The Octopus (1984): Season 4, Episode 6 - Episode #1.6 - full transcript
Recently discharged
from a psychiatric hospital
Salvatore Frolo murders Antonio
Tindari whom he holds responsible
for the death of his wife and daughter.
Captain Corrado Cattani,
in charge of the investigation
alongside the courageous
Judge Silvia Conti,
with whom he is slowly falling in love,
begins to put together the pieces
of a vague and barbaric puzzle.
During the course of this lengthy
investigation Corrado meets up again
with Tano Cariddi.
Who is secretly vast sums
of Mafia money into the stock market.
For this reason, he arranges
a marriage of convenience
with the young Ester Rasi,
the daughter of
a wealthy businessman.
Tano, with the help
of the sinister Espinosa,
drives him to suicide.
Meanwhile Ester, who has
discovered Tano's true colors,
has decided to remain close to
Tano to bring about his downfall.
At the same time Tano is
preparing his stroke of genius:
the purchase of the International
Insurance Securities.
Also collaborating in this shady
scheme are Espinosa, Sen. Salimbeni,
and other, anonymous figures
of the Mafia high command.
A train carrying a lethal cargo
towards the south of Italy
seals the wicked deal.
Following his own instinct and
maintaining a promise made to
the hospitalized Salvatore Frolo,
Corrado rediscovers
Loretta, the daughter
Frolo thought was dead.
Corrado welcomes her into the
community of Brother Bernardo,
one of the few friends
on whom Corrado can still count.
Judge Silvia Conti
joins him at the orphanage
and Corrado anxiously awaits
the discovery of new details.
They are warned
via telephone by the girl
of the existence of a stranger
who agrees to meet with Corrado.
Who is the man that Loretta
has been calling her father?
THE OCTOPUS 4
Part Six
I'll stay here for a while, Captain.
There's hot coffee in the kitchen.
Open up.
- I'm not to be disturbed.
- OK.
International Insurance Securities.
Antinari Bank 14%
Market share 31%
No, thank you.
- When did the Puppeteer leave?
- This evening, with Santuzzo.
He called the airport first
to confirm there was a flight...
And where was he going?
Did you hear the phone conversation?
I wrote it all down.
Fine. We'll take care of it.
International Securities
Antinari Bank: 14%
Others: 86%
Majority shareholding: 31 %
Begin now.
Barton 5402
Setts 4635
International Insurance Securities
56
00:10:58,392 --> 00:11:01,487
Tano will be back later.
He's gone to As con a.
Why As con a?
- At the Villa Pausania?
- I don't know.
- Why? Who is at the Villa?
- Espinosa.
- Who is Espinosa?
- Somebody important.
Somebody I didn't think that
Tano knew about. He's an art collector.
Do you remember that
antique doll I have in my study?
Espinosa has been
asking me about it for years...
Trevi is on the way with two others.
Where's my daughter?
He had these on him.
He, on the other hand, was unarmed.
You? Who are you?
I'm the one you think I am.
The Puppeteer.
She's magnificent.
You can't imagine how many
times I asked your father for it.
I had almost given up
on ever obtaining it and now, well...
And now, I really don't know...
how to thank you.
Come, I want to show you something.
See?
The entire collection
is made of five dolls.
The good... the evil,
the pain, the joy.
The four sentiments that rule mankind.
And then there is this one,
deceit.
I've never liked this doll.
It is frightening.
It's true.
The craftsman that made it
was Danish, called Kristensen
and by all accounts
he was a Freemason,
but in those times, even Mozart was.
And are you also?
I am... a bit of everything,
a bit of this and a bit of that.
A bit like this doll here.
Sorry, you'll have to excuse me.
I like to joke a little.
Let's talk business then.
Tell me, what would you like
in exchange for this beauty?
Nothing.
It's a gift to you.
My father often told me
he had few friends,
and that you were one of them.
Isn't that so?
Are you really going to
give me this gift, for nothing in return?
Yes.
I just want one thing. I want to
know the truth about my father.
I want to know why he killed himself.
And what makes you think
that I could help with this?
You were the last person
who saw him. Our chauffeur told me.
Why did he come to you
that afternoon?
He came with a business proposal,
I had to unfortunately turn down.
Why?
I was already engaged in business
with somebody else.
Who?
This I can't tell you.
It was Tano Cariddi, wasn't it?
Please tell me the truth, was it he?
Yes.
But your husband has
nothing to do with your father's death.
And neither do I for that matter.
Your father made that decision,
of his free will,
because he was a lonely man.
He was tired... and very depressed.
This is the truth.
There are no other reasons.
He has decoded those numbers.
Hamburg, Molineux,
Amsterdam, Naples.
You can't imagine
how much it's worth to a collector
when he finally gains
the last piece to a collection,
and the mosaic is complete.
What are you thinking?
Nothing. I mean... what's this?
It's a game, a very complicated game.
Here, have a look...
It's all about getting a train
to arrive at a destination...
overcoming whatever obstacles.
And you, do you
play this game alone?
Your innocence is disarming.
Your husband is very fortunate.
No... I don't play it alone.
But, at the end I will be the winner.
The first time I saw Loretta...
she was at the nuns' college,
and just a few months old.
Her name isn't Loretta.
It's Paola, Paola Frolo!
To me she is Loretta.
That's the name the nuns gave her
and that's the name that remains.
I took her with me.
She always cried
in those early days...
She cried so much because
her mother was killed by Tindari!
And it was at your command!
What do you know
about what was going on?
It wasn't Tindari at all who
did the deed. In fact, it was he
who threw himself down
the slope when they all left,
and pulled the
young girl out of the flames.
I may have commanded a few deaths
in my time, but what do I care
about admitting to one more or
one less at this stage of my life,
but not this, this I didn't want.
I didn't want them to get her,
didn't want it to happen to a child
not with a woman and a child.
With Frolo, yes!
He had disobeyed and betrayed,
and he should have died!
But that swine disappeared,
and so the families decided that
whoever doesn't pay with blood,
will pay with tears.
It was 1970.
The year when something...
began to poison us, from the inside.
They say that if a mouse
enters your room at night time,
it may eat your toes
without you even realizing it.
You see, the teeth have
some type of fluid that numbs,
so you wouldn't even notice the pain.
That's how it was for us.
That evil mouse,
that treacherous mouse...
was drugs.
We accepted drugs
without a second thought.
While there were those that
pumped their veins with the stuff,
and poisoned their blood,
we let it poison our minds.
Over a short time, all of a sudden,
oaths were struck up, pacts,
rules that had stood for
centuries were overturned.
In the name of drugs,
anything was allowed.
Robbing your father,
betraying your wife,
killing your brother, and even...
having a woman and
her daughter burned alive.
But, I didn't come hear to preach.
I came to find out who besides
yourselves knows about Loretta.
Nobody.
And nobody will know about it.
Look, you don't
give the orders anymore!
Wait one moment, Captain!
You've trodden all over
the Puppeteer, isn't that enough?
What else do you want?
I want to take her back
to her father, her real father.
Don't do it, Captain!
That man you're calling her
real father is nothing to her.
By doing this
she'll lose two fathers at once.
The one in front of you
will spend the rest of his days in jail,
and the other because
he barely exists anymore.
He is only a wreck of a man.
What are you thinking? You coming
here and taking the moral ground.
You still want to rule the roost,
the left and the right!
You, you're the scum of the Earth!
I'm thinking about Loretta!
You should do the same!
I've kept it all from her
for so many years,
and now if her family, who want me
dead and out the way, if they find
out she is alive, and that she is
the thing most important to me,
then they'll kill her!
Do you understand?
You'll have to take her away,
far away, out of the country.
She has to be Loretta De Pisis,
to all and forever!
If you can do this for me...
I will tell you about the
last 30 years in the Mafia.
You see,
that man you call a "wreck"
I made a promise to him,
and I'm going to maintain that promise.
I'm not making any pacts with you.
Let me through, I want to
get through! Leave me!
- I know that he is in there!
- Get down! Stay still, seated!
Dad!
What's happening, Dad?
Who are they? What do they want?
Nothing, nothing, Lori... nothing.
What do they want from us?
Why do they have guns?
Don't be afraid, I'm here now.
All will be taken care of, don't worry.
Can you leave us alone
for a few moments?
All right. We'll wait out here.
Just five minutes.
Listen carefully Lori,
there's only a little time.
They'll tell you plenty of
horrible things about me.
And they'll all be true.
You have to accept his proposal.
It's so important that he speaks.
He knows names we wouldn't even
imagine, even beyond suspicion.
You must accept!
And Frolo? Does he have to
keep thinking his daughter is dead?
Fine. But tell me,
what kind of justice is that?
A justice that continues to
ask its victims to pay for all evil.
It's all we have.
Otherwise there is
their way of avenging wrongs.
Is that what you prefer?
Do you want to resort to their ways?
An eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth?
Go to Loretta, tell her everything
and you become like him.
Vendetta for vendetta!
But it won't be the right justice...
No, we're different, you and I...
Why do you keep talking to me
about justice, about law?
All those high and mighty principles?
I'm just thinking about Frolo,
about Faeti, who was killed
like a dog. I'm also
thinking about your husband.
Don't you think I think of him too?
What do you know
about what things are worth?
Do you think you alone have suffered?
I am a judge, and I have to decide.
I must choose. For all.
Sure, but don't choose for me.
I'll choose alone.
Give me your hand. Come here.
Go!
What's this? What's happening?
They've come to get him.
You need to take him away. Go!
Up! Move it!
Listen, there are
at least ten men out there!
But before I give you
back to them, I'll kill you!
They didn't come here to save me.
They want to kill me.
I don't believe you!
I don't believe you!
It's the truth, I swear it!
- They're coming!
- Quick, over there. Go!
Put your weapons down.
There are only children here.
- What do you want?
- Tell us where the Puppeteer is!
I don't know who you're talking about...
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
- No! Stop!
- Go inside, all of you. Inside!
So, they came in two.
We know that much.
Why do you say no? Speak!
Do you want to see how
your kids are going to end up?
Hey, do you want to see? Look! Look!
Leave the children alone!
No! No!
Come with me!
Bernardo!
No, leave him. No!
- Stop it!
- Where do you think you're going?
I told you they wanted to kill me.
I have no other choice. Walk!
- Let them out!
- Stop!
Stop! Stop! Here he is, he's all yours.
Now, let those children out of there.
Where have you left Santuzzo?
We want him as well!
- Dad!
- What are you doing! Stop!
Let me go!
Trevi!
Corrado! Corrado! The children!
Help me!
Come here, come with me! Come on!
Bernardo!
Bernardo!
Stay there, stay down
where there's no fire yet.
Stay close to that side.
All together, stay close.
Be strong... we'll get you out now.
- Dad!
- Loretta!
Come here, I'll help you.
Santuzzo!
Out, everyone out!
Everyone out! Get on the bus!
Greta! Greta, where are you?
Silvia!
Get them out of here,
get them in the van!
Get out! Quickly! Quickly!
Trevi! Take him!
Silvia! Silvia, I can't find Greta!
Greta, where are you?
Greta! Greta!
Sweetheart, my treasure, come here!
Corrado, I've found her! Careful!
Quick, let's get out of here!
Run!
Go Trevi, go!
Attention all vehicles!
Attention all vehicles!
Attention all vehicles!
Attention all vehicles!
There seems to be a war going on
down there, units are being called
from all over. Even the
vehicles from the fourth sector
are converging at the spot.
Captain, there's an urgent call...
A helicopter has been requested
in the gas meter area of town.
An exchange of shots between
two sides has been reported.
- Do we have any other information?
- No, sir
Call the helipad and get them to
direct a helicopter to the zone.
- They're right behind us!
- Down! Don't move! Stay down!
Don't let him pass!
Don't get up! Stay down!
Quadri wait!
I have to speak with Corrado.
There's no time now!
- It's important, please!
- Get in, quickly!
They're right on our tail!
I can't get away from them.
There's only one clip left.
Give me your gun!
It's empty.
Where are the damned police?
Where the hell are we, in a desert?
Trevi, I'm going to
get you to swing to the left, do it!
Down children, everyone down!
Keep your heads down!
Please, I'm warning you Captain,
get it right!
If this thing stops now,
it won't start up again!
Go, swing to the left, now! Hurry!
We've found them.
It looks like a massacre from here.
We're going down to get a better look.
One of the two cars is in flames.
There are also some children.
OK, let's go. Come on!
International Insurance Securities.
International Securities.
Antinari Bank: 13%
Others: 86%
Majority Shareholding: 31 %
Antinari Bank 13%
International Insurance Securities.
Yes, everything is going smoothly.
No, don't worry about a thing,
just keep on selling.
Good. And don't let go of
MEDIAREZ, or else they'll nail us.
Always keep your eyes on
BARTON and SELIS.
We'll soon have to start
the turnaround scheme.
Yes.
What does the Fair Trading
Association think about that?
In 45 minutes exactly you will
start buying up FRESIA, SMAT
and PRIMAR.
Where are you taking them now?
I don't know. We'll think of a place.
Try and stay calm,
we'll organize everything.
You see, it's destiny.
The children's church,
I'll never be able to finish it.
It's all your fault, you tried to
be the hero, and now look at the
chaos you've created!
- Corrado, with you... at times... aigh!
- Calm down, relax.
My leg!
And you are? May we ask your name?
Silvia Conti, the Judge.
I'm Officer Maurizio Trevi. First
Rank of the Force. Special Squad.
- And you?
- I am Captain Cattani.
Are you aware there's a
warrant for your arrest?
Yes, I know.
And now, tell me what's been
going on here, if you please.
OK. I'll be right there.
But sir, where are you rushing off to?
Your coffee...
In regards to coffee,
is there a drop for me?
Why not? I've just made it.
Please take a seat.
Thank you.
- Here it is, just made.
- Ah, good!
- What could have happened?
- How am I supposed to know?
Around here, there's
something new every day.
...and in the end...
well, you can figure out the rest.
I really don't know
how we even made it here.
I don't know how
we got them out alive.
And who is she?
A girl that gives a hand to
Brother Bernardo now and then.
Here they are.
Tell him I'll wait for him out here.
Ester!
Had a few knocks?
Why have you come here?
I've worked out what
the names in Tano's diary were.
Do you remember?
It has to do with the route of a train.
How did you work that out?
I went to As con a,
a tiny Swiss village near Locarno,
to a man called Espinosa.
He sometimes does
business with Tano.
Anyway, there on his table,
was a map of the train routes...
- What could it be?
- I don't know!
- Perhaps he knows.
- Who is he?
A very important man, one who
knows a lot, even about Tano...
And that woman?
That is Silvia.
I know, but, do you love her?
Yes.
I should be happy.
Tano will be arrested soon.
And I'll have what I've always wanted.
But instead, I feel so lonely.
- You're important to me.
- Important?
Yes, I care about you.
It's different for me.
From the first time I saw you...
I don't know...
how stupid of me!
- No...
- Yes.
Why haven't you always
held me like this? Why?
Off you go now.
That's what is important.
Go! I'll wait for you here.
We're talking about a train
that is crossing half of Europe.
A train loaded with
500 tons of radioactive waste:
poisons, fuels, radioactive agents.
The train of death!
It's supposed to travel down to Naples,
from there, it will be unloaded
and then the stuff
will be shipped to a small
abandoned island called Tirene.
It won't even be stopped
at any inspection points.
Nobody is to stop that train,
and nobody will stop it!
It is protected by those high up.
- By who?
- By so many.
Are you able to tell us exactly
where to find him at this minute?
Is it in Italy?
We're off!
- We're coming!
- All right. Get in. Quick!
Now, you have to go, Greta...
I want to stay with you and Corrado.
We'll come tomorrow. Right now
we have to take care of Bernardo.
Did they hurt him?
Not greatly. You'll see tomorrow,
he'll come as well.
They'll take you back to
Switzerland tomorrow.
They've promised me.
And have you
remembered your promise?
You have to forget that I even exist.
Is that a promise?
Bye, Lori.
Yes, Judge Conti is fine.
It was she who told me
how the events unfolded here.
I'm warning you - your maximum
efforts are mandatory. Exactly.
Yes. OK, thank you.
I've just invited all magistrates
involved in Mafia cases.
We need to keep the affair
as secretive as possible.
If that man speaks up without
knowing what we have taken, then
just maybe this time we can get
our hands on the high command.
But, if that helicopter manages
to intercept that train in time,
then all these efforts will be in vain -
they will escape to all corners.
Get me Clipton.
I hear you, go ahead.
I understand. Yes, I understand. OK.
- What are you doing?
- It's an order from Central.
Have they all gone mad?
That train has to be stopped!
It's been decided - we're to keep
an eye on it, but not stop it.
International Insurance Securities.
International Insurance Securities.
I've just received
the figures from New York.
They're the same
as those from Frankfurt.
Just like I thought,
the overseas markets will let us do it.
The shares are up all the time,
and the brokers are still selling.
Now is the time to
come out in the open!
Buy it all! Buy everything
that gets offered to you!
Yes! Now! Go!
Get those share prices to double.
At that point BARTON and SELIS
will surely get snatched up.
International Securities.
Antinari Bank 25%
...by mid-morning the volume of
trading was positively alarming.
Without warning or explanation,
a massive amount of international
capital entered the market
causing the share price to crash,
creating panic stricken moments
for investors and speculators alike.
International Insurance Securities
were on the verge of collapse, and this
chaos ensued for over an hour,
when they were mysteriously
rescued. Again, without
explanation, their price increased
steadily... causing all the
investors to sell off their shares.
But the question remains.
Who is buying? Who is putting great
amounts of capital at risk
in just one day of seemingly crazed
trading like this one?
Talk of price fixing has
been on everyone's lips, that is,
illegal speculative maneuvers...
It's me, I've got the
latest news. The Puppeteer...
I knew it was you.
- You shit!
- What are you saying Giugni?
- I assure you...
- Shut up!
Bartoli, Tirie, Caria, Salvati,
Ceres a, Brocchieri, Lifredi and I...
These are the names of the
Mafia high command in the 1970's.
The ones that decided
to accept the trafficking of drugs.
So, to this day, four of the
mentioned have been eliminated.
Lifredi, they shot him,
while he was sitting at a traffic light,
sitting inside his own car.
Those responsible
for the killing were my men:
Sciarra, Corona, Busacca and Ritolo.
On the other hand, Tirie and Caria
were done by Santuzzo,
who is just over there,
and he will confirm it for you.
The last was Brocchieri.
He was poisoned.
The executor, Sciarra.
It sparked a family feud
between them...
it lasted years.
And the names of the dead?
If you need them,
I can give them to you, one by one.
Many were buried at sea,
in deep waters, roughly
a kilometer off the coast of Altavilla.
That is, when they weren't
thrown into barrels of acid.
If we didn't want them
found by the roadside,
that's how and where
we'd get rid of them.
There must be at least 200.
Actually the Mafia high command
was made up of
twelve people, actually eleven...
because the one
who was supposed to replace me,
was my brother, Salvo.
He is dead, at my orders.
Now, can you tell us about the
relationships between the Mafia
and the political representatives?
- Do you want me to give names?
- Yes.
- But, everyone knows these names!
- Please tell me then.
Do you really want
to know these names?
In that case, let's decide
which of the two of us
will be killed off first, you or I.
You don't have to
worry yourself about me.
Just refer to the question.
For example what do you
know about Senator Salimbeni?
He had dealings with us,
but only for a short time, not long.
It was Tano Cariddi
who put us in touch with him.
Therefore, are you
telling us that the banker,
Tano Carridi is part of the Mafia?
He was never a major player...
but he is definitely one of us!
He belongs to us!
It was we who put him
at the helm of the bank.
We made him grow, until he has
become what he is today.
We were the ones to give
500 billion in liquid assets,
with which today,
perhaps at this very moment,
he is buying on our behalf
a majority stake in the
International Insurance Securities
Group.
It's almost 2:00 p.m., this means that...
He's already done it!
Antinari Bank 27%
Antinari Bank 31 %
International Insurance Securities
Market share 31%
International Insurance Securities
Antinari Bank 31%
Right at this very moment,
as you can see, Gaetano Cariddi
is leaving his office
at Antinari Bank after a day of
extraordinary achievement
on the financial markets today.
Journalists and photographers
are scrambling around, hoping to
get closer. Let's hope
we can hear his comments live.
Will this change the political
makeup of the group?
Do you feel satisfied with your
triumph or are you considering
crossing over in the future?
Mr. Cariddi, will you
be making a statement?
What will your next move be
now that you are the leading
stakeholder of the International
Insurance Securities Group?
Can you tell us just one thing:
are you a happy man today?
Yes.
Tell me, didn't you
have a graduation today?
My God! I completely forgot!
Mind what you say,
or you'll never get out of prison!
Come on!
Yes, it's me. I'm here.
No, nothing. All is fine.
The Puppeteer is dead.
That was Milan.
The old man has left us.
Throughout this story,
there is still another person,
a very important person,
perhaps the most important of all!
He was the one who
gave us the opportunity
to do a hostile takeover of the
International Securities Group.
He was the one
who set up the train deal.
His name is...
Antonio Espinosa.
I don't know this
Espinosa character.
I don't even know
the Senator Salimbeni,
but...
I do know they are
the two faces of a witch's medal;
on one side there is a snake,
which is cleverly masked in the grass,
on the other side there is the falcon...
you can see the falcon,
but you'll never be able to capture it
because it flies so high, it's too far up.
Is there someone
who can confirm this statement?
Santuzzo Salieri.
He's the only one who has
remained loyal to me,
loyal to the end.
He refuses to open his mouth.
Bring him here.
It's all over, Santuzzo.
You can speak up now.
There, now you know everything.
It was Ester Rasi who first
mentioned the train and Espinosa.
Where is Espinosa now?
Just outside our borders
in Switzerland.
And Ester?
With all that's happened
I've lost track of her.
I'm afraid she may have
gone back to Tano's house.
I don't want her to be there.
I'd like to go and bring
her back, perhaps with Trevi...
No, for the time being, Captain,
you're not going anywhere.
- I really must go!
- No!
We are preparing all kinds of
warrants for arrest in that area!
The police squads are trying to
coordinate the arrests simultaneously,
and if you turn up, you'll
jeopardize the entire operation.
But, there is one thing you can do.
Please, tell me...
You must bring someone back here...
but without arresting that person.
Come in.
What's this farce about?
Good evening Senator.
Do you remember me?
Cattani. What are you doing here?
What do you want?
We'll let these gentlemen
wait for us in the other room.
- But that's not right!
- Trevi...
Naturally, they won't be
able to receive or make any calls
or receive any visitors.
Captain, you need to
fill me in on all the details...
You know Senator, it seems
that money stolen from citizens
in the form of
kickbacks and other corruption,
is equal to a crime against the State.
Over 100 billion lire
in the last few years.
Pretty impressive isn't it?
If it weren't for people like you...
we could wipe out our national debt.
This time Cattani,
you've really gone too far!
-I am...
- Spare us the wisecracks, it's useless.
There's no one left to fool.
You're... you're mad!
Look here Senator,
I won't lay a finger on you,
I won't even reach for you...
even though I'd like
to smash your face to pieces.
I'm just asking that you come
with me, to the Prosecutor's Office,
where someone
wants to interrogate you.
I ask this favor of you.
Please, sir.
This way, please.
He's here.
Come in Senator, please have a seat.
Thank you so much
for accepting our invitation.
And also many thanks to you,
Captain Cattani.
With the powers invested in me
by the Italian public,
and the Parliamentary Commission
assembled here in front of me,
and in consideration of new
elements that have come to light
in the last few hours,
and with the highest regard
for the judicial process
in this current inquiry,
I uphold the request
of Prosecutor Falisci
to arrange for your
immediate transfer to Milan
for an extraordinary
judicial session.
We are to hear your reply, Senator.
And so to Gaetano Carridi,
the mastermind behind this
extraordinary financial feat,
who had challenged
all economic rules,
which had seemed an unpenetrable
fortress until now, has fallen.
The International Insurance Securities
Group which is the
cornerstone of the
Italian stock market,
passed to his hands through an
amazing stock trading maneuver
that will probably go
down in the annals of history.
With this victory,
Tano Carridi will secure
his position as
head of this financial group
which until now has
been without a leader.
A group for which
their past president, Fillipo Rasi
had fought long and hard.
Have you heard the news?
Well done, Tano.
Bravo! My compliments!
An extraordinary financial feat!
An incredible stock exchange
maneuver! Well done!
I don't like being made fun of,
you know that.
Is that so, well, and that's all
I've been doing lately...
and who would have known
you don't like it?
What's happening to you?
- Are you drunk?
- No! I am lucid!
I am lucid and I always have been!
I've learned it all from you.
You've taught me how to kill
without allowing people to shout.
Strength is not enough is it?
As long as there are threats
and blackmail. That's how
it was with my father wasn't it?
Perhaps you should have done
the same with me, prevented me from
thinking too much!
You should have had me
live in terror, like all the others!
But instead, you fell in love with me!
With me, of all people!
I've hated you like I've hated no other!
- It's not true!
- Oh yes, its so true...
and if you want to hear the truth,
making love with you disgusted me!
Having to sleep next to you
and waking up next to you,
having to smile sweetly
and to touch you, it made me sick!
It was all repulsive! You know, I
have always betrayed you! Always!
I don't believe it. It's not true!
I spied on you, stole from
your pockets, even killed another.
And do you want to know
who was receiving all this information?
Enough! You couldn't have
been doing this! It's not true!
To Corrado! To Captain Cattani!
- Tell me it's not true!
- Yes, it is!
Tell me it's not true!
He knows everything!
You may have won today but tomorrow
you'll go back to the way you've
always been. A pathetic, vulgar loser
like so many others.
A nothing, a nobody!
- What's up?
- Let's go and get Ester...
- But Falisci said that...
- Fine. I'll go alone.
Wait.
This is the train.
It has just passed through.
You wait here.
Yes. Speaking, it's me.
No, it hasn't gone to plan,
there have been some problems.
What happened?
Answer me!
Tell me, tell me now!
I am burning everything...
Yes, everything.
You should do the same, Espinosa!
Fire is such a beautiful thing!
You've arrived. I was expecting you.
Where's Ester?
She wanted to come to you,
but I couldn't give her to you.
You understand don't you?
You've already taken Greta,
the bank, everything...
What do you want with her?
- Where is she?
- Shhh...
she's sleeping.
It's taken such a
long time to find some peace...
Ester!
Ester!
I had to do it.
She wanted to go,
to leave.
She also wanted out,
just like the others.
This way she won't leave anymore.
We'll always remain here,
in this enormous house,
just us two together, forever...
She was only 20 years old!
Captain!
No, Captain! Stop! Stop!
Leave him! Let go!
20 years old!
Passport, please.
Here it is.
- Go through.
- Thank you.
This is also going.
Unfortunately, as you can see,
Captain, I'm leaving.
I shouldn't, but I'll allow you to have...
ten minutes.
You may consider it a privilege.
So many who seek me out
only get a mere five minutes.
But your determination
deserves a medal.
Are you armed by any chance?
I've been told by some that
you are a crusader against evil...
that you like to fight
against the dragon...
But, forgive me Captain,
in that case, if I am the evil one,
did you think you could
defeat me with this pistol?
Come on!
Look! Look at these treasures!
Does it seem to you
the house of a villain?
I'm a collector,
and that there,
that is my most prized collection.
It is a collection of souls.
Here we are, inside here
there's an important investor,
and here is a public official...
and this is one of the most
successful European bankers,
and another is a government minister.
I collect...
their hidden disease,
their rot, their secrets.
To blackmail them.
Blackmail? No, Captain,
blackmail doesn't exist in our world.
Only contracts exist for
the exchange of commodities
like these items of secret information.
For democracy to exist
there needs to be corruption
it's as necessary as
lubricant in an engine.
A little nauseating and dirty,
but nonetheless,
you can't do without it.
But now your deal
has fallen through.
What does that mean?
Let me furnish you
with some information...
Tano Cariddi has been arrested,
Senator Salimbeni is
answering to Parliament,
and the International Insurance
Securities Group takeover failed.
Soon your train, too, will be stopped.
You've lost, Espinosa.
Is that all?
I believe so, and I think
that should be enough.
So, you've managed to
put a spoke in the wheel.
Well done. My compliments.
But... you've got it all wrong.
Yes, you're quite wrong, Captain.
I haven't lost at all.
And do you want to know why?
...because the ones that really
command and decide are on my side.
That train was just the first
of many trains to come.
There will be others,
because the whole world agrees.
Yes, the whole world!
This business is necessary, for
many of the world's governments...
We will carry on with it,
whether the rest of you like it or not!
We? Who is this we?
We who command.
Those of us who are in control.
We're even above the
law that you champion.
You know Captain,
men like me are a lot like...
artists who know
how to create masterpieces
by coming various materials.
Using diamonds with clay,
gold with copper,
and grey stone with
the colors of a palette.
Do you follow?
My only concern is to bring together
high finance, crime and political power.
All together!
This is power.
Your time is over, Captain.
This time it's really over!
In every sense of the word.
Are you going to have me killed?
No.
Not now.
And not here.
- And no, not me.
- Who, then?
By the force of our institution.
You're an intelligent man, Captain.
You understand, don't you?
You've learned too much.
It's the end of the line for you.
I can't let you take another step.
Espinosa!
Remember this, wherever you go,
I will follow you.
I'll be there as far as I can go!
Goodbye, Captain...
and my compliments to your valor.
- What's happened now?
- Nothing.
It was I who asked
that you come here.
Before you leave,
I'd like you to meet somebody.
It's a man who's not very well...
and who was a friend of your father's.
He even held you on his knee,
once upon a time.
His name is Salvatore Frolo,
but everyone called him Acidduzzu.
- Acidduzzu?
- Yes.
It means "little bird."
Come on.
You see, I held my promise.
I brought her to you.
Look how beautiful she is.
He's unable to move.
He can't even speak,
but he wanted to see you.
He has good eyes.
Let's go.
Come on.
Poor little bird!
I remember one of my teachers
told us about the North Star.
If I remember correctly,
it was in May, and I...
that night, instead of sleeping
I crept so quietly and slowly...
up to the attic, over some stairs
and arrived on the little terrace.
I could still hear the teacher's words,
"Look for the...
Little Bear
lying between Cepheus,
the Dragon, and the Big Bear.
And then climb up, up, up until
you reach the helm of the ship,
and there, up there
you'll see the North Star.
It's fixed up there.
It has guided many a sailor
for centuries and centuries.”
That night in the sky...
there were billions of stars,
and I felt so, so lost...
so small and confused.
I was only eight years old.
Where was Pegasus? Orion?
The Pleiades? Where was the Bear?
I thought...
how am I supposed to
find something so small,
yet so important?
All by myself?
How does one do it?
We won't see each other for a while.
I have to go.
I must.
Here I am.
We interrupt this program for breaking
news regarding a terrible tragedy.
At 7:30 a.m. this morning
Captain Corrado Cattani
was brutally assassinated.
The ambush occurred in a courtyard
of the Hospital Maggiore of Milan,
and lasted only seconds.
In a coordinated attack, the
assassins fired a storm of shots
that left his body riddled
with more than 70 bullets.
Unfortunately, Cattani, who in
the hours beforehand, had just
finished giving his testimony
at the trial against the high command
of the Mafia,
was disarmed this morning,
and at his request unescorted.
You have said, and you have written,
that he was an irresponsible man,
a pathetic man,
that he lived detached
from the real world,
Yes, in truth, that's
exactly how he was.
You said that he didn't
respect the rules,
that he was headstrong,
that he never looked back.
Ridiculous isn't it?
Furthermore, he was ambitious
and wanted to accomplish so much.
Well, look where he got to!
Write it, tell it as it is!
And now, go, all of you! Go away!
I swear to you Corrado, I swear.
I won't leave a stone unturned,
not until I have found them...
found them all!
THE END
from a psychiatric hospital
Salvatore Frolo murders Antonio
Tindari whom he holds responsible
for the death of his wife and daughter.
Captain Corrado Cattani,
in charge of the investigation
alongside the courageous
Judge Silvia Conti,
with whom he is slowly falling in love,
begins to put together the pieces
of a vague and barbaric puzzle.
During the course of this lengthy
investigation Corrado meets up again
with Tano Cariddi.
Who is secretly vast sums
of Mafia money into the stock market.
For this reason, he arranges
a marriage of convenience
with the young Ester Rasi,
the daughter of
a wealthy businessman.
Tano, with the help
of the sinister Espinosa,
drives him to suicide.
Meanwhile Ester, who has
discovered Tano's true colors,
has decided to remain close to
Tano to bring about his downfall.
At the same time Tano is
preparing his stroke of genius:
the purchase of the International
Insurance Securities.
Also collaborating in this shady
scheme are Espinosa, Sen. Salimbeni,
and other, anonymous figures
of the Mafia high command.
A train carrying a lethal cargo
towards the south of Italy
seals the wicked deal.
Following his own instinct and
maintaining a promise made to
the hospitalized Salvatore Frolo,
Corrado rediscovers
Loretta, the daughter
Frolo thought was dead.
Corrado welcomes her into the
community of Brother Bernardo,
one of the few friends
on whom Corrado can still count.
Judge Silvia Conti
joins him at the orphanage
and Corrado anxiously awaits
the discovery of new details.
They are warned
via telephone by the girl
of the existence of a stranger
who agrees to meet with Corrado.
Who is the man that Loretta
has been calling her father?
THE OCTOPUS 4
Part Six
I'll stay here for a while, Captain.
There's hot coffee in the kitchen.
Open up.
- I'm not to be disturbed.
- OK.
International Insurance Securities.
Antinari Bank 14%
Market share 31%
No, thank you.
- When did the Puppeteer leave?
- This evening, with Santuzzo.
He called the airport first
to confirm there was a flight...
And where was he going?
Did you hear the phone conversation?
I wrote it all down.
Fine. We'll take care of it.
International Securities
Antinari Bank: 14%
Others: 86%
Majority shareholding: 31 %
Begin now.
Barton 5402
Setts 4635
International Insurance Securities
56
00:10:58,392 --> 00:11:01,487
Tano will be back later.
He's gone to As con a.
Why As con a?
- At the Villa Pausania?
- I don't know.
- Why? Who is at the Villa?
- Espinosa.
- Who is Espinosa?
- Somebody important.
Somebody I didn't think that
Tano knew about. He's an art collector.
Do you remember that
antique doll I have in my study?
Espinosa has been
asking me about it for years...
Trevi is on the way with two others.
Where's my daughter?
He had these on him.
He, on the other hand, was unarmed.
You? Who are you?
I'm the one you think I am.
The Puppeteer.
She's magnificent.
You can't imagine how many
times I asked your father for it.
I had almost given up
on ever obtaining it and now, well...
And now, I really don't know...
how to thank you.
Come, I want to show you something.
See?
The entire collection
is made of five dolls.
The good... the evil,
the pain, the joy.
The four sentiments that rule mankind.
And then there is this one,
deceit.
I've never liked this doll.
It is frightening.
It's true.
The craftsman that made it
was Danish, called Kristensen
and by all accounts
he was a Freemason,
but in those times, even Mozart was.
And are you also?
I am... a bit of everything,
a bit of this and a bit of that.
A bit like this doll here.
Sorry, you'll have to excuse me.
I like to joke a little.
Let's talk business then.
Tell me, what would you like
in exchange for this beauty?
Nothing.
It's a gift to you.
My father often told me
he had few friends,
and that you were one of them.
Isn't that so?
Are you really going to
give me this gift, for nothing in return?
Yes.
I just want one thing. I want to
know the truth about my father.
I want to know why he killed himself.
And what makes you think
that I could help with this?
You were the last person
who saw him. Our chauffeur told me.
Why did he come to you
that afternoon?
He came with a business proposal,
I had to unfortunately turn down.
Why?
I was already engaged in business
with somebody else.
Who?
This I can't tell you.
It was Tano Cariddi, wasn't it?
Please tell me the truth, was it he?
Yes.
But your husband has
nothing to do with your father's death.
And neither do I for that matter.
Your father made that decision,
of his free will,
because he was a lonely man.
He was tired... and very depressed.
This is the truth.
There are no other reasons.
He has decoded those numbers.
Hamburg, Molineux,
Amsterdam, Naples.
You can't imagine
how much it's worth to a collector
when he finally gains
the last piece to a collection,
and the mosaic is complete.
What are you thinking?
Nothing. I mean... what's this?
It's a game, a very complicated game.
Here, have a look...
It's all about getting a train
to arrive at a destination...
overcoming whatever obstacles.
And you, do you
play this game alone?
Your innocence is disarming.
Your husband is very fortunate.
No... I don't play it alone.
But, at the end I will be the winner.
The first time I saw Loretta...
she was at the nuns' college,
and just a few months old.
Her name isn't Loretta.
It's Paola, Paola Frolo!
To me she is Loretta.
That's the name the nuns gave her
and that's the name that remains.
I took her with me.
She always cried
in those early days...
She cried so much because
her mother was killed by Tindari!
And it was at your command!
What do you know
about what was going on?
It wasn't Tindari at all who
did the deed. In fact, it was he
who threw himself down
the slope when they all left,
and pulled the
young girl out of the flames.
I may have commanded a few deaths
in my time, but what do I care
about admitting to one more or
one less at this stage of my life,
but not this, this I didn't want.
I didn't want them to get her,
didn't want it to happen to a child
not with a woman and a child.
With Frolo, yes!
He had disobeyed and betrayed,
and he should have died!
But that swine disappeared,
and so the families decided that
whoever doesn't pay with blood,
will pay with tears.
It was 1970.
The year when something...
began to poison us, from the inside.
They say that if a mouse
enters your room at night time,
it may eat your toes
without you even realizing it.
You see, the teeth have
some type of fluid that numbs,
so you wouldn't even notice the pain.
That's how it was for us.
That evil mouse,
that treacherous mouse...
was drugs.
We accepted drugs
without a second thought.
While there were those that
pumped their veins with the stuff,
and poisoned their blood,
we let it poison our minds.
Over a short time, all of a sudden,
oaths were struck up, pacts,
rules that had stood for
centuries were overturned.
In the name of drugs,
anything was allowed.
Robbing your father,
betraying your wife,
killing your brother, and even...
having a woman and
her daughter burned alive.
But, I didn't come hear to preach.
I came to find out who besides
yourselves knows about Loretta.
Nobody.
And nobody will know about it.
Look, you don't
give the orders anymore!
Wait one moment, Captain!
You've trodden all over
the Puppeteer, isn't that enough?
What else do you want?
I want to take her back
to her father, her real father.
Don't do it, Captain!
That man you're calling her
real father is nothing to her.
By doing this
she'll lose two fathers at once.
The one in front of you
will spend the rest of his days in jail,
and the other because
he barely exists anymore.
He is only a wreck of a man.
What are you thinking? You coming
here and taking the moral ground.
You still want to rule the roost,
the left and the right!
You, you're the scum of the Earth!
I'm thinking about Loretta!
You should do the same!
I've kept it all from her
for so many years,
and now if her family, who want me
dead and out the way, if they find
out she is alive, and that she is
the thing most important to me,
then they'll kill her!
Do you understand?
You'll have to take her away,
far away, out of the country.
She has to be Loretta De Pisis,
to all and forever!
If you can do this for me...
I will tell you about the
last 30 years in the Mafia.
You see,
that man you call a "wreck"
I made a promise to him,
and I'm going to maintain that promise.
I'm not making any pacts with you.
Let me through, I want to
get through! Leave me!
- I know that he is in there!
- Get down! Stay still, seated!
Dad!
What's happening, Dad?
Who are they? What do they want?
Nothing, nothing, Lori... nothing.
What do they want from us?
Why do they have guns?
Don't be afraid, I'm here now.
All will be taken care of, don't worry.
Can you leave us alone
for a few moments?
All right. We'll wait out here.
Just five minutes.
Listen carefully Lori,
there's only a little time.
They'll tell you plenty of
horrible things about me.
And they'll all be true.
You have to accept his proposal.
It's so important that he speaks.
He knows names we wouldn't even
imagine, even beyond suspicion.
You must accept!
And Frolo? Does he have to
keep thinking his daughter is dead?
Fine. But tell me,
what kind of justice is that?
A justice that continues to
ask its victims to pay for all evil.
It's all we have.
Otherwise there is
their way of avenging wrongs.
Is that what you prefer?
Do you want to resort to their ways?
An eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth?
Go to Loretta, tell her everything
and you become like him.
Vendetta for vendetta!
But it won't be the right justice...
No, we're different, you and I...
Why do you keep talking to me
about justice, about law?
All those high and mighty principles?
I'm just thinking about Frolo,
about Faeti, who was killed
like a dog. I'm also
thinking about your husband.
Don't you think I think of him too?
What do you know
about what things are worth?
Do you think you alone have suffered?
I am a judge, and I have to decide.
I must choose. For all.
Sure, but don't choose for me.
I'll choose alone.
Give me your hand. Come here.
Go!
What's this? What's happening?
They've come to get him.
You need to take him away. Go!
Up! Move it!
Listen, there are
at least ten men out there!
But before I give you
back to them, I'll kill you!
They didn't come here to save me.
They want to kill me.
I don't believe you!
I don't believe you!
It's the truth, I swear it!
- They're coming!
- Quick, over there. Go!
Put your weapons down.
There are only children here.
- What do you want?
- Tell us where the Puppeteer is!
I don't know who you're talking about...
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
- No! Stop!
- Go inside, all of you. Inside!
So, they came in two.
We know that much.
Why do you say no? Speak!
Do you want to see how
your kids are going to end up?
Hey, do you want to see? Look! Look!
Leave the children alone!
No! No!
Come with me!
Bernardo!
No, leave him. No!
- Stop it!
- Where do you think you're going?
I told you they wanted to kill me.
I have no other choice. Walk!
- Let them out!
- Stop!
Stop! Stop! Here he is, he's all yours.
Now, let those children out of there.
Where have you left Santuzzo?
We want him as well!
- Dad!
- What are you doing! Stop!
Let me go!
Trevi!
Corrado! Corrado! The children!
Help me!
Come here, come with me! Come on!
Bernardo!
Bernardo!
Stay there, stay down
where there's no fire yet.
Stay close to that side.
All together, stay close.
Be strong... we'll get you out now.
- Dad!
- Loretta!
Come here, I'll help you.
Santuzzo!
Out, everyone out!
Everyone out! Get on the bus!
Greta! Greta, where are you?
Silvia!
Get them out of here,
get them in the van!
Get out! Quickly! Quickly!
Trevi! Take him!
Silvia! Silvia, I can't find Greta!
Greta, where are you?
Greta! Greta!
Sweetheart, my treasure, come here!
Corrado, I've found her! Careful!
Quick, let's get out of here!
Run!
Go Trevi, go!
Attention all vehicles!
Attention all vehicles!
Attention all vehicles!
Attention all vehicles!
There seems to be a war going on
down there, units are being called
from all over. Even the
vehicles from the fourth sector
are converging at the spot.
Captain, there's an urgent call...
A helicopter has been requested
in the gas meter area of town.
An exchange of shots between
two sides has been reported.
- Do we have any other information?
- No, sir
Call the helipad and get them to
direct a helicopter to the zone.
- They're right behind us!
- Down! Don't move! Stay down!
Don't let him pass!
Don't get up! Stay down!
Quadri wait!
I have to speak with Corrado.
There's no time now!
- It's important, please!
- Get in, quickly!
They're right on our tail!
I can't get away from them.
There's only one clip left.
Give me your gun!
It's empty.
Where are the damned police?
Where the hell are we, in a desert?
Trevi, I'm going to
get you to swing to the left, do it!
Down children, everyone down!
Keep your heads down!
Please, I'm warning you Captain,
get it right!
If this thing stops now,
it won't start up again!
Go, swing to the left, now! Hurry!
We've found them.
It looks like a massacre from here.
We're going down to get a better look.
One of the two cars is in flames.
There are also some children.
OK, let's go. Come on!
International Insurance Securities.
International Securities.
Antinari Bank: 13%
Others: 86%
Majority Shareholding: 31 %
Antinari Bank 13%
International Insurance Securities.
Yes, everything is going smoothly.
No, don't worry about a thing,
just keep on selling.
Good. And don't let go of
MEDIAREZ, or else they'll nail us.
Always keep your eyes on
BARTON and SELIS.
We'll soon have to start
the turnaround scheme.
Yes.
What does the Fair Trading
Association think about that?
In 45 minutes exactly you will
start buying up FRESIA, SMAT
and PRIMAR.
Where are you taking them now?
I don't know. We'll think of a place.
Try and stay calm,
we'll organize everything.
You see, it's destiny.
The children's church,
I'll never be able to finish it.
It's all your fault, you tried to
be the hero, and now look at the
chaos you've created!
- Corrado, with you... at times... aigh!
- Calm down, relax.
My leg!
And you are? May we ask your name?
Silvia Conti, the Judge.
I'm Officer Maurizio Trevi. First
Rank of the Force. Special Squad.
- And you?
- I am Captain Cattani.
Are you aware there's a
warrant for your arrest?
Yes, I know.
And now, tell me what's been
going on here, if you please.
OK. I'll be right there.
But sir, where are you rushing off to?
Your coffee...
In regards to coffee,
is there a drop for me?
Why not? I've just made it.
Please take a seat.
Thank you.
- Here it is, just made.
- Ah, good!
- What could have happened?
- How am I supposed to know?
Around here, there's
something new every day.
...and in the end...
well, you can figure out the rest.
I really don't know
how we even made it here.
I don't know how
we got them out alive.
And who is she?
A girl that gives a hand to
Brother Bernardo now and then.
Here they are.
Tell him I'll wait for him out here.
Ester!
Had a few knocks?
Why have you come here?
I've worked out what
the names in Tano's diary were.
Do you remember?
It has to do with the route of a train.
How did you work that out?
I went to As con a,
a tiny Swiss village near Locarno,
to a man called Espinosa.
He sometimes does
business with Tano.
Anyway, there on his table,
was a map of the train routes...
- What could it be?
- I don't know!
- Perhaps he knows.
- Who is he?
A very important man, one who
knows a lot, even about Tano...
And that woman?
That is Silvia.
I know, but, do you love her?
Yes.
I should be happy.
Tano will be arrested soon.
And I'll have what I've always wanted.
But instead, I feel so lonely.
- You're important to me.
- Important?
Yes, I care about you.
It's different for me.
From the first time I saw you...
I don't know...
how stupid of me!
- No...
- Yes.
Why haven't you always
held me like this? Why?
Off you go now.
That's what is important.
Go! I'll wait for you here.
We're talking about a train
that is crossing half of Europe.
A train loaded with
500 tons of radioactive waste:
poisons, fuels, radioactive agents.
The train of death!
It's supposed to travel down to Naples,
from there, it will be unloaded
and then the stuff
will be shipped to a small
abandoned island called Tirene.
It won't even be stopped
at any inspection points.
Nobody is to stop that train,
and nobody will stop it!
It is protected by those high up.
- By who?
- By so many.
Are you able to tell us exactly
where to find him at this minute?
Is it in Italy?
We're off!
- We're coming!
- All right. Get in. Quick!
Now, you have to go, Greta...
I want to stay with you and Corrado.
We'll come tomorrow. Right now
we have to take care of Bernardo.
Did they hurt him?
Not greatly. You'll see tomorrow,
he'll come as well.
They'll take you back to
Switzerland tomorrow.
They've promised me.
And have you
remembered your promise?
You have to forget that I even exist.
Is that a promise?
Bye, Lori.
Yes, Judge Conti is fine.
It was she who told me
how the events unfolded here.
I'm warning you - your maximum
efforts are mandatory. Exactly.
Yes. OK, thank you.
I've just invited all magistrates
involved in Mafia cases.
We need to keep the affair
as secretive as possible.
If that man speaks up without
knowing what we have taken, then
just maybe this time we can get
our hands on the high command.
But, if that helicopter manages
to intercept that train in time,
then all these efforts will be in vain -
they will escape to all corners.
Get me Clipton.
I hear you, go ahead.
I understand. Yes, I understand. OK.
- What are you doing?
- It's an order from Central.
Have they all gone mad?
That train has to be stopped!
It's been decided - we're to keep
an eye on it, but not stop it.
International Insurance Securities.
International Insurance Securities.
I've just received
the figures from New York.
They're the same
as those from Frankfurt.
Just like I thought,
the overseas markets will let us do it.
The shares are up all the time,
and the brokers are still selling.
Now is the time to
come out in the open!
Buy it all! Buy everything
that gets offered to you!
Yes! Now! Go!
Get those share prices to double.
At that point BARTON and SELIS
will surely get snatched up.
International Securities.
Antinari Bank 25%
...by mid-morning the volume of
trading was positively alarming.
Without warning or explanation,
a massive amount of international
capital entered the market
causing the share price to crash,
creating panic stricken moments
for investors and speculators alike.
International Insurance Securities
were on the verge of collapse, and this
chaos ensued for over an hour,
when they were mysteriously
rescued. Again, without
explanation, their price increased
steadily... causing all the
investors to sell off their shares.
But the question remains.
Who is buying? Who is putting great
amounts of capital at risk
in just one day of seemingly crazed
trading like this one?
Talk of price fixing has
been on everyone's lips, that is,
illegal speculative maneuvers...
It's me, I've got the
latest news. The Puppeteer...
I knew it was you.
- You shit!
- What are you saying Giugni?
- I assure you...
- Shut up!
Bartoli, Tirie, Caria, Salvati,
Ceres a, Brocchieri, Lifredi and I...
These are the names of the
Mafia high command in the 1970's.
The ones that decided
to accept the trafficking of drugs.
So, to this day, four of the
mentioned have been eliminated.
Lifredi, they shot him,
while he was sitting at a traffic light,
sitting inside his own car.
Those responsible
for the killing were my men:
Sciarra, Corona, Busacca and Ritolo.
On the other hand, Tirie and Caria
were done by Santuzzo,
who is just over there,
and he will confirm it for you.
The last was Brocchieri.
He was poisoned.
The executor, Sciarra.
It sparked a family feud
between them...
it lasted years.
And the names of the dead?
If you need them,
I can give them to you, one by one.
Many were buried at sea,
in deep waters, roughly
a kilometer off the coast of Altavilla.
That is, when they weren't
thrown into barrels of acid.
If we didn't want them
found by the roadside,
that's how and where
we'd get rid of them.
There must be at least 200.
Actually the Mafia high command
was made up of
twelve people, actually eleven...
because the one
who was supposed to replace me,
was my brother, Salvo.
He is dead, at my orders.
Now, can you tell us about the
relationships between the Mafia
and the political representatives?
- Do you want me to give names?
- Yes.
- But, everyone knows these names!
- Please tell me then.
Do you really want
to know these names?
In that case, let's decide
which of the two of us
will be killed off first, you or I.
You don't have to
worry yourself about me.
Just refer to the question.
For example what do you
know about Senator Salimbeni?
He had dealings with us,
but only for a short time, not long.
It was Tano Cariddi
who put us in touch with him.
Therefore, are you
telling us that the banker,
Tano Carridi is part of the Mafia?
He was never a major player...
but he is definitely one of us!
He belongs to us!
It was we who put him
at the helm of the bank.
We made him grow, until he has
become what he is today.
We were the ones to give
500 billion in liquid assets,
with which today,
perhaps at this very moment,
he is buying on our behalf
a majority stake in the
International Insurance Securities
Group.
It's almost 2:00 p.m., this means that...
He's already done it!
Antinari Bank 27%
Antinari Bank 31 %
International Insurance Securities
Market share 31%
International Insurance Securities
Antinari Bank 31%
Right at this very moment,
as you can see, Gaetano Cariddi
is leaving his office
at Antinari Bank after a day of
extraordinary achievement
on the financial markets today.
Journalists and photographers
are scrambling around, hoping to
get closer. Let's hope
we can hear his comments live.
Will this change the political
makeup of the group?
Do you feel satisfied with your
triumph or are you considering
crossing over in the future?
Mr. Cariddi, will you
be making a statement?
What will your next move be
now that you are the leading
stakeholder of the International
Insurance Securities Group?
Can you tell us just one thing:
are you a happy man today?
Yes.
Tell me, didn't you
have a graduation today?
My God! I completely forgot!
Mind what you say,
or you'll never get out of prison!
Come on!
Yes, it's me. I'm here.
No, nothing. All is fine.
The Puppeteer is dead.
That was Milan.
The old man has left us.
Throughout this story,
there is still another person,
a very important person,
perhaps the most important of all!
He was the one who
gave us the opportunity
to do a hostile takeover of the
International Securities Group.
He was the one
who set up the train deal.
His name is...
Antonio Espinosa.
I don't know this
Espinosa character.
I don't even know
the Senator Salimbeni,
but...
I do know they are
the two faces of a witch's medal;
on one side there is a snake,
which is cleverly masked in the grass,
on the other side there is the falcon...
you can see the falcon,
but you'll never be able to capture it
because it flies so high, it's too far up.
Is there someone
who can confirm this statement?
Santuzzo Salieri.
He's the only one who has
remained loyal to me,
loyal to the end.
He refuses to open his mouth.
Bring him here.
It's all over, Santuzzo.
You can speak up now.
There, now you know everything.
It was Ester Rasi who first
mentioned the train and Espinosa.
Where is Espinosa now?
Just outside our borders
in Switzerland.
And Ester?
With all that's happened
I've lost track of her.
I'm afraid she may have
gone back to Tano's house.
I don't want her to be there.
I'd like to go and bring
her back, perhaps with Trevi...
No, for the time being, Captain,
you're not going anywhere.
- I really must go!
- No!
We are preparing all kinds of
warrants for arrest in that area!
The police squads are trying to
coordinate the arrests simultaneously,
and if you turn up, you'll
jeopardize the entire operation.
But, there is one thing you can do.
Please, tell me...
You must bring someone back here...
but without arresting that person.
Come in.
What's this farce about?
Good evening Senator.
Do you remember me?
Cattani. What are you doing here?
What do you want?
We'll let these gentlemen
wait for us in the other room.
- But that's not right!
- Trevi...
Naturally, they won't be
able to receive or make any calls
or receive any visitors.
Captain, you need to
fill me in on all the details...
You know Senator, it seems
that money stolen from citizens
in the form of
kickbacks and other corruption,
is equal to a crime against the State.
Over 100 billion lire
in the last few years.
Pretty impressive isn't it?
If it weren't for people like you...
we could wipe out our national debt.
This time Cattani,
you've really gone too far!
-I am...
- Spare us the wisecracks, it's useless.
There's no one left to fool.
You're... you're mad!
Look here Senator,
I won't lay a finger on you,
I won't even reach for you...
even though I'd like
to smash your face to pieces.
I'm just asking that you come
with me, to the Prosecutor's Office,
where someone
wants to interrogate you.
I ask this favor of you.
Please, sir.
This way, please.
He's here.
Come in Senator, please have a seat.
Thank you so much
for accepting our invitation.
And also many thanks to you,
Captain Cattani.
With the powers invested in me
by the Italian public,
and the Parliamentary Commission
assembled here in front of me,
and in consideration of new
elements that have come to light
in the last few hours,
and with the highest regard
for the judicial process
in this current inquiry,
I uphold the request
of Prosecutor Falisci
to arrange for your
immediate transfer to Milan
for an extraordinary
judicial session.
We are to hear your reply, Senator.
And so to Gaetano Carridi,
the mastermind behind this
extraordinary financial feat,
who had challenged
all economic rules,
which had seemed an unpenetrable
fortress until now, has fallen.
The International Insurance Securities
Group which is the
cornerstone of the
Italian stock market,
passed to his hands through an
amazing stock trading maneuver
that will probably go
down in the annals of history.
With this victory,
Tano Carridi will secure
his position as
head of this financial group
which until now has
been without a leader.
A group for which
their past president, Fillipo Rasi
had fought long and hard.
Have you heard the news?
Well done, Tano.
Bravo! My compliments!
An extraordinary financial feat!
An incredible stock exchange
maneuver! Well done!
I don't like being made fun of,
you know that.
Is that so, well, and that's all
I've been doing lately...
and who would have known
you don't like it?
What's happening to you?
- Are you drunk?
- No! I am lucid!
I am lucid and I always have been!
I've learned it all from you.
You've taught me how to kill
without allowing people to shout.
Strength is not enough is it?
As long as there are threats
and blackmail. That's how
it was with my father wasn't it?
Perhaps you should have done
the same with me, prevented me from
thinking too much!
You should have had me
live in terror, like all the others!
But instead, you fell in love with me!
With me, of all people!
I've hated you like I've hated no other!
- It's not true!
- Oh yes, its so true...
and if you want to hear the truth,
making love with you disgusted me!
Having to sleep next to you
and waking up next to you,
having to smile sweetly
and to touch you, it made me sick!
It was all repulsive! You know, I
have always betrayed you! Always!
I don't believe it. It's not true!
I spied on you, stole from
your pockets, even killed another.
And do you want to know
who was receiving all this information?
Enough! You couldn't have
been doing this! It's not true!
To Corrado! To Captain Cattani!
- Tell me it's not true!
- Yes, it is!
Tell me it's not true!
He knows everything!
You may have won today but tomorrow
you'll go back to the way you've
always been. A pathetic, vulgar loser
like so many others.
A nothing, a nobody!
- What's up?
- Let's go and get Ester...
- But Falisci said that...
- Fine. I'll go alone.
Wait.
This is the train.
It has just passed through.
You wait here.
Yes. Speaking, it's me.
No, it hasn't gone to plan,
there have been some problems.
What happened?
Answer me!
Tell me, tell me now!
I am burning everything...
Yes, everything.
You should do the same, Espinosa!
Fire is such a beautiful thing!
You've arrived. I was expecting you.
Where's Ester?
She wanted to come to you,
but I couldn't give her to you.
You understand don't you?
You've already taken Greta,
the bank, everything...
What do you want with her?
- Where is she?
- Shhh...
she's sleeping.
It's taken such a
long time to find some peace...
Ester!
Ester!
I had to do it.
She wanted to go,
to leave.
She also wanted out,
just like the others.
This way she won't leave anymore.
We'll always remain here,
in this enormous house,
just us two together, forever...
She was only 20 years old!
Captain!
No, Captain! Stop! Stop!
Leave him! Let go!
20 years old!
Passport, please.
Here it is.
- Go through.
- Thank you.
This is also going.
Unfortunately, as you can see,
Captain, I'm leaving.
I shouldn't, but I'll allow you to have...
ten minutes.
You may consider it a privilege.
So many who seek me out
only get a mere five minutes.
But your determination
deserves a medal.
Are you armed by any chance?
I've been told by some that
you are a crusader against evil...
that you like to fight
against the dragon...
But, forgive me Captain,
in that case, if I am the evil one,
did you think you could
defeat me with this pistol?
Come on!
Look! Look at these treasures!
Does it seem to you
the house of a villain?
I'm a collector,
and that there,
that is my most prized collection.
It is a collection of souls.
Here we are, inside here
there's an important investor,
and here is a public official...
and this is one of the most
successful European bankers,
and another is a government minister.
I collect...
their hidden disease,
their rot, their secrets.
To blackmail them.
Blackmail? No, Captain,
blackmail doesn't exist in our world.
Only contracts exist for
the exchange of commodities
like these items of secret information.
For democracy to exist
there needs to be corruption
it's as necessary as
lubricant in an engine.
A little nauseating and dirty,
but nonetheless,
you can't do without it.
But now your deal
has fallen through.
What does that mean?
Let me furnish you
with some information...
Tano Cariddi has been arrested,
Senator Salimbeni is
answering to Parliament,
and the International Insurance
Securities Group takeover failed.
Soon your train, too, will be stopped.
You've lost, Espinosa.
Is that all?
I believe so, and I think
that should be enough.
So, you've managed to
put a spoke in the wheel.
Well done. My compliments.
But... you've got it all wrong.
Yes, you're quite wrong, Captain.
I haven't lost at all.
And do you want to know why?
...because the ones that really
command and decide are on my side.
That train was just the first
of many trains to come.
There will be others,
because the whole world agrees.
Yes, the whole world!
This business is necessary, for
many of the world's governments...
We will carry on with it,
whether the rest of you like it or not!
We? Who is this we?
We who command.
Those of us who are in control.
We're even above the
law that you champion.
You know Captain,
men like me are a lot like...
artists who know
how to create masterpieces
by coming various materials.
Using diamonds with clay,
gold with copper,
and grey stone with
the colors of a palette.
Do you follow?
My only concern is to bring together
high finance, crime and political power.
All together!
This is power.
Your time is over, Captain.
This time it's really over!
In every sense of the word.
Are you going to have me killed?
No.
Not now.
And not here.
- And no, not me.
- Who, then?
By the force of our institution.
You're an intelligent man, Captain.
You understand, don't you?
You've learned too much.
It's the end of the line for you.
I can't let you take another step.
Espinosa!
Remember this, wherever you go,
I will follow you.
I'll be there as far as I can go!
Goodbye, Captain...
and my compliments to your valor.
- What's happened now?
- Nothing.
It was I who asked
that you come here.
Before you leave,
I'd like you to meet somebody.
It's a man who's not very well...
and who was a friend of your father's.
He even held you on his knee,
once upon a time.
His name is Salvatore Frolo,
but everyone called him Acidduzzu.
- Acidduzzu?
- Yes.
It means "little bird."
Come on.
You see, I held my promise.
I brought her to you.
Look how beautiful she is.
He's unable to move.
He can't even speak,
but he wanted to see you.
He has good eyes.
Let's go.
Come on.
Poor little bird!
I remember one of my teachers
told us about the North Star.
If I remember correctly,
it was in May, and I...
that night, instead of sleeping
I crept so quietly and slowly...
up to the attic, over some stairs
and arrived on the little terrace.
I could still hear the teacher's words,
"Look for the...
Little Bear
lying between Cepheus,
the Dragon, and the Big Bear.
And then climb up, up, up until
you reach the helm of the ship,
and there, up there
you'll see the North Star.
It's fixed up there.
It has guided many a sailor
for centuries and centuries.”
That night in the sky...
there were billions of stars,
and I felt so, so lost...
so small and confused.
I was only eight years old.
Where was Pegasus? Orion?
The Pleiades? Where was the Bear?
I thought...
how am I supposed to
find something so small,
yet so important?
All by myself?
How does one do it?
We won't see each other for a while.
I have to go.
I must.
Here I am.
We interrupt this program for breaking
news regarding a terrible tragedy.
At 7:30 a.m. this morning
Captain Corrado Cattani
was brutally assassinated.
The ambush occurred in a courtyard
of the Hospital Maggiore of Milan,
and lasted only seconds.
In a coordinated attack, the
assassins fired a storm of shots
that left his body riddled
with more than 70 bullets.
Unfortunately, Cattani, who in
the hours beforehand, had just
finished giving his testimony
at the trial against the high command
of the Mafia,
was disarmed this morning,
and at his request unescorted.
You have said, and you have written,
that he was an irresponsible man,
a pathetic man,
that he lived detached
from the real world,
Yes, in truth, that's
exactly how he was.
You said that he didn't
respect the rules,
that he was headstrong,
that he never looked back.
Ridiculous isn't it?
Furthermore, he was ambitious
and wanted to accomplish so much.
Well, look where he got to!
Write it, tell it as it is!
And now, go, all of you! Go away!
I swear to you Corrado, I swear.
I won't leave a stone unturned,
not until I have found them...
found them all!
THE END