Word: toschi
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...President's Men wannabe, with the young Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) as Woodward and Bernstein, and his senior colleague Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) as a crusty Ben Bradlee type with a lot more showmanship and a mile-wide self-destructive streak. Their sleuthing sometimes helps, mostly annoys detectives Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and William Armstrong (Anthony Edwards). When Toschi is asked, "Have you considered that the killer might be Paul Avery?", he deadpans, "Frequently...
That's about the only spot of humor in the script, by James Vanderbilt, whose widely circulated screenplay of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies--yet to be made--is a model of compression and clarity. This one, with two main story lines (Toschi's official pursuit and Graysmith's amateur obsession) plus a character count in the high dozens and lots of leads that go nowhere, right up to the end, is necessarily a more sprawling affair. Yet it manages to be true to the complexity of the case while never losing cohesion or coherence...
...played by John Carroll Lynch, who was the homicidal Varlyn Stroud on HBO's Carnivāle. Deep into the movie, Allen is questioned by Toschi and Armstrong, and suddenly Zodiac forgets its vibe of a CSI: SF episode at miniseries length and gives us a high-voltage face-off with unearthly evil...
...Friars' greatest success was in routing the ex-Jesuit, Alighiero Tondi, who had been booked for a series of speeches in Emilia following his spectacular conversion to Communism (TIME, May 5, 1952). At Tondi's first lecture, before a packed Communist audience at the University of Bologna, Toschi and nine of the Flying Friars were there to heckle. Sample dialogue...
Last week they strikingly augmented the material resources of their mission. To replace the wheezing, borrowed Fiat which had become their trademark, Franciscan Toschi walked into a Bologna automobile dealer's to take delivery of two new Fiat station wagons (bought on the installment plan). Out of respect for his cloth and his impatience, the dealer hustled Father Toschi through the formalities of the sale as quickly as possible. Snapped an irritated lay customer, unwittingly confirming the success of Toschi's mission: "These damn Flying Friars are always taking off without waiting their turn...