C135 Chief Carlos, we forgive you!

RUBENS'S APARTMENT - AFTERNOON

The living room is now strewn with clothes; magazines, books and CDs in their proper places, the coffee table clean and shining, sofa free from socks and underwear, swept floors and dust-free curtains. The noise of the washing machine indicates its operation.

Rubens is sitting in the armchair wearing only a towel wrapped around his waist