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Yes... His throat is pierced.

With what?

I'm not clairvoyant, you know, Anton Andreievich.

Look. What is that?

Well, a map. Someone sent it to him.

Like in the pirate novels. Well, you've read them.

A black spot. They sent it to warn him, and killed him.

Good morning, gentlemen. If I can say that, of course.

You know, 8 people are born on Earth every minute, and only 5 die.

So it's a good morning all right.

-Who is he? -We don't know. Have you met him before?

No. Did he die of natural causes?

I'm afraid not.

-When did it happen? -Sometime last night, I suppose.

I can't say precisely now.

Who are you?

Jean!

He killed me. He killed me.

One,

two,

three,

four, five.

Ready or not, here I come.

ANNA, THE DETECTIVE

THE GAME EPISODE 31

No, I haven't heard anything. Have you?

No, nothing.

-WHat do we have here? -His throat is pierced.

Here, we found a warning mark in his pocket.

-This man is Polish. -How did you determine that?

Later. Look for Poles all over the town. Everyone from Congress Poland.

Let's not get in the way.

I'll only say a couple of words to Yakov Platonovich.

-Has something happened? -No. I'll be right back.

Gentlemen.

You had something to tell me?

I think the woman you know is involvd here.

-Why do you think that? -I can feel it.

Doctor, tell them to get the body.

Anton Andreievich, canvass all the street cleaners and neighbors

from the houses around.

By the way, Yakov Platonovich, note that he has clay on his boots.

Not just clay. Prennial honesty. Lunaria rediviva.

So I'll assume the deceased took a walk in some deciduary forest before this.

That's where it grows.

Yes, quite, of course. He was botanizing.

Check the guesthouses.

Go!

-Where are you going? -I'm going to take a walk.

-To see Shtolman? -Why do you say that?

I saw you talking.

-So what? -As soon as someone gets killed,

you're off to see Shtolman, that's what!

Can't they handle it without you?

Mother, I don't understand your tone.

And I don't understand why I'm supposed to explain myself.

Anna, I cannot tolerate your relationship with that gentleman anymore!

I don't have any relationship with that gentleman, and you know it full well!

What do I know? You're telling me you don't talk.

But as soon as a dead body appears, you two fly over there like two buzzards!

-Mother! -What? What?

Masha, really now.

That really was a little over the top, Mariya Timofeevna.

I don't want to hear any more of this.

Anna, really though, you're not going to see him, are you?

I'm going to the knyaz's, to see Alice.

And that Alice, too! Six of one, half a dozen of the other!

This, this, this... This isn't a house!

This is like some inquisition torture chamber!

That's what I'm going to tell you.

Please choose your words, Pyotr Ivanovich. You live in this torture chamber as well.

Masha, Masha...

Masha what? Masha what?

That's what I keep hearing, Masha, Masha, Masha, Masha!

Say something already!

An Amazon.

Annette, wait. You don't mind if I accompany you, do you?

The knyaz invited me over the other day. As a neighbor.

-So I thought... -What?

Are you afraid I'm coming to see Shtolman, too?

Me? No. Absolutely not.

Not at all. You're an adult, it's your business who to visit.

But you... you're coming to see Shtolman, aren't you?

God...

This isn't just idle curiosity.

It's just... you saw something there, didn't you?

Yes.

They found the body next to the Mironovs' house.

What was he doing there?

Well, he must have run another hundred paces after the strike, then fell.

But I didn't see that, it was dark.

How did it happen? You're an experienced man!

There were four of them.

They jumped on the running boards from both sides.

Two threw me to the ground right away, and the other two stole the carriage

with Nina Arkadievna inside.

Then the two that stayed with me ran in different directions.

As we know now, one of them didn't get very far.

Find her. Go to the town and talk to people.

Buy the hoodlums, spare no expense. You don't need me to tell you.

Got it.

-Is Ms Nezhinskaya in? -I don't know.

I haven't seen her today.

Excuse me, have you seen Mr Nezhinskaya?

Yesterday.

-Did she spend the night here? -No, I haven't seen her since then.

-Has she come out of the room? -Yes.

-Alone? -Yes.

Thank you.

-Hello, Mr Shtolman. -Good afternoon, Mr Brown.

You come to Nina Arkadievna?

Yes, but unfortunately, she's not in.

I wait for her here for half hour. We arranged. She not here.

She's late.

I brought book for her. I am rarely in town.

This is my book Chemistry.

I write it so that everyone love chemistry.

Queen of sciences.

Nina Arkadievna is interested in chemistry?

Yes! Very. She ask me to give her this book.

Is she going to take lessons from you, too?

Yes! Lessons. I will give her lesson soon.

It'd be interesting to see it.

Give her the book through the receptionist.

Leave him for today.

-I'll wait at the safehouse. -Yes, sir.

Pyotr Ivanovich, Anna Viktorovna, glad to see you.

Kirill Vladimirovich, I answered your call, came on a neighborly visit.

That is very good.

I am going to order some coffee brought. Cigar?

I won't say no, I won't say no to a cigar.

You are charming in that hat. And some cognac.

-In the morning? -Of course.

-I won't say no. -Exactly. In the morning, exactly.

It is particularly pleasant that way.

-Well, to our health, then. -To health.

How is the Mironov family doing?

The family... The family is all right, thank God. Thank you.

Kirill Vladimirovich, when did you last see Nina Arkadievna?

Yesterday. She came here to see me.

To be honest, I'm worried. I think she is in danger.

What do you mean?

They found a dead man at our house this morning.

And I saw something. I think you should send someone to her hotel.

I already have. I hope she is doing well.

-Thank you. -No, thank you.

-Anna, can I have a word? -Yes, of course. Uncle...

Pyotr Ivanovich, excuse me. Help yourself, please.

Tell me, what exactly did you see, Anna?

I saw that at the moment of that gentleman's death,

Nina Arkadievna Nezhinskaya was next to him.

I must admit something to you, too.

Yesterday, when Nina Arkadievna left my house, she was attacked.

She was kidnapped. I don't even know where she is right now.

My God.

I didn't say that in front of your uncle, of course. With all due respect...

No, wait, we have to do something. We have to tell the police.

This is a delicate matter. We have to tread lightly here.

But she is in danger!

Yes, but I would like to clear the situation up myself.

And then your Shtolman... I don't think he's just going to find her.

I don't know...

Anna, I assure you, I am a lot better equipped for it.

Tell me, how do you feel, is she still in this world?

Nina Arkadievna? Yes.

Yes, she's alive, I can feel it.

Well, good, then.

Freeze. Freeze, I said!

-How is she? -As usual.

-Did she ask about me? -She doesn't ask about anybody.

You know that.

Alice.

Alice, it's me, Anna.

Alice.

Oh, there you are.

Come on, get out of there. You have visitors.

Get up, get up. Be a smart girl. Get up.

Get up, get up.

Don't bother her if that's the way she wants it.

We can talk like that, too.

All right, then. I'll be in the hallway.

Hello, dear.

How are you?

I'm free the whole day.

We can spend the whole day together. First, we'll learn some Russian.

And then we can go for a walk. If you want.

Do you know why I'm free for the whole day?

Because I got into an argument with my family.

Yes, they can be unbearable sometimes. Just unbearable.

Yes, Anna Viktorovna is on edge today.

Of course she is. To see the police when you look out your window in the morning,

and then a dead body...

But Anna is used to seeing death. As far as I know, she's seen some danger.

Yes, that's right. Except you can't get used to death.

Even if you talk to dead people's souls regularly?

Yes, but it's hardly idle talk. It's always a challenge. Always.

Another two rubles from you, my dear host.

Please, please.

Well, one more? One more game?

-Gladly. -Gladly. Please.

This is for you.

And this is for you. Thank you.

If you think about it, Anna could find better uses for her gift.

She could unearth many secrets of the past after just talking to the dead.

For example, asking the spirit of Ivan the Terrible where he hid his library.

Or asking the spirit of some pharaoh how those damn pyramids were built.

Quite, quite. There is the temptation. Great temptation.

However, Anna Viktorovna supposes, and she is completely right to suppose it,

that you should not bother the spirits out of idle curiosity.

Well, then...

Do you have some particular interest there?

No. Just idle speculation.

Voila. Voila, my dear host, another two rubles from you.

Please.

Right...

-Pyotr Ivanovich. -Kirill Vladimirovich.

Please wait. His Illustrious Highness will see you.

Fun little thing, isn't it?

I've learned to use it to watch the birds in the park.

Some very funny stories in between them, you know.

Let me get to the point. Do you know where Ms Nezhinskaya is?

No.

There is reason to suspect she's been kidnapped.

-I know for certain she's been kidnapped. -Is that so?

Around midnight, Nina Arkadievna left my house,

heading to the hotel.

One of my lackeys was accompanying her.

An unknown party attacked her right outside my gate,

and took her away.

Why didn't you tell us, the police?

I am. I've been waiting for you all morning.

Yakov Platonovich,

I thought you would come once you discovered the body.

I need to talk to your lackey.

The one who was accompanying Nina Arkadievna.

I'm afraid it's impossible. I kicked him out.

He has already left the city.

And then, what could he tell you?

He didn't get a good look at the kidnappers.

It all fits so nicely when you tell it.

Did you receive a mark like this?

Me? No. What is that?

They found it in the victim's pocket. And I... I suspect your lackey killed him.

No, no, he didn't kill anybody. Do you have any more questions for me?

No, but I suppose I'll have some later.

I hope for your cooperation in the search for Nina Arkadievna.

Of course.

And you didn't even ask me if I know the reason for the kidnapping.

-Do you know it? -No.

But judging from how you didn't ask me that question, you do.

And what is that mark, Yakov Platonovich? It was sent to you.

Anna Viktorovna!

Yes?

Nezhinskaya was kidnapped. That's a proven fact.

You... you look after yourself.

-What do I have to do with it? -You come here a lot.

And my advice, stay away from the knyaz.

Yakov Platonovich, you know I don't come here for the knyaz.

Yes.

-How is she? -No change. But I think she listens to me.

-Does the knyaz talk to her often? -No one talks to her. Just me.

But the knyaz, he... he's done so much for Alice.

Yes.

-Are you in a hurry? -No. I mean...

-Take care of yourself. -Goodbye.

Police, my good man. Do you have any Poles renting rooms?

We did, sir, but they left.

-When? -This morning.

-How many were there? -Five.

Five checked in yesterday. And four checked out today.

-How do you mean? -Five left last night. Four came back.

So the four left.

-Thank you. -And the took the fifth one's things!

What was the fifth one's name?

One moment, one moment... He lived in room 15.

Right... Here. Jacek Kaplinski. That's how he signed in.

Jacek Kaplinski. Did you check his passport?

This isn't the Savoy, Your Nobleness.

What you call yourself is what we right down.

I see, I see. That's a shame.

A group of Poles has appeared in town. Five of them rented rooms.

They checked out today.

One of them left yesterday and didn't come back.

His name was Jacek Kaplinski.

The local criminals don't know them, but they talk about them respectfully.

How come?

They say some Warsaw crime boss is behind them.

-What's his name? -Small fry. They don't know the name.

They just whisper in the corners, "The Poles, the Poles."

I've encountered this before. They use such marks.

The crossed-out card is a warning.

-I'm warned, too. -Why do you have it?

I found it in my pocket. I think they put it in there when

I was coming out of the rooms for rent.

That's right, it's them.

So what, is it a mark for me?

It's a mark for me, Anton Andreievich. All the queens are for me.

-The Queen of Hearts is Anna Viktorovna. -Why?

Because the Queen of Spades is Nezhinskaya.

Why do they need Nezhinskaya?

They're talking about the murder, too. But the rumors are most incredible.

They don't deserve your attention.

Right, where's Mademoiselle Mironova? Right...

Wait for my call.

Give me the frock coat and call Anna Viktorovna here.

Yakov Platonovich was asking how you were. You remember Yakov Platonovich, right?

Oh, how I would like him to ask the same about me. It's so easy.

"Anna, how are you?" But he doesn't ask.

No, of course he's very worried about me. He is. But that's all because of his job.

And he asks about the knyaz, too. Yakov Platonovich keeps suspecting him

of some plot or another. It's very funny, and very tiring.

What's the matter?

Where is my uncle?

Won 10 rubles from me and left in a hurry.

We know the name of the victim. It's Jacek Kaplinski.

The Pole? Jacek Kaplinski.

Please, help me find Nina.

Leave me for a little while.

Jacek Kaplinski, come. Jacek Kaplinski, come.

I shouldn't have left the woods. I should have stayed there.

I'd just stay in the woods.

He showed me the woods, and some hut. Like... like a gamekeeper's hut.

It's old and the roof is covered with moss.

That's where they must be keeping Nezhinskaya.

I'll give the order to look for it.

Still, you should tell the police.

-I will. -Thank you.

Don't get up.

When did Nezhinskaya charm Brown?

That never happened.

They haven't seen each other from the day when they met him along with you.

I found letters from Mr Brown in her hotel room.

We can't intercept letters.

Who has she been meeting with in the last days?

Just the knyaz. And the knyaz hasn't left his house.

So there are no new faces?

-No, sir. -What do you mean, "no, sir"?

Nezhinskaya is missing! Tell me, where were you last night?

Who took the surveillance off the knyaz's house?

Well, you yourself told us not to stick around at the knyaz's

and to watch the road to the Englishman's place more.

All right. Watch the knyaz intently.

And you start looking for Nezhinskaya.

Here's a Polish card cheat's mark. Grochowski. He's in town.

-Is he important? -One of the biggest gangsters of Warsaw.

Right, go to the knyaz's house, watch and protect Anna Viktorovna.

-Anna Viktorovna? -Follow her everywhere.

Will do.

And you, look for Poles all over the city.

Maybe they'll lead us to the place where they're keeping Nezhinskaya.

Get to work, gentlemen!

Help!

We need maps. Army maps of the area. Deciduary forests with clay bottoms.

That's where you have to look.

They'll bring the maps over from the military garrison HQ.

That's good. I mean, that's bad. They should be here already.

My bad.

Well, gentlemen, who kidnapped His Imperial Majesty's maid of honor?

Report, if you please.

We don't know yet, Nikolai Vasilyevich.

But we're working, Your High Nobleness. We already have venues.

Venues? I thought you'd show me where she's held!

Well, probably somewhere around the city. Maybe a half-collapsed building.

Somewhere where the clay meets the surface of a deciduary forest.

Lunaria rediviva.

What? Wonderful. Deciduary forest...

Are you sure that Ms Nezhinskaya is still alive?

-I'm sure. -Why are you so sure?

Putting together facts and intelligence.

I'm going to handle the search myself. And you, prepare the maps overnight!

With all the possible areas.

Will do.

I'll turn all the surrounding areas upside down tomorrow. Those deciduary forests.

And you, work here, in the town. I give you 24 hours to catch those criminals

and pinpoint the location of Nina Arkadievna!

-Yes, sir. -Will do.

I will get drunk on the smell of the deciduary forest...

Yakov Platonovich, why didn't you tell him about the Polish aspect?

First, that's not proven yet. Second, Tregubov is half Polish.

Your High Nobleness! Anna Viktorovna...

What?

-Follow me. -Where are you taking me?

Don't talk. You'll find out in your own time.

Olgerd, where are you?

Who are you going to shoot here?

You should whistle, like we agreed.

Open the cage. Got another bird for you.

-Anna Viktorovna. -Nina Arkadievna.

Come in, make yourself at home. It's tolerable in here.

We even have a blanket.

-You can't hear spoken Polish here. -Can you see Polish faces?

-Are they different somehow? -Once you've seen one, you'll know.

No, all our mugs.

They're in the woods, then. And that's where they're keeping the prisoners.

So we're walking around dive bars in vain!

-So go home, Anton Andreievich. -And you?

And I'll stay here, maybe they'll come to me themselves.

-Come, now! -Go home, Korobeinikov.

You know, I'm not leaving you alone.

Yakov Platonovich, there...

Who?

In the corner, it's the one who gave me the card.

The one who bumped into me.

-Are you sure? -Yes, I have a great eye.

Anton Andreievich, are you still seeing that lady?

-Lady? -Well, yeah.

Oh, yes! Of course. We played the piano recently, a duet.

Well, go in from the left, then.

Freeze, or I'll shoot!

Let's go.

And? Has she been like this long?

-Since the morning. -It's happened before, hasn't it?

Yes, but now she won't come out at all. I can see why.

I get the shivers myself when I think back to that horror.

Hello, then, my dear.

If you prefer to be under the bed, as you wish. I won't get in your way.

But then you won't find out what I've brought for you.

Aren't you curious?

I've brought a very interesting thing.

And what, you don't even want to know what it is?

It is a book about a girl. The girl's name is Alice. Here, listen.

And now I've closed the book.

I won't read another line until you get out from under the bed.

Great, then. How are you?

Anna. How is Anna?

Everything is going to be good with Anna. I'm sure she will be found.

Very worried for Anna. Where Anna?

Don't worry. I'll prescribe you some sedatives.

Worried. He enemy. Enemy to Anna.

-There are no enemies here. -He enemy! Enemy to all! Knyaz is enemy!

What are you saying? My God. Knyaz is an enemy...

The knyaz is a friend to you. He's your biggest friend, trust me.

She is my friend. I don't want here. I want hospital.

Knyaz kidnap Anna. Knyaz kidnap my father.

I don't know anything. I don't understand anything. Your Nobleness!

You planted that card on me, the Queen of Hearts.

Did you think I wouldn't recognize you? I have a great eye, Yakov Platonovich.

What queen? I don't know any queen.

So that's how it is.

We've already sent a query about your identity to Warsaw.

So you're staying with us for a long time.

I didn't do anything! I just...

just came to your town! Is that a crime?

Why did you come?

It's beautiful here.

So beautiful that our beauty is known all the way in Warsaw, is that it?

Of course. That's what people with experience say in Warsaw.

"If you haven't seen Zatonsk, you haven't seen Europe."

He's having a laugh, the bastard. Having a laugh!

Planted the card on me and laughing at our expense!

Who told you to plant the queen?

I'll let you go if you tell us.

I don't know any queen.

At work, gentlemen? Wonderful.

Who is this?

He planted a card on me. A mark criminals use. And he won't admit it.

-Is it about the kidnapping? -Indeed.

I am sure he has to do with it.

-He won't come clean? -No, Your High Nobleness.

Very hot in here.

Leave us, gentlemen.

Look me in the eye. I'm going to make you sing.

Old school.

Wait, wait! You can't come in here! Wait!

Viktor Ivanovich, wait!

Will you please tell me where my daughter is, sir?

-We're looking for her. -Looking for her?

You're the reason they kidnapped her!

Viktor Ivanovich, please calm down. I'm... I'm doing everything in my power.

The hell you are! You're sitting around here...

-Where's the captain? -Busy.

-What do you mean, busy? -Viktor Ivanovich, you can't come in there!

Well, shall we continue?

We're working here!

How can I help you, Viktor Ivanovich?

I wanted to voice my protest.

Regarding indecisive actions by the police.

Let's go to my office, we'll talk there. Please.

My bad, sir. Your High Nobleness, my bad.

Go on, march! To your posting, you buffoon!

The young man is ready to converse. To work, gentlemen. To work.

-Where are the prisoners held? -I don't know.

I swear I don't know. We have division of responsibility.

I'm in the town on stanbdy. And the women are in the woods somewhere.

But I haven't been there!

-Where is Grochowski? -I don't know.

They don't tell me that, I'm small fry!

I am going to let you go.

You are going to go there and say that at 12 o'clock tomorrow,

I will be expecting Grochowski in the tavern on Yarmarochnaya St.

If he doesn't come, I will look for him.

I will find him and I will kill him.

Tell them.

Let him go.

Let's go. Move it.

THE GAME