:01,122 And keep quiet! 42 00:08:03,847 --> 00:08:05,446 Sorry... 43 00:08:05,447 --> 00:08:07,126 I apologize. 44 00:08:07,127 --> 00:08:09,406 It's just that I'm expected. 45 00:08:09,407 --> 00:08:11,446 I have a very important meeting. 46 00:08:11,447 --> 00:08:14,323 Very important. 47 00:08:16,247 --> 00:08:19,646 With the Minister of Culture. 48 00:08:20,287 --> 00:08:22,006 I have to prepare myself... 49 00:08:22,007 --> 00:08:23,366 I can't go like... 50 00:08:23,367 --> 00:08:27,403 The Inspector's on his way. 51 00:08:36,887 --> 00:08:39,086 Got a cigarette? 52 00:08:39,087 --> 00:08:41,286 Find him a cigarette. 53 00:08:41,287 --> 00:08:43,166 But, captain, I don't smoke. 54 00:08:43,167 --> 00:08:46,077 Me neither. 55 00:08:47,367 --> 00:08:50,686 The Inspector smokes, I hope. 56 00:08:50,687 --> 00:08:52,486 An Inspector always smokes. 57 00:08:52,487 --> 00:08:54,326 An Inspector smokes a pipe... 58 00:08:54,327 --> 00:08:58,238 An Inspector chomps on a cigar... 59 00:08:58,527 --> 00:09:02,006 Drink this, It'll do you good. 60 00:09:02,527 --> 00:09:05,482 Take it. 61 00:09:06,127 --> 00:09:08,086 Drink. 62 00:09:08,087 --> 00:09:11,645 It'll warm you. Drink. 63 00:09:12,487 --> 00:09:16,086 - Is it milk? - Yes, warm milk. 64 00:09:16,087 --> 00:09:19,566 It'll do you good. Go on. 65 00:09:19,567 --> 00:09:22,602 Drink. 66 00:09:22,767 --> 00:09:25,722 Drink. 67 00:09:36,527 --> 00:09:38,166 You son of a bitch! 68 00:09:38,167 --> 00:09:41,282 Bastard! 69 00:09:44,727 --> 00:09:48,080 Bastard! 70 00:10:25,127 --> 00:10:27,286 A nasty business. 71 00:10:27,287 --> 00:10:29,566 We really needed this. 72 00:10:29,567 --> 00:10:31,646 With this rain, I was 73 00:10:31,647 --> 00:10:33,326 better off in bed. 74 00:10:33,327 --> 00:10:36,442 He's coming around. 75 00:10:37,047 --> 00:10:40,526 Try to sit up. 76 00:10:40,687 --> 00:10:42,686 Give him a hand. 77 00:10:42,687 --> 00:10:47,804 I'll manage, leave me alone. 78 00:11:06,727 --> 00:11:10,683 I assume you're the Inspector. 79 00:11:12,847 --> 00:11:15,966 Excellent assumption. 80 00:11:15,967 --> 00:11:20,686 Well, then you owe me a few explanations. 81 00:11:21,367 --> 00:11:23,886 By what right are you holding me here? 82 00:11:23,887 --> 00:11:27,366 Why wouldn't your men let me contact my family? 83 00:11:27,367 --> 00:11:32,439 Who authorized them to beat me like an animal? 84 00:11:33,447 --> 00:11:36,406 Answer me. 85 00:11:36,407 --> 00:11:39,006 I asked you three simple questions. 86 00:11:39,007 --> 00:11:42,206 Ordinarily I'm the one who asks questions. 87 00:11:42,207 --> 00:11:45,446 From what I hear, you brought this on yourself. 88 00:11:45,447 --> 00:11:48,486 Nonetheless, I'm sorry I'm late. 89 00:11:48,487 --> 00:11:53,321 - As a rule, I'm quite punctual... - I don't care how punctual you are! 90 00:11:54,767 --> 00:11:56,566 I have no desire to know it. 91 00:11:56,567 --> 00:12:01,206 I just want to know what I'm doing here. 92 00:12:02,127 --> 00:12:06,721 I'll try to satisfy your curiosity. 93 00:12:08,647 --> 00:12:12,086 But first I'd like to know who I'm dealing with. 94 00:12:12,087 --> 00:12:14,046 Seeing as you were out walking 95 00:12:14,047 --> 00:12:17,366 miles from anywhere in a downpour, with no raincoat 96 00:12:17,367 --> 00:12:20,406 no... umbrella, nothing in your pockets, 97 00:12:20,407 --> 00:12:21,806 not even any ID... 98 00:12:21,807 --> 00:12:25,846 It's neither a felony nor a misdemeanor to be without ID. 99 00:12:25,847 --> 00:12:29,566 It must be in my wallet on my desk... 100 00:12:29,567 --> 00:12:32,486 - Naturally. - ...or in another jacket. 101 00:12:32,487 --> 00:12:34,406 But first, 102 00:12:34,407 --> 00:12:37,526 I'd like to know who it is I'm talking to. 103 00:12:37,527 --> 00:12:41,846 A trucker? A boxer, a dentist, an astrologer? 104 00:12:41,847 --> 00:12:44,286 Maybe a judge, since you are such an expert on felony and misdemeanor, 105 00:12:44,287 --> 00:12:46,966 crimes? 106 00:12:46,967 --> 00:12:49,886 Once people knew who I was before I even said hello. 107 00:12:49,887 --> 00:12:52,126 But I don't want to... 108 00:12:52,127 --> 00:12:55,924 take advantage of my celebrity. 109 00:12:56,687 --> 00:12:59,597 No... 110 00:13:00,007 --> 00:13:02,446 My name is Onoff. 111 00:13:02,447 --> 00:13:06,403 And mine is Leonardo Da Vinci. 112 00:13:09,247 --> 00:13:11,366 You don't believe me? 113 00:13:11,367 --> 00:13:14,366 That's your right. 114 00:13:14,367 --> 00:13:17,766 What's perhaps less your right 115 00:13:17,767 --> 00:13:19,846 is arresting people simply for 116 00:13:19,847 --> 00:13:22,046 walking in the rain. 117 00:13:22,047 --> 00:13:25,806 Does rain bother you so much 118 00:13:25,807 --> 00:13:29,365 mister Leonardo Da Vinci? 119 00:13:31,767 --> 00:13:33,806 I am Onoff. 120 00:13:33,807 --> 00:13:37,686 If you doubt me, go get my ID or send your henchmen, 121 00:13:37,687 --> 00:13:39,246 It's your work. 122 00:13:39,247 --> 00:13:42,606 I own the farmhouse on the River Choron. I must've left it 123 00:13:42,607 --> 00:13:44,686 on the kitchen table 124 00:13:44,687 --> 00:13:46,686 or in a shirt pocket or on my bed. 125 00:13:46,687 --> 00:13:49,206 "Even now I sometimes doubt I ever... 126 00:13:49,207 --> 00:13:52,196 lived those days, 127 00:13:52,727 --> 00:13:55,686 ever made fast that friendship, 128 00:13:55,687 --> 00:13:59,886 ever knew this man whose body has just fallen before my eyes. 129 00:13:59,887 --> 00:14:03,086 This body gasped for breath, 130 00:14:03,087 --> 00:14:06,440 and I wrote these pages. 131 00:14:07,607 --> 00:14:10,086 Those vacant eyes cried out for expression, 132 00:14:10,087 --> 00:14:12,806 those lips pleaded for a final whimper, 133 00:14:12,807 --> 00:14:16,766 this dream was missing a kind of dreamer..." 134 00:14:16,767 --> 00:14:20,606 Charming little speech. And very well-said. 135 00:14:20,607 --> 00:14:24,086 But it leaves me cold. I don't understand it, Mr. Da Vinci. 136 00:14:24,087 --> 00:14:26,326 What you call my little speech 137 00:14:26,327 --> 00:14:31,086 is quite simply a quote from a great novel by a writer named Onoff! 138 00:14:31,087 --> 00:14:33,446 Onoff... 139 00:14:33,447 --> 00:14:36,046 You really have no luck, do you? 140 00:14:36,047 --> 00:14:37,446 No luck at all! 141 00:14:37,447 --> 00:14:41,046 Because in a place like this where nothing ever happens, 142 00:14:41,047 --> 00:14:43,086 you have plenty of time to read. 143 00:14:43,087 --> 00:14:45,206 And I read a lot, 144 00:14:45,207 --> 00:14:47,886 days on end, weeks on end, 145 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:50,926 book after book, book after book... 146 00:14:50,927 --> 00:14:54,166 You can't imagine the number of books I read, 147 00:14:54,167 --> 00:14:56,966 even re-read the ones I like best: 148 00:14:56,967 --> 00:15:00,086 "The Palace of Nine Frontiers", "Degrees", 149 00:15:00,087 --> 00:15:01,886 "Hatred", 150 00:15:01,887 --> 00:15:04,006 "Geometry", 151 00:15:04,007 --> 00:15:05,566 "A Treatise on Pleasure", 152 00:15:05,567 --> 00:15:08,086 "Nero", "The Two Torches"... 153 00:15:08,087 --> 00:15:10,006 All books by Onoff. 154 00:15:10,007 --> 00:15:12,206 He's my favorite writer. 155 00:15:12,207 --> 00:15:15,206 In my humble opinion, he's a genius. 156 00:15:15,207 --> 00:15:18,046 You couldn�t have made a worse choice. 157 00:15:18,047 --> 00:15:19,366 Onoff... 158 00:15:19,367 --> 00:15:23,206 I know his biography like the back of my hand. 159 00:15:23,207 --> 00:15:24,726 You see, old man, 160 00:15:24,727 --> 00:15:28,286 walking in the rain at night isn't too serious by itself. 161 00:15:28,287 --> 00:15:32,846 Leaving your ID at home in a jacket pocket is merely stupid. 162 00:15:32,847 --> 00:15:35,606 Attempting to escape police custody, 163 00:15:35,607 --> 00:15:39,606 even the most inept, by assaulting officers of the law 164 00:15:39,607 --> 00:15:41,286 is a bit riskier. 165 00:15:41,287 --> 00:15:44,646 But doing it all in the space of a few hours, 166 00:15:44,647 --> 00:15:48,486 then giving a false identity, 167 00:15:48,487 --> 00:15:52,921 that's... very, very risky. 168 00:16:05,887 --> 00:16:08,486 Andre! 169 00:16:08,487 --> 00:16:10,886 I'm ready, sir! 170 00:16:10,887 --> 00:16:14,764 It may not be necessary, I doubt it'll take long. Who is winning? 171 00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:27,399 Me, but he has the Mikado. The Mikado doesn't beat a steady hand. Fix me a cup of coffee. 172 00:16:32,407 --> 00:16:35,317 Stand up. 173 00:17:04,367 --> 00:17:07,686 What's your name? 174 00:17:20,087 --> 00:17:24,043 Let's not waste time. Your name? 175 00:17:24,807 --> 00:17:27,806 What's your name? 176 00:17:27,807 --> 00:17:31,726 What's your name? Shit! 177 00:17:31,727 --> 00:17:34,246 "He was standing by the armoire 178 00:17:34,247 --> 00:17:36,006 when Mrs. d'Oneiras' car 179 00:17:36,007 --> 00:17:39,246 drove into the courtyard. 180 00:17:39,247 --> 00:17:43,126 The maid hurried out. 181 00:17:43,127 --> 00:17:45,526 She held the door open, 182 00:17:45,527 --> 00:17:47,526 curtseyed, 183 00:17:47,527 --> 00:17:51,006 then ushered her in. 184 00:17:51,007 --> 00:17:54,806 Mrs. d'Oneiras slowly climbed the semicircular staircase. 185 00:17:54,807 --> 00:17:57,766 She was beautiful. 186 00:17:57,767 --> 00:18:01,366 She took a morsel of cooked fish from the pocket of her skirt 187 00:18:01,367 --> 00:18:04,880 and proceeded to eat it. 188 00:18:06,527 --> 00:18:09,126 As she ate, she stared straight ahead, 189 00:18:09,127 --> 00:18:11,566 seeing nothing... 190 00:18:11,567 --> 00:18:13,846 When she came in, 191 00:18:13,847 --> 00:18:15,806 he moved away from the armoire 192 00:18:15,807 --> 00:18:19,086 and went toward her, but she didn�t look at him. 193 00:18:19,087 --> 00:18:22,806 She passed by him, barely a centimeter away, 194 00:18:22,807 --> 00:18:26,286 as if he didn't exist." 195 00:18:27,647 --> 00:18:30,086 That Mrs. d'Oneiras... 196 00:18:30,087 --> 00:18:34,760 The bit of herring in the skirt pocket... 197 00:18:35,047 --> 00:18:38,400 That's from "Degrees". 198 00:18:39,407 --> 00:18:44,246 It's when Mrs. d'Oneiras breaks off with him. 199 00:18:44,247 --> 00:18:46,246 The middle of the book. 200 00:18:46,247 --> 00:18:49,046 Not "Degrees". 201 00:18:49,047 --> 00:18:51,766 "Stairways", Inspector. 202 00:18:51,767 --> 00:18:53,326 "Stairways", 203 00:18:53,327 --> 00:18:55,166 chapter three, 204 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:56,966 "The return of the Druze". 205 00:18:56,967 --> 00:19:03,277 Giving a false identity is very risky, Leonardo Da Vinci, old prick! 206 00:19:15,167 --> 00:19:19,442 Prince Cosimo's speech, before laying the tiles? 207 00:19:21,927 --> 00:19:23,526 "That's why I followed you here, 208 00:19:23,527 --> 00:19:24,646 and that's why 209 00:19:24,647 --> 00:19:26,846 this park if full of kneeling men..." 210 00:19:26,847 --> 00:19:28,886 "...and derelict dancers..." 211 00:19:28,887 --> 00:19:30,799 "And that's why 212 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,766 in this frescoed corner, where these two walls meet..." 213 00:19:33,767 --> 00:19:37,566 "...you see squatting figures, defecating in the shadows." 214 00:19:37,567 --> 00:19:39,566 Correct? 215 00:19:39,567 --> 00:19:44,246 You say you know my biography like the back if your hand. 216 00:19:44,247 --> 00:19:45,966 I am 48 years old. 217 00:19:45,967 --> 00:19:50,286 I've written novels, articles, songs, plays. 218 00:19:50,287 --> 00:19:52,886 I myself directed, very badly, my last play, "Nero". 219 00:19:52,887 --> 00:19:54,086 I've published nothing 220 00:19:54,087 --> 00:19:55,886 for 6 years. 221 00:19:55,887 --> 00:20:00,240 Is that enough? 222 00:20:02,687 --> 00:20:05,722 Onoff! 223 00:20:06,287 --> 00:20:10,357 The great Onoff, here! 224 00:20:10,687 --> 00:20:13,526 How could I not have recognized you right away? 225 00:20:13,527 --> 00:20:15,326 It's... I... What can I say to apologize? 226 00:20:15,327 --> 00:20:19,124 Allow me to shake your hand. 227 00:20:21,407 --> 00:20:23,486 I am sorry about 228 00:20:23,487 --> 00:20:26,246 the shabby welcome we gave you. 229 00:20:26,247 --> 00:20:28,446 Never mind. Not a big deal. 230 00:20:28,447 --> 00:20:30,286 You're soaking wet! 231 00:20:30,287 --> 00:20:32,966 Towels, quickly, and dry clothes! 232 00:20:32,967 --> 00:20:34,766 And shoes, too. 233 00:20:34,767 --> 00:20:36,366 Would you like coffee? 234 00:20:36,367 --> 00:20:37,606 Another coffee! 235 00:20:37,607 --> 00:20:39,246 Just a moment, Mr. Inspector. 236 00:20:39,247 --> 00:20:44,637 May I make a call? 237 00:20:45,207 --> 00:20:48,322 Well, of course, but... 238 00:20:54,047 --> 00:20:56,326 The lines are busy. 239 00:20:56,327 --> 00:20:58,406 How... how... 240 00:20:58,407 --> 00:21:01,846 How could I possibly have failed to recognize you? 241 00:21:01,847 --> 00:21:04,846 I must have seen your face hundreds of times. 242 00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:08,606 You know, flash bulbs, news, shots, TV... 243 00:21:08,607 --> 00:21:12,446 - They conceal more than reveal. - Of course, but... 244 00:21:12,447 --> 00:21:13,926 What is someone like you 245 00:21:13,927 --> 00:21:16,046 doing here in the middle of nowhere? 246 00:21:16,047 --> 00:21:21,046 - I owe a house in the mountain, where sometimes... - Women! 247 00:21:21,047 --> 00:21:23,686 If it pleases you to think so... 248 00:21:23,687 --> 00:21:27,006 I shouldn't pry into what doesn't concern me. 249 00:21:27,007 --> 00:21:29,806 I'm seldom here, unfortunately. 250 00:21:29,807 --> 00:21:33,486 I go there to work. It helps me concentrate. 251 00:21:33,487 --> 00:21:35,606 A new book? 252 00:21:35,607 --> 00:21:39,326 You are writing a new book, er! I've guessed, have I? 253 00:21:39,327 --> 00:21:42,846 Bravo, you've guessed. 254 00:21:42,847 --> 00:21:46,046 And... have you been here long? 255 00:21:46,047 --> 00:21:47,646 Three or four days. 256 00:21:47,647 --> 00:21:52,400 I got there Thursday, today's Sunday. That makes four. 257 00:21:53,847 --> 00:21:54,966 The beard! 258 00:21:54,967 --> 00:21:57,046 That's it! 259 00:21:57,047 --> 00:21:59,126 You always had a beard, 260 00:21:59,127 --> 00:22:02,799 that's why I didn't recognize you! 261 00:22:12,807 --> 00:22:16,240 Coffee, Mr. Inspector. 262 00:23:20,647 --> 00:23:23,966 I brought you shoes. Can you open the door? 263 00:23:23,967 --> 00:23:26,646 Yes, I am going. 264 00:23:26,647 --> 00:23:29,602 I am going. 265 00:23:44,327 --> 00:23:46,086 The gardener's boots. 266 00:23:46,087 --> 00:23:48,766 A bit too big, but at least they're dry. 267 00:23:48,767 --> 00:23:51,286 Doesn't matter. Thanks. Thanks. 268 00:23:51,287 --> 00:23:56,597 Sorry about what happened earlier. How is your hand? 269 00:23:56,767 --> 00:23:58,486 Don't worry. 270 00:23:58,487 --> 00:24:00,246 I'll survive. 271 00:24:00,247 --> 00:24:03,521 Thanks for the boots. 272 00:26:03,647 --> 00:26:06,006 Well, Inspector, nothing left but to thank you 273 00:26:06,007 --> 00:26:08,086 for your kind words about my work. 274 00:26:08,087 --> 00:26:11,446 No, I'm the one to thank you. 275 00:26:11,447 --> 00:26:12,646 You don't know 276 00:26:12,647 --> 00:26:14,526 how happy I am to have met you, 277 00:26:14,527 --> 00:26:17,366 to have shaken the hand that creates the world 278 00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:18,406 where I so enjoyed living. 279 00:26:18,407 --> 00:26:22,126 I wouldn't like to abuse your hospitality but, 280 00:26:22,127 --> 00:26:25,726 if you could have me driven home... 281 00:26:25,727 --> 00:26:27,326 Yes, of course. 282 00:26:27,327 --> 00:26:31,006 That way, I can return the clothes and the boots. 283 00:26:31,007 --> 00:26:32,846 Of course. 284 00:26:32,847 --> 00:26:36,326 Of course, but... this is very awkward... how to tell you... 285 00:26:36,327 --> 00:26:39,926 My ID? I'll send that back, too. 286 00:26:39,927 --> 00:26:41,806 No, it's not that. 287 00:26:41,807 --> 00:26:44,006 What is it, then? 288 00:26:44,007 --> 00:26:46,686 Nothing serious, I assure you... 289 00:26:46,687 --> 00:26:49,166 But... 290 00:26:49,167 --> 00:26:54,762 You'll have to stay a while longer. 291 00:27:01,167 --> 00:27:05,046 - All right, if you think it's necessary... - As I said, 292 00:27:05,047 --> 00:27:09,925 nothing major. A few questions. Just a formality. 293 00:27:12,407 --> 00:27:15,246 It won't take long. 294 00:27:15,247 --> 00:27:18,166 I'd appreciate that, I'm very tired. 295 00:27:18,167 --> 00:27:23,123 You wanted to make a phone call. 296 00:27:23,647 --> 00:27:26,926 Give me a number, I'll have it put through. 297 00:27:26,927 --> 00:27:28,606 9363... 298 00:27:28,607 --> 00:27:31,726 3396. 299 00:27:31,727 --> 00:27:34,486 93633396. 300 00:27:34,487 --> 00:27:37,726 Easy to remember. 301 00:27:37,727 --> 00:27:40,006 Is it your number? 302 00:27:40,007 --> 00:27:41,446 No... 303 00:27:41,447 --> 00:27:45,005 A lady friend of mine. 304 00:27:47,487 --> 00:27:50,124 Andre... 305 00:27:51,887 --> 00:27:54,726 Put this number through to my direct line, 93... 306 00:27:54,727 --> 00:27:56,246 63... 307 00:27:56,247 --> 00:27:58,526 3396. 308 00:27:58,527 --> 00:27:59,646 93... 309 00:27:59,647 --> 00:28:03,638 633396. 310 00:28:05,167 --> 00:28:09,646 What's the subject of your new book? 311 00:28:09,647 --> 00:28:11,286 Is this an interview? 312 00:28:11,287 --> 00:28:13,526 Since you know me so well, 313 00:28:13,527 --> 00:28:15,926 you know I quit giving them years ago. 314 00:28:15,927 --> 00:28:17,966 Yes, of course. 315 00:28:17,967 --> 00:28:20,006 Though I never understood why. 316 00:28:20,007 --> 00:28:21,446 Interviews 317 00:28:21,447 --> 00:28:23,126 are pointless. 318 00:28:23,127 --> 00:28:26,166 Someone visits you to make you say, 319 00:28:26,167 --> 00:28:29,246 what he already knows, for the pleasure of hearing you repeat it. 320 00:28:29,247 --> 00:28:31,326 In a way, yes. 321 00:28:31,327 --> 00:28:33,686 But it's different with me. 322 00:28:33,687 --> 00:28:38,599 I want you to tell me everything you did today. 323 00:28:38,687 --> 00:28:40,286 Today, Sunday. 324 00:28:40,287 --> 00:28:42,198 And that, I assure you, is something I don't know. 325 00:28:42,199 --> 00:28:45,286 So it's not an interview. 326 00:28:45,287 --> 00:28:47,446 It's an interrogation. 327 00:28:47,447 --> 00:28:51,806 Call it what you like... But I ask you to bear with me. 328 00:28:51,807 --> 00:28:54,526 It's not easy to put these questions 329 00:28:54,527 --> 00:28:57,126 to a man I admire so much. - Then don't do it. 330 00:28:57,127 --> 00:28:59,326 I must, Mr. Onoff. 331 00:28:59,327 --> 00:29:02,006 I must. 332 00:29:02,007 --> 00:29:03,206 It's your own interest. 333 00:29:03,207 --> 00:29:05,246 As you see, we are alone, 334 00:29:05,247 --> 00:29:07,406 noting you say will be taken down. 335 00:29:07,407 --> 00:29:10,566 Tell me how you spent your day, 336 00:29:10,567 --> 00:29:14,326 and when you are finished, I give you my word, 337 00:29:14,327 --> 00:29:17,521 we'll leave you in peace. 338 00:29:19,447 --> 00:29:21,526 Got a cigarette? 339 00:29:21,527 --> 00:29:24,046 I am sorry, nobody here smokes... 340 00:29:24,047 --> 00:29:28,246 All right, never mind. Forget it. 341 00:29:28,247 --> 00:29:31,999 You smoke a lot? 342 00:29:32,687 --> 00:29:35,446 Three packs a day. A bit more lately. 343 00:29:35,447 --> 00:29:36,726 And today? 344 00:29:36,727 --> 00:29:40,604 Today I broke all records. 345 00:29:42,727 --> 00:29:44,686 What time did you wake up this morning? 346 00:29:44,687 --> 00:29:47,915 3:30. 347 00:29:48,567 --> 00:29:51,566 I always wake up in 3:30 in the morning. 348 00:29:51,567 --> 00:29:53,686 How can you be so precise? 349 00:29:53,687 --> 00:29:56,006 I don't sleep much. 350 00:29:56,007 --> 00:29:58,766 An hour, an hour and a half... Never more than two. 351 00:29:58,767 --> 00:30:02,446 Every day for the last ten years I've woken up at exactly 3:30 in the morning. 352 00:30:02,447 --> 00:30:04,886 Just like Shannon in "Geometry". 353 00:30:04,887 --> 00:30:07,886 Right, like the hero of "Geometry". 354 00:30:07,887 --> 00:30:11,006 - It's an obsession with you. - I guess it is. 355 00:30:11,007 --> 00:30:13,446 I must say I was surprised 356 00:30:13,447 --> 00:30:16,566 when you didn't recognize my quote: 357 00:30:16,567 --> 00:30:18,686 "Those lips pleaded for a final whimper". It's magnificent... 358 00:30:18,687 --> 00:30:21,726 Do you remember the names of all you suspects? 359 00:30:21,727 --> 00:30:24,446 Everyone you arrested, questioned, sent to jail? 360 00:30:24,447 --> 00:30:27,166 You remember their faces, their hair, 361 00:30:27,167 --> 00:30:28,926 every word they said? 362 00:30:28,927 --> 00:30:30,526 Frankly, I doubt it. 363 00:30:30,527 --> 00:30:32,806 No one can remember everything. 364 00:30:32,807 --> 00:30:36,166 That passage you quoted, might be from 365 00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:38,246 "The Palace...", maybe... 366 00:30:38,247 --> 00:30:40,926 That's it, that's it! 367 00:30:40,927 --> 00:30:43,526 Beginning of the last chapter! It is magnificent! 368 00:30:43,527 --> 00:30:46,606 We were discussing insomnia. 369 00:30:46,607 --> 00:30:51,006 Yes. I had insomnia, too. For years. 370 00:30:51,007 --> 00:30:54,526 I tried everything, every remedy possible or imaginable... 371 00:30:54,527 --> 00:30:58,606 Sleeping pills by truckload. 372 00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:00,006 Nothing helped. 373 00:31:00,007 --> 00:31:02,766 Then, a few years ago, 374 00:31:02,767 --> 00:31:05,046 all at once it stopped, 375 00:31:05,047 --> 00:31:07,957 like that. Overnight. 376 00:31:08,687 --> 00:31:11,486 Don't lose hope. Maybe it'll happen to you. 377 00:31:11,487 --> 00:31:14,206 I don't want my insomnia cured. 378 00:31:14,207 --> 00:31:16,526 It suits me fine, 379 00:31:16,527 --> 00:31:20,806 it's my number-one collaborator. It means I can write while others sleep. 380 00:31:20,807 --> 00:31:23,166 Did you also work last night? 381 00:31:23,167 --> 00:31:25,606 - Less than usual. - Did you went back to sleep? 382 00:31:25,607 --> 00:31:26,206 No... 383 00:31:26,207 --> 00:31:27,686 No? Then, what did you do? 384 00:31:27,687 --> 00:31:29,846 I stared for ages at the ceiling. 385 00:31:29,847 --> 00:31:33,838 And the ceiling stared for ages at me. 386 00:31:34,687 --> 00:31:36,366 Alone? 387 00:31:36,367 --> 00:31:38,846 I mean, you were alone in bed? 388 00:31:38,847 --> 00:31:41,966 You, Inspector, are a man of boundless tact. 389 00:31:41,967 --> 00:31:44,166 Yes, I was alone. 390 00:31:44,167 --> 00:31:45,680 You were alone. And then? 391 00:31:45,681 --> 00:31:47,326 Then I got up 392 00:31:47,327 --> 00:31:49,166 before cock-crow. 393 00:31:49,167 --> 00:31:51,926 I put on my robe 394 00:31:51,927 --> 00:31:54,646 and my slippers, one by one. 395 00:31:54,647 --> 00:31:56,166 I went down to the kitchen. 396 00:31:56,167 --> 00:31:59,166 I drank a cup of coffee accompanied by a spoonful of sugar. 397 00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:01,726 I took a huge crap. 398 00:32:01,727 --> 00:32:03,406 I scratched my head. 399 00:32:03,407 --> 00:32:05,046 I washed myself, 400 00:32:05,047 --> 00:32:06,806 dressed. 401 00:32:06,807 --> 00:32:09,286 Made a phone call, 402 00:32:09,287 --> 00:32:13,006 tore up everything I'd written yesterday, 403 00:32:13,007 --> 00:32:14,166 and made notes 404 00:32:14,167 --> 00:32:16,206 on what I'd write tomorrow. 405 00:32:16,207 --> 00:32:17,446 And then 406 00:32:17,447 --> 00:32:19,606 I went for a walk. 407 00:32:19,607 --> 00:32:21,846 After that I came back home 408 00:32:21,847 --> 00:32:25,917 and reorganized the attic. 409 00:32:25,927 --> 00:32:28,882 And then? 410 00:32:29,487 --> 00:32:31,006 Then, 411 00:32:31,007 --> 00:32:35,406 I drove to the train station to pick up my agent. 412 00:32:35,407 --> 00:32:36,846 What's your agent's name? 413 00:32:36,847 --> 00:32:40,758 - Danielle. - Danielle what? 414 00:32:41,087 --> 00:32:43,566 Danielle February. 415 00:32:43,567 --> 00:32:47,246 You drove to the train station to pick up Danielle February? 416 00:32:47,247 --> 00:32:48,446 - Yes. - Then? 417 00:32:48,447 --> 00:32:49,406 We had lunch, 418 00:32:49,407 --> 00:32:51,766 we talked about work... 419 00:32:51,767 --> 00:32:53,326 Later on I took her back. 420 00:32:53,327 --> 00:32:54,486 - Where? - To the station. 421 00:32:54,487 --> 00:32:57,237 What time? 422 00:32:57,367 --> 00:32:59,566 Between 5 and 6 in the evening. 423 00:32:59,567 --> 00:33:01,326 She left and I went home. 424 00:33:01,327 --> 00:33:03,486 What time? 425 00:33:03,487 --> 00:33:05,366 About 7. 426 00:33:05,367 --> 00:33:07,366 And then? 427 00:33:07,367 --> 00:33:08,726 Then... 428 00:33:08,727 --> 00:33:10,486 - Then? - Then... 429 00:33:10,487 --> 00:33:13,476 Then? 430 00:33:26,287 --> 00:33:27,726 I don't remember very well. 431 00:33:27,727 --> 00:33:31,366 You don't remember very well? 432 00:33:31,367 --> 00:33:34,606 No, I don't remember. 433 00:33:34,607 --> 00:33:36,926 You don't remember? 434 00:33:36,927 --> 00:33:38,086 But... 435 00:33:38,087 --> 00:33:40,726 You went back home, 436 00:33:40,727 --> 00:33:42,366 after the station, 437 00:33:42,367 --> 00:33:45,046 in 7 in the evening... And then? 438 00:33:45,047 --> 00:33:47,126 I can't remember... 439 00:33:47,127 --> 00:33:49,286 I've forgotten, I've... 440 00:33:49,287 --> 00:33:51,246 It's ridiculous! 441 00:33:51,247 --> 00:33:54,606 You don't remember what you did just a few hours ago? 442 00:33:54,607 --> 00:33:57,566 You think that's normal? 443 00:33:57,567 --> 00:33:59,486 Is it a crime to forget? 444 00:33:59,487 --> 00:34:01,486 You are bullshitting me, Mr. Onoff! 445 00:34:01,487 --> 00:34:02,806 Bullshitting me! 446 00:34:02,807 --> 00:34:04,406 Up my ass, Inspector! 447 00:34:04,407 --> 00:34:07,080 What do you think I did? Why does it matter? 448 00:34:07,847 --> 00:34:10,046 - What do you care? - OK, let's begin again. 449 00:34:10,047 --> 00:34:11,566 From the top. 450 00:34:11,567 --> 00:34:13,966 This changes everything, Mr. Genius. 451 00:34:13,967 --> 00:34:16,446 I sincerely wanted to help you, 452 00:34:16,447 --> 00:34:19,166 I have the greatest respect for what you do, 453 00:34:19,167 --> 00:34:21,326 for you work... 454 00:34:21,327 --> 00:34:23,406 But until 455 00:34:23,407 --> 00:34:24,526 you and your memory make contact, 456 00:34:24,527 --> 00:34:26,246 you are not leaving here. 457 00:34:26,247 --> 00:34:29,886 Help me? I don't need help. What do you suspect 458 00:34:29,887 --> 00:34:32,366 in your hidebound little hick-cop brain? 459 00:34:32,367 --> 00:34:33,886 Let's start. 460 00:34:33,887 --> 00:34:36,086 Name? 461 00:34:36,087 --> 00:34:38,886 What's your name? 462 00:34:38,887 --> 00:34:42,246 It's a simple question, dammit! 463 00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:45,406 I won't answer until I've made a phone call. 464 00:34:45,407 --> 00:34:48,886 You can't call and you won't call. 465 00:34:48,887 --> 00:34:51,246 You can't call. 466 00:34:51,247 --> 00:34:54,446 I have the right to call my lawyer! 467 00:34:54,447 --> 00:34:59,120 I won't answer your stupid questions without my lawyer! 468 00:35:02,007 --> 00:35:03,886 Look here... 469 00:35:03,887 --> 00:35:06,366 - I know your rights. - No! 470 00:35:06,367 --> 00:35:08,966 You've refused me everything from the start! 471 00:35:08,967 --> 00:35:12,720 First your guardian angels: "Ask the Inspector, 472 00:35:12,927 --> 00:35:14,246 wait for the Inspector". Then you... 473 00:35:14,247 --> 00:35:17,086 "Give me the number, I'll get it on my direct line". 474 00:35:17,087 --> 00:35:20,846 Why can't I call from this jerkwater dump? 475 00:35:20,847 --> 00:35:22,926 The lines are out of order. 476 00:35:22,927 --> 00:35:24,446 Good enough? 477 00:35:24,447 --> 00:35:26,046 Well, Inspector, 478 00:35:26,047 --> 00:35:30,046 in all my career as a writer I never indulged in such exuberant flights of fancy. 479 00:35:30,047 --> 00:35:31,206 Hats off! 480 00:35:31,207 --> 00:35:32,766 It's true, Mr. Onoff. whenever there is a storm, 481 00:35:32,767 --> 00:35:36,246 the first thing to go is the phone. 482 00:35:36,247 --> 00:35:37,606 In fact, 483 00:35:37,607 --> 00:35:40,766 it's a wonder we still have power. 484 00:35:40,767 --> 00:35:42,046 - You should've said before. - I give my word, 485 00:35:42,047 --> 00:35:46,641 once the lines are fixed, you'll be the first to call. 486 00:35:46,847 --> 00:35:47,383 Go on. Your name? 487 00:35:47,384 --> 00:35:48,126 - Why? - Why what? 488 00:35:48,127 --> 00:35:49,486 These questions. 489 00:35:49,487 --> 00:35:51,406 Please, your name. 490 00:35:51,407 --> 00:35:55,602 Why this interrogation, Inspector? 491 00:35:59,447 --> 00:36:05,042 Someone was murdered tonight not far from your house. 492 00:36:06,967 --> 00:36:09,926 Sit down. 493 00:36:09,927 --> 00:36:13,286 Congratulations, Inspector, you've already got your killer. 494 00:36:13,287 --> 00:36:16,446 I don't think for a second that you are a killer. 495 00:36:16,447 --> 00:36:19,166 But if you keep trying me to make me believe 496 00:36:19,167 --> 00:36:22,406 that you don't remember a thing you did after 7 in the evening, 497 00:36:22,407 --> 00:36:25,046 I�ll be forced to think you are. 498 00:36:25,047 --> 00:36:27,966 So, your name, if you please. 499 00:36:27,967 --> 00:36:30,922 My name is Onoff. 500 00:36:31,447 --> 00:36:32,886 Place and date of birth. 501 00:36:32,887 --> 00:36:35,766 February 3, 1946, in Vercere. 502 00:36:35,767 --> 00:36:37,406 - Profession. - Writer. 503 00:36:37,407 --> 00:36:39,326 - Married? - Twice married. 504 00:36:39,327 --> 00:36:40,766 Meaning... 505 00:36:40,767 --> 00:36:42,166 My first wife 506 00:36:42,167 --> 00:36:45,406 died not long after our wedding. 507 00:36:45,407 --> 00:36:47,526 In what circumstances? 508 00:36:47,527 --> 00:36:49,926 Cancer. 509 00:36:49,927 --> 00:36:51,326 You remarried? 510 00:36:51,327 --> 00:36:53,486 I divorced nine years ago. 511 00:36:53,487 --> 00:36:54,446 Children? 512 00:36:54,447 --> 00:36:55,526 None. 513 00:36:55,527 --> 00:36:56,566 Prior offences? 514 00:36:56,567 --> 00:37:00,445 Like what? How many times I ripped off a supermarket? 515 00:37:01,207 --> 00:37:04,086 How many people I killed before tonight? 516 00:37:04,087 --> 00:37:06,366 Denies any prior offences. 517 00:37:06,367 --> 00:37:07,446 What brought you 518 00:37:07,447 --> 00:37:08,846 to this wasteland? 519 00:37:08,847 --> 00:37:11,086 I've already told you twice. 520 00:37:11,087 --> 00:37:12,326 I came 521 00:37:12,327 --> 00:37:13,926 to my farmhouse 522 00:37:13,927 --> 00:37:16,846 to concentrate. 523 00:37:16,847 --> 00:37:19,757 Away from everything. 524 00:37:21,087 --> 00:37:23,806 Away from police inspectors. 525 00:37:23,807 --> 00:37:25,726 Were you alone? 526 00:37:25,727 --> 00:37:27,406 Just a second, sir. 527 00:37:27,407 --> 00:37:30,926 - Were you alone when you came to the house? - No. 528 00:37:30,927 --> 00:37:32,046 Who was with you? 529 00:37:32,047 --> 00:37:35,275 My wife. 530 00:37:38,567 --> 00:37:42,683 You married a third time? 531 00:37:42,887 --> 00:37:44,526 No, I mean 532 00:37:44,527 --> 00:37:46,806 my second wife. My former second wife, if you prefer. 533 00:37:46,807 --> 00:37:48,926 - You reconciled? 534 00:37:48,927 --> 00:37:51,326 No, no. We see each other regularly. 535 00:37:51,327 --> 00:37:54,726 You might say we've become friends. Well... almost friends. 536 00:37:54,727 --> 00:37:57,606 How many bedrooms is there in your farmhouse? 537 00:37:57,607 --> 00:38:01,086 When we are together we sleep together if that's the question. 538 00:38:01,087 --> 00:38:04,686 So, when you woke at 3:30 in the morning to contemplate the ceiling, 539 00:38:04,687 --> 00:38:07,676 you weren't alone? 540 00:38:10,167 --> 00:38:11,926 Obviously not. 541 00:38:11,927 --> 00:38:13,806 Why did you tell me you were? 542 00:38:13,807 --> 00:38:16,366 I didn't say that. Read the transcript. 543 00:38:16,367 --> 00:38:20,086 Not now! Before you said you woke up 544 00:38:20,087 --> 00:38:22,086 just before cock-crow 545 00:38:22,087 --> 00:38:23,326 and you were alone. 546 00:38:23,327 --> 00:38:25,326 I made a mistake! 547 00:38:25,327 --> 00:38:29,045 Anyway, we are always alone. 548 00:38:30,087 --> 00:38:32,806 How long have you been here? 549 00:38:32,807 --> 00:38:34,486 About nine days. 550 00:38:34,487 --> 00:38:36,086 How can you be sure? 551 00:38:36,087 --> 00:38:37,686 How can I be sure? 552 00:38:37,687 --> 00:38:39,806 If I say nine days, it's nine days! 553 00:38:39,807 --> 00:38:42,726 - Why did you tell me four? - I didn't say four! 554 00:38:42,727 --> 00:38:44,606 You did, you said four days. 555 00:38:44,607 --> 00:38:46,686 So, I counted wrong. 556 00:38:46,687 --> 00:38:50,366 I loose all track of time when I work Besides... 557 00:38:50,367 --> 00:38:54,676 That's why we work: to lose consciousness. 558 00:38:55,607 --> 00:38:58,806 Listen to me, Mr. Onoff. 559 00:38:58,807 --> 00:39:02,046 If you contradict yourself in your novels or your poems, 560 00:39:02,047 --> 00:39:03,126 that's fine. 561 00:39:03,127 --> 00:39:07,126 But if you keep contradicting yourself in a murder investigation, 562 00:39:07,127 --> 00:39:09,843 then that's... 563 00:39:13,167 --> 00:39:15,646 Any more and we'll all drawn! 564 00:39:15,647 --> 00:39:17,766 Shit. 565 00:39:17,767 --> 00:39:21,326 We'll take care of it, Mr. Inspector. 566 00:39:21,327 --> 00:39:25,286 How can you live in a place like that? 567 00:39:25,287 --> 00:39:28,646 How can we live in a place like this! 568 00:39:28,647 --> 00:39:32,766 How can we live in a place like this! 569 00:39:32,767 --> 00:39:36,803 We are ready, Mr. Inspector. 570 00:40:04,247 --> 00:40:07,236 Excuse me! 571 00:40:09,207 --> 00:40:09,846 Yes? 572 00:40:09,847 --> 00:40:12,166 A while back, I noticed... 573 00:40:12,167 --> 00:40:14,366 Bottles. I think it was wine. 574 00:40:14,367 --> 00:40:17,766 Could I have some? 575 00:40:21,727 --> 00:40:24,876 It's a good wine. 576 00:40:29,367 --> 00:40:32,766 Best in the region. 577 00:40:37,327 --> 00:40:39,886 - Here. - Thanks. 578 00:40:39,887 --> 00:40:42,797 Thanks. 579 00:40:44,967 --> 00:40:47,526 - Good, eh? - I'll say! 580 00:40:47,527 --> 00:40:49,526 Have some more. 581 00:40:49,527 --> 00:40:50,966 To bring you luck. 582 00:40:50,967 --> 00:40:56,801 It's February 3rd. You birthday, right? 583 00:40:57,607 --> 00:40:59,926 So it is. 584 00:40:59,927 --> 00:41:03,076 Yes, indeed. 585 00:41:05,327 --> 00:41:07,486 Can I ask you a question? 586 00:41:07,487 --> 00:41:10,681 What else do you do here? 587 00:41:10,927 --> 00:41:14,206 When I whistled that tune before, you got mad, remember? 588 00:41:14,207 --> 00:41:16,326 It wasn't you I was mad at. 589 00:41:16,327 --> 00:41:18,726 I am sorry. I apologize. 590 00:41:18,727 --> 00:41:22,285 Let's give them a hand. 591 00:41:36,007 --> 00:41:39,326 No, it's because... I know I whistle off key but... 592 00:41:39,327 --> 00:41:43,558 - You recognized the tune? - I recognized it. 593 00:41:48,687 --> 00:41:53,526 I guess everyone in the world had told you that. 594 00:41:53,527 --> 00:41:57,961 But... To me that song is a big part of my life. 595 00:42:36,047 --> 00:42:38,166 Here we go! What'd I tell you! 596 00:42:38,167 --> 00:42:41,236 Come sit down please. 597 00:42:51,727 --> 00:42:55,406 Andre, I don't know where the candles are. 598 00:42:55,407 --> 00:42:57,766 Look around, they are over there! 599 00:42:57,767 --> 00:43:00,722 Hurry up! 600 00:43:07,967 --> 00:43:13,482 Mister! Mister! I'll pour you some more wine. Where's your glass? 601 00:44:23,807 --> 00:44:29,320 Andre, open up! What's going on? Break down the door! 602 00:46:14,007 --> 00:46:17,086 - Your name? - Onoff. 603 00:46:17,087 --> 00:46:19,486 Date and place of birth. 604 00:46:19,487 --> 00:46:23,526 February 3, in Vercere. Saint Blaise's day. 605 00:46:23,527 --> 00:46:26,806 - Year? - 1946. 606 00:46:26,807 --> 00:46:29,046 - Profession? - Writer. 607 00:46:29,047 --> 00:46:31,526 - Married? - Twice. 608 00:46:31,527 --> 00:46:33,686 - Children? - None. 609 00:46:33,687 --> 00:46:37,846 How many days ago did you come to your country house? 610 00:46:37,847 --> 00:46:40,406 Four. 611 00:46:40,407 --> 00:46:43,326 First you said four, then nine. 612 00:46:43,327 --> 00:46:45,406 Now it is four again? 613 00:46:45,407 --> 00:46:48,086 Four. 614 00:46:48,087 --> 00:46:51,520 Who did you come with? 615 00:46:51,647 --> 00:46:55,086 My ex-second wife. 616 00:46:55,087 --> 00:47:00,159 - What's your ex-second wife name? - Danielle. 617 00:47:00,807 --> 00:47:02,806 Danielle February. 618 00:47:02,807 --> 00:47:04,926 Isn't that your agent? 619 00:47:04,927 --> 00:47:06,806 The same thing. 620 00:47:06,807 --> 00:47:09,046 What does that mean? 621 00:47:09,047 --> 00:47:14,164 It means my ex-second wife is my agent. 622 00:47:14,567 --> 00:47:18,286 So she is the one you took to the train station? 623 00:47:18,287 --> 00:47:20,566 Yes. 624 00:47:20,567 --> 00:47:22,126 What time? 625 00:47:22,127 --> 00:47:25,560 Before dusk. 626 00:47:25,567 --> 00:47:27,566 What did you do then? 627 00:47:27,567 --> 00:47:29,926 I stayed home. 628 00:47:29,927 --> 00:47:33,766 You stayed home? Or you went home? 629 00:47:33,767 --> 00:47:38,486 I stayed home all day long. 630 00:47:38,727 --> 00:47:41,955 All day long... 631 00:47:42,247 --> 00:47:45,680 Can I have some wine? 632 00:47:49,607 --> 00:47:51,166 If you didn't leave home 633 00:47:51,167 --> 00:47:52,766 all day long, 634 00:47:52,767 --> 00:47:56,206 how could you take 635 00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:58,526 Danielle February to the station? 636 00:47:58,527 --> 00:48:00,526 I didn't take her. 637 00:48:00,527 --> 00:48:02,606 She went by herself. 638 00:48:02,607 --> 00:48:05,886 After she left, who came to see you? 639 00:48:05,887 --> 00:48:07,886 Nobody. 640 00:48:07,887 --> 00:48:09,686 Are you sure? 641 00:48:09,687 --> 00:48:12,526 I am sure. 642 00:48:12,527 --> 00:48:15,126 I didn't go out all evening. 643 00:48:15,127 --> 00:48:18,765 Please believe me. 644 00:48:20,687 --> 00:48:25,804 What did you do after your ex-second wife left? 645 00:49:04,607 --> 00:49:08,766 Answer. What did you do? 646 00:49:08,767 --> 00:49:12,046 I don't remember what I did next. 647 00:49:12,047 --> 00:49:14,726 But you say you didn't go out all day. 648 00:49:14,727 --> 00:49:16,766 Yes. 649 00:49:16,767 --> 00:49:21,006 How do you know, if you don't remember what you did? 650 00:49:21,007 --> 00:49:24,166 Don't remember... 651 00:49:24,167 --> 00:49:27,806 Could we say you didn't go out during the time you remember? 652 00:49:27,807 --> 00:49:28,886 Yes. 653 00:49:28,887 --> 00:49:34,516 So it's possible you went out... afterward. 654 00:49:34,567 --> 00:49:38,086 I don't remember. 655 00:49:38,087 --> 00:49:41,206 I no longer ask you to remember. 656 00:49:41,207 --> 00:49:46,326 Merely to admit you've been talking a load of crap! 657 00:49:46,327 --> 00:49:48,886 First you claimed you came here alone, 658 00:49:48,887 --> 00:49:52,566 your agent came to visit, and you took her to the station. 659 00:49:52,567 --> 00:49:55,166 Somewhere between 5 and 5:30. 660 00:49:55,167 --> 00:49:57,606 Then thinking it over, you came 661 00:49:57,607 --> 00:50:01,166 with your wife. Your ex-wife. 662 00:50:01,167 --> 00:50:04,926 Your ex-second wife, who's also your agent. 663 00:50:04,927 --> 00:50:06,966 Only you didn't take her to the station, she took herself 664 00:50:06,967 --> 00:50:09,206 to the station. 665 00:50:09,207 --> 00:50:11,966 Mr. Onoff... 666 00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:15,046 At that station... 667 00:50:15,047 --> 00:50:18,166 At that station, not so much as one lousy train 668 00:50:18,167 --> 00:50:20,766 has stopped for one lousy minute 669 00:50:20,767 --> 00:50:24,246 since you came to your farmhouse. 670 00:50:24,247 --> 00:50:28,715 For the simple reason that there's never been a station here! 671 00:50:29,167 --> 00:50:32,202 Never! 672 00:50:38,847 --> 00:50:42,926 You are not worthy of the books you've written. 673 00:50:42,927 --> 00:50:46,046 Your novels, your poems, your plays, 674 00:50:46,047 --> 00:50:48,726 your songs are a better bargain then you are. 675 00:50:48,727 --> 00:50:51,876 I hope so. 676 00:50:53,087 --> 00:50:55,806 Now let's say the truth. 677 00:50:55,807 --> 00:50:57,686 Confess! 678 00:50:57,687 --> 00:51:01,006 You are making the biggest mistake of your career, 679 00:51:01,007 --> 00:51:03,606 which I would guess is not particularly brilliant. 680 00:51:03,607 --> 00:51:07,206 Then why did you try to run off like a thief? 681 00:51:07,207 --> 00:51:09,646 Why don't you prove your innocence? 682 00:51:09,647 --> 00:51:12,726 Why not put an end to my suspicions? 683 00:51:12,727 --> 00:51:16,160 I'll tell you why. 684 00:51:16,727 --> 00:51:19,406 Because tonight you committed murder. 685 00:51:19,407 --> 00:51:21,286 I don't know if anyone was murdered. 686 00:51:21,287 --> 00:51:24,246 If someone was murdered, I don't know where. 687 00:51:24,247 --> 00:51:27,926 If somewhere someone actually was murdered, I don't know who. 688 00:51:27,927 --> 00:51:33,326 A little old lady, a child, a goat, a scarecrow! 689 00:51:33,327 --> 00:51:35,766 You don't know a thing, yet it's you 690 00:51:35,767 --> 00:51:37,406 who'll tell us who the victim is. 691 00:51:37,407 --> 00:51:40,686 You accuse me of murder and I'm supposed to name the victim? 692 00:51:40,687 --> 00:51:43,446 You are supposed to tell me who it is! 693 00:51:43,447 --> 00:51:46,326 What kind of cop are you? A retard, 694 00:51:46,327 --> 00:51:48,806 a madman? 695 00:51:48,807 --> 00:51:51,246 I was never an ace detective 696 00:51:51,247 --> 00:51:53,326 and maybe I never will be. 697 00:51:53,327 --> 00:51:56,846 But during my not particularly brilliant career 698 00:51:56,847 --> 00:51:59,566 I've handled a lot of homicides. 699 00:51:59,567 --> 00:52:02,366 Some I never solved. In others 700 00:52:02,367 --> 00:52:07,677 I made some fancy deductions which turned out to be all wrong. 701 00:52:08,407 --> 00:52:11,006 Once in a while I was lucky enough 702 00:52:11,007 --> 00:52:13,886 to stumble on the right trail and discover 703 00:52:13,887 --> 00:52:16,406 a few little keys which worked 704 00:52:16,407 --> 00:52:18,406 very nicely in a few little locks. 705 00:52:18,407 --> 00:52:23,206 Very rarely I broke the case using my own intelligence. 706 00:52:23,207 --> 00:52:26,606 But this is the first homicide I've dealt with 707 00:52:26,607 --> 00:52:29,566 where the only mystery left to solve 708 00:52:29,567 --> 00:52:31,926 is the identity of the corpse. 709 00:52:31,927 --> 00:52:34,886 Unfortunately, I can't do it. 710 00:52:34,887 --> 00:52:38,606 The victim's face is horribly mutilated 711 00:52:38,607 --> 00:52:44,202 and we can't start identification proceedings until tomorrow. 712 00:52:44,447 --> 00:52:47,960 Know what I think? 713 00:52:47,967 --> 00:52:49,446 No. 714 00:52:49,447 --> 00:52:52,966 I think you are the murderer. 715 00:52:52,967 --> 00:52:54,846 You killed the guy, 716 00:52:54,847 --> 00:52:59,281 and the ideal scapegoat came along just at the right time! 717 00:52:59,447 --> 00:53:01,966 How do you know it's a man? 718 00:53:01,967 --> 00:53:04,606 - What man? - You said: "Know what I think? 719 00:53:04,607 --> 00:53:07,326 You are the murderer. You killed the guy." 720 00:53:07,327 --> 00:53:10,006 You're twisting my words! 721 00:53:10,007 --> 00:53:12,806 But you do know it's a man! 722 00:53:12,807 --> 00:53:16,166 I don't know anything! You are trying to confuse me. 723 00:53:16,167 --> 00:53:19,526 You know very well whether it's a man or a woman. 724 00:53:19,527 --> 00:53:22,246 Either way, you have no evidence against me. 725 00:53:22,247 --> 00:53:25,366 A trivial lapse of memory doesn't prove a thing. 726 00:53:25,367 --> 00:53:28,880 "Trivial lapse of memory"... 727 00:53:38,687 --> 00:53:42,246 "So as not to die of anguish or of shame, 728 00:53:42,247 --> 00:53:45,006 men are eternally condemned to forget 729 00:53:45,007 --> 00:53:47,326 the unpleasant moments of their lives. 730 00:53:47,327 --> 00:53:50,766 And the more unpleasant they are, the faster they are forgotten." 731 00:53:50,767 --> 00:53:53,597 This... 732 00:53:54,687 --> 00:53:58,446 That's by you, my dear Onoff. 733 00:53:58,447 --> 00:54:01,366 The man who has written this 734 00:54:01,367 --> 00:54:03,886 must have done something very unpleasant indeed 735 00:54:03,887 --> 00:54:07,406 to make him forget this actions of just a few hours ago. 736 00:54:07,407 --> 00:54:10,846 If writers knew whose mouths end up spewing out their works, 737 00:54:10,847 --> 00:54:12,486 they'd cut off their hands. 738 00:54:12,487 --> 00:54:15,166 And it would be a pity. 739 00:54:15,167 --> 00:54:17,046 You believe in God? 740 00:54:17,047 --> 00:54:19,606 After all, He is the Great Writer. 741 00:54:19,607 --> 00:54:23,806 If He'd had to allow for the morons who'd later lay claim to His works, 742 00:54:23,807 --> 00:54:25,846 to give up too many plans. 743 00:54:25,847 --> 00:54:29,006 It's not hard to believe in God. 744 00:54:29,007 --> 00:54:30,886 I believed in Him many times. 745 00:54:30,887 --> 00:54:34,366 But I must say I was often ashamed for Him. 746 00:54:34,367 --> 00:54:37,606 He would've been an excellent writer, if only 747 00:54:37,607 --> 00:54:39,406 He'd stuck to describing scenery. 748 00:54:39,407 --> 00:54:41,806 Excuse me, Mr. Inspector. 749 00:54:41,807 --> 00:54:43,326 I didn't quite get that. 750 00:54:43,327 --> 00:54:48,956 Mr. Onoff, here present, claims God is a second - rate writer. 751 00:54:53,127 --> 00:54:57,046 Why do you get so annoyed when I quote your books? 752 00:54:57,047 --> 00:55:02,366 My job is to write. Hearing about my works doesn't interest me. 753 00:55:02,367 --> 00:55:06,166 Language no longer has any purpose in today's world. 754 00:55:06,167 --> 00:55:10,686 It's only good for police interrogations. 755 00:55:10,687 --> 00:55:15,126 I see why you haven't published in six years. 756 00:55:15,127 --> 00:55:18,846 I thought it was another of your creative breakdowns. 757 00:55:18,847 --> 00:55:20,486 What are you talking about? 758 00:55:20,487 --> 00:55:25,126 Three years of silence preceding "The Palace of Nine Frontiers". 759 00:55:25,127 --> 00:55:27,446 It's a long time ago, but... 760 00:55:27,447 --> 00:55:30,399 I recall the press went on about breakdown. 761 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,086 Breakdown, 762 00:55:32,087 --> 00:55:37,159 an endless terror of the blank page, right? 763 00:55:37,287 --> 00:55:39,646 Bravo! 764 00:55:39,647 --> 00:55:42,326 You know more about me than 765 00:55:42,327 --> 00:55:43,766 I remember 766 00:55:43,767 --> 00:55:45,046 myself. 767 00:55:45,047 --> 00:55:48,046 That's for sure! 768 00:55:48,047 --> 00:55:50,126 Disappointed? 769 00:55:50,127 --> 00:55:52,806 Frankly, yes. 770 00:55:52,807 --> 00:55:57,286 We should never come face to face with our own idols. 771 00:55:57,287 --> 00:56:00,206 Seen close up, they turn out to have pimples. 772 00:56:00,207 --> 00:56:03,806 We may find out that the great works which inspired our dreams 773 00:56:03,807 --> 00:56:07,926 were thought up while sitting on the john, 774 00:56:07,927 --> 00:56:11,042 during a bout of diarrhea! 775 00:56:11,287 --> 00:56:14,326 Aside from me, do you have many enemies? 776 00:56:14,327 --> 00:56:16,326 Oh, yes! 777 00:56:16,327 --> 00:56:22,081 One made a face at me just today and I don't know why, but I killed him. 778 00:56:22,527 --> 00:56:25,846 Have you ever owned a gun? 779 00:56:25,847 --> 00:56:26,926 No. 780 00:56:26,927 --> 00:56:28,286 Sure? 781 00:56:28,287 --> 00:56:30,686 I've never owned a weapon of any kind. 782 00:56:30,687 --> 00:56:34,526 I don't know how to shoot, I've never shot. 783 00:56:34,527 --> 00:56:37,366 You are going in circles, Inspector. You'd better to question 784 00:56:37,367 --> 00:56:40,046 the body you hid down below. 785 00:56:40,047 --> 00:56:42,486 What makes you think it's a body? 786 00:56:42,487 --> 00:56:46,006 I saw it myself when you took it out of the van. 787 00:56:46,007 --> 00:56:48,246 Look, all you can accuse me of 788 00:56:48,247 --> 00:56:50,406 is manhandling a couple of cops. 789 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,846 The rest is hocus-pocus! You have no solid evidence! 790 00:56:53,847 --> 00:56:56,086 No grounds to hold me for murder! 791 00:56:56,087 --> 00:56:58,526 You don't even know the victim's name! 792 00:56:58,527 --> 00:57:01,246 Tomorrow I have a meeting with the Minister of Culture! 793 00:57:01,247 --> 00:57:03,486 You'd better release me, or else... 794 00:57:03,487 --> 00:57:07,478 You're about to commit another crime! 795 00:57:13,927 --> 00:57:17,485 I advise you to keep quiet. 796 00:57:18,607 --> 00:57:21,403 Sit. 797 00:57:29,007 --> 00:57:33,726 I'll take your advise and keep quiet. 798 00:57:48,447 --> 00:57:49,766 My dear Onoff, 799 00:57:49,767 --> 00:57:51,046 I don't rule out 800 00:57:51,047 --> 00:57:54,566 the possibility that I'll fail to prove your guilt. 801 00:57:54,567 --> 00:57:55,766 No. 802 00:57:55,767 --> 00:57:58,446 In a way, I hope that's the case. 803 00:57:58,447 --> 00:58:00,206 But you won't have any meeting 804 00:58:00,207 --> 00:58:03,006 with any Minister. 805 00:58:03,007 --> 00:58:07,246 You won't have any meeting with any Minister, 806 00:58:07,247 --> 00:58:08,966 till you tell me what you did 807 00:58:08,967 --> 00:58:10,246 after dusk. 808 00:58:10,247 --> 00:58:12,206 Even at the risk of hearing 809 00:58:12,207 --> 00:58:13,646 you spent the whole time 810 00:58:13,647 --> 00:58:18,719 parked on the john with a monumental bout of diarrhea! 811 00:58:19,967 --> 00:58:24,006 D'you want me to move the desk, Mr. Inspector? 812 00:58:24,007 --> 00:58:26,806 It'll keep us awake. 813 00:58:26,807 --> 00:58:28,966 We're in for a long night. 814 00:58:28,967 --> 00:58:30,846 Right, get on with it. 815 00:58:30,847 --> 00:58:35,281 Does your ex-second wife remarry? 816 00:58:35,487 --> 00:58:38,486 Does she live with someone? 817 00:58:38,487 --> 00:58:41,602 Does she have a lover? 818 00:58:41,847 --> 00:58:46,441 I'll take your advise and keep quiet. 819 00:58:50,967 --> 00:58:54,486 Improbable as it seems, let's suppose neither you 820 00:58:54,487 --> 00:58:56,446 nor your ex-second wife 821 00:58:56,447 --> 00:58:58,406 knew the area. 822 00:58:58,407 --> 00:59:01,166 So she didn't go to the "station", 823 00:59:01,167 --> 00:59:03,566 but went to "look for a station". 824 00:59:03,567 --> 00:59:08,639 To look for a station nearby, in order to leave. 825 00:59:11,207 --> 00:59:12,766 But in this case 826 00:59:12,767 --> 00:59:14,926 how would you get the car back? 827 00:59:14,927 --> 00:59:17,286 I'll take your advise 828 00:59:17,287 --> 00:59:20,486 and keep quiet. 829 00:59:20,487 --> 00:59:21,526 Maybe... 830 00:59:21,527 --> 00:59:25,246 She went to look for a station with someone else. 831 00:59:25,247 --> 00:59:29,086 Someone who afterward went back to your place. 832 00:59:29,087 --> 00:59:31,803 Who? 833 00:59:33,287 --> 00:59:37,366 I'll take your advise and keep quiet. 834 00:59:37,367 --> 00:59:40,166 Or simpler still, she never left. 835 00:59:40,167 --> 00:59:44,526 Maybe she stayed with you to keep your company? 836 00:59:44,527 --> 00:59:46,286 But in this case, 837 00:59:46,287 --> 00:59:50,606 where was she when my men arrested you? 838 00:59:50,607 --> 00:59:54,246 Why were you running so out of breath you couldn't talk? 839 00:59:54,247 --> 00:59:57,766 I'll take your advise and keep quiet. 840 00:59:57,767 --> 01:00:03,203 93633396, 841 01:00:03,407 --> 01:00:04,726 is that your ex-second wife's number? 842 01:00:04,727 --> 01:00:08,206 I'll take your advise and keep quiet. 843 01:00:08,207 --> 01:00:11,206 You expressly asked to call that number! 844 01:00:11,207 --> 01:00:15,326 Then you implied the victim could be a man! To cover your ass. 845 01:00:15,327 --> 01:00:18,246 To throw us off course. Is the victim the woman 846 01:00:18,247 --> 01:00:22,522 whose number is 93633396? 847 01:00:24,767 --> 01:00:26,406 If it's not her, 848 01:00:26,407 --> 01:00:29,686 how many potential victims does a man have, 849 01:00:29,687 --> 01:00:33,886 a man of renown, a recluse, whom no one has seen for several years? 850 01:00:33,887 --> 01:00:37,726 How many know you well enough to know where to find you, 851 01:00:37,727 --> 01:00:42,166 here, in the middle of nowhere, where even you say you seldom come? 852 01:00:42,167 --> 01:00:44,646 The list can't be enormous. 853 01:00:44,647 --> 01:00:47,366 A friend? 854 01:00:47,367 --> 01:00:50,595 A mistress? 855 01:00:50,887 --> 01:00:53,286 A relative? 856 01:00:53,287 --> 01:00:56,879 The chauffeur? The secretary? 857 01:00:56,887 --> 01:00:59,203 Your doctor? Your lawyer? 858 01:00:59,204 --> 01:01:02,766 One of your collaborators? 859 01:01:02,767 --> 01:01:05,995 A journalist? 860 01:01:06,247 --> 01:01:08,366 A photographer, chasing a scoop? 861 01:01:08,367 --> 01:01:13,966 A student who's pestered you for years with a series of inane questions? 862 01:01:13,967 --> 01:01:17,036 Your editor? 863 01:01:17,887 --> 01:01:23,004 Which one came to see you yesterday afternoon? 864 01:01:31,487 --> 01:01:34,286 I'll take your advise and keep quiet. 865 01:01:34,287 --> 01:01:36,286 You come from a military family. 866 01:01:36,287 --> 01:01:38,846 Your father was a hero in the war. 867 01:01:38,847 --> 01:01:40,405 You yourself were an officer. 868 01:01:40,406 --> 01:01:42,486 And I'm to believe 869 01:01:42,487 --> 01:01:45,686 you've never held a gun? 870 01:01:45,687 --> 01:01:49,962 Go on, take my advice and keep quiet! 871 01:02:22,727 --> 01:02:26,445 That's enough, Onoff! 872 01:03:23,727 --> 01:03:27,080 Stop it, stop it. 873 01:03:36,927 --> 01:03:40,006 We've changed the tune, Onoff. 874 01:03:40,007 --> 01:03:43,520 Nobody plays games with me. 875 01:04:14,647 --> 01:04:20,196 As your biography is world-famous, I know it by heart. 876 01:04:25,407 --> 01:04:26,346 He was born in a ditch, 877 01:04:26,347 --> 01:04:28,406 at the edge of a field. 878 01:04:28,407 --> 01:04:32,566 She who borne him severed the cord with her teeth, 879 01:04:32,567 --> 01:04:34,166 tied it off 880 01:04:34,167 --> 01:04:36,846 and left. 881 01:04:36,847 --> 01:04:40,566 They baptized him Blaise February, 882 01:04:40,567 --> 01:04:46,276 because he was found on a freezing night in February, 883 01:04:46,487 --> 01:04:48,806 and because it was the feast day 884 01:04:48,807 --> 01:04:52,399 of Saint Blaise. 885 01:04:55,047 --> 01:04:59,038 I am Blaise February! 886 01:05:00,247 --> 01:05:02,846 My biography is a lie, 887 01:05:02,847 --> 01:05:07,486 from beginning to end. I wrote it myself. 888 01:05:08,567 --> 01:05:13,086 An old man made up a new name for me, worthy of a writer. 889 01:05:13,087 --> 01:05:16,725 The name Onoff. 890 01:05:17,287 --> 01:05:20,326 He was called Faubin. 891 01:05:20,327 --> 01:05:23,446 He was my best friend. 892 01:05:23,447 --> 01:05:28,120 It's thanks to him that I became great. 893 01:05:29,447 --> 01:05:32,526 I was never in the army, 894 01:05:32,527 --> 01:05:36,085 never fired a gun. 895 01:05:37,847 --> 01:05:41,121 I grew up 896 01:05:46,407 --> 01:05:50,125 in an orphanage. 897 01:05:51,567 --> 01:05:53,686 They gave us milk... 898 01:05:53,687 --> 01:05:59,521 every day warm milk, morning and evening. 899 01:06:00,167 --> 01:06:04,920 I detest warm milk. 900 01:06:20,007 --> 01:06:23,886 Paula, get me a cup of coffee, 901 01:06:23,887 --> 01:06:26,406 would you? 902 01:06:26,407 --> 01:06:28,646 I've had a nightmare... 903 01:06:28,647 --> 01:06:32,566 a terrifying nightmare. 904 01:06:32,567 --> 01:06:36,166 I dreamt I killed my editor, 905 01:06:36,167 --> 01:06:38,366 and took back my manuscript. 906 01:06:38,367 --> 01:06:41,366 I ran and ran and ran to your place. 907 01:06:41,367 --> 01:06:43,606 But your house had turned into 908 01:06:43,607 --> 01:06:45,686 a police station 909 01:06:45,687 --> 01:06:49,806 with a strange inspector... 910 01:06:49,807 --> 01:06:53,726 He recited all my books by heart. 911 01:06:53,727 --> 01:06:56,566 Paula, get me some paper, 912 01:06:56,567 --> 01:07:00,000 I have to write all this down. 913 01:07:00,007 --> 01:07:03,076 Paula... 914 01:07:51,887 --> 01:07:54,366 It's a mess... 915 01:07:54,367 --> 01:07:56,126 I've never seen the inspector like this. 916 01:07:56,127 --> 01:07:59,606 If you ask me, he's stumped. It's a funny situation. Proof, he needs proof. 917 01:07:59,607 --> 01:08:02,566 - The captain says not. - That asshole. 918 01:08:02,567 --> 01:08:04,286 Ignore him. He's basically OK. 919 01:08:04,287 --> 01:08:05,926 They're all nice here... 920 01:08:05,927 --> 01:08:11,397 I still have to get used to it, I need time. I never thought... 921 01:08:19,807 --> 01:08:21,806 What time is it? 922 01:08:21,807 --> 01:08:23,526 3:30 in the morning. 923 01:08:23,527 --> 01:08:25,966 You slept an hour. 924 01:08:25,967 --> 01:08:30,086 Cold; want to warm yourself? 925 01:08:30,087 --> 01:08:34,601 Can I have some paper? I want to make some notes. 926 01:08:37,207 --> 01:08:40,162 Well... sure. 927 01:08:40,327 --> 01:08:44,919 Give him some hot wine. 928 01:08:49,007 --> 01:08:53,046 - An idea for a new book? - You don't write because you have an idea, 929 01:08:53,047 --> 01:08:57,481 but because you can't do anything else. 930 01:09:26,847 --> 01:09:29,757 Shit! 931 01:09:36,247 --> 01:09:37,506 Shit! 932 01:09:37,507 --> 01:09:42,200 - Really, that... - Shut up. 933 01:09:42,927 --> 01:09:45,916 Just shut up. 934 01:10:09,927 --> 01:10:13,646 When I tell people this, nobody'll believe me. 935 01:10:13,647 --> 01:10:16,366 How can a place as absurd as this possibly exist? 936 01:10:16,367 --> 01:10:18,646 True. 937 01:10:18,647 --> 01:10:21,966 It's no place for a world traveler like you. 938 01:10:21,967 --> 01:10:24,046 We don't have anything. 939 01:10:24,047 --> 01:10:25,446 It's not a big city. 940 01:10:25,447 --> 01:10:27,846 Nothing here but the forest. 941 01:10:27,847 --> 01:10:29,446 I've had my job here for fifteen years. 942 01:10:29,447 --> 01:10:30,806 I've always liked it fine. 943 01:10:30,807 --> 01:10:36,002 Wouldn't catch me in a city, not even dead. 944 01:10:40,967 --> 01:10:43,406 The typewriter. Could I 945 01:10:43,407 --> 01:10:45,366 use the typewriter? 946 01:10:45,367 --> 01:10:47,766 It's logical, it's logical, but... 947 01:10:47,767 --> 01:10:50,606 - Yes, come on. - ...but you have to ask the Inspector. 948 01:10:50,607 --> 01:10:53,562 No... 949 01:11:14,007 --> 01:11:17,804 Is it possible to kill 950 01:11:18,367 --> 01:11:22,959 and not remember? 951 01:11:45,967 --> 01:11:48,686 Remember, to remember... 952 01:11:48,687 --> 01:11:51,366 It's so easy to look back, old memories trapped in amber, 953 01:11:51,367 --> 01:11:53,966 pain and sorrow tingled with black, 954 01:11:53,967 --> 01:11:56,646 everything in amber, everything in amber. 955 01:11:56,647 --> 01:11:59,406 We must learn how to forget, 956 01:11:59,407 --> 01:12:02,166 A much harder thing to do, 957 01:12:02,167 --> 01:12:04,726 we must go on without regret, 958 01:12:04,727 --> 01:12:09,036 Wipe clean the slate 959 01:12:17,927 --> 01:12:20,686 and start anew. 960 01:12:20,687 --> 01:12:25,281 Erase the past and look ahead... 961 01:12:28,867 --> 01:12:33,939 Ever seen this man, Mr. February? 962 01:12:56,387 --> 01:12:58,466 Seems to me I know him. 963 01:12:58,467 --> 01:13:01,502 Who is he? 964 01:13:03,747 --> 01:13:07,626 My math teacher, when I was in high school. 965 01:13:07,627 --> 01:13:09,546 What else? 966 01:13:09,547 --> 01:13:12,386 It's to him I owe my passion to numbers, 967 01:13:12,387 --> 01:13:14,346 for symmetry, 968 01:13:14,347 --> 01:13:18,178 geometric reasoning. 969 01:13:18,667 --> 01:13:21,986 Professor Trivarchi... 970 01:13:21,987 --> 01:13:25,186 He set forth theorems as if they were fables. 971 01:13:25,187 --> 01:13:27,426 His words didn't go through our ears, 972 01:13:27,427 --> 01:13:31,895 they went directly to our minds. 973 01:13:32,467 --> 01:13:36,901 His lessons were sincere and pleasant. 974 01:13:38,987 --> 01:13:44,218 "Two parallel lines can never meet. 975 01:13:44,387 --> 01:13:46,426 Nonetheless, 976 01:13:46,427 --> 01:13:50,106 it is possible to imagine the existence of a point 977 01:13:50,107 --> 01:13:52,626 so far out of space, 978 01:13:52,627 --> 01:13:53,786 so far 979 01:13:53,787 --> 01:13:57,346 into infinity, 980 01:13:57,347 --> 01:13:59,746 that we can admit 981 01:13:59,747 --> 01:14:00,666 and acknowledge, that our two lines 982 01:14:00,667 --> 01:14:03,266 do in fact meet there. 983 01:14:03,267 --> 01:14:05,986 So it is. 984 01:14:05,987 --> 01:14:09,506 We shall call this point 985 01:14:09,507 --> 01:14:11,106 the ideal 986 01:14:11,107 --> 01:14:14,142 point". 987 01:14:23,547 --> 01:14:28,345 - Never saw her before. - Are you sure? 988 01:14:46,107 --> 01:14:48,386 Well? 989 01:14:48,387 --> 01:14:51,026 Yes... 990 01:14:51,027 --> 01:14:52,786 Yes, I know her. 991 01:14:52,787 --> 01:14:55,697 And..? 992 01:14:56,387 --> 01:15:00,306 She's a girl I once loved. 993 01:15:00,307 --> 01:15:03,946 Can you tell me when you saw her last? 994 01:15:03,947 --> 01:15:07,866 One morning I left her sleeping at the hotel. 995 01:15:07,867 --> 01:15:10,786 I went to the airport. 996 01:15:10,787 --> 01:15:13,986 I didn't even say goodbye. 997 01:15:13,987 --> 01:15:17,340 That was twenty years ago. 998 01:15:18,507 --> 01:15:22,543 Where did you find these pictures? 999 01:15:23,187 --> 01:15:25,746 Figure it out for yourself! 1000 01:15:25,747 --> 01:15:29,226 I've been looking for them for so long... 1001 01:15:29,227 --> 01:15:33,297 Were you looking last night, too? 1002 01:15:42,027 --> 01:15:42,986 Yes... 1003 01:15:42,987 --> 01:15:46,705 Last night, too. 1004 01:15:46,947 --> 01:15:49,706 I've been looking high and low for ages and ages, 1005 01:15:49,707 --> 01:15:51,946 and never found them. 1006 01:15:51,947 --> 01:15:54,266 Not just these two. 1007 01:15:54,267 --> 01:15:57,859 There were a whole lot of them... 1008 01:15:58,307 --> 01:15:59,986 A mountain of pictures. 1009 01:15:59,987 --> 01:16:03,226 Why are they so important? 1010 01:16:03,227 --> 01:16:05,186 I don't know. 1011 01:16:05,187 --> 01:16:07,546 They are relics of a strange habit of mine, 1012 01:16:07,547 --> 01:16:11,346 or, if you prefer, a vice I practiced almost all my life. 1013 01:16:11,347 --> 01:16:13,786 I always used to carry a small camera. 1014 01:16:13,787 --> 01:16:16,866 I collected the faces of everyone I met, everywhere I went. 1015 01:16:16,867 --> 01:16:18,626 Sort of an unorthodox way 1016 01:16:18,627 --> 01:16:23,026 of keeping a diary. 1017 01:16:23,067 --> 01:16:27,106 A game I gave up, the very day I made up my mind 1018 01:16:27,107 --> 01:16:31,143 to retire from public life. 1019 01:16:31,867 --> 01:16:34,697 After that 1020 01:16:35,787 --> 01:16:39,379 I mislaid them. 1021 01:16:41,907 --> 01:16:45,546 All my friends and all my enemies are in those pictures. 1022 01:16:45,547 --> 01:16:48,626 The people I love and used to love, 1023 01:16:48,627 --> 01:16:53,699 those I didn't know how to or didn't want to love. 1024 01:16:55,987 --> 01:17:00,376 Those who shook my hand and smiled, 1025 01:17:02,107 --> 01:17:03,666 and those 1026 01:17:03,667 --> 01:17:07,066 who looked at me 1027 01:17:07,187 --> 01:17:08,946 just looked 1028 01:17:08,947 --> 01:17:10,626 without saying anything. 1029 01:17:10,627 --> 01:17:12,146 Thousands and thousands 1030 01:17:12,147 --> 01:17:15,386 and thousands of faces. 1031 01:17:15,387 --> 01:17:17,426 Where did you get them? 1032 01:17:17,427 --> 01:17:22,305 We simply searched your farmhouse. 1033 01:17:25,987 --> 01:17:30,057 You obviously didn't look very heartily. 1034 01:18:06,507 --> 01:18:10,225 All these faces... 1035 01:19:14,347 --> 01:19:17,336 Who is he? 1036 01:19:19,067 --> 01:19:22,136 Faubin. 1037 01:19:22,267 --> 01:19:25,097 Faubin? 1038 01:19:26,947 --> 01:19:31,620 The man who made up the name of Onoff. 1039 01:19:34,147 --> 01:19:36,066 A bum! 1040 01:19:36,067 --> 01:19:38,426 Yes... 1041 01:19:38,427 --> 01:19:41,621 A bum. 1042 01:19:45,867 --> 01:19:50,266 Is he the one who's... the one you met yesterday evening? 1043 01:19:50,267 --> 01:19:53,416 How could I have! 1044 01:19:53,667 --> 01:19:55,826 It's to his memory that I dedicated "The palace..." 1045 01:19:55,827 --> 01:19:59,306 Dedicated? 1046 01:20:01,627 --> 01:20:03,346 You should know that. 1047 01:20:03,347 --> 01:20:06,626 You never dedicated a book to anyone. 1048 01:20:06,627 --> 01:20:10,106 Everyone knows that. 1049 01:20:12,547 --> 01:20:14,706 That... That's impossible. 1050 01:20:14,707 --> 01:20:17,776 Impossible? 1051 01:20:30,427 --> 01:20:34,224 Please don't stain it. 1052 01:20:47,187 --> 01:20:49,146 It... 1053 01:20:49,147 --> 01:20:52,546 It's impossible! 1054 01:21:06,547 --> 01:21:08,146 Maybe you dedicated to him 1055 01:21:08,147 --> 01:21:09,266 a book that... 1056 01:21:09,267 --> 01:21:14,226 a book that was never published? An unsubmitted book? 1057 01:21:14,227 --> 01:21:17,023 No... 1058 01:21:17,427 --> 01:21:21,463 It could only be this one. 1059 01:21:21,867 --> 01:21:23,346 Why? 1060 01:21:23,347 --> 01:21:27,815 Why this one particularly? 1061 01:21:28,267 --> 01:21:30,586 Faubin vas a vagrant. 1062 01:21:30,587 --> 01:21:34,666 The most intelligent man I ever met. 1063 01:21:34,667 --> 01:21:36,506 I never managed to learn 1064 01:21:36,507 --> 01:21:38,506 anything about his past. 1065 01:21:38,507 --> 01:21:41,786 He refused to talk about it. 1066 01:21:41,787 --> 01:21:47,496 But I always believed he'd been someone really important. 1067 01:21:48,427 --> 01:21:52,346 When my books began to sell, I offered to help him, but he wouldn't 1068 01:21:52,347 --> 01:21:54,506 give up his hideaways under the bridges. 1069 01:21:54,507 --> 01:21:56,826 He was a bit crazy. 1070 01:21:56,827 --> 01:22:01,186 He spent his time writing on the backs of old calendars 1071 01:22:01,187 --> 01:22:04,586 or in notebooks, whatever he could find in garbage cans. 1072 01:22:04,587 --> 01:22:09,977 He wrote floods and floods and floods of words that made no sense. 1073 01:22:13,547 --> 01:22:15,666 Then one day, 1074 01:22:15,667 --> 01:22:19,658 I got a letter from him. 1075 01:22:21,147 --> 01:22:23,866 I opened it. 1076 01:22:23,867 --> 01:22:25,986 I saw that for the first time, 1077 01:22:25,987 --> 01:22:29,186 he'd written something intelligible, 1078 01:22:29,187 --> 01:22:31,106 more than intelligible. 1079 01:22:31,107 --> 01:22:32,746 Each... 1080 01:22:32,747 --> 01:22:35,506 each... each phrase reflected the most 1081 01:22:35,507 --> 01:22:39,702 subtle rules of grammar. 1082 01:22:43,627 --> 01:22:47,146 I understood that he was dead. 1083 01:22:47,147 --> 01:22:49,346 Yes, but... 1084 01:22:49,347 --> 01:22:54,862 why say you dedicated a book to him if you didn't do it? 1085 01:22:55,227 --> 01:22:58,586 Some time later, I went through a terrible dry spell. 1086 01:22:58,587 --> 01:23:00,826 I couldn't write. 1087 01:23:00,827 --> 01:23:03,586 I couldn't live. 1088 01:23:03,587 --> 01:23:05,866 For weeks on end 1089 01:23:05,867 --> 01:23:07,746 I sat at my desk 1090 01:23:07,747 --> 01:23:10,586 and found I have nothing to say. 1091 01:23:10,587 --> 01:23:13,946 I often thought about that deluge of nonsense, 1092 01:23:13,947 --> 01:23:18,386 those thousands and thousands of words which were Faubin's gift to me. 1093 01:23:18,387 --> 01:23:20,866 I began to red 1094 01:23:20,867 --> 01:23:22,146 and re-read it all. 1095 01:23:22,147 --> 01:23:25,186 - Looking for what? - I couldn't believe that before he died 1096 01:23:25,187 --> 01:23:27,586 he wrote such a touching letter, 1097 01:23:27,587 --> 01:23:32,186 so perfect... while he'd spent his life rummaging through humanity's garbage, 1098 01:23:32,187 --> 01:23:35,906 stringing words together without rhyme nor reason. 1099 01:23:35,907 --> 01:23:40,426 For three years all I did was work on this gargantuan puzzle. 1100 01:23:40,427 --> 01:23:43,586 Right, the press talked about my silence, breakdown. 1101 01:23:43,587 --> 01:23:46,506 Writer's block, misantropia. 1102 01:23:46,507 --> 01:23:50,986 But I managed to channel my hunger 1103 01:23:50,987 --> 01:23:55,296 into a fever of excitement. 1104 01:23:57,147 --> 01:24:00,226 A thousand times I took apart this ocean of words, 1105 01:24:00,227 --> 01:24:04,183 syllable by syllable. 1106 01:24:04,787 --> 01:24:10,223 And at last I found the solution to the mystery. 1107 01:24:10,747 --> 01:24:14,146 It was unbelievably simple. 1108 01:24:14,147 --> 01:24:16,506 Faubin didn't write, 1109 01:24:16,507 --> 01:24:19,706 he merely copied what was 1110 01:24:19,707 --> 01:24:21,866 already written in his head. 1111 01:24:21,867 --> 01:24:25,666 He transcribed the words into 9 notebooks, all at the same time, 1112 01:24:25,667 --> 01:24:29,306 breaking down sentences the way 1113 01:24:29,307 --> 01:24:30,586 you break down a number. 1114 01:24:30,587 --> 01:24:33,986 It was rare to find two words which made any sense, 1115 01:24:33,987 --> 01:24:37,306 next to each other, unless it was 1116 01:24:37,307 --> 01:24:39,746 by accident. 1117 01:24:39,747 --> 01:24:42,306 It was extraordinary! 1118 01:24:42,307 --> 01:24:44,906 When I'd finally reconstructed his work, 1119 01:24:44,907 --> 01:24:46,946 it was simply magnificent! 1120 01:24:46,947 --> 01:24:48,506 I never would've believed 1121 01:24:48,507 --> 01:24:51,106 anyone could write something 1122 01:24:51,107 --> 01:24:53,666 so pure, 1123 01:24:53,667 --> 01:24:56,386 so... 1124 01:24:56,387 --> 01:24:59,586 so unique. 1125 01:24:59,587 --> 01:25:03,225 I wish I could've read it. 1126 01:25:04,947 --> 01:25:08,426 You did. 1127 01:25:17,907 --> 01:25:20,186 I published it under the title of "The Palace of Nine Frontiers". 1128 01:25:20,187 --> 01:25:22,386 "The Palace of Nine Frontiers", 1129 01:25:22,387 --> 01:25:25,900 signed by me. 1130 01:25:29,587 --> 01:25:32,426 It was a phenomenal success 1131 01:25:32,427 --> 01:25:35,506 after all those years of silence. 1132 01:25:35,507 --> 01:25:39,826 But I was finished, and only I new it. 1133 01:25:39,827 --> 01:25:44,666 Alcohol became my only joy, and I needed joy every second. 1134 01:25:44,667 --> 01:25:49,666 I despise to my soul everything I've written since. 1135 01:25:49,667 --> 01:25:53,186 I'll never reach such heights again. 1136 01:25:53,187 --> 01:25:56,666 But I'm condemned to write despite everything, because 1137 01:25:56,667 --> 01:25:58,746 when I write, 1138 01:25:58,747 --> 01:26:03,465 it's as if I were drinking. 1139 01:26:03,987 --> 01:26:06,466 My art is no more than 1140 01:26:06,467 --> 01:26:09,426 a contemptible drug. 1141 01:26:09,427 --> 01:26:13,746 I hate the people who keep pushing me to publish what I write. 1142 01:26:13,747 --> 01:26:15,626 What I write 1143 01:26:15,627 --> 01:26:18,106 solely to keep from drinking. 1144 01:26:18,107 --> 01:26:20,906 Who is pushing you to publish? 1145 01:26:20,907 --> 01:26:23,066 My editor, for one. 1146 01:26:23,067 --> 01:26:25,386 When was the last time you saw him? 1147 01:26:25,387 --> 01:26:27,666 I don't remember. 1148 01:26:27,667 --> 01:26:30,622 Yesterday? 1149 01:26:37,867 --> 01:26:39,666 You think I killed him? 1150 01:26:39,667 --> 01:26:44,022 Did he visit you at your house on the Choron? 1151 01:26:47,867 --> 01:26:49,666 I don't remember. 1152 01:26:49,667 --> 01:26:52,026 What did you do yesterday, after 1153 01:26:52,027 --> 01:26:53,746 you looked 1154 01:26:53,747 --> 01:26:55,226 for the pictures? 1155 01:26:55,227 --> 01:26:58,262 I don't know. 1156 01:26:58,547 --> 01:27:02,219 I kept on looking... 1157 01:27:08,747 --> 01:27:09,706 Looking 1158 01:27:09,707 --> 01:27:12,617 for this? 1159 01:27:18,347 --> 01:27:22,063 Yes. 1160 01:27:27,307 --> 01:27:29,946 Where did you go after that? 1161 01:27:29,947 --> 01:27:32,346 After that... 1162 01:27:32,347 --> 01:27:36,781 I set down and stared... 1163 01:27:38,027 --> 01:27:39,586 Haven't you ever stared out of the window 1164 01:27:39,587 --> 01:27:41,186 for hours 1165 01:27:41,187 --> 01:27:43,306 and hours, 1166 01:27:43,307 --> 01:27:46,740 without seeing anything? 1167 01:27:51,347 --> 01:27:54,302 Then? 1168 01:27:58,907 --> 01:28:01,666 Paula came. 1169 01:28:01,667 --> 01:28:04,226 Paula? 1170 01:28:04,227 --> 01:28:09,378 Up to now, you've said you were with Danielle February! 1171 01:28:09,467 --> 01:28:13,026 Only Paula came to the farmhouse. 1172 01:28:13,027 --> 01:28:15,546 I never see Danielle. 1173 01:28:15,547 --> 01:28:17,906 Who's Paula? 1174 01:28:17,907 --> 01:28:20,186 Who's Paula? 1175 01:28:20,187 --> 01:28:23,540 Who's Paula? 1176 01:28:25,067 --> 01:28:26,986 She's everything... 1177 01:28:26,987 --> 01:28:31,455 Why wouldn't you talk about her before? 1178 01:28:31,627 --> 01:28:34,266 Because you always feel 1179 01:28:34,267 --> 01:28:36,506 great embarrassment 1180 01:28:36,507 --> 01:28:39,986 at being loved. 1181 01:28:43,107 --> 01:28:45,983 Paula. 1182 01:28:55,267 --> 01:28:56,906 So... 1183 01:28:56,907 --> 01:28:59,746 Paula came to the farmhouse with you. 1184 01:28:59,747 --> 01:29:03,546 She stayed a few days, then left. 1185 01:29:03,547 --> 01:29:07,026 Maybe even yesterday. 1186 01:29:07,147 --> 01:29:10,186 Then she came back, in the afternoon. 1187 01:29:10,187 --> 01:29:11,586 Right? 1188 01:29:11,587 --> 01:29:14,542 Yes. 1189 01:29:15,067 --> 01:29:17,506 Why'd she come back so soon? 1190 01:29:17,507 --> 01:29:20,860 What happened? 1191 01:29:21,227 --> 01:29:24,660 I don't want to go back home. 1192 01:29:25,427 --> 01:29:27,906 She wants to take you home? 1193 01:29:27,907 --> 01:29:32,341 Why does Paula to take you away? 1194 01:29:33,747 --> 01:29:35,906 I want to be alone. 1195 01:29:35,907 --> 01:29:37,506 Go with them. 1196 01:29:37,507 --> 01:29:40,066 Go with Stephane... 1197 01:29:40,067 --> 01:29:43,106 Who's with Paula? 1198 01:29:43,107 --> 01:29:44,866 Friends. 1199 01:29:44,867 --> 01:29:47,146 Insufferable friends. 1200 01:29:47,147 --> 01:29:48,866 Stephane? 1201 01:29:48,867 --> 01:29:53,026 Who's Stephane, your editor? 1202 01:29:53,027 --> 01:29:55,706 Go on. 1203 01:29:55,707 --> 01:29:59,777 Go, I'll join you tonight. 1204 01:30:00,267 --> 01:30:04,064 Why do you want to be alone? 1205 01:30:10,187 --> 01:30:13,415 You cut your hair? 1206 01:30:14,107 --> 01:30:14,946 Yes. 1207 01:30:14,947 --> 01:30:16,866 Why? 1208 01:30:16,867 --> 01:30:20,823 Why did you shave off your beard? 1209 01:30:22,427 --> 01:30:25,906 I want to look... to look at myself. 1210 01:30:25,907 --> 01:30:29,466 You want to see yourself as you haven't seen yourself in years. 1211 01:30:29,467 --> 01:30:31,186 Then? 1212 01:30:31,187 --> 01:30:34,825 What happened then? 1213 01:30:37,107 --> 01:30:40,026 I can't find the words. 1214 01:30:40,027 --> 01:30:41,946 I don't know what to say. 1215 01:30:41,947 --> 01:30:46,097 You tried to write something? 1216 01:30:47,187 --> 01:30:50,700 You wrote this. 1217 01:31:15,027 --> 01:31:18,666 "I have nothing to say that can be said. 1218 01:31:18,667 --> 01:31:22,266 I would've preferred silence, my faithful friend. 1219 01:31:22,267 --> 01:31:24,586 Elegant, flawless, 1220 01:31:24,587 --> 01:31:27,546 suitable for every occasion. 1221 01:31:27,547 --> 01:31:31,546 But for all that I've been able to live in isolation 1222 01:31:31,547 --> 01:31:33,786 of the most absolute kind. 1223 01:31:33,787 --> 01:31:39,026 I now feel an absolute desire to say thank you, 1224 01:31:39,027 --> 01:31:41,826 to apologize 1225 01:31:41,827 --> 01:31:45,506 and give some explanations, 1226 01:31:45,507 --> 01:31:47,346 a sign, 1227 01:31:47,347 --> 01:31:51,178 though I don't know what. 1228 01:31:52,547 --> 01:31:56,139 Forget me often. 1229 01:32:04,987 --> 01:32:07,146 Forget... 1230 01:32:07,147 --> 01:32:10,182 Onoff." 1231 01:34:32,267 --> 01:34:35,826 The only one you didn't recognize. 1232 01:34:35,827 --> 01:34:38,386 Faubin took it. 1233 01:34:38,387 --> 01:34:39,826 I think... 1234 01:34:39,827 --> 01:34:43,658 I think I was five. 1235 01:35:31,347 --> 01:35:35,099 I gave you my word. 1236 01:35:35,507 --> 01:35:39,498 If you still want to call... 1237 01:36:30,947 --> 01:36:32,746 Hello? 1238 01:36:32,747 --> 01:36:35,826 Paula, it's me. 1239 01:36:35,827 --> 01:36:41,536 It's me, Paula. Me, Onoff. Do you hear me? 1240 01:36:41,947 --> 01:36:44,146 - There is nobody there - I have to talk to you. 1241 01:36:44,147 --> 01:36:46,386 To tell you so many... 1242 01:36:46,387 --> 01:36:50,582 Listen, please listen to me! 1243 01:37:05,507 --> 01:37:07,146 Hello? 1244 01:37:07,147 --> 01:37:09,346 It's me, Onoff. 1245 01:37:09,347 --> 01:37:12,266 I have to tell you something important, you hear? 1246 01:37:12,267 --> 01:37:13,666 - You hear? - Hello? 1247 01:37:13,667 --> 01:37:16,586 Forgive me, Paula. 1248 01:37:16,587 --> 01:37:19,666 - Anybody there? - I am sorry, I've done something... 1249 01:37:19,667 --> 01:37:23,339 something terrible. 1250 01:37:23,707 --> 01:37:26,186 Why can't you hear me! 1251 01:37:26,187 --> 01:37:29,825 A stupid joke. 1252 01:37:38,347 --> 01:37:43,100 Tell the Minister not to expect me. 1253 01:39:23,227 --> 01:39:27,218 Drink this, it'll do you good. 1254 01:39:28,067 --> 01:39:30,943 Go on. 1255 01:39:31,187 --> 01:39:33,546 - Is it milk? - Yes. 1256 01:39:33,547 --> 01:39:35,386 Warm milk. 1257 01:39:35,387 --> 01:39:38,217 Drink it. 1258 01:40:02,987 --> 01:40:04,666 He doesn't know yet? 1259 01:40:04,667 --> 01:40:06,746 You didn't know, either. 1260 01:40:06,747 --> 01:40:08,946 Neither did I, 1261 01:40:08,947 --> 01:40:11,106 They didn't either, 1262 01:40:11,107 --> 01:40:13,546 or the Inspector. 1263 01:40:13,547 --> 01:40:15,186 Nobody knows 1264 01:40:15,187 --> 01:40:18,540 when they first come here. 1265 01:41:22,547 --> 01:41:25,821 Going to be a nice day. 1266 01:41:26,907 --> 01:41:29,586 A good sign, Mr. Onoff. 1267 01:41:29,587 --> 01:41:31,986 Can I ask you something? 1268 01:41:31,987 --> 01:41:33,666 Of course. 1269 01:41:33,667 --> 01:41:37,783 Can I take my pictures with me? 1270 01:41:44,947 --> 01:41:47,226 Actually, we are not supposed to... 1271 01:41:47,227 --> 01:41:50,426 We don't have the right to do this, because 1272 01:41:50,427 --> 01:41:54,426 whatever I take away must be put back exactly as it was. 1273 01:41:54,427 --> 01:41:56,546 You understand? 1274 01:41:56,547 --> 01:41:59,386 But who's going to miss a few photographs 1275 01:41:59,387 --> 01:42:02,945 you yourself mislaid? 1276 01:42:03,227 --> 01:42:06,501 In my office... 1277 01:42:07,107 --> 01:42:09,346 on the table... 1278 01:42:09,347 --> 01:42:12,386 - Above the left-hand drawer... - Your manuscript? 1279 01:42:12,387 --> 01:42:14,786 The manuscript of my new novel. 1280 01:42:14,787 --> 01:42:17,026 Did you take it? 1281 01:42:17,027 --> 01:42:19,857 No. 1282 01:42:21,027 --> 01:42:22,426 Too bad... 1283 01:42:22,427 --> 01:42:23,826 But I read 1284 01:42:23,827 --> 01:42:25,586 a few pages. It's good, 1285 01:42:25,587 --> 01:42:30,818 It's sufficient just to have a look to say it's extraordinary. 1286 01:42:31,947 --> 01:42:34,346 It's really very, very good, 1287 01:42:34,347 --> 01:42:36,186 superb. 1288 01:42:36,187 --> 01:42:39,906 I think it's your best work, better than the others you wrote. 1289 01:42:39,907 --> 01:42:44,106 Better than the one you didn't write, as well. 1290 01:42:44,107 --> 01:42:46,426 It's going to be a huge success. 1291 01:42:46,427 --> 01:42:48,786 Excellent... 1292 01:42:48,787 --> 01:42:51,066 Have a nice trip. 1293 01:42:51,067 --> 01:42:54,546 Have a nice trip, Mr. Onoff. 1294 01:42:54,827 --> 01:42:57,346 Thank you, Mr. Inspector. 1295 01:42:57,347 --> 01:43:01,338 By the way, what's your name? 1296 01:43:02,147 --> 01:43:04,162 Call me Leonardo Da Vinci. 1297 01:43:04,163 --> 01:43:06,506 Thanks, Mr. Leonardo Da Vinci. 1298 01:43:06,507 --> 01:43:09,986 You are in a good job. 1299 01:43:09,987 --> 01:43:12,544 Difficult, but... 1300 01:43:12,545 --> 01:43:24,545