Salt and Fire Page #3

...where they come from.

Are they true?

Is it possible that there

is something all-pervading

around us

which we

are incapable of seeing,

that your data can't analyze...

...which only the prophets

and birds can express?

He has the habit of saying it

at the oddest moments.

"Remember now thy creator

in the days of thy youth,

while the evil days come not,

nor the years draw nigh,

when thou shalt say,

I had no pleasure in them."

Ecclesiastes.

You have done research

at the institute

for developmental biology

in tubingen?

I worked with model organisms,

such as the zebra fish,

fruit flies,

and a form of cress

from the cabbage family.

Interesting.

It has been shown that genes

which influence development

work in a similar way

in different organisms,

be they flies, or people,

or cress.

And you are currently

doing research

at the Max planck

institute of biochemistry

in Munich.

Technically yes.

But here, you are thrown back

into biochemistry.

Sometimes you do step back

in your life.

You don't seem pleased by this.

- Well--

- your life...

...as I have observed it,

seems to be a happy one

for you.

There is someone's future

to care for.

What do you know about my life?

Are you not blessed

with a beautiful daughter?

Eight years old?

I'm... I'm sorry.

What a clumsy fool I am.

I find your treatment

of my colleagues and me clumsy.

Accepted.

But for that,

i shall not apologize.

I've given up part of myself,

but not that.

How are meier and cavani?

If you have harmed

meier or cavani,

you will be tried before

an international tribunal

and you will suffer

severe punishment.

Can we finally talk business?

Mr. krauss,

do I see you walking?

Yes, you do.

Is this a miracle?

No, I only use the wheelchair

when I am tired of life.

This is not the way

we should do it.

I propose we finish it now.

The moment of truth.

Not the entire truth.

If that moment is to ever come,

it will depend

on professor sommerfeld.

And on time.

How much time?

Truth...

...is the only daughter of time.

I somehow feel a threat

out there.

I'm glad I have the distraction

of my data.

There is something strange

and potentially dangerous

about Riley.

I need to keep him talking.

we have a lot of documentation

on the court proceedings

against animals.

Oh yeah, see.

A sow was sentenced to death

for killing and eating

a toddler.

The pig was burnt at the stake.

And here.

The salamander?

Oh yeah,

the salamander was...

...believed to originate

from fire,

being a companion of the devil.

See, here it says,

"this salamander was exorcised

with a bucket of holy water.

Then burned."

I think I was meant

to live a different life.

Look in this silver column.

Wow.

I see, it's anamorphic art.

Yes.

And this is

the descent from the cross.

You see,

this is what your situation

must look like to you,

unclear, contorted.

But if you move

one step further,

everything falls into place.

Everything makes sense.

At least, that's what I think.

It's a question of which angle

you choose to look from.

This sounds like a banality,

like-like...

Like what?

I am open to criticism.

Well, I don't want

to sound insulting,

but it sounds

like a shallow pseudo argument,

like "all africans have rhythm

in their blood."

I bow to you.

May I be more precise about

different angles, perspectives?

Yes.

All my life... I've wanted

to see this in person.

Where is this cloister?

In Rome.

In the convent of

the santissima trinit.

Now, just look

along this corridor.

Completely normal.

A Saint sitting under a tree.

But...

...the nearer one approaches,

the more...

...incomprehensible

the forms become.

Until...

Look at this.

The folds in the Saint's cowl

become this vast

stretched out landscape.

The folds, in fact,

elongated like this,

become the strait of messina,

which the Saint

wanted to cross,

but the boatman

would not take him.

So he threw his coat

onto the water...

...and surfed to sicily.

Just imagine yourself

walking along this cloister.

I have always dreamed of this.

you know, the truth is

I don't really wanna be ceo

of the consortium anymore...

...or anything else,

for that matter.

That's why I live here.

It's a different life.

I'm trying to bring

who I really am into focus.

You see?

I would have offered you

these quarters

for your comfort,

but I couldn't.

Why is that?

Well. A hundred years ago...

...the President of the Republic

died in this bed,

and it has to be kept this way

for all time.

There are so many

ancient things here.

May I be straightforward?

What do you want from me?

I kind of like you.

Me, as a person?

No.

As a woman?

I find you very attractive,

but there is something

beyond that.

I know I act

as if I know everything,

but allow me to ask

about your daughter again.

My apologies.

If you do not wish to speak,

i fully understand.

I only took this assignment

because of my daughter.

In what sense?

I had to divert my thoughts.

I had to be occupied

by something.

I had to have a job

far out in the field.

This makes me curious.

My daughter

has not been with me

for four years now.

Where is she?

She is in Morocco.

- Morocco?

- Yeah.

She's with

her biological father.

But I know that

you've never been married.

Her father took her back

to his country...

...and he refuses to return her.

I have sued ever since,

but the Moroccan legal system

is very slow.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Having children

invites tragedy.

You have children?

Are you afraid of something?

Do I look like it?

No. I apologize.

I used to be afraid

as a little boy.

Children who aren't afraid

scare me.

A little boy who isn't afraid

would cease to be a boy.

Hmm.

I used to be

afraid of the dark,

but my grandmother told me

something that stuck with me

ever since.

She said,

"it's okay to be afraid

of the dark,

but the real tragedy in life...

...is when men

are afraid of the light."

Get your bag.

- Where are we going?

- Get it now.

I demand to know

where we are going.

Get in the car.

No, I'm-I'm not leaving

without my colleagues.

Where are they?

Please do not embarrass me.

Tell me what's happened

to Dr. meier and Dr. cavani.

They are safe.

- And me?

- You are not.

I am your prisoner,

but as such, I would like to--

as much as you are,

i am a prisoner myself...

...of my plans.

There is no way back now.

Where are we?

Only a short distance

from the very place

you traveled ten thousand miles

to see.

Lake diablo blanco.

Although these trains

were abandoned here

a hundred years ago...

...time has

propelled them somewhere,

maybe even into the future.

Is there such a thing

as science fiction

that looks back in time

instead of ahead?

Certainly.

See, these trains,

they never had a purpose.

They had nothing to transport,

nowhere to go.

Aliens must have

left them here.

Sure thing.

Can I take a picture?

Yes, as long as you keep my men

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