Hey, you see that van over there?
Chechen extremists.
Van is full of explosives.
They burned down a hardware store for no reason.
This is what awaits us.
That's right. It's a war zone, my friend.
And war costs money.
Yes, we need money to fight these fucking bastards.
Everyone's payment doubles this week.
It's in my pocket.
That's what I'm talking about.
Great. Catch you later. Thank you.
Pu? What's pu?
If you don't know, then it's probably not for you.
Two days before
Nuclear Processing Facility Skotoprigonyevsk 16, Russia
Help me.
Can you just open the door?
Can I see my badge please?
There was a criticality. I saw it.
I need to know my rems.
Radiation is all around us.
It is measured in rems.
A person living in Denver receives
0.05 rems a year due to altitude.
A patient receiving a chest X-ray absorbs 0.01 rems.
My watch. It was my father's watch.
In Hiroshima, where people received doses of
600 rems after the bomb was dropped.
Most died within a month.
Plutonium-239
Papa, help.
Tolya, I'm coming.
- Tell me, what is it? - I can't get this one. It's Impossible.
When I get out.
You've been in there forever.
Ask your mother.
- Is there anything I can do? - Help him with the knot.
No, what about for you?
It'll be fine in a minute.
I need help. This is a knot.
I see.
Do you know who taught your father how to untie the knots?
It's me. We were students at the
Technical Institute for Unraveling Knots...
How do you feel?
I need to get you a glass of water.
Hi. What do we have here?
Come here. In the light where I can see.
My last day at the facility, do you remember?
The day my badge had a small leak.
You took me home and made a bowl of soup.
Because we all know the best cure for radiation sickness
is a big bowl of soup.
A person gets more radiation from flying across the Atlantic
that I did on that day.
Besides, that soup was terrible.
Way more dangerous than anything on the periodic table.
It's fine, Timofey.
Can we put my badge through the dosimeter to get a reading?
A physician examined your badge this morning.
And submitted a report of 100 rems.
As you can see.
Even if it's serious, it's not considered a lethal dose.
A full recovery is possible.
In the short term, there may be some symptoms
nausea, diarrhea.
But the long-term effects are specific to the individual.
We are placing you on indefinite leave
pending the investigation into this alleged accident.
I don't understand.
A man goes into a secure chamber without authorization,
when the gauge reads normal, and somehow a pipe ruptures?
A hearing will be set six weeks from now and you
will be allowed to present your version of the events.
I already told you my version.
There was a blue flash and a leak that caused damage.
There are failing welds, and we have no backup system...
Or you sign this statement that entering the chamber
was an error in judgement.
In the end,
no one is safe by placing blame.
Calling in an international team to investigate.
Shutting down while tests are conducted.
What does that mean at work?
- Loss of revenue, jobs. - And what will they find?
Whatever the people who are paying them tell them to find.
If I sign, what sort of compensation could I expect?
A compensation?
I have worked here in Skotoprigonyevsk for 12 years.
I have a boy and a wife.
It appears that the discharge in Unit 6 was a result
of incompetence.
- What provisions can be made...? - Or a deliberate malfeasence
- For 12 years of loyal service? - Resulting in considerable financial damages
for Skotoprigonyevsk and
forfeiture of any benefits
- effective immediately. - We kept your rubles in a box.
We held on to them.
- It takes 5,000 to make one dollar. - Waiting,
the employee is suspended without pay.
Moscow, Russia The Same Day
- Hello. - We've got you.
- Hello? - We've got you.
- What are you talking about? - We've got you.
- No, you guys, you did not get me. - We're sitting right here and you answered.
We watched you answer.
- We've got you. - No no no.
Do you understand the game?
- We sneak up on you... - You know what the game is called?
- The game is called tag. - Ok, here is the problem.
The game is not called tag, the game is called car tag.
You're in your car, and you sneak up next to the person. Then you've got me
Not by dragging your chair through the fucking lobby.
- I did not know. - It was not made clear.
- He changes the rules. - Come here. Sit down.
Let go of me.
Hey, guys, it's Tusk.
- I want you to give me the money. - No thank you.
Yes.
I know you have it in your bag.
- You won't get anything. - It's doable.
- Absolutely. - Stopped.
- OK. - Give it to me nicely.
Remember this address, 57 Pioneerski Prospect.
Will you remember?
- Get a pen and write it down. - We don't work for you.
Okay, okay. Nobody works for anybody.
I'm the vice president of the phone
and you're the vice-president of remembering the fucking address.
Please let me help you.
Fuck me.
Was that a fucking American?
You're not buying our boy Big Macs from money you get from America.
When you can afford to put food in his mouth
you can decide what goes in mine.
You don't fuck the British or the Americans. Understand?
The British fuck like they have an audience
like they have something James Bond to prove.
And the Americans, they... Oh, they have to save you.
Their screwing you to save you from having to fuck.
They have a magic wand for a dick.
Screw the French. They screw like they have something better to do.
- And you're such a man of the world! - You know what?
I've traveled, I've done business.
You picked up a suitcase.
Maybe you changed planes in Kyiv.
Yes, and I use the money i made
to buy us a place for us.
It's a necklace, not an apartment.
- It's a Tiffany. - It's a fake.
Hold this.
- This isn't what we're doing now. - I know someone who can move it.
Pick it up.
Guys, we have business now.
Pick it up. It's money.
Don't say fuck you to money, otherwise money say fuck you to you also
That I pick up this windshield wiper? OK.
- I go. - Hey.
- Where are you going? - What?
This way.
That's why we write things down.
It's cheaper down the street.
- How much for this one? - That one? It's a Gessl.
Manufactured in Frankfurt by Imperial Gessl...
But why is your friend driving away my customers?
Hey, Vladimir. Why are you driving away this man's customers?
You will pay for that.
You see? This is where you are wrong.
By paying Tusk for your protection, and this wouldn't happen.
No, I don't pay Tusk. I call for protection.
You fucking pay us.
Hey, Vlad. I bet you $1 you can't guess which color they are.
- Get away from her. - Pay us and we'll get away from her.
Dad, I want to come down.
What is wrong with you?
And what is wrong with you? For 100 dollars you're going to stab us?
Where are the hammers?
We will be back in a couple of weeks.
Hopefully we can do it without any loss of blood.
Come help your father.
Put it back!
What? I work for you now?
I'm asking you to put it back.
You have a knife. Maybe you should use it
or put it back.
I got you.
- How are you feeling? - 100 rems.
It could have been worse.
I am suspended indefinitely. No pay.
Suppose we're all suspended indefinitely, in that case.
Did they say anything else?
There will be an investigation.
After 12 years, they are saying I'm the type of man
who would cause a work stoppage.
- That's what they say I am. - I am sorry, Timofey.
This is for you.
An element that loses a particle becomes unstable.
A chain reaction is then set in motion,
pulsing waves of desperation in every direction.
Perhaps the lost part is clarity, or hope.
and the fallout of man made elements appear.
Isotopes of fear and anger.
They cannot be handled safely, or buried in the ground.
They take the shape of a mushroom cloud.
Started above a desert, then circles the globe
and shadows us all.
What did they say?
They want me to sign a report
saying it was nothing.
They put me on unpaid leave.
I see.
- Did they have you see the doctor? - It was not necessary.
They should have reinforced the welds, after Tomsk.
No. You were their redundancy.
Timofey will fix the leaks. Timofey will put out the fire.
Anyone would have gone in.
No! Anyone would have run the other way.
Papa!
Sorry. It is...
We need to know your rems.
The doctor looked at my badge and submitted a report of 100 rems.
Well then...
This can be survived.
What do they expect us to do for money?
- What if the boy gets sick one day? - No one will get sick.
- Who will pay for that? - They will put you to work in the garden
and I will go back to my job in the facility.
- Nope. - We will have enough.
There is no job there anymore.
I told them. For years, I told them.
- Backup systems... - Listen, listen.
I went to the library to look at the medical journals.
They say that with a dose of 100 rems
it could be years before the effects are felt.
Never go back there.
Promise me never to go back.
I'll put it in a jar!
I'm coming.
What hurts the most? The jar or the pins?
I think only a butterfly knows the answer to that one.
Did they build that to keep us in?
No, they built that to keep everyone else out.
They wanted to keep this place a secret.
Do you know any other secrets?
Well, do you see this flower? See how it's blue?
If exposed to certain levels of radiation,
it turns yellow.
Are you going to turn yellow?
Come on, come on.
Let's go home.
Did you hear that?
Did you hear the door?
Who would come over now?
What you did there was uncalled for.
- Maybe you could get the door for your mother. - I am not expecting anyone.
Maybe it's your girlfriend, the prostitute,
who comes to give you money.
Ukrainian slut.
That is sombody's mother you are talking about!
What do you want at the fucking door?
What does that look like to you?
- 57. - Is that a 7 or a 1?
A 7.
I thought a 7 has a line for it.
- Sometimes. - What the fuck is sometimes?
- Either has line through it or doesn't. - Ask your mother.
The 8. An 8 is always an 8. There are no sometimes, with an 8.
51 Pioneerski Prospect is already paying protection
to Starkov. It's not Tusk's territory.
We burned down the wrong store.
- Go on. Come. - Drei, go to bed, alright?
What did Tusk say?
It's a financial problem and it will remain so for 72 hours.
- Then, a personal problem. - A personal problem?
We need to find $6,000 in 72 hours.
Is that 72 hours from the phone call or the fire?
This is vague in my mind.
He said it was an insult.
That it is damaging his reputation, and that he has lost face.
Tusk wants to send a girl from the hotel to Starkov.
Did you send one?
You see? This is why Tusk is who he is. He thinks.
Fucking Red Army drunk. Lying in the middle of the road.
- I didn't see him. - You were driving!
- He distracted me. - Is there something wrong with my face?
It's fucked up.
Who are you calling?
We're not gonna leave this guy laying in the middle of the road.
Where are you going?
- There's blood on the car. - She's alive.
- Fucking bitch. - She is...?
Oh my god. How old is she?
It has a name and an address.
So have I.
It's somebody's dog.
Somebody's fucked up in the middle of the road dog.
Yes? Oh, my god.
- Your dog hit the car. - Fucked up my face.
Fucked up his face and damaged my car.
- Guys, forget about it. - No I won't forget about it.
A fucking dog wandering around in the middle of
the night who nearly killed three people.
I don't understand what you want from me.
- We don't have time for this. - What was the damage to the car?
Thousand dollars? And your face?
Thousand dollars.
You hit our dog and then you come in here and want money?
Call your father. Go on.
OK, let's go. Go on.
Hey. What are you doing? Hey! But that...?
We don't have that kind of money in the house.
Alright, so we're taking this clock.
- I do not want the clock. - You know what we don't have?
We don't have a kid. We take the kid and come back later.
No...
Please take this. It is all I have.
Good.
Sorry about the dog.
Today, we learn Thai.
- Excuse me? - Repeat after me.
The number 57.
The number 51:
As in "the one". The path.
The seven levels of consciousness in the enlightenment.
Have you been to Bangkok?
Do you know how many business men are in Patpong on a Friday night?
Ten thousand.
I wouldn't have thought that many.
Ten thousand men paying $100 for some slippery such massage
with a bean slap happy ending.
Do you get it?
- And you know what? - What?
No Russian girls. Just one flavor of pussy.
Only one perfume?
That's what you need to be able to see in the world now.
A Baskin Robbins of pussy.
That is capitalism.
Do you see that?
- You know what it is? - A French fry.
An opportunity.
I also thought it was a French fry.
There is a McDonald's policy,
that the French fry can only stay in the fryer for six minutes.
After that, they must be thrown out.
Six minutes is the lifespan of a French fry.
So what would you do? What would you do?
- Order McNuggets chicken instead. - Or a chocolate milkshake.
You pay the assistant minister
of French fries to let six minutes elapse
and he pays the assistant minister of garbage
to let you wait by the back door.
Then you take 7 minute French fries
to the end of the line on Ranskaya Boulevard and you sell them French fries
for one kopeck less than they pay inside. You see?
Do you see how the world works?
- Yes. - Yes? No, how could you?
To do that, you'd have to tell the difference between a 1 and a 7
you stupid fucking piece of shit.
We'll get it, we'll get the money.
Yes, an ogkaat. I think, or sure, we're very close to an ogkaat
I'm just concerned of the time frame.
- No no. - The 72 hours...
No. Time is not money.
Because you know why? You can always make more money.
So, no. Please. I want you all to tell me
what a seven minute French Fry tastes like.
Go ahead.
Have a bite of capitalism.
But what the hell are you doing? What are you doing?
Light is a particle and a wave.
It's hard to understand how a thing can be two things at once.
But a woman is also both a particle and a wave.
She's a wave when you see her reach down to pull a shell from the sea.
You can feel her beauty pass through you, like electrical current.
She's a particle when her hair brushes your face
and her hands push into yours.
A child is also a particle and a wave.
It's a wave when the sound of his pain shoots through you
and twists you away from yourself.
And it's a particle when the doctor hands you a baby
a small mirror.
Women, children and light
can be two things at once.
A particle.
A wave.
They richochet off hard surfaces and illuminate corners.
Without them, it would be far darker.
Mina.
Wake up.
What?
What are you doing?
Prusokov said there might be a job in Moscow.
- He got a letter from Orlov. - Work?
No. There are no jobs.
Everywhere on the news, they're saying there are no jobs.
Well, a French company
is looking for a technician.
He says there might be a position.
When are you planning on going?
They are only seeing people today.
I take Tolya to school and take the train.
Do you feel well enough to go?
It's a job. If they can pay me,
you and Tolya can come in a couple of days.
Timofey.
Why won't you kiss me anymore?
I learned that in instances of
contamination of more than 600 rems,
close physical contact is discouraged.
You read too much.
I thought that was why you liked me.
I never said I liked you.
I said I loved you.
When did you say that?
Before I ever knew your name.
The first time I saw you at institute.
I tried to say it with my eyes.
The day I married you in Tula.
And every day since.
Do not leave.
Sometimes I only say it to myself.
Please,
do not leave.
Come.
I'll call you from Moscow.
Tell me about butterflies.
Did you know that monarch butterflies have a compass in their
head that uses the sun to tell them where they are going.
And that Costa Rica has more butterflies
than any country on Earth.
No, I didn't know that.
Butterflies have eyes that allow them to see what is
happening in front and behind them at the same time.
I didn't know that.
But I know your mother will be waiting for you after school.
So don't be late.
Never keep any of the genus woman waiting.
You remember, when you were very young, your
mother was sick and we made her soup.
Then we came here
and we picked flowers for her.
- You remember it? - I remember.
And you remember what happened
- when we gave her the flowers? - She cried.
Have you seen her cry again since?
There is something I want you to do for me.
If you ever see your mother cry again
and that I'm not here to stop her,
I want you to bring her here.
Right here, and you dig this up.
You don't need your watch anymore?
Come on, come on.
The hands on the clock are waving goodbye.
It was my grandfather's watch.
The dial was painted in America during World War I.
The brides of soldiers' seated at long tables
dutifully making luminous 6's and 8's
to help keep the world free.
The 8's were particularly hard to make,
so the women sucked on the tips of the paint brushes
to bring them to a fine point.
One by one their mouths began to fill with cancer.
The radium-based paint they had swallowed bombarded
their brains and bones with alpha and beta particles.
The women who painted the watch faces sued the
U.S. Radium Corporation of West Orange, NJ.
Had the trial had been at night,
the breath they used to say goodbye to the world could've glowed
like moonlit fog.
They were given $10,000 for their lives.
Hey, what is wrong with you!?
Fucking idiots! There are kids playing here!
- What is that? - $800.
Maybe a little over.
Guys, at least go to a neighborhood where you don't know everybody and they have money.
go to rich people neighborhood.
How much did you make today Shiv? $6,000?
We'll increase collections. I figured it out.
Fuck you figured it out! We figured it out.
We come up with $3,000, and you come up with $3,000.
What? Nope! I didn't burn down the store.
- Besides, there are two of you. - What you mean there are two of us?
- You are two. You both get paid. - We're not talking about getting paid.
It is my understanding that we're paying other people.
No, I say one-third, one-third, one-third.
Fifty-fifty. Come on. Even Andrei knows this.
- Andrei, what's 6,000 divided by 3? - now we're involving Andrei?
And you want to talk about our problems with children?
- Guys... - $3,000, Shiv.
At the hotel.
Come on. Please.
I have been thinking about what hurts more:
the jar or the pins?
I think I can tell you it is not the pins.
Because the monarch in the jar is already dead
when it comes to the pins.
At some point, things stop hurting.
From inside the jar, with
eyes that see in all directions,
maybe it is possible to look into the future,
well beyond the pins,
to where the compass in your head tells you
that you need to go.
How much for the butterfly?
- Which one? - That one.
The monarch.
- 15,000. - Thank you.
Drei.
You know who wore a hat like this?
- Nope. - Jesse James.
- Jesse James.
He wore a hat just like this.
He only stole from rich people, so he wasn't really a thief.
He'd go into a rough place,
like Chicago or Brooklyn, do business.
Like you?
The CIA chased him for years.
When Jesse Jackson needed a car, he stole one.
Jesse James.
- What did I say? - Reggie Jackson.
It's Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson.
- Jesse Jackson. - Yes.
He could have been president of the United States,
but they don't respect the black man, so he went underground.
Was he good at sports like Michael Jordan?
Michael Jackson.
Michael, Reggie, Jesse, and
two other brothers, the Jackson 5.
The most powerful family in America.
What bill is Andrew Jackson on?
- The twenty. - Twenty.
Hey, respect the Jacksons.
Like the way you respect your mother.
Sorry, I'm late.
So what did you learn today?
About Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
And you, what did you learn? Visa?
American Express?
I want to change my name to Jackson.
I have to talk to you.
I met someone.
Good. It's your job to meet someone.
As long as someone is not British or American.
This is different.
Everything has to change now.
Since yesterday, you met someone?
What kind of...? Please don't fuck with me.
I'm not having a good day.
He wants me to take tennis lessons.
He wants me to travel with him.
Does he wants the kid to travel with him?
Does he know you have a kid? Yes, you are someone's mother.
I'm somebody's mother
walking home from the hotel at 3 in the morning
with barely enough money to buy more condoms.
Tell me you wouldn't take a way out?
And Mr. "Way Out" is some fucking British guy with sideways teeth
Who can't get laid in his own country. Come on.
What about Andrei, hmm?
My mother can take care of him when I have to leave town.
- What the fuck? Leave town? - I don't want to be here anymore.
What about me and Drei?
You don't even know if he's yours.
I wasn't very careful then.
Mr. Jackson,
tell your mother to work on her backhand.
I think it will break into a million pieces
if we hit it.
Nobody is going to pay for a dead animal.
Go ahead. Go get the dog.
You like chocolate?
I like chocolate.
Here.
- Today, Yegor. Today. - You are beautiful.
Yes you are.
What, you decided to spend your last day
of your life stealing windshield wipers?
Come here.
Repeat after me:
In Thai, that's the word for respect.
In Chiang Mai,
women wash the feet of their men as a show of respect, you see?
So, as a show of respect, I want you to wash my car.
The car looks good.
Get in.
Fuck!
Now, get in the fucking car!
You know what it is?
A debt. You're sitting in a pool of debt.
- We'll get the money. - That's debt in the back seat,
and up here, we have earning potential.
Last week,
I see her ass standing on the corner
two blocks from here and it invades my brain.
No matter where I go
the only thing I can think of is her corner-standing ass.
So I put her ass on a billboard and
now her ass reached right into my wallet.
You see?
So what I'm asking you is...
how will you climb from the backseat and into the front?
Most people don't know when they're going to die
but you know that it's sometime tomorrow.
I'm sure you've heard.
A Chechen gang lobbed a grenade into a hardware store yesterday.
Burnt a little girl's face.
We're collecting money to send her
to a specialist in Prague.
Oh thank you sir. God bless you.
You fought in Afghanistan, didn't you?
We need money to fight these fucking bastards.
Everyone's payment doubles this week.
It's in my pocket.
That's what I'm talking about.
Great. Catch you later. Thank you.
Pu? What's Pu?
If you don't know then it's probably not for you.
I don't care what it is. If you're going to stand here and sell it,
you have to pay me for protection. $100.
I don't need protection.
I need someone who understands what it is I am offering.
Would anyone like to buy some Pu?
He has Pu. Anyone want some?
It's not your lucky day. $100 for protection.
I don't have $100. I have only a few rubles.
So get the fuck out of here.
Take your Pu and your rubles and get out of my market.
When you have $100, then we'll talk.
Hey, Sasha. Sasha, wait, we need to talk.
What if I had a way for you to make 100 times that?
Who the fuck are you?
Recently there was an accident.
You may have heard of Skotoprigonyevsk 16.
It's a center for the manufacturing of nuclear materials.
It was built in 1949 for scientific research.
I never heard of it.
They never put it on the map.
Even the military weren't aware of the city's function.
So, you're from "not on a map".
So far this is bullshit.
Look at my ID.
Look at my picture.
Read what is says about my level of access.
I'm reading here, and it says that you're full of shit
And I don't have much time.
What the fuck is that?
Oh boy. Alright, If you're interested in some kind of man love,
there's a Romanian gymnast in Lubok who bites pillow.
My unit's principle task is to turn Pu-239,
an a man-made isotope, for the manufacturing of warheads.
Like I said, I'm not interested in your unit.
I need money for my wife and child.
Fuck your wife and child.
You don't think I have a child?
I am business man.
Get the part where it's my lucky day.
This is what you need to understand.
I diverted a quantity of fissile material, Pu-239.
Weapons grade of the highest purity.
I want $30,000.
Ok, let me just check my wallet.
Do you think I'm joking?
Do you understand any of this?
Pu-239 is a man-made isotope,
transmitted from uranium-238 in a chain reaction.
Ok, and it costs $30,000?
I have a little more than a 100 grams in this canister.
100 grams for 30,000 dollars?
In Afghanistan or North Korea where they are
pursuing a nuclear gen, you could sell for 100 times more.
We are not in North Korea.
I'm talking about enriched fissile material.
Most are well guarded in France or the United States.
They use it in nuclear bombs.
This is a nuclear bomb?
This is a bomb you're selling?
Perhaps I should find someone else.
I have very little time.
I have less time than anyone you have ever met.
- Do you have any contacts? - Yes. I have to see the shit.
You do not understand.
Fuck you. Let me see it. I want to see it.
Are you aware of the radiological effects
on living organisms?
The protons cut through your DNA, rewriting your genetic code.
Instructions for teeth
become a recipe for cancer.
Your marrow dies in your bones, taking with it your immune system.
The next coughing person, a common infection,
the smoke from your cigarette,
it becomes lethal as as a bullet.
One thousandth of a gram can change your life.
Ok, I'll put the cigarette out.
There is a right way to open this canister.
And no fewer than 20 wrong ways.
Open it the wrong way and the material spills out.
It costs $30,000 to learn the right way.
Go outside. Go wait for me outside.
What are you doing?
Marina.
You shouldn't have come here.
You told him Orlov has a job for him.
There are men from the facility at my house tearing things apart.
I haven't spoken to Orlov in years.
He left this morning for Moscow.
- You told him to go. - 100 grams of plutonium are missing.
No, he would never do that.
You know he would never do that.
Who knows what a person might do in his position?
What position?
We can't talk about this. Please, you have to go.
And where do I go?
Where?
Where do I go?
This man who you think will be interested,
why is he called Tusk?
About two years ago he walks
into the Central Bank of Moscow. Right?
He told them he needed
$750,000 for elephants.
Indian elephants for the Moscow Zoo.
He's got a business plan, right?
You see, elephants live for like 80 years and
you get the people who come to see them and feed them uhh,
peanuts. Right?
So you don't pay much for food.
A thousand people a day at, say, $1.5 a person...
Forty-three million eight hundred thousand dollars.
What's that?
How much the elephants would earn over 80 years.
- Not counting interest. - You did that in your head?
Wow, that's cool.
You have to teach me how to do that.
But Tusk had an even better idea.
No elephants.
How are no elephants better?
He tells the bank the elephants froze to death
crossing the Himalayas.
The money is gone.
He should have taken them another route.
Nope...
There never were any elephants. This is the genius.
And you work for him?
Everybody does.
Even her.
The bank never came back for the money?
He paid one official off.
And when this guy's boss came around looking for more,
he left him haning from an elephant's tusk.
In an antique store.
The guy stayed alive for three days hanging from the wall.
- Wait here. - Who will explain the material?
You can't go in there.
perhaps you're right.
Just don't fuck with the stereo.
- VIP only. - Gun, I need to talk to Tusk.
Come on, you know me.
- Go ahead. - Thank you.
Excuse me. Sir.
I know I'm getting you at a bad time.
Do you have my money?
Look, I'm in possession of something...
- What are you...? - Sorry.
I'm in possession of something I think will be of great interest to you
An oglekatt.
You need to work on your pronunciation.
Would you like to get high, dying man?
I'm looking for a way to even things out.
Make my way into the front seat. Like you said.
I don't want to discuss business now.
Please. The deal has to be made tonight.
The shit won't keep. It has to move.
Shit.
- A little over 100 grams. - 100 grams of what?
Weapons grade plutonium.
- What? - Plutonium!
What are you talking about?
The seller wants 75,000. I could have it for 50.
He comes from Skotopigneski 15, a secret city
and he has access to Pu-55.
Have you seen that plutonium?
No. He says it is better not to look at it.
He's waiting for me in the car, which is
which is looking good. Clean. Smells like pine trees.
Listen - If we play this thing right,
I think we can get an atomic bomb.
- Maybe more than one. - Where is he from?
It's not on the map. Nobody has ever been there.
He wants 50 thousand for some plutonium you have never seen from a guy who says
he's from a place nobody has ever been to.
He can sell it himself here. And you want this now.
He is outside.
Go on.
It'll only take a second. I know you're
very busy, but I think you'll like this very much.
What the fuck happened in there?
- The guy, he had a stomach thing. - What guy?
The guy with the shit.
What guy?
The guy with the bomb shit.
The car and the money.
Drop them off at my house at midnight, understand?
Car, money, midnight.
- I'll be there. I'm on it. - Or maybe...
Maybe you can make a deal with Starkov.
Maybe you and your imaginary friend,
can trade him plutonium that nobody has ever seen
and he'll shoot you with invisible bullets.
I want you to take the nail of your thumb
and press it very hard against my arch.
Stronger.
Good.
It's my phone.
Answer.
You can do two things at once.
- Hello. - Hey baby!
No Shiv, I need to call you back.
You looked umm... You looked so beautiful today.
Who is Shiv?
I reall need to call you back, okay?
Well listen...I think I found a way out for us.
There is this deal I'm putting together, and umm...
I guess I need a little bit of cash to set the wheels in motion.
- Say, "Goodbye, Shiv." - Goodbye, Shiv.
So,
who is Shiv?
My nephew.
Baby?
Hello?
Where the fuck were you?
I was sick. I needed air.
You...I had the guy sitting right there.
He comes out here, ok? He's got the money.
He wanted to see plutonium. And you, where the fuck were you?
In the bathroom, shitting all over me!
Tell him to come out again.
What, so you can do a striptease on the sidewalk?
Shake him out into giving us the money? Come on.
Where are you going?
- Find another buyer. - What? You can not do that.
I'm sure other people are interested.
You're right. There are.
I was just on the phone with one.
Just now.
So all you have to do is get your ass in the car
and I'll take you to go meet him.
Hey, look.
You want $30,000?
He said he left.
With a man.
Hours ago.
I have never seen a dog like this.
It's like a woman.
Which fucking man is he with?
So...
We do it alone. No problem.
- Who fucking needs him? - I called her Sheba.
She looks like a Sheba, doesn't she?
We go to the door.
We say: "Your animal was in the middle of the boulevard.
We swerved to avoid it into oncoming traffic.
There was much damage, casualties. We have witnesses."
You will be the owner of the other car.
Feel how soft her fur is.
You say your face got fucked up in the accident.
and as a result of this, Mr. ...
What's the name of the owner?
- Starkov. - Nope.
Starkov is the man we owe the money to.
- The owner of the dog? - It says Starkov.
Number 28.
- We have to take her back. - Can't we keep her?
No. We have to take her back.
We have the wrong dog.
Let's go, girl.
Yegor.
Come on, girl.
You have to go home.
How much chocolate did you give the dog?
It was not my fault. I was not...
- Is that a 1 or a 7? - 7.
Maybe she should get your job.
We had problems with a couple of employees.
It's being dealt with.
It's dealth with when Mr. Starkov gets his money.
It is not that simple.
I brought him something that is better than money.
You brought him a larger date?
Fantastic.
Do you see this man?
This guy?
This is the vice-president of Skrotoponsky 17.
I have in my possession a quantity of Pu-239 of the highest purity.
If someone could transport it out of the country,
I have no idea how much it could bring.
Yes. He's right.
So look, if your boss wants is 6 grand
I will give it to him right now.
But if he wants the good shit...
That's what I'm talking about.
It's unlikely he will get this opportunity again.
Stay here.
Great. That was great.
- We go in together. - No.
Look at you. You're a fucking mess. You go in there
and throw up all over the place, we get $10,000. Maybe.
I go in there, work a little magic. We get more.
- I need $30,000. - Right.
There are things my family requires.
My son and my wife.
- It's not for me. - Okay.
Okay, I got it. Let's go? The lipstick?
I'm expecting a very important phone call.
It's from a girl, Oksana.
You do not move, do not get up from the table,
do not go to the fucking bathroom, okay?
Let's go.
$50,000.
Tusk will give me 60.
Do you remember Roscoe Tanner?
I don't follow tennis.
What do you mean, you don't follow tennis?
It's like sex.
If you like sex, you like tennis.
Hey, bring the balls.
No, you have to be a man. It's a man's game.
Tennis is good for you. It's strong, you know. I like this.
This I like so much, when you:
- That whoosh. - Yes?
Nice, right? Do you like to try it? It's very exciting, huh?
Ok smell that. What does it remind you of?
What? What? Go on. What does it remind you of?
- It's nice... - Nice. Of course, nice.
Nice, yes. You're right.
Sir, it's weapons grade.
- Very pure. My associate is... - Roscoe Tanner, 140 mph.
His ground strokes were not all that good.
but he had a serve like a bazooka.
What happened to your hands?
- Hello. - Shiv, we have a problem.
I'm not Shiv.
I need to speak with Shiv.
He is in a meeting.
- What kind of meeting? - A Business meeting.
I find that very strange,
because we're in business together. so umm...
Who the fuck are you?
It's not important who I am.
No! That's right. You are not important.
What's important is to tell Shiv that we
have a new problem with a guy called Starkov.
He knows who that is. Starkov.
He's with him now.
What?
What you mean he's with Starkov? The fuck is he doing with Starkov?
He's made some kind of deal, yes?
You tell him, when I take the Gessl knife out of my back
I'll gonna stick it right up his ass.
Bring the dog here.
20,000.
14? $14,000 seems fair.
- We accept 14. - Minus the 6,000 you owe me.
- 9,000? - 8!
$8,000 is fine with me.
- Hello? - Hello?
Have I woken you?
When I left this morning,
I wasn't thinking too clearly.
I think I should tell you why I came here.
In St. Petersburg, for the position.
I know it might mean leaving here, but I...
have already spoken to Tolya about it
and he knows he will have to say goodbye to his friends.
I told him that St. Petersburg is beautiful this time of year.
Just like it was on our wedding day.
Everything alright with you?
You have to tell me if anything has happened.
What could happen in one day?
It's only been one day?
I did not think it was possible to miss
someone this much after one day.
Tomorrow,
when you speak to Orlov about the position, just come home.
Yes, I will try to come home.
There is one tired boy here who
wants to say goodnight to you.
It's your papa.
They broke my butterfly.
It's fine.
I'll get you another one.
- I have a monarch for you. - Is it her?
Baby, baby, I just got you a locket with a bathroom.
Hello?
Okay, let's go sell some Pu.
Hey, for a guy who just made a deal
you look like shit.
Let's go.
I'm back.
Okay listen. We have a deal.
$8,000. We split it fifty-fifty.
This is not the amount we discussed.
Alright, come on, let's make a deal. Come on, come on.
Take off your shirt and show them we have a fucking deal.
I don't want to see his tits. I want to see the plutonium.
If I want to see tits, I'll call ball girl.
No. You have to see this thing he has.
It's... Come on, open it. Take off your shirt.
It is important that you understand the ramifications...
I think maybe this is too small.
No, it's too big. Come on, pick up some balls.
Why don't you do something with your fucking life.
This?
This is Mr. "Way Out"?
- The fuck is wrong with you? - Shiv, you shouldn't be here.
What? What did you call him? Shiv?
This is nephew Shiv? This is the telephone Shiv?
The nephew? Fuck you.
It's another Shiv.
Exact. Yes, I am the other Shiv.
The one in the locket with the little boy. The picture in the -
Who is our son? Who is Andrei?
Your brother?
It might not be his son.
Yes, it is mine. Look at the picture. It's mine.
You know, I never hit my first wife. No, never.
But you know what happened? One day,
she screwed the guy who came to fix the satellite dish.
- I'm not his wife. - Wife, nephew, brother, sister.
Plutonium. Bullshit.
I just want to make the deal.
There is no fucking deal.
This is Wimbledon and you're Jimmy Connors.
I'm not going to hit her.
If you won't hit her, then I will.
Fuck you. Enough. Fuck you. You touch her and you're not getting one gram...
Fuck you.
Fuck you! Dare to speak to Starkov like that.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
New deal.
New fucking deal.
You give me $10,000 and the girl.
Or we take our business to Tusk.
10,000 and the girl. Final fucking offer. Right?
- Tim? - No, nephew Shiv.
Here is the deal.
You give me this fucking money.
Come on, get in.
Come on.
Where are you going?
- Come on. - I am going home.
We're still in this. It's all negotiation.
Come on...
Look. What about this? It belongs to you, right?
Come on, come on.
Look, he was only going to give us $4,000. We can do better than that.
It's the free market system.
If you're going in the direction of a train station
I would appreciate a ride.
I have a few rubles I can pay you.
Keep your rubles. I'll give you a ride, okay?
Come.
How old is your son?
Tolya is 7.
7.
Andrei is 6.
He looks like me.
- You got any pictures? - No.
I have one of me and Andrei.
Oksana, she took it.
We were at the new McDonald's, on the Arbat.
Every time a new McDonald's opens,
Drei always has to see if the Big Macs tastes the same.
He's a little businessman.
I used your phone to say good night to my family.
I do not know what the charges are.
No charges.
No charges for a man saying goodnight to his son.
I know we owe you more, but it's a start.
I don't know what kind of deal Shiv offered you, but whatever it was
it was bullshit.
- There was no plutonium? - What plutonium?
And the thing, in the store
- with the fire. it was uncalled for. - He started the fire?
- You're lying. - And you're an expert on the subject.
Drop the balls and pick them up again.
A man must separate business and pleasure.
She is beautiful woman, but beauty can make a man stupid.
It makes my stupid, I admit it.
When we saw what he did with your dog...
This beautiful animal.
What about the dog?
Chocolate is very bad for dogs.
I think the chocolate was for Oksana.
Shiv dies, or
your boy dies.
This isn't the way to the train.
No, it's not.
You said you were taking me to the train.
Yes, and you said this was my lucky day.
So, bring on the luck.
100 grams of luck.
You don't understand.
This was a mistake.
No, you don't fucking understand!
You don't understand. I don't have any time to waste.
So you give me whatever it is you say you have and I
let you be lucky enough to walk home still breathing.
Huh? It can be your lucky day.
Or is it bullshit?
Is that what you have strapped to yourself,
a tube of bullshit?
You should have killed me at the hotel.
Don't tell me when to fucking kill you!
I am already dead.
You're already dead? Does your wife and kid know that?
Or are they waiting for you to come home with $30,000?
I can't be around my son for more than a few hours
without risking every cell in his body.
My saliva could kill my wife in another 10 years.
My dead body is more dangerous than anyone you have ever met.
I have a fucking knife to your throat.
It's a Gessl, from Gessl in Frankfurt.
They use this to skin moose.
I'm a mushroom cloud and you have a knife.
I'm warning you for the fucking last time.
- You're warning me... - Hand the shit over!
Do it for your kid.
For Drei.
For Andrei.
I'll tell you what I will do for Andrei.
Do you see that palace?
Your $30,000 is in that castle.
Your $30,000
and my lucky day.
My lucky day.
Am I invited? To this house
To party with these people?
No, I wash their cars.
But for Andrei, I'll go, I'll knock on the door.
If they don't open, I'll jump the fence.
I'll run across the field. I'll fucking, I'll shake my ass.
I'll do whatever I have to do so
So I can see Andrei tomorrow.
I will do that for my son.
You can stay here, and play with your butterfly, if you want.
You know, we could move 100 grams a week easy.
I could go back to Skotoprignomac with you, huh?
Set things up? What do you think?
First, we take this money.
We go to the beach,
take the boys. Get some Versace, get a tan, come back...
and hit it hard.
Okay, here we go.
- Private party. - Yes. Blah blah blah. I know.
Just, ahh, call up Tusk and tell him
that Shiv is out front ready with the beanstamp.
It's ok, you don't have to...
There is no Shiv on the list.
I know. That's right. This is what I'm saying.
I'm probably not on the list.
Just call up to the house and tell Tusk that Mr. Plutonium,
that guy is out front knocking on his door.
Go for it. Call.
- Step away from the gate. - Hey guys.
Okay, look, we're here with
100 grams of pure plutonium,
first class, frequent flyer quality, baby!
This is the recipe for teeth.
Americans, they rub it on
their little dicks, they fuck all night long.
Makes the pussy glow.
Come on. Please. Be a hero, huh? Call him.
Yes. Thank you. Okay.
Alright.
Tell him we're here.
You know what the North Koreans would pay for this?
You know?
You don't know.
You've got a problem here.
A big problem.
Uranium, neptunium, plutonium.
They came from space.
Found their way here by comet and meteorite.
No child ever wished this from a star.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl.
Problems with half-lifes 40,000 years long.
Half a life.
Time takes half of us away and comes back later for the rest.
We are children, then we are parents.
We are long division.
Slowly, we decay into memory.
Here he comes! Here he comes!
Yes. Okay. Here it is.
There's 40,000 years worth.
My car is clean?
Yeah, but here's the guy I was telling you about.
Timofey Berezin.
- Where is my money? - That's the thing.
Just give him $30,000, huh?
No no no. We don't give him any money.
No. It's just at the beginning. Then we get that money back later
from th..the North Koreans
Look. This is him. The seven-minute French fry.
Do you remember? He is money.
No, he is not the money! This is the money.
- Show him. - And this is the money!
Please show it to him.
Show it to him.
So you have something for me?
I have nothing.
You have nothing?
So, what? He was lying about the plutonium?
He just wanted to come to the party.
Get your dead friend out of my sight. We have to park cars here.
Come on.
Who are you?
It's not important who I am.
You are not Shiv.
- Shiv is gone. - Wait, I didn't...?
Yes, I spoke to you before, when you were not important also.
Something about the deal with Starkov and Shiv.
I have to catch my train.
So what were you doing taking a package out of Tusk's car?
It's for my son.
So I'm supposed to believe
your son keeps a package in Tusk's car?
Where is the son you speak of?
- I think you should come back here. - He's not listening to you.
In the end, everything decays to lead.
The number 82 on the periodic table.
- Give me the package. - Why won't you tell us
- what's in the package? - I need to go home.
All of the brilliant things formed in the center of stars
will have turned cold and gray.
You keep walking that way, my friend
I promise you will not make it to the train station.
Everything is moving in that direction.
Are you going to look for Shiv?
Toward lead.
Listen to me. Stop!
Impossible to stop.
Check his pockets.
Vlad, he has something underneath his shirt.
What is that?
Looked.
A butterfly.
I find them very upsetting, butterflies.
No wonder the guy was out buying butterflies.
You see?
Bad judgment.
A fucking, cokehead thinking.
Long night.
It's strong.
It's shit.
We can't give this to Starkov.
What I would would like, is two tickets to Costa Rica
and $50,000 compensation.
But no plutonium is missing.
Only your husband is missing.
Well then, you have nothing to fear from a badge, or a contaminated watch
showing exposure up to 1,000 rems.
I am told that the plutonium from this facility has its own signature
and can be traced.
But if as you say
there is no plutonium missing
then it will not concern you when an autopsy
in some far away place from here
reveals that my husband's body is so toxic
that it must be entombed in lead.
Perhaps we could arrange a meeting in St. Petersburg with your husband
and a severance package could be discussed in person.
I said St. Petersburg.
Maybe I meant London.
Or maybe New York.
I think I have made myself clear.
What about...a confession
stating that your husband stole 100 grams of plutonium
and that it was safely recovered by officials from this facility?
What about you send it to me in Costa Rica?
Thank you for your time.
At some point, things stop hurting.
And from inside the jar, with
eyes that see in all directions,
maybe it is possible to look into the future
well beyond the pins,
to where the compass in your head tells you that you need to go.
Past the fields, and fences
and the flowers.