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...for she was a poor, poor girl.

So he went into her master's house.

Six silver spoons to steal.

Stuck 'em in his pocket.

He double-crossed her, the rat.

After eighteen weeks, the deed

came out into the light of day.

And the master raved and ranted,

and drove poor Sabine away.

Come here.

Come here.

Come here. Come. Come here.

Jacob.

Violin.

Violin.

What are you doing here?

Smells like the plague, it stinks!

It's probably the dogs.

Ain't no dogs here.

Well, they'll be coming soon.

Then I'll probably have to

open the door. Come on, creep.

C*nt!

I'm going to bury

that runt up as deep as he'll go.

Like a Christmas tree.

With icicles and ornaments.

Get that moron off my back!

Please, please, pretty please...

Where do you suppose Eva is?

She'll come back.

Maybe I should ask

my neighbor if he saw anything...

Maybe she left a note.

Or maybe she's

down at the corner bar.

Your piano has a

sluggish action and a dull tone.

Yes, but it's better than no piano at all.

If I didn't have it, who knows

what would've become of me.

Come on up here!

You can't even make enough

to get our things out of hock.

Bastards!

Come on, show us

your garbage dump.

Go on shitface!

Here!

Here's a little crown

for our little queenie.

End of the dumping.

Eva, get up.

Don't be afraid, it's me, Bruno.

Don't worry.

I made you some tea

and brought you some cookies.

Here, take it.

Take it, Eva.

Drink a little, at least.

What happened?

Eva?

Don't ask, Bruno.

Two pounds of grapes and...

...two pounds of tangerines for Eva.

If it ain't our creepy

piano player in creepy person.

Play!

Now turn around a little,

round and round. Now up you go.

Kneel down. Kneel down, I said!

Come on, come on.

Where's my whip?

Kneel, you bastard.

Head down, say your prayers.

Hands out in front, knees up.

Stick those hands out

in the direction of Mecca.

You live down in Turk Town,

don't you?

- Answer me!

- Yes.

- Louder!

- Yes!

Bravo!

Keep your noodle straight.

Yeah, that's right.

Here's number two...

Hey, what do you think

you're doin', you old nut?

So, that about takes care

of the most important item...

You just stay like that now,

you hear me?

I hear you.

- Louder!

- Yes!

Bravo.

Don't let it get you down, Bruno.

It'll be all right.

You can come anytime, even in

the middle of the night if you have to.

Except Tuesdays and Thursdays,

when I have to be at the jail infirmary.

You say your girl's

run away from you again...

...and that you don't

know how to defend yourself.

You spent years of

your life in homes...

...and they don't teach

you that there, I know.

You should get yourself a steady job.

Singing in the courtyards

is probably not the right thing.

Look, Bruno, we'd be a lot

better off in this world of ours...

...if we knew the

answers to all your questions.

I ask myself so many questions,

too, about my own work, because...

...there are so many things

that disturb and bother me.

We simply know so

little about human beings.

Let's go over to the premature ward,

I want to show you something.

You see, Bruno,

we doctors have a lot of problems...

...that we can't solve,

questions we have no answers for.

Look at this baby, born prematurely...

...and how strong its grip reflex is.

And maybe some day...

...this baby will even

become President.

- We ought to call the police.

- What do you think?

Maybe it would be

better if I went to the police?

- No.

- No?

We'll go away from here, Bruno.

I'll stay by you,

I won't run away any more.

Good.

Where is Wisconsin, anyway?

I don't think it's on there.

Here's North America.

Here's Wisconsin,

it's right near Canada.

Bruno's much too old for this.

Look at my head, the way my

elbow's starting to shine through.

But I'm much older than you,

and I'm going over.

Anyway, if you want something,

you're never too old.

You're never too old.

And if we don't like it,

we can always come back.

We could give it a try.

Look, here's Chicago,

and New York, and California.

Everybody makes money there,

and we can, too.

How are we going to

pay for the trip, and the visas?

We don't have that kind of money.

I'll get it, don't you worry about that.

Fucky-f***? Yeah? How much?

- How much you want?

- Fifty.

- Twenty-five.

- Look. Fifty.

- Thirty.

- Fifty.

Too expensive.

- Fifty is cheap.

- No, expensive.

- Take a look.

- Thirty-five.

- Fifty, come on.

- Thirty-five.

What do you say now, Bruno?

I earned all this.

Well, blow me down.

We're going to start all over again.

Right, and it's about time.

Berlin's been getting on my nerves.

I've had some

good news from my nephew.

He says in his letter that you can

work as an auto mechanic in his shop.

Yes.

And you can get a job

as a waitress in a restaurant, Eva.

It's a place like we

have on the autobahn here...

...where all the truck drivers stop.

- Sounds good.

This is my nephew

and his assistant, a red Indian.

And as far as a place

to live goes, he says...

...we can put up a prefabricated

house. There's plenty of room.

Eva, what kind of country is this...

...where they confiscate my Beo.

He knows a sentence in German:

"What's loose? The dog's loose."

He was with the Air Force

in Ramstein, that's when we met.

It's called Railroad Flats, because

of all the trains that come through.

Clayton thinks that there are

not only four but five murderers here.

Because not long ago, a man

drove his tractor out into the fields...

...and that was the last

anybody ever saw of him.

The police couldn't find

any trace of him, either...

...so Clayton went out and bought

a metal detector, because he thinks...

...the man and his tractor may be

at the bottom of one of these lakes.

And now he goes out

every weekend to look for him.

The lakes are frozen over now,

so he can walk on the ice...

...to see if the tractor

really is at the bottom.

Clayton says to

stay away from the fence...

...when those two

farmers are out plowing.

They've been fighting

over that strip of land in between...

...and when one comes out,

the other one does too...

...to make sure that neither one

starts plowing that strip of land.

Sooner or later they're going

to start shooting at each other.

I noticed already

that they both carry guns...

...and they drive right

past each other real close.

There's even a bathtub.

This is pretty marble.

It's just wonderful.

There's no water yet.

Still know how?

No.

Oh for the country life, without

storm or strife, where the billygoat...

...dances with his wife.

All right, we've had enough

dancing. I'm serious now.

We have to get established, don't we?

How do we do that?

- Well, we've made it, Bruno.

- Yeah, we've made it.

Eva...

...do you like it?

Very much.

Greetings, gentlemen.

I've made an important

discovery about animal magnetism.

May I be allowed to take a reading?

I am sorry to have kept you.

I have made an important

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