BASED ON THE NOVEL "EL VERDUGO DE GAUDÍ"
CITY OF SHADOWS
CHAPTER 4 PARC GÜELL
On the day before he was to suffer,
he took bread and, giving thanks,
broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying,
"All of you, take this and eat of it,
this is my body which is given for you,"
When supper was ended,
he took the cup, and giving thanks,
he passed it to his disciples, saying,
"All of you drink of it,
for this is the cup of my blood,
the blood of the new and eternal covenant,
which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins,"
PARC GÜELL IS NOT FOR SALE
"Do this in remembrance of me,"
"Proclaim the mystery of faith,"
We proclaim your death,
we confess your resurrection,
and we await your return, Lord Jesus,
STOP SPECULATING WITH OUR HOMES
May the peace of the Lord be with you always,
And with your spirit,
Let us offer each other the sign of peace,
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us,
I'm so sorry, Georgina,
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
hear our prayer,
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
grant us peace,
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY
TURÓ DE LES TRES CREUS, PARC GÜELL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010
It seems you were right,
We have a G,
They must have filmed from here, same as with Eduard Pintó,
Up top, there's a mark where a fuel can must have been,
In the remains,
we'll find the same accelerant mix they used the last time,
And prints, but it looks like they had their shoes covered,
Susana, the report,
Malart and Garrido were right,
Both murders follow the same pattern,
They're sure to act again, We need to move fast,
The Pope will be here on Sunday
for the consecration of the Sagrada Família,
It's a massive public event in a Gaudí building,
We believe they may attempt some kind of attack,
Arresting Joan Grau was a step in the right direction,
He was involved in both kidnappings and, at least, in the execution of Pintó,
Not as the mastermind,
He doesn't seem capable of devising such a tightly-disciplined plan,
-He had a motive to go after Pintó, -And Torrens?
Grau was in a youth center,
Torrens ran a foundation that managed youth centers,
There could be a connection,
Joan Grau is part of a broader movement,
A movement with a violent past,
Yes, but this is personal, It's not political activism,
It's too sadistic, There's hatred, This is revenge,
-Holy shit, -What is it?
The footage is terrible, dear Julia,
I haven't even been able to watch it yet, but we warn you that the images
we're about to show
may offend your sensibilities,
We repeat, this is exclusive footage we've obtained
of the latest murder by the Shadow of Gaudí,
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
Félix Torrens, president of the foundation that bears his name,
burned alive in Parc Güell,
NEW VICTIM OF THE SHADOW OF GAUDÍ
And I think the killer left a message in the video,
-Isn't that right, Mauricio? -Exactly,
Let's watch it,
Roll the tape,
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
ANTI-SYSTEM STRUGGLE IS THE WAY, WE ARE LEGION
Terrible,
Enough, I'm going to issue an arrest warrant,
That son of a bitch is going to tell me how he got that footage,
Let's go,
We'll be back in three minutes,
We're off-air, guys,
Well, see you tomorrow, I have a flight to Barcelona,
Oh, Mauricio, I don't think you'll ever top this,
A serial killer right in your inbox,
It's not luck, darling, And if it is, I deserve it,
Make the most of it,
Who knows if you'll get another break like this at this stage,
I hope you're not the Shadow of Gaudí just to secure screen time,
I'm not that cold-blooded,
You seem more capable of doing something like that,
This is nothing to me, You know me,
Be very careful, everyone, Thanks,
Yes, Milo?
I wanted to ask if Rebeca and I could go serve the warrant,
I want to arrest Mauricio Navarro myself,
If you hit a detainee, you'll pay for it, unlike before,
Jordi, I'm not going to hit him,
But that guy knows things,
Do what you think best,
Milo,
You were right about the serial murders
and about there being more than one person,
What does your intuition tell you now?
That it won't stop,
You're still on thin ice, don't forget it,
Thank you,
His flight just landed,
He's going straight to an interview on TV,
The man of the hour,
The studio is in a building near Poblenou,
Let's go,
Mauricio Navarro?
Yes, that's me,
You need to come with us,
What's this about?
We have an arrest warrant to bring you before the judge,
Oh, well, Cuff me up, then,
That won't be necessary,
You're Sergeant Milo Malart, right?
Yes, that's me, Let's go,
Sorry, Garrido,
Mauricio,
can we talk alone for a moment?
Why not? I have nothing to hide,
So? How did they contact you?
I received a CD with the footage in my mailbox,
and that's all I know,
I'd be shitting my pants if a serial killer knew where I lived,
Well, I don't think they've got it in for me,
They need you, You're giving them the publicity they crave,
Prime time, peak ratings…
In a way, I think you're working for him,
No, come on,
I work for my show, for my network, for my audience…
All I do is report,
Right,
Who feeds you the information?
Come on, Mauricio, we're not kids,
You know what goes on inside the Criminal Investigation Division,
You know a lot about me,
Milo, sources are sacred,
As a cop you should know that,
What was all that about?
I don't know, it just came out,
I'm your partner, You need to count on me,
Is that clear?
That idiot is badmouthing me on national television,
Right,
Have you found anything out?
No, nothing,
All right,
CITY OF JUSTICE
Are you sure you don't want your lawyer present?
Absolutely,
I'd like to get this over with quickly,
I have a busy schedule,
The original footage you obtained
has been seized as judicial evidence,
And the TV network you work for
will face heavy penalties for broadcasting them,
Right,
Well, I think they're used to it,
Are you aware that by not handing that footage over to the police,
you may have obstructed the investigation process?
The intent was very much the opposite,
To show the footage so it could help the investigation,
Even the execution of Mr, Félix Torrens?
Well, what happened had already happened,
There was no way to help him,
Besides other moral considerations,
My duty is to report,
When and how did you first receive the footage?
The material broadcast on La Ronda the night of October 29,
I'm referring to the footage showing Félix Torrens
kidnapped and locked in a cage,
That same morning, in my mailbox,
On a CD,
in a clear plastic case,
no envelope, no note,
And you didn't think there might be fingerprints on that CD?
If you've been following the case, as I assume you have,
you'll agree with me
it's highly unlikely they'd have left any prints,
At that time, Félix Torrens was still alive,
Analyzing that footage could have prevented his death,
But you had that footage at your disposal for three days,
Did you find that cage?
With all due respect,
maybe you've placed unrealistic expectations
on your investigative team,
Severe dehydration and malnutrition, same as in Eduard Pintó's case,
But he lasted six days,
Well, it's hard to say,
They may have known Parc Güell was under surveillance
and kept him alive one more night,
Maybe, if they gave him some water,
And we wouldn't have seen any skeletal differences,
So you're not going to tell me anything?
Come on,
-I had to let him go, -I can't believe it,
-The guy's an asshole, but he's clever, -He knows more than he admits,
Probably, But everything he said is plausible,
There's nothing else we can do right now,
They'll reach out to him again,
Could we have his phone tapped?
No,
Surveillance?
They're going to strike,
And it'll be soon,
Tomorrow will be five days before the Sagrada Família ceremony,
Security measures will be huge, Trying something there would be suicidal,
How's the investigation going?
We're not making progress,
Well, you should feel satisfied,
You were right about your theories,
I'll feel satisfied when we find who's behind this
and no one's in danger,
You're still here and can help make that happen,
Everything is rotten, including this,
Someone in here is leaking information to a trash TV show,
Corruption discourages you,
That's very reasonable,
The two dead men were also corrupt,
Did they deserve to die for that?
I didn't have to judge them,
Those who did it came to that conclusion,
And what gave them that power?
It's very likely that they were victims
of the system's corruption,
Right,
An eye for an eye,
Don't you think someone who's suffered injustice,
harassment, abuse…
could be capable of responding with such violence?
Who are you talking about, Milo?
The killers?
Yourself?
Your nephew?
Hello?
What are you doing here?
You show up at my place unannounced,
Well, the stairs are that way,
You weren't eating, What a surprise,
I already had dinner,
-And you? -No,
I have some tortilla,
-Want some? -Okay, yeah,
I'll heat it up,
-But don't bother too much, -I won't,
FREEMASONRY IN CATALONIA
-So what brings you here? -I wanted to talk about the case,
I was at the follow-up session with the psychologist and…
Sorry,
-Hello, Sara, -Are you home?
No, but I can be there in 15 minutes,
Wait for me there, okay? See you soon,
-Leaving? -Yes, I have to go, It's my sister-in-law,
We'll talk tomorrow at the station,
What happened, Sara?
-What? -Shall we go upstairs?
Better not talk out here,
-Yes, sure, -Okay?
-Come in, -Thank you,
Sorry about the other day when you came over,
You caught me off guard, I wasn't in a place to talk then,
Sara, it's fine,
I know Hugo was here,
Shit,
-He didn't tell me that part, -Don't worry about it,
He talks about Marc all the time,
Suddenly, he thinks he knows why it all happened,
A thousand crazy theories he thinks are true,
I mean, you can't imagine,
-What theories? -I don't know, crazy stuff,
Like…
That he got the pills here…
That it's all your fault,
That you took his son from him,
Hugo knows perfectly well that those were his pills,
Yeah, but it hurts less to blame you,
No!
I went to see Kata,
Oh, really?
She didn't notice anything either,
Like everyone else,
She thought that…
that it was fine, that he didn't have a problem,
Maybe he did,
And we didn't see it,
Like your father,
Milo, I need your help,
He won't let me see if he's taking his medicine, He's…
He gets violent with everyone,
Did he hit you?
What scares me the most is…
that he might hurt himself,
A new attack on freedom of the press,
Catalonia's regional police harass our reporter, Mauricio Navarro,
Good morning, Mauricio,
PRESS INTIMIDATION OUR REPORTER DETAINED
Good morning, dear Julia,
Yes, yesterday I was the target of the wrath
and the all-too-familiar incompetence of the Mossos d'Esquadra,
Tell us what happened, Mauricio,
Well, in short, I was detained, brought before the court,
questioned by the judge handling the case,
a very stern lady, by the way,
and then released immediately, of course,
I believe we have footage of the arrest,
That's right,
They were waiting in the street, I had just finished an interview,
They did it in the middle of the street,
in front of everyone, to make it look
like they were saving the world from a dangerous terrorist, right?
Exactly,
Instead of focusing their efforts on actually finding
a serial killer who already has two victims so far,
What bothers them is that we're telling the public what's going on,
What's going on there, Mauricio? Are the two of you walking off alone?
I can't see the images, but from what you're saying,
I assume you mean the moment one of the officers arresting me
pulled me aside because he wanted to talk to me alone, right?
Yes, well, it was the sergeant we've mentioned before,
A rather volatile character,
with behavioral issues,
who until recently was suspended without pay,
but now is apparently leading the investigation,
What did he want?
Scare me into silence…
IRENE CALLING
The usual thing,
Good thing your cameraman was there,
Yes, exactly,
Remember, a couple of years ago, those shocking images came out
of the violence used against detainees,
right there at the Travessera de les Corts police station,
You held up pretty well, didn't you?
Well, I've been dealing with people like that for many years,
Worse, too,
-Everything okay? -Great,
Fill me in,
There are shots that weren't broadcast on the show,
There's a panoramic view of the city,
Now comes the caption,
Yes, the supposed statement,
It could be fake,
They already knew we had detained an anti-establishment separatist,
and about the street protests,
Even if it wasn't Grau,
they could be exploiting the situation to spark wider unrest,
Turning their revenge into something bigger,
To make people see them as heroes,
This video doesn't show the moment he was set on fire either,
They want us to believe one person is doing it all,
There's something they didn't broadcast,
Same as with Pintó, there's an interaction with Torrens
and then an audio cut, Look,
Torrens is saying something, isn't he?
I think he says, "You are,"
No, but he says something else, or…
Or breathes in between…
"You are not,"
That's what he says,
-He's in shock, saying, "You are not," -"You are not"?
He thought he knew who it was, but it wasn't who he expected,
There's more than one person with a motive to kidnap and kill Torrens,
The youth centers Torrens ran,
-Would that be in the '80s? -Yes,
If Joan Grau went through one, he could have met other kids
who shared the same thirst for revenge,
-Future anti-establishment radicals, -Right,
They act this way because both Torrens and Pintó wronged them somehow,
Toni,
-I'm digging into the victims and Torrens, -No, drop it,
We need information on the youth centers Torrens ran in the '80s,
And any ties between Pintó and those centers,
-Okay, -Malart,
What are you doing on a certain TV program's footage
chatting away with a crime reporter?
IRENE CALLING
A reporter who, coincidentally, has access to our case info,
-Trying to get him to talk, -They were filming, You knew that?
No,
As if you didn't already have enough strikes against you,
-What happened? -Nothing,
-Nothing? -Nothing,
Something caught my eye,
It's probably not important,
but yesterday morning an elderly woman died while attending mass
at Sant Jordi Cavaller, in the Gothic Quarter,
-At Sant Jordi Cavaller chapel? -Yes,
What's so special about that?
Like I said, it's probably unrelated,
but she lived on Passeig Turull, next to Parc Güell,
It's the closest entrance to the Tres Creus,
I don't know, it could just be a coincidence, but…
Wait for me in my office,
Yes, Mr, Torrens,
SANT JORDI CAVALLER SQUARE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010
-Hello, -Hello,
-Are you with the Mossos investigation? -Yes,
-Father Josep? -Yes,
-Rebeca Garrido, We just spoke, -Yes,
Sergeant Milo Malart,
Pleased to meet you, So, what can I do for you?
Did you know Georgina Perricot personally?
Very much so, She came to mass daily, even before I arrived,
She and her husband had a stall at the Santa Caterina market,
She kept coming even after she moved from the neighborhood,
-She lived near Park Güell, didn't she? -Yes,
Yes, she was a little upset about it all,
She said they were going to expropriate the house she'd bought
with her life savings,
Did you see anyone who seemed unfamiliar or out of place?
Well, lots of tourists come in lately, Lots,
Some attend mass, but others come in at any time,
-They take pictures and leave, -Right,
Where was Georgina found?
She always sat in the back rows,
Georgina?
We called an ambulance, but there was nothing they could do,
And the doctor didn't say anything? Did he notice anything unusual?
Well, now that you mention it, yes,
He said Georgina had a bruise on her wrist,
But that it could be normal, you know, at her age,
All right, Thank you very much,
Okay then,
I'll walk you out, Oh, look,
Father Gabriel, these are the Mossos here about Georgina's death,
-Rebeca… -Rebeca Garrido,
And Sergeant Milo Malart,
Camilo Malart?
Milo,
Always a pleasure to see a former student,
Sergeant of the Mossos,
You've done quite well,
We have to go,
You didn't get very good grades, especially in my class,
Your essays were always full of spelling mistakes,
I'm sure you're much more forgiving when it comes to other kinds of mistakes,
How is Father Pires?
Father Pires is on our mission in Honduras,
Honduras?
Far away with poor children, Very convenient,
How dare you?
As insolent as ever,
Well, I'd rather be insolent than a cowardly accomplice,
You knew what was going on and looked the other way!
-This is the house of the Lord! -Then tell him we're leaving,
I'll call the Mossos,
To file a complaint!
Go ahead, I'm sure they'll be happy to add your complaint to my record,
Toni, listen,
Find Perricot's body, The funeral home took it,
-Got it, -We need to request an autopsy,
Call Alba Conté, the judge's secretary,
-Keep me posted, -I'm on it,
I hope we're not too late,
We should check out her house,
Passeig Turull, 75,
-Know the way? -Yeah, behind Parc Güell,
Keep going and I'll guide you,
Milo, what you said earlier to--
It didn't happen to me,
But there was a kid in my class,
Carlos Guevara,
They ruined his life,
Maybe that's what happened at those youth centers,
A very high percentage of criminal profiles
come from victims of sexual abuse,
It makes perfect sense,
And it keeps happening year after year,
Poor kids in vulnerable situations, abused
while the guilty are protected by power,
Well, that would explain the hatred and thirst for revenge in these murders,
STOP SPECULATING WITH OUR HOMES
Yes?
Yes, he's here,
It's the judge,
Susana, what is it?
What's wrong with your phone?
I put it on silent mode and forgot, sorry,
Who is Georgina Perricot, and how is she connected to the case?
An old woman who lived by Parc Güell,
near the Tres Creus entrance,
She was found dead with a bruise on her wrist,
I don't know,
If there's nothing in the autopsy, we'll drop it,
Have they located the body yet?
Yes, we're still in time, But we'll need to contact her family,
She has a daughter, I'll handle it,
Then I'll sign the autopsy request and head out,
This case is going to break me,
Thanks, Susana,
Talk tomorrow, when Goyo has the report,
Bye,
They could have entered the park that way,
They still haven't made a move,
But if they plan to strike during the ceremony,
following their pattern, the kidnapping would be tonight,
It was unfortunate you appeared on TV,
You were there too, They blurred our faces,
Yours was perfectly recognizable,
Do you think they'll come after me?
I don't know,
Don't drive your car, just in case,
And if you don't mind, I'll crash on your sofa tonight,
You're taking this babysitting thing very seriously,
YOUTH CENTERS '80S
Yes?
It's Irene,
Your wife?
Ex-wife,
You're not divorced,
At least they're not coming to kill me,
The damn elevator's not working,
Why won't you pick up the phone? I've been calling all day,
Hi, Irene,
Hi,
This is Rebeca, my new partner at the station,
We're working, It's been a rough day,
I see,
I have a serious buyer,
They want to make a deposit tomorrow, I told you you wouldn't have to do much,
Come tomorrow, we sign the papers another day,
we sell it, and goodbye apartment,
Yes, sure,
I just wanted to make sure you'd come tomorrow,
Tell me where and when,
-At the apartment, -Okay,
The buyer hasn't seen it in person yet,
They're coming with their lawyer and the deposit contract,
They want it,
It's tomorrow at 9:00 a,m,
Don't let me down, please,
I'll be there,
Rebeca, right?
Yes,
-Nice to meet you, -A pleasure,
I'm off, Bye,
Bye, See you tomorrow,
Sorry about that,
Don't worry about it,
You've got a very interesting life,
Exhale,
Try to lift your leg a little higher,
And three, Inhale,
Exhale, Hand back to the floor, knee back down,
We continue with…
Susana,
-Good night, -Good night,
LAIETÀ SPORTS CLUB
FOR VERÓNICA ECHEGUI WITH ALL OUR LOVE AND ADMIRATION,
Subtitle translation by: Felipe M,