In the Palm of Your Hand Page #5

ignorance about guns.

That's true! I forgot!

Guns don't suit you.

I keep one as a novelty.

Let me show it to you.

Nazis use this a lot

during the war.

It seems they didn't like detonations

when they wanted to get rid of someone.

Strange, they liked

Wagner so much...

Nice suppression instrument!

May I?

Why not?

Just be careful... It's loaded.

Meanwhile I'll get you a drink.

Would you think wrong of me

if I satisfy a whim...

Go ahead, Ada, shoot.

Admirable, isn't it?

Almost noiseless.

Barely audible like

a veil in the wind.

Why didn't you, Ada?

Why?

If you had turned around

when I was aiming...

be sure I would.

You couldn't either.

At the time I owned your will.

Your mind.

You were like a part of my body

that only obeyed me.

It is possible, Karin.

You and I are written in

our destinies.

We are not going to be able

to get away from each other.

The worst thing is there is a third

person also written in our destinies.

Leon.

My husband's nephew.

Do you love him?

Then why you had to choose

him as an accomplice?

Being him so useless

for such things.

I don't have reasons to hide it from you.

Besides, you are a clairvoyant who

would find it anyway.

I was weak at the last moment.

I needed someone even if

it meant somebody as Leon.

I couldn't do it alone.

If I had known you then, Karin...

What else you want from me?

What else you ask from me?

- Everything has a price.

- Price?

I don't know what that means.

I'll really like to kill you, Karin.

But you make me feel something...

that killing you is no longer possible.

Then I'll call you tomorrow, Karin.

It'll hurt me if you thought I

was jealous, Karin.

- But that woman...

- You know that this woman...

is one of the many

incidents of my profession.

We have an agreement.

We are now a kind of partners.

Circumstantial partners, that's all.

Of course I know you are

incapable of cheating on me.

That's not what worries me.

I'm afraid of losing

you some other way...

There are things that

may stain a life.

That leave it stained for ever.

I don't understand you, Clara.

What do you mean?

I'm afraid of losing you

without you even going away.

Lose what you are,

the way I think of you.

The image in you.

- That would be horrible.

- Never!

For you, I must always be the same!

The Karin inside of you, is what

I love and respect the most of myself.

It may be a nonexistent Karin.

But...

it's the Karin I aspire to be.

Never lose it, Karin!

You and I are the Truth.

A clean truth after all.

If we lose that, it will

be as we were dead in life.

There are things that

above everything else.

Our love is one of these things.

Don't be afraid.

Karin! Lets go away!

Let's leave everything behind us

and don't care about anything.

It's still not the time to do that.

But we will go away.

Karin knows how to play with

fire without burning himself...

and also how to

put it out on time.

You have gone too far, Karin.

Let's hope there's

still time to go back.

I've thought a lot, Karin.

Believe me, I'm not sorry

of having met you.

Quite the contrary...

Thank you!

I like that strange feeling

I get when I'm with you.

It's like the roller coasters at

amusement parks where you pay...

to get that disturbing feeling in your gut.

And at the same time

enjoying that feeling.

Do you feel the same about me?

A kind of attraction and

repulsion at the same time?

How do you see me Karin?

Very similar to those

amusement park machines.

Like a little precision machine,

precise and inalterable like a Guillotine.

I like it.

It's admirable the way you are

so sure of yourself and your destiny.

- Why do you think so?

- You haven't even asked me where I'm taking you.

Where is this precise

human guillotine taking you.

You know that better than me.

I decided to trust you completely.

They call it "The Dream".

The Dream Cascade.

Don't you think a capricious name?

It's fascinating, as life is.

Like your own life, Ada Romano.

A downward force that

invades everything.

To dominate everything to its

endless ambition.

You are right again, Karin.

I am that, or have wanted to be.

But in the inside...

without it showing on

its peaceful surface.

A secret cascade of death.

That's your spirit.

That's weird...

your words have made

me remember it.

This cascade has also...

has also taken a life.

You can see it.

The cascade doesn't worry...

nor feels remorse.

It goes on, unafraid of punishment.

Tell me, Ada...

how did you commited the crime.

Poison.

Poison in small doses.

You are a sadist, Karin.

No.

I didn't meant yours.

I meant the Cascade's.

Do you like this place?

- Admirable!

- It's my retreat.

Only yours, or do you share it?

Don't speak nonsense, Karin.

I see you are well prepared, Ada.

You have a lonely place.

Oh, no! The forest

ranger takes care of it.

But I give him a few days off

to go to his hometown.

Come!

And now, you know it all.

I'm not hiding anything.

This means that Leon has

become a real threat to you.

He hasn't said anything but

he is capable of denouncing me...

even if it means he'll

also go to jail.

How did you find out you

and him were his heirs?

My own husband told me so.

It's a fortune!

For a fortune like that,

the risk could be taken again...

isn't it so?

What do you mean, Karin?

Better yet, what do you propose, Ada?

I guess we aren't here to

talk about our lives.

No, Karin!

We are not here for that!

Speak! I'm listening.

Speak as if you

were thinking aloud.

Like you said, Leon

is a threat for me.

I want you to help me!

What kind of help?

The only possible help

in this case!

You want me to talk to him?

To convince him?

To offer him money in your name?

No.

That wouldn't help.

More that money, Leon wants me.

In that case, you are

better suited to fix things.

But, I can't on my own.

Can't do what?

Do it. Don't you understand?

And what do you want?

I want you to do it, Karin!

That's too risky, Ada.

I've never killed anyone.

I'll give you all the money you want!

And what if I don't want money?

I wouldn't deny

you anything, Karin.

Anything!

You like danger, Karin...

and today you're convinced

I'm not dangerous to you...

But now you are...

"For you, I must always be the same!"

"The Karin inside of you, is what

I love and respect the most of myself."

"It may be a nonexistent Karin."

"But, it's the Karin I aspire to be."

Keep him, preserve him.

Clara!

Clara!

What's wrong, Clara?

I scared you, Karin?

It was a bad dream.

Well, it's over.

Maybe it happened

because of the Scotch?

I've been anxious all day.

I wanted to see you so much!

I am so dumb!

What hour is it?

It's 4:
00 A.M., Clara.

It's 4:
00 A.M.

You are late, Karin.

I don't want to

know where were you.

Don't explain anything.

Thank you, Clara.

I wouldn't know what to tell you.

Karin has agreed to meet

us this night at the cabin.

He knows that there, the

three of us will be alone.

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