that you can't
live with an old battery.
- I've always feared it'll break
during an important job... - Of course!
There! They couldn't just replace
my motorcycle... - My sympathies!
- You didn't get lucky!
- But you did.
- Well, one of us two
had to get lucky. - Right...
So what shall we do, brother?
Why did you run away from me?
Force of habit.
You chase, I run.
Me too. You run, I chase you.
Maybe lend me a hand?
We'll hook it up to your Volga,
like we did the first time.
No! I've see how you repay kindness!
I'm sorry - goodbye.
- Don't interfere.
- Look, the police!
Lock the garage.
Commence!
Up!
Down!...
I've always said that this
criminal is talented.
Perhaps even... more
talented than me.
- That can't be!
- No, it happens...
Jesus... All in singles!
No interrupt me,
or I to start from beginning.
There - 5,500!
Pardon me, but why is all the money
in singles? It's suspicious.
And who are you?
The public prosecutor?
I don't ask where you got the car,
why there're no documents.
I can answer openly -
I stole this car.
I can tell you who from and why.
I too can tell you honestly:
I'm a pastor.
These Rubals - donations to Him!
Well, there was a bit left over...
And you believe in God?
All people believe. Some, that
God exists. Some, that He doesn't.
Neither can be proven.
Are you gonna count again?
I am!
As promised: Grundig tape recorder.
Four tracks, stereo sound...
But is it new?
- Brand new. I checked personally.
- Well, I'll take it... I remember.
- Eighty.
- What? You said fifty!
- Things have changed for me.
- Well, this is a robbery!
You don't have to. I'll sell it.
in a second! So elegant...
- ...four tracks, stereo sound...
- I'll take it.
Mister, this item is sold.
Don't touch it, it's sold.
But why do you suppose
he stole YOUR car?
- What's wrong?
- They caught me.
I'm a dead man.
The investigator came to see me.
They'll put you in jail.
Next time don't steal!
Semion Vasiliovich!
You're in MY home!
- Your home's in jail!
- Dad! Bad day for your jokes!
Inka! What shall I do??
What to do?
Start drying crackers!
Dima, don't worry!
We need to bribe him!
Bribe him?! Are you crazy?
You're crazy!
- If you give a lot, he'll take it!
- Be quiet! Calm down!
I won't allow it!
A disgrace!
Dad, why don't you go back
to the marketplace with your wisdom!
I sell strawberries grown
with my own two hands!
For bribery - I'll destroy not only
a son-in-law, but my own daughter!
No big deal. In jail you'll
get re-educated.
Ten years from now,
you'll return a new man!
Put the birdie down!
Men should marry orphans...
Don't worry, I really do have
all that money. Here, a full bag.
Do you really want to
transfer that amount
- ...to that orphanage?
- Yes.
Did you grow up there?
Are these your personal savings?
Well, how shall I put it...
I, too, played a part in it.
- Hello. I'm looking for Yuri Ivanovich
Detochkin. - Please enter.
- I'm Yuri's mother.
- Nice to meet you.
I'm from the community theater.
I'm so glad Yuri's in the theater.
- I think he has skill.
- He's really talented!
- He didn't show up for rehearsal...
- Sweetheart, he's on a business trip.
I hate his business trips!
Running off at night, disappearing.
- Luba's got a point - it's not right!
- But when did he...?
Luba - that's his bride.
He's her photo.
He's kinda old-fashioned.
His courtship was very long.
She drives the trolleybus.
Admirable woman.
They met when he came
to sell her insurance...
Tell me, what sort of business trips
could an insurance agent even have?
Why does he return nervous?
- You know... - What is it you do?
- I'm an investigator.
Well you should figure this out!
When I was young, I was being
courted by an investigator.
But I married a man from the Red Army.
The whole battalion came to the wedding!
We sang: "Our train flies forward,
next stop - in The Commune!"
- Do you know it?
- (he recites next line)
-