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a trial is for. "

That is when I understood

the law wasn't for me.

Do you have a delicate

constitution or something?

No, sir. No.

You speak Quechua?

Well, yes. My mother's part lndian.

At police college...

...we used to make the lndians

eat dog sh*t.

Then it's fortunate that

I wasn't in your class, sir.

- Fortunate for whom?

- I should think both of us.

Here's what I want you to do.

I want you to take four people...

...you know, if you can find four

who aren't on some criminal's payroll...

...and I want you to investigate

this entity called Ezequiel.

Find out what's happening

before the army does.

You wanna see the army

back on the street again?

- You can go.

- Thank you, sir.

May I take this?

What did you tell Calderon

about Ezequiel?

Nothing.

You're not the only policeman here

who speaks quechua.

Man stoned to death.

A 33-year-old policeman was stoned

to death last week in Sierra de Puna. "

Mystery surrounds body.

An unidentified body was found,

with the limbs hacked off...

...on a roadside near Jauja,

200 miles east of the capital.

A note attached to the man's neck

was written in the victim's blood.

'Hurry to cut off the fat arms

of the damned.' "

A message found on the body declared:

'Guns will make us powerful.

Butter will only make us fat.' "

Dead dogs suspended from lampposts.

Macabre spectacle. "

The body had been skinned alive

using a high-pressure water hose. "

- You like it?

- Yes, it's really sweet.

Where might I have put my Bible?

I think I put that sort of thing

in the cabinet.

Yeah?

Good morning.

Jesus Christ.

Are you with the police force?

Sergeant Sucre? You begin.

We've drawn a blank

with the boy bomber, sir.

A small part of his face was left intact...

...so I've been able to circulate

an artist's impression.

He was about 10 years old,

probably not local.

Before entering the hotel,

he'd drunk lnca Cola...

...and eaten meatballs

with rice.

But no one's claimed the body and

no one has heard of Ezequiel before...

...so we have no suspects.

- What about those dogs?

- Clorindo, please.

Yes. Well, as it turns out...

...it's not the first time dogs

have been killed like that.

In the last election,

dogs were strung up...

...in two villages in

the Ayacucho region.

I've checked the folklore, bearing in mind

one or two references to Deng Xiaoping.

Yes, in China,

you may be interested to know...

...a dead dog is symbolic of a tyrant

condemned to death by his people.

- Llosa.

- ln the remoter valleys...

...around the Huallaga, masked robbers

have twice been reported...

...conducting kangaroo trials.

The targets in both cases

were government representatives.

They were executed in a ritualistic way,

with stones or knives...

...then messages

were written in their blood.

A strategic equilibrium.

Anybody here know

what the f*** that means?

You traced some of this crap

back to a German philosopher?

So far, I've found three references from

Kant and two from the prophet Ezekiel.

Yes, but who is this Ezequiel?

Some guy who never got laid?

Some smart aleck who reads too much?

Some creep on a bridge spitting at

the traffic? What is your theory?

Well, if it is a creep spitting off a bridge,

he has a lot of saliva, sir.

It seems these actions started

in the countryside...

...around the time General Latche

stepped down.

Most have taken place

in isolated communities...

...where the idea of a central

government almost doesn't apply.

I have to emphasize

there haven't been a ton of them.

About 37 in 5 years.

And at first glance, they might

appear to be random and scattered.

- ln no case was there ever a name.

- Lieutenant, what are you saying?

I'm saying that 5 years ago...

...these actions, thought to have been

taken by a secret wing of the army...

...or by drug cartels,

or by student organizations...

...in fact, may not have been.

Well, then who's behind it?

We have a name, don't we?

We do now have a name.

But so far, there isn't a manifesto.

There isn't a plan.

There isn't a spokesperson.

We don't have any clue as

to who the leaders are.

There isn't an organization,

or a known HQ.

There is only someone called Ezequiel.

So, what you're saying is...

...we don't know what he or she is...

...who they are, or what they want.

No, sir.

- Can you speak?

- Yes.

Do you have any conclusion?

It appears a revolution

could be going on.

But a revolution that has yet

to declare itself in that orientation.

For the moment.

Tomcats.

Do you know anything

about them, Rejas?

No, sir.

If you're looking for a tomcat,

you don't send two dogs up an alley...

...because they knock over

garbage cans, they fight...

...f*** each other in the ribs.

Cat leaps up a tree and pisses on them.

You send in someone who knows

the other one's way of thinking.

How he smells, you know.

Well, how to meow.

You send in another tomcat.

So I want you to be my tomcat, Rejas.

Very well, sir.

Sweetheart.

Hi.

Where is your mother?

- Hi, honey.

- Hi.

Marco sent the camera and the film.

He got it for his birthday

and he already has one.

Agustin, I know we can't

afford it now, but...

Which one do you prefer?

I can't decide.

The one you already have.

You're just saying that.

It changed Marina's life.

- Marina's had a nose job?

- My God, Agustin.

How can you be a detective?

She's had three nose jobs

since you've known her.

Why do you want to

look like your friends?

I don't want to look like my friends.

I just don't want to spend any more

of my life reminding people of Pinocchio.

- I've been promoted.

- Really?

I might even be paid now.

nine months later

We wait six weeks for him

to put another packet in the fridge...

...and last night, we grab him.

But what's in the packet this time?

A leg of f***ing ham.

We have to let him go.

Six weeks watching

a f***ing freezer!

Did you confiscate the ham?

Yes, it's what we had for lunch.

What about the student haunts?

We've got four cafes under surveillance,

but we have to do it in rotation.

It takes a lot of manpower.

Keep at it for the moment.

What else have we got?

Two homosexuals beheaded.

And they shot the mayor of Silar

in a barbershop.

Silar?

Any suspects?

Just 23 million.

Then we're narrowing it down.

If he's a democrat,

then I'm an astronaut.

They could find him

if they wanted to.

They know him.

Quite a few people know him.

And even more people know

why we need him.

What we are discussing here

is a new birth.

And a new birth involves blood.

Okay, who says:

It's necessary that our civilization

builds its temples...

...on mountains of corpses,

on an ocean of tears...

...on the death of men

without number"?

- Napoleon.

- Charron?

- Von Hassler?

- Right!

Who said:

I would like the last king to be strangled

by the sash of the last priest"?

- Mussolini.

- No.

- Pol Pot?

- Lord Rochester?

Jean Messelier.

Who said:

Man's ultimate desire

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