There's a war, Scott.
It may be cold, but it's still a war.
I think I should go back to Berlin.
Do it your own way. Find out who this traitor is.
Just make sure that you kill him or her.
I would definitely take a very close look at that French woman.
My American friend said I should meet you.
Something to do with Simon Haldane and a photograph.
CONRAD: Dunn's been looking for a photo that has been missing.
He wants me to find it. Real bad.
So, that's why you're in Berlin.
SEVERINE: His name is Klaus Fiesler.
SCOTT: He's an ex-SS officer.
I thought maybe some of youand your odd friends could help me find him.
ULRIKE: I'm always interested in making some money.
SCOTT: I found him.
Where is he?
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
SCOTT: So you used me to find Klaus Fiesler.
Now, you know I killed Fiesler.
What are we going to do?
"Knowledge is power."
I don't want power.
I want you.
[DOOR OPENING]
Why are we meeting here in the day?
What's happening?
Aren't you making a terrible mistake not bringing a gun?
You would have done the same. It's just procedure.
You might have triedto kill me whenyou found out about Fiesler.
I doubt it.
It's called a safety net. That's all.
I needed some insurance.
I had made a mistake. A bad mistake.
I wasn't sure how you'd react.
What exactly did you tell your little Soviet friend, Lubkov?
I had nothing to do with Beethoven's death.
I think you better tell me everything.
Everything.
May I smoke a cigarette?
I went to the Soviets,
to Lubkov,
because I was trying to find the man who killed my husband.
This man, Udo Hoff.
That was my mistake.
They asked me questions.
What was happening with the refugees?
What were the stakes here in Berlin?
Big questions, general questions, strategic questions...
Would we go to war over Berlin, that sort of thing.
Then they put Fiesler on me, and the questions became more challenging.
They wanted documents, details of operations.
I knew I had made a trap for myself.
Questions about Beethoven?
No.
Never. I made stuff up.
But I knew I had no time.
That's why I asked you to find Fiesler for me.
I had to silence him.
I was only looking for Udo Hoff.
That's all I was thinking of.
My information was that he was in the East.
I swear, Fielding.
I swear to you. On my dead, tortured husband, I swear to you.
Tell me everything you know about Lubkov.
Then you can go.
[OPENING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[BOTH MOANING]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Ever heard of knocking?
What's wrong?
Is there a problem?
There is a problem.
But it's your problem, not mine.
Does anyone else know?
Not yet.
I know everything.
The receptionist at Hotel Kaiser has been most helpful.
I know how many nights you spent there with Madame Bloch.
I don't like to do this, Mr. Scott.
But my life is not good. It's very complicated.
I want to change it.
It's a very simple transaction. You can buy my silence.
You're about to makeyour life very, very difficult.
What do you want? Money?
No, I... [STAMMERS]
I want to leave Berlin and go to England.
I want you to find me a place at London University.
I don't need to go to Oxford or Cambridge.No.
And, yes, I need a bit of money.
Thought as much.
You're insane.
I have qualifications. I speak good English.
Do you?
Get me a scholarship, or an exchange.
However, you do it,I don't care. This is my price for silence.
You have no idea what you're doing, do you?
I hope you're aware you're about to fuck up your entire life.
Oh, no, I don't think so, Mr. Scott.
You see, I also know that Mr. Petrie
would love to hear about this relationship you're having with Madame Bloch.
I know about the problemsbetween you. I heard his fit of anger.
I want $1,000 in cash, in my desk drawer tomorrow morning.
If the money isn't there, then I will go to Mr. Petrie.
You then have one monthto organize my place at London University.
I wish to study economics, by the way.
And please, Mr. Scott, I'm not a fool.
I've written down this information,
dates, times, witnesses, and given it to a lawyer.
In case
something happens to me. If I suddenly lose my job,
or if somebody tries to frighten me, if I disappear,
this lawyer will give the information to Mr. Petrie.
I will continue working for you.
You can see Madame Bloch. I don't care that you do.
How very kind of you.
You want to be happy, Mr. Scott. I want to be happy.
Get the fuck out of my office.
One thousand dollars in cash.
Get out.
Tomorrow morning.Now.
[ENGINE ACCELERATING]
You stupid fucking fool.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
SCOTT: His name is Vasily Lubkov.
Who is he?
A senior official for the East German Trade Commission, so they say.
KGB.
He's a colonel, in reality.
What do you want me to do?
I want you to follow him.
He goes to the West on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
to attend the government's plenary sessions. Pick him up there.
What's so interesting about him?
I think he has got the answer to the Beethoven deaths.
He goes to the West and meets people like Fiesler.
Amongst others.
I'm sure one of them is our source.
Alright.
I'll see what I can do.How's the dog?
He's gone to a good home.
ELISA: Good morning, Mr. Scott.
Thank you. I have it.
We understand each other?
Can I bring you some coffee?
Fuck me.
What the hell is he doingmeeting with him?God knows.
I checked though. Lubkov's a fully accredited official
at the Russian Trade Mission to the GDR. An executive manager.
All above board.He's KGB.
How do you know?I have a source.
Yes, but he's been in Berlin for 18 months.
Seems legit.What, meeting Dunn in the cinema?
That's not bloody legit.Maybe Dunn turned him.
No, we'd know about it. You'd certainly know about it.
Yes.
You can keep the photograph.
I have copies.
So tell me,
what were you doing in Hamburg?
Anything interesting?How did you know I was in Hamburg?
Dunn told me.How did he know?
I don't know. He just said so.
Asked me if I knew what you were doing there.
Why would Dunn want to know where I was?
Good question.
Does he know that we meet unofficially?
No!
You kidding me? You know what Dunn's like with his paranoia.
And then there's my paranoia.
How the hell did Dunn know that I was in Hamburg?
Is it a problem?
Maybe, or maybeit's the answer to an ongoing problem.
Thanks for this.Yeah, well,
It's good to know we're on the same side.
I'm sure you'll find a way to repay me.
Maybe Dunn was looking for his missing photograph.
Maybe he thinks Lubkov can help him.
Yes, it's a possibility.
BOTH: Delicious!
Want to stay for dinner?No, thank you.
I got a friend coming.I better go.
I'll keep you informed about this Lubkov fellow.
Cheerio!
Yeah.
Fuck.
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
How's life?
It's rather boring, actually.
You don't seem like a man who would like a boring life.
I love boring. I long for boring.
Can I trust this man?
He's a cop.
Can you trust a cop?
Well, I know him.
He helped me with the VoPos.
ULRIKE: Why do you want to meet him?
I've got a couple questions I want to ask him.
Thought it'd be more efficient coming from you.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
Fielding Scott from the British Embassy.We've met.
Pleased to meet you again. Any friend of Ulrike is a friend of mine.
So,
what brings you back to Berlin, Mr. Scott?
Just got some unfinished business, really.
Of course, I remember the Haldane murder. I'd just joined the force in Berlin.
I was in Cologne before.
I see.
I was a good friend of Simon Haldane's.
His wife asked me to come outhere and see if there was anything I could find.
Was it a robbery?
Was anything stolen?
Wallet? Passport?
I don't think so.
To be honest, Mr. Scott,
what was really surprising about the Haldane case was
that it was shut down.
Closed fast. I think
within 48 hours.There's nothing
suspicious? No evidence?
Well, except he was killed.
His neck was broken.
There were bruises all over his body
and the waiter was killed, of course.
The innocent bystander.
It's one of those Berlin crimes, you know.
Nobody talks about it.
What is the English expression? It was...
"Swept under the carpet."
A very long way.Yeah, we're good at that.
He asked me about the Simon Haldane killing.
Interesting.What about it?
He said Haldane's wife had asked him to investigate...
Simon Haldane wasn't married.
What was he looking for?
There's no smoking in here. Put that out.
Sorry.
What was he looking for?
I think it was a motive.
He wanted to see if we had an idea why Haldane was killed.
If we were suspicious of something, I suppose.
No. He was looking for something else.
Did he mention a photograph?
No, there was no discussion of a photograph.
Mr...
Mr. Dunn, can I make a request? An official request?
Thanks.
I want to resign from the police.
I think I can be more use to you...No, wrong.
You can be more useful to us and the BND on the force.
We like having our man on the inside.
Request denied.
Just let me knowif Scott approaches you again.[PHONE RINGING]
Of course. Whatever you say.Linda.
Linda, I'm not finding these reports.
Yeah, well...
Well, when you put them in the right file,
I will find them in the right file.
Hello?
Where are you?
SCOTT: I'm through here.
What is this place?
It's my new flat.
They call it minimalist.
So...
You've forgiven me?
Have you forgiven me?
Do you trust me again?
Can anyone trust anyone?
I think we need a fresh start.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
I won't meet you again outside the office.
If you want to speak to me,you can speak to me when we are at work.
Why?Because you might be tempted to kill me.
It's over, Elisa.
You can go and tell Petrie everything. It won't make a difference now.
I'm warning you, Mr. Scott. I'm not joking.Neither am I.
Things have changed.
Got more important things on their mind. You see, I'm a target now.
I'm being followed.
You could tell him I was a mass murderer,
it wouldn't make a bloody bit of difference.
You have less than one month. I wish to start in the autumn term.
I wish to move to London in August.
London in the autumn.
Hmm.
It's beautiful.
It's a dream.
I'm going to Petrie now.Sit down, Elisa.
I'm going to give you another chance.
I can make London a reality.But I need you to do something for me.
What?
I need you to go to the East,
meet someone.
It's not dangerous.
If I do this, if I go meet someone, I will then go to London?
Yes.
Yes, I guarantee you a place at a London university. I promise.
I then have another request.
You have to help my boyfriend.
We will want to go to London together.
Yes, doesn't sound unreasonable.
So what do I have to do exactly?
I need you to go to a bar and meet this man.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Hello. I'm Fielding Scott. Thanks for coming.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Please, Ulrike, don't call me this.
A burglar, it's insulting.
ULRIKE: I apologize,what do you like to be called?
An interventionist?
A "Turoffner."
"A door opener."
Well, I need some doors opened, so...
I am beginning to feel like an employment agency.
[CHUCKLES]
This is me!
[CHUCKLES AND SPEAKS GERMAN]
No?Yes, very good.
It's a very guarded community.
I'm invisible.That helps.
It's on the second floor.Second, third, fourth, fifth...
It's no problem for me. I don't use stairways or doors.
Yet you call yourself a "door opener."
So that's all you want me to do?Yes, that's it.
That's easy. Any friend of Ulrike is a friend of Thorwald.
Coffee or whiskey?
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Word to the wise, he's not in the happiest of moods.
It's about to get much worse.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
I think Lubkov's the key.
I think It'll unlock everything.Care to enlighten me?
Well, I think he's the link between certain people here in the West.
Who?I'll tell you when I have him.
You say he's a KGB colonel.
Do you know what the effect will be?
That's the whole point, isn't it?
You ever heard of Pandora's Box?Yes.
Sometimes you need a catalyst.
Sometimes you need to
stir things up to gain clarity.
Well, that's putting it mildly.
I would instantly say "no,"but I realize that's pointless.
I will, however,tell London that I didn't authorize this operation
in no uncertain terms.
All the shit that you generate is going to land on your desk.
I trust you've no objections.Absolutely none.
May I knowwhen this, um, event is going to take place?
Soon.
Ah.
Soon.
Thank you.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
Hmm.
[NEWSREADER IN GERMAN]
KOVRIN: Mr. Scott.
I don't believe we've met.
You know who I am?
Sure.
My name is Victor Kovrin.How do you do?
Fine.
How are you finding your Berlin posting?
Rather boring, to tell you the truth.
How are you finding your Berlin posting?
Frustrating. Very frustrating.
Maybe I should retire.
But we'd miss you.
[LAUGHS]
That's a good one. Hmm.
SCOTT: There's always boredom, I suppose.
Boredom and frustration.
The important thing is not to increase the frustration.
Well, surely that's something you can help with, no?
I think
it's the other way around.
You know, here in Berlin, provocation
is the mother of frustration.
And frustration is the father of confrontation.
Take, for example, the scientist Manfred Ziegler.
This is what happens if you keep luring
our best and brightest into the West.
Human tragedy.
I've enjoyed our conversation, Mr. Scott.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
Ladies and Gentlemen,
to your health.
Tonight.
[GERMAN SONG PLAYING][PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[SPEAKS GERMAN]
[BARTENDER SPEAKS GERMAN]
[HUMMING]
[GASPS]
[WHISPERS] No, no, no.
Come to my house
and do this to me.
[GRUNTS]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[MAN SPEAKS GERMAN]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
How is he?
Well, barring the usual "I demand to see" request,
he's pretty docile, actually.
Doesn't make any trouble.
Alright, let him stew for another 24 hours.
How you boys keeping? The hours not too bad?
No problem at all, sir. We're enjoying the bonuses.
[CHUCKLES]
All right.See you tomorrow.
Oh, bang on the door from time to time.
Turn on the lights on and off, you know. Keep him awake.
Don't spend all your bonuses at once.
Understood, sir.
I would like to talk about the deaths of the scientist Manfred Ziegler
and his family.I want to talk to an official.
I'm the only official here. So you have talk to me.
I officially protest against my illegal capture.
Protest officially acknowledged.
Now, can we talk about the death
of the scientist Manfred Ziegler and his family.
I don't know anything about this man.
You're a colonel for the KGB.
Of course you do.
I am a Moscow liaison manager for the Trade Commission...
Do we really have to play these games?
You are wasting your time, whoever you are.
You did meet this man
in West Berlin.
It was a misconception.
I thought it was about...
import-export regulationbetween the GDR and the common market...
And you always have your meetings in the cinema in the afternoon, do you?
It was not my idea.
I just go to the address.
Do you know a man called Fiesler?No.
Do you know a woman called Severine Bloch?
I don't know Madame Bloch. No.
Did you ever meet Fiesler in the company of Madame Bloch?
No. I don't know these people.
How do you know she's "Madame" Bloch?
I assume that all women of her age are married.
Huh.
How old is she? Seeing as you've never met her...
I have never met these people.
That will be all for today.
Scott.
[DOOR LOCKS]
[SPEAKS GERMAN]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
SCOTT: I want to thank you, Mr. Lubkov.
You've been very, very helpful.
I have?Yes.
How?Well, it's not what you've said
so much as what you haven't said, really.
It really confirmed an awful lot for me.
I don't know what you are talking about.
And as a token of my appreciation
I'm going to let you go.What?
You're going to let me go?Yes.
I'm going to have you taken back to East Berlin.
Why would you do that?
Because I'm very grateful for all your help.
If you take me back to the East
I will get killed.
For sure.Not my problem.
And I don't need you here in the West anymore.
In fact, you've become something of an encumbrance.
Then I apply for political asylum.
No, no, no, no. That's not gonna happen.
Anyway, Kovrin will be wondering where you are.
He'll want to talk to you.[SIGHS]
Hmm?
You could have a little chat with him
and explain this fascinating little conversation of ours.
But one thing is very different...
Vasily...
I'm now your only friend.
If you ever feel in danger...
memorize this number,
call it and say, you "feel rather unwell."
I will get you out of Berlin in 24 hours. I promise.
You know that the phone lines are cut.
I'm sure a man of your stature
with your level of intelligence
can make a phone call.
That's all I have to do?
Just call this number? How will you do it?
Leave that with me.
The less you know, the better.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Scott.
[SIGHS][DOOR OPENS]
Thank you
for everything.[DOOR SHUTS]
I want to go back to the West.Get out.
[CAR DRIVING AWAY]
[CLOSING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]