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Dammit!

Very good. Smash us up against a post.

Railroad Station

Hurry up!

Yes, this is Wilczek.

Hi, Michal. I've put him on the train. He's coming to you.

Who? Lukasz.

What do I care if you put him on the train?

Do you know what time it is?

Don't teach me, OK?

Zdzisek, Zdzisek!

You still think you're the head student of our class?

Don't call. I'll call you. Bye.

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IMMENSITY OF JUSTICE

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The screenplay is inspired by a true story.

Any resemblance to real events or people is unintended.

- Excuse me, sir, Attorney Wilczek? - Yes.

My name's Lukasz. Father has called you.

Yeah... yeah...

Let's go somewhere... to talk.

How's your father?

It's been a long time. The last time at a class reunion.

Still on the go, with no time to waste?

Exactly.

I know you've graduated, you have to decide about your legal training,

and you don't want to be an attorney.

Not even a lawyer. It was my Father's idea.

What did he tell you about me?

That you've won some celebrated cases, and will persuade me.

Thank you, Mrs. Maria.

A mistake. I'm not going to persuade you to do anything.

You'll do what you please.

The best piece of advice I could get.

I can still catch the express train. Thank you.

Wait a minute!

You haven't traveled six hours to tell me you don't need my advice.

You won't give it, so I won't listen to it. What's the problem?

- You could stand me vodka. - I don't drink it.

- Coke please. - Right away.

I'm generally into beer.

Miss Asia, same here.

Tell you something. And you'll draw your own conclusions or not.

What do you want to do in life?

Take pictures.

An artist, are you?

Attracted to nudes, huh?

Trees.

- Trees? - Yes.

- You snap trees? - Mostly, but not only those.

- Nature in general. - An expensive hobby.

- Dad can afford it? - I give tutorials.

- Why trees in particular? - I don't know.

They're strong...

have unusual energy.

I was seriously ill once.

- So trees healed you, yes? - Yes. That's the way it was.

And you snap them out of gratitude?

Out of curiosity.

I search for what can't be seen.

- To make a living? - I don't know.

Certainly not off law. Law is too unambiguous: from here to here.

- Says you? - Exactly.

Right after the commie times.

I worked in Attorney Bos's office, who'd given me legal training.

A famous counsel for the defense in political cases.

Next he entered politics.

I was alone in the office when a married couple came.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

- We'd like... - Attorney Bos will be in the afternoon.

I'm sorry. May I help you?

We're looking for Attorney Wilczek.

It's me.

Please be seated.

Yes?

Our daughter's been murdered.

The murderer's in jail pending trial.

A suspect, not a convicted killer.

We know it was him.

We're afraid they'll want to shelve the case.

He worked in TV. His friends are protesting already.

Saying his arrest is a provocation.

Yes, I know the case.

We've been looking for someone honest.

They all pointed at you.

We want you to be the auxiliary prosecutor.

If it weren't Jerzy Kuter...

Does it change anything?

My boss Attorney Bos is his counsel for the defense.

I can't decide unless he says yes.

- If Attorney Bos agreed... - Then yes.

We'll wait.

Of course you can.

Important to your career no matter on whose side.

It'll be a celebrated case.

Andrzej, well into the case, will help me.

We'll be adversaries in a sense.

Only in a sense.

Battered and strangled before death.

See the bruises on the face and neck?

She was drowned after she passed out.

The killer pushed her head into the water with a baby quilt.

The cause of death of the 8-month-old fetus was suffocation in utero.

Whose blood was it in the tub?

The victim's most likely.

Policemen pulled the plug thoughtlessly.

Luckily, they took samples of the sediment.

- You got the results? - No, none whatsoever yet.

You've seen the fingerprints?

The defendant's.

Found on the tub among others.

- That's no evidence in the case? - Why?

He'd come there every day, almost lived there.

He must've bathed leaving his fingerprints at any moment.

Please read his explanations.

Was any other evidence secured at the scene of crime?

Cigarette butts, locks on the doors, other prints?

What's the point? An open- and-shut case, that.

No, it wasn't secured!

Sorry. Sorry, I'm beat.

The investigation is not only full of mistakes and just bloopers.

Those first on the scene had no homicide experience at all,

but of juvenile delinquency:

small-timers, break-ins into kiosks.

They just happened to be on duty then.

No thorough examination of the scene, no evidence secured.

Worse still, they soiled all traces, assholes.

Were you there?

No, no, no.

A young DA went there.

Later, it turned out she knows Dominika from a student theater.

On seeing the body in the tub, she fainted.

- I see. - See what?

You don't understand a thing! We have only circumstantial evidence!

Though certain it's him, I have no direct evidence whatsoever. Get it?

What's your indictment based on?

That's easy.

On the assumption that it could only be he.

The only one with a motive:

an inconvenient mistress well into pregnancy, demanding that he divorce.

Read the explanations first. We'll talk later.

Pretty. A little younger than I. And he?

A TV journalist like her. Her guru.

Much older than she with wife and two kids.

Everybody knew about the affair.

Popular, simpatico. A real hound dog, they say.

Why should he have killed? She was 8-month pregnant.

He could've done it earlier.

Maybe she started to blackmail him.

- Blackmail? - I don't know.

Listen to his latest version:

I worked till 2 a.m. and went right away to Dominika,

who was waiting with a supper in fine mood.

She was happy she'd soon bear our baby.

After supper, we went to sleep.

I was waken up by a noise, like the door slammed.

She was not in bed, so I got up and went to the bathroom.

She was lying in the water.

I tried to get her out and resuscitate her,

but she was dead.

What was next?

I went downstairs, got in the car, and fell asleep.

I woke when they started a car near me.

Then I drove home.

Irrational and stupid.

They kill his beloved and he gets in the car and falls asleep?

An educated, mature man with imagination?

His first version is much more reliable.

Who made him change his testimony? The police?

No court will ever accept such a version.

- Possibly. So we must help the court. - Help? How?

Her parents will testify that he promised to marry her.

His wife will confirm she didn't know anything. But it's too little.

The court must be absolutely convinced that he lies all the time,

and his version is unreliable. Talk again to his friends, former lovers...

to build an image of a man who does not know what the truth is about.

Excuse me.

Dominika hid from me that he was married.

Didn't want me to worry.

My husband Stas works in an outside telecast van.

And everybody there...

He was against that relationship all along.

We knew about his wife, children... affairs.

Stas worried that Dominika was just his another flame.

He even visited me here once.

- Mrs. Irena... - Excuse me for a moment.

We'll finish the talk, but this first.

I assure you I'll never harm her.

You'll harm someone anyway.

I don't want to.

Being with her, you harm your family.

- Being with the family... - I'll divorce.

Give me some time.

Don't your children need you?

Why, Maciek is 10, Kasia is going on 1 5.

Nothing will change emotionally!

I can't see it.