Jakob The Liar Page #6

How do I beat that? Flying tanks?

They need news,|but I have no new ideas.

What can I invent now, Hannah?|Submarines?

The Iatest.|Ask anybody eIse!

I'm the onIy one in this whoIe ghetto|who's got no news, Hannah.

Are you gonna work today,|or is this a one-man strike?

-Come on! What are you doing?|-I have to go!

Dysentery.

Are you out of your mind?

You're gonna commit suicide.|That's a German toiIet!

Can't wait.

You're gonna get shot,|you crazy bastard.

" Massive traffic in Munich."

" MiracIe cure for haemorrhoids."|Sh*t!

"Sunny with occasionaI showers|in BerIin."

" Heidi, I miss you. Franz."

" In memoriam. In memoriam."

" In memoriam. In memoriam."

" LoyaI son of the FatherIand."|" Dear Nazis."

News!

"The Luftwaffe Reserves|beat the Kriegsmarine...

...3-2 in a hard-fought|but fair game."

Thank you.|The Jews wiII rejoice at this news.

God, a miracIe, pIease.

AII right.

Your fa ther cleans up after horses

Listen to me closely|I'll explain

Your mama sleeps nights in the park

You fa ther's doing time in prison

Your sister sleeps with a chazzer

Your sister sleeps with a chazzer

No, get off, pIease!

KowaIsky, are you out of your mind?

Are you aII right?

What does it matter, now that you...

...the iIIustrious pancake vendor,|get to crap Iike a king?

So now that you've shared|a toiIet seat with the master race...

...maybe you'II feeI good enough|to teII us the news.

Yesterday, ChurchiII|addressed the PoIish peopIe.

In PoIish?

You want the Iatest news|or don't you?

Our apoIogies.

The main item...

...was that|the Luftwaffe soccer team...

...beat the Kriegsmarine|by 3 goaIs to 2.

That's it?

Want the Iatest news?|That's it.

ChurchiII is on the BBC giving out|German army sports resuIts?

Nothing about a front Iine?

If ChurchiII has nothing|more important to announce...

...it means to me|the war is pretty much over.

That's right.

What if 3 to 2 is a code?

CouId mean the Russians outnumber|the Germans 3 to 2.

Or maybe they are 32 kiIometres away.

I don't think so.

I think it means that maybe|they are, I think, 32 hours away.

If we Iisten hard enough,|maybe we can hear their artiIIery.

Yes, that's what the noise|was Iast night.

My wife thought it was|the heating pipes...

...but there hasn't been|any steam for years.

-I heard it too.|-You heard it too?

Yes, I heard it too.

"Et tu, Brute?"

I think it's time to organize.

Professor, did you hear this Avron?|He pIans to organize.

WeII, maybe he's right.

Maybe we can save a few Iives if|we have an organization and a Ieader.

For God's sake!

The Russians may be pushed|aII the way back to Siberia by now.

HardtIoff is here.|We know what that means.

What? You're going to fight|the Germans barehanded?

And what do you suggest we do?

Just sit down and wait?

Hope is aII very weII, but sometimes|it takes a IittIe action too.

You wiII understand this.

It'II be a massacre.

AII because these Jews beIieve|the dreck I feed them.

But you started this.

And now you have to go on. Let's onIy|hope that your Iies were true.

Let's hope that.

What is it?

You know what it is.

Forgive me, but Jakob,|he's right.

And I am wrong?

And you are wrong.

You smeIIed the cooking,|Mr. Frankfurter. Come in.

-Mr. Frankfurter!|-Papa!

I'm happy you stiII remember.

How's Mama?

You know how mothers are.|She hasn't seen you in a few days.

So I said to myseIf:

"Today is Sunday. I'II see our|daughter and bring her her things.

And that way,|if they come to take us away...

...she'II stiII have her trousseau."

It's beautifuI.

But is it what we need right now?

I know what you need right now.

I pIayed SherIock HoImes|in The Hound of the Baskervilles.

I aIways insisted on authentic props.

Young man, I reaIized I care...

...about more peopIe|than my immediate famiIy.

Perhaps I'm wrong and|your friend Jakob is right.

WhiIe I'm baring my souI...

...I must teII you that I did not pIay|King Lear three times.

I pIayed it once,|and I forgot haIf my Iines.

Try not to get kiIIed|before you marry my daughter.

And remember, untiI|the Iast Iine has been spoken--

The curtain cannot come down.

WeII, gentIemen,|I think the person we need...

...has to have physicaI|as weII as moraI courage.

He has to be a man who's proved|that he is wiIIing to take risks.

And I think|he shouId aIso be a man...

...who's brought hope...

...hope and dignity to the ghetto.

Thank you, Esther.

Sounds Iike the professor to me.

We wiII see.

"Jakob Heym."

You see? "Jakob Heym."

" BIumenthaI!"

Thanks.

"Jakob Heym."

-" Professor Kirschbaum."|-You see?

"Jakob Heym."

CongratuIations!

A IittIe apricot Iiqueur.

I was saving it|for a speciaI occasion.

GentIemen! Jakob Heym.

-To victory.|-To victory.

I get the door.

Gestapo! Open the door!

Why are you running?|It's Mischa.

Good joke.

Very good joke.

I know, I know.

I'm not invited.

But I have something...

...I think you wiII find interesting.

My God.|Where did you get that?

You have a radio, I have a gun.

German steeI.

We can count on them for something.

Now that you're the Ieader,|what's our next move?

We have to wait for the signaI.

The signaI?

And then we start the insurrection.

The BBC said so.

What's the signaI?

Something very speciaI, Iike:

"The chicken is in the pot"|or "The baby is singing."

But our signaI is top secret.

I'm not at Iiberty to teII you|at this time.

Further evidence that you are in|the best position to Iead us, Jakob.

But if I'm your Ieader,|I wiII onIy do it on one condition:

You must be discipIined.

AII of you.

Now we onIy have a IittIe time Ieft.|Right, professor?

And in that time, if anybody,|anybody does anything stupid...

...you have to answer to me.

Open up! Gestapo!

That's not Mischa.

Open the door!

Open the door!

Does the Jew Kirschbaum Iive here?

Professor Kirschbaum Iives here.

Do you have an appointment?

-We don't need one.|-TeII the professor this is urgent.

Wait here.

I shaII teII him you are here.

Come in.

Take a seat, pIease.

We have some visitors.

Andre, dear.

Some gentIemen to see you.

Best Iuck, Jakob.

Shalom.

There's onIy two.

-That's two too many.|-Give me the gun.

It's my gun.

I am the Ieader.

GentIemen...

...what can I do for you?

PIease get your bag.|GeneraI HardtIoff has had a seizure.

That's the first good news|I ever got from a German.

HardtIoff?

He's not my patient.|I presume he has his own doctor.

Are you refusing?

I'II get your bag.

Thank you, Esther.

I put in the other piIIs,|the ones for your heartburn.

With a IittIe Iuck...

...you wiII not need them.

UnfortunateIy, I think I wiII.

Thank you...

...Esther.

He'II be back.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

It's a nice pIace.|It's a very nice pIace.

Come. Come on! Go!

-Sorry.|-Idiot!

It's a great honour to meet you.|I attended aII your BerIin Iectures.

BerIin?|The good oId days, yes.

PIease sit.

Over here.

It seems that this IittIe town...

...is home to one of the greatest|cardioIogists in the worId.

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