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PREVIOUSLY...

For you to look at.

You will admit it!

You recognized your attacker?

No. I didn't see him.

What the hell are you two doing?!

Women are scared to go outside!

They're terrified!

I'll never go out alone again.

I'd like to kill him.

You made mistakes in the investigation.

It was an obvious case and Ákos Réti confessed on day one.

Tell me, what do you remember about women?

Mr. Bognár! Could you take me home?

My bike chain got stuck...

Do you want to kill yourself?!

Episode III

Réti!

Réti! Réti!

Oh, you fucking idiot!

Help!

Help! Réti's slashed his wrists!

Get here now, for God's sake!

Pink, floral dress.

A pale blouse!

Leather sandals!

A young girl with long, brown hair and a bicycle!

A "Csepel" woman's bike!

-Understand?! -Yes!

Then get going!

Found something!

Floral-print.

Gáspár...

Does this look like a skirt to you?

It's a piece of tablecloth, you moron!

Search! Search!

Search! Search!

Search! Search!

The trail ends here...

"...application for appeal denied.

Prosecutor Gábor Katona."

Take them away!

Come on! Come on!

Give her a sedative.

If you'd caught the killer, she'd still be alive!

Concentrate on this case and this case only, understand?

What's wrong?

Gábor!

What's wrong?

That girl this morning.

Try not to think about it.

What if she was murdered because of me?

Where do you get such stupid ideas?

And what if I wasn't right?

If the same bloke killed her who killed Patai?

I've had enough! I've had enough of the whole thing!

That's the only thing on your mind now! You're impatient with me and the kids.

Why do you think he said he did it?

I'd like to know that, too.

If it turns out you sent an innocent man to prison...

...you're finished!

We all are!

Your career is going so well...

You'll be deputy state prosecutor soon.

If I get it.

If they appoint me.

If it doesn't turn out that an innocent man rots...

...sits in jail because of me.

He admitted it, didn't he?

He did!

If he's innocent, that's on him then!

Get to the table!

Can you explain your brother's odd behavior?

Not really...

And his lies? He gave contradictory accounts.

-Perhaps he was scared. -Scared?!

He had good reason... and no alibi.

-And why didn't you give him one? -What? How?

-Didn't he ask you for one? -No! It never occurred to him!

-What are you suggesting? -I'd have definitely lied.

He never told me he murdered her!

No one believed me!

What else should I have done?!

Ákos could act really foolishly.

Like a kid.

He's shy.

He was filled with guilt by our parents.

I believe your brother didn't admit it to you, but to others...

He loved the girl, that's all.

His son was important to him. He wanted him.

Why would he have killed?

I'd like to believe that your brother is innocent.

But you have to help me with everything you can think of.

Go visit him, I beg you.

I can't.

It's against the rules.

Everybody would notice it.

This is what we all look like after two years...

Yeah...

So much for eternal life.

She died two years ago, too.

Who?

Anna, my fiancée.

Her heart stopped.

Right after the championships.

Sorry for your loss.

They overtrained her.

Or she herself...

Those fucking hurdles!

She always had to win

And she did.

Let's go, I'll get the drinks.

All right.

I need a bone-marrow test too.

And on the other side?

Did you see anything on the other side?

What the hell should I have seen?

Even greater darkness?

Why the hell did you do that? Hey?

You're innocent, okay, maybe, but...

What the fuck do you want? A medal?

To get the fuck out of here!

To fucking get out of my head!

Calm it!

Stop that!

Stop!

Clean this up immediately.

I want to stop this... for good!

I want this shit to be over!

Tidy this mess up! Now!

Bujdosó, stay where you are!

I wish you'd swallowed that needle!

You're a pain in the ass!

You don't believe me, do you?

You don't think you can be guarding innocent men, right?

Really?

I've seen this too many times.

Haven't you ever hit your wife?

Or your kid... to correct them?

I have.

So they wouldn't become the rat you are.

What if they fell onto the corner of the iron stove?

Hit their head and died?

But they didn't.

-Can I walk with you? -What for?

I haven't got an umbrella and...

Comrade Bóta! Comrade Bóta, you forgot to pay!

Tell Jani to put it on my tab!

Don't give me a hard time!

Would you come back with me?

While I pay the bill. We could drink a beer.

I'm in a hurry.

Cognac?

Only if you help.

With anything.

Do you come here often?

Now and again. And you?

I prefer to stay in.

Alone?

You've got such a beautiful profile. Stay like that.

Do you still think my brother killed that woman?

Don't spoil the evening.

The evening? Are you joking?

All my evenings are ruined and that's because of you!

Isn't she ashamed...

...to come here with that detective?

I wouldn't have the nerve!

What do you want from me?

How should I put it?

I know it's impossible, but...

I need you to help me with his appeal.

-You want me to work against myself? -For yourself.

Over here!

Yes?

-Say you're sorry! -Me? Why?

For looking at her like that. Say sorry.

How was I looking? I can look how I like!

But not when I'm around!

It's not her fault what her brother did.

He did nothing!

That's not important now.

And it wasn't you either.

Say sorry...

Say sorry to the lady!

-Say sorry! -Stop that!

-I didn't hear you! -Sorry!

-Still can't hear! -Sorry!

Pull yourself together!

I pull myself together every bloody day!

You need to watch his every step and report on him.

I'm not doing that. And I'm not always with him.

You owe me.

I know.

I can take your '56 files out anytime I like.

I never destroyed them.

Go and fuck yourself!

If my sources are right, you did more than deface the flag,

you put weapons in their hands.

That's not true.

Come off it, you didn't even try to stop them getting weapons!

You're a bigger shit than I thought!

Okay. So now what?

Comrade Prosecutor, you...

you can be so stubborn...

I'm only doing my job.

But some people don't like that.

What are you trying to say?

No one will congratulate you... if... the truth gets out.

I owe it to myself.

I've got to report on you.

Who to?

I can't say.

I see.

Thank you.

Go home! Good night!

And tell Juhász we'll have a tactical meeting.

Thank you...

How long?

Nineteen minutes.

I pedalled my guts out!

I even cut a corner.

Réti would be a champion to make it from here to home...

and wait for the other train, too.

That would've taken at least another three minutes.

And if he didn't wait for the train and just crossed?

Then there's still something wrong.

The records show that ten minutes passed

between the engine driver seeing Réti at the crossing

and his neighbor hearing him come home.

The woman swears she heard the gate straight after the church bell.

If the train wasn't on time, it would have been late, not early.

You can't see from the train

who's standing here! And forget the hair color!

It's impossible!

Where did you get the files from?

I found them in my mailbox.

With no sender.

Could it have been Bóta?

What makes you think that?

Let's go out, out to the washroom!

You can't ask me to do that!

You can't!

He's your boss. Your former teacher.

Your former teacher who backed your promotion.

That's why it took me this long to decide.

But I'm scared he's going to endanger the investigation.

-What makes you think that? -The Réti case.

He hid from me that Réti applied for an appeal twice.

Do you know what I'd be risking?

If you are wrong and it turns out I helped you?

But if you're not wrong...

the strength of our system is its unpredictability...

and that's how we keep our enemies in check.

And also our friends.

Okay, I'll give you permission and the boys will sort it.

But don't expect anything in writing.

And you only report to me, is that clear?

I hope you know how far you can go!

You mustn't undermine the public's faith in the legal system.

Dismissed!

I trusted you. I trusted your integrity and you fucked me over!

Don't drink, not now!

You could have checked everything!

You are the one who brought charges!

And you'd have had him executed despite what I said,

that the evidence isn't strong enough.

But you wanted to believe his guilt and you manufactured a murderer!

-And we helped! -Thanks!

His confession... wasn't forced, was it?

-I didn't order him to be beaten. -But he was beaten!

And you knew that!

This is going to fucking take us down!

Why are you emotional now?! Why not back then?!

And where are the blood samples that I scraped off Réti's axe?

I gave them to you to send to the lab!

What if it was only cockerel blood

that he'd slaughtered two weeks before like he said?!

You were dispassionate because you wanted to be the champion of justice,

and it worked 'cos you ended up here, and I've been rotting there ever since!

The internal order was to find someone and quickly.

After the counterrevolution, the new regime had to prove

the force of law and order, and a murderer couldn't escape.

-I told you something wasn't right. -You told me?!

I don't remember!

You should have shouted...

Come!

Prisoner 476 reporting.

Sit!

Take the cuffs off!

-Sure? -Yes, take them off.

Why did you say you were guilty, when you were innocent?

I'm not saying anything to you.

This is your only chance to clear your record.

If you want an appeal hearing,

you need to tell the truth.

And if I tell you?

Then... maybe I'll support your case.

I loved Erzsébet Patai.

I was jealous because I knew a driver fancied her.

I hit her.

And I wanted to kill her.

I imagined spraying a peach with strong insecticide to give to her

and I did.

But then I washed it off, believe me!

I took it to her house and left it in an open window

as a peace offering.

Then the next day, when I heard she'd died...

...that Erzsi had died,

then I thought that I must have killed her.

Who else?

Would I have poisoned her?

Of course not! I washed it off twice!

She was killed with an axe...

They only said that days later.

By that time...

things got mixed up in my head and it all got out of control.

I lived alone at that time,

my wife had moved out with the kid.

I lied that I'd slept at my parents' because I had no other alibi.

I see.

It was God's rightful punishment for me.

I felt that's how it had to be.

You caused immeasurable damage.

Yes, I know. My poor mother.

It's your fault...

that we didn't catch the murderer and he carried on killing.

I'd have definitely caught him if you'd told the truth.

If you'd believed in your own innocence or in me.

-In the service of justice. -What?!

They beat me to shit!

Two women have died since then and two are seriously injured!

That leaves you with no right to freedom or a retrial!

But I never killed anyone!

Yes, you did! The other two!

So stick it out here for another few years.

-You promised to help if I... -Bear it!

The results of the diatom and the bone-marrow tests

led me to the conclusion

that Ibolya Sóskúti did not commit suicide.

She was killed.

The Réti case pointed to this.

It was imprecise.

We have managed to build a profile of the serial killer.

A male between 35 and 40 years.

A local with a connection to the factory.

A medium build but very strong.

Either bald or wore a hat

because we've found no hair.

He's not mentally ill.

He plans his time to attack and gets rid of the evidence.

He avoids a serious struggle

but he is obviously highly aroused by the attack.

I also think he lives a normal family life.

He's sexually insecure,

and is psychologically unpredictable.

That's true of most people. Do we have a suspect?

Not yet.

Then why the hell are we here?

This is unacceptable! Should I sack you all?

Because you're unfit.

If we sack them, who'll investigate?

I fucking won't!

Am I an idiot? That stupid?

Bóta, get out!

Get the hell out of here!

I'm not interested in your professional differences!

If you don't catch him by any method soon, you're all fired!

The whole lot of you!

Everybody's talking about this!

Martfű isn't famous because of the shoe factory.

But because of this bloody monster!

The fear in the air here,

I mean out there,

has to be stopped!

There are no serial killers in this country! Is that clear?

Comrade Szirmai!

I'm cold and scared.

Calm down, Marika!

There isn't anyone more safe right now in Martfű than you.

Sure...

-What's up? Is she killed already? -Not yet.

Good.

You have a light?

Fucking hell!

What happened?

I've got to take the truck in for brake repair tomorrow.

Like a real actress.

I'm sorry?

-The way you did it. -What are you talking about?

With that killer back then. Réti.

Pál Bognár! Right?

You've been there?

Well... rarely anything happens in this dump.

True...

Isn't that Nóra Szigeti's husband?

-It's him. -He has a motorcycle too.

It's surely not him.

I'd like to see those photos. Are they any good?

You're very photogenic.

Can I get one maybe...

...signed?

No need to exaggerate!

So... how was it?

What? That?

Why do you wanna know?

What was the killer like?

Up close?

His kind is not a man, but a monster.

-You had that feeling? -I saw it on his face.

I'm with the police for a long time now.

-He seemed calm. -They usually are, once caught.

-Why are they babbling so much? -He should get lost!

Did you find it exciting?

-You think it's exciting? -I watched your face.

-The way you closed your eyes. -I was just lying, trying not to be there.

-You seemed very much there for me. -That's not true.

I hope you wouldn't let it happen for real.

You bet I wouldn't!

This is not the latest style. You have pretty legs.

Why are you wearing this kind of crap?

Who are you waiting for?

What are you doing here?

-You want a lift home? -No!

I'm not done yet, I'm expecting someone.

Good night!

You too!

And tell your man to buy you better shoes.

Something graceful.