Fresh meat. Straight off the farm.
Fresh? This body is a year old.
It's a sort of a joke, your predecessor would have got it.
Yes, I understand that he was funny. Lazy, but funny.
You said something about a farm.
Collective farm number 5. The big field right next to the...
This girl died in the woods.
I'm sorry, were you about to say right next to the woods?
Did you look through them?
No.
Well, better go back and look through them.
For what?
For something that I can use to identify her. Her glasses, a cigarette butt... anything.
If there had been anything like that, we'd have brought it in.
Do you think we are all lazy?
Go back and search the woods. - It's after five.
I don't care what time it is. Take an extra man, tell Sasha
it's on my authority. Comb the area. Look under every leaf and every tree.
- Alright, alright.
I get the idea.
Heartless, son of a bitch, what's he trying to prove?
Dear Comrade, he's new.
Doctor Mirtjinskij? Your turn, the body is ready for autopsy.
No, there's no question how the little girl was killed. Violent blow to the back...
Shouldn't you do an autopsy all the same?
Comrade...
Did you help me get this job so I could do your job too, is that it?
- Comrade Burakov... What is it? 28.5
They're coming in with something for you, they want you to wait.
Tell them that tomorrow is fine. I can't deal with it now, it's after nine.
Who cares what time it is!
Have a nice evening.
Violent blow to the back of the skull. Multiple stab wounds to the face.
On the second body, as many as 17 stab wounds to face and eyes
along with striations of the eye sockets.
26 wounds to the chest and breakage suggesting...
...32 stab wounds with additional disfigurement to the breasts.
43 stab wounds to the face alone along with traces of semen...
On the sixth victim the penis has been removed approximately 2.3 cm. above the junction,
with some additional disfigurement of the genital area.
Some additional disfigurement... Some additional disfigurement...?
Additional disfigurement of the nature that suggests...
not so much a sharp instrument as teeth.
Yesterday the men of the Rostov militia
unearthed eight bodies in different stages of decomposition.
And you brought the odours of the graves into the room as an olfactory aid? How clever.
I assume the time you devoted to their examination 46.5
was the time you couldn't spare to get cleaned up.
Next time a little less diligence and a little more hygiene.
In the rather poorly kept files of my predecessor
I found records of seven other bodies.
- If you do not mind Comrade, I would like to start
by introducing you to the members of the committee.
General Ivanov, head of KGB for the Rostov oblast.
Comrade Dunenkov, Comrade Tatevsky, our Mayor, Comrade Ignatiev...
and of course Comrade Bondarchuk,
Secretary for Ideology of the oblast Communist Party.
I'm Colonel Fetisov, I am in charge of the militia,
of which your office is a small part.
I am also Secretary of this committee.
- Gentlemen, this is Comrade Burakov...
he is our new forensic expert.
They are a breed of men who work in basements with chemistry sets.
One can hardly blame them for looking a little startled when they come out into the light.
Comrade, please begin.
It's clear that we have a serial killer on our hands,
already the most prolific in Russian history.
We will have to take extreme measures to stop him.
Is he saying a "Serial Killer"?
We understood that there were wide discrepancies between the wounds inflicted.
- That's what you told us, Colonel. And both boys and girls.
It could be two different men.
It could be a gang. - There are no serial killers in the Soviet state.
Well that sounds more like wishful thinking then a...
It is a decadent Western phenomenon.
Gentlemen, that's all we have for now.
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules.
I will keep you abreast of any developments, no pun intended.
Welcome to the Halls of Power.
My God. No wonder nothing gets done. - In this case it will.
- Why? Because you will be in charge.
What?
- You're in charge of the case. In fact, of the entire department...
as we technically don't have one, yet.
We have a division of most serious crimes...
We'll put you in charge of the "Killer Department"
The "Killer Department".
But I am not even a detective, I am a forensics man.
Didn't you always wanted to be a detective?
Yes... - Good, then you're in charge.
Start by making lists of the manpower and the logistical support you think you may require.
Then outline a general approach to beginning the investigation.
Report back to me tomorrow. Good day.
Is there something else? - Forgive me, but we reached the top...
of the regional apartment list in forsenics, my wife and two kids,
we qualified for a two bedroom...
We have been waitng for seven years.
If I take the new job do I lose my seniority?
I personally guarantee, that you will get the next two bedroom apartment
when it becomes available in Rostov.
All right? Now, go home and tell your wife about your promotion.
Yes, Sir.
Next, a special report on crime...
The deadly combination of heroin addiction and street crime...
is ravaging America's cities as even their own Time magazine...
Okay, let's hear it. - Let's hear what?
If this job is so great, why are you so upset about it?
I am supposed to keep it a secret.
I won't tell a soul.
For God's sake, you're tracking dirt all over the place... 108.5
- I'm sorry
What the hell have you been doing?
They made me move some filthy boxes at the factory.
I am from the Police. You are Mrs... It's about your daughter...
Where did you last see her?
It was over a year ago. I don't remember.
She was your daughter, how can you not remember where you last saw her?
Okay... 115.5
did she have friends?
No. She rode the trains whole day. She was slow.
Did he have friends?
Who? What were their names?
Did he have habits? - The Electrichka.
Say it again? - He rode the Electrichka.
He rode the trains for fun? - All the time.
He finds them on Electrichka!
He finds them on Electrichka. I know it.
Electrichka. The trains that criss cross rural Russia. 124.5
I know what they are, Comrade.
I don't ride them, but they do sometimes get in the way of my limousine.
If I was hesitant in my reaction it had only to do with a vague unease.
About what?
The fact that you have only been a detective for 48 hours
and your intution is already so highly developed.
Are you a genius or just given to bouts of enthusiasm?
I know the killer's method.
He picks up young people on the trains.
I've been to the station. They're all there.
The naive, the weak, slow.
It's over. He's confessed. - What? Who confessed?
Some retard from the Institution of Statsi. A Gypsy.
He's gonna show them the murder sights now.
Vasil, what's your problem? Don't you remember what you told us?
They are coaching him. - They are very experienced detectives.
That's exactly where I killed her.
Again you fucked up. This is the how manyeth time? Twelve?
He leaves for an appointment with the spring suppliers on Tuesday.
Comes back Thursday, saying
it went fine and Monday I hear they never saw him.
Never showed up.
Have you any explanation for your miserable performance?
I am going to take you down and show you to the workers on the line...
see what they think of you.
This is the man who stopped the chain of supply,
This is the man who stopped our work today
You have no where to go? Are you Hungry?
I hope this latest murder puts to rest the idea
that the gypsy boy did it.
Why?
Because he was in custody when this one was killed.
So what? It could be a gang of which he was only a part.
We can't disount the man as a suspect quite so cavalierly.
He did confess.
I have some requests to make. We have 16 bodies and no reason to believe...
we have found all that are out there. In my opinion it's a state of emergency.
And for that reason I have to ask for more men, a lot more.
I have also need computers, so that I can start the library of information about the case.
And I need to communicate with the FBI's Serial Murder Task Force
in Quantico, Virginia,
the largest storehouse of information about serial murderers in the world.
And finally, we need to publicise the case as widely as possible
First, to warn people of the danger.
Second, to get more of the unknown bodies identified.
And Third, in the hope of bringing forth a witness
to one of the crimes.
No. - No to what? No to everything?
Are you mad?
There's a maniac out there who will kill every child in the goddamn district!
Stop this insolence!
Is there something you want to say, Colonel. - No, sir.
You handled that quite deftly. - Bondarchuk is a stupid man.
He may be stupid, but he is in charge.
How can it be that you don't seem to know how things work in the Soviet system?
I know how things work, but right now there are 16 dead children 179.5
and I want a little special treatment!
The strength of the bureaucracy is measured 180.5
by it's ability to resist giving anyone special treatment.
I don't appreciate your sense of humor. - One day you will.
The reason they said no to your demands...
to ask for more men, or computers, for that matter,
is to admit to our superiors in Moscow
that we are overwhelmed. Which they will never do.
To ask the FBI for help
is to admit to the West that we are behind in both
forensic techniques and managing information.
Which they will never do.
And to publicise the case is to admit that such crimes exist
in the Soviet Union, which is the one thing they would rather die than do,
publicly admit that anything is wrong.
The only way I have been able to get anything done is behind closed doors.
By hoarding favors, by bribing, by weedling... - But that will take time!
It always does. - Only in this case people will die!
People will die and it will take all our strength to suffer these outrages,
but suffer them we must.
Because we are the people who have to catch this monster, Comrade Burakov.
You and I.
As you may have noticed, no one else is even willing to try.
Good day.
You care about nothing but making your superiors happy.
You're right, I should spend more time
trying to alienate them. Perhaps you could teach me.
You say that you and I have to catch this monster...
what you mean is that it's up to me, isn't it? That's why a beginner is a perfect choice...
if I fail I'll be dangling out there by myself!
Happy birthday, Nadia! 208.5
Hello?
Are you trying to sabotage what we are doing here?
Doesn't he understand that you're supposed to be under cover.
You're supposed to let the killer feel comfortable and let him try to pick somebody up?
Did you think that wearing your uniform would help?
It was freezing when we got here this morning. - So what?
It is his only warm coat.
My brother-in-law has a warm coat. I'm sure, I can borrow it tomorrow.
I could borrow it today, but...
Give me your coat.
Take it.
I'll get it to you back later, when we solve the case.
In the years since we discovered the first bodies, we found six more.
and interviewed 800 potential witnesses.
For all that, we have no suspect.
In fact, all we've been able to do is discredit the theory 223.5
that a gang of retardates from the Institute could have been involved.
And according to some of the people in this room, we haven't even been able to do that.
If you continue to forbid us to publicise the case 225.5
I can't honestly say when I expect our luck to change.
You're saying you know less than when you began. - Not exactly.
Bring in Gorbunov.
Gentlemen, this is Comrade Gorbunov, Special Prosecutor from Moscow.
Sit down Comrade. - Thank you.
Gentlemen, without wishing to embarass anyone in particular, 230.5
I must tell you that I have been sent here
to take over this investigation, because of it's poor focus and slipshod execution.
My superiors in Moscow agree with me,
that we should drop the train stations surveillance immediately.
Not only because it's costly in terms of man hours,
but also because it hasn't produced a single viable suspect in a year.
And because, and I say this with all due respect to my predecessor,
it is based exclusively on one man's intuition.
Well I'm afraid that's not good enough anymore.
As of now we will run this investigation as professionals.
As of now, standing around is no longer our style...
aggressive pursuit is.
We will aggressively pursue suspects...
focusing primarly on known sexual deviants.
For the obvious reason that they fit the nature of the crime.
And particularly on homosexuals
owing to the fact that there are so many young boys among the victims.
And we will concentrate to a lesser extent
on doctors and surgeons because of the precision of the lacerations.
Does that sound satisfactory to everyone? - I object most strongly...
Very satisfactory. Extremely satisfactory.
I particularly liked the idea of investegating known homosexuals.
I believe this is the best idea we have heard in the rather tragic history of this case.
We want to thank you, Comrade Gorbunov.
We understand you can only stay in the area for another day or two.
I trust you will have enough time to get Burakov's team pointed in the right direction 255.5
before you go back to Moscow.
I am sure I will. - Good, then. We're done here I think.
Are we not?
Good, then.
You heard him. He'll be here for 24 hours and then he leaves.
We still run the day to day operation.
In a bureaucracy it is important to know
which skirmishes to join and which to ignore.
We are developing quite a network of informants among the city's homosexual community.
For what that's worth.
I found it fascinating that Secretary Bondarchuk
was so vehement about pursuing them.
Didn't you? - No.
There is a whole world full of gossip
and innuendo out there to explore, Comrade Burakov.
Perhaps, if you took an interest, you would be a little more light of heart.
You think a man is what he says, don't you Colonel?
He is, if you talks for a living.
A man is what he fights for.
Well, I don't fight for anything.
I know.
He's a doctor with 'no reputation', if you know what I mean.
It is as I suspected, Comrade, it's fornication. I made some drawings.
Take them in.
Seriously? - Take them in.
Why are we arresting so many perfectly respectable doctors?
Because we were told to.
You were told told to investigate them, not necessarily to detain them..
The doctors who are party members we detain as briefly as possible.
The sexual deviants who are party members we intend to keep a little longer.
Of all the arrogance! 285.5
I'll speak to the men about it, Comrade. I'll take care of it.
Why aren't you investigating policemen, Comrade Burakov, eh!?
Wouldn't you say they know more about getting away with murder than any other group?
Wouldn't you say that you yourself would make a good suspect?
I know it's late, I'm sorry. - I wasn't asleep.
Bondarchuk suspects the cops, now.
Someone who knows how to kill and get away with it.
I suppose it's a possibility. - The one he suspects is me.
That's absurd. - I'm afraid though.
You know what he's like.
Someone could come in the night and take me away.
If you knew they were coming on Friday,
what would you do different this week at work?
Nothing. - Good. Eat.
Pathetic.
Where are you going all dressed up? It's Saturday.
I have some work. A trip I have to take for work. 301.5
To make up for something I failed to do
Why doesn't that surprise me?
I have some vodka in my bag, will that do?
Use your hands, for God's sake. Help me in!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
You okay? This one must have pissed him off.
A little respect for the dead!
I want every piece of garbage within 200-yards of here checked out,
for fingerprints and fibers and body fluids.
Every can. Every bottle. You understand me!?
If we're gonna fail it won't be because of something we left undone.
You understand what I'm saying, Goddamn it!? - I'll shake them up for you. I'll get them working.
Okay, Let's move out. - Is he serious? Has he gone crazy?
Keep moving. If you see anything interesting, you let me know.
Please stand, Citizen. - Chikatilo...
May I have your bag?
Citizen Chikatilo, you're under arrest.
I was on my way home.
I talk to the young people because I used to be a teacher...
I always talk to young people.
And I had rope and a knife in my bag because I work in a factory...
and often need them.
What do you think? - Personally?
I don't think he's a savage enough. But, what do I know?
I have some more paperwork to do. Stay after him, alright? 325.5
Absolutely.
I have a suspect
What is it? - The blood test came back negative
What?
Semen samples are type AB. Chikatilo is type A.
I don't believe it. - It's true.
What you talking about, "it's true"? What does that mean?
Our blood test is for 11 variables. The FBI's is for 149!
How do you know that? - I saw it in a movie! 333.5
What the hell difference does it make what the blood test says,
you don't know what you're talking about.
Comrade Burakov!
Are you aware that your prisoner is a member of the Communist Party?
Is he not aware that this man is a Party member in good standing?
Are you or are you not aware?!
Of course I am aware of it, Comrade. I'm a detective, remember?
You approved my appointment.
And you're holding him anyway? - As is my right
After his blood test came back negative.
Who told you that? - What difference does it make?
Did you tell him? - What difference does it make?!
It makes a difference to me.
Let him go... now.
Let him go or suffer the consequences.
Colonel!
Release Citizen Chikatilo.
Burakov's office... No, not yet.
It's strange. It's worse not finding bodies, than finding them.
At least each time we found another body
we had another chance to find a fingerprint, or a witness.
This way, I'd rather find three at a time than none in a year.
Let's get out of here. Let's go to work.
What happened to the boy?
He's in a holding cell downstairs. He's not connected to the murders...
but he did give us a fascinating little piece of gossip.
We let him go. - What?
We let him go. - Why?
Why not? He gave you your goddamn gossip. Why can't you just let him go.
I'm sorry.
Please, let's show some mercy.
He's a victim, not a criminal. He's a child.
All right, go ahead. But don't get anyone else involved.
Thank you.
I'll do it myself...
You can go in.
You'd rather find three bodies than none...
You'd rather find citizens dead, if it would make your job easier.
- Have you become that perverse? 371.5
I do not think this is a fruitful line of enquiry.
I do!
Viktor Vasilievitj Burakov, do you stand by these remarks?
Do you stand by the statement that you would rather find bodies than not?
Is this man crying?
Is the man to whom we have entrusted the safety of our children crying?
Mrs.Burakova? I am Mikhail Fetisov.
I have your husband here, he is having a problem.
Yes. Yes, I know.
I have arranged for him to take a vacation and a rest cure.
Can I persuade you to come and pick him up?
Replace him.
No.
What was that?
What did you say?
After five straight years on the same assigment,
Lt. Burakov is taking his first vacation.
His job will be waiting for him when he comes back.
Get out.
All of you! Right now!
If you ever again contradict me in front... - I have here...
I do not care what you have there!
- Information about... Who cares! I am...
...about the 19 year old boy you maintain in the town of Shakhty!
And the apartment you have arranged for him and the gifts that you have given him.
And the dates of your last three overnight visits!
If you attempt to fire Lieutenant Burakov, now or at any time...
I will send all this to your wife.
I recommended you for this position. 399.2
I will always be indebted to you. 399.6
[ TELEVISION SOUND IN BACKGROUND ]
Colonel Fetisov stopped by with a ham.
A whole ham? Where did he get a ham?
He's very well connected. - I bet he knows everyone in pork.
He is very proud of himself for defending you.
I think he feels he has finally earned your respect. Has he?
Will you tell him when you go back to work? I think it would mean a lot to him.
I knew, I could talk you into it.
Lieutenant Burakov, you're 10 days early. - I feel much better.
I am glad. You haven't been home? - I came here first.
I wanted to thank you for taking care of my family while I was away.
And for saving my job.
You were right about knowing which skirmishes to ignore.
Not really. It's just, when you spend enough time with the lion...
the idea of roaring starts to seem more and more reasonable.
There is something I wanted to ask you about. - What's that?
While I was away I spoke to a psychiatrist.
I'd like to bring one into the case. Maybe he'd have some insight.
You are aware, I am sure, that never in the history of the...
Soviet Union has a psychiatrist...
been brought into a murder case. - I know. You will be the first...
to make history.
What? 421.5
Did you just come in here and go out of your way to make me feel good...
then ask me for something?
My God, are you learning how to manipulate people.
I've created a monster.
What about the psychiatrist? - I'll see what I can do. Alright?
Thank you. 426.5
Now, do you want to go home, or you want to try and ease back into it?
Come In.
Colonel, there's... - It's alright.
There's another body in the woods.
Your timing is impeccable. - I'm ready.
What was that about? - He likes to examine the terrain a little
before the rest of us get in there and stomp around too much. 432.5
That's smart, huh?
It doesn't do too much damage. - So you would say that he is a good detective?
I would say that I've never worked with anyone as good. Excuse me, please.
Can I tell you the order of events here, Colonel?
It starts with any physical evidence on or adjacent to the body...
Make a cast of this?
I will have it on your desk by six.
I know it is irregular, but I hope one or two of you,
will be interested enough in what we said today to get involved.
If you are, please stay. Thank you.
It is embarrassing to see grown men run from their responsibilities.
It is like seeing your parents drunk for the first time.
They are afraid. To be a psychiatrist in this country
is to be an expert on paranoia, whether you meant to be or not.
Why aren't you afraid?
I'm sorry. Do I look like a man of courage to you?
I'm Bukhanovsky.
Well, I've always been interested in abnormal psychology.
Which is a dangerous thing in the Soviet state.
Anyway, I was fascinated by the pattern of disfigurements you described.
I'd like to try to help, but discreetly. I'd like to think about it for a while,
and then write my ideas down, if I have any, and send them along.
Does that sound alright? Good.
I'd like to be as cautious as possible, than risking my career.
My God, being a hero is enormously taxing. I've only been doing it for 7 or 8 minutes...
and already I feel strangely enervated.
You...
What is it? - You must live with a great deal of pressure.
It's alright, though, you know? - What is?
Suffering over all this, all these horrors. 461.5
If we didn't suffer over them we'd be monsters ourselves.
PLEASE READ THIS. M. FETIZOV.
CITIZEN 'X' by Bukhanovsky.
- I read the whole thing last night. It's intuitive, well-defended.
Little chance that he's a homosexual. - A man with a wife and kids.
And a sexual problem. - And maybe a job working with young people...
a worker in a chidren's home... a teacher.
We will had to have someone go through the card file again.
This is interesting speculation, but certainly not conclusive enough
to persuade me to change the goals of the investigation.
Not the goals, Comrade... Just the methods.
No, you continue arresting homosexuals.
Even if it doesn't directly contribute to the resolution of the case,
we will still be doing society a service.
Under the new policy of perestroika, Soviet leaders agreed yesterday
to surrender the party's 72 year monopoly on power.
American President George Bush cabled
the chairman to congratulate him on his commitment to democratic reform
and to assure him that the hopes of the American people are with us
as we chart the new course of the Soviet state.
Thank you. 481.5
Will it change things?
I don't know yet. I've been on this telephone since midnight.
Just keep at it, alright, and we'll see. Can you get him for me?
We have to talk... No, not now. Tomorrow, at the office.
Why? What is it? - No, tomorrow morning.
Don't make me suffer, Colonel.
There will be a new head of the investigation by tomorrow morning,
Come to the committee room at eight and we'll meet him together.
Who is it? 489.5
It is not decided yet. I'm flying to Moscow right now...
to see if I can influence their decision. That's what I stopped to tell you.
Don't start worrying yet. Have I ever let you down?
Thank you so much for your support.
I'll see you tomorrow morning.
Good luck!
Where are they? - Who?
The committee.
We're it.
Who is the new head of the investigation? - You.
Congratulations, Colonel. - Actually, I'm a General now.
I don't have my insignia yet, but they are on order.
Congratulations, General. - You are a Colonel.
Congratulations, Colonel.
Now, sit down. Let's get started.
I am now the prefect of militia for the entire oblast, reporting only to Moscow.
I can allocate resources any way I see fit, and I am considering this case my highest priority.
If you need men, you need publicity, you need communications? You have it.
I get these in Moscow yesterday, they're fantastic.
You have a telephone appointment tonight at midnight
to speak with the Head of the FBI's...
Serial Murderer Task Force, Special Agent Bickford.
He told me late last night that he has been following your work on this case 511.5
with great interest for about five years.
I didn't ask him how.
He considers you a man of iron will.
For what it is worth, I concur.
And, he also told me that he rotates his people off serial murder cases
every 18 months, whether they like it or not
to prevent the inevitable psychological consequences of too much frustration.
I pretended that I had known that all along. He thinks that I pushed you
and pushed you in search of your limits. Until I realized that you didn't have any.
Privately, I offer my deepest apologies to you and your wife.
I hope that someday you can forgive me my ignorance. Anyway...
he suggested I not tell you this next... but... He said that he starts a new
group of recruits through the program every 16 weeks.
And the first lecture that he gives, is always about you.
He calls you "The one man in the world that he would least like to have after him."
"An intelligent, methodical, painstaking, passionate detective, who would
rather die than give up "
Again, I concur.
Colonel Burakov... I am sorry, you may go.
I have a plan. I've been thinking about it for a long time.
We intend to have a visible uniformed presence 24 hours a day
in every single train station within 50 miles of Rostov.
Every station, except three.
The three smallest stations on the Matiev line in the Katman forest.
There we will have only under cover men.
There we want him to make his next
attempt to kill one of our children.
In order for this plan to work, we need you to do a job.
We need you to accost anyone who stops to talk to a child or a young woman.
Anyone who stops to talk to any stranger at all.
We need you to demand their identity cards,
and ask their business and take down their answers in your notebooks.
We need you to search them.
And above all, we need you to do this visibly.
We need everyone in the station to notice.
Understand?
What's that? I didn't hear that. - Yes, Comrade General.
Again. - Yes, Comrade General!
Do you think you are capable of performing these tasks? 549.5
Yes, Comrade General!
Do you think that you're capable of perfoming them without subtlety? 550.5
Yes, Comrade General!
Without discretion? - Yes, Comrade General!
Without tact? - Yes, Comrade General!
Good.
It wasn't long ago, if a cop took this big a chance and failed, he'd have been shot.
For your sake, I hope it works.
Don't worry, I won't let them shoot you. Not without a trial...
Well, it started well,
but we're only seven weeks in and already we're getting lazy.
I have reports here from one of your stations that reads no suspcious characters
in 3 days. 3 days!
The whole idea is to stay visible. - Surprise inspection. You want to come?
All I am saying is, keep the pressure on, okay?
And, I'll let you in on a little secret.
Surprise inspection in half an hour. Tell your men.
That does defeat the purpose of the "surprise".
Just for that station, you have to give them a little sugar once in a while, anyway.
Your interrogation slips.
Very good.
Interrogation slips.
Get up here!
Close that.
I had to go to the toilet, I was gone no longer than five minutes.
Give me your interrogation slips.
Why so many?
They are from since Friday, all through this holiday weekend.
How long have you been here? - 36 hours.
You have no relief? - No, Sir. My partner got sick
and they didn't send anyone else from the station, because of the holiday.
Let's look through these, shall we.
No harm done.
You can send these, along with the rest, at the stage when you're relieved.
What is it?
Did you personally speak to this man? - Yes, Sir.
Why?
He came up out of the woods and there was dirt on his jacket.
He was well dressed, but he was dirty. So, I asked him his business.
He said he'd visited his mother in Belkov, which is a tiny hamlet near here.
Which makes sense, except I was born in Belkov and I didn't remember her. So, I wrote him up.
Did you search him? - No, Sir. He hadn't accosted anyone.
He just looked odd. 590.5
Do you remember this name, Chikatilo?
Did he have a bag?
Yes!
- Consider yourself relieved at this post.
Take my car to the station immediately. Tell them to cable Moscow.
I want 200 soldiers here prepared to search these woods in one hour!
Got It!? One hour! - Yes, Sir!
Goddamit... What is happening to me?
My heart is pounding, my collar feels tight...
What the hell is this?
Passion.
General, they found something.
Step back, Comrades. You've done your part. Thank you.
Get the team together and start sending the soldiers home,
unless the General has some other use for them.
I have 49 of them on my conscience.
You mustn't blame yourself.
It's not that. - What then?
She is my cousin's daughter, Natasja Dunenkova.
She was 8.
I'm sorry.
You be okay? You want me to send someone over here?
For what it's worth, you may have helped us catch him.
Just keep walking.
How did you do this?
At work. A box fell on me at work.
Would you mind removing all your clothes, please. - What?
Remove your clothes.
How did you get these abrasions on the head of your penis?
How did you get these abrasions on the head of your penis!?
I don't know.
Can you honestly tell me that you feel no remorse? Not for killing children!?
Not for cutting off their genitals!? 621.5
Don't you feel you have to confess your crimes?
My God man, are you a human!? 622.5
This is a disaster. - Why can't we...
Because we can't. He demanded to do the interrogation himself.
And he still has a lot of friends.
I will talk about my crimes tomorrow. - What's that? Repeat that.
I will tell about my crimes tomorrow. But, I am exhausted today.
Did you get that?
Good. Now it's in the official record.
We're not getting anywhere.
What are you talking about? Didn't you hear what he just said?
He said that yesterday, too.
It is the only way he knows to get you to stop badgering him.
What do you want?
I want you to let us bring in someone who can get somewhere with him.
I am doing the interrogation. - You're wasting time, five days already!
With no other evidence, if we do not get a confession
by 28th, we have to let him go.
I am doing the interrogation.
Are you willing to take that risk, just to satisfy your ego!?
You handled him quite deftly.
I've had it. I will not suffer that stupidity anymore!
He may be stupid, but he's in charge.
What is this? This is your confession?
In 1978 you fondled the breast of an 11 year old girl.
You mocking me?
It's true.
I don't give it a damn if it's true!
We are talking about murder here. You know that!
You think I'm a fool?
I was fired from my teaching job for this incident.
I know that!
What the hell kind of game are you playing?
Citizen Chikatilo, I asked you a question!
Tomorrow is our last day, we would have to... - You think I don't know that?
If you appoint the man who gets him to confess
won't that reflect happily on your wisdom.
Whom do you have in mind, Colonel?
I've never done this before, I'm terrified. But...
I'm Bukhanovsky. I'm a psychiatrist. And I...
I wrote a paper about you three years ago.
I called you 'Citizen X'.
I'm sure that a lot of it is wildly incorrect.
Would you like me to read it to you?
Pardon me?
Yes, please.
That's some introductory rubbish, designed to make me sound brilliant.
We can ignore that in here I should think.
Citizen "X" has probably had a tendencey towards isolation since childhood.
His internal world, filled with fantasy, is closed to those around him...
even to those close to him.
The adolescence of such a person is, as a rule, painful
because he is often subjected to the laughter of his peers
at a time when success among them is the subject of his secret dreams.
His sexuality is not noticeable to those around him.
However it is an external asexuality
that frequently coincides with steady masturbation and wild erotic fantasies.
He is painfully sensitive in company,
incapable of flirting and courtship. However, it cannot be excluded
that he has fathered a family.
There is reason to think that the Citizen "X" has a weakness of sexual potency.
This is supported by the fact that signs of entry of the sexual organ
into the sexual parts of the victims have been found in
nine cases, but at in only two, the length of contact had been sufficient to reach orgasm.
but with the rest of the cases involving ejaculation on the body of the victim.
He sits or squats astride his victim, the orgasm and ejaculation most likely
occur at this stage of the act and in this position,
sitting on the victim in the period of her agony.
The blinding of some of the victims could be a symbol of his power over the partner,
or an inability to bear his or her gaze, even if it is unconscious.
Or possibly a reflection of "X" 's belief in the folk tale
that the victims eyes
retain an image of the killer, even after death.
It is the last, is it not?
You believed the police might see your image in their eyes?
What about the ejaculation, was I right about that?
Sitting on the victim in the period of her agony?
You ejaculated while stabbing them?
I ejaculated while stabbing them.
Sometimes before they died, some times after.
With or without additional masturbation?
It was always with.
And that accounts for the abrasions on your own organ? The frenzied masturbation.
With the last one especially...
Natasja Dunenkova.
After killing her I still had some...
difficulty.
I hurt myself trying to achieve release.
Congratulations, gentlemen.
He would say something witty, but he's overcome with emotion right now.
Thank you both.
May I say that together, you make a wonderful person.
Give us the monster! We will hand him some justice!
Step aside. Step aside, dammit!
You should thank them for God's sake! These are the men who caught him!
Step through the door, please.
Please don't turn around.
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