:05:03
Where's the money?
Where is it?
:05:05
Do I explain?
:05:08
Or don't I?
:05:10
I'll explain.
:05:11
Let's say I owe Larry 1 ruble.
:05:15
Larry owes Viktor 1,
:05:18
and Viktor owes me 1.
But none of us has any money.
:05:24
- Give me 1 ruble.
- Go on.
:05:27
Let's suppose the founder
of the Academy of Science,
:05:31
Lomonossov comes
and buys a glove off of me.
:05:36
For 1 ruble.
:05:37
I give it to Larry,
'cause I owe it to him.
:05:41
We're now quits.
:05:43
Larry gives it to Viktor.
They're now quits.
:05:47
And Viktor gives it to me.
We're now quits.
:05:51
But Lomonossov comes back, saying:
:05:54
"What use is just one glove?"
:05:57
He gives me the glove,
I give him the ruble.
:06:01
I have my glove,
:06:04
Lomonossov has his ruble,
:06:06
and we're quits with Customs.
:06:10
What a magician!
What sleight of hand!
:06:14
I didn't see a fucking thing!
:06:16
You sure thought about this,
didn't you?
:06:19
But what's in it for you?
:06:22
The bank the duty goes through
will be mine.
:06:27
And I'll take a small percentage,
a tiny amount
:06:30
on every transaction.
That's all.
:06:33
He came up with that
in 3 minutes.
:06:39
Genius. Sheer genius.
:06:43
Our teachers called him "Platosha"
in front of everyone
:06:47
to show that they were his equals.
:06:50
But there's no such thing
as equality.
:06:53
What did you have to do
with Koretski?
:06:55
A lot, unfortunately.
:06:58
But wasn't Belenki
from the Kremlin, too?