The Boys from Brazil Page #5

offer them a healthy white baby boy,...

...with New York State adoption papers.

They were to pay me $500.

After their medical certificates had been

cleared, they would receive the babies.

We would meet at a motel

near Kennedy Airport.

That used to be Idlewild.

The babies were delivered to me,...

...usually by stewardesses

with Varig Airlines.

Varig?

Did the babies all come from Brazil?

Is that important to you?

What did they look like?

They were all beautiful little boys...

...with black hair, piercing blue eyes...

If you're looking for a long-lost Jewish

grandson, he was not among them.

How many couples

did you give the babies to?

About 20.

- Only Americans?

- Some were Canadian.

- No Europeans?

- No.

Can you remember a Curry family?

- A Curry, yes.

- Who else?

Wheelock. Henry Wheelock.

They gave me my dog, Schatzie.

Beautiful Doberman.

He was only 10 weeks old when I got him.

Where is Wheelock from?

New Providence, Pennsylvania.

And how long after the Currys

did the Wheelocks get their baby?

It was 14 years ago! I don't remember.

And what has Josef Mengele

to do with all this?

We won't answer that.

It was all a trick, wasn't it!

I know nothing of Mengele!

But you'll link me with him, won't you?

You want your pound of flesh!

Nobody cares!

And you persist and persist!

Now why don't you get off my back?

One more minor question.

- I'll say nothing to you!

- As you wish.

This interview has not

gone to my satisfaction.

I will therefore withhold the other

two depositions we talked about.

You lying Jewish schmuck!

You are not a guard now, madam!

You are a prisoner!

I may leave here empty-handed,...

...but you...

...are not going anywhere.

I think Frau Maloney

could answer one more question.

When is your dog's birthday?

You are an insane old man

after all, aren't you?

Schatzie's birthday?

It was December 11th.

Why Mengele?

David's off to New York for his sister's

wedding, but he'll be back in a week.

Mengele...

...gives babies...

He kills Dring, Harrington, Curry...

They got their babies four weeks apart,...

...and the fathers were killed

four weeks apart.

Wheelock...

Maloney's dog was born December 11th,

ten weeks...

I've already worked it out. February 20th.

That's only four days from now!

Wheelock...

New Providence, Pennsylvania.

How can I call Wheelock and

tell him he's going to be killed...

...by the people who gave him his baby?

By Josef Mengele, who's already killed

the fathers of at least two other boys...

...who happen to be twins!

Who would believe

such a preposterous story?

Herr Doktor, how kind of you to come!

Pleasure to be here.

Can this be little Elsa?

Yes! You remember!

Last time I saw you,...

...you were that high.

You had whooping cough.

No, no.

I'm going to dance

with your beautiful daughter.

Good evening. How are you?

May I present to you my wife Gertrud?

- My love, Doktor Mengele.

- It is such an honour meeting you!

We're here on a little second honeymoon.

You're supposed to be in Kristianstad

getting ready to kill Oscarsson.

Traitor!

No!

He betrayed me!

He betrayed you!

He betrayed the Aryan race!

Get a doctor!

I am a doctor, idiot!

Don't you come near him!

Shut up, you ugly b*tch!

- I thought you knew.

- Hold still, hold still.

Doktor Mengele?

Could I call you away from surgery

for one moment?

If you'll excuse me?

Why was I not told that

that man was called back?

All the men have been recalled.

Recalled?

They should all be back here

by the end of the week.

But why? What has happened?

Lieberman visited Frieda Maloney...

...in prison.

Lieberman again? Will I be plagued

to my dying day by that infernal Jew?

Maloney told him about the adoptions.

Well, that's not catastrophic, Seibert.

She only knows about America.

The work can continue in Europe.

The Organisation does not share

your optimism, Herr Doktor.

But all Lieberman has are a few

paltry shreds of information.

That means that,

according to your figures,...

...we can be sure of one or two successes.

And if my calculations are wrong? And

there's only one chance in 20 or 30?

No, Seibert. The men must go back.

They can't.

The operation has been terminated.

Terminated?

By whose authority?

General Rausch, and the Colonel's.

I told you...

I told you from the beginning, kill him.

Kill him! It would have been so easy!

It has gone beyond Lieberman.

We don't know who else is involved.

You have betrayed me!

You are all a bunch of selfish old men

who have lost your courage!

You only want to bask in the sun

in your old age!

And if your Aryan grandchildren have to

live in a world which is run by Jews...

...and Blacks and Orientals and slobs,

you could not care less!

Your operation has been cancelled.

No!

Your operation has been cancelled.

Mine continues.

Heil Hitler.

This Mengele was sort of a primitive

geneticist in his own way, wasn't he?

I understand that he experimented

on human beings.

Twins.

Then he was nothing more

than a sadist, really.

A sadist with an MD and a PhD.

Well, some people would say

that's a perfect definition of a scientist.

What exactly do you mean when you say

the boys you saw were more than twins?

Not only did they look alike but

they were also very alike in personality.

That is unusual.

Twins who are separated at birth

develop totally different personalities.

But these twins, or perhaps

I should say triplets,...

...because I believe

my associate saw another,...

...were like the same people,...

...but brought up with different languages.

It's impossible, of course.

Excuse me, Doctor,

but what is impossible?

What is impossible, Doctor?

Mononuclear reproduction.

Oh... Doctor...

Cloning.

What if I were to tell you that I could take

a scraping of skin from your finger...

...and create another Ezra Lieberman?

I would tell you not to waste

your time on my finger.

Anyway, that is cloning.

It was first done with plants. A cutting

taken from a plant and transplanted...

...grew to be the exact duplicate

of the donor plant.

Now we are doing the same thing

with laboratory animals.

You mean you can produce

an animal from itself?

We take the unfertilised egg

of an ovulating female...

...and destroy all of its genes

and chromosomes.

We then implant the nucleus

of the donor cell,...

...which could be taken from a blood

sample, or even a skin scraping.

That cell,

with its genetic material intact,...

...eventually becomes an embryo

and is born as a living creature.

Without parents?

Well, it has no father

because the egg was never fertilised.

No mother, because its genetic code

comes from another being.

Can you follow that?

And this creature

is an exact duplicate of itself?

Oh, Doctor, how can that be?

Come along.

Our experiments began with the simplest

of animals:
shrimps and frogs.

Animals in which the female's eggs

are fertilised externally.

Then we moved on to mammals.

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