Unlike you, in Russia I was not a criminal. I was an educator. After the Soviets fell, things got so bleak in Moscow I decided to leave, to come to America.
For a better life, right?
Yes, for me and my wife. But we did not find a better life. I couldn't get employed teaching.
Must have been terrible.
Then I got this job painting a house, the house of Leonid Rodzinsky.
He was in the Organizatsya.
Yes. He treated me like shit, always making fun. Calling me "professor" and ordering me to clean his toilets. One day, he kicked me with his boot in front of my wife. I strangled him on the spot.
It's closing time?
Yes.
All right, I'll go.
Not till I finish my story.
Strange. All this time, you've barely said two words. Now you're a regular bottum.
It takes me time to warm up to people. I feel very close to you. I was possessed by guilt for killing Rodzinsky but I got a reputation for being ruthless. The Organizatsya hired me to exterminate someone else. The second time was easy.
Yuri, please. I don't want to hear this.
The third time, no problem at all.
Yuri, please.
At last count, I murdered at least 49 people. You have the honor of being my 50th.
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