The Element of Crime Page #3

who Harry Grey was.

I told you,

Harry Grey is dead.

I don't rule out--

This able-bodied man...

gets work

with the police force.

The only thing is,

there's no police force.

The old teacher

has been threatened.

He's like a dog.

He's scared.

Changes the facts

to cover for a criminal.

Furthermore, he advocates

the brilliant theories of his youth.

That's treason.

That's worse.

I can see you're scared.

You're being threatened.

Where's the tailing report?

Crime today is like

a chemical reaction.

It can only happen

in the right environment.

Intelligence and sensitivity

must be affected out there.

Don't talk to me in those bloody

cliches! The academy days are over.

I found this girl cut up

in Innenstadt harbor.

Innenstadt is on the square too, right

here in the middle. Grey is alive.

So don't tell me.

If the square describes a closed figure,

this must be an opening.

Very touching.

You're happy now, aren't you?

But... take care, Fisher.

Police work has become so much more

dangerous now than it was in your day.

I know I'm a silly old bugger.

For Christ's sake, you'll do

what you think is right anyway.

We never quarrelled before.

He really cares for you, Mr. Fisher.

I know.

He's so scared...

even of the smallest things--

the house and the dark.

He never rests.

He just walks around

up there. Listen.

Is it always as dark as this

this time of year?

There are no seasons anymore.

The last three summers

haven't been summers.

The weather changes all the time.

It never alters.

Would he hurt himself?

This morning he asked me to burn

all his books and papers.

Tell me about his wife.

They were married a few years

before she died, right?

Did he say that?

Suddenly, when he came back

a month ago, he was married.

She stayed a week.

She isn't dead.

She just left.

Have you seen the child?

It's hers from a previous

marriage. She left it.

How can anybody do that?

Shhh.

There, there now.

Now, now, shhh.

There.

Talk to me, Mr. Fisher.

I've found the missing tailing report.

Harry Grey has been here

to frighten Osborne,

to destroy any

information on him.

Osborne was getting too close.

I owe it to him

to go on with this.

How can this tailing report help you?

It's a surveillance report

on an innocent little trip...

that Harry Grey took

years before the Lotto Murders.

If you'd read

"The Element of Crime, " you'd know.

Let Osborne speak.

Let the man speak!

Remember, gentlemen,

we are Europeans.

"The Element of Crime" sets out

a series of mental exercises...

designed to improve our understanding of

the behavioral pattern of the criminal.

Understanding? Don't you know

what's going on out there?

Next question.

"The Element of Crime"

is a method...

based on the reconstruction

of a known part of a criminal's life.

It is, if you like, a psychological

identification that enables a policeman,

through his own mind,

to work his way into the unknown

activities of the criminal--

to work his way

into the crime in question.

That's a dangerous way

of reaching understanding.

We always run the risk

of being corrupted.

The morality of the police

is no different from that of society.

You claim that crime can only

arise in a specific element.

- Yes. Next question.

- Metaphysics!

I never claimed that the method

had been completely developed.

What am I doing here?

If you leave now,

you will never come back.

- Hello?

- Osborne?

- We can open the locker now.

- Hello?

This is the Hotel Schatz

in Halberstadt.

I've been thinking--

If you really think it's important--

What locker?

Harry Grey's locker.

Isn't this Mr. Osborne?

Why don't you defend yourself, Osborne?

I'm on my way.

I am no on my way,

chasing a man... Harry Grey.

I'm carrying the tailing report

like a recipe book...

listing all the ingredients

needed to make Harry Grey.

I know everything he did on his

field trip three years ago.

I'm on my way...

to Halberstadt--

to the locker.

Were you asleep when

the telephone rang, Mr. Fisher?

I wouldn't call it sleep.

I wouldn't call it sleep.

- You're not Osborne.

- Will you open the locker?

Are you from the police too?

It's a very nice hotel.

We have cola.

If you like yellow girls,

I can get you yellow girls.

The locker.

Is this connected

with the Lotto Murders?

They found the body

behind Frau Gerda's house.

Where did you get that from?

The tourists are crazy about them.

When they've seen

the site of the murder,

they want something

to take home with them.

What can you tell me

about Harry Grey?

He was a nice man.

He tipped the maid.

He had a car.

We never had no trouble with Mr. Grey.

He only stayed here

a short time.

Okay.

So many tourists come here.

I can't remember them all.

Let's get one thing straight.

Not many tourists come here.

This is a dump.

"This is a dump"?

Halberstadt is everything

I thought it would be,

Halberstadt is everything

I thought it would be,

only worse.

The place has

three attractions.:

the Hotel Schatz,

the site of the Lotto Murder...

and Frau Gerda's whorehouse.

Can we offer you

anything to eat, mister?

Did you feel the sheets?

It's not a dry wind.

This is the cow

with the crumpled horn...

that tossed the dog

that worried the cat...

that killed the rat

that ate the mold...

that lay in the house

that Jack built.

This is the maiden

all forlorn...

that milked the cow

with crumpled horn...

that tossed the dog

that worried the cat...

that killed the rat

that ate the mold...

that lay in the house

that Jack built.

This is the maiden all forlorn that

milked the cow with the crumpled horn...

that tossed the dog

that worried the cat...

that killed the rat

that ate the mold--

What is your name?

You can call me Harry.

My name's Kim.

What do you see, Harry?

A line of washing

left out to dry.

It never dries.

She brings it in wet.

Do you like Halberstadt?

I'd rather live

in a hole in the ground.

I hate Halberstadt.

Do you want me now?

They say that people

living in Innenstadt are evil.

I'm gonna f*** you

back to the Stone Age.

Harry came to Halberstadt

and stayed with Kim...

die halbe Nacht.

Kim was gone when I woke up

at Frau Gerda's.

I couldn't have slept

more than a few minutes.

I took the ferry

on my way to Friedingen,

and suddenly she's here again,,

standing by the side of the road.

She looks wet.

So this is the Stone Age.

Are you going to Innenstadt?

Not right away.

I'm going to Friedingen.

Where did you go?

I'd like to come with you.

You're a cop, aren't you?

Do you believe me?

That I'm in the middle of Europe

screwing a Volkswagen 1200?

I believe you.

I thought I remembered you, Mr. Grey.

You still owe us for two nights

and the medicine.

Put it on my bill.

Same room as last?

It's a single.

What medicine?

Salycin. Quite a lot.

For headaches.

When you were here last,

you turned on the stairs and said,

"My face is a city."

What did you mean by that?

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