The Dancer Upstairs Page #2

What happened?

She closed the case

after her father lost his job...

...and her brother was raped.

She now lives in Miami.

Jesus Christ!

F***.

When I hear the word culture

I reach for my pistol

Okay, now...

What sort of a person would do that?

I don't know.

But I wouldn't entirely

rule out a cat lover.

I have something for my father,

Senor Granizo.

Okay, okay. Senor Granizo?

Here's your son.

Papa, Papa!

Viva El Presidente Ezequiel!

Viva El Presidente Ezequiel.

- You were a lawyer before?

- That's right.

Lawyers.

They're the worst.

Bent. But you never catch them.

You want one?

No, thanks.

Why did you want to be a lawyer?

- I don't think I did want to be one.

- Well, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a coffee farmer.

Like my father.

So why didn't you?

What stopped you?

I lack a coffee farm.

- What happened to your father's?

- The military seized it.

Do you have a feeling about that?

Or are you the Gary Cooper type?

Yes, I do have a feeling about that.

But perhaps I am the Gary Cooper type.

So...

...you went to university,

you got yourself a first-class degree...

...a prestigious law prize...

...worked with a bunch of fat cats...

Suddenly, you quit.

Not to move to Florida,

like anyone with half a brain...

...but to San Luis Police Academy.

Jesus Christ, Rejas.

You're 36 years old. You could

be heading for a judgeship by now...

...not a lieutenant having to make

ends meet on diplomatic road watch.

Why are you here?

I heard a powerful attorney once say,

"The establishing of the truth...

...was only one of the things

a trial is for. "

That is when I understood

the law wasn't for me.

Do you have a delicate

constitution or something?

No, sir. No.

You speak Quechua?

Well, yes. My mother's part lndian.

At police college...

...we used to make the lndians

eat dog sh*t.

Then it's fortunate that

I wasn't in your class, sir.

- Fortunate for whom?

- I should think both of us.

Here's what I want you to do.

I want you to take four people...

...you know, if you can find four

who aren't on some criminal's payroll...

...and I want you to investigate

this entity called Ezequiel.

Find out what's happening

before the army does.

You wanna see the army

back on the street again?

- You can go.

- Thank you, sir.

May I take this?

What did you tell Calderon

about Ezequiel?

Nothing.

You're not the only policeman here

who speaks quechua.

Man stoned to death.

A 33-year-old policeman was stoned

to death last week in Sierra de Puna. "

Mystery surrounds body.

An unidentified body was found,

with the limbs hacked off...

...on a roadside near Jauja,

200 miles east of the capital.

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