Zeman, Filip

フィリップ・ゼマン

Inspector Zeman served as Detective Suk's superior. He held a high-ranking position within the Prague Police Department, yet secretly, he was also an unscrupulous former member of the Czechoslovakian Secret Police (StB), whose remnants were largely involved in and implicated with organized crime.
After questioning Wolfgang Grimmer about the murder of Reinhardt Biermann—the former head of Kinderheim 511, with whom Grimmer had recently been affiliated—Zeman allowed him to leave but suspected that Grimmer knew the location of the key to a safety deposit box. This box contained an audiotape recording of a young Johan Liebert from Kinderheim 511, which Zeman and his colleagues were attempting to sell on the black market. Consequently, he had two of his partners pick up Grimmer in a taxi, detain him, and drive him to a decrepit factory. There, Zeman revealed himself as their co-conspirator and tortured Grimmer for information regarding the tape. When Grimmer refused to yield any information and lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness due to the severity of his injuries (including several deep nail clippings inflicted by Zeman), the mysterious blonde woman who had accosted Biermann

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arrived. She shot one of Zeman's partners, before presumably invoking Grimmer's inherent rage in the form of his "Magnificent Steiner" personality, and inciting him to kill Zeman and his other partner. He did so as an act of utter physical brutality (evidenced by the aftermath seen and mentioned thereafter).
Jan Suk was sickened by the crime and by seeing his mentor in such a state, but he eventually came to terms with the fact that Zeman, despite his kindness, was a corrupt, morally bankrupt man.
(Trivia: According to his police ID at the scene of his murder, Filip Zeman was a member of the city police rather than the state police, making him a glorified security guard.)