Munich Page #9

I can have you

court-martialed, and I might.

You can't.

I don't work for you.

I don't exist.

You look terrible.

I'm not good right now.

You don't need to tell me

anything. It's taken a lot from you.

I'm alive, right? And

the rest sorts itself out.

I'm not a fool, Avner. I

never said you were a fool.

Everyone in Europe died.

Most of my family.

A huge family.

I never talked

to you about it.

I knew. You knew? So

what was there to say?

I didn't die,

because I came here.

When I arrived, I walked up to

the top of a hill in Jerusalem...

and prayed for a child.

I never prayed before,

but I was praying then.

And I could feel every

one of them praying with me.

You are what we prayed for.

What you did,

you did for us.

You did for your daughter,

but also for us.

Every one of the ones

who died, died wanting this.

We had to take it, because no

one will ever give it to us.

A place to be a Jew among

Jews, subject to no one.

I thank God for hearing

my prayer.

Do you want to know, Mama?

Do you want me to tell you

what I did?

No.

Whatever it took,

whatever it takes.

A place on Earth.

We have a place on Earth.

At last.

What's this?

Baklava.

From Rehovot? The only edible

baklava is from the Arabs in Jaffa.

Eat it on the plane.

You're too thin.

I hope it gives you

a bellyache.

Listen, forget it.

You go see your wife, your

child, rest for a few more months.

Then we're gonna put you

back in the field.

Not Europe.

Probably Latin America.

You think it over. Rest,

Avner. Then you come back.

No.

That's all right.

Oh, no, no, no.

It's okay. It's okay.

Look at that beautiful hair.

Nightmares?

Yes.

Come back to bed.

I have no idea

where I should be.

The place is nice.

You've made it really nice.

The kitchen's too big.

Sylvie, I need to speak

to your father.

Is Louis there?

I need to speak to your

father. Have him call me.

I'll wait. He must call me.

I'll wait.

Am I being hunted?

Is my family being hunted?

How is your father? He's

well? Your family is well?

I don't know. How is my

family? Are they well?

Are they going to be okay?

I'm sending you a parcel

of sausage and cheese.

Real cheese. The kind

you can't find in America.

It isn't pasteurized,

so it won't taste like sh*t.

It's a real pleasure

to hear your voice again.

I think about you

with concern.

Do you believe me?

Avner?

You believe me, Avner?

You know my name?

Of course I do.

Now, listen to me.

It's important.

No harm will come to you

from me.

You can't go in there, sir.

It's a restricted area. Sir?

I tried to stop him.

I don't know who this guy is.

Security!

If you're Mossad,

you know who I am.

If you don't, tell Ephraim

Avner came to see him.

Being in this room

is by appointment only.

Shut up and listen to me.

I won't hesitate to kill

other people's children...

if you hurt my child.

Understand? Do I know you, sir?

Or wives if you hurt my wife,

or fathers if you hurt my father.

I don't care.

I'll go to the newspapers.

I'll give every name of

everybody who was in the meetings.

I'll tell them everything if you

don't leave my family alone! Okay?

I love you.

Avner.

Phone for you.

He's Israeli.

You think we'd hurt

your family?

I think anyone is capable

of anything.

I think you're losing

your mind.

Did I commit murder?

I want you to give me proof

that everyone we killed...

had a hand in Munich.

I don't discuss such things

with people who don't exist.

You want to discuss,

come back to existence.

You want your daughter

to grow up in exile?

I want evidence.

Professor Hamshari with the

beautiful wife and child?

He was implicated in a failed

assassination attempt on Ben-Gurion.

He was recruiting

for Fatah France.

You stopped him.

We should have tried

to bring him to Israel.

And Zwaiter, your harmless

little writer in Rome?

He was behind the bomb

on El Al flight 76 in 1968.

He was working on

another bomb last August.

I could go on

and on with this.

According to evidence

nobody has seen.

If these people committed crimes,

we should have arrested them.

Like Eichmann.

If these guys live,

Israelis die.

Whatever doubts you have,

Avner, you know this is true.

You did well,

but you're unhappy.

I killed seven men.

Not Salameh.

We'll get him, of course.

You think you were

the only team?

It's a big operation.

You were only a part.

Does that assuage your guilt?

Did we accomplish

anything at all?

Every man we killed

has been replaced by worse.

Why cut my fingernails?

They'll grow back.

Did we kill to replace

the terrorist leadership...

or the Palestinian leadership?

You tell me what we've done.

You killed them

for the sake of a country...

you now choose to abandon.

The country your mother and father

built, that you were born into.

You killed them for Munich,

for the future, for peace.

There's no peace at the end of

this, no matter what you believe.

You know this is true.

Here's what I know.

Your father is sick,

your mother will be alone.

You're a sabra. Your wife

and daughter are sabras.

What I came to say

is this...

come home.

Come to my house

for dinner tonight.

Come on. You're a

Jew, you're a stranger.

It's written someplace

or other that I'm meant to...

ask you to come

and break bread with me.

So break bread with me,

Ephraim.

No.

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