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BARCELONA, GET PRETTY
BASED ON THE NOVEL "EL VERDUGO DE GAUDÍ"
CITY OF SHADOWS
CHAPTER 1 CASA MILÀ - LA PEDRERA
PORT DE LA SELVA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2010
Your Honor, what a surprise,
Milo, how are you doing?
I've been better,
I can imagine,
Milo…
Do you think it's a good idea to be alone right now?
Why can't you let someone help you for once?
Did you hear anything about last night at La Pedrera?
No, I haven't,
Eduard Pintó, CEO of what is probably
one of the biggest construction companies in Catalonia,
went missing a few days ago,
They found him this morning on a balcony at Casa Milà,
He was burned alive last night,
I need you back,
Your Honor, may I remind you that I'm suspended without pay?
There's a video of him being burned,
It's truly disgusting,
Can you be here tomorrow morning?
Sure,
Thank you, Milo,
No, Susana, thank you,
The businessman's disappearance was reported by his family,
and his body was found five days later, early this morning,
The Criminal Investigation Division of the Mossos d'Esquadra
is conducting the relevant investigation,
The event has shocked the whole country,
especially due to the footage of the gruesome execution,
which was posted online,
This gruesome murder has stunned the rest of--
The images you're about to see, recorded by Eduard Pintó's killer,
may be disturbing to some viewers,
THE DEATH OF EDUARD PINTÓ: WATCH THIS BEFORE IT'S TAKEN DOWN
-Marc, -Uncle, I need your help,
CITY OF JUSTICE
-She's been waiting for 40 minutes, -I'm always making a bad impression,
Always,
Susana, Sergeant Malart is here,
Thank you, Let him in,
Thank you, Alba,
Milo,
How's it going?
Well… I had trouble sleeping after that video,
What about the rest?
-How are you? -Worried about this,
-Tell me, -Goyo's report, he just handed it in,
Apparently, he was denied food and water during the kidnapping,
He was very weak when they burned him,
He couldn't resist,
Though the video shows his suffering was unbearable,
Extreme cruelty,
A true psychopath,
I need you,
I need you to be part of the investigation,
Psychopaths hunting psychopaths,
I had to push for it,
but Bastos is willing to take you back on the squad,
It's all very recent,
Things haven't been forgiven, let alone forgotten,
Honestly, Susana, I'd love to say no,
but I couldn't afford rent much longer,
I told you you could stay at my place,
-Do we have any leads? -Not yet,
Everything points to a settling of scores,
But Pintó had a fairly good reputation,
-Can I keep it? -Of course,
Thank you, I guess,
Back to normal today at La Pedrera on Passeig de Gràcia,
Casa Milà reopened its doors
the day after the terrible death of Eduard Pintó,
CEO of construction firm Adcoensa,
Yesterday, the landmark building,
one of Barcelona's major tourist attractions,
remained closed while the Mossos d'Esquadra
searched for clues to help clarify what happened,
No details are known about the investigation,
which is under judicial secrecy,
FORENSIC INSTITUTE OF CATALONIA
It was no easy task,
There were remains hanging on the balcony,
They had to pick up a leg from the sidewalk…
In short, a mess,
He'd gone about five days without food or water,
Could he have held out longer?
Well, he was a big guy,
But without food or water, three to five days, at the most,
How long does it take for a body to burn?
Well, it depends on several factors,
But roughly, about 15 minutes,
In this case, I think it happened faster,
They soaked his hair, his clothes,
his whole body, with a mix of motor oil and gasoline,
Forensics found traces on the balcony,
A firebomb,
Well…
-So you're back? -Looks like it,
I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms,
As long as it's not with a clenched fist…
MOSSOS D'ESQUADRA POLICE STATION LES CORTS, BARCELONA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010
As you know, it wasn't my idea to bring you back,
Your disciplinary file remains open, and no final decision has been made,
An assault between colleagues is a very serious matter,
We value your work and your instincts,
but you'll have to accept a number of conditions,
Sergeant Singla will lead the investigation,
You'll be under his command and prove yourself
so your conflicts with him don't become a problem,
Understood?
Yes,
Twice a week,
you'll attend psychological evaluations with Dr, Judit Gaig,
Starting this afternoon,
You won't be working with Bruno Bachs,
Starting today, you have a new partner, Rebeca Garrido,
She's with the National Police,
She came from Madrid to work with us,
She's an expert in criminal behavior analysis,
trained in the United States,
I thought she could be a big help,
Here comes the middleweight champion, Milo Malart, back in the ring,
And he's going straight to his opponent's corner!
Milo,
We were waiting for you for the meeting,
Let's go,
-Jordi, I didn't ask for this, -Neither did I, believe me,
I don't know what Internal Affairs is waiting for to fire you,
but I don't want you here,
If you cause any trouble, I'll pull you off the case,
Bastos made that very clear,
Great, Let's go,
Eduard Pintó left work on Méndez Vigo passage,
here next to Passeig de Gràcia, a little after 10:00 p,m,
But he never made it home,
His wife reported it the next day,
She called him during the night and sent him messages,
but he never got them,
His phone was found switched off in his car,
perfectly parked on a small street in Pedralbes,
They'll kidnap you in Pedralbes,
but at least they won't steal your phone from the car,
We didn't find any security cameras covering that section of the street,
They're going over the footage along the route,
But so far, nothing,
They knew where to do it,
Very well prepared, Professional,
It points to a settling of scores,
Who has Pintó's file?
-Crespo, anything? -Nothing worth noting,
Okay, keep at it,
We have footage from the cameras in La Pedrera and the surrounding area,
showing our suspect in action, before and after,
-Does it show his face? -No, He's wearing a motorcycle helmet,
You can take a look at it with Garrido later,
Rebeca Garrido, your new partner,
The footage recorded, any trace of how it was posted online?
The IP is from a Pakistani cybercafé in El Raval,
But a lot of people go there every day,
and no one recalls anything unusual,
No further trace,
Okay, does anyone have anything on the forensic report?
They didn't kill him right away,
They subjected him to a pretty sadistic torture, I'd say,
Five days without food or water to weaken him to the limit,
before burning him alive on the facade of a landmark building,
The payback theory doesn't fit, A hitman wouldn't go to all that trouble,
All the planning, the staging,
the choice of a symbolic location…
We can't rule out that he was chosen at random,
but I doubt it,
We're talking about somebody very important,
Revenge?
Or they're making a statement,
Look, we're under a lot of pressure,
We have a month before the Generalitat elections,
Chief Bastos is already getting several calls a day from the mayor,
If this drags out, Montilla, Mas, and even Zapatero will be calling,
What does the balcony at La Pedrera belong to?
An apartment? An office?
A museum,
A recreation of a bourgeois flat from the early 20th century,
-How did they get in? No security? -There was security,
The company responsible was fired, They hadn't logged any incidents,
Our suspect had duplicates of the keys to the main entrance and the museum,
We don't know how they got them, None are missing or stolen,
They got a set of keys and copied them without anyone noticing,
This is a puzzle,
And we don't have a single piece of it,
Hey, Wait,
-You started off on the wrong foot, -Oh, really?
How do you want to start?
Hi, Rebeca Garrido, And you?
Look, I know you're going to be my babysitter,
But I've got a headache and a lot of problems,
Don't ask me to be nice,
I'm not,
That's not a problem,
I didn't come here to make friends,
I hadn't seen this,
They zoom in on him to show his terrified expression,
This is where the audio cuts off, I don't know why,
I think they say something and don't want to be heard,
Yes, it seems like they say something,
And Pintó reacts,
He screams,
And the audio comes on again,
Now,
There's another cut now, when they light the flame,
We don't know what they used, They haven't found anything,
-It's over a minute, Should I skip ahead? -Yes,
The next shot is from below,
They zoom in from the opposite corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Provença,
where they get a better view,
Though from street level,
it's easy not to notice what's happening above,
Who reported it?
A passing cab driver
who thought someone was burning something on a balcony,
Someone hung something on fire from the balcony of Casa Milà,
Yes, I don't know, I guess it's some kind of bad prank or protest,
-And no one else saw anything? -Not that we know of,
There's a homeless man who sleeps in a doorway,
The one with the dog, He didn't sleep there that night,
We also have the security cameras,
Our subject arrives at 5:22 a,m, in a cleaning van
that left the municipal lot without anything unusual being logged,
The van goes unnoticed,
"Barcelona, get pretty,"
They take the body from the van, inside some kind of cover or bag,
and unlock the door like it's nothing,
A strong man,
He carries the body up alone,
It's not necessarily a man,
The footage we have isn't enough to prove that,
There are no cameras in the elevator, It's a modernist relic,
You can't see the balcony from the street cameras,
They must've left Pintó upstairs,
because they calmly go out for the fuel and come back,
Eight minutes later, they leave him burning,
They risk being seen by anyone,
They chose the time perfectly,
The van leaves at 5:41 a,m,
They park it two blocks away,
on Rosselló, between Roger de Llúria and Bruc,
No traces or fingerprints,
And they come back at 5:47 a,m, to film the shot from below,
Six minutes, Too fast,
They either rushed back, or it's another person,
What are they doing now? Crouching?
Looks like they dropped something and they're picking it up,
No, it takes too long,
They're tired, or…
Or just staring at the fire from below,
-What problems do you have? -Excuse me?
Before, You said you've got a lot of problems,
My session with the psychologist is later,
It's my other punishment, don't steal her job,
I suppose it's because you hit Singla,
Very good, you did your homework,
Are you already applying your criminal behavior analysis on me?
Anything I should know about you?
Then drop it,
They've reopened,
Business is business,
It's like a cliff,
Like a rock carved by the waves,
Prometheus and the fire?
"The tormented manifestation of the Catalan soul," as Dalí said,
It's interesting,
The decoration is full of natural motifs,
especially marine ones,
but it's also a building with strong religious symbolism
that marks the transition
toward the mysticism of Gaudí's final stage,
Which makes me think that…
our subject may have gone through a similar kind of transition,
In other words, they're looking for some mystical meaning,
Just look at the creative, even artistic, choices made in the staging,
It was also his last civil building, built in very turbulent years,
marked by attacks and anarchist unrest…
"Barcelona, the Rose of Fire,"
They picked the most spectacular spot,
It's a ritual sacrifice, Like you said, staging,
They're going for drama,
Prometheus and the fire, How'd that go?
He was punished by the gods
for stealing sacred fire and giving it to men,
They chained him to a rock
where an eagle devours his liver for eternity,
It's a punishment,
And a lesson for those who see it,
They chose the city's most important tourist attraction
on the most exclusive avenue,
They're seeking the greatest possible impact and damage,
For the whole city,
"Barcelona, get pretty,"
Like our subject, the warrior chimneys hide their eyes beneath their helmets,
They're the champagne bottles from the inauguration,
Since Mrs, Milà didn't like his eccentricities,
she asked him not to do it with the others,
Did you already know all this, or did you study up?
Something that caught my attention are these two spots,
They resemble two eyes
through which you can see the city's two expiatory temples,
Tibidabo,
And the Sagrada Família,
The rich making donations to atone for their sins,
They must be horrible sins to build such ugly things,
They crouched down to sign their work,
A "G" for Gaudí?
The letter G carries many symbolic connotations,
It's the quintessential Masonic letter,
Gaudí flirted with Freemasonry in his youth,
They're telling us one thing,
"This was me,"
They'll likely do it again,
Talk to Toni Crespo,
Ask him for a list of Masonic lodges in Barcelona,
In other words, a lead we can follow,
-Milo? -Yes,
Come in,
How are you? Judit Gaig,
-Pleased to meet you, -Likewise, Come in,
Please sit down,
-Right here, -Yes,
How's the return been?
Wonderful,
And your reunion with Sergeant Singla?
Tell me what happened,
Well, nothing serious,
Well, you punched him,
We argued,
We were in the middle of an investigation,
it's something that happens, and I lost my temper,
Do you have anything against Sergeant Singla?
I wish he was smarter,
But beyond that, I have no problem with him,
Garrido,
My office, please,
Do you often lose your temper?
No,
It's normal in situations of emotional distress,
Would you say you suffer from emotional distress?
I don't know, Doctor,
Judit, please,
Judit,
The suicide of a nephew would certainly qualify
as a possible cause of emotional distress,
The internal report on your suspension
also notes that you recently separated
and moved out of your usual residence,
Are you getting a divorce?
No,
Or not yet,
We're separated,
And was the separation before or after your nephew's death?
-After, -Did you spend a lot of time together?
Sorry, this sounds like an interrogation,
I studied your record in depth,
In it, I see an excellent investigator,
I read some of your reports and I think you are a…
A perfectionist who keeps looking for answers beyond the call of duty,
Aren't you?
Even after a case has been closed,
Cases closed without conclusions,
I like to think my job is to provide answers,
There aren't always answers,
It's normal to go into a deep crisis when someone close commits suicide,
We want to…
We want to understand why,
But most of the time, it's impossible,
It's almost better not to,
Your father suffered from schizophrenia, didn't he?
It says here he died
after a long confinement in a mental institution,
Do you ever think about that?
Milo!
Can you explain to me how the hell
the kidnapping and murder of a construction executive
turned into a ritual sacrifice?
Simple observation by investigators,
"Potential serial killer,"
"Possibly more than one individual,"
"Targets tourist locations,"
"Masonic associations,"
You've been briefed, I can skip the report,
You've gone completely insane,
I want you out of here now,
Fine,
This and your session report will convince Bastos beyond any doubt,
I warned you, Malart, Get out,
What the hell did you tell him?
He asked me to tell him about our visit,
And you had to tell him absolutely everything?
You have no fucking idea how things work here!
Let's go outside,
Milo,
First, I'd appreciate it if you didn't yell at me again,
And nothing I told him strikes me as ridiculous or far-fetched,
Oh, I also told him
it's clumsy of him to discredit a good investigator's intuition,
-Right, You told him that? -Yes,
You're not a babysitter, You're a goddamn spy,
-You're wrong, Milo, -Sure!
TORRENS FOUNDATION CATALAN ARTS AND CULTURE
-Good night, Mr, Torrens, -Good night, Gemma,
The board meeting ran a little late,
Take tomorrow off, I won't be coming in,
Thank you, Mr, Torrens, Have a good night,
Wait,
Oh, thank you so much,
-Andreu, what do you say to the gentleman? -Thank you,
Thank you,
Your Honor…
Milo, do you know who the president of the Torrens Foundation is?
We have another kidnapping, Another important man,
FOR VERÓNICA ECHEGUI WITH ALL OUR LOVE AND ADMIRATION,
Subtitle translation by: Felipe M,