A Hero of Our Times Page #9

What did you tell your friends?

- Are you talking to me?

- She's talking to me, who knows you?

- That we went skinny-dipping. - No,

I in my underwear and you in a bikini.

- Don't you want to talk about it?

- No.

Fernando doesn't talk!

If you don't explain him that the child

isn't yours, well, I'll have to shoot.

What d'you mean, shoot? She shoots,

the other one throws a bomb, wait.

When I get to Bergamo, I'll write Fernando

a letter and everything will be fine.

What are you thinking,

these are not things one writes.

Why? You think so,

but a nice little letter,

and you'll get married and we'll have

a big party.

I'm not joking!

He has ruined my life!

Sir, this is not the train

for Bergamo.

It's the one for Palermo.

- For Palermo?

- Yes.

Well, then I'll go Palermo,

I'd have had to go there one day anyway.

Thank you.

Please, believe me.

Ten years of governance

as I see it,

and Italy'll be like Switzerland.

Only then will I be able to go abroad

and declare:
I'm Italian!

Yes, words, you lead an electoral

campaign filled only with words.

And you, with bombs!

- Bombs? Please, come on!

- No, you come on!

You, my dear Sir,

you use other people's brain to think.

- Learn to think with yours.

- You got the nerve to tell me this?

Do you remember the famous

parliamentary session?

Did you find honest and wise that

what the honorable maintained?

Do you think there was something

inappropriate?

- Everything.

- Let's hear it.

- O God, the suitcase, stop, inspector!

- It's my suiitcase, I threw it!

- What does it matter to you, it was old!

- Inspector, quickly!

Help, help, he's a monster!

Help, he's a monster,

open up!

My first suspicions? He said he was going

to Bergamo and it was the Palermo train.

The young lady can bear witness

I'm not making up anything.

What do I care if he was going to

Bergamo or to Palermo?

He must tell the truth to my fiancee.

D'you know what that one said?

That he went skinny-dipping with her.

Give him to me for minutes

so I can smash his face.

Careful, my friend,

or I'll put you inside.

And put down that he locked me into

the toillet!

Alright, Madam,

you've already said that three times.

May I, Sir?

I don't even know what

the word bomb means.

I wsn't even drafted, like everybody

knows, because of my hernia.

May I, Sir?

That's the right side,

and this is the back,

this is the tip,

model of '56, isn't it?

- You've already threatened to throw a bomb.

- With pleasure, Sir.

On the 12th of May,

everything's here.

May I, Sir?

There's one thing saying "I'll

throw a bomb",

and another one throwing it,

Sir.

Where'd I get the bomb from?

Let's be logical!

Who could have given it to you?

I'll show you, right now.

Come, come.

And what are those two saying?

They admit to making the bomb.

A bomb!

It was something this big.

This big, or not,

it still was a bomb.

D'you remember whom you gave it to?

How should I know, it was dark,

it was a guy with a big head.

See if it was him.

- Is your name Otello?

- Who's Otello?

I don't know anyone called Otello.

If his name is not Otello,

it wasn't him.

- D'you have a cigarette?

- No, you ask for one, just like that?

- Go on interrogating them.

- Alright.

Is it serious, Sir?

- Good afternoon.

- How can I help you?

- I'm Madame De Ritis. - Take a seat,

and give me your details.

- Can you tell me where you have spent

the night? - My pleasure.

I was with the here present

Dottor Pedocchi,

and with my colleague Bilancia.

We lingered on at the exit from the

"Sistina" theater, waiting for the dancers

- Shall I write it down?

- Yes, write it down.

I'm the one giving orders.

And you spent the night with dancers,

but you didn't...

Yes, honestly, yes. You're a man of

the world, you understand these things...

Shut up!

And where did this little

orgy take place?

- But it wasn't an orgy.

- What do you mean it wasn't an orgy?

- Menichetti's lying.

- No.

- I'm a law abiding citizen, married...

- Yes, married.

...with a a good position.

- At what hour did you separate?

- At 1:
00.

- Much later.

- No!

- Yes!

- No!

At 1:
00 the accused left us for

an unknown destination.

Let's write down two, Sir.

- 1:
00, 1:00!

- No, 2:
00, if not 3:00.

Saint Anthony...

Silence! let's go on.

Could you, please, tell me your

whereabouts after 1:00?

After 1:
00, isn't it?

I was with the lady there.

- In my time, there weren't such women.

- Silence!

Yes, Sir!

- And where did you meet?

- Close to the theater.

What were you doing near the theater?

You know that isn't your turf.

- I was resting.

- To lure clients.

- Did I lure you?

- Yes, you lured me.

Still,

it's true we spent the night together.

But you didn't even give me a pasta!

D'you want to ruin me?

My son's a soldier and I never had

anything to do with terrorists.

Have you heard that?

With pleasure. I understand that here,

among all these people,

- Madam is a little...

- I'm no lady, I couldn't care less!

He stayed for a minute with me,

then went away.

- Yes, it's true, I went away.

- Where to?

Home. Yes, I went right back home,

and went to bed.

I've slept all night like an agel,

and Saint Anthony's my witness.

- What hour did you get home?

- At 1:
30, Sir.

Mister Fernando can witness to that,

can't he?

No, you didn't come. I spent all

the night at your entrance.

- All the night?

- Yes, I slept there.

As a matter of fact,

while mister Fernando was sleeping,

I sneaked in back into the house.

You won't get me into trouble,

I've got a sharp mind.

But why did you wait for him

at the entrance?

- He wanted to speak to me.

- No, I wanted to hit you.

- He said he had gone skinny-dipping

with her. - Stop it, what're you doing?

Did you see him threatening me?

- Skinny-dipping? - Yes,

tell it so the chief can hear.

Tell Fernando what happened between us

on the Tiber.

- Speak.

- Nothing happened.

Fernando, I can assure you

that Marcella is like a sister to me.

- She's a virgin.

- What's he saying, I'm pregnant!

Are you now convinced there was nothing

between him and me?

And then, would you see me going with

a guy like him?

And, besides, he took advantage of

you, and you being underage.

- He's a sexfiend.

- What d'you want, old hag?

He locked me in the toilet,

he wanted to use violence.

Alright, violence against

an underage person.

Sir,

let's the forget this old woman.

Everything's written in here.

When I went with her to the river,

the young lady was not underage.

Here it is:
"23rd of May,

Marcella turnd 18."

As you can see, Sir,

she's not underage.

The next day:
"24th of May, innnocent

outing with Marcella on the Tiber. "

You don't get me into trouble!

Everything's written in here.

"NCI", means "nothing came of it".

You see, Sir,

you don't get me into trouble.

- May I?

- Come in.

- Dottore.

- Are we in trouble?

- No, we are not in trouble.

- A glass of water, please.

Mineral water for the dottore.

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