The Boys from Brazil Page #2

I've got it all on tape!

All over. Europe, Canada,

the United States.

Mostly civil servants.

Okay. I'm running it down now.

It'll only take a second.

Take your time.

Old men don't go back to sleep

once they have been awakened.

Welcome, young man.

The stuff on now, it's just a lot of

introducing and glad-handing around.

Mengele's acting

like chairman of the board.

Will you stop asking questions

and just listen, Mr Lieberman?

Sit down, gentlemen, please.

Okay, here it comes.

The task before you is the most...

...Organisation has ever undertaken.

Kohler?

Are you there, Kohler? Kohler!

Your success on this proj...

Kohler?

Clean the room.

Dispose of the body.

I do not want a trace of

this vermin to remain.

Everything is all right.

You will take care of the police.

- Who was the boy calling?

- It does not matter.

- Perhaps you should wait.

- We wait for nothing.

The Fourth Reich is coming, Gunther.

Our men will leave tomorrow as planned.

Kill him.

Is there no way

of checking this further?

All right, thank you.

The Vienna telephone exchange

says there was a call from Paraguay.

The Paraguayans say that

no such call took place.

I have finally found a couple

of things from that boy.

Mundt!

Captain in a Death-Head Regiment.

Farnbach, a Gestapo agent.

Trausteiner!

Assistant Commandant at Dachau!

Cheap bureaucrats and murderers!

And these,...

...who knows?

Ezra! You know you shouldn't.

Esther, after all I've been through,

one puff won't hurt me.

These...

Oh!

Colonel Eduard Seibert.

He's Adjutant to Rausch,

the head of the Comrades Organisation.

He was in command of the extermination

unit on the Eastern Front.

He's a real aristocrat.

What's he doing

in such undistinguished company?

- Then it wasn't a hoax after all?

- No!

Esther,...

...on the telephone,

after that boy was cut off,...

...I felt something.

Something in the silence.

Something alive...

...and...

...hateful.

Maybe I'm getting senile, hm?

You haven't got the time.

...ordinary men...

Beynon!

Oh, Christ!

Mr Beynon, so nice to see you again.

- How are you getting along?

- Can't complain. Who'd listen?

May I take up a moment of your time?

I'm so sorry, I'm late for lunch.

Always such a prodigious appetite!

What?

Eight times last week I called you,

and each time you were at lunch.

Maybe you have a tapeworm?

Now, Sidney, please...

Just a few moments of your time.

Oh, very well. Come on.

You carry this whole damn

concentration-camp thing...

...pinned to your coattails.

Why do you keep knocking yourself out?

Nothing ever pays off.

Frieda Maloney is in jail.

Frieda Maloney!

She was only a guard in a camp.

Who strangled young girls with

their own hair. Bayoneted infants.

Maybe she was a despicable criminal,

but she just isn't news 30 years later.

Sidney, there is a plot by the Comrades

Organisation, which is the illegal army...

Yes, I know what it is.

It plots to kill 94 men

in the next two and a half years.

Jews, I suppose?

I want your European,

Canadian and American bureaux...

...to send you clippings of all

...accidentally.

You pass them to me

and I'll do the rest.

And whose plot is this?

Josef Mengele.

He's the red herring in this little barrel?

What a title for the chief doctor of

Auschwitz, who killed 2 million people!

Experimented on children,

Jewish and non-Jewish,...

...using twins, mostly.

Injecting blue dyes into their eyes

to make them acceptable Aryans.

Ezra!

Amputating limbs and organs

from thousands,...

...operating without anaesthetics,

but with the strength of Wagner...

...providing an obbligato

to the screams of the mutants...

...he was creating!

- Don't lecture me!

Sidney... you owe me something.

Even if only to humour an old man...

...who once brought you

a page-one international story.

You owe me this much, Sidney.

Now I'm collecting.

Have you any idea how many men

in their mid-60s die every day?

I try not to think about it.

Save it for your wife, Herr Dring.

What I've got is too good for her.

I can see that, Herr Dring!

Go on, go on.

Pig!

Good boy. Good boy.

Seibert!

News?

Good news.

Our salesmen are all checked in.

The first quotas have been filled.

Four on the exact dates.

- Two a day early, and one a day late.

- Splendid! Splendid! Come...

We'll have a nice lunch.

Colonel, I will need a full report

on all this for my records.

I've already taken care of that.

Four out of seven on the exact dates.

They are good men.

Well chosen.

General Rausch called me

from the Costa Brava.

Why didn't you tell us about Lieberman?

I did not think it was necessary.

The General is concerned.

But Ezra Lieberman...

no one takes him seriously.

Even the rich Jews

who used to send him money...

...have found better ways

to ease their consciences.

The man's bank has failed.

His followers have fallen away.

He's entirely without credibility.

I just decided it was not important.

If you'll forgive me, Herr Doktor,

it was not your decision to make.

You could have compromised our agents.

And if I had told you about Lieberman,...

...you would have

compromised my project.

How bad would it be if we postponed

for three or four months?

That would reduce the outcome

by 20 per cent.

There are 18 men in the first four months.

It would change the results completely.

Assuming there is an outcome.

There will be exactly the results

I have promised.

General Rausch

wanted to recall these six men.

Impossible!

Until we find out

how much Lieberman knows.

Impossible! This project has a timetable

that must be observed.

- It cannot be changed.

- Herr Doktor...

Colonel, do you fully understand

what it is that I have done?

I...

...the outlaw.

The so-called war criminal.

Right here in this godforsaken place,

I have created a scientific miracle.

I have turned the whole world

into a laboratory.

Our laboratory.

Don't talk to me about six men.

I would send out six more

if they were caught.

And six more, and six more,

until the task was done.

I agree, Herr Doktor.

I agree. Let's hope that we can resolve

this Lieberman business...

...and that you get to put 94 check marks...

...on that beautiful chart of yours.

Come. Walk me to the plane.

You see how...

passionate I am on this subject?

Uh-huh.

One day this place will be a shrine

visited by millions of schoolchildren.

That is a nice thought.

Nice thought.

- Gladbeck, 3.30, Ezra.

- We'll get there. We'll get there.

When do I ever miss a train?

Now, you know what to do

while I'm away?

Go through all those clippings, separate

them by countries, then cities.

Isolate all violent crime.

Ezra, there are more than 100 clippings,

and Beynon says there are more to come.

Well, we have to start somewhere.

Yes, but we can't afford

to hunt for all those men.

That's why I'm going to these cities first -

the closest and the cheapest. It's a start.

Yes, but...

Remember to separate the ones

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