HAMILTON: I’m sure these arguments all make sense in your head. But from a legal standpoint, it’s all hearsay and conjecture.
Elena and Hamilton glare at each other.
ELENA: Let’s Google him. Džibrilovo.
LAMB: That’s an idea.
Lamb goes to the computer on his desk.
LAMB: Okay.
ELENA: D-Ž-I-B-R-
LAMB: Slow down.
ELENA: D-Ž-I-B-R-I-L-O-V-O.
LAMB: Not exactly a phonetic language, is it? (beat) Josef Dzee … What she said. Known as the Butcher. (looks at Hamilton) She’s not making that part up.
ELENA: Are there photographs of him?
LAMB: Hold on … (beat) Well fuck me.
ELENA: It looks like him, doesn’t it?
LAMB: Nope.
*ELENA: What!?
*HAMILTON: See?
ELENA: (to Lamb) It doesn’t?
LAMB: I’m sorry. It doesn’t look like him. (points to Hamilton) It looks like him.
HAMILTON: … What?
Lamb turns the screen to show Elena and Hamilton.
ELENA: Hello.
Lamb and Elena turn to Hamilton.
HAMILTON: The features are similar, I’ll grant you …
ELENA: Similar?
HAMILTON: Look, yes, okay? It looks a little bit like me … (off Lamb’s look) It’s not … That’s not so crazy if you take into account that my family’s from Lavinia.
LAMB: So you lied to me?
HAMILTON: No, I didn’t lie –
LAMB: You said your parents were from Birmingham.
HAMILTON: My adoptive parents, yes.
LAMB: Oh. So you weren’t, de facto, lying?
HAMILTON: I left the country when I was very young.
LAMB: You’re related to him?
HAMILTON: We’re third or fourth cousins, something like that. I met him once when I was a kid, I think.
LAMB: So this is Josef Dzee-bree …
ELENA: Džibrilovo.
HAMILTON: (nods) Yes.
Lamb exhales.
HAMILTON: Look, I don’t think that he’s –
ELENA: Don’t you dare!
HAMILTON: Let me finish!
ELENA: I will not if it’s –
HAMILTON: Will you shut up?
LAMB: You two are giving me a headache. (to Elena) Let him finish, will you?
HAMILTON: All I’m saying is that, I know he was a soldier in the war. I don’t know if he was high-ranking or / not, but –
ELENA: A general, actually.
HAMILTON: Well, maybe. That’s not my point.
ELENA: (to Lamb) He ran a concentration camp, where –
HAMILTON: Allegedly.
ELENA: Excuse me?
HAMILTON: He’s accused of that crime, not convicted of it.
ELENA: Spoken as a true patriot.
HAMILTON: Spoken as a lawyer, actually.
ELENA: And was it as a lawyer that you were so insistent on driving him to the hospital yourself? (beat) I don’t think you’d’ve ever seen them again, Inspector.
LAMB: Is that true?
HAMILTON: It is not. He’s in danger here.
*LAMB: Here?
*ELENA: In a police station?
HAMILTON: There is a group of, of, people, they call themselves the Fjurioji[18], the Furies.
JOSEF: Da![19]
Everyone turns to Josef.