Ennenstadt Europa - Om Lars von Trier og 'Forbrydelsens element' Page #3

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He must have known.

He tried to escape in his car.

I followed.

He drove fast.

In spite of the wet

and the dark, surprisingly well.

Went into a slide.

Came off the road.

He hit a concrete pillar.

He died in the flames.

It was as if

he wanted it like that.

I couldn't help him.

Just one question.

Who's this picture

supposed to convince?

Me or you?

These talismans have been

seen all over the papers.

Anybody could make one like it.

This is the route according

to the three-year-old tailing report.

These are the four sites

of the murders.

Halberstadt, Friedingen,

Oberdorf and Neukalkau.

As you see, the corners

of a perfect square.

Four murders with approximately

one month between them.

Grey is dead

and his work completed.

A nice little

geometric puzzle.

- Past and present.

- No, Osborne. That's not good enough.

You deport a man...

for 13 years...

in the sand.

You bring him back to Europe...

where something

apparently has gone wrong.

He looks up his old teacher,

a teacher who has

unfortunately gone mad.

You asked me

who Harry Grey was.

I told you,

Harry Grey is dead.

I don't rule out--

This able-bodied man...

gets work

with the police force.

The only thing is,

there's no police force.

The old teacher

has been threatened.

He's like a dog.

He's scared.

Changes the facts

to cover for a criminal.

Furthermore, he advocates

the brilliant theories of his youth.

That's treason.

That's worse.

I can see you're scared.

You're being threatened.

Where's the tailing report?

Crime today is like

a chemical reaction.

It can only happen

in the right environment.

Intelligence and sensitivity

must be affected out there.

Don't talk to me in those bloody

clich? ! The academy days are over.

[ Fisher ]

I found this girl cut up

in Innenstadt harbor.

Innenstadt is on the square too, right

here in the middle. Grey is alive.

[ Osborne ]

So don't tell me.

If the square describes a closed figure,

this must be an opening.

Very touching.

You're happy now, aren't you?

But... take care, Fisher.

Police work has become so much more

dangerous now than it was in your day.

I know I'm a silly old bugger.

For Christ's sake, you'll do

what you think is right anyway.

[ Fisher ]

We never quarrelled before.

[ Woman ]

He really cares for you, Mr. Fisher.

I know.

He's so scared...

even of the smallest things--

the house and the dark.

He never rests.

He just walks around

up there. Listen.

[ Footsteps ]

Is it always as dark as this

this time of year ?

There are no seasons anymore.

The last three summers

haven't been summers.

The weather changes all the time.

It never alters.

Would he hurt himself?

This morning he asked me to burn

all his books and papers.

Tell me about his wife.

They were married a few years

before she died, right?

Did he say that?

Suddenly, when he came back

a month ago, he was married.

She stayed a week.

She isn't dead.

She just left.

[ Woman ]

Have you seen the child?

It's hers from a previous

marriage. She left it.

How can anybody do that?

Shhh.

There, there now.

Now, now, shhh.

There.

[ Humming ]

[ Baby Talk ]

[ Humming Continues ]

[ Therapist ]

Talk to me, Mr. Fisher.

[ Fisher ]

I've found the missing tailing report.

Harry Grey has been here

to frighten Osborne,

to destroy any

information on him.

Osborne was getting too close.

I owe it to him

to go on with this.

[ Therapist ]

How can this tailing report help you?

It's a surveillance report

on an innocent little trip...

that Harry Grey took

years before the Lotto Murders.

[ Fisher ] If you'd read

"The Element of Crime, " you'd know.

[ Commotion On TV ]

[ Man On TV ]

Let Osborne speak.

[ Jeers, Booing ]

Let the man speak !

Remember, gentlemen,

we are Europeans.

"The Element of Crime" sets out

a series of mental exercises...

designed to improve our understanding of

the behavioral pattern of the criminal.

[ Man On TV ]

Understanding? Don't you know

what's going on out there?

[ Osborne On TV ]

Next question.

"The Element of Crime"

is a method...

based on the reconstruction

of a known part of a criminal's life.

It is, if you like, a psychological

identification that enables a policeman,

through his own mind,

to work his way into the unknown

activities of the criminal--

to work his way

into the crime in question.

[ Man On TV ]

That's a dangerous way

of reaching understanding.

[ Osborne On TV ]

We always run the risk

of being corrupted.

The morality of the police

is no different from that of society.

[ Man On TV ]

You claim that crime can only

arise in a specific element.

- [ Osborne On TV ]

Yes. Next question.

- [ Man ] Metaphysics !

I never claimed that the method

had been completely developed.

[ Osborne ]

What am I doing here?

[ Man Singing In Arabic ]

[ Phone Ringing ]

[ Woman ]

If you leave now,

you will never come back.

[ Singing Continues ]

[ Phone Ringing ]

- Hello?

- [ Man On Phone ] Osborne?

- We can open the locker now.

- Hello?

This is the Hotel Schatz

in Halberstadt.

I've been thinking--

If you really think it's important--

What locker ?

Harry Grey's locker.

Isn't this Mr. Osborne?

[ Man On TV ]

Why don't you defend yourself, Osborne?

I'm on my way.

[ Commotion On TV ]

[ Car Engine Starts ]

[ Fisher ]

I am no on my way,

chasing a man... Harry Grey.

I'm carrying the tailing report

like a recipe book...

listing all the ingredients

needed to make Harry Grey.

I know everything he did on his

field trip three years ago.

[ Tires Screeching ]

[ Sheep Bleating ]

I'm on my way...

to Halberstadt--

- [ Horn Honking ]

- to the locker.

[ Therapist ]

Were you asleep when

the telephone rang, Mr. Fisher ?

[ Fisher ]

I wouldn't call it sleep.

I wouldn't call it sleep.

- You're not Osborne.

- Will you open the locker ?

Are you from the police too?

It's a very nice hotel.

We have cola.

If you like yellow girls,

I can get you yellow girls.

The locker.

Is this connected

with the Lotto Murders?

They found the body

behind Frau Gerda's house.

Where did you get that from?

The tourists are crazy about them.

When they've seen

the site of the murder,

they want something

to take home with them.

What can you tell me

about Harry Grey ?

He was a nice man.

He tipped the maid.

He had a car.

We never had no trouble with Mr. Grey.

He only stayed here

a short time.

Okay.

So many tourists come here.

I can't remember them all.

Let's get one thing straight.

Not many tourists come here.

This is a dump.

"This is a dump" ?

[ Fisher ]

Halberstadt is everything

I thought it would be,

[ Fisher ]

Halberstadt is everything

I thought it would be,

only worse.

The place has

three attractions.:

the Hotel Schatz,

the site of the Lotto Murder...

and Frau Gerda's whorehouse.

[ Wind Howling ]

[ Bell Clanging ]

[ Woman Speaking German ]

Can we offer you

anything to eat, mister ?

Did you feel the sheets?

It's not a dry wind.

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