Final Word from Monday, June 9, 2025
In the season finale of MobLand, a new mafia saga starring Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy, the fixer played by Hardy learns that there's a rat in the family. Hardy summons the suspect to an isolated warehouse and asks, "Did they come to you, or did you go to them?" A plan is then hatched for turning the traitor against a rival crime family. In the Czech version, call it MobLand Brno, the potential traitor might be played by a person closely resembling Supreme Court Justice Petr Škvain. He's the Brno-trained judge whose ruling in July 2023 paved the way for the police to return a computer to convicted drug dealer Tomáš Jiřikovský allowing access to Kč 12.5bn in bitcoin. Sen. Hana Marvanová said on CNN Prima News yesterday that someone might have helped the Supreme Court and Supreme State Prosecutor's Office change their mind. The state prosecutor in charge, Radim Dragoun, could now visit the Škvain character and ask, "Did they come to you, or did you go to them?" [ Czech Republic ODS Spolu Kordová ]
Glossary of difficult words
the mob/Mob - the Mafia or a similar criminal organization;
saga - a long, involved story, account or series of incidents;
to hatch - to conspire to devise (a plot or plan);
fixer - a person who makes arrangements for other people, esp. of an illicit or devious kind;
rat - an informer;
to pave the way for - to create the circumstances to enable (something) to happen or be done.