The Dancer Upstairs Page #3

A note attached to the man's neck

was written in the victim's blood.

'Hurry to cut off the fat arms

of the damned.' "

A message found on the body declared:

'Guns will make us powerful.

Butter will only make us fat.' "

Dead dogs suspended from lampposts.

Macabre spectacle. "

The body had been skinned alive

using a high-pressure water hose. "

- You like it?

- Yes, it's really sweet.

Where might I have put my Bible?

I think I put that sort of thing

in the cabinet.

Yeah?

Good morning.

Jesus Christ.

Are you with the police force?

Sergeant Sucre? You begin.

We've drawn a blank

with the boy bomber, sir.

A small part of his face was left intact...

...so I've been able to circulate

an artist's impression.

He was about 10 years old,

probably not local.

Before entering the hotel,

he'd drunk lnca Cola...

...and eaten meatballs

with rice.

But no one's claimed the body and

no one has heard of Ezequiel before...

...so we have no suspects.

- What about those dogs?

- Clorindo, please.

Yes. Well, as it turns out...

...it's not the first time dogs

have been killed like that.

In the last election,

dogs were strung up...

...in two villages in

the Ayacucho region.

I've checked the folklore, bearing in mind

one or two references to Deng Xiaoping.

Yes, in China,

you may be interested to know...

...a dead dog is symbolic of a tyrant

condemned to death by his people.

- Llosa.

- ln the remoter valleys...

...around the Huallaga, masked robbers

have twice been reported...

...conducting kangaroo trials.

The targets in both cases

were government representatives.

They were executed in a ritualistic way,

with stones or knives...

...then messages

were written in their blood.

A strategic equilibrium.

Anybody here know

what the f*** that means?

You traced some of this crap

back to a German philosopher?

So far, I've found three references from

Kant and two from the prophet Ezekiel.

Yes, but who is this Ezequiel?

Some guy who never got laid?

Some smart aleck who reads too much?

Some creep on a bridge spitting at

the traffic? What is your theory?

Well, if it is a creep spitting off a bridge,

he has a lot of saliva, sir.

It seems these actions started

in the countryside...

...around the time General Latche

stepped down.

Most have taken place

in isolated communities...

...where the idea of a central

government almost doesn't apply.

I have to emphasize

there haven't been a ton of them.

About 37 in 5 years.

And at first glance, they might

appear to be random and scattered.

- ln no case was there ever a name.

- Lieutenant, what are you saying?

I'm saying that 5 years ago...

...these actions, thought to have been

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