Pokot: The Sacred Path to Warrior-Hood Page #4

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Swierszczyriski.

- Matoga's my neighbor.

Drop by tonight. We're having a party.

What is it?

- A concrete floor.

Good heavens.

My first joint in twenty years.

I never finished

telling you about my name...

It's not such a bad name, Swietopelk...

It's a pretty name.

Maybe.

But my mother couldn't pronounce it.

Her father was forced to stay here

after the war.

He was an engineer and a mining expert.

When the Poles came after the war,

they had no clue how things worked.

So he had to work for them.

His family couldn't leave either.

My mother ended up marrying

a young Polish engineer,

and I was born.

One summer, she ran off to Germany.

Why?

My father had been in a concentration camp.

He hated the Germans

more than anything.

People usually marry for love,

but he married out of hate.

He was a difficult man.

Uncompromising, hard.

Next to him, we're as soft as jellyfish.

After my mother fled,

he mostly stayed in the cellar.

We had a big cellar in our house.

At work, he went down in the mines,

and at home, down in the cellar.

I didn't see much of him.

He just ignored me.

I lied.

My mother didn't run off to Germany.

She hanged herself at home.

I've never told anyone this before.

My head's spinning.

The mushroom pickers are having

a costume party in August.

Would you join me?

I have a wolf costume.

Wolf?

Come in!

Are you asleep?

Are you religious?

- Yes. I'm an atheist.

Religion is a myth.

A comforting ritual.

Yeah.

Cetonia aurata...

The rose chafer.

And here - a Dendroxena.

Pretty name.

What if children were named after insects?

May I introduce Mr. Aesalus Scarabaeoides.

Ms. Drosophila Novak,

Ms. Corvus Duszejko.

Certain chemicals are almost identical

to natural pheromones.

Look,

if you smear this on a piece of wood,

female beetles will rush here

from all over the area to lay eggs.

Just a few drops is enough.

As simple as that?

- Yes.

Insects have an exceptional sense of smell.

Why can't humans smell like that?

Who told you they can't?

- I don't smell anything.

Maybe not consciously.

Your human hubris

leads you to believe in free will.

But there's no free will in nature.

Just pheromones and hormones.

And God is called the Selfish Gene.

Do you believe in evolution?

Are you kidding me?

I'm surprised people believe that crap,

about determinism.

They don't believe in astrology,

that planets influence us,

but they believe micro-genes

determine our choices.

Duszejko!

They arrested her! She's in jail!

Get changed and let's go!

It was her text messages.

Evidently she was the last one

to see him alive.

What's going on? Who?

- They arrested Good News.

They suspect her of killing Wnetrzak.

That's insane! Oh, God!

I can't get involved. Can't go with you.

Why not?

The police can't know they're friends,

that Dyzio is involved.

But why her?

Can texts be evidence?

Everybody texts.

But she threatened him!

She asked for Nivea cream and Ibuprofen.

They found some material at the scene,

probably from her store.

You coming with? Is he coming?

What about her brother? And the store?

Who cares?

She could be charged with murder!

Sh*t.

I'll tell them that I killed him.

Take it easy.

It won't help,

and they'll think you're crazy.

They think that anyway.

Nobody will believe you.

Turn on your brain, okay?

Okay.

Stay cool. I'll drop off this stuff.

May I?

I'd like to add something to my statement.

Ms. Duszenko...

- Duszejko.

Right. As you see, I'm very busy.

I'd like to testify about Wnetrzak's death.

Please, come in.

Go ahead.

Remember those deer hoof prints

near the police chief's body?

Pretty odd, right?

Just like the circumstances

of Wnetrzak's horrible death.

I think

you should seriously consider

another hypothesis.

They were killed by animals.

Ms. Duszejko...

- Why are you opposed to the idea?

They were all hunters!

Wnetrzak skinned foxes alive

with the law on his side!

He made them suffer

until they could take no more.

And took revenge!

Please. Think about it.

Animals are being killed with impunity.

The law protects the murderers!

Hunters, butchers.

The crime was made legal,

so everyone just accepts it.

You walk past butcher stores and see meat.

But it's someone's quartered body!

Ms. Duszejko, please...

It's not unheard of.

This wouldn't be

the first murder by an animal.

I read a whole list on the Internet.

Back in 846, a swarm of bees

stung a man to death.

Those bees were then convicted

by a regular human court!

In the early 1300s,

pigs killed and ate a child.

Again, the sow was tried and executed.

History has seen many trials of animals.

In Italy caterpillars

ate an entire vineyard.

But why dig so far back?

Bird flu, does it ring a bell?

That pandemic spreading worldwide?

It's a sophisticated form of revenge

for what we do to animals.

For the way we fatten them

to satisfy our cannibalism.

For factory farms and assembly line murder!

Ms. Duszejko, please calm down.

We will give it some thought. Thank you.

You're not taking me seriously, are you?

You want to get rid of me,

just like the others did.

I keep writing you letters,

but you never reply.

Although you're legally bound to.

You don't even read them, right?

If you did, you wouldn't have

arrested Good News.

Who?

Why do you always punish the ones

who are kind and weak?

Your father was in jail too, right?

He never told me,

I figured it out from his horoscope.

And you didn't help him.

You know why he was in jail?

For terrorism.

He attempted to blow up

a health insurance agency.

Why?

He blamed them for my mother's death.

They refused to pay

for her expensive treatment abroad.

He should have known better.

Violence doesn't bring back the dead.

Your father is a brave, wonderful man.

No need to worry about him.

He means no harm, trust me.

You said that I didn't help him.

You think it was easy to convince the court

that it was just a nervous breakdown?

That he was legally insane?

Where were you?

I thought you got arrested, too.

So did you find out anything?

Is there any way to help her?

The way serial killings work,

they'll release her

as soon as the next victim turns up.

Yeah,

that makes sense.

Do you have to leave tomorrow?

Yes. I have exams.

Then field research all summer long.

Cucujus haematodes?

- No. I'm done with them.

AUGUST - hunting season for deer,

roe deer, wild boar, duck, pigeon

Maybe I need more color here.

Wait.

Now you'll have two red cheeks.

Let me see.

Super!

You'll be the Queen of the Ball.

What's that?

A cooler.

What for?

You're driving.

What's all this stuff for?

It looks like an army vehicle.

When you live alone,

you have to be self-sufficient.

I got stuck in snow too many times.

Wait, my tail!

Ready?

- Yes. Off we go!

Take the keys and get the f*** out of here!

Wait for me in the f***ing car,

you hear me?

What the f*** you looking at?

Get lost!

Are you all right?

You're my daughter's teacher,

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