PART 4 OF 8
[Homicide Division Chief] I'd like to talk to Patane, news desk.
[Operator] Just a minute.
[Patane] News desk.
[Homicide Division Chief] Hello? Patane?
[Patane] Who's this?
[Homicide Division Chief] I can't tell you my name. Your phone is tapped.
[Patane] What kind of joke is this?
[Homicide Division Chief] Hello? Homicide received a package containing the victim Augusta Terzi's jewels, the killer's shoe and the razor blade. This definitively exonerates the husband.
[Patane] It's no use disguising your voice. I recognize you.
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[VIVA MAO]
[STALIN]
***
[Mistico] In 1948, we removed 2,000 instances of graffiti in favor of Stalin, 50 for Lenin, 1,000 for Togliatti.
[Cop Spock] Thirty for Marshall Tito.
[Mistico] 300 for Mussolini.
[Cop Spock] 411 for the Common Man's Front.
[Mistico] But in 1956, Stalin's fell to 100. A huge drop.
[Homicide Division Chief] And Togliatti?
[Cop Spock] Stable.
[Mistico] In 1958, we had 100 "Viva Khrushchev" ...
50 for Mao Tse, and 500 "Down with Stalin" also appeared.
[Cop] I'd like to point out we had orders not to remove those, obviously.
[Mistico] Last year, "Viva Mao" went up to 3,000. Ho Chi Minh went up to 10,000, Che Guevara, 1,000. Marcuse, 11, both for and against.
[Cop Glasses and moustache] And something new. We found a couple "Viva Sade!"
[Homicide Division Chief] The Marquis.
[Mistico] This year we expect 10,000 for Mao, 500 for Trotsky, 10 for Amendola, and maybe 500 or 600 for Stalin.
[Canes] What are those two doing?
[Homicide Division Chief] Go check them out. See if they have passes and where they're going.
Youth, youth! Writing slogans on walls! Young students and laborers prowling around at night, spouting their revolution on the phone, in their classes, at their jobs!
Using up tons of red paint just to insult us! I know what needs to be done! It'll take more than whitewashers to combat this subversive, antiauthoritarian tide!
[Canes] Pace went to the Homicide Division.
[Homicide Division Chief] Who's he talking to?
[Canes] Mangani.
[ANTONIO PACE] MURDERER
[Homicide Division Chief] We must send our young officers back to school. They must infiltrate universities, factories, grow beards and long hair, wear greasy overalls. We must know everything, control everything! We'll use our own sons if we have to.
***
[Cop] Hello, Chief. Thanks.
[Head of Wire-tapping Office] Hello, Chief.
[Homicide Division Chief] Antonio Pace's recordings.
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] Right away.
[Mangani] The Terzi case.
[Homicide Division Chief] What happened?
[Mangani] Important new developments. I'll keep you posted.
[Cop] Hello, Chief.
[Homicide Division Chief] Hello.
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] Chief, I need your signature please. Thanks.
[Mangani] Antonio, where have you been all day?
[Antonio Pace] The police station.
[Mangani] Is the Political Division hassling you again?
[Antonio Pace] No. I was at Homicide.
[Mangani] How come?
[Antonio Pace] It was about that woman who was killed in my building.
[Mangani] They're implicating you?
[Antonio Pace] No. They want to know if the tenants saw anything.
[Mangani] What did you tell them?
[Antonio Pace] Nothing, of course.
[Mangani] Not even that you slept with her?
[Homicide Division Chief] Bitch.
[Antonio Pace] Shut up. My phone's tapped. Actually, since I'm here, I'd like to talk to the cop that's on duty now.
Comrade, you have the degrading job of unlawfully spying on the birth of the Italian revolution, but you're being exploited too. Join us, or at least ask for a raise.
[Homicide Division Chief] Turn it off.
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] Wait a second, Chief.
[Homicide Division Chief] What?
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] His ideas are truly abominable except for that last one. I've been working here 30 years and still make 140,000 lire a month.
[Homicide Division Chief] So?
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] If I didn't have culture to fall back on --
[Homicide Division Chief] What?
[Had of Wire-Tapping Office] I sell books in installments.
[Homicide Division Chief] What's that got to do with me?
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] Nothing.
[Homicide Division Chief] I'll report you.
[Head of Wire-Tapping Office] Chief.
***
[Tape Playing] [Operator] Just a minute.
[Patane] News desk.
[Homicide Division Chief] Hello? Patane?
[Patane] Who's this?
[Homicide Division Chief] I can't tell you my name. Your phone is tapped.
[Patane] What kind of joke is this?
[Homicide Division Chief] Hello? Homicide received a package containing the victim Augusta Terzi's jewels --
[Mangani] Who does he remind you of?
[Homicide Division Chief] ... the killer's shoe and the razor blade.
[Homicide Division Chief] One of them is Patane.
[Mangani] Yes, but the other one?
[Homicide Division Chief] Did you receive this package?
[Mangani] We got it, but an hour after this article was published.
[Biglia] So it can't be the husband because we have him here.
[Mangani] He could have an accomplice.
[Biglia] I think Terzi's husband is innocent and should be released.
[Mangani] Detective, this is my case. The husband stays in jail.
[Biglia] All right.
[Mangani] All right, Biglia?
[Biglia] We'll keep him in jail.
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[Homicide Division Chief] When will you understand? The man is innocent.
[Mangani] It's better if we hold him, at least until the public forgets this story.
[Homicide Division Chief] You're a bureaucrat. You're afraid of public opinion.
[To Biglia] Don't get upset. Don't worry.
[Biglia] He's a reactionary, a Bourbon straight out of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He just panders to the minister and public opinion.
[Homicide Division Chief] He's like an old pair of underwear. He won't last. Don't worry.
***
[To Reporter] What do you want?
[DRAMATIC TWIST IN THE TERZI CASE]
[Patane] Here you go. What should I tell him?
[Homicide Division Chief] Tell who?
[Patane] Mangani.
[Homicide Division Chief] About what?
[Patane] He wants to know if I know who called me about the package and the jewels.
[Homicide Division Chief] Why ask me?
[Patane] It was you.
[Homicide Division Chief] Think about it. How could I have called you if the package hadn't arrived at the station yet?
[Patane] It was you!
[Homicide Division Chief] You can't go around saying that I call you.
I don't call you! I do favors for you, and you'd better be careful.
***
[Mistico] This vending machine makes great espresso.
[Cop] I know, but I can't drink espresso.
[Mistico] Get a cappuccino.
[Homicide Division Chief] You want me to get rid of that vending machine?
Mistico, get back to work. [To Patane] You too. Get out of here, please. Get out of here.
[Patane] [To Biglia] Bye.
***
[Biglia] [To Homicide Division Chief] I need your advice on something.
[Homicide Division Chief] What's eating you? Come along with me.
If we don't help each other --
[Cop] [To Homicide Division Chief] A message.
[Homicide Division Chief] Now what? In this city, they're not just killing prostitutes. They're killing order and social stability.
Three sit-ins in 24 hours. Homeless people, students, teachers. The teachers! Italians! In six month, 81 million hours' worth of strikes. Got an aspirin?
[Biglia] No. Chief, do you believe Terzi's husband is innocent?
[Homicide Division Chief] Of course I do.
[Biglia] There's only one way to prove Terzi's husband is innocent. We have to find the man with the blue tie.
[Homicide Division Chief] We have to find him.
[Biglia] The blue tie you wore the night of the murder -- Where did you buy it?
[Homicide Division Chief] At Cenci's, near the Pantheon.
[Biglia] He sold two of them. Yours we can rule out, and he remembers selling the other one to a woman.
[Homicide Division Chief] Augusta Terzi.
[Biglia] So the victim gave the tie to her murderer.
[Homicide Division Chief] The victim gave the tie to her murderer.
[Biglia] Given their marriage, I doubt she gave it to her husband.
[Homicide Division Chief] That seems logical. Count him out. And me? What can I do for you? How can I help you? Maybe you want my blue tie? You can stop by my place. Ask for it. My cleaning lady's there in the mornings. Do you have an aspirin?
[Biglia] I can really stop by your place?
[Homicide Division Chief] You understand, three sit-ins in 24 hours. Students, homeless people, teachers. Teachers.
[Biglia] May I go?
[Homicide Division Chief] You know what? Compared to this, I prefer Homicide.
[Biglia] Of course. Thanks, Chief.
So if I need to, I can really get the tie from your place?
[Homicide Division Chief] Yes.