Watch On The Rhine Page #11

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I have long sickened the words

when I see the man who live by them.

I've stopped a man's life.

I sit here and listen to him.

I want only for you to believe

that I pray it will not have to be...

...and then I know

I will have to kill him.

I know if I do not,

it is only that I pamper myself...

...risk the lives of others

as well as my own.

So I want you from the room.

I know what I must do.

All right.

Do I now pretend sorrow?

Do I now pretend

it is not I who acts thus? No.

I do it. I have done it before.

And I will do it again.

And I will always keep my hope...

...that we may make a world

in which all man can die in bed.

I have great hate for the violent.

They are the sick of the world.

Maybe I am sick now too.

Oh, stop it, Kurt. That isn't true.

It's late. You have to go soon.

Yes.

Now I am going to take your car.

I will take him with me.

After that, it is up to you.

Two ways:
You can let me go

and keep silent.

I believe I can hide him in the car.

At the end of two days,

if they have not been found...

...you call your police, tell them as much

of the truth it is safe for you to say.

I will have left the country,

there'll be no doubt who did the killing.

If you will give me those two days...

...I believe I will be far

enough away from here.

And if the car is found before then,

I will still try to move with speed.

I do not think for the world

you will be in bad trouble.

Inside yourselves...

...that is for you to decide.

You may take the other way.

I'm going to say goodbye

to my children now.

That will give you time to call the police.

I will still leave,

but I will not get home.

Papa wrote it years ago.

Papa said the only men on Earth

worth their time on Earth...

...were the men

who would fight for other men.

Papa said...

...we have struggled through

from darkness.

But man moves forward with each day...

...and each hour to a better, freer life.

That desire to go forward...

...that willingness to fight for it...

...cannot be put in a man.

But when it is there...

Please let him go back.

Of course, darling.

He'll have his two days.

We'll take care of things here.

It's a fine thing

to have you for a daughter, Sara.

I would like to have been like you.

We have said many goodbyes

to each other, huh?

Well, we will now

have to say another one.

But this time,

I will leave you with good people...

...to whom you, I believe,

also will be good.

Would you allow me to give away

my share in you until I get back?

- Lf you would like it.

- Good.

Then, to Mama, her share.

My share to Fanny and David.

It is all and it is the most I have to give.

There.

I've made a will.

But now we will not joke.

I have something to say

and it is important to me to say it.

You are talking to us

as if we were children.

Am I, Babbie?

I wish you were children.

I wish I could say to you, love your mother,

do not eat too many sweets...

...clean your teeth.

I cannot say these things to you.

You are not children.

I took your childhood all away from you.

We have had a most enjoyable life, Papa.

You are a gallant little liar.

And I thank you for it.

I have done something bad tonight.

- You could not do a bad thing.

BABETTE:
You could not.

Now, let us get straight together.

The four of us.

Do you remember

when we read Les Miserables?

You remember

that we talked about it afterwards...

...and Bodo got candy on Mama's bed?

I remember.

Well...

...the man in the book stole bread.

"The world is out of shape,"

he said, "when there are hungry men."

And until it gets in shape,

men will steal and lie...

...and kill.

But for whatever reason it's done,

and whoever does it...

...you understand it, it is all bad.

I want you to remember that.

Whoever does it, it's bad.

But you will live to see the day

when it will not have to be.

All over the world,

in every place, every town...

...there are men who are going

to make sure it will not have to be.

They want what I want.

A childhood for every child.

For my children, and I for theirs.

Think of that.

It will make you happy.

In every town, every village,

every mud hut in the world...

...there is always a man

who loves children...

...and who will fight

to make a good world for them.

Goodbye now.

Wait for me.

I shall try to come back for you.

Or you shall come to me.

The boat will come in

and it will be a fine and a safe land.

And I will be waiting

on the dock for you.

And there will be the three

of you and Mama, Fanny and David.

And I will have ordered

an extra big dinner...

...and we will show them

what our country can be like.

Of course, Papa.

That is the way it will be.

Of course.

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

Do it well.

- Good night, baby.

- Good night, Papa.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

- Good night, son.

- Good night, Papa.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

You go with our blessing.

We will take care of things here.

David and I would like to give you

this money to use for your friends.

A thank you is too small. L...

Goodbye.

Good luck.

Men who wish to live

have the best chance to live.

I wish to live.

I wish to live with you.

Seventeen years.

It is as much for me today.

I have loved just once, and for all my life.

Come back for me, darling.

If you can.

I will try.

Goodbye to you all.

JoSHUA:

Bodo cries. Babette looks very queer.

I think you should come, Mama.

Bodo talks so fancy.

We forget sometimes he is a baby.

[ENGINE REVS]

Well...

...we've been shaken out

of the magnolias.

Yes. So we have.

Yes.

Well, tomorrow will be a hard day.

But we'll have Babbie's birthday dinner

and we'll have music afterwards.

I think you'd better go up to Marthe now.

In the end, she will have to know.

Be as careful as you can.

Well, I think I'll go up and talk to Anise.

I like Anise best when I don't feel well.

Mama?

We're going to be in for trouble.

- You understand that?

- I understand it very well.

We will manage.

I'm not put together with flour paste.

And neither are you, I'm happy to learn.

Maybe we'll get a letter soon.

You can't tell.

After all, it isn't so easy to send word.

There have been long times before.

Don't you think so, Joshua?

Don't you think, maybe?

Maybe.

But you can't find Papa on a map.

JoSHUA:

No?

Are you using the map for your lessons?

No.

What do you mean, no?

What are you doing with that map?

Answer me, Joshua.

L... I was thinking

about ways to get home.

What are you talking about?

In five months, I will have a birthday.

If by then we have not yet had word

from Papa, I shall be going, Mama.

You have known it and I have known it.

But we have not wanted to speak of it.

What kind of talk is that?

You will not go.

You're only a child. I will not let you.

Do you hear me, Joshua?

I will not let you.

I do not believe that.

I believe that you will let me go.

I believe that when my time will come,

you will want me to go.

I believe too, and I'll say it now...

...that you will tell Bodo

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