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A serial killer copying Theseus's Labours.

There was a wallet on the corpse with the turtle shell.

Michalis Artakis. Six armed robberies.

-Michalis Artakis. -Okay.

In Artakis's last robbery shots were fired.

Two people were killed. An elderly woman...

and a young man, Manolis Sklavis.

Lieutenant Pantelis Sklavis's brother.

-I'm asking again... -One moment.

The reporters told us that your assistant's brother...

was killed by Artakis.

And you were looking like an idiot!

When were you going to tell me?

-You think I'm afraid of you? -You flipped, man.

Shut up, both of you!

That's what he wanted.

Am I a suspect in Grizas's murder?

Not a day goes by, when I don't think of my son...

and what he suffered in the hands of that monster.

But I would never kill anybody.

I'd be degrading myself, I'd become like that piece of trash...

who thought he had the right to take a life.

I don't believe I have that right.

This is the fifth Labour.

He asked me to check out a white van that was parked near the bar.

I took a photo. You can see the license plate.

CHAPTER 5

WAITING FOR THE DEAD TO SPEAK

Yes, Anthi?

This is Zoi Manesis's file.

We're expecting answers from France about the piece of plastic.

Good.

Put it on my desk and run the tests I told you.

Thank you.

Panos!

-Aren't you speaking to me? -Leave me alone.

Don't do this to me, please. I have to finish my article.

Christina, I helped you and you exposed me.

All I asked for was not to be exposed.

I honestly didn't want to compromise you.

Okay, I apologize.

Apologies are worthless.

-I said, I'm sorry. What can I do? -Just leave me alone.

Come on, Panos. Give me something.

Ok, take this.

SILVER ALERT

What are you going to do?

Dimitris!

I'm putting on the board photos of the suspects for the fifth Labour.

I meant, the fifth murder.

Great. Take the marker and write, "What a mess!"

If we write down all those that wanted Savakis dead...

the board won't be enough, Dimitris.

We have to graffiti the entire building...

-and the surrounding streets. -Drugs, prostitution...

extortion... We've known about him for years.

If I ask for his file...

they'll need a cart to carry it.

First...

we have to examine it as an isolated incident.

Then, we'll connect it to Theseus's Labours.

-Could it be unconnected? -No. It's definitely connected.

We have the place and witnesses saw the white van.

What did you do about that?

What have we done about it?

What did you do with that?

The license plate was not very clear. I'm investigating.

The killer had a relationship with one of the victims.

They were in the same workplace, or he had access to it.

He was with one of them for a long time.

That's how he studied and watched them all.

What do you mean "a long time"?

Such a mission needs years of planning.

The speed and precision of his actions...

indicate somebody who is very clever and methodical.

But he is like most killers...

who feel so proud of what they did that they seek recognition.

He left his van a few meters away from the bar.

That was not done by chance.

You mean that he has started to play with us?

No. But I cannot imagine that it was done by chance.

Okay.

Let's look at the suspects from the beginning.

Let's see which ones we keep and which ones we scratch.

First Labour.

I'm calling them Labours for your sake.

Philipos Lazaridis.

He had the opportunity and the means to kill Scarlatos...

and to convince Petalas that he had done it, because of the voice.

He told you that he is the only one who could do that.

Yes, and we agreed that if he is Theseus...

he did it because, by implicating himself to the police he appears innocent.

Don't forget that our murderer is exceptionally clever.

Markos Christou testified that the night of the murder...

Lazaridis was in his office with Scarlatos.

He was upset. He heard him saying on the phone...

that he would not allow that monster to get out.

Being the director of a public institution, he has connections...

who would notify him about any releases.

He has the physical and mental ability to complete the Labours.

So, he's one of the main suspects.

Continue.

Panagiota Litsi.

Mrs Toula has cleaned up after dinner...

and sees that the freezer is broken.

She takes the food to another refrigerator...

she cleans up and goes to inform Lazaridis.

The time frame of her testimony is valid.

She couldn't act fast...

and she could not have done the other murders.

Even if she's clever, she doesn't have the physical ability...

to bend two pines in order to cut Grizas in two...

-or to kill Savakis. -Except if she had an accomplice.

Theseus is a man.

Rodoulas and Masatos have alibis. Strike them off.

-Stefanou? -He was operating for seven hours.

We checked with the hospital.

He's out too.

-Thanos Kalafatas. -He's one of the main suspects.

He acts stupid, but he's not.

He was terrified of his boss, even after his death...

yet he told him to check out the van and he forgot?

Right. That does not add up.

Plus, he's the only one who had access to the bar.

His presence anywhere would not attract attention.

The man who killed Savakis, was either in the bar...

or he jumped from an adjoining building.

His motive?

To take the boss's place.

The two nurses?

Markos Christou and Pericles Nikolaou.

During the interrogation in the Psychiatric Clinic...

there was a discrepancy. We discussed that.

Where did Markos Christou come from when he called Pericles Nikolaou?

From the yard or from the building?

This discrepancy shows two things.

Either one of them is lying, or they both are.

This would mean that Theseus is two people.

Do you think that possible?

No.

Because the mind that thought of this...

and planned every little detail...

he would have instructed his accomplices, if he had any.

Dimitris, I don't disagree with you...

and I don't underestimate the killer.

But are we giving him too much credit? He's just a man, after all.

-And a lunatic. -He must make some mistake.

-Something he did not foresee. -I agree.

But we can't wait for his mistake. We must examine every possibility.

In the Scarlatos case, we have a 15-minute gap...

during which the murder took place.

For some strange reason...

during those 15 minutes nobody was in that wing.

Christou goes to inform Lazaridis that they're ready for inspection.

I won't let you get out of here. You'll die in here!

You'll die!

He sees him talking with Scarlatos and leaves.

Get out!

He goes to inform Nikolaou.

Nikolaou goes out, sits on the steps and calls his girlfriend.

Five minutes later, Christou sees Scarlatos going to his room.

He goes to the recreation room, waiting for Lazaridis to call him.

Therefore, the murderer acted within 10 and not 15 minutes.

If we assume that this murder is connected to the Labours.

Not only is it connected...

but it's differences from the other murders...

hide the piece that we need in order to arrest the killer.

In your report you wrote...

that when you examined the room where the murder took place...

the railing of the window was loosened.

And that a man could get through that.

Yes.

The window was repaired the following morning.

Exactly.

You also discovered another window which had been repaired recently.

Right?

Right.

We could assume that one of those two killed Scarlatos.

He had already loosened the railing.

He went out that way and the next day he repaired it.

That's very likely.

But they were both present during your examination.

They were outside the room.

If Theseus is one of them, seeing that you noticed the railing...

he wouldn't fix it, because that would look suspicious.

That means that the killer was not present when I examined the room.

Lazaridis was not present.

But if the killer was, he could've done it on purpose...

to make us suspect somebody else, thinking as Dimitris just did.

That's possible.

If everything is possible, we'll never get anywhere.

-Did you talk with Petalas? -We tried. In vain.

-Could I make an effort? -The man lives in another world.

They've said that about me too.

-Hello, Eleni. -Listen.

I have results.

But I'd rather we talked in person. To brief you...

before you read the official report.

Are you free now?

-I have to go to the lab. -What's going on?

The dead are starting to speak.

Hello.

In the order that you gave them to me.

Let's see.

The Scarlatos case.

The weapon was an iron bat, probably makeshift.

It's not. It's a regular baseball bat, ground with a wheel.

As you know, there are no fingerprints.

-The blood belongs to the victim. -We knew that.

Going on.

The Grizas case.

The man that was found split in two in Corinth.

God!

We got a very clear shoe print. From the left foot.

From the photos and the evidence you gave us...

and the marks on the ground, I suppose it's a man. It's size 11.

5.8 ?? 5.10 in height and around 160 to 170 pounds.

There are no prints on the chains that were around the pines.

Judging by the oxide, they are very old.

-Oxide? -The rust.

As time goes by, oxygen is combined with the metal...

and they create an oxide.

Now then.

The chains with which the victim was tied.

No other DNA, except that of the victim, Grizas.

But there are rope fibres on them.

This means that there were ropes tied to the chains...

and they were attached to some pulley.

The pulley must have been secured on the ground...

or on some powerful vehicle, otherwise...

I cannot explain how two large pines were bent like that.

How did Theseus do it?

-What did you say? -Nothing. Go on.

Going on.

Zoi Manesis.

The piece of plastic that was in her nose...

is from a dashboard. We've already sent it to France...

to examine it and see if they can find the VIN number.

That's not necessary, we found out recently from a witness.

That's excellent.

Unfortunately, though, the traces we found...

are unusable.

They were tainted with Manesis's DNA.

Were they tainted to the point that we get no results at all?

Let me explain to you how DNA works.

Imagine it is like a necklace with two rows of beads.

Every DNA molecule consists of sugars and phosphate groups.

These are joined by nitrogen-containing nucleobases.

-Are you following? -Of course.

-And do you understand? -Not a word.

Sorry. Forget it. I was carried away.

No, go on.

Alright.

As I said, we get no results from those.

Next.

The Michalis Artakis case.

He was found at Kakia Scala with a turtle shell...

glued to his face.

This time we got lucky.

What do you mean?

On the shell we found three different sets of prints.

None of them belonging to the victim.

How soon can these prints be processed?

And if he has prior arrests?

The license plate?

I'll come to the station tomorrow.

Good night.

I think you're...

I've been listening to the news and I didn't know...

that my neighbor was involved in these cases.

People are really sick!

Imagine, killing according to Theseus's Labours!

I still can't understand how he bent the two pines.

-That's the paedophile's murder? -Yes.

It served him right.

Don't say that, Tonia.

Why? Did you feel sorry for him?

A child, man! A child.

The two chains were tied to a rope, which was tied to a pulley.

But I don't understand how the pulley bent the two pines.

It should be fastened to the ground or to a vehicle. That's impossible.

How did Theseus did it?

What?

His second Labour. Sinis the Pityokamptes.

How did he bent the pines?

He didn't bend them.

-What do you mean? -It's a myth, not reality.

Even if it was written as a myth, it had to be done somehow.

It could be...

symbolic, like Zeus.

Greek mythology is full of symbolism.

Even if the guy who wrote the myth were alive today...

he would come and ask you...

how did the psycho you're looking for bent the two pines?

What did you mean, like Zeus?

According to the Ancient Greeks...

Zeus was the king of the gods and went with every woman he saw.

Zeus. In Latin, Jupiter. The genitive is Zenos or Dios.

You just said it. Zeus. What does it mean?

Zeuxis.

In ancient Greek it means coupling.

God is coupling.

-Everything else is just symbolism. -Symbolism?

Elias...

I need your help.

-Andreas. -What's up?

Could this be a virus?

No, it's a video. Seems like junk.

Open it. If it shows anything extreme...

-we can try it together. -This is called sexual harassment.

Women are hysterical.

-Good morning. -Good morning.

-Here's Marikaki. -What am I going to do with you?

Why do you always go there?

-Want some coffee? -Thanks, some other time.

Bye, Poirot.

Please, leave us alone.

Dimitris, Pantelis and a gentleman are waiting downstairs.

-What gentleman? -I don't know.

You don't know. Can you remind me the name of that reporter?

-But... -Remind me her name!

Christina Stergiou.

Now tell me.

What exactly did you tell her about these cases?

Good morning, Elias.

-Good morning. -Why are you here?

I asked him to come.

We have new data about the murderer's motives.

It's not revenge. This is an initiation.

He is trying to achieve deification.

Theseus was initiated to the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The initiation aimed at expanding his consciousness...

so that he could perceive his Self as a total...

as well as the true position of man in the universe.

That was achieved through the transition from the material...

to the spiritual level.

That was strengthened by abolishing his greatest fear.

-The fear of death. -Ancient beliefs...

that coincide with the findings of quantum physics.

Our ancestors were really advanced.

That's all very nice, but get to the point.

What's the symbolism of the Labours of Theseus?

The Labours are symbolic. You mean, their interpretation.

Alright, the interpretation.

The Labours represent the stages of initiation...

that the hero passes through in order to reach deification.

In his first Labour Theseus meets Periphetes.

He is the son of Hephaestos, the only god that used his hands...

to create weapons and tools.

Periphetes uses a bat...

which is a phallic symbol of strength and authority.

The phallus, if used irrationally, causes pain.

Periphetes's defeat symbolizes Theseus's victory...

over matter and the internal, violent impulses.

Scarlatos did not subdue his violent impulses.

He used the phallus to give pain, instead of pleasure.

And he bashed his head with a phallic symbol, the bat.

Understandable.

In his second Labour, Theseus fights with Sinis...

son of Poseidon, master of the sea.

Sinis uses two pines.

The two trees symbolize the opposing forces in the universe.

The positive and the negative, the good and the bad.

The male and the female.

The two forces represented in Hermes's sceptre, yin and yang.

Right. When a man can discern behind these two forces...

the one force they are composed of...

then he can reach a new holistic consciousness.

In his third Labour, Theseus kills the female boar Phea.

The "Dark", daughter of monsters.

In the Eleusinian Mysteries they atoned sacrificing female pigs...

in honor of Demetra and her daughter Persefone.

And Circe transforms Odysseus's companions to pigs...

because of their gluttony.

In the fourth Labour...

Theseus fights with Scyron.

The path of the initiated is difficult and dangerous...

because he'll have to face all his subconscious fears.

-The turtle. -The turtle.

He's in danger of being terrified by them.

But when he can pass through his trials...

then he'll be able to control his emotions.

The sea.

-And humbly... -The washing of the feet.

Quite right.

Then he may come to know his true self.

In his fifth Labour he meets a cruel fighter, Cercyon.

He defeats him by symbolically raising him from the ground.

The initiated, in this case, Theseus...

raises himself spiritually...

thus conquering balance and harmony.

In the sixth Labour, he faces Procroustes.

Now he has to leave behind whatever is weighing him down...

on his way to a higher plane.

And in his life, he has to follow the rule, moderation in everything.

-Then, Theseus didn't kill anybody? -He did.

The monsters that lived inside him.

Don't forget that in Tartarus, Theseus was trapped in Lethe.

That's a dangerous journey. If a man looses his individuality...

he is in danger of being trapped in another world.

The fight must be fought in the present time...

honoring equally the spirit and the matter.

Do you understand why I said that we have different motives?

The interpretation of the myths changes the murderer's profile.

So, it's not just revenge.

To him, it is a process of initiation.

So, our man did not comprehend the Labours of Theseus.

Enter.

Sir, will you give me a couple of minutes?

Lately, all you do is occupy my time. Say it.

Christina Stergiou is waiting to see you.

-Is this a joke? -No, sir.

-And you brought her here? -Yes.

I'm sure you'll want to talk to her too.

-Where did you find it? -It was sent by email.

-By whom? -I don't know.

Somebody created a profile only to send me this.

If you search, I'm sure you'll end up in some internet cafe.

When people have information and are afraid...

they usually do it this way.

-You can keep it. -I wasn't about to ask you.

-I have a copy. -You cannot publish it.

-Why not? -I cannot tell you now.

Give me something. Something exclusive.

-Come again? -Mr Barassopoulos...

I could have published it, but I'm in your office.

Give me something.

Stefanou.

The surgeon?

-What about him? -His son...

was a victim of Grizas, who was found in Corinth.

The paedophile?

Grizas was his third victim, right?

The second one. Zoi Manesis was the third.

We just found her before finding Grizas.

Then, I was right. It's the same killer.

I did not say that. I told you the order in which we found them.

-I said nothing about the killer. -The murder in the clinic...

-is it connected? -Don't push your luck.

Go to the doctor.

Get an interview. It's a moving story, macabre. It sells.

Get going.

And may God be with you.

Rewind it, just after he turns.

Stop.

I'll enhance it and let you know.

Do you believe that she doesn't know who sent it?

Yes.

Do you believe that she won't publish it?

-Yes. -If you trust her...

-why don't we use her? -In what way?

Call her to your office, tell her everything about the case...

and ask her not to write anything until we've caught him.

Until then, she'll write whatever you tell her.

-Are you serious? -Silence.

-Go on, Dimitris. -The killer wants recognition.

He wants his Labours known. His path to deification.

So far, we managed not to let that happen.

He must be angry. Imagine if...

when he knows that we have realized what he's doing...

we don't reveal anything and continue calling him...

a lunatic, a psychotic killer.

-He'll be enraged. -And if he's enraged...

-he may... -Do the mistake we're waiting for.

BREAKING NEWS

The date of the Prime Minister's visit to Crete was announced.

The Prime Minister of Greece will go to Herakleion on November 8.

There, he is expected to announce the financial policy...

and the management plans for everyday issues.

He will meet the local authorities and his agenda will include...

references to the primary sector, tourism, infrastructure...

as well as technology and innovation.

A reference will also be made to the new road network of Crete.

Attention! Silver Alert. Can you help?

We identified the license plate of the white van.

And? Whom does it belong to?

To him.

Call now our lifeline 10-65...

or the police.

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