Stop, Skully.
Stop. No.
Criminal Court Ghent, Good morning.
Good day. Would you put me through
to Judge Robert Maes please?
Judge Maes is unavailable. Who is this?
His daughter, Hannah Maes.
I try to reach ... Has he taken leave or something?
Frankly we don't know where he is.
We deferred a few sessions because he didn't show up,
so ... Sorry.
Okay, thank you.
Did you just call? - Yes.
It is ... - Okay.
A dead junkie. Strangled during extreme sex.
Who is it? - Yes, who?
A junkie, no name, no papers, nothing.
How was she strangled? - Yes, those two kids,
filmed it with a mobile phone. - Yes.
Want to see?
It's violent.
Stop. - There was a camera.
In this box.
After it was done, the kids called the police
and they started walking.
Yes, the ... was so here. - Here.
Maybe the guy, I'm just saying, was making a snuff movie.
Go on, Charles. - Men ...
Please, a snuff movie in Ghent or what?
That can't be, huh?
Who owns this building? - That's all owned by a contractor
from Merelbeke. - Do they know there are squatters?
They have no problem with that. It is all broken down here.
Just what did that girl call out? - Skully, Skully, Skully.
Skully? Okay. Kevin?
Kevin? - Yes.
Check that name in your database and on SM sites?
You find out where that camera and mask come from.
Where are the cracker heads? - Up top.
Charles? Those snuff movies, an urban legend, right?
I don't know, huh. Surely it can't be? It can be anyway.
Yes. Identity card? - None.
Tell it again. Who is that dead girl?
Ludo. - Ludo, do you know who that girl is?
No. Cookie?
Someone else?
Max, who will know, I think. - Okay. Which of you is Max?
Max? Normally he's seen here all the time, but ...
Max. Max? Is there a Max here? - Max?
Maxie? - Okay, where can we find him?
I don't know. Somewhere. At a statue with ...
Hey, guys. What kind of a circus is this? It's full of fli ...
Hey. Hello.
Hey, here. Come. No, no, no ...
Zoë Van Noppen, 19 years old. Father, mother deceased.
An orphan child. Four years ago walked away from the center
for Special Youth Care. - Why you did run away from us, Zoe?
Delhaize called you? - Delhaize? No. Why?
Say, you stole a bottle of gin?
Hey. We are silent about it.
Do you know her?
Good looking, huh.
No. - Be sure of?
Okay. Charles, you call the Delhaize? - Yes.
Hey, ho, ho. Yes, ça va.
She hung around our property for a few weeks.
She calls herself Jane, a mega heroin junkie.
Jane, and what else? - I don't know.
And do you know where she is?
She only said she's been on the street since she was 13
and she scrounged and begged in order to eat and score dope.
Has she OD'ed?
She was murdered.
Fuck. With us in the building?
Say, do you know someone called Skully? Does Skully mean anything to you?
No, who's that? - she was with you
twisted porn movies? - What?
No. Go on, not that I know of.
You may have something to eat? I forgot to pick up cakes.
Good. None of those squatters saw anything.
They all say at the moment she's on the street, coincidentally,
except for a certain Max. We need to question him.
He wasn't home. If you all can call home.
Do you know more about that mask? - Probably Mexican.
Very popular on fuck sites on the Internet. Easy to buy.
Yes. Camera? - An ordinary handycam,
widely available. - And the name Skully?
That's' a nickname. On the Internet it can be anything.
The dishwasher in a restaurant, a children's game,
pipes, from The X-Files. - And on SM sites?
Nowhere to be found. This movie hasn't surfaced.
Perhaps the author provides those snuff movies to video stores.
That isn't it? - Yes, okay, okay. Yes.
Officially no, I know that. - Which video store in Ghent
has snuff movies in his place? - It isn't that.
Perhaps that crap can be found illegally wrapped under the counter.
Whether snuff movies exist or not, doesn't matter.
There is a chance, so we have check all video stores. Yes?
All the video stores? - Yes.
Then we're looking for snuff movies. - Of course, yes.
Snuff Movies? - Yes.
But tell me, sonny. Do you have to walk all over Gent for that?
Yes. - If that exists here,
such filth, then I certainly don't want it in my shop.
Yes. - Does the name Skully mean anything to you?
Say that again. - Skully.
I don't mean like in The X-Files.
Yes, I know. Yes, that's an actor.
An act ... What actor?
Hey ...
Yes, thank you and stuff.
You're welcome.
Why do you live here? You can go to a shelter?
I have a little trouble with authority, orders and rules,
Then I can go straight to the tank.
Yes.
What I said about strange people in my house?
No strangers in my house. - Quiet, Max. Those are the cops.
Cops, Max. Max, cops.
Max, get an eyeful.
What is that fucking shit? - Does the name Skully mean anything to you?
Never heard of it. - And that girl?
Jane?
Yes, who came here a few weeks. Normally I don't take junkies into the house,
but she had a lot of food, so ... - Yes.
You're the boss or what? - Yes, I've cracked it here.
I decide who is and isn't allowed to come here. This is Max's house.
Where were you this morning, Max? - In the market.
Rerum Novarum Square. I was there to scrounge and begging.
Is that a problem? - No.
But there is a killer in your house, I have a problem with that.
Max.
Don't you eat? - There is still spaghetti.
Bolognese without ... - Ludo, silent.
Here behold, see. Skully, I knew it.
I knew I knew that name. See it?
That's an erotic horror movie. Supposedly, huh.
Where does that movie come from?
This comes from a filmmaker from here, in Ghent.
From ... - It has a new company
and it distributes its movies itself. - Did you see that guy?
What did he look like?
Hit me dead now. I don't know. - You've seen him yet or not?
But by no means. He called me.
I ordered and I have ... Go on, I ...
Charles.
Terloo Productions. - Franky?
Yes.
Good, because I'm going to take seven a pick-up run
because the latest weren't good. I want more. A bit naughtier.
Lesbian lick fest, scene 3, take 7. Pick-up and action.
Yes. Look, voilà. I believe that. I believe that. Nice.
That looks good. Yes. Yes. - And cut.
End filming, Franky.
I'm now director of course.
I do everything myself: filming, editing, turn on computer, burn DVDs.
I'm not in the big ...
Yeah, thanks for the presentation of your resumé.
Who was Skully who played in them?
Skully. Skully, I met him a few months ago in a café.
Mr. looked for work. I casted him for 100 euros.
At a reasonable deal. - Was that in white, in black?
I wanted to do that with a small artistic presentation,
but Mr. wanted it in black. - Got his name?
Have his initials? Have an address?
He introduced himself to me as Skully.
I didn't questioned it. Skully, Skully ...
I seriously regretted it.
What? - Stealing.
First duck tape, it was an stand,
in the long run was that a camera. - Mexican mask?
A Mexican mask.
Where were you this morning between 07:00 and 09:00, Franky?
At your colleagues in Bruges. - What?
I had to sit in the lockup there until 12:00.
Check it. - Yes, I was there last night
hunting for locations to shoot in the belfry.
I was turning skirts up. - Under their skirts or what?
Suddenly two women called the cops: Unwanted filming.
What was that? - You must give a description
of Skully so we can make a photo fit picture.
Say, guys. You're not going to hold me here all day. Come on, write on.
Franky, if you concentrate, I'll concentrate
on your equipment you recruited for your illegal DVDs. Yes?
Say. - Good, come.
Stand up straight. - Yes.
Yes, and so with a moustache too.
A bit fuller. The moustache slightly fuller.
Yes, yes. That's him
Say, guys. Could I get away, because I still have
to prepare to run the scenes in Salto cafe tomorrow.
Miss, I'm still going to give you my card.
If you ever feel like or I don't know what,
ever to perform in a movie.
Yes. - Go on, fully ...
No, but that's good. I'll call you.
Ah well, call me.
Kevin? - Yes.
Issue an APB and pass it to the patrol teams.
Okay.
You've reached Robert Maes. I am currently unavailable.
Please leave a message after the beep. Thank you.
A blonde is in the plane after a week's holiday on Ibiza
and she says to the guy beside her: finally back together.
The guy says: do we know each other?
No, says girl: I was talking about my knees.
Guys, I think we still busy with snuff movies here in Ghent.
Kevin, are you there now?
Charles, you have brainwashed him?
That's the DNA test report for Skully's sperm
found on Jane.
We have a match in the database. 3 months ago
is the same semen found on the corpse of a gypsy.
Death by strangulation. Was it with a chain?
Yes. She had no papers on her, ID ... An illegal.
Why do we know that now? - It was classified
by Homicide as settling of scores within the gypsy encampment.
Yes. - When was she found?
Three months ago. - When Skully
stole Franky Terloo's camera. - Yes.
Then she was the first victim of one of his snuff movies.
Jesus, people. What kind of bastard do we have here?
Where was that woman found? - On Krommewal in a container.
I want all the evidence of the case. Now.
Okay. - So ...
Skully looked for victims for his films, right?
Perhaps he looks within the undocumented migrant community,
Gypsies, the homeless, people that no one misses.
You have a point, yes. Well, inquire.
In all shelters. - There are Gypsies
the Watersportbaan. - Hearings. Yes?
Come on, Kevin. We'll check in on those squatters
if they know that gypsy. Yes?
Say, Hannah.
What do you think? - No, here.
Those eyes are completely different. - No?
No.
Good. Have any of you ever seen these two people?
It can take days ago. This can be recent,
that can also, I don't know, a few months ago.
Under a bridge somewhere on the street, maybe in another squat,
park ...
It may be months ago. Good looking, huh.
Is that Skully? - Yes.
Never seen him.
That gypsy certainly not. - Wait a minute. Yes, I know her. Yes.
That's Brad Pitt and that's Angelina Jolie.
May I see it?
Female ...
I don't know.
That guy ...
I have ever seen someone which then seemed.
In ... In Bruges.
The Cactus Festival.
Good, I'm visited at Poverello.
That gypsy woman she don't know, never seen.
never heard of Skully but she have us truly recognized.
Jane, who for a while used to eat here regularly.
And she was quite intimate friends with a volunteer who worked there,
Hans Richard.
Have you spoken? - No,
because he disappeared six months ago.
That's weird, huh? I find that strange.
Okay, a background check and whether his corpse's been found. Yes?
Gypsies? - Here: Connais only.
I know, no, I think ... No one who wants to talk with the cops.
Do you still have your wallet? - Franky Terloo is nothing.
The police in Bruges confirm he was sitting in the lock up
when Jane was murdered, so ...
Okay. Kevin, in the event Ludo isn't out of his neck on smack,
a photo fit picture of Skully Forward it to Bruges.
I want permanent observation at the squat
and I want a DNA sample of the men who live there.
Ho, hello, continuous observation, a packet of DNA tests
for that squat, that's a waste of people and resources.
One crack head star or a gypsy more or less, who cares?
This has nothing to do, Charles.
It is unlikely Skully will strike again in the same place,
so observing that squat makes no sense.
Good. I go check my mail. - Yes. I'll go with it.
Charles? Charles?
Mark. - Hannah, you shouldn't insist.
I have said no. Yes?
Have you heard anything yet about my father's last days?
No.
Nothing? Not heard? Not seen him? Didn't call?
No. Why? Is there something?
Not that I know of.
Never mind.
Dad?
Yes, Charles.
Hans Richard, 27. He is the son of Ernest Richard.
This is an old colleague of ours, a police officer.
His mother's deceased. At 11 he was sent to juvenile prison.
Theft and assault. - Violence?
That boy works voluntary in a shelter?
At released at 18, then worked at T & D Mechanics.
Yes, went bust last year. 750 people out on the street.
Yes. Yes, in the Ghent area, no bodies were found
corresponding to the Hans Richard's description. Yes ...
Bob, we'll visit Hans Richard's father.
Where does he live? - On Wiedauwkaai.
What is it? - Captain Maes,
My colleague Degroof Sexual Crime Unit. Do you have a permit?
I was a member of the shooting club for 30 years. Provincial champion, 2004, 2007.
I trained for the championship next week.
Is that a problem? - You can't shoot in your garden.
You should know? - It shouldn't.
Since when do they send out Sexual Crime Unit?
Mr. Richard, we aren't for you. We've come in connection with your son,
Hans, Hans Richard.
That's of course quite an old photograph.
This was taken when we still lived in Gent,
on Steenvoordelaan.
What was he like as a child? - Yes, how should I say?
Actually it was like he had a double.
Sometimes he was ...
a well behaved young man.
When he did what you asked.
And sometimes he's strike out at once. When he became unmanageable
and angry and annoying and ...
He has sent to juvenile prison, hey, your son, Hans?
Can you imagine, the son of a cop in jail?
All the Kremlin laughed at me.
And I did everything. I did everything for that boy
so he'd get cured once again.
When was the last time you saw him?
When he was in jail. - That was nine years ago?
Yes. Then he was released and then he ...
severed all contact with us.
He didn't even attend his mother's funeral.
Can you imagine?
Has he been up to something again?
Your son is a possible witness in a case we're handling.
Do you have a picture of your son that is more recent than this?
Hello. - Hi. How is it there?
Muy bien. Fantástico. Fine location here, you know.
And pretty models too, so ... - I hear it, you amuse you.
Hey, I'm working, huh.
For the rest I count the days until I get back, so ...
Go on, I remember exactly I had something good for you?
Your loft is under water, kid. - What? Go on, just kidding.
There is a section of pipe and it drips inside with me.
Go on, you can't. And is it bad?
Hannah, is it bad? - Just kidding.
Really? - No, your plants were watered
and your mail is on the table, so you need not worry.
That you get back. Go on, thanks. Say, how are you anyway?
Ça va. - Ça va? That doesn't sound ça va.
I tried to contact my dad for a few days already without success.
Oops.
He isn't home and he isn't at work, so yes, voilà.
Couldn't he just be with some sexy lawyer
in a hotel? That makes no sense
to worry your nose about that. Don't you think?
I'm going to. - Ah yes.
Do that well, huh. - Yes. Good day, huh.
Yes. Bye.
I swear. With such goggles and shorts
he was popping in his court. - Ernest Richard, here ...
With a 9 mm.
Was anything found in the evidence about that gypsy?
All ordinary junk.
Beside one thing.
Terloo Productions. - Yes.
Where is Franky filming today?
In a café yet, About the Outer Port? Salto?
Something to drink?
Go on, where is he?
We won't learn anything here, huh?
Ah ...
Ah well yes. Look, so as you see, I am here to create a framework
for my new film.
Wow, Franky. filming Women that piss and shit,
there's a case file in that frame.
Good, Franky ... - Go on, guys. Come on, kid.
Why do you always ask me?
As she walked around with your card and she's dead.
That's your card? - Yes ...
Anyone can walk around it. I gave that card to half of Ghent.
Does the name Hans Richard mean anything? - No.
Look closely at these pictures.
What? You know him?
No, but he looks like him. - Who?
Is that Skully's little brother?
Skully?
Ah yes, look, look. Here.
Those eyes, the same crack. Go on and his mouth ...
Damn. - 99% sure
Skully's little brother. - Or Skully himself as a young boy.
Why? Then our Hans is Skully?
Kevin? - Yes.
Can you age Hans Richard to about 27?
With three photos it should be successful. - How long will it take?
How long will it take? I must bring in a 32 bit,
on different channels, CMYK values ??...
Seriously? - Yes, from JPEG to PSD ...
Wow. - Yes. The greatest of all
baseline progressive scan, so ...
Now make it happen. - Okay.
I'll pay Richard's dad on Wiedauwkaai another visit.
Kevin Desmet, here. - Sonny, how about it? Is it ready?
This is Richard Hans at sixteen.
And that's him at 27.
Compare that to the photo fit picture.
Guys, see once. - No, Bob. Wait, wait.
Listen. Just listen. Okay?
Here is the squat where Jane was found. Right?
Here Krommewal, the container with the Gypsy,
and in between Steenvoordelaan in Gent.
Where Hans lived as a child? - Yes.
Could this be your son?
Yes, that could well be our Hans.
Wow. His mother wouldn't recognize her Ludo no longer.
Ludo?
Hans Ludo. Go on, look. If you are disposing of her,
is it just Ludo at the squat?
Hans Ludo Skully.
Ludo? - She found Ludo nicer than ...
Come guys. To the squat.
Yes, Max. Wake up, boy.
Hey. - Ludo? Ludo seen?
Wake up. Come. Tell me, please.
We are looking for Ludo. Where's Ludo? - I don't know.
Why? He lives here, right? - Yes, sometimes, sometimes not.
In my opinion He's at his country house.
Okay, where is that?
Above is no one. - Where is this country house?
Yes, maybe Zoë knows.
She and Ludo were yesterday conspiring in a corner.
And where is Zoë? Is Zoë upstairs? - No, nobody, nobody.
Where is she? - I don't know.
Where is Zoë? - I don't know.
You're not afraid?
We have talked about it anyway?
Hey, Bob. That house where Ludo formerly lived in Gent?
Steenvoordelaan. - Yes.
Steenvoordelaan. - Steenvoordelaan.
You search here. - You outside there?
Yes, okay. Go, go.
good with the chain around.
Voilà. That's good, that's good. You, hup, voilà.
Yes. Now watch the birdie. Yes, voilà.
It is to play. It is to play.
Hannah. Hannah, off.
Hannah.
Okay.
Come. Come.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay.
It says: As a result of stress or isolation increases psychoses.
His flight then into a fictional character, Skully,
who creates his own reality and opts for extreme aggression.
Features: disturbed emotions, language problems ...
Yes.
Ludo, where are the films with the murders of Jane and Gypsy?
Two murders, that's years in jail, huh.
Your client will laugh again, I think.
I don't work for clients, when I want to sit in jail,
that is my choice. My choice. The choice of ... I.
Who is your client, Ludo? - Nobody.
When I've finished a film, then I lay it on the windowsill.
I hang a red cloth at the window and an hour later: poof. An hour later,
poof, poof, poof ... the DVD is gone.
And then there's an unmarked envelope with cash.
Correct.
You've read "Suske and Wiske" too many times.
Which window? - In Steenvoordelaan.
When would she get it?
Tonight I'd give that DVD to ...
Zoë? - Correct.
That appointment didn't come by itself, right?
When did you make contact the first time with the fans
of your work? - When I first ...
made contact with those fans?
Last year, in a letter.
I was squatting in our old house on Steenvoordelaan
and I had lost my job and stuff. Blablabla.
I got five thousand euro when I made a fuck movie
with a real murder and the rest is blablabla. Do you understand?
And you scrounged that camera and mask from Franky Terloo?
Correct. Then I had only to look for insects, hey,
to destroy. - Women?
you call women that?
Hookers? spray bitches?
Spray Bitches ...
The psychiatrist at the juvenile detention was right.
Tell us something about Skully. - Skully. Skully, Skully ... Skully.
I know that. The avenger of Akira 2, old gay men who cut his head off.
It's not about sex. It's not about sex.
Ah no? Why? The art?
To the aesthetics?
You know what I think you after?
Power.
You've been dumped on your whole life.
By your dad, by your teachers,
by classmates, at work, in prison.
Do you think there less shit now because you make movies
for someone, you're going to have to take responsibility?
There is a whole lot of shit on your head now.
Who is the nuisance now, Ludo?
I am Skully. I make art. Suckers. - Yes.
Come. Go on, Go. Come.
Go on, come on.
He's there.
Wow. That's a fucking attack. Not good for my ticker, say.
You don't do that.
Yes, a false alarm. - Yes.
That's a jogger.
You must feel it, say. - Ça va?
Yes, it is okay.
Hey, wait. He's going inside. - The walkie. The walkie.
Elvis has entered the building.
Hello.
Hands out of your pockets.
And turn around. Right hand too.
Hey. Hands out of your pockets. Don't you hear well or what?
Fuck. Fuck.
Pepper spray, the suspect is going on foot.
Fire somewhere?
Pepper spray, go.
Hey. Come.
Hands at your back.
That's the lady from the video store.
Did you commission Ludo Richard to make snuff movies?
No. No, by no means. These assignments come from Lithuania.
Beware. It seems they sell very well there, that kind of movie.
But that is by mail, anonymous and ...
I give that order to Ludo and he makes the movie.
Why did you choose Ludo? - He's comes to the video store for years.
A frustrated loser. When I receive mail from Lithuania,
I have sent Ludo the first anonymous letter.
A few months after, I was out jogging, I went past.
A red rag was hanging at his window, certainly.
So it began.
Why did you yourself give us that movie by Skully?
Yes, you'd find that anyway, so I could give him up better myself.
I'd be less suspicious, huh. - Why real murders?
This is cinema, you know. These aren't real murders.
You don't think I believe you? You can order them.
Anything else? What? - That you don't think
you've done something wrong?
Yes, it's true. I have earned a bit illegally
as an intermediary. - Earned?
2 women were killed. 2 women were raped and murdered
and you're talking about money?
Come on, say. If you want to perform now in such filthy porn,
Are you such a dirty whore?
Yes, one addicted to the needle and then a Gypsy,
who no one will miss?
What? He? Damn, a little gypsy?
Here. - A little gypsy?
Wait a minute. I've got something.
One more thing ...
A shelter.
Yes. No. Young people who live out in nature
and not too many rules. I thought: Maybe that's something for you.
Yes.
I will go and see. - That's good.
Thanks, huh.
Be careful, yes?
Help.
Who are you?
Please don't.