Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)

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<i>The people of the
world are more or less the same.</i>

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<i>Though we may come
in different shapes and colors,</i>

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<i>we all share
the same inheritance,</i>

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<i>and we all have
our back stories,</i>

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<i>and our secrets.</i>

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<i>Like this man,
let's call him Henry,</i>

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<i>trying to find his way
on a remote Greek island.</i>

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<i>Even though evolution might seem
to mature us,</i>

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<i>there are still parts of our brain
that belong to our reptile ancestors.</i>

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<i>Although we've convinced
ourselves that hate,</i>

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<i>revenge and nemesis
belong to the past,</i>

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<i>our ancient ancestors' blood
still runs in our veins,</i>

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<i>whether we like it or not.</i>

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Hello?

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Hello?

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Henry Maertens?

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Mr. Henderson.

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It's Alex.

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You found the way... obviously.

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Thank you very much.

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Oh, uh, perhaps
you'd prefer a cold drink?

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No, no, no. Tea will do nicely.
Thank you very much.

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A lighthouse?
It's quite something.

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I like to guide people.

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If they get too close,
I turn the light off.

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I prefer the solitude.
I hate neighbors.

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Some say I hate people
and that's...

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bloody true.

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Then this must be
the perfect spot.

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Exactly.

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And all of this is mine.

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And the olive grove
behind us.

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Some of the trees are
500 years old.

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They were here when
Columbus discovered America.

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And there's a small chapel on the other side,
which is also mine.

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That's where I'm going
to be buried...

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when that day comes.

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So, my publisher
forwarded your letter.

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I can't remember
what you wrote,

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but I assume you wanted to
know how to become a writer.

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Actually, no.

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It's...

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It's actually more about
the story.

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The book I'm writing,
if it's any good

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or interesting enough.

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There are parallels to
<i>Gilliam's Temptation</i> in a way.

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I haven't read it
since I wrote it.

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Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Since you've come all this way.

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It's about this couple...

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David and Eva.

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About their relationship,
you could say.

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David is a writer,
a rather successful one.

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And Eva is a high school teacher,
no children.

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You're not gonna read
the whole book?

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Just bits and pieces,
so you get a feeling for the story.

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Get on with it.

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They left
on the 15th of August,

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traveling in the car together,
just the two of them.

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David felt he really loved her.

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They had been married
for almost eight years.

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Of course,
they had their difficulties,

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but he'd never felt it
so strongly before.

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<i>In the midst of this euphoric feeling,
there was a dissonance.</i>

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<i>As if one of the strings in a
chord was slightly out of tune.</i>

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<i>It's difficult to pinpoint more
precisely where that feeling originated.</i>

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<i>But he seemed to have discovered a streak
in his wife that he'd never noticed before.</i>

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<i>Whether the actual change was in
her or in him, he couldn't tell.</i>

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- Shall I switch on the radio?
- I'd rather not. Thank you.

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Gabber recommended this gasthof
just south of Burghausen,

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which is supposed to be nice.

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Edelweiss,
good food apparently.

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After the shortcut,
we'll soon be on the highway again.

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So we should get there
around...

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7:00, 7:30.

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Tomorrow's leg will be shorter.

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I wonder how many gasthofs
are called Edelweiss,

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- must be hundreds.
- David, I've met someone else.

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Okay.

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The way things have been
this past year, I...

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I-I have no choice

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and I'm going to leave you.

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Anyone I know?
It's, um, Mauritz.

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Mauritz Winkler?

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Christ, why do all women have to
fall in love with their therapist?

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You know as well as I do
that it doesn't mean anything.

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So why are we
on this fucking trip?

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Look, I wanted to give it a try,
but it seems futile.

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I'm so sorry, I've just...
I've got to be honest with you.

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Mr. Schwartz?

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Madame H.
Welcome.

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Pleasant journey, I hope.

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It's the most wonderful road.
Isn't it?

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Can I get someone to help with your bags?
No, I'll be fine.

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- Oh, you shouldn't trouble yourself.
- No trouble at all.

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It's good to have you here.
And good to be here.

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This was the last time.

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You can't be serious?

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Oh, I'm serious, David.

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You belong to me, Eva.

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I love you.

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Do you need the spray?

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Here.

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Have a seat.

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Here.

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Do you want some water?

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No, I'm fine. Thank you.

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I'm fine. Thank you.

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Don't you understand
that it will pass?

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You know, you're just confused.

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I'm not confused.

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You know, I had other women.

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Why do you bring that up?

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Because I want you to know

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they never meant anything.

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Well, that's just
the difference.

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What is?

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I've only had one, David.

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And he means everything.

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If your life...

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is dark and then
a door suddenly opens, then...

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you have to move on.

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No, it's your responsibility.

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I think you owe it to yourself.

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That sounds like something
Mauritz Winkler could have said.

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Do you mean your life or whose
life are we talking about here?

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Our life.

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Our life together.
Bullshit. Fucking rubbish.

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We don't talk
to each other anymore.

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We don't stimulate
each other anymore.

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So you talk to him instead

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about our relationship?

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Don't you see it, David?

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It's so very obvious
right now.

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If we continue like this,
we'll just cease to exist.

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Those are just words with no meaning.
They signify nothing.

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They signify everything.

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Hey!
Ow.

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What are you doing?

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I'm sorry. But you can't
just walk off like that.

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I'm pregnant.

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What? But...

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since when do you know?
It's not your child, David.

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I understand
if that makes you feel...

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unhappy.

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You know
I haven't felt ready.

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I haven't been able
to see myself with a child.

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You just didn't want
a child with me.

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It's not that simple.

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Go on, admit it.

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This is about me. Only me.

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<i>Twenty-four hours later,
Mauritz Winkler showed up.</i>

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<i>Booked himself into a hotel
in the next valley.</i>

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<i>The following morning,
she took the car...</i>

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<i>to see him, Mauritz Winkler.</i>

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<i>So, he lets her leave.</i>

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<i>Just like that? What a wimp.</i>

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She's such a bitch. I like her.

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Do you want my comments now
or afterwards?

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Maybe I should go on.
Whatever.

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He decided to go for a walk
in the mountains.

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He didn't feel like being
around anyone.

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<i>He didn't want anything,
apart from Eva.</i>

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<i>When your soul is wounded,
physical activity can heal.</i>

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<i>And while he was sitting there,
he couldn't stop thinking about</i>

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<i>the skin on the inside
of Eva's thigh.</i>

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<i>If only the probing sensitive
touch of your fingertips</i>

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<i>could find that certain spot.</i>

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<i>Then of course Mauritz Winkler
invaded his thoughts.</i>

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<i>His fingers,
his body against hers.</i>

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<i>Perhaps it was there and then
that he made his decision.</i>

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<i>Afterwards,
his memory failed him.</i>

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<i>But it must have come to him
right there at that very moment.</i>

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Mr. Schwartz.
Hello.

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Do you know if my wife
has returned yet?

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I'm sorry.

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I haven't seen either her
or the car since this morning.

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Okay. Thank you.

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<i>How could he make his inner being
understand that their love was over?</i>

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<i>He remembered
when he first met her...</i>

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<i>how he immediately knew that this
was the woman he wanted to share</i>

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<i>the rest of his life with.</i>

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<i>He remembered
their first kiss...</i>

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<i>the first time they made love.</i>

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<i>He still loved her
with every bone in his body.</i>

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<i>And in a few months, Eva would give
birth to a child that wasn't his.</i>

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<i>Almost blinded by jealousy,</i>

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<i>at the same time,
he was surprised by his own rationality.</i>

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- <i>But clearly, he has a plan.
- Yes.</i>

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After breakfast
the next morning,

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he says he's going
to take the car.

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Which she accepts.
So he drives off...

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kills that man, Winkler,
end of story, right?

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No, not quite. But...

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perhaps that should be the
feeling you get when you read it.

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But that's not
what happens.

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Surprise me, Henry.

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<i>David had studied the map carefully,
so he knew precisely</i>

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<i>the winding road from the
village of Graues went uphill.</i>

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<i>There, some 500 meters below in the
next valley was the Lauern reservoir.</i>

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<i>He had read about it
in the tourist brochure.</i>

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<i>Opaque green water.</i>

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<i>At full capacity, it could hold
a billion cubic meters</i>

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<i>of melted snow and ice.</i>

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<i>When he came to the top,
he had driven the car all the way</i>

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<i>without having to use
the brakes once.</i>

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<i>It wasn't until he reached
a sharp bend on his way down</i>

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<i>to the next valley
that he needed them.</i>

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<i>Just the way he'd imagined it.</i>

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Excuse me?
Yes?

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Can I get one more, please?
Yes.

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<i>They ate in silence.</i>

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<i>Their words had suddenly
become leaden,</i>

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<i>just as on the eve of war when
all negotiations have broken down</i>

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<i>and all that remains
is naked action.</i>

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So, I'll take the car.

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I filled it up yesterday.

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I'll be home for supper.

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<i>She put her hand
on David's shoulder...</i>

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<i>held it there a bit too long.</i>

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<i>But he didn't look up.</i>

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<i>Never met her gaze.</i>

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<i>So...</i>

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the car is so demolished,

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nobody can tell the brakes
were tampered with,

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if it's ever found.

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Perhaps it disappears
in that bloody lake.

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The Lauern reservoir.
The Lauern reservoir.

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Yeah, Henry, it's, um...

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elaborate.

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It was a beautiful day and he decided
to go for a walk along the river.

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<i>He walked upstream for a couple of
hours before deciding to turn back.</i>

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<i>He was hungry,
hadn't had much for breakfast.</i>

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<i>It was as if time
had ceased to exist.</i>

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<i>The hours just disappeared,
but the minutes crept by slowly.</i>

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<i>At the same time,
he felt remarkably calm.</i>

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No, I haven't seen her.

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Thank you.

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<i>It was the empty room,</i>

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<i>the thought that
she'd never again be there</i>

240
00:26:18,878 --> 00:26:20,744
<i>to meet him when he came home.</i>

241
00:26:22,281 --> 00:26:25,950
<i>Just a big... void.</i>

242
00:27:57,109 --> 00:28:00,177
<i>The following morning
was one of very few words.</i>

243
00:28:00,179 --> 00:28:04,448
<i>He had been down and talked
to Madame H in the reception,</i>

244
00:28:04,450 --> 00:28:07,718
<i>filed a missing person report
with the local police,</i>

245
00:28:08,821 --> 00:28:12,189
<i>gone for a walk in Graues.</i>

246
00:28:12,191 --> 00:28:15,259
<i>It wasn't until the next day
that he had a visitor.</i>

247
00:28:16,762 --> 00:28:18,696
David Schwartz?
Yeah.

248
00:28:18,698 --> 00:28:20,864
Chief Inspector Mort.

249
00:28:20,866 --> 00:28:23,033
So, let me get this straight.

250
00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:26,170
You and your wife have
been staying at this hotel,

251
00:28:26,172 --> 00:28:28,972
and your wife went missing
the day before yesterday.

252
00:28:28,974 --> 00:28:31,775
- That's correct.
- Okay.

253
00:28:31,777 --> 00:28:35,446
So there must be a reason why
your wife simply up and left.

254
00:28:35,448 --> 00:28:38,849
They say here in the hotel that you
hardly spent any time together.

255
00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:42,720
We have different interests.

256
00:28:44,123 --> 00:28:45,756
She wanted to go
for a drive,

257
00:28:45,758 --> 00:28:47,391
I wanted to walk
along the river.

258
00:28:50,096 --> 00:28:51,929
I think something
has happened to her.

259
00:28:51,931 --> 00:28:54,031
Like what, for instance?
I don't know.

260
00:28:54,967 --> 00:28:56,300
You had a row, didn't you?

261
00:28:58,971 --> 00:29:00,370
Why would we?

262
00:29:02,775 --> 00:29:04,174
What are you implying?

263
00:29:04,844 --> 00:29:05,943
"Implying"?

264
00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:10,314
You're implying I had something
to do with Eva's disappearance?

265
00:29:13,152 --> 00:29:14,752
I went for a walk
along the river,

266
00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:16,153
she wanted to go
for a drive.

267
00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:18,055
When you've been married
as long as we have,

268
00:29:18,057 --> 00:29:20,224
you allow each other
that kind of freedom.

269
00:29:22,828 --> 00:29:23,894
Really?

270
00:29:30,770 --> 00:29:33,036
I need a coffee.

271
00:29:33,038 --> 00:29:35,205
<i>And that's how it went
for over an hour.</i>

272
00:29:35,207 --> 00:29:38,976
<i>And no, they hadn't found
the car, or any trace of it.</i>

273
00:29:38,978 --> 00:29:41,245
<i>They had searched
all the roads in the area.</i>

274
00:29:41,247 --> 00:29:42,880
<i>They'd issued an alert,</i>

275
00:29:42,882 --> 00:29:46,183
<i>and no reliable witnesses
had come forth.</i>

276
00:29:47,052 --> 00:29:49,987
<i>Eva was gone.</i>

277
00:29:49,989 --> 00:29:52,256
<i>Three and a half years
have passed.</i>

278
00:29:52,258 --> 00:29:56,160
He remembers Graues.
He never returned.

279
00:29:56,162 --> 00:29:58,796
He remembers Chief
Inspector Mort's green shirt

280
00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:01,965
and the sweat patches
under his armpits.

281
00:30:01,967 --> 00:30:07,437
He remembers conversations with
good friends and welfare officers.

282
00:30:07,439 --> 00:30:10,240
The months at the hospital
after his breakdown.

283
00:30:17,116 --> 00:30:18,348
Okay.

284
00:30:19,852 --> 00:30:22,886
So, this is
the end of your story?

285
00:30:24,557 --> 00:30:26,323
You must be joking.

286
00:30:28,427 --> 00:30:30,093
It's actually the beginning.

287
00:30:35,367 --> 00:30:36,600
It was early March.

288
00:30:38,003 --> 00:30:40,404
<i>Spring had not yet arrived.</i>

289
00:30:40,406 --> 00:30:43,440
<i>Gusts of wind tore
through the streets and alleys.</i>

290
00:30:43,442 --> 00:30:47,344
<i>The temperature dropped
from a few degrees down to zero.</i>

291
00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:50,280
<i>Berlin was unseasonably cold.</i>

292
00:30:54,887 --> 00:30:58,088
<i>At the very end of
Haydn's</i> Cello Concerto No. 2,

293
00:30:58,090 --> 00:30:59,256
<i>it happened.</i>

294
00:31:01,327 --> 00:31:03,927
<i>Someone in the audience coughed.</i>

295
00:31:03,929 --> 00:31:07,397
<i>To David,
it felt like an electric shock.</i>

296
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,940
<i>It was her. It was Eva.</i>

297
00:31:24,049 --> 00:31:26,617
<i>Six months earlier,
she must have been sitting there</i>

298
00:31:26,619 --> 00:31:28,652
<i>in a concert hall in Maardam.</i>

299
00:31:28,654 --> 00:31:32,222
<i>Strange, yet, feasible
to be able to distinguish</i>

300
00:31:32,224 --> 00:31:35,125
<i>a specific person's
characteristic cough,</i>

301
00:31:35,127 --> 00:31:37,160
<i>among millions of others.</i>

302
00:31:37,162 --> 00:31:40,898
In that moment,
he was convinced Eva was still alive.

303
00:31:42,601 --> 00:31:44,134
Wow.

304
00:31:45,437 --> 00:31:48,105
Quite impressive, I must say.

305
00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:52,276
Spectacular twist.

306
00:31:52,978 --> 00:31:54,044
What do you say...

307
00:31:55,381 --> 00:31:58,115
we pause for a spot of lunch,
David?

308
00:31:58,617 --> 00:32:00,183
Yeah.

309
00:32:00,185 --> 00:32:01,518
I would like that very much.

310
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,387
Didn't have much breakfast
this morning.

311
00:32:05,591 --> 00:32:07,925
Or is it Henry?

312
00:32:09,061 --> 00:32:10,227
David?

313
00:32:11,630 --> 00:32:12,963
Henry?

314
00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:17,134
I think I'm getting
a bit mixed up.

315
00:32:51,270 --> 00:32:53,971
You're a sly old devil, David.

316
00:32:53,973 --> 00:32:59,042
Disconnecting the brakes
on a modern car, I'm impressed.

317
00:32:59,044 --> 00:33:01,345
Not only
an accomplished author...

318
00:33:02,448 --> 00:33:03,981
but a skilled mechanic.

319
00:33:09,054 --> 00:33:11,288
It must have haunted you.

320
00:33:12,624 --> 00:33:14,758
Those...

321
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,463
images of Eva crashing down
the precipice to her death,

322
00:33:19,465 --> 00:33:21,531
I can only imagine...

323
00:33:21,533 --> 00:33:25,469
how many nights you woke up
in a cold sweat.

324
00:33:26,472 --> 00:33:29,272
And there you are,
three years later...

325
00:33:30,476 --> 00:33:34,077
hearing a cough on the radio.

326
00:33:38,150 --> 00:33:39,383
It's fucking brilliant.

327
00:33:41,086 --> 00:33:42,319
The question is...

328
00:33:43,789 --> 00:33:46,757
did it fill you
with angst or relief?

329
00:33:52,331 --> 00:33:54,031
Mmm.

330
00:33:54,033 --> 00:33:55,432
You're not going anywhere.

331
00:33:56,168 --> 00:33:58,135
We haven't finished yet.

332
00:33:58,137 --> 00:33:59,803
You come here,
take up my time.

333
00:33:59,805 --> 00:34:02,272
I could have written a fucking
novel of my own this morning.

334
00:34:03,709 --> 00:34:07,044
I intend to hear
the rest of your story.

335
00:34:08,514 --> 00:34:10,447
Do I make myself clear?

336
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,193
And you,

337
00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:24,461
drawn to Maardam,

338
00:34:25,431 --> 00:34:29,166
like a moth to a flame. By what?

339
00:34:30,836 --> 00:34:32,502
A cough on the radio.

340
00:34:33,806 --> 00:34:35,105
Yes.

341
00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:38,308
In a manner of speaking.

342
00:34:39,711 --> 00:34:43,113
I tried to convince myself
that it could've been anyone

343
00:34:43,115 --> 00:34:44,681
<i>with a coughing fit
in that audience,</i>

344
00:34:44,683 --> 00:34:46,516
<i>and I almost succeeded.</i>

345
00:34:47,686 --> 00:34:49,519
<i>Then I received a proposal,</i>

346
00:34:49,521 --> 00:34:52,255
<i>or should I say, an opportunity.</i>

347
00:34:52,257 --> 00:34:54,624
"I am sending you
my latest manuscript

348
00:34:54,626 --> 00:34:57,594
to be translated
and published.

349
00:34:57,596 --> 00:35:00,630
I forbid you to contact
my publisher in Maardam

350
00:35:00,632 --> 00:35:02,499
or anyone else
for that matter."

351
00:35:02,501 --> 00:35:04,468
This is the only copy.

352
00:35:06,572 --> 00:35:08,805
<i>Of course
I had to doubt my own sanity,</i>

353
00:35:08,807 --> 00:35:10,807
<i>but I couldn't get it
out of my mind</i>

354
00:35:10,809 --> 00:35:13,410
<i>that she had somehow managed
to disappear from Graues</i>

355
00:35:13,412 --> 00:35:16,513
<i>without a trace
and start a new life.</i>

356
00:35:18,183 --> 00:35:21,284
<i>I felt I had no choice,
I had to find out.</i>

357
00:35:35,434 --> 00:35:37,834
<i>A translation
of Germund Rein's last book</i>

358
00:35:37,836 --> 00:35:40,837
<i>could take me to Maardam at
the German publisher's expense.</i>

359
00:35:40,839 --> 00:35:43,607
<i>It was almost like
a gift from above,</i>

360
00:35:43,609 --> 00:35:45,809
<i>and I was convinced.</i>

361
00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:48,778
<i>If Eva lived there,
I would find her.</i>

362
00:36:34,393 --> 00:36:36,359
- Cheers.
- Cheers.

363
00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:38,228
<i>And yes,
I'm not a writer.</i>

364
00:36:38,230 --> 00:36:39,429
<i>I'm a translator.</i>

365
00:36:39,431 --> 00:36:40,964
<i>I simply translate the works</i>

366
00:36:40,966 --> 00:36:43,266
<i>of genuine writers into
the German language.</i>

367
00:36:43,268 --> 00:36:46,703
Yeah.

368
00:36:46,705 --> 00:36:49,372
<i>And my work goes
unnoticed by everyone,</i>

369
00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:53,843
<i>except for my publisher
and possibly one or two readers.</i>

370
00:36:53,845 --> 00:36:57,480
<i>But I know my own value,
and I take pride in my skills.</i>

371
00:36:57,482 --> 00:37:00,217
<i>Skills that could bring me
closer to Eva,</i>

372
00:37:00,219 --> 00:37:02,986
<i>that is, if she still happens
to be there.</i>

373
00:37:02,988 --> 00:37:07,490
<i>Yes, I was drawn to Maardam
like a moth to a flame.</i>

374
00:37:10,262 --> 00:37:13,330
<i>I had no idea
how I was going to find Eva.</i>

375
00:37:13,332 --> 00:37:16,833
<i>But I was determined to do
whatever it took to find out.</i>

376
00:37:16,835 --> 00:37:21,304
<i>I know for certain that she'd been in that
concert hall in Maardam six months ago.</i>

377
00:37:21,306 --> 00:37:24,608
<i>The question was,
did she live in Maardam?</i>

378
00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:29,512
<i>So, I sublet a flat from an
architect who'd been posted abroad,</i>

379
00:37:29,514 --> 00:37:31,581
<i>potted plants and cat included.</i>

380
00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:32,916
Any allergies?

381
00:37:32,918 --> 00:37:34,718
No.

382
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:39,289
<i>I'd already translated
a couple of Rein's books,</i>

383
00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:42,826
The Red Sisters
<i>and</i> Kroull's Total Silence.

384
00:37:42,828 --> 00:37:45,962
<i>And I felt I might be able
to master his style of writing.</i>

385
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,569
<i>Not an easy task,
but not by any means beyond my capabilities.</i>

386
00:37:54,006 --> 00:37:57,340
<i>After all, I knew I would have
more than enough time.</i>

387
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,582
<i>I didn't open the manuscript until I made
myself comfortable in the library...</i>

388
00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:10,787
<i>a consequence of translating
according to Darke's model.</i>

389
00:38:10,789 --> 00:38:14,457
I brought you some tea.
Thank you so much.

390
00:38:14,459 --> 00:38:19,629
<i>Darke's method builds on the fact that
you don't know the text beforehand.</i>

391
00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:21,831
<i>You translate sentence
by sentence,</i>

392
00:38:21,833 --> 00:38:24,501
<i>paragraph by paragraph.</i>

393
00:38:24,503 --> 00:38:27,037
<i>So you value the text
the way it appears to you,</i>

394
00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:30,807
<i>like a reader
who doesn't know what's coming.</i>

395
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:34,344
<i>I had to conduct my search
for Eva during my spare time.</i>

396
00:38:34,346 --> 00:38:38,081
<i>And she was obsessed
with classical music and opera,</i>

397
00:38:38,083 --> 00:38:41,985
<i>I started to frequent the Nieuwe
Halle and the Concert Hall.</i>

398
00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:50,360
<i>I would try to buy front of stall seats,
giving me a strategic vantage point</i>

399
00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:52,829
<i>from which to scour
the audience.</i>

400
00:38:55,801 --> 00:39:00,403
<i>I believe I managed to spot
Giselle at least four times.</i>

401
00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:36,139
<i>This was to become
a very costly routine.</i>

402
00:39:36,141 --> 00:39:40,443
<i>So sometimes I would have to settle for
simply standing outside in the street</i>

403
00:39:40,445 --> 00:39:44,547
<i>watching the concertgoers
on their way in or out.</i>

404
00:39:44,549 --> 00:39:46,683
<i>It was like looking for
a needle in a haystack.</i>

405
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:51,654
<i>Of course, I also pursued
every other available avenue</i>

406
00:39:51,656 --> 00:39:55,859
<i>in order to find out if Eva or
Mauritz Winkler, for that matter,</i>

407
00:39:55,861 --> 00:39:58,895
<i>even lived in the city,
but all in vain.</i>

408
00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:00,430
Sorry.

409
00:40:00,432 --> 00:40:01,998
<i>When the library opened at 2:00,</i>

410
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,767
<i>I'd sit there until they closed,</i>

411
00:40:03,769 --> 00:40:06,002
<i>and then continue
my fruitless search,</i>

412
00:40:06,004 --> 00:40:08,471
<i>keeping my tasks apart
like oil and water.</i>

413
00:40:08,473 --> 00:40:10,807
- I'm sorry.
- <i>Turning day into night.</i>

414
00:41:31,990 --> 00:41:37,760
What do we actually know about
our next of kin and their deepest motives?

415
00:42:10,896 --> 00:42:13,616
The bill, please.
Yeah. Coming.

416
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:20,570
<i>I started to wonder
about all this secrecy.</i>

417
00:42:20,572 --> 00:42:24,040
<i>Why had he sent the manuscript to Kerr
and Amundsen, his German publisher,</i>

418
00:42:24,042 --> 00:42:27,977
<i>instead of his regular publisher
Otto Gerlach in Maardam?</i>

419
00:42:27,979 --> 00:42:30,313
<i>It certainly seemed strange.</i>

420
00:42:30,315 --> 00:42:34,784
<i>And could it really be true,
that this was the only copy?</i>

421
00:42:34,786 --> 00:42:37,120
<i>All I knew was
what Judit Kerr told me,</i>

422
00:42:37,122 --> 00:42:40,823
<i>and she seemed too excited by
the prospect of the actual deal</i>

423
00:42:40,825 --> 00:42:43,560
<i>to question anything
about the background situation.</i>

424
00:43:14,826 --> 00:43:15,959
The woman...

425
00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:19,062
- surveillance or missing?
- Missing.

426
00:43:19,064 --> 00:43:21,631
That's good.
I prefer missing persons.

427
00:43:22,634 --> 00:43:24,100
And when did you see her
the last time?

428
00:43:24,102 --> 00:43:26,936
Three years ago,
or perhaps a bit more.

429
00:43:26,938 --> 00:43:29,138
Have you googled her?
She doesn't exist.

430
00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:30,640
Her maiden name?
Leuwe.

431
00:43:30,642 --> 00:43:32,108
All the information's written

432
00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:33,610
on the back of the photo.

433
00:43:37,315 --> 00:43:39,616
Are you sure you want
to find her?

434
00:43:39,618 --> 00:43:41,317
You know, three years,

435
00:43:41,319 --> 00:43:43,286
most people would have
moved on by now.

436
00:43:44,289 --> 00:43:45,888
But not you.

437
00:43:45,890 --> 00:43:48,124
No, not me.

438
00:43:49,728 --> 00:43:51,488
<i>I thought private dicks
were extinct.</i>

439
00:43:52,163 --> 00:43:54,197
Obviously not.

440
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:56,966
Ooh, gonna have to get
some more wine...

441
00:43:56,968 --> 00:44:00,837
if I'm gonna be able to listen
to any more of this.

442
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,722
Get to it. I'm listening.

443
00:44:20,725 --> 00:44:22,058
Hmm?

444
00:44:22,060 --> 00:44:24,227
Move on.

445
00:44:24,229 --> 00:44:28,831
I don't wanna spend the rest of my life
listening to your screwed up story.

446
00:44:28,833 --> 00:44:31,768
Well, it's not that easy.
Try, for Christ's sake.

447
00:44:40,445 --> 00:44:43,379
I had made
some progress with Rein's novel.

448
00:44:43,381 --> 00:44:45,214
It had two sides to it.
One was...

449
00:44:46,418 --> 00:44:48,384
dreamlike and introverted...

450
00:44:49,721 --> 00:44:52,422
the other cynical and realistic.

451
00:44:52,424 --> 00:44:53,823
I've read it.

452
00:44:56,294 --> 00:44:59,262
Still I felt a great discomfort.

453
00:44:59,264 --> 00:45:03,066
Too many similarities to my own story.
At the same time as...

454
00:45:05,737 --> 00:45:09,105
I think "frustrated" is
a better word.

455
00:45:10,709 --> 00:45:14,143
But it wasn't the novel itself,
even if it did influence me.

456
00:45:14,145 --> 00:45:15,978
This is getting better
and better.

457
00:45:20,218 --> 00:45:23,820
I'd started to believe that the book
was about Germund Rein himself...

458
00:45:25,757 --> 00:45:27,356
<i>and about Mariam, his wife.</i>

459
00:45:27,358 --> 00:45:31,427
<i>And the most bizarre aspect
of it all was, of course,</i>

460
00:45:31,429 --> 00:45:35,765
<i>the parallel with my own life,
my situation with Eva.</i>

461
00:45:35,767 --> 00:45:39,736
<i>I was frustrated by the fact that my
search for her remained without success.</i>

462
00:45:39,738 --> 00:45:45,808
<i>I can't really explain why I reached out
to Germund Rein's wife, Mariam Kadhar.</i>

463
00:45:47,445 --> 00:45:49,912
<i>Maybe it was because
I couldn't find Eva</i>

464
00:45:49,914 --> 00:45:52,949
<i>that I decided
to find Mariam instead.</i>

465
00:45:52,951 --> 00:45:56,185
<i>There's no logic in it, I know.</i>

466
00:45:56,187 --> 00:46:01,224
<i>Maybe the content of the book was
merging with my subconscious.</i>

467
00:46:01,226 --> 00:46:02,892
<i>I don't know.</i>

468
00:46:02,894 --> 00:46:05,261
<i>But her husband had disappeared
without a trace,</i>

469
00:46:05,263 --> 00:46:06,963
<i>and so had Eva.</i>

470
00:46:14,072 --> 00:46:17,807
Alex Henderson, one of the few
colleagues my husband really valued.

471
00:46:17,809 --> 00:46:19,569
Yes, he's well
worth reading.

472
00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:24,313
Please take a seat.
Thank you.

473
00:46:27,919 --> 00:46:31,053
So you've translated
my husband's books?

474
00:46:31,055 --> 00:46:35,224
Only the two latest,
<i>The Red Sisters</i> and <i>Kroull's Total Silence.</i>

475
00:46:35,226 --> 00:46:38,327
Do you know if they sold well
in your language?

476
00:46:38,329 --> 00:46:40,296
Um, not big editions.

477
00:46:40,298 --> 00:46:42,231
But he's regarded
by most well-informed people

478
00:46:42,233 --> 00:46:44,133
as one of
the great modern authors.

479
00:46:44,135 --> 00:46:46,035
Always up
for the Nobel prize.

480
00:46:46,037 --> 00:46:47,270
Hmm.

481
00:46:50,942 --> 00:46:55,044
I was just passing by and wanted
to present my condolences.

482
00:46:59,551 --> 00:47:02,051
It must be a heavy burden.

483
00:47:02,053 --> 00:47:04,086
I haven't got used
to it yet...

484
00:47:05,190 --> 00:47:07,156
even though several months
have passed.

485
00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:08,891
But on the other hand,

486
00:47:08,893 --> 00:47:11,561
I don't know why
one should get used to it.

487
00:47:13,498 --> 00:47:14,564
Hmm.

488
00:47:20,071 --> 00:47:21,971
Excuse me for asking this,

489
00:47:21,973 --> 00:47:24,607
do you know if he was writing
anything before he died?

490
00:47:27,145 --> 00:47:30,546
Yes, he was writing.
He always did.

491
00:47:30,548 --> 00:47:34,283
But we don't know what became of it.
"Became of it"?

492
00:47:35,954 --> 00:47:37,453
He was busy with something.

493
00:47:37,455 --> 00:47:41,324
I don't know what it was.
He didn't tell me anything.

494
00:47:42,293 --> 00:47:43,960
But that's the way he was.

495
00:47:45,930 --> 00:47:47,563
I think he was pleased...

496
00:47:48,633 --> 00:47:50,266
with what he wrote.

497
00:47:51,603 --> 00:47:53,035
I could see it in him.

498
00:48:01,246 --> 00:48:03,045
But there's nothing left.

499
00:48:03,581 --> 00:48:04,947
Like I said...

500
00:48:08,253 --> 00:48:11,220
perhaps he burned it,
perhaps he...

501
00:48:13,291 --> 00:48:14,457
took it with him.

502
00:48:17,595 --> 00:48:19,228
I really don't know.

503
00:48:24,135 --> 00:48:25,501
<i>Mariam Kadhar...</i>

504
00:48:27,338 --> 00:48:30,239
<i>I felt pity for her,
even though I clearly understood</i>

505
00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:33,042
<i>that I couldn't
do anything to help her.</i>

506
00:48:33,044 --> 00:48:37,013
<i>But, most importantly,
I now understood that apart from Judit Kerr,</i>

507
00:48:37,015 --> 00:48:39,248
<i>I was probably
the only living person</i>

508
00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:42,151
<i>to have held Germund Rein's
final book in my hands.</i>

509
00:48:42,587 --> 00:48:44,320
<i>Why me?</i>

510
00:48:44,322 --> 00:48:46,055
<i>Mariam Kadhar didn't even know</i>

511
00:48:46,057 --> 00:48:48,524
<i>of its existence,
as far as I knew.</i>

512
00:48:50,261 --> 00:48:53,062
<i>I became so preoccupied
by my thoughts</i>

513
00:48:53,064 --> 00:48:56,065
<i>that I didn't notice
that someone was following me.</i>

514
00:48:56,067 --> 00:48:57,700
<i>I don't know
if you've ever been shadowed,</i>

515
00:48:57,702 --> 00:49:01,070
<i>but somehow you can feel it
in your bones.</i>

516
00:49:01,973 --> 00:49:04,040
<i>It's not a pleasant feeling.</i>

517
00:49:06,277 --> 00:49:08,644
<i>My first thought, of course,
was that it had something to do</i>

518
00:49:08,646 --> 00:49:11,480
<i>with my visit to Mariam
or, more specifically,</i>

519
00:49:11,482 --> 00:49:13,983
<i>with Germund Rein's manuscript.</i>

520
00:49:13,985 --> 00:49:18,287
<i>But on second thought,
that didn't feel credible.</i>

521
00:49:18,289 --> 00:49:21,123
<i>Why would anyone go
to such lengths?</i>

522
00:49:22,694 --> 00:49:26,295
<i>Honestly, the whole setup
was pretty amateurish.</i>

523
00:50:14,512 --> 00:50:18,214
<i>For a while,
I pondered giving in to Kerr's suggestion,</i>

524
00:50:18,216 --> 00:50:22,585
<i>to abandon Darke's model and simply
read Rein's manuscript to the end.</i>

525
00:50:22,587 --> 00:50:26,088
<i>And, of course, there were things in
the manuscript which got me thinking.</i>

526
00:50:28,393 --> 00:50:32,595
<i>As if the book's real story was
concealed between the lines, as I said.</i>

527
00:50:35,299 --> 00:50:38,300
<i>But Darke maintained that it was
just that kind of thing,</i>

528
00:50:38,302 --> 00:50:40,503
<i>the hidden meaning
and deeper dimensions,</i>

529
00:50:40,505 --> 00:50:43,139
<i>that risked getting lost
if you gave in to it.</i>

530
00:50:50,081 --> 00:50:53,816
<i>I worked on the text and I
became more and more fascinated.</i>

531
00:50:58,456 --> 00:51:01,757
<i>Suddenly I discovered
something really odd.</i>

532
00:51:01,759 --> 00:51:03,659
<i>Why had he underlined
these words?</i>

533
00:51:04,495 --> 00:51:10,533
<i>West, sea, sun, bear, dial.</i>

534
00:51:10,535 --> 00:51:12,668
<i>And why hadn't I noticed
this before?</i>

535
00:51:14,572 --> 00:51:17,339
<i>Not good. Not good at all.</i>

536
00:51:19,710 --> 00:51:23,712
<i>No matter how I tried, I couldn't make
anything comprehensible out of them.</i>

537
00:51:23,714 --> 00:51:28,784
<i>Why on earth had he underlined
those words in red?</i>

538
00:51:32,123 --> 00:51:33,355
Excuse me?

539
00:51:35,293 --> 00:51:36,358
Hey!

540
00:51:37,595 --> 00:51:38,727
Wait.

541
00:51:40,198 --> 00:51:41,263
Wait!

542
00:51:45,536 --> 00:51:46,602
Mr. Schwartz.

543
00:52:07,125 --> 00:52:09,225
<i>I didn't know what to think.</i>

544
00:52:09,227 --> 00:52:13,229
<i>It was him. The same man again.
No doubt about it.</i>

545
00:52:13,231 --> 00:52:16,465
<i>Who he was and why he was following me,
I had no idea.</i>

546
00:52:16,467 --> 00:52:19,535
- Please, Mr. Schwartz.
- I'm so sorry.

547
00:52:21,439 --> 00:52:22,738
I'm sorry.

548
00:52:23,875 --> 00:52:26,775
Listen. Excuse me.

549
00:52:26,777 --> 00:52:29,912
Do you know who that was,
the man who just ran out? Do you know him?

550
00:52:31,282 --> 00:52:32,348
Sorry.

551
00:52:40,591 --> 00:52:43,259
And where exactly was
she spotted and by whom?

552
00:52:43,261 --> 00:52:47,496
One of the suburbs,
Wassingen, block 184.

553
00:52:47,498 --> 00:52:50,466
Are you saying you've seen her there?
Not personally.

554
00:52:50,468 --> 00:52:51,800
It was one of
my collaborators.

555
00:52:51,802 --> 00:52:54,637
And when was that?
Yesterday.

556
00:52:54,639 --> 00:52:57,773
He caught sight of her in the underground,
followed her.

557
00:52:57,775 --> 00:53:02,545
She got out at Wassingen, and went
into one of these high-rise buildings.

558
00:53:02,547 --> 00:53:04,747
He didn't have time to see
what floor she went to.

559
00:53:04,749 --> 00:53:08,651
Is he sure it was her?
Not at all...

560
00:53:08,653 --> 00:53:10,286
but the birthmark was there,

561
00:53:10,288 --> 00:53:11,820
along with the rest
of your description,

562
00:53:11,822 --> 00:53:15,324
so it's not completely
out of the question.

563
00:53:20,698 --> 00:53:22,298
So...

564
00:53:23,501 --> 00:53:25,834
Eva was still
in the land of the living,

565
00:53:26,904 --> 00:53:29,672
risen out of the reservoir
like Venus.

566
00:53:29,674 --> 00:53:30,773
Yes.

567
00:53:30,775 --> 00:53:32,474
That's what it looked like.

568
00:53:33,611 --> 00:53:35,945
Rather ambiguous feelings,
to be honest.

569
00:53:35,947 --> 00:53:38,380
You may suffer ambiguity...

570
00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:41,984
but the law never does.

571
00:53:52,797 --> 00:53:55,397
Murder
or attempted murder.

572
00:53:55,866 --> 00:53:56,932
Excuse me?

573
00:53:58,769 --> 00:54:01,770
Same intent,
same punishment.

574
00:54:04,875 --> 00:54:07,509
Yeah, I don't know.
Whatever you say.

575
00:54:16,020 --> 00:54:17,586
<i>Wassingen.</i>

576
00:54:18,889 --> 00:54:21,924
<i>If hell had been conceived
in our times...</i>

577
00:54:25,463 --> 00:54:29,565
<i>In my obsessed mind, I had gone
through this moment a thousand times,</i>

578
00:54:29,567 --> 00:54:32,401
<i>but what would actually happen
if I saw Eva there?</i>

579
00:54:32,937 --> 00:54:34,370
<i>What would I do?</i>

580
00:54:37,475 --> 00:54:40,309
<i>Having now seen this place,
I couldn't imagine</i>

581
00:54:40,311 --> 00:54:42,645
<i>what might have possessed her
to settle here</i>

582
00:54:42,647 --> 00:54:44,446
<i>in this concrete desert</i>

583
00:54:44,448 --> 00:54:47,850
<i>rather than live
a good life with me.</i>

584
00:54:59,297 --> 00:55:01,697
<i>I counted 142 names,</i>

585
00:55:01,699 --> 00:55:05,434
<i>but no Schwartz, no Leuwe,
and no Winkler.</i>

586
00:55:25,489 --> 00:55:27,790
<i>I felt a growing sense
of despair.</i>

587
00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:32,895
<i>I began to imagine
I saw her everywhere.</i>

588
00:55:46,711 --> 00:55:48,010
Give me all
of these please.

589
00:55:48,012 --> 00:55:49,545
This?
Yeah.

590
00:55:49,547 --> 00:55:53,082
Okay. Five.

591
00:55:53,084 --> 00:55:56,919
One, two, three, four,
five copies of the same issue?

592
00:55:56,921 --> 00:56:01,357
Yeah, I want to give them
to people in need.

593
00:56:20,478 --> 00:56:22,611
Did you know that Jesus is coming
and he would like to meet you?

594
00:56:22,613 --> 00:56:24,747
Good for you,
but I'm not interested.

595
00:56:32,490 --> 00:56:35,457
I'm not... Here, just...
I'm not interested. Thank you.

596
00:56:35,459 --> 00:56:37,092
They're for free.
Thank you. No.

597
00:56:46,737 --> 00:56:49,104
Did you know Jesus is coming
and he would like to meet you?

598
00:56:49,106 --> 00:56:50,973
- Cool.
<i>- By the end of the day,</i>

599
00:56:50,975 --> 00:56:52,541
<i>I had managed to sell two copies</i>

600
00:56:52,543 --> 00:56:55,043
<i>of the magazine</i> Enlightenment.

601
00:56:55,045 --> 00:56:57,813
<i>I had rung all 142 doorbells,</i>

602
00:56:57,815 --> 00:57:00,048
<i>but not even a glimpse of Eva</i>

603
00:57:00,050 --> 00:57:03,118
<i>or Mauritz Winkler
for that matter.</i>

604
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:07,956
<i>Someone had opened the door to
93 of the flats, that left 49.</i>

605
00:57:12,663 --> 00:57:15,864
I spent the rest of
the next week phoning around

606
00:57:16,734 --> 00:57:18,467
and asking for Eva.

607
00:57:18,469 --> 00:57:21,470
- Not even a cough, I presume?
- Not a trace.

608
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:24,773
Not a single sign
that she was living

609
00:57:24,775 --> 00:57:27,176
in that depressing building
in Wassingen...

610
00:57:27,178 --> 00:57:31,013
or that she had any connection
to it whatsoever.

611
00:57:36,086 --> 00:57:40,122
Of course, I understood there was
a gigantic margin of error here.

612
00:57:40,991 --> 00:57:42,558
So you simply gave up?

613
00:57:43,060 --> 00:57:44,460
<i>Almost.</i>

614
00:57:48,999 --> 00:57:52,901
<i>I have to also admit
I was lonely,</i>

615
00:57:52,903 --> 00:57:55,838
<i>and the architect's flat
reminded me of my loneliness.</i>

616
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,808
<i>I spent as little time
as I could in my so-called home.</i>

617
00:57:59,810 --> 00:58:01,810
- Thank you.
- <i>I had, as I said...</i>

618
00:58:01,812 --> 00:58:03,912
- Enjoy.
<i>- ...turned day into night.</i>

619
00:58:03,914 --> 00:58:05,881
- Thanks.
<i>- And clearly drunk too much.</i>

620
00:58:05,883 --> 00:58:07,649
<i>I couldn't sleep
without my pills.</i>

621
00:58:07,651 --> 00:58:11,119
<i>It had become a vicious circle,
pills and liquor.</i>

622
00:58:13,190 --> 00:58:18,126
<i>And my search for Eva
had become an obsessive routine,</i>

623
00:58:18,128 --> 00:58:20,696
<i>constantly compelled
to return to the same places</i>

624
00:58:20,698 --> 00:58:23,799
<i>over and over again,
waiting outside.</i>

625
00:58:24,902 --> 00:58:26,168
<i>For what?</i>

626
00:58:39,083 --> 00:58:43,218
<i>When I saw Germund Rein's widow
at the Nieuwe Halle all alone,</i>

627
00:58:43,220 --> 00:58:46,522
<i>I suddenly felt the urge
to rescue her.</i>

628
00:58:48,759 --> 00:58:52,694
<i>Was she as lonely as I was...</i>

629
00:58:52,696 --> 00:58:56,532
<i>or maybe she was the one
who would rescue me?</i>

630
00:59:38,842 --> 00:59:41,109
<i>I came to Maardam because
of my stupidity.</i>

631
00:59:41,111 --> 00:59:42,644
<i>I thought that...</i>

632
00:59:43,981 --> 00:59:45,681
I was going to find Eva.

633
00:59:46,350 --> 00:59:49,184
Eva?
I'm sorry. My wife.

634
00:59:50,921 --> 00:59:53,121
It's like finding
a needle in a haystack.

635
00:59:58,796 --> 01:00:03,732
Has she disappeared?
Disappeared. Perhaps dead.

636
01:00:08,939 --> 01:00:10,138
I really don't know.

637
01:00:12,643 --> 01:00:14,843
So how long has
she been missing?

638
01:00:14,845 --> 01:00:16,812
It's been more
than three years.

639
01:00:19,083 --> 01:00:20,148
Hmm.

640
01:00:26,190 --> 01:00:31,293
I was on my way home, but then I caught
sight of you outside the concert hall.

641
01:00:34,765 --> 01:00:36,331
Perhaps it was a sign.

642
01:00:43,974 --> 01:00:45,307
You're so beautiful.

643
01:00:57,021 --> 01:00:59,855
Sorry. I'm late.
No. That's okay.

644
01:00:59,857 --> 01:01:03,425
This is David Schwartz.
Otto Gerlach.

645
01:01:05,062 --> 01:01:06,161
Pleased to meet you.

646
01:01:09,199 --> 01:01:11,667
I'll, uh,
fetch your coat.

647
01:01:11,669 --> 01:01:14,236
Mh-hmm.
Thank you.

648
01:01:18,075 --> 01:01:20,008
I want to see you again.

649
01:01:21,845 --> 01:01:22,911
Sorry.

650
01:01:24,014 --> 01:01:26,081
I am not interested.

651
01:01:29,453 --> 01:01:32,354
<i>I don't know
what I was expecting.</i>

652
01:01:32,356 --> 01:01:36,792
<i>As I said, I'd been drinking
way too much the last few weeks.</i>

653
01:01:36,794 --> 01:01:38,360
<i>That had to change now.</i>

654
01:01:40,330 --> 01:01:43,165
<i>I also needed to concentrate
on Rein's manuscript.</i>

655
01:01:48,105 --> 01:01:50,272
<i>It was necessary.</i>

656
01:01:50,274 --> 01:01:54,910
<i>I was behind with my work.
I'd been neglecting it lately.</i>

657
01:01:54,912 --> 01:01:59,014
<i>In spite of the circumstances,
I became more and more caught up in my work.</i>

658
01:01:59,016 --> 01:02:02,784
<i>In less than three days, I had finalized
the translation of Rein's book.</i>

659
01:02:06,790 --> 01:02:10,158
<i>But I just couldn't let go
of those underlined words.</i>

660
01:02:12,196 --> 01:02:14,930
<i>The words appeared
one after the other</i>

661
01:02:14,932 --> 01:02:17,866
<i>at first sight
in no particular order.</i>

662
01:02:19,870 --> 01:02:22,771
<i>Maybe there was
a hidden message after all.</i>

663
01:02:40,991 --> 01:02:44,860
<i>"Thirty centimeters west of...</i>

664
01:02:44,862 --> 01:02:50,132
<i>the sundial in...
bear... sea..."</i>

665
01:02:51,401 --> 01:02:53,135
<i>Behrensee.</i>

666
01:02:56,907 --> 01:02:59,975
<i>The sudden realization
terrified me.</i>

667
01:03:01,812 --> 01:03:05,080
<i>At that point, I could easily
have taken the first flight home,</i>

668
01:03:05,082 --> 01:03:11,186
<i>but my search for Eva had now turned
into something new and very different.</i>

669
01:03:11,188 --> 01:03:13,155
<i>I didn't dare e-mail
the translated script,</i>

670
01:03:13,157 --> 01:03:15,857
<i>instead I found a printer
in the architect's flat,</i>

671
01:03:15,859 --> 01:03:19,928
<i>made a hard copy, and sent it by
courier to Judit Kerr, the publisher.</i>

672
01:03:19,930 --> 01:03:22,130
You take that road there,
and then you turn.

673
01:03:25,502 --> 01:03:28,837
<i>I knew that Rein and Mariam
had a summer house by the sea</i>

674
01:03:28,839 --> 01:03:31,940
<i>just outside a small village
called Behrensee.</i>

675
01:03:36,079 --> 01:03:38,046
<i>The name of the house
was Cherry Garden,</i>

676
01:03:38,048 --> 01:03:41,516
<i>and was reputed to be
something quite outstanding.</i>

677
01:03:41,518 --> 01:03:47,355
<i>A secluded haven where Germund
Rein produced most of his works,</i>

678
01:03:47,357 --> 01:03:49,291
<i>according to rumors.</i>

679
01:03:51,461 --> 01:03:53,261
<i>A remote location which,</i>

680
01:03:53,263 --> 01:03:56,131
<i>exactly as I had been led
to understand,</i>

681
01:03:56,133 --> 01:03:57,833
<i>would take some finding.</i>

682
01:03:58,502 --> 01:04:00,235
<i>But I found it.</i>

683
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:06,308
<i>And I also found the sundial.</i>

684
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:27,596
<i>My inner voice urged me to forget about
the whole thing and return to the city.</i>

685
01:04:29,132 --> 01:04:31,566
<i>But for some reason,
I couldn't let it go.</i>

686
01:04:31,568 --> 01:04:33,235
<i>I had to find out.</i>

687
01:04:34,938 --> 01:04:37,205
<i>So I waited for nightfall.</i>

688
01:04:39,209 --> 01:04:41,643
<i>And once again sneaked
into the garden.</i>

689
01:04:43,947 --> 01:04:49,117
<i>"Thirty centimeters west
of the sundial in Behrensee."</i>

690
01:04:49,119 --> 01:04:53,154
<i>I found what Germund Rein
had buried.</i>

691
01:05:11,575 --> 01:05:13,642
<i>The next day I went
to the police.</i>

692
01:05:13,644 --> 01:05:15,510
<i>I no longer had any choice.</i>

693
01:06:46,003 --> 01:06:47,635
So, Mr. Schwartz,

694
01:06:47,637 --> 01:06:51,339
you translated Germund Rein's
last book?

695
01:06:52,075 --> 01:06:53,174
Yeah.

696
01:06:53,176 --> 01:06:55,176
The book that is
the reason

697
01:06:55,178 --> 01:06:57,512
we are all gathered
in this courtroom today?

698
01:06:58,382 --> 01:06:59,614
I guess so, yeah.

699
01:07:01,351 --> 01:07:03,752
Why do you suppose Germund Rein

700
01:07:03,754 --> 01:07:07,389
only wanted the book to be
published as a translation?

701
01:07:07,391 --> 01:07:09,691
I thought that was clear.

702
01:07:11,161 --> 01:07:13,361
Otto Gerlach was his publisher.

703
01:07:13,363 --> 01:07:15,430
Can you clarify what you mean?

704
01:07:17,534 --> 01:07:20,502
I assume Rein was afraid
the book,

705
01:07:20,504 --> 01:07:23,705
the manuscript would disappear,
never be published.

706
01:07:23,707 --> 01:07:25,473
And why would it disappear?

707
01:07:26,376 --> 01:07:28,043
Because of its content...

708
01:07:29,312 --> 01:07:32,280
- compromising information.
- Compromising for whom?

709
01:07:32,282 --> 01:07:34,149
I really don't have anything
to do with this.

710
01:07:34,151 --> 01:07:36,251
I put it to you that this was
compromising information

711
01:07:36,253 --> 01:07:37,318
for the accused...

712
01:07:39,089 --> 01:07:42,090
Mariam Kadhar and Otto Gerlach.

713
01:07:42,092 --> 01:07:44,292
I assume.
Your Honor,

714
01:07:44,294 --> 01:07:47,562
my client's name isn't even
mentioned in the book in question.

715
01:07:47,564 --> 01:07:49,230
It's...

716
01:07:49,232 --> 01:07:52,300
Let the witness
elaborate his assertion.

717
01:07:56,773 --> 01:07:59,374
In the beginning,
it was just subtle hints.

718
01:07:59,376 --> 01:08:03,478
But the more I read,
the more obvious it became.

719
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:06,714
You mean there are
passages in the book that underline

720
01:08:06,716 --> 01:08:08,483
the theory of the accusation?

721
01:08:08,485 --> 01:08:10,085
I guess you could say so.

722
01:08:13,156 --> 01:08:15,256
Can you give the court
an example of this?

723
01:08:17,527 --> 01:08:20,328
If I may borrow the book.

724
01:08:35,378 --> 01:08:38,113
I'm quoting from page 37.

725
01:08:42,152 --> 01:08:45,153
"One morning she goes
to the square to buy vegetables.

726
01:08:45,155 --> 01:08:49,457
Always these vegetables that must
never be less than a day old,

727
01:08:49,459 --> 01:08:51,292
her <i>memento mori.</i>

728
01:08:55,132 --> 01:08:57,265
He goes through her belongings.

729
01:08:57,267 --> 01:08:58,766
She knows
he would never do this,

730
01:08:58,768 --> 01:09:01,202
so she has never bothered
to hide anything.

731
01:09:02,539 --> 01:09:07,275
He finds letters, four letters,
three are clear enough,

732
01:09:07,277 --> 01:09:09,611
the fourth is about
a conspiracy.

733
01:09:10,714 --> 01:09:13,848
They obviously want
to see him dead.

734
01:09:13,850 --> 01:09:17,652
He puts the letters in a folder,
drives into town to copy them.

735
01:09:17,654 --> 01:09:20,755
He thinks he's got plenty of time.
She's probably fucking G,

736
01:09:20,757 --> 01:09:24,826
reaping his vicious semen
between her wide open legs.

737
01:09:24,828 --> 01:09:28,563
Puts the originals back among her
knickers in the chest of drawers

738
01:09:28,565 --> 01:09:31,533
and puts the copies
in a plastic bag.

739
01:09:33,503 --> 01:09:36,304
Goes to the shed,
fetches a spade,

740
01:09:36,306 --> 01:09:39,374
finds a place with soft soil,

741
01:09:39,376 --> 01:09:42,744
and buries his treasure."

742
01:09:42,746 --> 01:09:45,613
Can you tell me what you did
after you read this?

743
01:09:45,615 --> 01:09:47,882
I went to check it out.

744
01:09:47,884 --> 01:09:52,353
According to the hidden code
I told you about.

745
01:09:53,223 --> 01:09:55,290
So you found the letters

746
01:09:55,292 --> 01:09:58,826
where the hidden code in the
manuscript said it would be?

747
01:09:59,563 --> 01:10:01,396
Mh-hmm.

748
01:10:01,398 --> 01:10:05,533
The letters Mariam Kadhar
and Otto Gerlach had exchanged?

749
01:10:05,535 --> 01:10:08,303
- Yes.
- Did you study the content?

750
01:10:08,905 --> 01:10:10,271
Eventually.

751
01:10:14,844 --> 01:10:19,514
And I came to the conclusion that the
information in the book was true.

752
01:10:20,584 --> 01:10:23,318
And what exactly, Mr. Schwartz,

753
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:27,355
does it say
in Germund Rein's book?

754
01:10:29,593 --> 01:10:33,695
It says that M and O
planned to kill Germund Rein.

755
01:10:35,632 --> 01:10:37,565
Thank you.

756
01:10:39,536 --> 01:10:40,802
No further questions.

757
01:10:43,773 --> 01:10:45,573
Mr. Neumann-Hansen.

758
01:10:49,813 --> 01:10:51,813
You found these...

759
01:10:52,816 --> 01:10:56,517
handwritten notes
and letters

760
01:10:56,519 --> 01:10:58,920
buried just west of
the sundial at Behrensee?

761
01:10:58,922 --> 01:11:01,322
- Yeah.
- Didn't that seem strange to you?

762
01:11:02,559 --> 01:11:03,658
In what sense?

763
01:11:03,660 --> 01:11:05,026
Well, during the inquiry,

764
01:11:05,028 --> 01:11:06,828
the police went through
all e-mails

765
01:11:06,830 --> 01:11:09,264
between Otto Gerlach
and my client.

766
01:11:09,266 --> 01:11:11,766
And, yes, there's correspondence.
Plenty of it.

767
01:11:11,768 --> 01:11:13,835
But it's
all professional.

768
01:11:13,837 --> 01:11:19,340
Nothing like what you found
in your letters.

769
01:11:19,342 --> 01:11:21,376
Strange, wouldn't you say?
I mean,

770
01:11:21,378 --> 01:11:24,345
it's so much easier
to send an e-mail these days.

771
01:11:24,347 --> 01:11:28,650
Excuse me. But I would like to remind you
all that I've only done my civic duty.

772
01:11:28,652 --> 01:11:30,885
I went to the police with the
material I happened to have.

773
01:11:30,887 --> 01:11:33,321
The same thing any of you
would have done.

774
01:11:37,861 --> 01:11:38,926
No more questions.

775
01:11:41,464 --> 01:11:42,730
Thank you.

776
01:12:14,030 --> 01:12:16,331
<i>There is still time, David.</i>

777
01:12:16,933 --> 01:12:18,766
<i>It's not too late.</i>

778
01:12:21,071 --> 01:12:23,338
<i>You know it's not too late.</i>

779
01:12:46,396 --> 01:12:48,529
<i>Rein...</i>

780
01:12:48,531 --> 01:12:50,998
<i>- You're Rein, aren't you?
- No, no!</i>

781
01:12:59,809 --> 01:13:01,576
<i>We've got time.</i>

782
01:13:03,546 --> 01:13:05,446
<i>Now it's my turn...</i>

783
01:13:06,116 --> 01:13:07,482
to kill you.

784
01:13:20,463 --> 01:13:22,730
Hello.

785
01:13:46,189 --> 01:13:47,688
Good morning.

786
01:13:49,125 --> 01:13:51,092
Sorry, but you have
to leave now.

787
01:13:54,164 --> 01:13:55,630
Please leave.

788
01:14:02,872 --> 01:14:06,908
Is it correct that you are
the, um, sole inheritor

789
01:14:06,910 --> 01:14:09,944
of your husband's property
and literary estate?

790
01:14:10,513 --> 01:14:11,846
Yes.

791
01:14:13,817 --> 01:14:17,185
Did you love your husband,
Mrs. Kadhar?

792
01:14:20,657 --> 01:14:22,824
- Yes.
- Do you...

793
01:14:22,826 --> 01:14:26,727
have intimate relationships
with other men?

794
01:14:26,729 --> 01:14:30,731
- I object.
- Do rephrase the question, please.

795
01:14:30,733 --> 01:14:32,600
Did you have
a sexual relationship

796
01:14:32,602 --> 01:14:36,170
with your husband's publisher,
Otto Gerlach?

797
01:14:36,172 --> 01:14:38,739
- Yes.
- How long did that go on for?

798
01:14:42,612 --> 01:14:44,011
Five years.

799
01:14:48,117 --> 01:14:53,621
Why were you unfaithful to
your husband if you loved him?

800
01:14:55,225 --> 01:14:56,858
I don't want to answer
that question.

801
01:14:56,860 --> 01:14:59,894
You're accused of murder,
Mrs. Kadhar.

802
01:15:02,065 --> 01:15:04,732
Did you kill your husband?

803
01:15:06,202 --> 01:15:08,536
I did not kill my husband.

804
01:15:12,809 --> 01:15:15,776
<i>Although she terrified me,
I found myself increasingly</i>

805
01:15:15,778 --> 01:15:17,945
<i>and irresistibly fascinated.</i>

806
01:15:18,848 --> 01:15:20,181
<i>I couldn't fight it.</i>

807
01:15:21,784 --> 01:15:24,252
I couldn't come to terms
with the thought

808
01:15:24,254 --> 01:15:26,721
that she could have done
something so...

809
01:15:29,292 --> 01:15:31,893
I don't know. I just wanted
to take her in my arms...

810
01:15:33,730 --> 01:15:37,231
even though she rejected me
so very clearly.

811
01:15:37,233 --> 01:15:43,271
So, what makes you believe
a woman like Mariam Kadhar

812
01:15:43,273 --> 01:15:46,207
could be interested in
a man like you?

813
01:15:47,944 --> 01:15:52,780
Interesting parallel
with the wife, by the way.

814
01:15:54,717 --> 01:15:57,585
You keep yourself
quite occupied,

815
01:15:57,587 --> 01:15:59,787
avenging yourself
on women who dump you.

816
01:16:01,858 --> 01:16:03,724
First Eva,
then Mariam.

817
01:16:04,761 --> 01:16:06,727
Well, I see a pattern emerging.

818
01:16:07,864 --> 01:16:09,096
Don't you?

819
01:16:11,267 --> 01:16:15,303
Anyway, in view of all the media
attention you were getting,

820
01:16:15,305 --> 01:16:17,972
if the wife, Eva,

821
01:16:17,974 --> 01:16:21,676
if she were alive and kicking
and living in Maardam,

822
01:16:21,678 --> 01:16:23,077
surely she would've
become aware

823
01:16:23,079 --> 01:16:24,912
of your poster boy status
by now?

824
01:16:25,848 --> 01:16:27,014
Possibly.

825
01:16:29,786 --> 01:16:32,653
But by that point,
I'd given up all thought of her.

826
01:16:34,057 --> 01:16:35,222
Thank you.

827
01:16:38,094 --> 01:16:41,128
My thoughts were somewhere
completely different.

828
01:17:03,052 --> 01:17:05,653
David Schwartz, what do you think
about the possible sentence?

829
01:17:05,655 --> 01:17:07,188
Mariam Kadhar and Otto Gerlach.
I've got nothing to...

830
01:17:07,190 --> 01:17:08,689
After all,
it's because of you

831
01:17:08,691 --> 01:17:10,391
they might end up
behind bars.

832
01:17:10,393 --> 01:17:12,326
How do you feel about that?

833
01:17:15,264 --> 01:17:19,867
The court finds the accused
guilty of first degree murder.

834
01:17:19,869 --> 01:17:23,971
The defendants Otto Gerlach
and Mariam Kadhar

835
01:17:23,973 --> 01:17:26,974
are each sentenced to 12 years.

836
01:17:31,814 --> 01:17:33,748
David.

837
01:17:33,750 --> 01:17:36,684
David Schwartz?
Twelve years behind bars.

838
01:17:36,686 --> 01:17:39,253
How does it feel to be the hero of the day,
David? No comment.

839
01:17:39,255 --> 01:17:42,289
Both defense lawyers have already
lodged appeals. Any comments?

840
01:17:43,192 --> 01:17:44,725
There you have it.

841
01:17:44,727 --> 01:17:46,961
I just wanted to get away
from the place

842
01:17:46,963 --> 01:17:50,197
and Mariam's accusing eyes
burned into my very core.

843
01:17:51,434 --> 01:17:53,701
It felt like
I was going to pieces.

844
01:17:53,703 --> 01:17:57,171
So, you really believe
you were the chosen one?

845
01:17:58,741 --> 01:18:00,775
You don't realize that...

846
01:18:00,777 --> 01:18:04,378
anybody could've dug up those
letters sooner or later?

847
01:18:04,380 --> 01:18:07,815
What?
Well, you're a nobody, David.

848
01:18:10,353 --> 01:18:12,420
I understand that
this isn't about me.

849
01:18:13,456 --> 01:18:15,289
I'm completely aware
of that.

850
01:18:15,291 --> 01:18:19,794
I mean, the fact that
you fell for Mariam Kadhar,

851
01:18:19,796 --> 01:18:22,296
it just shows what
a pushover you really are.

852
01:18:22,298 --> 01:18:25,099
I mean,
you held all the cards.

853
01:18:25,101 --> 01:18:27,234
Why didn't you just torch
the letters?

854
01:18:27,236 --> 01:18:28,436
Yes.

855
01:18:31,708 --> 01:18:33,407
Maybe I should have.

856
01:18:33,409 --> 01:18:35,242
Or maybe you're just
not that bright.

857
01:18:38,081 --> 01:18:41,215
I mean, one moment
you're a shrewd calculator,

858
01:18:41,217 --> 01:18:43,057
the next you're
a fucking wimp.

859
01:18:47,223 --> 01:18:49,223
I'm too old
for this kind of crap.

860
01:19:00,036 --> 01:19:03,738
So, uh, you're hot stuff
right now.

861
01:19:03,740 --> 01:19:06,741
Thank you.
Thank you, Doris.

862
01:19:27,330 --> 01:19:31,465
That man. He's following me,
on several occasions.

863
01:19:31,467 --> 01:19:33,801
I'm certain of it.
He walks with a limp.

864
01:19:33,803 --> 01:19:34,969
You can't mistake that.

865
01:19:34,971 --> 01:19:36,170
Have you any idea why?

866
01:19:36,172 --> 01:19:37,838
I wouldn't come
to you if I had.

867
01:19:40,510 --> 01:19:42,150
Can you help me
with this?

868
01:19:44,046 --> 01:19:45,246
Do you know who he is?

869
01:19:47,416 --> 01:19:49,884
You're a public figure now.

870
01:19:49,886 --> 01:19:51,485
You never told me
what profession you were in.

871
01:19:51,487 --> 01:19:53,487
'Cause it's got nothing
to do with Eva.

872
01:19:55,391 --> 01:19:56,991
Do you know who he is?

873
01:19:58,861 --> 01:20:00,261
Let's do it this way.

874
01:20:01,197 --> 01:20:02,797
I'll see what I can do.

875
01:20:03,566 --> 01:20:05,065
But it will cost you.

876
01:20:05,067 --> 01:20:08,002
And I can't promise
any results.

877
01:20:09,539 --> 01:20:10,971
I'll call you?

878
01:20:19,515 --> 01:20:21,115
One lasagna to go, please.

879
01:20:21,117 --> 01:20:23,083
<i>The limping man.</i>

880
01:20:24,253 --> 01:20:27,054
<i>Interesting title
for your little novel.</i>

881
01:20:27,056 --> 01:20:32,059
<i>- No, seriously, who was he?
- We'll come to that.</i>

882
01:20:32,061 --> 01:20:35,229
<i>- Something else came in between.
- So, she was given a pen and paper?</i>

883
01:20:35,231 --> 01:20:37,998
- <i>Just a small pencil.
- And then what happened?</i>

884
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:42,336
<i>When the door was unlocked,
she was found lying facedown on the floor.</i>

885
01:20:42,338 --> 01:20:44,405
<i>When she was turned over,</i>

886
01:20:44,407 --> 01:20:47,074
<i>there were small spots
of blood on the floor,</i>

887
01:20:47,844 --> 01:20:49,543
<i>coming from her eye.</i>

888
01:20:49,545 --> 01:20:52,913
<i>She had stuck the pencil
into her eye.</i>

889
01:20:52,915 --> 01:20:56,483
- <i>The whole pencil?
- Yes.</i>

890
01:20:56,485 --> 01:20:59,453
<i>Should be quite impossible,
but in this case...</i>

891
01:20:59,455 --> 01:21:04,091
<i>Thank you.
We repeat that Mariam Kadhar,</i>

892
01:21:04,093 --> 01:21:06,327
<i>the wife of the late author,
Germund Rein,</i>

893
01:21:06,329 --> 01:21:08,329
<i>recently sentenced to 12 years,</i>

894
01:21:08,331 --> 01:21:12,066
<i>took her own life
in the Burgislaan remand prison.</i>

895
01:21:12,068 --> 01:21:14,602
<i>Mariam Kadhar was 39 years old.</i>

896
01:21:17,340 --> 01:21:20,574
<i>Three years earlier,
I had fallen...</i>

897
01:21:22,311 --> 01:21:24,011
<i>and it was a hard fall.</i>

898
01:21:27,650 --> 01:21:29,450
<i>Days and nights at the hospital</i>

899
01:21:29,452 --> 01:21:32,887
<i>and my self-disgust tore me
to shreds.</i>

900
01:21:37,093 --> 01:21:41,295
<i>A secret that I had
to keep hidden deep inside.</i>

901
01:21:47,503 --> 01:21:50,905
<i>Never able to confess the truth
of what I had done to Eva.</i>

902
01:21:50,907 --> 01:21:53,307
<i>Never able to tell a soul.</i>

903
01:21:57,013 --> 01:21:59,914
<i>You're actually the first one
to hear my story.</i>

904
01:22:07,356 --> 01:22:10,991
<i>Never-ending nightmares.
Managing the medication.</i>

905
01:22:10,993 --> 01:22:14,328
<i>Downers to send me to sleep,
uppers to wake me up.</i>

906
01:22:21,671 --> 01:22:24,204
<i>The slow recovery.</i>

907
01:22:24,206 --> 01:22:27,241
<i>Now, I was edging closer
to the precipice again.</i>

908
01:22:33,115 --> 01:22:39,119
<i>In my defense, I would like to say I was
rational during the time that followed.</i>

909
01:22:40,723 --> 01:22:43,324
<i>Methodical, unhurried.</i>

910
01:22:43,326 --> 01:22:48,429
<i>I allowed alcohol to rule my
existence without any other purpose</i>

911
01:22:48,431 --> 01:22:52,366
<i>than to achieve a sustainable
level of unconsciousness...</i>

912
01:22:54,637 --> 01:22:57,504
<i>without ever going over the top.</i>

913
01:22:57,506 --> 01:23:01,175
<i>I've been there before
and I know what it's all about.</i>

914
01:23:01,177 --> 01:23:03,344
<i>A strictly clinical
drinking bout</i>

915
01:23:03,346 --> 01:23:06,747
<i>where I kept the process
under control at all times.</i>

916
01:24:44,246 --> 01:24:48,515
- Hello?
- Well, well, David Schwartz.

917
01:24:48,517 --> 01:24:51,385
I first thought, of course,
that it had something to do with your job.

918
01:24:51,387 --> 01:24:53,787
That publisher doesn't seem
to look upon you very kindly.

919
01:24:53,789 --> 01:24:55,522
But it wasn't?
So who was he then?

920
01:24:55,524 --> 01:24:58,158
Why is he following me?
One thing at a time.

921
01:24:58,160 --> 01:24:59,526
I recognized the man
in the photo.

922
01:24:59,528 --> 01:25:01,462
He's a former police
commissioner.

923
01:25:01,464 --> 01:25:04,698
Now retired and actually
freelancing in my line of business,

924
01:25:04,700 --> 01:25:06,733
so I contacted him.

925
01:25:06,735 --> 01:25:09,503
And he was in fact hired
to follow you.

926
01:25:09,505 --> 01:25:13,273
And naturally, he didn't want to
reveal the identity of his client.

927
01:25:13,776 --> 01:25:15,209
But?

928
01:25:15,211 --> 01:25:16,877
Everything has a price.

929
01:25:16,879 --> 01:25:19,513
And I'd suppose that money
wasn't an issue in this...

930
01:25:19,515 --> 01:25:21,115
I already told you that.

931
01:25:24,253 --> 01:25:27,788
But it seems as if both of you
wanted to find each other.

932
01:25:29,892 --> 01:25:31,158
Who?

933
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:32,826
Oh, you and Eva.

934
01:25:34,563 --> 01:25:36,163
Eva hired him?

935
01:25:36,165 --> 01:25:37,664
Exactly.

936
01:25:37,666 --> 01:25:40,634
When my collaborator
saw her in Wassingen,

937
01:25:40,636 --> 01:25:43,804
she wasn't on her way home. She has an
apartment, but on the other side of town.

938
01:25:43,806 --> 01:25:46,707
She was simply on her way
to see my colleague.

939
01:25:46,709 --> 01:25:48,389
He had an office there
at the time.

940
01:25:51,514 --> 01:25:54,281
She spotted you here
in Maardam,

941
01:25:54,283 --> 01:25:56,683
hired him to keep track
of your whereabouts.

942
01:25:57,419 --> 01:25:58,685
Edita Sobranska?

943
01:25:59,788 --> 01:26:01,488
I guess she changed her name.

944
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:06,220
Stay there.

945
01:27:22,705 --> 01:27:24,271
So, you decided to come now?

946
01:27:25,007 --> 01:27:26,273
Yes.

947
01:27:27,443 --> 01:27:28,775
Here I am.

948
01:27:51,567 --> 01:27:54,001
Hello.
Hello.

949
01:28:00,476 --> 01:28:02,442
You've been living here
a long time?

950
01:28:03,812 --> 01:28:04,945
Three years.

951
01:28:07,816 --> 01:28:11,351
- Ever since...
- Ever since then. Yes.

952
01:28:11,887 --> 01:28:13,387
Come on.

953
01:28:16,525 --> 01:28:18,325
We're going for a nap now.

954
01:28:18,327 --> 01:28:19,793
Sleep tight, sweetheart.

955
01:28:20,696 --> 01:28:23,497
And I'll leave
the door open.

956
01:28:33,876 --> 01:28:35,475
I just made some teas.

957
01:29:05,374 --> 01:29:07,841
So, how long are you staying?
Sorry?

958
01:29:07,843 --> 01:29:09,810
In Maardam.

959
01:29:09,812 --> 01:29:11,745
How long are
you gonna be staying?

960
01:29:11,747 --> 01:29:13,847
Not much longer.

961
01:29:13,849 --> 01:29:17,617
My job is finished.
So I've heard.

962
01:29:17,619 --> 01:29:20,020
Do you really believe
they killed him? Rein?

963
01:29:20,923 --> 01:29:22,622
Yes.

964
01:29:22,624 --> 01:29:24,491
And then
she commits suicide.

965
01:29:24,493 --> 01:29:25,933
I've left all that
behind me now.

966
01:29:35,070 --> 01:29:36,136
What's her name?

967
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:39,106
Paula.

968
01:29:40,509 --> 01:29:42,042
She's almost three now.

969
01:29:42,044 --> 01:29:43,477
I thought so.

970
01:29:45,881 --> 01:29:47,547
Is everything all right?

971
01:29:49,084 --> 01:29:51,084
She's the best thing
that ever happened to me.

972
01:29:54,123 --> 01:29:56,623
What happened, Eva?

973
01:30:02,131 --> 01:30:03,797
What happened in Graues?

974
01:30:05,968 --> 01:30:08,869
I think you should leave now.
I need to know what happened.

975
01:30:08,871 --> 01:30:11,138
You ask me
what happened?

976
01:30:11,140 --> 01:30:13,473
You have no right
whatsoever.

977
01:30:13,475 --> 01:30:14,908
No right?

978
01:30:21,483 --> 01:30:22,916
Maybe that's
the worst part of it all

979
01:30:22,918 --> 01:30:25,986
that you don't
even understand that.

980
01:30:25,988 --> 01:30:28,922
Do you know how many times
I've thought about this, David?

981
01:30:33,095 --> 01:30:35,829
What if we'd bump into
each other one day, you and I?

982
01:30:36,965 --> 01:30:40,033
Even if it's the last thing
I ever wanted.

983
01:30:43,172 --> 01:30:44,538
But if...

984
01:30:46,074 --> 01:30:48,809
only a chance in a million
that it would happen,

985
01:30:48,811 --> 01:30:50,644
but still a possibility.

986
01:30:50,646 --> 01:30:53,847
In a tram, or an airport
somewhere in the world.

987
01:30:53,849 --> 01:30:56,016
Suddenly you'd stand
in front of me and ask...

988
01:30:57,085 --> 01:30:58,185
"What happened?"

989
01:30:59,521 --> 01:31:00,687
What happened?

990
01:31:02,724 --> 01:31:04,090
What should I say?

991
01:31:05,994 --> 01:31:07,594
What should I do?

992
01:31:11,700 --> 01:31:16,002
After a hundred
sleepless nights, David...

993
01:31:17,473 --> 01:31:21,708
I've decided that
I'm not gonna tell you.

994
01:31:26,515 --> 01:31:30,250
You're gonna have to live with that
uncertainty for the rest of your life.

995
01:31:34,056 --> 01:31:37,123
You can see that as some sort
of punishment if you want.

996
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:40,680
Eva. And I want
you to leave now.

997
01:31:43,232 --> 01:31:44,731
I'm not gonna tell you, David.

998
01:31:46,034 --> 01:31:47,501
Never ever.

999
01:32:15,597 --> 01:32:17,597
Are you out
of your fucking mind?

1000
01:32:18,834 --> 01:32:20,867
You come here,

1001
01:32:20,869 --> 01:32:25,272
accept my hospitality
and my advice,

1002
01:32:25,274 --> 01:32:28,208
and in exchange you offer me...

1003
01:32:30,112 --> 01:32:32,112
Bloody unforgivable...

1004
01:32:32,114 --> 01:32:34,614
to fritter away
a story like that.

1005
01:32:34,616 --> 01:32:36,950
A sneeze on the radio.

1006
01:32:36,952 --> 01:32:39,152
A cough.
A cough.

1007
01:32:39,154 --> 01:32:43,590
What the fuck? You can't just let it run
out into the sand like fucking piss.

1008
01:32:44,860 --> 01:32:46,726
You just left them there

1009
01:32:46,728 --> 01:32:49,296
without a clue as
to what really happened.

1010
01:32:49,298 --> 01:32:50,864
Hmm...

1011
01:32:51,934 --> 01:32:56,770
Are you familiar
with my modest ideas

1012
01:32:56,772 --> 01:32:59,005
in the handbook of life?
Yeah.

1013
01:33:00,676 --> 01:33:03,009
Of course.

1014
01:33:04,646 --> 01:33:07,948
But they're hardly yours, are they?
You always have a choice.

1015
01:33:09,718 --> 01:33:12,352
Either you write
your own script...

1016
01:33:15,123 --> 01:33:17,724
or you live according
to someone else's.

1017
01:33:28,870 --> 01:33:30,637
How did you figure me out?

1018
01:33:49,024 --> 01:33:51,825
I realize you don't have
a very high opinion of me,

1019
01:33:51,827 --> 01:33:53,793
a simple translator.

1020
01:33:55,163 --> 01:33:57,197
But I've read
and translated your words.

1021
01:33:57,199 --> 01:34:00,300
I spent months, years,
getting to know your style and your wording,

1022
01:34:00,302 --> 01:34:02,869
it's out there...

1023
01:34:02,871 --> 01:34:07,107
whether you like it or not, whether you call
yourself Germund Rein or Alex Henderson.

1024
01:34:12,180 --> 01:34:14,648
Was this complicated intrigue
really necessary?

1025
01:34:14,650 --> 01:34:17,150
Mm-mm.
Isn't that obvious?

1026
01:34:19,121 --> 01:34:20,787
What the hell
do you think?

1027
01:34:22,057 --> 01:34:24,991
Suspicion has
to grow slowly.

1028
01:34:24,993 --> 01:34:26,826
Do you think any of this
would have worked

1029
01:34:26,828 --> 01:34:29,996
if they found themselves
in the limelight too soon?

1030
01:34:29,998 --> 01:34:34,034
They never planned to kill you, did they?
You know as well as I do.

1031
01:34:34,036 --> 01:34:35,669
This is how
it had to end.

1032
01:34:35,671 --> 01:34:39,339
The end speaks
for itself, right?

1033
01:34:42,110 --> 01:34:43,243
What about Mariam's death?

1034
01:34:44,446 --> 01:34:47,814
Well, that's got nothing
to do with it.

1035
01:34:51,153 --> 01:34:52,752
She wrote that chapter.

1036
01:34:54,022 --> 01:34:55,455
It wasn't in my script.

1037
01:34:58,060 --> 01:35:01,394
Who the hell are you
to judge me?

1038
01:35:01,396 --> 01:35:05,098
You actually tried to kill
your own wife for fuck's sake.

1039
01:35:05,100 --> 01:35:09,302
And here she is in the pink,

1040
01:35:09,304 --> 01:35:12,338
living in domestic bliss
with Morris Wanker...

1041
01:35:12,340 --> 01:35:14,474
Winkler,
whatever his fucking name is.

1042
01:35:16,478 --> 01:35:19,179
This isn't how you thought
your story would end...

1043
01:35:20,482 --> 01:35:22,415
is it? Hmm?

1044
01:35:22,417 --> 01:35:28,054
David? Never even knowing
what really happened?

1045
01:35:33,228 --> 01:35:35,061
I need a proper drink.

1046
01:36:11,900 --> 01:36:13,933
So, how did it happen?
What?

1047
01:36:13,935 --> 01:36:15,435
The flight?

1048
01:36:15,437 --> 01:36:18,404
There wasn't any flight.

1049
01:36:18,406 --> 01:36:22,942
Alex Henderson had been in existence
for many years by that time.

1050
01:36:22,944 --> 01:36:24,911
Even you should've realized
that by now.

1051
01:36:24,913 --> 01:36:29,048
He took a plane to Athens.
That's all.

1052
01:36:29,050 --> 01:36:32,819
You weren't drunk that night
in Behrensee, were you?

1053
01:36:33,321 --> 01:36:35,922
Tipsy, at most.

1054
01:36:35,924 --> 01:36:37,604
Then you were
bloody lucky.

1055
01:36:38,994 --> 01:36:41,094
Mmm, mmm, mmm.

1056
01:36:42,130 --> 01:36:43,196
Bullshit.

1057
01:36:54,042 --> 01:36:58,211
Feels like you owe me a debt of gratitude,
don't you think?

1058
01:36:58,213 --> 01:37:01,381
I was the one who did your dirty work.
Me? Thank you?

1059
01:37:03,485 --> 01:37:06,519
Should the puppeteer
thank the puppet for her dance?

1060
01:37:14,563 --> 01:37:15,962
I think it's time I left.

1061
01:37:19,201 --> 01:37:22,168
I must find my way back to the
road before it gets too dark.

1062
01:37:22,170 --> 01:37:24,270
You realize there's little
point in squealing.

1063
01:37:24,272 --> 01:37:27,440
My identity is watertight,
has been for a long time.

1064
01:37:27,442 --> 01:37:28,908
So I've understood.

1065
01:37:29,845 --> 01:37:31,377
Good.

1066
01:37:31,379 --> 01:37:35,114
Being a bad loser
can be so unbecoming.

1067
01:37:36,985 --> 01:37:38,218
It's just that...

1068
01:37:40,288 --> 01:37:43,356
I've found it really hard
to accept Mariam's fate.

1069
01:37:45,193 --> 01:37:48,595
You didn't kill her,
neither did I.

1070
01:37:55,537 --> 01:37:56,903
What about Germund Rein?

1071
01:37:58,006 --> 01:37:59,138
He's dead.