The Kremlin Letter Page #9

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- And his name?

The man from prague. Ask madame

sophie about him, comrade.

Hey! I'm gonna have me a real

good washup. Your turn next.

Up there, nephew.

Is this yorgi?

Is this yorgi?

Take your coat off, yorgi.

And your jacket.

Put on the other one.

Let us see how it fits.

Out!

Better than the other.

For how long had you known my wife?

Had she told you it was over? Huh?

Had she taunted you? Did

she force you to grovel?

Little by little, i'll mangle your body...

Until it looks like hers did.

All right, colonel. That will be all of that.

Who are you? I'm a fan of yours.

A very old fan. Boris!

No, colonel.

That won't do any good.

They have all been sent home.

Bresnavitch is behind this.

No matter. It's my idea. All mine.

I seem to know you. Oh, yes.

You know me. The last time our

paths crossed was 20 years ago.

It's taken me all that

time to catch up with you.

You're a very hard man to see,

colonel. I had to go to great lengths.

So you killed her.

Colonel, you're so calm,

so logical, so reasonable,

I had to catch you off balance.

Took some doing, but it was worth it.

You and i have a lot of old

corpses to dig up and talk about.

Vedder, for example. Marcel mara.

Gustav zeiff.

It's a long, long list, colonel, old friend.

Halleren, the british agent you interviewed.

I believe it was two weeks with him.

Da silva,

Gottlieb, korda.

Julian and, finally, polakov.

I know everything you

did to every one of them,

What you put each one of them through.

And if it is possible for one man to make

retribution for the torment of so many,

It will happen now.

That, i believe, is how

you started with korda.

Remember zeiff, colonel? Remember his scream?

You seem to like to hear a man scream.

Well, colonel, old friend,

I have a little something for you.

No. No, it-

It isn't

- It can't be!

Come on, nephew. Hurry

up. Got a plane to catch.

I still can't get over it. First time across,

and you come up with all the right answers.

Damn smart, you figuring

out that chink angle.

Though it is a sorry shame to lose

four good agents on a wild goose chase.

Still, it does make us that much the richer.

Over $500,000 richer, to be exact.

How can you talk about money?

That's what we came into it for.

Which reminds me. Don't tell me all of

that money's gonna rot in some african bank.

Two million dollars.

Ain't there any way at all we can get

our hands on it? Not now there isn't.

Well, you oughta have told

me. Before you killed erika?

That's right, nephew. Would

it have made any difference?

I don't rightly know, but it

surely would have given me pause.

All that money.

I know how you like money, but mainly

you came into this to get kosnov.

Nephew, didn't anybody ever

teach you that revenge is sweet?

Especially sweet to sturdevant.

You're sturdevant. Nephew, you're delirious.

Janis said he was only waiting

like a lion in a thicket.

Well, of all the wild ones.

Something else i heard

about him is also true.

He's a brutal, sadistic,

conscienceless assassin.

Nephew, come off it.

You're not going, are you? No,

nephew, as a matter of fact, i'm not.

I've got a few odds and ends to tidy up here.

You've made a deal with

bresnavitch, haven't you?

You're the new head of the third department.

Nephew, if that was true, i wouldn't

want anybody on the other side to know it.

You wouldn't be leaving. Yes, yes,

i would. I'm your insurance policy.

You'll keep bresnavitch in line by

reminding him what i know about him.

One word from you, and i'll tell the world.

You need me to keep your russian job.

Nephew, that is mighty smart of you.

You've crowded me right into a corner.

Yes, sir, you have short-Haired me.

You have short-Haired me real good.

Nephew yorgi, you are a downright scoundrel!

And am i to tell sweet alice

the kremlin letter's in peking?

He already knows it, nephew.

That's why i went to paris.

All that about checkin' on missin'

masterpieces was a lot of bushwa.

I couldn't come clean.

You'd all have wanted to pile out, and i

had that unfinished business to attend to.

Nephew.

Come on. I got you a

little going-Away present.

We had a hell of a time savin' her.

'Bout half the poison got down.

She's paralyzed, can't talk.

But the doctors say she's gonna be all right.

What are you gonna do with her?

Well, now that depends on you.

Long as i got that girl where

i can keep an eye on her,

I kind of figure you'll use a little

discretion in what you tell people about me.

I mean, like how valiantly i died.

I mean, how valiantly ward died.

I'll get her out. Somehow i'll get her out.

You know, it's a funny thing-

Nephew, i'm kind of proud of you,

Sort of like a father that

raised his kid up right.

Now, you have graduated from

kindergarten with flying colors.

You got one last little thing to

do before you get your diploma,

And then, as a graduation

present, i will give you the girl.

You better get aboard,

charlie. Here's your homework.

...altitude of 9,000 feet.

That's about 5,000 meters.

Kindly fasten your seat belts now,

and we wish you a pleasant flight.

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