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MAMMON

First Central Energy CEO Daniel Vlcek, then his successor Ales Toman

and now one of the most powerful businessmen in the chemical industry, Samuel Pleva.

All the three suicides are linked by the same name, Petr Vlcek.

He's been taken into custody.

1.4 million crowns.

Money for the bail.

All you have to do is sign this, stating that I represent you,

and you'll be out of here in no time.

-How is your investigation going? -You know how it goes...

When you have friends, everything is easier.

They're looking for something, I don't know what, but they clearly think I have it.

-Your husband made you the account co-owner. -And what are the keys for?

150 million.

I'm talking about euros, not crowns.

Do they have any value? Or are they worthless?

They're apparently worth something to somebody.

Mom, do what they want.

Your son looks like he would like to see you again someday.

I know you were in the Abraham Pact.

And you're the last one left alive.

There was this one guy...

We got the most information out of him, though he kept a lot of things to himself.

Cyril Kopriva

He disappeared.

I'm trying to figure out what these three dead guys have in common.

And you think it's National Mining?

You run money out of a company through dodgy transactions and weaken it.

So you can buy it back for a fraction of the price. Of course.

They tried it out on National Mining and now they want to do it again.

Who was supervising the case then?

Jana Skalova. She was the one who froze the case.

You've found something?

I don't want to discuss it on the phone.

I'm going to check something. Can we meet in two hours at my place?

She knows about you.

THE PACT

Ms Skalova, the description fits Vlcek. I don’t know why we keep letting him go.

Shut up. Just be quiet.

It wasn’t me.

Look straight ahead.

It was the same people who you’re helping.

-I don’t know what you’re talking about. -Straight ahead!

You’ve got Stela on your conscience.

And I promise you, you are going to pay for it, Madam Prosecutor!

Turn yourself in. They have nothing on you. Even if they did, I can help you...

Eva, it’s me…

Hi.

What happened?

They killed Stela.

Dear God...

We were so close.

It’s not your fault.

And whose fault is it, if not mine?

She knew what she was getting into.

She could have walked away from it, just like you, but she didn’t.

Because she believed it was the right thing.

We still hold the trumps.

Michal…

-Good morning. -Hi. -Come in.

-Come in. -Thanks.

Can I get you anything?

-No thanks. -Me neither.

What’s up? Is something wrong?

Have a look at this.

Who all could have known about this?

-Maybe Spevacek. -Spevacek?

He was at our house the day they broke in.

Hence the kidnapping. He’s desperate.

He didn’t find what he was looking for, and Michal’s his last chance to get it.

We have to go.

-If you don’t hear from me in two hours… -I call the police.

I can remember that much, don’t worry.

Petr...

I’m sorry about Stela.

Thanks.

Just don’t do anything stupid.

Sure.

-Do you have the envelope? -I want to see my son.

Do what you’re supposed to do, and you’ll see him.

Why isn’t anyone getting out?

Why is nothing happening?

What are you doing, Petr? Are you mad?

Petr!

I think you have something that doesn't belong to you, Mr Vlcek.

Where is Michal, you son of a bitch!

It's not that easy.

Answer me!

-Michal! -Mr Vlcek, all I need from you is…

Michal!

-The envelope! -Where’s Michal? -Do it!

Move!

He has the shares!!

Dammit!

Motherfucker!

Fuck!

Sit down, I’ll take a look at it.

-Good God... -It was a trap.

There was never going to be any handover. Michal wasn’t even there.

-Shouldn’t you be in a hospital? -I told him the same thing.

-I’m fine. -You call this fine?

-I still look better than you. -You’re really funny.

-Spevacek? -Dead.

If it wasn’t Spevacek…

Then there's still somebody else involved.

Look, this place is doing my head in.

Yeah. Yeah, I know it’s today.

Yeah, OK.

Cyril Kopriva.

What about him?

-He’s dead, isn’t he? -What if he’s not?

His body was never found.

That was one of the last things Stela managed to tell me.

I'll name you another ten people off the bat who were never found,

and who are definitely at the bottom of some lake.

Sure, but just think about it.

The Abraham Pact expelled him and killed his daughter when he started making problems.

Why would they kill his daughter? Why not kill him?

Exactly.

Look... Daniel, Toman, Pleva.

They were all forced to kill themselves.

But why? Why?

What kind of leverage can you have on someone who has it all?

Their kids?

Exactly.

And this is the location of today’s handover.

Old ice houses by the docks.

It’s a whole complex of buildings. Guess who owned it in the 90s?

Cyril Kopriva.

He had warehouses for trading in stale beef or whatnot.

-Like all the football bosses. -Exactly.

Supermarkets stuffed with cheap meat and people licked their lips with delight.

What’s going on back here?

-What’s this supposed to mean? -Nothing that concerns you.

-What do you think you’re doing? -Security?

-Put the phone down. -I’m going to need your help.

-Give me the phone, Marie! -Give it back!

You still don’t get it? They’re playing you!

You’re doing exactly what they want you to!

What are you talking about?

-Stela is dead. -What?

They used you. They threw you a bone, and you came running.

If it's Kopriva, then his work is done.

Everyone from the pact is dead.

Not everyone.

I’ll be right back…

-I got this from Stela. -What is it?

The letter of recommendation that got your brother his scholarship.

So what?

Look at the signature.

Max...

This is gonna be big.

That it is.

THE CENTRAL ENERGY DEATHS

Police are searching for journalist Petr Vlcek,

suspected of murdering a policewoman investigating the Central Energy case.

Mr Sramek, this is Petr Vlcek.

Are you alright?

Am I alright?

There's a TV news report on about you as we speak.

-Where are you right now? -In the office.

-What’s going on? -Mr Sramek, I know you knew Daniel from school.

You wrote him a letter of recommendation as a departmental assistant.

So I assume you knew the people around him too.

I don't understand though...

Listen to me. I think you are in danger. And I think you know it.

Someone is settling accounts with all of you, and you might be the last on the list.

And what should I do?

Stay where you are. I’ll be there soon.

Yes?

I need you to do something for me.

You owe it to her.

Alright.

-Wait here. -No, I’m going with you.

Please.

She’ll call. She said she needs one hour.

You look terrible.

Cyril Kopriva.

Does that name mean anything to you?

Maybe you remember him from school as well?

He was in the Abraham Pact with you.

I have never been in any pact.

I was an assistant in the department at the time they studied there.

I knew about their ‘pact’, or whatever they called it.

But they never accepted me.

I represented a reactionary wave to them.

Even though we were almost the same age.

But you knew Kopriva.

What happened?

I thought it was a joke.

No one believed Daniel would actually want to do it.

Do what?

Kill that little girl.

Come here, I’ll show you something.

Kopriva had started making problems.

He was upsetting their perfect system.

-Why? -Because of money.

National Mining?

He felt cheated.

The deal had gone well for everybody else,

and he was left there holding his football boots.

Go on, get in. Get in the car.

So it was him.

He forced my brother, Toman and Pleva to kill themselves.

And he killed Stela when she figured it out.

You really think he’s still alive?

-Do you have children, Mr Sramek? -No.

May I ask why?

To be honest, I never had the urge.

-Too many headaches. -Mr Spevacek must have felt the same way.

Mr Spevacek had a different reason for not having children.

Where is Michal Vlcek?

Your conscience been getting to you, Ms State Prosecutor?

-You can’t help him now. -Where is he?

I can take you down, just like you can me.

So this is what we’re gonna do:

You let me go on lack of evidence,

and I might just forget all the things you did for us in the past.

-What a great offer. -You like that?

You’ve got it all thought out. You’ve run me into a corner.

Unless of course, hypothetically speaking...

this isn’t an official police raid.

And these gentlemen who arrested you aren’t real police officers.

You said it yourself...

Spevacek didn’t have kids either, and they killed him anyway.

I never said that though.

I didn’t tell you they killed Spevacek.

It was on television.

The police haven’t released that yet.

You must have another way of knowing that, Mr Sramek.

-Yes? -How soon can you send a SWAT team?

-Within half an hour, why? -Michal Vlcek has been kidnapped. I know where he is.

-I'll send you the coordinates. -Where are you now?

-On my way there. -What? Wait, you can't go alone! Hello!

Do you want to hear my version?

-Your version of what? -Of your plan

to steal billions from this country.

I know it’s you.

We can stop with the theatrics.

You honestly think I'm a complete fool?

Vengeance from beyond the grave?

Kopriva is dead, isn’t he?

I can’t prove it, but I think you killed him yourself. It had to be you.

Stela found your recommendation that got Dan into the school.

Until then you got by because nothing connected you to Budapest.

Even if someone uncovered the Abraham Pact, they wouldn’t find you.

Problem is, before you killed Stela...

she showed the document to Marie Kralova, who wrote about you.

She knows the most about you.

Just a moment, Mr Vlcek, alright?

You played it so smart the whole time, the last act seems a bit mediocre.

You wouldn’t believe how effective it is though.

Quicker than planting fake contracts.

Toman was getting ready to confess everything after Daniel died, wasn’t he?

That’s why you sent him the video of Kopriva

As a threat.

But you didn’t count on Tomanova and Pleva finding it and sending it to me.

That’s why you pressured them through their kids.

I just don’t understand one thing.

Why Spevacek?

Apparently you were in it together.

That’s your fault, actually.

I realised what he was up to in that restaurant of his.

The time you interrupted us.

He was the one who got you out on bail.

He wanted you to finish your investigation.

So...

He wasn’t as much of an idiot as I thought in the end.

He just didn’t have the balls to do it properly.

Why the paintings?

A reminder of our old bond.

What awaits anyone who goes against the pact.

They were beautiful, beautiful paintings.

Copies, sure, but indiscernible from the originals.

Well?

Don’t you want to know anything else, Mr Vlcek?

I was looking forward to my monologue.

I thought I'd amaze you!

-You don’t amaze me. -Careful with that hand, Mr Vlcek.

I already know almost everything.

HOW TO STEAL A PRIVATISATION

And tomorrow the rest of the country is going to know it too.

What is this?

So you come here with some piece of paper

and expect me to be floored by it?

One thing you can trust me on, Mr Sramek: There will be more than just one paper.

Your name will put the Czech Republic in the world headlines again.

Good luck finding asylum.

Hello? Hello!

-Skalova. -Have you found him? How is he? -Hold the line.

I'll be there in a moment, hang on.

Turn around, please.

Turn around!

You think you’ve won?

No.

-But I think you’ve lost. -Aha!

-I want Michal. -I don’t need him anymore. -I’ll let you off in exchange.

-What do you take me for? -I’ll do it, if you let him go.

I’m supposed to believe you will cover this all up?

You'll convince your colleagues to just forget it?

-They will because they trust me, we're friends. -We were all friends too.

Move.

Change of plan. They want him alive. I'm supposed to bring him.

What? Nobody called me.

Call him yourself if you don't believe me.

I admired him.

Daniel.

His fervour.

His vision.

Too bad he wasn’t able to see it through to the end.

That his conscience started to prick him.

No one's answering. You're full of shit.

Michal!

The thing is you're a psychopath and they weren’t.

Not Daniel, not Toman, none of them.

They just realised it too late.

It was his vision.

All I did was make it happen.

You can’t imagine how I racked my brain over the question, why.

Why did he kill himself? Why now?

I think it was a gesture.

A sacrifice.

Not just for the life of his son, but for the little girl.

In the end he went out according to the rules he set himself.

Tomorrow everyone will know about you, you son of a bitch.

That's a chance I'll have to take.

Those people who will decide my fate...

Maybe I'll soften them up.

Because there is no clean money or dirty money.

There’s just money.

So!

Before I finish up with you, I promised to show you something.

They killed him.

-Get it off me. -OK.

Hang on now...

Hang on...

Okay?

You okay?

Michal…

Michal!

-Let him go, he hasn’t done anything! -It’ll be fine, Eva, don't worry.

-But you haven’t done… -It’s going to be okay. You’ll see.

Do you expect me to thank you?

-I don’t expect anything. -He confessed to everything.

He killed Kopriva and the girl too. It wasn’t my brother.

I’ll see to it that the case is reopened.

Will you also see to it that Stela’s murder is investigated?

Come on, please. Clear the way.

Let's go. Get him an IV.

You get a monitor on him quickly. I'm starting the O2... O2 running.

Monitor, IV, then another IV...

Get the second IV ready.

-Fuck off with that thing. -Stop screwing around.

You don’t think it’s utter nonsense?

I trust over-achievers!

You can’t expect to get around one system with another system.

That’s exactly what I expect.

We’ll have everything we ever wanted, and the other jackasses here

waiting for their daddies to leave them their jobs,

they won’t even reach up to our knees.

Well? Who’s in?

So what, are we going to be blood brothers now?

Am I supposed to slice my hand open?

How disgusting!

So if someone wants out, then you kill him.

That’s the way out?

If you want out, then you should kill yourself.

That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.

It’s about loyalty, otherwise it can’t work.

See Ales? You have a choice.

You either kill yourself, or your unborn child.

The Abraham Pact!

It has a nice ring to it, no?

And it doesn’t bother you that it would be dirty money?

There is no dirty money or clean money.

What the fuck is that?

There's only money. Period.

Dan!

It’s a good idea.

A really good idea.

I know.

We losing him.

That's it. Exitus.

Hey.

-Well hello! -Hi!

I’m glad you’re back.

-Hi. -Hey.

What are you staring at?

You’re looking good!

Hey Martin, come with me.

-Petr, hi. -Hi.

I tried to apologise to Horvat.

And? He doesn’t want to see you, eh?

-I’m thinking about packing it in. -What would you do?

-I don't know. After that whole affair, no one will trust me anymore. -Nonsense.

-They’re right not to. I fucked up. -You did fuck up.

It can happen to anyone.

-You going for a coffee? -I can’t, I have work to do.

Okay.

-Hi. -Hi. -Coffee? -Thanks.

Are you here to arrest me?

Kopriva’s body has been found.

-Thanks. -Maybe that’ll come in handy for that book you’re writing.

You only came to tell me that?

There was a bullet in the skull.

According to forensics it’s from the same gun that we found on Sramek.

I thought you might be interested.

I haven’t forgotten about you.

I’m sparing you now. But I haven’t forgotten.

You sure do like plants.

Excuse me, but there's something I need to say.

I would like to make a toast to my son.

To both of my sons.

Unfortunately, I can only tell one of them that I'm proud to be his father.

And I am sorry for that.

Cheers.

To Daniel.

-Cheers. -Excuse me.

I’m not feeling well.

Well... here's to Daniel.

THE STOLEN PRIVATISATION

So Dan never killed anyone.

He wanted me to write about it from the beginning.

That’s why he sent me those things.

He wanted it to end up like this.

He had it all thought out.

Yeah.

He always had everything all thought out.

Sometimes too much so.

Thank you.

-For what? -For everything.

What about Michal?

Is he coping?

You disappointed with your presents too?

I didn’t get the ice skates again.

Your mom says you’ve changed a lot, since…

Since they kidnapped me and wanted to shoot me?

Yeah, it changes a guy.

It’s over now.

He did it all for you.

That night…

I had to promise him I would take care of you.

Nothing else mattered to him.

The one thing he feared was that you'd make the same mistakes as him.

But I think he'd be proud of you.

Because you are nothing like those people.

I’m going inside.

BOND TO BEARER

What is this?

Your father thought of everything.

He put the bank accounts of AP Invest in your name.

-What does that mean? -That only you can manage their Swiss bank accounts.

Essentially, you’ve inherited the company.

All you have to do is sign.

And what’s the catch?

There is none.

Once you sign, you get these shares,

which will make you the richest man in this country.

And who are you?

The potential trustee of the richest man in the country.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Your father would be proud of you.

translation and subtitles Christian Falvey