The Toymaker Page #4

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Whether you live or die

rests solely with me.

So I would act accordingly.

Tell me, what do you want?

I want to ask questions.

If the answers are helpful, then the Lord,

that's me, will giveth.

If the answers are vague then

the Lord will not be so generous.

Understand?

- Yeah.

- Good.

Esther Muller.

What do you know about her?

Herr Blackwood, please.

Esther Muller?

This is no way to begin.

We already know many things.

I simply want to have a nice conversation.

So.

Esther Muller.

(GRUNTING)

Very well.

Allow me to elaborate.

(COUGHING)

I'm not a big believer in violence.

I prefer to use intellectual debate

and political discourse

to solve my problems.

However, apparently you

don't understand these things.

Unfortunately, violence

is the universal language.

So.

Esther Muller?

(GROANING)

(SIGHS)

What is the matter?

Sir, I was looking for the Colonel.

He's busy in the interrogation room!

There has been a disturbance

in the dining area.

What kind of disturbance?

The cutlery drawers are all over the floor.

Are you suggesting there

has been an intruder?

No sir, I think it's most likely to

have been an incident with the cook.

Incident?

Yes, sir, he likes to drink,

and I imagine he has had

one too many to drink last

night before he's gone home,

and made a mess.

Right.

Go down to the dining

area and clean the mess up.

Then contact the cook, and ask him to

report to me first thing in the morning,

disciplinary action may be in order.

Yes, sir.

(GROANING)

Please, Herr Blackwood.

My hands are getting tired.

I do not want to

turn to other methods.

(GROANING)

(COUGHING)

(SIGHS)

(GROANING)

Esther Muller.

Esther Muller.

She came to my shop!

(SOBBING) She came to my shop.

She gave me the book.

She gave me the book.

That is all.

Thank you, Herr Blackwood.

You see, now we are getting somewhere.

This is what I wanted to know.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Hello?

Hello?

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

Tell me about the book.

Do you understand its significance?

No.

I simply, I flipped through

a few pages, that is it.

Don't know anything.

Really.

Don't.

Very well.

I will enlighten you.

To me this book is a gift.

However, in the wrong

hands, it could be a weapon.

A very powerful weapon.

The book was first written many years ago

by a German scholar,

Joseph von Hammersmark.

He spent many years studying ancient texts

and mystical philosophies,

in Egypt and Tibet.

Of course, many of his contemporaries

cast aspersions on his work,

but Himmler and the Fuehrer,

they took a great interest in it.

To them, this book could

be potentially as important

as the Holy Grail.

But why?

Because it holds the key to life.

Eternal life.

As well as many other important things,

such as the gift of life

for inanimate objects.

Does this sound familiar, Herr Blackwood?

No.

It does not.

This simply...

No, no no no.

We were finally getting

somewhere, Herr Blackwood.

You established Esther

had come to your shop.

You had gotten the book

from here, ja?

We were having an honest conversation,

and then you retreat into deception again.

This simply won't do.

You are going to kill me, whatever I say.

Aren't you?

Of course.

It's not a matter of if you will die.

But how.

(METAL CLANKING)

What the hell is going on?

(SNIGGERING)

Little bastard!

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING)

(SPLUTTERING)

Whatever you say next may get

chiseled onto a gravestone, so...

I would suggest something...

Poetic.

Go f*** yourself,

you son of a b*tch.

It's crude,

yet poetic in its own way, I suppose.

Your defiance is an admirable

quality, Herr Blackwood.

And I envy you.

You are about to discover

what science never has.

What exists beyond this world.

(WHIMPERING SOFTLY)

(SCREAMS)

(GROANING)

(GROANING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(LAUGHS)

Go ahead, kill me.

Oh, my children.

Isabel.

Otto.

Robert.

I'm so very, very proud of you.

You have all done so very, very well.

But your father is not going to make it.

But I want you to know

you will

always have each other.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(GASPING)

(LAUGHING)

(DOLLS MAKING NOISE)

Shh!

Be quiet in there.

You're going to get us caught.

Robert, stop pulling her hair.

Don't worry, my children.

As soon as we reach our destination,

Papa will set you free.

Now be good in there.

Here we go.

Now be good, children.

(TRAIN CHUGGING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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