KOVALKOV
Narrated by
Yefim KOPELYAN
It's logical.
Logical. Have a seat.
Your position on Runge is invincible.
You may consider me your ally.
Is the tail you sent
after the Swedish diplomat's black
Mercedes connected with this case?
Did you sense you'd been tailed?
Do you have a keen sense of danger?
Any idiot in my place would
have sensed that tail.
As far as danger is concerned,
what danger can
threaten me at home?
If I had been across the border...
Do you have headaches?
- Due to too much worry?
- Due to blood pressure.
I can recommend to you
Yoga breathing exercises.
I don't believe in it.
Though, show it to me.
I've been shown it once,
but I don't believe in it.
It's very simple. Your left hand
at the back of your head.
Just your fingers.
The right hand along your skull.
Yes, and start simultaneous massaging,
with your eyes closed.
I'll close my eyes and you'll whack
me on the head, like you did Holtoff.
If you suggest I betray
my country, I'll do it.
Gruppenfuhrer,
you took a furtive glance at your watch.
It's 7 minutes slow.
I prefer to play openly.
At least with my own people.
I've always regretted
that you're not
on my staff.
I would've made you
my deputy long ago.
- I would've never agreed.
- Why not?
You're jealous,
like a loving and faithful wife.
That's the most awful kind ofjealousy,
a tyrannical jealousy.
Well, I think
you've got my point.
Though thatjealousy
could have a different name:
Caring for one's comrades-in-arms.
But that's a question of technology,
as they say, not of principle.
Why did you need
to take me here?
Couldn't we talk in your office?
It's quieter here.
If everything ends as I want it to end,
we'll come back together
and everybody will know
we were doing business
in my department.
My chief will know that too?
Whose jealousy do you fear
more, his or mine?
What do you think?
I like to see you
being so straightforward.
I have no choice.
And I like everything to be clear.
Clarity is one of the forms
of complete fog.
I know you, you sly fox.
He says
no one answers there.
All right.
All right.
How is it said in the Bible...
A time to gather stones,
and a time to throw them.
You were a poor
divinity student at school.
In the Book of Ecclesiastes
it is said:
A time to cast away stones,
and a time to gather stones,
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain...
Were you studying the Bible
with the pastor under your charge?
I like to reread
not only the Bible.
To win over your enemy, you have
to know his ideology, right?
If you study it during the fight,
you'll doom yourself to defeat.
Here...
What a curious thing we got here.
A very curious thing.
We found these fingers
on the glass
you filled with water,
to give it to that wretched,
stupid and trustful Holtoff.
And these fingers...
we found...
Where? What do you think?
My fingers
can be found in Holland,
in Madrid, Tokyo, Ankara...
And where else?
I can try to remember,
but it'll take too much time
and we'll miss not only
lunch, but dinner too.
Never mind.
Please sit down.
I'm willing to starve.
Your Yogi believe starving to be
one of the most effective medicines,
and maintain that in the future
the world will be treating
half of ailments not with
sulfa drugs, but with starving.
Well, you remember now?
Our conversation
doesn't make any sense.
If I'm arrested
and you officially
inform me of that,
I'll be answering your questions
as an arrested man.
If I'm not arrested, then
I won't be answering your questions.
You won't... You won't.
Please, try to reproduce
with a stenographic accuracy,
minute by minute if possible,
what you were doing
in the hotline room,
following the telephone conversation
in the hotline room,
access to which is
strictly forbidden for everyone?
After I entered
the hotline room,
the hotline-room men ought to be court-
martialed for negligence and cowardice.
They left the key in the door