Committee chairman, Comrade hvonder"
"which makes it clear
that he keeps firearms...
...and makes counterrevolutionary
speeches...
...has even ordered his domestic worker,
Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina...
..to burn Engels... Engels...
in the stove...
...like a true Menshevik together with his
assistant lvan Arnoldovich Bormenthal...
...who is living secretly in his flat
without being registered.
The signature of the head of the City
anitation Department harikov is valid.
...House Committee chairman hvonder.
ecretary: Pestrukhin.
lt's lucky that they reported
directly to me.
May l keep this?
Or perhaps you need it so that
legal proceedings can be started?
Forgive me, Professor, but you seem
to regard us with too much contempt.
- l...
- Please forgive me, my dear fellow.
l really didn't mean to offend you.
Please don't take offence.
He tired me out.
You must be here tomorrow morning.
Good evening, Polygraph
Polygraphovich.
erve dinner in the dining room.
harikov, come into the study.
What do you want?
Go and collect your things at once -
pants, coat, everything you need -
then get out of this flat!
- What is this!?
- Get out of this flat - today.
What is this after all! You think
l can't find a way to deal with you?
l've a right to thirty-seven square
feet and l'm staying right here!
- Get out of this flat.
- Like hell l will!
Keep away, Bormenthal.
Doctor Bormenthal! Doctor Bormenthal!
Doctor, what are you doing?..
Doctor Bormenthal! Doctor Bormenthal!
Give me the key to the front door.
The Professor says you
mustn't leave the apartment.
lt's not because we don't trust you,
but should anybody come...
...you might not be able to keep them out,
and we mustn't be disturbed. We're busy.
lt's not because they don't trust us.
They mustn't be disturbed. They are busy.
Where's the chief of the
pest control department?
- And who the hell are you? - l am chairman
of the house management committee hvonder.
God knows where you chief of the pest
control is. lt's now the third day
that we are waiting for him.
Well then.
Who are you?
Criminal Police and investigator.
Open up, please.
Where is the Professor's room?
What is it that you desire gentlemen?
We have a warrant to search your flat
and arrest you, depending
on the results of the search.
What, may l ask, is the charge,
and who is being charged?
Professor Preobrazhensky, Bormenthal...
...Zinaida Bunina, and Darya lvanova
are charged with the murder of...
...Poligraph Poligraphovich harikov,
ubdepartment Head of the Pest Control.
l don't understand. What harikov do you
have in mind? Oh, you mean that dog
of mine... the one l operated on?
Not your dog. This happened when
he was a man. That's the trouble.
You mean he talked? That doesn't
necessarily imply being human.
Anyhow, it's irrelevant.
harik still exists.
- No one ever killed him.
- ln that case, you must produce him.
lt's ten days now since he disappeared,
and the evidence, l am sorry to say,
is most disquieting.
Doctor Bormenthal, will you please
produce harik for the detective to see.
- But how then, did he work for Pest
Control? - l didn't send him to the job.
lt was Monsieur hvonder who
recommended him, if l'm not mistaken.
- ls that him? - That's him. Only
the villain has gone all hairy again.
- But he talked!
- He still talks, though less and less.
Now is the time to hear him speak.
cience has not yet found the means
of turning animals into people.
As you see, l tried, he talked, and then
he began to revert to his primitive state.
- An atavism.
- Atavism? A...
Don't swear at me!
- Give him valerian. He's fainted.
- Did you see it? He sent his dog at me.
l shall personally throw
hvonder downstairs...
...if he ever turns up in Professor
Preobrazhensky's flat again.
Please enter that remark
in the report.
Did you here? Did you? l request that
those words be recorded in the protocol.
That's our lot,
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