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I don't care.

For nine months...

...from the time he wrote this guy

that $2000 check three years ago...

I don't care.

Mike's monthly cash spending...

...ran $1000 over

what it always had.

Lt stopped running over the month

this guy got run over.

Stop it!

He is not a monster.

I'm his daughter.

I know him better than anyone.

- All right.

- That's beautiful.

All right, Mikey, make a wish.

Happy birthday.

- Is it really mine?

- Lt sure is.

Mischka, help teach our grandson

how to run a train.

You people have a lot of experience

running trains.

I can't believe he's 12 already.

Let him come to the trial.

He keeps asking me about it.

No.

His friends talk, he sees it on TV,

he wants to know.

Well, I'll explain it all to him.

He wants to know for himself, Ann.

It's called growing up.

- You should let him go to the trial.

- No. He's too young.

Lt wouldn't hurt to have him there.

Especially after

that woman's testimony.

- Can they go faster?

- Well, I'm not gonna use him.

I'd look at it as letting him do

something that he wants to do.

- I'm not that cynical.

- Oh, yes, you are.

You're a lawyer, like me.

Did you really drink whiskey

with Klaus Barbie?

No. I drank with a lot

of others like him though.

I was an intelligence officer.

I interrogated war prisoners.

What do you think happened

after the war?

The Communists were

Satan's army on earth.

They were our allies.

We weren't prepared to spy on them.

Nazis are the best anti-Communist

spy apparatus in the world.

We needed them. We used them.

If the Communists haven't taken over,

it's because we did a good job.

We were right to use them.

So you really did drink

with those monsters.

None of the men I knew

were monsters.

They were all salt-of-the-earth types.

Like your old man. Yep?

Georgine.

Yeah.

Okay, thanks.

The forensic man says

the ID card is authentic.

I know.

I still have friends in Washington

with money, old-fashioned values.

We're dead, Harry. This case is over.

- That woman spitting on him...

- Courtroom theatrics.

You know all about that.

- I don't know how to fight this.

- I thought you never needed help.

Can you help me?

Do you know anything

about harlequins, my dear?

All rise.

Okay.

- Please be seated.

- All right, sit down.

- Mrs. Talbot, call your first witness.

- We call Vladimir Kostav.

Your Honour, counsel gave this name

two days ago.

No statement.

I don't know why he's called.

- May we approach?

- Yes.

Kostav is a reluctant witness,

just subpoenaed.

We've only known for two days.

- What are they doing?

- They go up there...

...so that we can't hear.

It's a private argument.

He's under federal protection.

How did you find

an ex-KGB CIA consultant?

And, Your Honour, I fail to see

what he has to do with this case.

Lt concerns exhibit number one.

No statement?

That's fair turnaround.

- You can call your witness.

- Thank you.

Mr. Kostav, when did you defect

to the United States?

Two years ago.

- And where did you reside previously?

- Ln Moscow.

And what was your occupation there?

I was a lieutenant colonel,

counterintelligence section, KGB.

While you were with the KGB, were

you familiar with Operation Harlequin?

- Yes, I was.

- What was Operation Harlequin?

Lt was programmed to annihilate the

character of those living in the West...

...enemies of socialist state,

by means of falsified documents.

Here we go.

And how was that put into effect?

Group of scientists were put into

special department in Moscow...

...to scientifically devise ways to forge

documents in such manner that...

...no amount of analysis

would reveal its falsity.

- Did they succeed?

- Oh, yes.

And were such forged documents

used by the KGB against someone?

To my personal knowledge,

they were used against...

...television commentator

in West Germany.

And what was the forged document

used in this case?

Lt was an Einsatz commander

identification card.

- Einsatz commander exterminated...

- I told you.

...the Jews and gypsies.

German courts accepted the card

as authentic.

What happened to that man?

He commit suicide.

Mr. Kostav...

...do you personally know

if the KGB shared...

...this forged document

expertise...

...with security agencies

of other Communist countries?

Yes.

Did you share it

with the Hungarians?

Hungarians showed a great interest

in Harlequin.

Thank you. No further questions.

Your witness.

Your Honour,

in light of the new testimony...

...may we adjourn?

The New York Times called,

60 Minutes wants to talk to you...

...and Georgine called.

- Thanks, Mrs. Cooper.

- You're welcome.

Judge Silver called.

He wants to see you right away.

The government has uncovered

a witness who allegedly served...

...with your client in the gendarmes.

- Another surprise.

- He's in Budapest.

He's terminally ill

and unable to travel.

We will hear his testimony in Budapest.

Lt will all be at government expense.

Your client's expenses

will be covered as well...

...if he decides to come with us.

- I will never go back to Budapest.

- You don't have to go.

- I have to go.

- I can't go.

We get the KGB guy,

he says " Card is fake"...

...they suddenly get a witness.

You will never learn it.

The grease has to be gold.

You learned it when you were 8.

If I go, they'll kill me.

They'll put something in the food,

or maybe I'll have an accident.

- Papa, that's paranoid.

- It's not paranoia.

They do all this, Annie.

Be careful.

I can't win without you, Annie.

I know that.

Don't worry about nothing, okay?

I'll take care of Pop.

Maybe me and the guys will get

together and take him to the bar.

- Jesus, Karchy, he's had a heart attack.

- Well, we'll take him bowling.

- How's that?

- Yeah.

- What are you doing here?

- Hi, Karchy.

Ann, can I speak with you

for a moment?

What?

Take it and read it.

- What is it?

- Read it on the plane.

Tibor Zoldan's sister lives in Budapest.

That's her address.

Ann, wait.

Lt feels like Tibor Zoldan

was blackmailing your father.

Good afternoon. Welcome

to American Airlines Flight 38...

- ...nonstop service to Zurich.

- Hi, how are you?

At this time, we ask that all passengers

board through the Gate 3 doorway.

Thank you.

- Mrs. Ann Talbot?

- Yes.

Have you ever been

to Hungary before?

- No.

- It's a beautiful country. You'd like.

Have nice, big suite at hotel.

We checked, everything in order.

- Do you work for the government?

- No. I told you, Bayar Tourist Agency.

Nobody likes working

for the government. No money.

Tomorrow at 8:
00,

we go to Fo Krhz Hospital.

Do you speak Hungarian?

- Not very well.

- You'll get better.

- Yes?

- Madam Laszlo?

Talbot.

You like marzipans, madam?

Wait just one minute.

Thank you.

- Do you work with the hotel?

- No, madam.

There are some people here too.

We believe your father innocent.

This trial is bad for everybody,

here and there.

- Who are you?

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