The Trouble with Money Page #6

the money... I want to pay.

I want to pay... I want to pay!

Just a few small details.

Mr Brand, nothing will happen

to you.

The case has been proved and

sentence has been passed...

on embezzlement charges...

as far as the defendant Brand

is concerned...

the fact that the money

was returned...

can be interpreted as

a mitigating circumstance...

declares to be legally certain

that defendants have committed...

the crime they've been

charged with.

I therefore sentence the defendant

Karel Brand...

to one year and

his co-defendant...

Nicolaas Moorman by default

to three years in prison.

But, ladies and gentlemen...

we won't let you go home

like this.

Don't you believe, ladies and

gentlemen, that we know what...

we owe our esteemed audience.

Poor Brand was innocent...

is innocent and will be innocent

till the end of his days.

We only have to find an explanation

for that mysterious cut...

in his bag.

You remember this scene, ladies

and gentlemen, pay attention.

Do you remember this scene

with the boy?

The boy sat on a stool in the bank...

when Mr Mulder went away

for a moment...

and Brand was still at the

cashier's desk, the child was alone...

Then the following thing

happened...

he was hungry,

ladies and gentlemen...

have you ever been hungry?

Then the boy believed that he might

dig up something somewhere.

He is looking...

and then he remembers in a flash

what he saw lying on the table.

He sneaks in that direction.

He does it.

Then he was caught by fear

and he ran off.

Then you saw Brand come back.

When he put the money

in his bag...

he didn't know about the cut.

Later as well, on the canal, he

hadn't the slightest hunch.

And when he was moralizing to his

brother-in-law, his words...

came from an honest soul

and a pure heart.

You must, you understand, you must,

you must, you must, you must!

And that was the moment that fate's

irony began to play its part.

Without one of those involved

noticing.

You are the good soul.

This is higher justice,

ladies and gentlemen.

Belief in the future...

belief in the young generation.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to bring

a Happy End to this film.

Great, boy, hurry up!

But he didn't walk alone...

all his friends walked with him.

From court to freedom...

In reality takes a few years...

a few month, a few weeks...

at least a few days.

In a film... not more than

a few seconds.

Fortunately you are the one

you used to be again...

a man who's satisfied with

his rod and pond.

Who's fishing for bass and

pike and has recovered...

from the misery he had to suffer

as a result of money.

Of money, that doesn't talk and doesn't

straighten what's crooked...

of money, that we honour

and respected.

Which caused him to want

until it taught him...

to despise money as deep

as he can.

Only here is the ruler

of the world.

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