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You invited me to this pagode

And warned me "There's no poor people in here"

You even asked me to tread lightly

Because I've got some color I'm a bit dark

Here we can really find The cream of the crop

Doctors, gentlemen, even magnates

With all the drinking and the talking

I came to the conclusion

If you cry out, "Stop thief!"

There won't be a soul left, brother

If you cry out, "Stop thief!"

There won't be a soul left

If you cry out, "Stop thief!"

There won't be a soul left, brother

If you cry out, "Stop thief!"

There won't be a soul left

FEDERAL DISTRICT

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT

Attention, everyone. Silence, please.

The headphones, please.

Thank you.

Let's go.

- Ten seconds. - Ready, Madam President?

- Give me a minute. - Whenever you're ready.

Attention.

Three, two, one...

Rolling.

I'll make this statement of clarification

to every Brazilian.

Earlier today,

much to my indignation,

I was notified of the decision issued

by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Carlos Penha,

to accept a petition for impeachment,

undermining this mandate that was democratically entrusted to me

by the Brazilian people.

The reasoning outlined as the basis for this request,

the so-called "fiscal backpedaling," is utterly unfounded.

Listen to this.

Fiscal backpedaling was never a reason for bringing anybody down.

I have no offshore accounts,

nor have I concealed any of my assets.

My past and my present

attest to my commitment to the rule of law and to public affairs.

I'm late. I have to hear what Tom Carvalho has to say.

A bombshell for sure.

- It's all bombshells from now on, right? - Good luck.

Thanks.

FEDERAL POLICE

The justification given in the impeachment petition was absurd,

but it was clear why it had been filed.

The Worker's Party and PMDB stole together and were now at war.

And in a war between criminals, anything goes.

President Gino wanted to check out the three-story apartment, so we went.

But he wasn't happy with the kitchen, it required renovations.

Same with the stairs. So we decided to install an elevator.

How much did these renovations cost?

2.2 million.

And who paid for it?

We did, OSA Engineering.

- Is it the former president's name? - Pardon me?

Is the three-story apartment in the former president's name?

No, no, it's in the company's name.

The deal was that, at an opportune moment...

...we'd be given the information to transfer ownership.

And to whom would it be transferred?

To whomever the former president wanted, maybe someone in his family.

But that never happened, right?

No.

How did you communicate with the former president?

In person. Or over Tadeu's phone.

That's his personal bodyguard.

Did you also renovate the ranch in Mambucaba?

Yes, but there was a problem with the lake there.

Did you manage to solve the problem?

Partially, because later Miller and Bretch did the waterproofing.

And how much did that cost?

Oh, about 500,000.

Is the ranch in Mambucaba in the former president's name?

No, it's in the name of a friend of his.

And why did OSA pay for these renovations?

Market rules.

One percent of the total budget of each project we did for Petrobrasil

went to the ruling party.

That means OSA was part of the cartel known as Club 13?

Yes, the renovations were made with this money that went into the party.

It was a checking account.

OSA had a checking account with the government?

No, no, no. My client has already shared valuable information.

Now it's up to the police to investigate

and the DA's office to appraise this information

and work out the terms of a deal for my client.

It's much too early to talk about a deal.

Early?

Yes, early.

But we want a large reduction of the sentence

and immediate transfer to house arrest.

We'll have to verify this information.

Verify?

For... for how long?

As long as is necessary.

You'll be notified, sir.

There's nothing in Gino's name.

We have a testimony, but I need to check this information.

Why would a contractor that builds airports, subways, stadiums

and power plants renovate a ranch in the São Paulo countryside?

That makes no sense.

It's another Petrobrasil scheme. Clear as daylight.

Rigo will argue it's hearsay. There are no facts. I have to investigate.

If they suspect anything, they'll destroy all the evidence.

If they haven't already.

Yes, the issue is the timing, you know?

The impeachment petition?

- Yes. That changes things. - That's not my problem.

Depending on what comes up, it will change things.

So what, Verena?

What do you want to do? Cross your arms and let it end here?

"I, child of carbon and ammonia,

monster of darkness,

suffer, from the epigenesis of my childhood,

the malicious influence of the signs of the zodiac.

Profoundly hypochondriac,

anxiety crawls its way up to my mouth, analogous to the anxiety

which escapes from the mouth of a cardiac."

My life has always been hopelessness.

It was as if Augusto dos Anjos had written that poem specifically for me.

- Are you working on the case again? - No, no, this...

This was Guilhome's, I'm organizing it to take to the Federal Police.

It's amazing how you always come back to this, right?

- No, no. I'm just... - No, it's fine.

This is none of my business. It's your call.

It always has been.

This is Beta's stuff. I'll leave it here.

Fix up a room for her to sleep in, okay? Take good care of her.

Of course. She can sleep in my room.

You're really going to São Paulo?

I am.

It's dangerous, isn't it? I don't know, this...

This impeachment...

I don't know what the streets will be like...

Demonstrations? I'll be there if it happens.

This impeachment thing is absurd.

Right.

There's no way this vote should pass, right?

Is... Is Laurent downstairs?

No, he's running some errands. I have the car, I'll go get him.

Are you staying at a hotel? At someone's house?

Stop.

It's difficult.

It's difficult, it's sad.

- We'll manage. You'll manage. - I don't want to manage.

Stay.

Oh, Marco, I've wanted to stay so much before...

Stay.

Pick up.

Look. It's Verena.

Bye.

Hey, hello.

Hi, Verena.

Tom Carvalho has given us Gino.

- It has to be proven. - You have to investigate.

I know, but I'm thinking.

Penha, of all people, accepted the impeachment request!

- Penha, Penha, a gangster. - I know.

But look, the prosecutor general wants to talk to Ibrahim.

Ibrahim gives Penha up, Penha accepts the impeachment request

and out of the blue, Tom decides to give us Gino, you see?

I'm supposed to be the paranoid one, okay?

If I investigate Gino now, Janete's impeachment will be a sure deal.

Both Gino and Janete on the line?

I'm a police officer, not a politician.

Verena, Verena...

It's always better to know than not to know.

Verena was in a tight spot,

because an honest cop doesn't choose sides when there's a gang war.

Operation Jet Wash had entered a very delicate phase.

If the plea deals were to be fast-tracked, it was game over for the Worker's Party,

and the PMDB Party would take over as the cartel lord at Petrobrasil.

Now, if the Federal Police and the DA dragged their feet,

the Worker's Party would remain in power and bury the ongoing investigations.

It's that old "damned if you do...

...damned if you don't."

Want to play?

- What, honey? - Want to play?

Which game?

You choose.

"Like a ghost taking refuge in the solitude of still life,

behind the isolated graves,

I once sought refuge at your doorstep.

But you never stepped outside to watch my disgrace,

and I left as one who repels everything.

An old coffin containing broken remains."

I was alone in the world.

All that was left was to try to understand the rigged game that is Brazil.

Each party was a card suit,

and on top of each suit, there were the jokers.

Jokers can finish any card game and help you win.

Gino was the head of the "hearts."

Ibrahim was one of his jokers.

The one that connected the Worker's Party to OAS, in this case.

The cards had worked together before.

But now, they were enemies.

FEDERAL JUSTICE

If he has nothing in his name,

even if you find anything at the ranch or in the apartment...

it will be hard to connect the properties to the former president.

The risk is that as soon as we set foot on the ranch or the apartment,

they start destroying evidence.

They could be doing that as we speak.

I think all actions have to be coordinated.

Search and seizure on the properties and a bench warrant.

- For Gino? - Yes.

Shouldn't we subpoena him and wait for him to come?

He's a former president with a lot of power.

Gino can mobilize crowds.

And crowds make collecting any testimony impossible.

But a bench warrant right off the bat?

How can we be sure anything will even turn up in the searches?

What do you have in mind, deputy?

Wiretap Gino's bodyguard's cellphone.

He sometimes uses his phone. It could yield a good trail for us

before we exposed ourselves.

It's a gamble, like any other.

For a week, so be it.

These lawyers talk among themselves.

By now, Gino must already know that Tom snitched on him.

This is what we'll do...

Search and seizure at the properties. Both the ranch and the apartment.

Wiretap the bodyguard.

HIS TIME HAS COME

And a bench warrant for the former president.

I think doing everything at once is too much.

Search and seizure, wiretap, a bench warrant...

I don't understand the need for all this.

Rigo went too far this time.

The DA is afraid they'd make it into a circus so that Gino doesn't testify.

So we're staging a circus ourselves first, is that it?

- Cheers. - Cheers.

What Gino did for this country is something no one had ever done.

Gino was the man.

Barack Obama himself said it.

Yes...

In fact, I'm the only one of my mom's kids that got a college degree.

My older siblings couldn't even dream about it.

My mom has more pictures of Gino than of us in her house.

- No way. - Way.

If she finds out what I'm doing, Verena...

- ...she'll be disappointed in me. - You're a cop, Vander.

She hates cops. She doesn't like anyone who wears a uniform.

Not even firefighters.

Do you know anyone who doesn't like firefighters?

My mother always loved cops. She married two of them.

My father and his best friend.

Hey, now.

She buried both of them, too.

Moving on Gino now

will only be another nail in Janete's coffin.

And many people will appreciate that.

FEDERAL DISTRICT

Penha was something of an ace:

an important and valuable card in the deck.

He was always busy backstage,

furthering his own interests...

- Mr. President. - ...and those of the coalition party.

Not yet.

This is merely a formality, you know? But we'll have to be more discreet.

The doorway is too exposed.

- Outside? - Yes, too exposed.

We have to add, I don't know, some big plant vases...

The media will soon be camping out there,

and no one needs to know who you've been meeting with.

Well...

I started tallying the votes we can count on so far.

In Congress, you can rest assured that I will secure the votes.

But I need to know how many you can assure us.

While the ruling party, the hearts, fought to remain in power,

its allied party and the opposition coordinated Janete's impeachment.

Congressman, your party has 46 representatives.

I want to know how many votes you can guarantee.

Some will vote gladly, others just need a little push.

How much and how many?

It was a war of suits.

Of course.

Representatives and senators are valuable in a card game.

To remain in power,

an administration needs support in Congress.

But support always has its price.

In this case, a price paid in corruption shares.

I was knee-deep in Guilhome's documents and was learning with him.

Guilhome had done an archaeological dig

and organized chronologically all of the major corruption cases

that the Federal Police tried to investigate but never finished.

The Budget Dwarves,

Bloodsuckers, State Bank...

Suits come and go...

and the game remains the same.

Electoral campaigns financed through slush funds,

government support bought and paid for with public money

and agreements with private sector giants.

Another cycle of systemic corruption to finance the next election.

The cards would change, but the game remained the same.

Ultimately, there was only one constant:

a joker known as "The Turk"...

regardless of the suit in power.

Ibrahim was always there...

making the money flow.

Brazilian democracy is a rigged card game.

But now, for the first time,

something was amiss with the order and progress.

The plea deal threatened one of the kings in the deck.

And if a king falls...

he brings the whole suit down with him.

Bringing Gino to Curitiba would be too complicated.

We'll take him to the Federal Police at Congonhas Airport.

How many cars do we have at our disposal?

Let me check.

Hello.

Howdy. What's up?

Let's settle on the questions?

Where's the paperwork?

In my office.

Leo. Leo!

Did you get anything?

No, the bodyguard only talks about soccer.

- No Gino? - Nothing.

Okay.

Let's keep it simple. We don't need these first two.

Well, then... "Are you friends with Mr. Tom Carvalho?"

That's too direct. He'll simply deny it.

"Have you ever been to the ranch?"

Nice.

"Which room did you use to stay in?"

"Did you always stay in the same room?"

Right?

- Where's the coffee? - In the thermos over there.

Could you get me some coffee, Renata?

And then, "Have you ever been to the three-story apartment?"

Right.

Remember that lunatic we interrogated in the State Bank case?

The one who answered "no" before even hearing the question?

- Yes. - What an idiot.

MARCH 4TH, 2016

SEARCH AND SEIZURE OPERATION

BENCH WARRANT FOR FORMER PRESIDENT GINO

THREE-STORY APARTMENT

MAMBUCABA RANCH

Federal Police.

CONGONHAS AIRPORT

I want ten officers watching the perimeter.

And position two of ours here at the door, please.

Walk them through it, okay?

Rogério, will you park a police car here, please?

- Good morning, deputy. - Let's go?

Let's.

- I changed some things. - Okay.

- Hi, Vander. - You got any coffee?

EX-PRESIDENT GINO'S APARTMENT

All good, Verena. We're here, we're going in.

- Is everything all right, really? - Yes.

Everything's fine, it's all right.

- I'll meet you at the airport. - I'm waiting for you.

See you.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Good morning.

Excuse us.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

They worked on the lake.

Emptied it all out,

then covered it in thick, black rubber.

That's the waterproofing, isn't it?

Follow me.

Mr. President, I'll need to take your phone, too.

That isn't my phone.

Tadeu, here.

Okay.

This is the bedroom.

He left those there the last time he came.

All done with this party, honey.

Shall we buy another deck to keep going?

Can we eat something?

THE FAITHFUL NATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO ETERNAL PRESIDENT GINO

The Faithful Nation is faithful indeed.

The Faithful Nation.

Twenty-three years without a title.

Yet look at the fanbase it has.

No matter what happens, it's always there.

We value our team.

Are you a Corinthians supporter?

I'm a Flamengo fan.

I'll need you to come with me to a safe location, sir.

Isn't my house a safe location?

The DA would like a word with you, sir.

Let's go.

But the other suits wouldn't stand by watching as everything fell apart.

Thames, Penha and Lúcio Lemes

needed to eliminate Janete in order to seize power.

The objective: to destroy Operation Jet Wash.

- You got playing cards there, buddy? - Yes, I do.

I'll take as many as you have.

Halt the investigations and keep the mechanism going.

But taking Janete down would be pointless if Gino was free.

They attacked Gino and Janete at the same time

to kill two birds with one stone.

This is a big mistake.

Hello.

We're with the Federal Police at the airport.

I have the boss here right beside me. Yes, Congonhas Airport.

Come over here soon, I'm going in the room with him.

Do you know Mr. Tom Carvalho?

I do.

- Are you his friend? - No.

Have you ever been to the Mambucaba ranch?

Yes.

Are you the owner of that ranch?

I don't have any ranches, sir.

Are you the owner of a three-story apartment in Camburá?

Sir, do you know where the Real Estate Registry is?

Are there any properties in my name? So, the apartment isn't mine.

For it to be mine, the deeds would have to be in my name, right?

I didn't buy it, I didn't pay for it, then it isn't mine.

- Whoever says it is has to prove it. - Have you ever been to the apartment?

Unless somebody is planning to give me the apartment or the ranch...

Maybe that's what's going on and I don't know.

That wasn't the question.

What's going on in there? What's going on?

- Please step back, sir. - He's in there, isn't he?

Have you ever been in that apartment?

Yes, once.

Can you describe this visit to me?

I went there to have a look at the apartment.

To see it... I didn't like it, it's...

I found it too small.

Around 200 square meters and I'm getting old, too.

Too many stairs...

There won't be a coup!

Sir.

Who would invite you for a weekend at a ranch?

Your friends or your enemies?

Open up!

Get your hands off me!

Our flag will never be red!

Our flag will never be red!

There won't be a coup!

PUT GINO IN JAIL

There won't be a coup!

There won't be a coup!

There won't be a coup!

There won't be a coup!

Carlos, tell everyone to get here.

Congresswoman, this is totally out of hand. He's alone with his lawyer.

- We need to call the Feds soon. - Calm down!

This is a mess.

Tell everyone to get here. Not even I can talk to Gino.

A bench warrant, this is preposterous!

The media is here, yes,

but Gino is alone in there with his lawyer.

Okay, I'll call you later. Excuse me!

Excuse me, I'm going in!

Get your hands off me! Don't touch me!

These are this country's most convoluted legal proceedings.

I'm being charged with possessing property that's not mine,

but it's my word against theirs.

Our flag will never be red!

Open up!

You know what bothers people?

I'll tell you what it is.

Excuse me.

I'm going in. Get your hands off me! I'm a government minister!

Everything I did for this country is what bothers them.

I got Brazil out of the Hunger Map.

I provided basic income, homes. I got poor kids into college...

And that bothers the elite,

the media,

some sectors of the judiciary,

and by the look of it, it also bothers you.

There won't be a coup!

Gino! Gino! Gino! Gino!

Gino! Gino! Gino!

Gino! Gino!

The president isn't safe. You can't guarantee his safety here.

I have to get him out of here.

Cláudio, this is getting dangerous.

Fine.

You're free to go.

Thank you.

There won't be a coup!

There won't be a coup!

Lock him up!

A judge can't act like a vigilante.

Article 218 of the Code of Criminal Procedure states:

"A witness shall only be issued a bench warrant

in the event that they refuse a subpoena."

As that wasn't the case for President Gino,

what Judge Paulo Rigo carried out today was a media stunt.

Today will be remembered as the day the former president of our country

was illegally arrested for a couple of hours.

It's a disregard for the rule of law in a democratic state,

and leaves us with a suspicion:

are Judge Paulo Rigo's actions politically motivated?

This has been News at Ten on Friday, March 4.

You want to be a politician, Dad?

Former President Gino was taken by police...

No, honey. Never.

There were clashes between demonstrators for and against the former president.

The investigators want to know...

The police were called in order to prevent a clash

between the demonstrators for and against former president Gino

during his interrogation at the Federal Police office

at Congonhas Airport.

God bless the Federal Police!

You think? Gino told them nothing and on top of that, left as a victim.

A former president inside a police car?

Gino is a dead man walking.

"Gino is a dead man walking" equals "Janete gets knocked out."

- And we have the media on our side. - They have always been on our side.

For the media, all of Brazil's problems are the fault of Gino and his party.

And it's good that the people keep thinking like that.

It'll be easier to take down this party.

But Gino is like egg whites. The more you beat him, the more he grows.

If we're turning Gino into a villain...

we're going to need a superhero.

Time for the judge to be on magazine covers.

Your specialty.

Good evening.

Anything from the wiretap, Vander?

Well? Nothing?

Nothing. Nothing will come out of this.

Okay, file a request asking Rigo for another week.

Are you serious?

Yes.

How long will the silent treatment last?

- Renata, what's your problem? - What's up between you and Verena?

- What do you mean? - What's up between you and Verena?

Verena is a pain in the ass.

Uptight and a pain in the ass.

Why?

Wasn't there anything going on between you?

Tell me, Cláudio.

It was nothing.

A long time ago.

Back when I first lived here.

We worked together on the State Bank case.

Centuries ago.

Renata, it's not important.

I left my whole life in Rio and went to São Paulo because of you.

Then I left São Paulo and came here.

I never made you do anything.

Right.

You never even asked.

The bench warrant for the former president set the country ablaze.

And ideology spoke louder than reason.

Get me two more.

Altair, I need the agriculture and cattle caucus to stick together.

This was the ideal scenario

for the government-support party and the opposition

to try to mislead the population

and pretend the mechanism didn't exist.

The "hearts" were saying

that the apartment and the ranch were ideological persecution

and reminded us of corruption cases that involved the "spades,"

Lúcio Lemes' party.

The Furnas scandal alone moved 39 million.

And the "clubs,"

Thames' and Penha's party, had the Santos port.

Each one pointing a finger at the other, all saying the same thing:

"It's unfair to arrest only one king.

The right thing to do is to arrest all of them at once."

But since it was impossible to arrest everyone at the same time,

they said the right thing to do would be to arrest no one.

Ideology sucks.

Meanwhile, the clubs and spades were busy gathering pro-impeachment votes.

Mr. Speaker, they have all confirmed.

- We have massive attendance. - And they're voting "yes"?

The impeachment vote was getting closer...

and, even after the bench arrest, Gino's approval was still high.

And to make things worse for Thames,

the investigation still hadn't uncovered irrefutable evidence

that would connect Gino to the ranch and the apartment.

While the investigation tried to move forward,

I looked backwards.

1989, 1988...

1987...

It went back, way back.

Decades of corruption.

Dozens of cases that were never investigated.

Hundreds of politicians who got rich at the expense of citizens

and who weren't sent to prison because of legislative immunity.

The last bastion of the mechanism.

The godmother law of corruption.

Politicians may only be tried

by judges appointed by the politicians themselves.

Did you like the greenery?

Much better now!

What about the numbers?

It's going to be a bloodbath.

Penha, Thames, Lúcio Lemes,

representatives, senators,

congressmen, members of parliament.

All protected by legislative immunity.

A whole class of untouchables.

FEDERAL DISTRICT

But former presidents don't have legislative immunity.

And that put Gino in the investigation's crosshairs.

His only way to escape the law

would be to go back to being a part of the palace court,

where immunity was broad and unrestricted.

All he needed to be a VIP at the Supreme Court was to become a minister.

All of the worst have joined forces against me.

You're not the target. They want the presidency.

I'm tired of telling you. You need to talk to the coalition.

The coalition is Penha and Thames. How am I going to negotiate with them?

Lúcio got 51 million votes. Congress is in Penha's hands.

It's useless, woman. You have to negotiate with them!

I was elected with 54 million votes.

Yes, but you know your votes didn't fall from the sky.

But we can still turn this game around.

Will you help me?

I came here to ask for your help.

And which palace would reject Gino's charisma and political brilliance?

Janete's court was falling apart. It couldn't simply pass that up.

- Hello. - The president wants to talk to Gino.

Just a moment.

- Hello. - Hello, dear.

Gino, listen to me. I have some papers that I'll deliver to you, okay?

- Verena, you have to listen to this. - What?

- The president's wiretap. - What do you mean?

There's one little problem: we can't use this.

Why not?

I requested the extension. Rigo didn't authorize it.

The phone company took a while to cut it, so I kept on listening.

- So the wiretap is expired? - Two hours and 11 minutes ago.

I'm going to listen to it.

Hi.

I need to show you something.

Me too. Come in.

Hi, Beta.

What is all this, Ruffo?

Thirty years.

Four hundred and two people.

Eighty-two corruption scandals.

An average of four per year.

And the whole thing reorganizes every four years,

when the government changes hands.

And this is because Guilhome only went as far back as 1987.

- Why 1987? - That's when democracy was reinstated.

I would need a whole warehouse to hold the documents from the dictatorship years.

Yep, he was trying to crack Miller and Bretch's kickback scheme.

He would have pieced together so much more than Miller and Bretch's scheme, but...

he didn't have time for that.

I did.

Piece what together?

I organized it into suits.

Each suit is a party.

Each pyramid shows how much each party stole.

And check this out...

The VP's party is the structural foundation of this government,

that other one and the current one.

The blood-sucking vice president's squad is the foundation of everything.

Of all the different administrations,

it's the foundation that supports them all.

Thames is very, very sophisticated when it comes to crime.

But it doesn't begin or end with any single party...

Where will this country end?

Come here, let me show you something.

If Verena reveals the plan to save Gino, Thames will win the war.

- Hello. - The president wants to talk to Gino.

Just a moment.

But if she doesn't, Gino will bring Thames down.

- Hello. - Hello, dear.

Gino, listen to me. I have some papers that I'll deliver to you, okay?

Okay.

Only use it in an emergency, it's the oath of office.

Deal.

That's it. Stand by, it's on the way.

I'll be waiting.

- Bye. - Bye, dear.

What are we going to do with this?

Cops can't take sides in a gang war.

Yeah... A fucking catch-22.

IN MEMORY OF MOISÉS SOARES

BASED ON THE BOOK "LAVA JATO - O JUIZ SERGIO MORO E OS BASTIDORES

DA OPERAÇÃO QUE ABALOU O BRASIL" BY VLADIMIR NETTO

Subtitle translation by Gabriela Schumann