THE JULIA VALLE SHOW
Good morning,
Once again, we have to talk about the serial killer
whose threat looms over the city of Barcelona,
Last night, on this channel, Mauricio Navarro revealed
that such a delicate investigation
is led by a sergeant with the Mossos d'Esquadra
who's been under disciplinary action for two months for serious misconduct,
Today we'll have Mauricio himself here in the studio
to tell us the latest developments in the case,
He'll tell us whether the Mossos already have any leads
on the disappearance of businessman Félix Torrens,
who has allegedly been kidnapped for three days,
You're practically carrying her show, She barely talks about anything else,
INCOMING CALL UNKNOWN NUMBER
Hello?
Mauricio Navarro?
Yes, that's me,
I have something you'll want,
Who's this?
I am…
the shadow,
Sorry, I have to…
Who gave you my number?
I have a video,
What video?
Félix Torrens,
Is he alive?
Montjuïc, Laribal Gardens,
The lookout at the end of the pergola,
Midnight,
But I'm in Madrid right now,
This is something you'll want,
How do I know you're not playing me?
At least tell me why…
BASED ON THE NOVEL "EL VERDUGO DE GAUDÍ"
CITY OF SHADOWS
CHAPTER 3 CRYPT OF COLÒNIA GÜELL
LA BARCELONETA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010
3 DAYS AFTER FÉLIX TORRENS'S KIDNAPPING
Hey, Milo,
Bastos wants to see you, He's in his office,
Hey, I saw what happened yesterday,
-How are you holding up? -Fine,
Hey, just fucking ignore it, You hear me?
These shitty journalists…
Please sit down, I'll ask you directly, Milo,
Are you the one leaking information to that show?
Me? Am I the only one they mention? That doesn't make much sense, does it?
They didn't say your name,
How many sergeants are under review here?
You could've suggested it yourself, so we'd think it wasn't you,
That's far-fetched,
Very much your style,
To answer your question, no,
It's not me,
I'm not here to report on my partner,
I agree,
Milo is problematic,
Always has been,
I think…
it was a mistake to partner you with him,
Best if you go back to Egara headquarters,
I'm very interested in continuing with this case,
And I think I'm very useful here,
You can follow the case from there,
We'll send you the reports, and you'll share yours,
I'd rather stay here,
Garrido…
Milo is a good cop, but he's not at his best right now,
Maybe you'd be more useful on your own,
Toni, where's Rebeca?
In Singla's office,
Okay,
Where are you going?
Already given your daily report to your superiors?
Singla thinks you're the one leaking information,
-Milo, -What?
They don't want us to keep investigating, We need to stay focused,
I shouldn't have come today,
Look, I need to take a walk, Alone,
Let me know if anything comes up,
MACBA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Hi, Kata,
What do you want?
Do you mind if we talk for a bit?
Look, I'm not asking you as a cop, obviously,
Was Marc involved in something bad?
Drugs or something like that?
I have no idea,
I don't think so,
Are you sure?
Could he have been hiding it from you?
I don't know,
You were seeing each other, weren't you?
Kata,
you have to help me, please,
You were expecting me to say I'd left him,
Or something like that?
That we'd broken up, and that's why he was a wreck,
Would that make you feel better?
Nothing happened,
Everything seemed normal,
Until you called me,
"Barcelona opens up to the sea,"
That's what they used to say back then,
In a short time, land was rezoned,
old industrial neighborhoods were expropriated and torn down
that separated the city from the beaches…
-For the Olympics? -Yes,
But it wasn't just about building the Olympic Village or hotels,
It was a complete, historic transformation,
And how was Pintó involved in that?
By the late '80s, he was one of Adcoensa's executives,
and his construction company built much of that infrastructure,
In some circles,
the construction of the ring roads and the C-31
was called "the Pintó Plan,"
For many, the whole city became a business,
a land to be conquered,
No one could stand in the way of modernity,
The whole world was watching,
And everyone profited,
Or so it seemed,
But thousands lost their homes,
Sergeant! We've got him!
Did you locate him?
Yes, at the squatted school in Collserola,
We need to set up the whole operation,
What have we got?
-A suspect, -Who is it?
An anti-system activist, pro-independence,
His name is Joan Grau, A squatter with a long rap sheet,
Rojo, draft the file to send to court right away,
Cervera, you come with me,
Milo, where are you?
Water…
Water,
Why are you doing this to me?
Kill me, please,
Kill me…
but don't hurt me,
This is Joan Grau,
Is this a recent photo?
-How old is he? -Thirty,
He's been scraping by and surviving since he was born,
His family is from La Verneda,
It's a rough neighborhood,
Residents have been fighting for decent housing for decades,
THEFT & ASSAULTS WE DEMAND SOLUTIONS
Joan was born in one of the area's poorest houses,
According to this report, his mother cleaned stairwells
and his father eked out a living for some years as a construction worker,
One day he was fired, and he never found work again,
His mother fell ill, and his father had to beg on the street,
Calm down, Inside, Back up,
And Joan was placed in a youth center until he turned 18,
Four years ago, during the crisis,
an eviction order was issued for his parents' house,
The bank took over the housing complex,
and sold it to Pintó's company…
Hey! That's my home!
…who tore it down to raise an apartment block,
A sweet deal,
It was clear to Joan Grau,
The system and the powers that protect it were to blame,
Since then, he's been jailed
for disturbing the peace, assaulting officers,
charges of bodily injury, and crimes against private property…
He became a leader,
The Mossos know him well,
He has plenty of reasons to protest,
And the will to act,
Why do you think he's suspected of murder?
He's very violent,
He hates banks and construction companies,
They like to break into offices and trash them,
They wrap it up by hanging a dummy on the facade,
which they then set on fire,
Oh, and one more thing,
Grau has publicly threatened Pintó on several occasions,
He holds him directly responsible for their eviction,
-Do we know where he is? -Yes, at an abandoned school,
The Escolapios of Collserola,
What are we going to film in Montjuïc at this hour?
Mauri,
Let's go,
You're not going to tell me who it is?
Who is it?
I arranged to meet him here, Hide, so he won't see you,
Someone famous or something?
Would you get a good camera shot from up there?
Okay, I'll stand there, yeah, But who is he, Mauri?
Who the hell is he?
The killer, The guy who burned Pintó,
No shit, Here? Now?
Any minute now, So, come on, Quick!
-Go! -Holy shit,
Lucas!
Keep an ear out, just in case,
Okay,
Hello,
Who are you?
You don't have to give me your real name,
How about "The Shadow of Gaudí"?
Are you acting alone or is there someone else?
Copy that,
ESCOLAPIOS OF COLLSEROLA, BARCELONA 5:00 A,M,
OCCUPY AND RESIST
FUCK THE SYSTEM NOT THE ECOSYSTEM
Come on! Go!
Go!
Kill them! Get them out of here!
Son of a bitch!
Kill him, damn it!
Huh? What?
-Charge! -Go!
Let's go!
Son of a bitch!
Target located,
The one with the flamethrower,
Miquel!
You son of a bitch!
No!
-Quick! -Don't move!
Grau!
-You bastards! -What is this?
-You bastards! -Calm down!
You bastards!
Get out!
Get back!
Put your hands up! Drop the fire extinguisher!
We are a rebel people!
Enjoy a nice day at the beach,
Coming,
Hello,
What's with the face?
I brought you churros,
Good morning,
The agency told me it's a good time,
I guess they always say that so you don't run off,
But we looked into it and I think we could get a good price,
If we rush, we won't,
I'll take care of everything,
I'll make sure you come in as little as possible,
Just to the notary,
You know I can't stand going to the notary,
It's the one thing I can't do for you,
You're wrong, There are lots of things you can't do for me,
This…
must be very unhealthy,
But it's so good,
You know, I went to see that girl, Kata,
Why?
She didn't realize what was going on either,
-Milo, please… -I just don't get what we did wrong,
You won't fix it, no matter how many times you repeat it,
What if I end up like that too?
Fine, but only after you sign at the notary,
My father told me they talk a lot about your case on TV,
Mr, Elias Margarit watches those shows?
He said they talk about you,
I'll make more coffee,
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Free Joan Grau!
FREE JOAN GRAU!
Free Joan Grau!
Several detainees spent the night in police custody…
4 DAYS AFTER FÉLIX TORRENS'S KIDNAPPING
…but our sources say
one of them is considered a suspect in the murder of businessman Eduard Pintó,
Do you know who Eduard Pintó is?
The one…
The one who turned up burned a few days ago on top of La Pedrera,
Do you know who he was?
The son of a bitch who took my parents' house,
Did you know that?
How did you hear about his death?
On TV, in a bar,
In fact, people applauded,
I swear, Everyone,
Too bad he can't…
he can't be burnt every night so we could watch,
So you admit that you had reasons to wish him dead?
Yes, sir,
Like a lot of other people,
The ones applauding in the bar, for instance,
Does this ring a bell?
You burned this dummy on the balcony of the squatted school
a month ago,
Tell me, Who does the dummy represent?
-No comment, He's within his rights, -Yes,
I'll answer,
Look…
Its face…
Who does it resemble?
It's Eduard Pintó,
What's wrong? Doesn't it look like him?
-Yes, -Yes,
You know what sucks though?
Dummies don't burn the same,
Imagine it,
Imagine the skin…
and the fat
feeding the flames,
What a rush, isn't it?
How's it going?
-Hi, -Good,
It's him,
At the raid on the school they found leaflets like this,
signed by a self-proclaimed anti-system movement,
These guys aren't anti-system, Sergeant,
The ones who evict people, like Pintó, are the real ones,
Or the ones who take bribes in a briefcase with public funds, like Torrens,
The politicians who protect them are the real anti-system,
Who give them streets, squares, entire neighborhoods
for them to set up their business,
And it always ends up in the same hands, doesn't it?
What a coincidence,
The same old folks,
They're the same thieves, but disguised as patrons,
They're the winners, What does that make the rest of us?
The losers,
No, that's changing,
We'll become their nightmare,
We have popular resistance against institutional violence,
Popular resistance?
There are many of us, more every day,
We're a rebel people,
The Rose of Fire does not yield,
That puts you outside the law,
Funny, isn't it? What's right isn't always legal,
"Nor is what's legal always right,"
Thoreau, 1848, I've read him too,
You know what the system is?
What is it?
I am the system,
And so is your lawyer,
So are your rights, All of them, every single one,
And if it weren't for the system, this system,
they would've thrown you off that school's balcony,
-What the fuck are you saying? You know-- -Look at me!
Why the top floor balcony? Come on,
For visibility,
-Didn't you see it on TV? -No,
No, I lit the match on that fucking pig,
Joan, wait a moment…
-Why? -He deserved to go to hell,
-You couldn't do it alone, Who helped you? -Yes, I could,
-Bullshit, -Hey, what's wrong?
You know what's wrong?
You don't have a single fucking piece of evidence,
Look, Joan, I've read your file,
I know you could have done it, And you had every right,
I get it,
But not like that,
You could've shot him,
Malart, I order you to stop,
You don't have the brains to pull it off, Who helped you?
Where the hell are you holding Torrens?
Joan! Let it be clear that this was a provocation,
What were you thinking? Or were you improvising?
-It hurts, doesn't it? -One thing is clear, He's guilty,
How so?
Joan Grau may be a manipulator, capable of acting and playing us,
but he's not the kind to stage theatrics,
who can wait for their victim to die of starvation,
who can edit videos carefully, and keep his identity hidden…
He's the opposite, An exhibitionist, impatient, impulsive…
Someone who shows their face and shouts their threats,
He's a menace, but not the one we're after,
Well, I wouldn't be so sure,
I'm not saying Grau is innocent,
On the contrary, he might be the perpetrator,
We know Pintó was killed by several people,
At least two,
But the mastermind
is still out there,
And they will act again,
Tomorrow marks five days since Torrens's kidnapping,
Pintó was killed on the fifth,
Are we not going to do anything to try to stop it?
Of course we will,
We need to set up a surveillance system at Gaudí's main monuments,
I'm ordering imprisonment for Joan Grau,
Free Joan Grau!
FREE JOAN GRAU
We have a pending conversation,
I called headquarters,
I'm going to keep working with Milo,
I want to see this through to the end,
Tomorrow is an important day,
Garrido, it's a privilege to have you working with us,
but you're letting yourself be led by a nut,
Thank you, but I disagree,
I think I'm qualified to know that,
REBUILD YOUR LIFE AFTER THEY'RE GONE
I brought dinner,
Singla must pay you well to be my babysitter,
You seem obsessed with me being your babysitter,
I'm not interested in kids,
Did you know they sent Grau straight into the punishment block?
You think it's my fault?
That I provoked him so he'd hit me?
Poverty costs your whole life,
I came to work,
I brought you sleeping pills, see if they work for you,
Yes?
-Milo, -What's up?
-Are you watching TV? -No, why?
They've been saying
they're about to show a video about Félix Torrens's kidnapping,
They say it's something big,
I'll put it on right now,
Okay, Talk later,
It's exclusive footage we've obtained,
It could also be very valuable for the investigation,
Hopefully it helps clarify what happened,
Well then, without further delay,
we'll share that footage with all of you,
We again warn that it may offend viewers' sensibilities,
Go ahead,
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
I need a little water, please,
What do you think?
We're watching it,
How the hell did they get this?
I don't know what you want from me, but I can give you money,
He's talking to one person,
In my car there's a briefcase with a lot of money,
and I can give you more,
Play it again,
It's the money from the briefcase,
Probably,
Is that a basement?
Why do they want us to see this?
They're making it clear that Torrens didn't flee,
That he's in their hands,
Right, but they never showed us Pintó in the cage,
They're getting more confident, They're stepping up the level of sadism,
It's linked to the emotional source of their experience,
Patrols will be deployed simultaneously
at the major Gaudí monuments, which could be targets,
On Passeig de Gràcia,
we'll keep watch at Casa Milà,
and we'll also be at Casa Batlló,
Not far from the two, Casa Calvet,
Of course, the Sagrada Família, especially the access via Mallorca street,
We'll send a patrol to Palau Güell,
on Nou de la Rambla,
Another to Casa Vicens, in Gràcia,
Another to Parc Güell,
And two more to Sant Gervasi,
Torre Bellesguard and the Col·legi de les Teresianes,
Understood?
The sergeant will inform on each unit's assignment,
Patrols will arrive at dusk,
and remain hidden and alert throughout the night,
Malart and Garrido,
you'll stand guard at Santa Coloma de Cervelló,
Colònia Güell,
You'll have to leave half an hour earlier,
Font, Bachs…
Passeig de Gràcia,
Punished,
COLÒNIA GÜELL, SANTA COLOMA DE CERVELLÓ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010
5 DAYS AFTER FÉLIX TORRENS'S KIDNAPPING
In 1890, businessman Eusebi Güell
moved the wool and velvet factories from the Sants neighborhood
to the town of Santa Coloma de Cervelló,
He immediately planned to house the workers right there
in order to avoid labor conflicts,
Around the factory, he built an urban center
and a church designed by Gaudí,
Construction was abandoned when Güell died,
They only managed to build the foundation, It was going to be huge,
The crypt is open,
We'll stay in constant contact,
Singla also has a surveillance post,
You have my number, We'll be doing rounds,
Let me know If you need anything,
-Okay, Thank you, Take care, -Thank you,
Want some?
Always thinking about food, huh?
Three times a day,
Thank you,
Why did you come back?
You knew you wouldn't be welcome,
I came back because they pay me, Plain and simple,
-It's not like they pay that much, -Well, it covers rent,
You can split it,
You're back with your wife,
I'm not back…
We still have many things in common,
And you?
How did you get the idea to sneak into Mossos headquarters?
Well…
The opportunity came up,
And…
I had nothing to do in Madrid,
I came back from the United States because…
my mother was dying of cancer,
Damn,
I'm sorry,
I like Barcelona,
I don't know anyone,
And no one knows me,
Lucky you,
I rejoined because, at this point in my life, I think…
there's only one thing I know how to do,
-Work? -Make spaghetti carbonara,
Milo?
You okay?
A crushing sense of failure,
That's the feeling behind last night's operation
by the Mossos' Criminal Investigation Division
at Gaudí's most emblematic buildings,
Mystery still shrouds the kidnapping of businessman Félix Torrens,
who was last seen here, at Palau Güell…
6 DAYS AFTER THE KIDNAPPING
…in the very heart of Barcelona,
We'll be on standby for any updates in the coming hours,
If anything happens, you'll be the first to know,
All right, everyone, please,
stay sharp,
The killer is still hiding somewhere,
Maybe they saw us and changed their plans,
Let's focus on what we've got, The lead on Joan Grau and the radicals,
There's plenty to do,
We need to cross-check the alibis of those in custody,
Go over the parking lot cameras to see if we can identify anyone,
These people have several squatted buildings, right?
Maybe they have Torrens in one of them,
Good idea, We'll request a search warrant,
Bachs, keep in touch with Fraud and Property,
see if there's any trace of the money that vanished with Torrens,
Thanks, You can all go get some rest,
-Who's up for churros and chocolate? -Me,
Maybe it's better if we don't find them,
At least for now,
And let them keep going,
Don't you think?
No,
Shall we?
She saw me,
STOP SPECULATING WITH OUR HOMES
FOR VERÓNICA ECHEGUI WITH ALL OUR LOVE AND ADMIRATION,
Subtitle translation by: Felipe M,