They start surveillance.
Study the relationships.
See how they all interact.
And wait for their moment.
As a result:
One person is killed,
another, who did not kill anyone,
is sent to prison,
the third runs off to his daughter's
on the other side of Moscow.
And within a few days is living there...
...permanently.
It was...
...a very lucrative scheme.
So...
...you're saying it was a
premeditated murder?
Looks that way.
But that's horrible!
Well...
...when millions of dollars
are at stake...
...the difference between persuasion...
...and execution...
...disappears.
How do you know all this?
I say, how do you know all this?
People talk.
Pass the candle, please.
Over here.
So, you just told us
all of that, and...
...and what now?
I'm convinced that the boy
did not kill his father.
I vote.
Not guilty.
Back to seven -five.
I'll admit that your wild theory,
so to speak, is possible.
But you're forgetting the other witness,
in the next building.
Her windows are across from
the room where the murder happened.
And she testified that she saw
with her own eyes how the father...
"The father hit the boy in the face,
and then...
...the Chechen grabbed a knife
and stuck it...
...into the chest of the officer, Volodya".
She had no reason to give
false testimony.
Nobody wanted to tear down her building.
Don't trust her! That woman
not only claimed she saw the murder.
She demonstrated
how he stabbed from above.
Yes?
Yes, she did.
Before I went to med school
I worked as an orderly.
I saw lots of knife wounds.
How could a kid who's
a head shorter than his father.
How could he stab him
from above?
What is this, a Bollywood movie?
It's nonsense.
It's just ridiculous. Listen...
...what're you babbling about?
I don't get it. A "Bollywood movie"?
That's nonsense!
I've never been an orderly.
Do you want me to show you...
...how a person can stab someone
a head taller from above?
Want me to show you?
Do you?
Go ahead, if you can...
- You want me to?
- Go ahead.
All right.
Look.
Come here.
Come here.
How did he do it? I'll show you.
Come here. There.
Where...?
Come here.
How'd he do it? Watch.
Come here. Watch. Watch.
There. Like that.
Stop.
Am I shorter than you?
Shorter by a head? Well? Am I?
Shorter, right?
I'm a head shorter than you.
Bollywood, you say?
How could he do it?
I'll show you.
I'll show you how he could do it.
His father hit him.
Insulted him and hit him.
He took the knife.
I'll kill you!
What was that?
Is it blood?
The bird...
...pooped.
Let me have the knife.
You know?
The boy grew up in a land where
they know something about knives.
Anyone who's ever used
a knife knows
you have to strike from below.
It's always unpredictable.
Always dangerous,
and always hard to defend against.
Like this.
What are you...?
Then, to be sure the knife
reaches the heart,
as the medical expert said...
...you must strike with power,
penetrate the chest cavity.
Hey, stop...
You're a surgeon.
Yes, a surgeon. Can't you tell?
A knife...
...like any other weapon,
especially in the Caucasus,
is a form of culture.
Sorry...
...I learned it when I was a kid,
in the Caucasus.
Sorry.
Very interesting.
I change my decision.
Oh Lord, I'm blind.
I can't talk now.
I can't talk now, you hear?
They're still deliberating.
Can you imagine?
All night. Imagine that...
Got some real go-getters.
Is it my fault?
Since our wiring is totally shot
this is the best I can do,
it's left over from a school dance.
- A karaoke party...
- I'll take the lantern.
If you did your job,
you'd be home.
You'd be at a disco or a
karaoke bar like normal people.
I propose we vote.
The gentleman builder is right,
it's a very logical plan.
I think the kid is not guilty.
Please raise your hand if you
think the accused is guilty.
One. Two.
Three.
Please raise your hand if
you think he is not guilty.
One, two, three,
four, five six, seven,