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Someone's tea cup and everyone's laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> litvinenko's friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenko's killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says that's because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. >> do you think that any of them knew what that substance was? do you think that they knew they were handling polonium? >> why wouldn't they have known what they were handling? >> because you don't want them to know. >> but they could have done a bette...

Russian business partner that you've been shot, you clearly didn't think this was a botched robbery, carjacking. you thought this was related to your work, related to your russian connections? >> well, i don't think there's any doubt. >> someone had tried to kill nem, just like the other guy in -- in london. >> the other guy? a former kgb agent and friend of joyal's killed three months earlier in london, assassinated with a weapon so frightening and exotic, investigators almost missed it, a weapon that raised the specter of state-sponsored murder. coming up, we trace the steps of a mysteriou...

>> i got out of my car. there were two men waiting in the bushes. they jumped me. one man i fought with, and we ended up on the ground in a tussle. o and this one man said to someone else i didn't see, "shoot him." so i covered my heart with my arms, i turned to the side. and a shot went through me. >> one shot. >> one shot, and then i heard the click. >> another click. >> right. and nothing happened. >> so you're shot once. >> right. >> you're rolling to protect yourself. >> right. i hear a chamber to clear it, gun jammed. at that point in time, the lights went on in my house. >> joyal's wife...

>> but who could get hold of such an expensive and exotic weapon? and just how did they deliver the fatal dose? when detectives went step by step with litvinenko through the day he was poisoned, he named three potential suspects -- the two russians and the italian. the first one we found was the italian. the first one we met was the italian. so now in rome, we're on our way to see mario scaramella, who hopefully can shed some more light on who killed alexander litvinenko and why. scaramella has been a hard man to pin down. first, he wanted to meet us in naples, then new york, then london. he f...

This wasn't just symbolism. in march 2006, eight months before litvinenko's murder, the russian parliament passed a law authorizing the liquidation of enemies of the state anywhere in the world. >> you don't pass that just for the sake of passing it. you have to have somebody in mind. >> reporter: seven months after the law was passed, someone was liquidated. a prominent russian journalist, shot in the head outside her moscow apartment. she was a friend of litvinenko. three weeks later, litvinenko himself was poisoned with polonium 210. duma leader zhirinovsky certainly didn't shed any tears w...