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the fact that there's a large

supermarket nearby.

The employees, etc.

One can assume about it all.

Maybe just some drunkards

broke in to get a booze.

There was no similar things

in our neighborhood ever.

As far as I know.

That's the whole catch.

It's when statistics shows up.

Look, if there was no robbery

around here for a long time,

it is likely to appear

when enough time passes by.

The one who can count this time...

There's even a branch of mathematics

that is called stochastic.

For instance, this case perfectly

fits into my statistics.

Fits, how?

- Look...

It's not only that there's a chance

that something will happen here,

but it's also valid for all

the elements of the robbery.

The way of it and the rest.

- I don't understand.

I assume that something fell out

when they were running away.

You can find a statistical proof.

It must be close around here.

The cigarettes!

- You see?

It fell out while they were running?

- Right.

The point is that not only that

statistics reveals what happened,

but some kind of regularity as well.

Statistics is useless

if it registers data only.

If it doesn't reveal some kind of rightness.

Crimes occur in some type of a proper order.

Understand?

The robberies have their own frequency,

the thefts have their frequency, too.

Besides that, they occur at

the predetermined intervals,

by the predetermined rhythm.

You get it?

Yes.

If you take all these crimes into account,

as well as the place factor and time factor,

you'll find out that the same street

has its own number of crimes,

that happen by certain rhythm,

by certain type values.

And you're able to control all that?

- The most of it.

So, that's how you found out more

about the robbery in our store?

Right, by statistics.

- And to find these cigarettes?

Of course. Don't you believe me?

- I do. I believe you all.

But you must agree it sounds fantastic!

That's how the most of these

simple things look like.

Hi.

Since you're not coming to me,

I must come to you.

Hi.

You know how the things work.

I had no time.

I came to borrow a bicycle from you.

I must go to the pharmacy. Ok?

Ok, you just come in.

Like we did it in the old times.

Alright!

Want some drink?

- If I have to.

Have a seat.

What are you gonna do after moving out?

I don't know... It wouldn't be nice like here,

but I guess it would be the same.

The friends will drop by

for a card game, and so on.

As usual.

What has become of you, Ivica!

- Whatever. That's not much of a subject.

I've heard you have a tenant here.

- I do.

Why did you need that?

The guy came and asked me to rent

him a room. I couldn't say no.

What is he like?

- Nice.

He notes down some statistics.

What kind of statistics?

- About crime and accidents.

I guess it begun here as well.

What has begun?

There's a bunch of such weirdos in Switzerland.

They speak to Martians,

they invent water-fuelled cars,

perpetuum mobile...

He's not like that.

Let's hope you're right.

Does he intend to trick you about the house?

- How do you mean?

If you take him to the new apartment,

he may sort something out

and takes your apartment away.

- No chance.

It's new, right?

Promise me you will come for sure.

- I solemnly swear.

That's Fabian.

You're really good.

- Am I? Thanks.

Does statistics help you with this, too?

- How did you guess?

The both have a connection

with math and combinatorics.

Exactly.

The both have laws.

Take chess, for example.

Nothing happens by accident either.

Yours and mine chessmen, black and white...

Every move we made or any thought we had,

is subjected to some kind of rhythm.

There's a rhythm in chess, too.

Yes, you already told me

about it regarding statistics.

For instance, let's say that

these chessmen are human beings.

What is their table, then?

It's their world.

Check!

Or better said, their city.

This parable doesn't really work.

- How?

We have the two kinds of chessmen.

The white against the black.

That's the point.

Let's take a simple comparison.

Let's say that the white chessmen are good -

prosperity, freedom, egality, revolution.

Let's say that the black chessmen are evil.

Because they're yours, right?

Anyway, we said it's only a hypothesis.

What is required for a game of chess?

The required are balance, egality,

the correspondence of white and black chessmen.

Yes.

Now, let's make this wider.

Therefore, the forces of good and prosperity

have their rhythm within society.

However, the prosperity doesn't

happen slowly or rapidly.

We don't have revolution every day,

or an automatic pencil punch.

We don't have a steam engine

invented every day.

Do you understand?

- Somewise.

So, the forces of good,

the forces of prosperity

have their rhythm which

makes life move forward.

What's more logical than the forces of evil

having the same such rhythm of their own?

That's an interesting thought.

Their own rhythm is not random either.

It's not different from those of

the forces of good, or the revolution.

It means that the both rhythms

are equally important, then.

That the evil is equally important as good.

- Exactly. Do you understand?

I do...

But, it's not close to me.

- Yes, you never thought in such way.

So, you study something which

is an important life rhythm,

or at least the rhythm of this city?

I wouldn't make such

superior conclusion, though.

That's interesting.

Speaking of this parable,

who's the one that moves the chessmen?

Who plays the white and who plays the black?

I think that's not so important.

Let's say that the chessmen move on their own.

On their own?

- Yes. We said it's only a hypothesis.

Besides that, in life, the black and

the white chessmen have both colors.

Sometimes black, sometimes white.

Sometimes good, sometimes evil.

Well... If all the chessmen change

their color from time to time,

it means that any of us

could be a potential felon.

The potential hero as well.

I knew the weather will get

worse when you are coming.

Please, Mr Hrvoje, it may get dirty.

Ivica!

- Yes?

You're good at it, Mr Fabian.

- This or that?

Both. But you have a good header.

Don't you remember?

Of course I do. It was the

most popular thing back then.

It was the guidance

and tossing the ball.

Do you remember of

"football with heads"?

We haven't played that.

- You haven't? - Not we.

There's a connection after all.

Mr Fabian is a true miracle.

He keeps surprising me.

He has some original ideas about many things.

Let's not talk about that, Mr Ivica.

- He's a sorcerer, too, you know.

We haven't agreed so, Mr Ivica.

He's predicting the future, too.

He predicted something for me as well.

Who has the turn?

Two.

- Three.

The hearts. - From the hand?

- Where else?

Fantastic.

What's the time?

Half past eleven.

- What did I say?

Mr Fabian predicted this morning

that I will face a counter-attack

between 11:
30am and 12am

in response to my hearts.

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