People, I need you all to see the absolute insanest scene I have ever, ever, witnessed in my entire life. (Excuse the bad quality of the video, I don't have anything better. I already upscaled that from 480p to 720p. If you should happen to have source material in better quality, we will be in your debt.)
I've been going insane over this series with @soraya-elentari in the last few days. And between us, we don't even speak nor understand Russian beyond a few simple words. So, we mainly went by context clues. And as of yesterday we have machine transcribed and translated subtitles that lead to funny things. I get it, Russian is a hard language, and sometimes the mumble a bit, and the bots get confused.
Bit of context, not that it will help much:
This is from the Russian version of Criminal Intent which takes the original episodes and makes them into versions for the Russian market. That means the episodes are not in the original order and the crime isn't usually committed and/or solved in the exact same way as in the original. Think of it not like a copy but more like a "based upon" thing.
Anyway, this is the second episode from their fourth and final season. (A crime if you ask me that they only got four seasons. They fully understood the assignment.) The episode is based upon what was the original's first episode. So, jewelry theft, three dead, later another dead in a car's trunk, so far so much the same. That's not the important part here. Another part of (useless) context maybe? This is the episode right after their version of Blindspot.
Now, here in this scene we have Major Irina Petrovskaja and her partner Major Georgiy Loginov. And by now you may wonder why I say this is the insanest scene I ever witnessed, he is just comforting her after what she went through in the last episode. Maybe she felt bad or something. That's what I thought, too. But then I ran that scene through a transcriber and translated the dialogue into English. And holy hell, was I wrong. (Those of you who might speak Russian, please don't spoil it. But also, please, if something is greatly inaccurate, tell me. I'm heavily reliant on machine transcription and machine translation here.)
Basically what they're saying is:
GL: The criminals were watching the apartment for a while, right? Then they drew up a schedule of the Solovyovs' arrivals and departures, right? Then they chose a day and broke into the apartment on that day. Now comes our math day. Disabling the alarm and getting to the right place. A hole in the floor.
IP: You know, they must have had a floor plan of the apartment with the BTI.
GL: No, that means there was a fourth person involved.
IP: Yes.
They are talking about the case. Like really? But then why is he swinging the swing she's sitting on? Why is he stroking her hair at the end? I... This scene is insane. Now, granted, I don't really understand the Russian cultural background and it might be a totally normal thing for colleagues to do stuff like that. But I don't think so.
And if you come at me and try to tell me he's talking down on her. No, he isn't. Later in the episode he even tries to compliment her by comparing her to the best diamond. He gets it a bit wrong, but he gets an A for effort.
So, do you see why this scene is so insane in my opinion?
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