Peur sur la ville (Fear Over the City) Page #5

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F*** YOU.

Say, for a science teacher, his vocabulary is quite limited!

Using a phone booth isn't a crime.

And I have nothing to say to a**hole cops.

That's it, push my face in, beat me up!

F***ing... sh*t!

God damnit!

Ok, listen up.

I don't have time to play riot police vs student with you.

I'll drop my baton. Drop your brick, and let's talk.

Ok?

I've got 3 murders on my hands, with a 4th one on the way.

We've got a loony on the loose in Paris, killing.

And if you don't tell me WHO you were calling at 10 am,

I'll think it's you.

Don't you think that if ever there was a time you

should cooperate with the police, it's today?

I'll think about it.

That's it, think.

Duvielle, take him outside.

How's the mail?

We've gone through 742 letters so far.

We verified all leads.

On my part I have 75 pretending to be Minos himself.

Chief, I have a Pierre Valdeck, friend of Helene Grammont, to see you.

You want him to wait?

No, I'll see him.

Have a seat, Mr Valdeck

Thank you.

I didn't want to bother you personally, Commissioner.

You must be very busy with everything that's going on.

She was a great girl, you know.

I'm in total shock.

We knew she was threatened, we couldn't do anything.

Neither her friends, nor the police.

It's horrible.

No thanks.

Yes, thanks.

I thought of many things.

Why her?

Who could hate her?

For what reasons?

When I suddenly had an idea.

Maybe it's completely foolish,

But I thought about what linked all those murders.

And I suddenly realized that it all centers around the hospital.

Helene Grammont worked there,

Germaine Dozion... or Doizon, I don't remember her name,

Germaine Doizon.

Ah yes.

Sorry.

Thanks.

Well, she was operated in that same hospital.

And if I remember, Nora Elmer's husband was brought to us too,

After his car accident.

It might mean nothing.

Mr Valdeck if you ever need work come to see us,

you'll make a fine cop!

Sorry for taking your time, Mr commissioner.

Thank you, goodbye

Goodbye, sir.

Come in!

Good day, commissioner.

The fragments you picked up on the rooftop,

They come from a glass eye.

Certain?

We've been on it for 2 days, no doubt about it!

Thanks.

So, Mr Dallas?

Alright, I'll tell you who I was calling.

No need to.

I'm free?

Yes.

Why?

Cause you got pretty eyes.

And Minos doesn't know that we know he has a glass eye.

Hold your lighter the way you did when you offered it to Valdeck!

What did you do after?

I brought it closer to light his...

Good God!

Jean, look.

What date?

Today.

Find which letters are missing, it's the name of the next victim.

I think it must be that one.

Stop searching, I found it.

Pamela Sweet, 25th floor.

"Yes?"

Mrs Pamela Sweet?

"Yes, who is it?"

Police, ma'am.

Hello? Hello?!

"Listen good, Letellier!"

I have enough explosive to blow up the whole block!

"At your first action I will kill the whore, her pimp,

her daughter and the maid, you hear?"

Valdeck... what is it you want?

I'll tell you later...

I have to think.

Go in the back.

Get in the next room.

Don't be afraid darling.

It's nothing.

"Police has just surrounded the building..."

We just arrived at the building where Pierre Valdeck is hiding.

After throwing that grenade at the movie theater

earlier which killed one and injured seventeen.

You two, there. Evacuate the whole building!

Moissac, with me.

Greetings, Letellier.

Mr Prefect.

-Where you able to talk to him?

-Yes.

So, what does he want?

He says he wants to think.

"Julien Remy, Europe-1. Nothing new since our last report."

"Everyone's gaze here is fixed on the 2 lit windows of Pamela Sweet"

"And in the thick darkness falling on this tower,"

"Those lights represent a hope for life".

For the 4 hostages, a horrible night begins.

Also a night of patience for all the police forces present here.

Right now I see the Gendarmerie's Chief of staff coming in,

Col. Dupre who will join commissioner Sabba, and chief commissioner

Letellier in charge of this investigation.

That's all I can tell you for now, back in studio!

"The images you are seeing now are live from Pamela Sweet's tower.

"Hundreds of onlookers watch the police's every move."

"On the roof, I can see the snipers, members of the

gang buster unit,"

"of which commissioner Letellier was part not long ago."

"Led tonight by commissioner Bonselet."

"Is it the start of an operation? That's what we all wonder."

"Because on the police side, no one is talking."

"We'll return live as soon as we have news..."

Letellier!

Letellier, here.

Get your snipers down, immediately!

If they're not down in 30 sec I kill the hostages!

Valdeck, calm down.

I didn't send anyone on the roofs, I promised we'd take it easy.

"I'll take care of it".

Once you've corrected your mistake, I'll give you my conditions.

Evacuate the roofs, now!

What's going on?

And you guys, no initiative, understood? Wait for my orders.

Everyone get down, wait in the cars.

Moissac! The the press, the TV, the radio out!

He's watching our every move on TV.

"The police is evacuating all the media,

while above the snipers are coming down."

"We don't know if it means a step forward in the negotiation process."

"Well call you back once we get more on this, back in studio!"

Thank you, Patrick Picard.

We are happy to welcome professor Jacques Hepstein,

Specialist in mental illness at the Paris faculty,

and who has agreed to talk to us about the Minos case.

So, the question on everyone's lips, professor.

Can we negotiate with a psychopath such as Minos,

and if so, will he hold his promises.

You can always negotiate...

But it's difficult to predict the actions of a

man who's brain is damaged by a profound delirium.

To clarify, I propose a document, professor,

A recording we made earlier of Mrs. Valdeck, Minos' mother,

who owns a small restaurant called "le relais du nord", in Ardenne.

And here she is.

"I don't understand..."

"I'm shocked..."

"He was such a nice, gentle child."

"He only gave us pleasant moments."

"As a matter of fact, we made sure he never had bad company or reading."

"Our little Pierre still asked us permission to go out at 18!"

"I don't understand what happened!"

"I don't understand!"

There, you just heard an excerpt of Minos mother's interview.

Professor Hepstein, you wrote a book called

"Sexual Repression in our modern society",

The same society you accuse of creating a multitude of

neurotics through sexual repression?

You know, it was Freud who first said that

humanity as a whole was his client.

Only, since they don't all carry bombs, we don't notice them!

In view of the barricades which modern society erects

to obfuscate our sexual desires,

"Some individuals will escape into neurosis."

"I wouldn't be surprised if Valdeck was one of those neurotics."

But these so called anti-sexual barricades, don't you

think that we easily jumps them these days?

Yes, of course, provided you are the right age.

An official age, for the law,

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