Hunter Will Get You (L'Alpagueur)

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After Rotterdam, we'll have to reorganize everything.

It's quite serious, Spitzer!

What do you intend to do?

Find the man who destroyed our business.

Put a face on a name.

The hunter!

Rings a bell?

Tell me, Doumecq, as you know him well...

Is he working for us only for the money?

For years he has hunted the most dangerous wild animals.

One day, he said to me

and it didn't not fall on deaf ears.

Man is the only interesting animal I haven't hunted yet.

After that, I'll move to something else.

He's a bounty hunter.

A mercenary. Unconventional.

The hunter is what a high-ranking civil servant found

to bypass usual police procedure.

absolutely against the law.

But very efficient.

He's already done a lot of harm to us.

Six months of undercover work.

Cost: 120 million old French francs. Return: 812 million.

Nice return.

Coffee, brandy, cigar.

You know, Doumecq... This money is ours.

Secret fund.

Quite so!

I don't have to render any financial account to anyone.

From now on, I'll deal with you directly myself.

What does the Organization plan on doing to eliminate that piece of shit?

That piece of shit is everywhere and nowhere.

But he is neither Zorro nor Fantomas.

He loves money.

And I have something which...

neither he nor those he works for know of.

And that'll provide me soon with the huge pleasure...

to hunt down the hunter.

Now you are Roger Pilard, an insurance salesman.

You really want me to believe the local cops can't take care of this?

In certain circumstances, the less you use the cops, the better you feel.

Here's the local police. Commissioner Gavarni.

He's in it up to his neck.

You don't say! There really are corrupt policemen?

You want him alive, caught in the act?

Yes, I'll handle it from there.

I never leave anything to handle.

October the 3rd Port Leucate

- Hello! - Hello, Commissioner.

Let me see who this clown is...

Pilard Roger, insurance salesman, Euromotel.

ESTATE AGENT

Hey there... Is that the way you plan to earn a living?

Cool... I have a proposal to make.

You work two hours with me and you get ten thousand.

Take this, lad. A retainer.

You're sure there's no burglar alarm?

Quite sure, lad.

I've checked it out! It's a piece of cake.

It's a stick up!

Come on! The jewels! The safe! Quick!

Slow! I'm not joking!

One...

two... three...

four... five...

six...

seven... eight...

nine... ten... eleven

twelve... thirteen...

fourteen... fifteen...

sixteen...

Police!

You're going to die, lad!

Ugly case, gentlemen!

There will be widows and orphans.

Bloody hold-up in Paris. The Hawk strikes for the 3rd time.

Accomplice jailed.

So?

I hope you realize, you stupid bastard

that you're protecting France's most dangerous criminal.

Don't ever do that again. Not in front of me, at least!

Chips! Fifties!

Friday! 10 p. m.

T 13. Car number 31. Gomez Parking Lot.

5 Red.

Friday. 10 p. m. T 13. Car 31. Gomez Parking lot.

A hundred on zero. Black!

1500 francs change.

Friday. 10 p. m. T 13. Car 31. Gomez Parking lot.

48 hours after the bloody hold-up, avenue Jean Jaures

Costa Valdes gave no clue.

The police says Valdes had never met the man before.

That unknown murderer known as "The hawk".

Valdes seems to be a victim of the man who's become...

public enemy number one.

Wait here!

Gentlemen, give me your rods first. We didn't come to kill one another.

but to talk.

All right! Let's talk!

I'll sum it up all giving you a few figures.

In 1973, 820 girls.

In 74, 540

And in 75, 371. To say nothing of quality.

So what?

That's what I'm asking you, captain Gavarni.

Where are the French ones?

Looks like you're not reading the newspapers...

You don't know there are no whores any more.

They all write books, organize protest meetings...

And shut themselves inside churches.

Well, lock them all in jail!

Take things in hand. And bribe the priests!

I bribe them, damnit. I do. But it's difficult!

Commissioner Gavarni... I'm fed up with straight cops!

Me... straight! You're slurring, Scarboni!

Please... No... We said we weren't going to fight...

The newsroom, please!

THREE BIG SHOTS OF EUROPEAN PROSTITUTION ARRESTED. A policeman mixed up.

Coffee, brandy, cigar.

You know about this case?

THE HAWK STILL ELUSIVE

The kid he used is in jail as an accesory to murder.

He says he doesn't know anything. But I do know he knows.

He won't say anything to the cops. But he might talk to you.

If I get you right, as a gift after Perpignan, you're sending me to jail.

Not for a long time. You get what we want and you come out.

And what comes next?

Next? You go hunting...

You wanted big game. I buy you France's most dangerous wild beast.

You're buying nothing. I'll be glad to get this animal for free.

I've never liked the taste of mutton, Doumecq!

All right... Let's do it!

You're not Roger Pilard any more. You're Lafont now.

Johnny Lafont...

You're a Canadian hoodlum, recently extradited to France.

Why were you fighting, lad?

Nothing... I had borrowed a motorcycle.

You want a motorcycle?

I'll buy you one.

A much better one.

No joke!

A much better one.

Go get another one, lad.

You understood, lad?

You wait for me over there. In the backyard.

Facing the street. Engine running!

We're closed, sir!

Not for me.

Put all the money in that bag.

We're going out.

Through the back entrance.

That's it, lad!

Over!

You don't even thank me?

For the motorbike?

Did you really have to shoot?

Lad...

I kill every one who might recognize me.

The bank attack in Beaumont sur Oise and the 3 people killed

the two clerks and the young delinquent

have the same MO as the other attacks that happened in Paris.

The police are sure it's the same man.

The man the press nicknamed "The hawk".

A lonely man who seems to have no link with organized crime.

And who uses young delinquents.

He gets rid of them afterwards in the same way as the other witnesses.

What do you think of this, Gilbert? - What are you talking about, darling?

Of all this travelling. Rio, Buenos Aires, I'm fed up.

All this travelling? Not me, no.

I'm scared of all these hijackers, above all.

I'm not really brave!

You'll always be the same, Gilbert. - Indeed.

Hey, stupid bastard! You've got company!

Costa Valdes.

Lafont!

First lesson, never offer your hand to a stranger.

You've still got a lot to teach me?

Quite a lot, yes!

Never turn your back.

Why are you inside?

Third lesson: never ask questions.

Cigarette?

Fourth lesson: don't smoke, ever.

I don't want this prison to be messy.

And have the orders obeyed.

Come on! Get out!

You too! Faster!

Go away! Do as the boss says!

You're late, Granier!

Hurry up! - I apologize, Mr Salicetti!

A new inmate has just arrived.

And what do you know about him?

His name's Lafont.

He was extradited from Canada. Something to do with arms dealing.

You think he's got dough?

Looks like it.

Get more information.

Yes, Mr Salicetti.

You're too polite this morning, Granier. What's wrong?