Zeder

Mrs. Hubert!

ls anyone home?

This is the third one We found mangled like this.

The guys below Want the autopsy results before noon.

l Want all traffic blocked down at the intersection of the highway.

Nobody gets through.

Dr. Meyer, the area has been completely blocked off,

all over three hours now.

- What are you planning to do? - Wait a minute.

- Here's your coffee. - Thank you, Mrs. Hubert.

lnspector Bouffet and l Would be extremely grateful

if you'd retire to the kitchen.

- There must be absolute silence in the house. - lf only you can do it!

lf only you can do it.

lt's time, Gabriella.

- Come on. - No! - lt's all up to us now.

l don't Want to!

lf you think it's Wise We could hold off on this thing.

l'm Warning you, don't follow us.

- At least take this. - No.

Give me a portable lamp instead.

Please, no!

Now tell me Where you're hiding.

That's all l Want to know.

After that it'll all be over.

l'm scared.

Show me Where your hiding-place is.

Show me Where it is.

Where are you?

You're here, aren't you?

ls this Where you are?

ls this Where you're hiding? lt's under here?

We found him!

lt's down here!

We found him!

Come on, down here!

Come on, We found him!

Easy...

Slow down.

She's better, the hospital says she'll pull through.

lnspector, take a look.

Out.

Come, Dr. Meyer. lt's your right.

l think We better pull him out of there.

- What's that? - A slipper.

Gabriella's slipper.

What else did you find?

Not much.

Here.

Thank you very much.

They just operated.

lt doesn't look like they're going to save her leg.

Here, Meyer. This is everything We'll ever know about him.

Not much to go on, is it?

To find out Who he Was.

lssued to Paolo Zeder.

We found Paolo Zeder!

A K zone!

He stumbled across a K zone.

- Wait a minute. - Open up, it's me.

l know. l'll let you in on one condition.

That you stay out of the kitchen. Okay?

Okay.

- What a surprise. - Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary to you.

What is it?

lt's the one!

lt's gorgeous!

lt's electric.

They said it's a terrific model.

Only the electric cord Was missing. So l called the electrician,

and he put one on.

lt types like printing in a book.

Just What a Writer needs, right?

lt's fantastic!

You're beautiful.

- You ought to see Where We got it. - Where?

Mama Went to a pawnshop auction.

lt Was an anniversary like in the movies, Wasn't it?

l'm going to go enjoy my present a little.

- Who knows Who it belonged to? - Who ?

Did you know Hemingway typed standing up?

Novel number three.

The story begins...

The barriers of death

shall at last be destroyed...

The temperature and depth of K zone l found...

Correct and totally free, above all suspicion...

Where buried body shall await...

- What are you doing still up? - Wait a second, please.

l think l found the plot for my third novel.

Curiosity about What happens after death

grew to an obsessive quest.

But We'll go back to the oracles of the dead on Tuesday.

Tell your classmates to start showing up.

Have a nice Week-end.

Professor Chesi.

- Do you remember me? - Certainly l do!

Your Wife keeps me informed about the novels you're Writing,

and the fact you haven't graduated yet.

l Wrote two and neither has a publisher.

But now l've got an idea, l mean.

But l need some advice, an expert opinion.

Witchcraft, magic, resurrections,

devilry, ghosts and haunted houses?

Maybe something along that line. Do you have a minute?

Let's go to my office.

You can come back in half an hour, Laura?

All right, Professor.

Nineteen, an orphan, she swears she only goes for mature men.

Take a look.

- What are these? - Two letters.

One is a letter, the other is a kind of report, but l don't understand.

Later l'll explain how l got hold of them, but read them first.

The first requires no comment.

lt's the second part of a letter asking for...

Where the Writer congratulates this Goodman character

for having gotten financing and hopes part of the money

Will go to him so he can finish his Work.

Money he probably never got if he had to pawn his typewriter.

What ?

- What about the second? - The second?

lf it's true, if it isn't the fruit of your imagination,

it's singular. - Singular? lt's insane!

Besides all these numbers, temperature, depth...

Here it talks about the guy donating his own body to the experiment.

Did you read this?

''The barriers of death shall at last be destroyed,

thanks to our Work. My return to life Will signal return of all.''

And this: ''The place l have discovered,

is the place the hierophant Was looking for.''

- What does hierophant mean? - A master of mysteries.

Now you have to tell me Where you found it,

because there's something else that only a scholar,

an expert in the history of religions can see.

That's Why l have to know exactly Who you got it from,

and if the text is correct.

Here's l got it. A present from Alessandra.

An old typewriter.

Out of curiosity, l Wrote out everything typed on the old ribbon.

- Here it is. - Check Where it says ''K zone''.

''Found a K zone completely free and unsuspected, ideal place...''

lt's an old theory going back to the turn of the century.

A former student of mine, a Swiss scholar named Meyer,

Wrote a thesis on it.

Funny, l thought it Was here.

These K zones Were the result of research done by Paolo Zeder.

Somebody Who just disappeared into thin air.

This Zeder sustained that in all the places in antiquity Where contact

had been made With the Beyond, With the dead,

from Delphi to Epirus to Dodona and so on,

constants could be determined, Which he called alchemical,

but Which We Would today call chemical or geological similarities.

The areas he called K zones Were supposed to be different.

They defied all natural laws

and existed in state of suspension.

ln a non-time, a non-season, a non-growth, a non-death.

ldealistically, a zero-time.

And it Would allow a return from the dead.

On my Way!

Don't scream at me about yesterday's training.

The Commissioner himself Wouldn't give me permission.

Never mind, nobody showed up, as usual.

How can you find out Who something belonged to in a pawnshop?

Hi. Did l scare you?

- l Was Waiting for you. - What do you Want?

- l saw how you Were looking at me today. - You're crazy!

- Go on home. - Pig! Son of a bitch!

Forget it.

You ass hole!

Shithead! How dare you treat me like that!

The decision taken there Was a mistake...

l'm sure. See you later, sorry.

- How are you today, Miss Goodman? - Fine.

- Do you plan to stay late tonight? - l don't know.

- Hi. - Come in.

- Guido! - This is for you. - You're crazy. Thanks.

Forget it.

That's What's so great about friends, they hate each other.

- Right? - Right.

- And this is for you. - Thank you.

- What is it? - Nothing, an address.

- Aren't you staying for dinner? - Next time.

- l have to do six shoot-outs before bed-time. - Wait.

l found it in the flea market.

l Wanted to give it to you When you got promoted,

but today l have to be forgiven. - Let me see.

ls anyone here?

Sorry, l Was looking for Don Luigi Costa.

- Who are you? - l have something to show Don Luigi.

- What's it about? - Something personal, l can only it to him.

- Did Don Emidio send you here? - No, Who's that?

You Were saying you had something personal for Don Luigi Costa?

Yes, it's kind of nonsensical...

Somebody gave me a typewriter that used to belong to him.

Go on. What's this all about?

You're Don Luigi! Well, here.

Look.

- You must be mad. - Why?

You attribute these things to a priest?