LAMB: My daughter … But … She’s … Iris … ! (looks at Elena) I’ll kill him. I’ll do it.

ELENA: No. It has to be him.

LAMB: Please … Hamilton … (turns to Elena and pulls hard on the handcuffs) I will kill you, do you understand that? I will kill you if you hurt one hair –

ELENA: Inspector. The reason I haven’t gagged you is that I want you to have the opportunity to beg for her life, understood?

Lamb nods, aware of his precarious position.

LAMB: Please, I’m begging you … Not my daughters. They’re … They’re children, they’re innocent …

ELENA: (points to Hamilton) You’re asking the wrong person.

HAMILTON: Don’t …

LAMB: Hamilton … You spoke to her, she’s just a … She’s a …

HAMILTON: This is wrong. This is all wrong.

*ELENA: Depends on your perspective.

*LAMB: I know, but Iris … My little girl, Hamilton …

HAMILTON: (drops the belt) No. This isn’t right … No.

LAMB: Wha … ? Hamilton … He … What are you saying?

HAMILTON: I’m sorry …

LAMB: Don’t … No … (to Elena) Please. Please don’t hurt them. Please …

ELENA: Vu prosiciju i čikajte moj nišak, seg.[21]

Elena places the phone on the corner of the desk so that Lamb and Hamilton can hear it better.

From the phone’s speaker comes the sound of four car doors opening then closing, followed by footsteps in the rain.

DANIJEL (O.S.): Gotreman, seg.[22]

ELENA: They’re standing by.

LAMB: Hamilton … I don’t understand … You said yourself that he wasn’t going to leave this room alive … What difference does it make? Iris … Please … Iris … She’s seven … She’s just –

ELENA: Marko?

HAMILTON: Please, have some compassion, some humanity …

ELENA: I’m sorry, we do not speak the language of mercy.

Elena turns to her phone.

LAMB: No no no, wait, wait, let me talk to him some more –

ELENA: (into her phone) Vukapsite, seg.[23]

HAMILTON: Please …

DANIJEL (O.S.): Radio tašina, seg.[24]

From the phone’s speakers come the muffled sounds of a home invasion: lock picking, door opening, footsteps climbing stairs, more doors opening, voices quickly stifled, shuffling.

LAMB: (pleads softly as the invasion plays out) Hamilton … I’m begging you … please … my family … Iris … she’s a child … please …

Then, silence.

DANIJEL (O.S.): Gošani provideni, seg.[25]

ELENA: They’re waiting for the kill order. Would you like to give it?

HAMILTON: Stop it …

ELENA: Puvi najdjovenu na fonče.[26]

Some jostling is heard coming from the phone, and then the tremulous voice of a young girl:

IRIS (O.S.): Daddy … ? Are you there … ?

LAMB: I’m right here, Pumpkin … everything’ll be okay …

Lamb rattles his handcuffs.

ELENA: Defta.[27]

The voice is cut off.

ELENA: I will give the kill order next, Marko.

How many bodies will it take for you to execute a dead man? Because we’ll go through this again with Erin, and then Carol, and then our own Inspec–