WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. William Powell in tonight's presentation of... 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Suspense! 00:19.000 --> 00:22.000 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story based on fact. 00:22.000 --> 00:25.000 The dramatic report of a man's desperate race for freedom, 00:25.000 --> 00:29.000 with names and places changed in order to protect the lives of three people. 00:29.000 --> 00:36.000 The story is called, The Man Who Cried Wolf, our star Mr. William Powell. 00:36.000 --> 00:43.000 Okay, Mr. Wilcox, you're all set. 00:43.000 --> 00:47.000 Thanks, Sam. My complete Auto Light electrical system is tuned to a tee, eh? 00:47.000 --> 00:55.000 Yes, sir. 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I was once a member of the Communist Party. 02:47.000 --> 02:53.000 And until recently, I was attached to the Russian Embassy in Mexico City, a cipher clerk. 02:53.000 --> 02:59.000 Three years of it, attached to the embassy in a strange new land. 02:59.000 --> 03:07.000 Here, a thing needs emphasis. The people, the Mexican people, they worked, they sang, they laughed, 03:07.000 --> 03:16.000 they had families, cried, played, hoped, loved, like Russian people, but with a difference. 03:16.000 --> 03:23.000 They did these things when and how and where they wanted to, not by directives. 03:23.000 --> 03:31.000 The word is freedom. It took me three years to know its meaning. 03:31.000 --> 03:36.000 For this, I was almost murdered. 03:36.000 --> 03:42.000 To you, my name is Meroz Leco. 03:42.000 --> 03:48.000 It started at nine o'clock in the morning, when I was walking toward the cipher room in the embassy. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Comrade Leco, if you please, comrade. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Can you spare me a moment? 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Of course. 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 In here, please, my office. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Sit down, sit down. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Thank you. 04:01.000 --> 04:05.000 And how is your wife, Lilia, and the little one, his name? 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 Ivan. 04:06.000 --> 04:11.000 Ivan. He must be, let me see, three months. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 Three months. Amazing. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 I believe Ivan recognizes me, comrade Zappekin. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 I have heard of other children his age who travel in airplanes. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 Bottles and equipment to make formula, these things are provided. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 I don't... 04:25.000 --> 04:31.000 Of course you do. Travel in airplanes. Ivan will do it. Therefore you, therefore your wife. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 I have been recalled. 04:33.000 --> 04:40.000 I have suggested it to the ambassador, the ambassador to Moscow, approved. Moscow to the ambassador, etc. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 But why? 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 Because I suggested it to the ambassador. 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 I see. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 Of course you do. However, you should know this. 04:49.000 --> 04:53.000 I have written a letter which will proceed you by diplomatic pouch. 04:53.000 --> 04:57.000 As your superior, my impressions of you. The gist of it you must know. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 No, no, I don't. 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 You will be missed here in Mexico, I've told them that. 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 Thank you. 05:03.000 --> 05:09.000 By many friends, Mexicans, Americans whom you have met through your Mexican friends. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 Then I am being recalled as a poor security risk. 05:12.000 --> 05:16.000 Exactly. Now, your key to the cypher room. 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Comrade... 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 The key. 05:18.000 --> 05:22.000 Oh yes, I have it here. To detach it will... 05:22.000 --> 05:27.000 Ah. Zappekin speaking. Yes, comrade. Oh yes, one moment. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 Comrade Leco, if you please wait for me in the corridor. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Of course. 05:32.000 --> 05:37.000 Yes, comrade. Yes, ambassador. I have told him. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 There is no melodrama attached to it. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.000 Merely a simple truth. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 To be sent back to Moscow is a bad security risk. 05:52.000 --> 05:57.000 Prison, work camp in Siberia, death. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 Therefore, do a thing. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 Pursue a plan. Ensure my living. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Do not wait for Zappekin. 06:06.000 --> 06:09.000 Back to the cypher room. Use the key. 06:09.000 --> 06:13.000 Steel. Certain papers. Documents. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 For the occasion of remaining alive. 06:15.000 --> 06:18.000 You have this one. And this. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 Secret documents to buy my own security. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Papers dogged for the purpose. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Stay alive. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 And these. This. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Comrade Leco. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 And put them into my coat pocket. Inside. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 Comrade. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 A moment, comrade. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 Open. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 I told you to wait. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 But I had duties here in the cypher room, comrade. 06:43.000 --> 06:46.000 You are relieved of them. I told you this. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 No. Merely that I am returning to Moscow. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Tomorrow. 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 Yes. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 The key, comrade. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Of course. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 Here. 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 You will go immediately to your house. You will inform your wife. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 You will pack. You will get your child ready. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 And you will be delivered to Moscow. 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 Under escort, comrade. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 Now. Good day. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Lilia. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Lilia. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 You, Mero? Is it you? 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 I was but in the kitchen doing the things of the morning. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 And Mero. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 What? 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 It is morning and you are not at the embassy. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 You are here. Why? 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 The child, Lilia. Where? 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 He has been fed. He is bathed and he sleeps now. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Lilia. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 There is cold in your hands. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Close. I will warn you. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Lilia. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 Why? 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 Say to me why you are of illness. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Yes, that is it. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 An old illness. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 Then we will call a doctor. We will... 07:56.000 --> 07:57.000 No, Lilia. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 But this chill in you that I cannot warm. 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 Fear. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Fear of death. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 To run in streets blazing the sun and still to be cold. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 What cure for that, Lilia? 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 Death. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 To begin tomorrow. For you. 08:13.000 --> 08:14.000 For me. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 And for the child. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 I do not know what there will be for the child. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.000 Your lips for death. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 I am being recalled, Lilia. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 Why? 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Why? You have worked hard for him. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 And I have talked to people here. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 And I have sat in sunlight and laughed with them. 08:32.000 --> 08:37.000 And somewhere in darkness it was observed and reported. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 There is until tomorrow. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 And there is time for flight. 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 I will make ready the child. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 No. 08:43.000 --> 08:47.000 If we run, they will find a quicker way to kill us. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 I have a plan, Lilia. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 For a year now I have had this plan. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 And it will keep you from death? 08:53.000 --> 08:54.000 Listen to me. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 I have stolen certain papers from the cipher room. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 Documents of theirs that can buy back our life. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 I have them here in my coat. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 From whom will they buy our life, Meroes? 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 Who will now want... 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 Will you listen to me? 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 You are to take them. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 Here, take them. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Yes, Meroes. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 You put them in a briefcase. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 And then you take the boy and dress him. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 And go to the plazas of Calo. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 And the bench there near the Greek fountain. 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 And you are there so the child will have son, if anyone asks. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 And you will keep the briefcase hidden until I come to you. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 You understand, Lilia? 09:27.000 --> 09:28.000 Yes. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 And then quickly get ready. 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 Yes, sir. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 Go, Lilia, quick. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Oh, Senor Carradonis. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 You give me surprise, Senor Leco. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 It was not you I expected to see this hour. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 But I am glad to see you. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Please come in. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 The day has a beauty. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 And in the streets there is fiesta. 09:56.000 --> 10:00.000 And I thought to me, the Senora Leco would care for fiesta. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 She and the Pequeño. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Ay, the Senora and the Pequeño. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 Muy buenos días to you both. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Senor Carradonis. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 You'd better take the child and go, Lilia. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 There's not much time. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 Yes, Meroes. 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 But Senora, I have come for you and the little one to the fiesta. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Lilia. 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 I'm sorry, Senor Carradonis. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Perhaps another time. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Come to us soon, Meroes. 10:22.000 --> 10:26.000 Another time, Senora, when I will not disturb, I too will go. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 No, no, wait. 10:28.000 --> 10:29.000 Yes? 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 Three years we've known each other now. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 Neighbors. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 You've done kindnesses for us. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Are you also my friend, Carradonis? 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 This is a question of ridiculous. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 That I am your friend? 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 I, who have held the Pequeño Ivan in my hands? 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Who have maybe shit for him? 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 Listen to me. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Just listen. 10:54.000 --> 10:57.000 I've come across certain documents. 10:57.000 --> 11:02.000 They prove a conspiracy exists between members of your government and mine. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 These papers can buy back my life. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.000 I have only until tomorrow to sell. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 Oh, I have read of such grotesque things. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 Where do I buy back my life, Cardosus, and Lilia's and Ivan's? 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 You were a lawyer and a Mexican. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Where do I trade? 11:20.000 --> 11:23.000 Ah, it is to ponder. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 A moment. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 If I were not a poor lawyer. 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 If I were an editor perhaps of a great newspaper 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 and there was a week's headlines to be had for so little price. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Oh, pardon, how frightful I am. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 I did not mean the editor. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 Newspaper. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 Yes, yes, of course. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 Oh, Bill, gracias, Cardosus. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 Ten thousand thanks for our lives. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Yes? 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 What do you wish of me? 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Ahem. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 I am Maros Leco. 12:08.000 --> 12:09.000 I, uh... 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Code clerk of the Russian embassy. 12:11.000 --> 12:15.000 I remember you well, Senor Leco, from another time. 12:15.000 --> 12:19.000 I have a story for you with documents. 12:19.000 --> 12:20.000 Top secret. 12:20.000 --> 12:22.000 So? 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 The documents prove that there's a conspiracy 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 between certain members of your government with mine. 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 I've stolen them from my embassy. 12:31.000 --> 12:32.000 They're yours if you want. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 And the price, Senor? 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 I told you. 12:35.000 --> 12:40.000 My life, my wife's, my three-month-old child, our lives. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 Very cheap, Senor. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 Bargain rates. 12:43.000 --> 12:47.000 You have the courage to steal secret papers of the Soviet. 12:47.000 --> 12:52.000 You, a Russian citizen, and this is what you want, not money? 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 I have been recalled to the Soviet. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 There'll be a plane for us tomorrow morning. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 An escort. 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 And after that... 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 Where are the papers? 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 My wife has them. 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 She's waiting for me on a bench in the plaza sopalo. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.000 The boy's with her. 13:06.000 --> 13:07.000 I'll go to her. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 Tell her that you'll take them. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 Oh, you... 13:12.000 --> 13:13.000 You people. 13:13.000 --> 13:18.000 Intrigue, drama, the promises of violence and of revelations 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 and the easy words on your mouths. 13:20.000 --> 13:22.000 Life. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 Death. 13:24.000 --> 13:28.000 It's like the last time you came to see me, huh, Senor Leco? 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 What? 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 Not a year ago, Senor Leco, you were here. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 You then had another thing to sell. 13:34.000 --> 13:35.000 Listen to me. 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 The thing of Dr. Diego. 13:36.000 --> 13:40.000 Remember, professor of electronics in the University of Mexico? 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 He, too, was in conspiracy, you told me then. 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 And it was false. 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 A savage lie. 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 You and your government wished only to relieve us of his brains. 13:50.000 --> 13:55.000 To get him out of your evil way, to destroy him and slowly us. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 It was a lie, I admit it. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 I had orders to do that. 13:59.000 --> 14:00.000 But this... 14:00.000 --> 14:01.000 But this? 14:01.000 --> 14:07.000 This is of a fable, Senor, of the boy who cried wolf once too often. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 And now it is a man who has cried wolf. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 Please, you have to believe. 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 Not I, Senor, I have more wisdom of you now. 14:15.000 --> 14:20.000 Run, run into the streets, cry wolf to the masks of Fiesta. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 Perhaps one of them will believe, but not I. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Go, cry wolf. 14:25.000 --> 14:29.000 Then tell me, Lilia, the boy. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 Adios, Senor. 14:48.000 --> 14:53.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. William Powell in The Man Who Cried Wolf. 14:53.000 --> 14:59.000 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 15:07.000 --> 15:13.000 Say, Sam, did you know that 41 years ago, Auto Light designed the first two-unit, 15:13.000 --> 15:17.000 six-volt automotive electrical system used as original equipment? 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I am sure of it. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 Pardon me. 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 Please, senor. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 Si? 17:26.000 --> 17:27.000 I have documents. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 Forgive me. You have a story, but no documents. 17:31.000 --> 17:35.000 You say your wife has documents, but you do not. 17:35.000 --> 17:38.000 Pardon me. 17:38.000 --> 17:46.000 Leco, Leco, Maros Leco. Ah, ah, si. Maros Leco. 17:46.000 --> 17:51.000 The Department of Justice has a dossier on you. I was sure of it. 17:51.000 --> 17:57.000 In March 1952, you reported that a certain Dr. Diego of the university 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 erroneously reported, I must say. 18:00.000 --> 18:03.000 It was a lie, then. I was under orders to report. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 And today, no lies, senor? 18:05.000 --> 18:09.000 What I have been telling you is the truth. My life is in danger. 18:09.000 --> 18:10.000 And you wish protection? 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 Yes. For me, for my wife, for my child. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Senor. 18:14.000 --> 18:15.000 Yes. 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 You are a Russian national of the embassy. 18:18.000 --> 18:23.000 Has your embassy been informed of these things that are about to happen to your life? 18:23.000 --> 18:27.000 Don't you understand? Those are the people who want to kill me. 18:27.000 --> 18:34.000 I understand only that once you endeavor to involve my government in an unpleasantness with your lies. 18:34.000 --> 18:49.000 However, the Russian embassy, please. 18:49.000 --> 18:55.000 Leave him. Get away from him. Flight from a cone phone call to death. 18:55.000 --> 18:56.000 Mine. 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 And for a woman who sits in the plaza near a fountain and waits. 19:00.000 --> 19:06.000 And for a child whose fingers play with drifting golden feathers of sunlight. 19:06.000 --> 19:11.000 And try not to run through a long corridor of marble and columns. 19:11.000 --> 19:18.000 Quick blur faces and voices and their feet murmuring through the tongues of terror. 19:18.000 --> 19:23.000 And great doors of metal and glass open onto a pavilion of steps. 19:23.000 --> 19:28.000 Closer now to the images of Fiesta. To the masks of Fiesta. 19:28.000 --> 19:33.000 To the women and the music and the spinning scarlets and golds and green of Fiesta. 19:33.000 --> 19:36.000 And across the street is a lifetime away. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 And a cry of laughter and small fright. 19:39.000 --> 19:43.000 You made a child, a young boy, sprawl against confetted pavement. 19:43.000 --> 19:47.000 And take the precious time to help him to his feet and say you're sorry. 19:47.000 --> 19:51.000 But a few steps to another building. To a shuttered door and beat on it. 19:51.000 --> 19:58.000 To come here as help there and refuge in Senor Cardozes. The office of Senor Cardozes. 19:58.000 --> 20:02.000 Cardozes! Cardozes! 20:06.000 --> 20:07.000 Senor Leco. 20:07.000 --> 20:08.000 Let me in. 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 Vengo, senor amigo, come in. 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 Always I close my office for Fiesta. 20:12.000 --> 20:15.000 He wouldn't listen to me, Cardozes. He wouldn't believe me. 20:15.000 --> 20:18.000 Huh? Oh, the man of the newspaper. 20:18.000 --> 20:22.000 Someone has to believe me, Cardozes. Someone has to see those documents. 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 Perhaps... 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 What? 20:24.000 --> 20:29.000 A friend to me in the secret police. I could say to him of you and perhaps he... 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Maybe... 20:31.000 --> 20:35.000 You have no wish of secret police, Senor Leco. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Get to him. Tell him. 20:37.000 --> 20:49.000 I have got to phone to him. He's a friend from student days. He will meet us. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 To your health, Meros. 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 Drink, drink, amigo. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Where is your friend? 20:59.000 --> 21:03.000 He will meet us here in good time. Drink. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Meros. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Yes? 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 Are you not worried about your wife, about the Pequeño? 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 They will be all right. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 Yes, I'm sure of it. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 That man who came through the door. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Pepe, aqui. 21:20.000 --> 21:24.000 Siéntate, Pepe. Amigo Pepe, amigo Meros. 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 Buenos dias. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 How do you do? 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 You are in trouble, senor? 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Yes. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 What trouble? 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Pepe, may I call you that? 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 Si. 21:35.000 --> 21:39.000 I have stolen some documents from the Russian embassy. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Where are they, senor? 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 My wife has them. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 And where is your wife? 21:44.000 --> 21:49.000 She's waiting for me. When you hear my story, if you believe me... 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 No one believes in Pepe. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 The story, senor? 21:52.000 --> 21:59.000 Tomorrow, I'm to be sent back to Russia. I have stolen documents to prevent this. 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 That is the part that is difficult for authorities to understand, Pepe. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 My friend Meros talks of documents and has no documents. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 Si, this I notice. 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 To give them to my wife and separate from her is part of a plan. 22:11.000 --> 22:15.000 By this time, surely the theft of the documents has been discovered. 22:15.000 --> 22:20.000 By this time, the embassy looks for me. If they catch me, they cannot harm me. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 Si, the blackmail of the documents. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Do you believe my story? 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Senor, I wish to tell you something. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 Do you believe me? 22:27.000 --> 22:32.000 To us of the police, the names of all members of your embassy is known. 22:32.000 --> 22:38.000 Yours. I will not conceal from you the fact that I know of the tricks you played with us last year. 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 The matter of the professor at the university. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 It's the truth. What I tell you is the truth. 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 Believe him, Pepe. 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 Why should I believe you, senor? 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Because it is the truth. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 Si, I saw his wife, Lilia, leave. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 I will take you to her. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 I do not wish to be made a fool of. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 I will give you the papers. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 Believe him, Pepe. 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 I have a car outside. We will go to your wife. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Turn here. 23:17.000 --> 23:20.000 My wife waits for me at the plaza of Zogalo. 23:20.000 --> 23:21.000 And she will wait? 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 With my son. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Yes, Pepe. Three months. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 Senor? 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 Yes. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 Your wife is Russian also? 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 Yes. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 And a member of the party? 23:31.000 --> 23:32.000 Yes. 23:32.000 --> 23:39.000 How can you be sure she did not return to the embassy, deliver back the papers, and when you arrive at the plaza, a trap? 23:39.000 --> 23:40.000 Oh. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 For me? 23:41.000 --> 23:42.000 Very. 23:44.000 --> 23:48.000 The plaza, senor. Where is your wife? 23:48.000 --> 23:55.000 Oh, slowly. Ah, yes. Yes, there she is. At the fountain where I told her to be. With the child. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Let's see. 24:02.000 --> 24:09.000 Do not look at me so, Cardozes. The police motions to stop the car. So I must stop. 24:12.000 --> 24:19.000 The procession. We can't get to the other side, anyhow. We have to wait. 24:19.000 --> 24:23.000 Idiots. 24:31.000 --> 24:40.000 A parade. Such a solemn parade. How ridiculous. And they bow their heads. 24:42.000 --> 24:46.000 You're communists. Both of you. Spies. 24:46.000 --> 24:49.000 You tricked me. You won't get away. 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 I'll show you. Hold him. These people. 24:52.000 --> 25:01.000 People, listen to me. You are fools. Listen. You are being exploited by your ignorance. 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 Meros, they'll kill all of us. Meros. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 Exhausted. 25:06.000 --> 25:08.000 I know. 25:08.000 --> 25:16.000 Look to us. We, the people of the world. All of these people are here to keep the floor. 25:26.000 --> 25:33.000 And that's the way it ended. The crowd ended it. The crowd I enraged with lies. 25:33.000 --> 25:40.000 The old lies. Communist lies. The lies I had once lived. The envelopes. They turned over the car. 25:40.000 --> 25:46.000 And the last thing I saw. Cardozes and Pepe. Communists who tricked me. 25:46.000 --> 25:51.000 The terror on their faces. The last thing I saw. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 Meros. Meros. 26:00.000 --> 26:01.000 Oh, Lilia. 26:01.000 --> 26:02.000 Are you all right? 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 Yes. And Ivan? 26:04.000 --> 26:05.000 At home. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 Home? Where? 26:07.000 --> 26:11.000 At another place. Meros, you are released. I will take you there. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 And the papers? The documents? 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 The police. 26:14.000 --> 26:15.000 They believe you? 26:15.000 --> 26:22.000 Yes. Oh, yes. We are free, Meros. Not to return to Russia. 26:22.000 --> 26:32.000 A new homeland. That is freedom. And no fear. Freedom. 26:38.000 --> 26:46.000 Where we are now, we are not known. And it is freedom where we are. 26:46.000 --> 26:53.000 And there are hopes. And there is love. And I am alive. 26:53.000 --> 26:59.000 But if one day you would pass me on the street and stop and point your finger at me and say, 26:59.000 --> 27:19.000 this story happened to you, then I would be a dead man. 27:19.000 --> 27:29.000 Suspense. 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