Child 44 Page #2
Who are you working for?
Anna...
Ivanovna Akmatova.
She has a dog, which will not eat.
Mattias Borisky Rakowski.
I'm a veterinarian. I'm nothing more.
If you are so innocent...
why do you run?
That is a very good question.
I run because you were following me.
When you are followed, you are arrested.
And when you are arrested...
you are already guilty.
So you tell me.
Why did I run?
Do you have any idea...
what happens...
in this room next door here,
to a man like you,
when you don't talk?
A child knows what will happen to me.
- Should he cross?
- No!
- What should he do?
- Look both ways!
Yes. Good.
Because our leader loves his children,
want them all to be safe.
This is sodium thiopental.
In less than a minute,
he will only be able to speak the truth.
Okay.
Little bit more.
Wait. Wait.
Vasili, ask your questions.
Okay. I want the name of every person
passing you information
from the British Embassy.
Leo.
Leo.
- What is it?
- Someone at the door.
Where?
Major Kuzmin?
I came as fast as I could.
There's been a terrible accident.
Alexei's son has been hit by a train.
I thought you wanted
to hear it from me first.
A train?
You and Alexei Andreyevich
came through the war together,
didn't you?
Yes.
We value Alexei. And we do everything
we can to protect him.
I'm sorry, I don't follow you. You...
protect him?
The poor man must be beside himself.
He's claiming his son was murdered.
Stalin tells us that murder
is strictly a capitalist disease.
But Alexei is flirting with treason.
So you know what has to be done.
I will find someone
And who better to do it than you?
Done.
Your brother. Help him help himself.
- Alexei.
- Leo.
Come in.
I am so sorry.
I have been personally...
asked to share
"Yesterday morning,
25th of October at 10:35,
"the body of one Jora Andreyev,
"8 years old,
"was found close by the train tracks
at 1 kilometer east of Vialki.
"Further examination of the victim's
body and the witness..."
My boy was found naked.
No. He was found fully clothed.
"Further examination..."
A train doesn't undress a boy.
"Further examination
of the victim's body
"and witness testimony
show multiple contusions,
"with bruisings and lacerations
to the torso.
"In keeping with this testimony,
"was indeed a tragic accident."
Why would a report even bother
to mention that he was clothed?
This was signed by Major Kuzmin.
He is the Department of Interior
Crimes Against the State.
5th Main Directorate, MGB.
Someone has slaughtered my son!
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