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Me? I'm nothing.

Come now, Tommaso. I think you need

to work on your self-esteem a little.

Or maybe you could

just lend me some?

Tomasso.

Hey.

Wait here.

Ferenc, no.

Sh*t.

The timing is

not an accident.

They knew we'd be

at the funeral.

Nothing seems

to be missing.

It looks like they were

looking for something.

Something particular.

Well, the Police

will be here soon.

What? What is it?

Mr. Welles, mother...

...is not convinced the

Police are being so helpful.

If you mean you think there's something

suspicious about Alessandro's death...

we're inclined to agree.

He was murdered

for sure.

And we are going

to find out who by.

My medicine.

Thank you.

Then, one morning.

I hear some cars

pull up outside.

They break in the door.

I hear jackboots

in the hall.

Cesare, my first husband, he tried to resist.

...and the Nazis,

they shot him.

They took Lea and I.

They interrogated us.

And then this handsome

actor appears like an angel.

Alessandro?

He gave us false

birth certificates.

...to say we

are not Jews.

"Age cannot wither her. "

Cleopatra.

I'm sure you

were wonderful.

Oh!

Oh.

Your Messalina.

You saw it?

Huh? No.

But it's legendary.

But you must come

and see it some time.

It was Alessandro's

favorite.

And perhaps when, uh, the

circumstances are kinder...

we might combine

it with dinner.

Dinner?

How could I resist?

All magicians, you know, have

something up their sleeve.

Giuseppe Albergini.

That's a

Christian Democrat.

Cardinal Sfogliano.

Count Montenegro.

He died last week.

Really?

Yeah. You didn't

read about it?

Gunned down in

his Mercedes.

Gianni Brasciatti,

that's the, uh...

The investor

for the film, yeah.

Ermano Pontecorvino.

That's another Christian

Democrat. He's-he's dead, too.

Mm.

What?

Orson Welles.

Yes. Mr. Peter Brewster.

Yes, this is

Orson Welles.

I'm a friend of his.

Ah. Would you please let

him know that I called?

It's very, very

urgent. Thank you.

I have no idea why he had

such a thing or what it means.

Does the name Nero

mean anything to you?

My mother takes

drugs for her pain.

Opium.

Alessandro got them from

a man he called Nero.

Do you know where

we might find him?

Sandro was a very

private guy sometimes.

I know this woman. She

worked for me in the force.

She knows all the dealers. I can contact her.

Orson!

Orson, you

remember Gianni?

Gianni Brasciatti.

Y es, of course. I never forget an investor...

...though there are many that

would like to forget me.

We were just wondering if you have

thought some more about my proposition.

What proposition?

Oh, a picture?

I was contemplating

the Bard.

Shakespeare!

Yes. A screenplay adaptation.

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