Citizen X Page #2

He goes for an appointment with the

Spring suppliers on Tuesday.

Come back Thursday, saying ...

it went fine and on Monday

I hear that he never saw him.

Never showed up.

Have you any explanation

for your miserable performance?

I am going to take you down and show you to

workers on the line ...

see what they think of you.

This is the man who stopped

the chain of supply,

this is the man who

stopped our work today

You have no where to go?

Are you Hungry?

I hope this latest

murder puts to rest the idea

that the gypsy boy did it.

Why?

Because he was in custody

when this one was killed.

So what? It could be a

gang of which he was only a part

We can't disount that man

as a suspect so quickly.

He did confess.

I have some requests to make,

we have 16 bodies and we know ...

that there are more of them. In my opinion

it's a state of emergency.

And for that reason I have to ask

for more men, a lot more.

I have also need computers, so that I can

start the library of information about the case

and I need to

communicate with the FBI

Serial Murder Task Force

in Quantico, Virginia.

The largest store house of information

about serial murderers in the world.

And finally, we need to

publicise this case as widely as possible

First, to warn people of the danger.

Second, to get more of the unknown bodies

identified.

and Third, In the hope of bringing forth a witness ...

to one of the crimes.

No.

- No to what? No to everything?

Are you mad?

There's a maniac out there who will

kill every child in that god damn district!

Stop this insolence!

Is there something you want to say, Colonel.

- No, sir.

You handled that quite deftly.

- Bondarchuk is a stupid man.

He may be stupid but he is in charge.

How can it be, you don't seem to know

how things work in the Soviet system?

I know how things work, but right

now there are 16 dead children and I want

a little special treatment.

The strength of the bureaucracy is

measured by it's ability to resist

giving anyone special treatment.

I don't appreciate your sense of humor.

- One day you will.

The reason I said no to your demands ...

to ask for more men or

computers, for that matter,

is to admit to our

superiors in Moscow ...

that we're overwhelmed.

Which they'll never do

To ask the FBI for help ...

is to admit to the

West that we are behind them in both

forensic technique and

in manageing information.

Which they would never do.

And to publicise the case is to admit

that such crimes exist ...

in the Soviet Union. Which is one

thing they would rather die than do,

To Publicly admit that anything is wrong.

the only way I have been able to get

anything done is behind closed doors.

By offering favors, by bribeing,

by weedling ... But that will take time.

It always does.

Only in this case people will die.

People will die and that'll take all our

strength to suffer these outrageousness,

But suffer them we must.

Because we are the people who have to

catch this monster, Comrade Burakov.

You and I.

And you may have noticed, no one

else is even willing to try.

Good day.

You care about nothing more than

making your superiors happy.

You're right, I should spend more time ...

trying to alienate them. Perhaps you could teach me.

You say that You and I have

catch this monster ...

what you mean it's upto me isn't it?

Thats why I begin as the perfect choice ...

if I fail I'll be dangling out there by myself.

Happy Birthday, Nadia!

Are you trying to sabotage

what we are doing here now?

Doesn't you understand that you're

supposed to be under cover.

You're supposed to let the killer

feel comfortable and let him try

to pick somebody up.

Did you think that wearing your

uniform would help?

It was freezing when we came this morning

- So what?

It is his only warm coat.

My brother-in-law has a warm coat.

I'm sure, I can borrow it tomorrow.

I would ask him today ...

Give me your coat.

Take it.

I'll give it to you back later.

When we solve the case.

In the years since we discovered the first

bodies, we found six more.

and we interviewed 800 potential witnesses.

And despite all that,

we have no suspect.

In fact, all we've been able to do, is to

discredit the theory of the gang of retards

from the Institute, would've been involved.

And according to some of the people in

this room, we haven't been able to do that.

And if you continue to forbid us to

publicise the case I can't promise to

say when I except our luck to change.

You're saying that you're no

less than when you have begun.

- Not exactly.

Bring in Gorbunov.

Gentlemen this is Comrade

Gorbunov, Special Prosecutor from Moscow

Sit down Comrade.

- Thank you.

Gentlemen, Without wishing to embarass

anyone in particular, I must tell you

that I have been send here...

to take over the investigation,

because of it's poor focus

and slip shot execution

My superiors in Moscow agree with me,

that we should drop the train stations

survelliance immediately.

Not only because it's costly in terms of man hours,

but also because it hasn't produced

a single viable suspect in a year.

and because I say this with all

due respect to my predecessor,

It is based exclusively on one man's

intuition.

Well I'm afraid that's no longer going to count anymore.

As of now we will run this

investigation as professionals.

As of now, standing along

is no longer our style

but aggressive pursuit is.

We will aggressively pursue the suspects ...

and focus primarly on

known sexual deviance.

For the obvious reason they fit the

nature of the crime

and particularly the homosexuals ...

owing to the fact that there are so

many young boys among the victims.

And we will concenterte on a lesser extent

on doctors and surgeons because of

the precision of the lacerations.

Is what I said satisfactory to you all?

I Object, most of ...

Very satisfactory.

Extremely satisfactory.

I particularly liked the idea

of investegating the homosexuals.

I think this is the best idea we have heard of,

in the tragic history of this case.

We want to thank you, Comrade Gorbunov.

I understand that you'll remain

here for a couple of days.

And I will see to it that you'll have enough

time to get Burakov's team pointed in the

right direction before you go back to Moscow.

I am sure I will.

- Well, We're done here, I think .

Have I not?

Well then.

You've heard him. He would be here

for 24 hours and then he leaves.

We still run the day to day operation.

In a bureaucracy it is important to know

which skirmishes to join

and which to ignore.

We are developing quite a network

of informers among the city's

homosexual community.

That is not worth it.

I found it fascinating that

Secretary Bondarchuk

so vehement about pursuing them.

Didn't you?

- No.

There is a whole world for gossip

and it's in your hands to explore,

Comrade Bukarov.

Perhaps, If you took an interest,

You'll be a little more light of heart.

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