Watch On The Rhine Page #8

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He has for seven years.

We're carrying with us $23,000 dollars.

It's been collected here and in Mexico...

...from the pennies and nickels

of poor people who don't like fascism...

...and who believe in the work we do.

It was to be picked up and taken back

by the first men going.

Max and Kurt.

They loved each other.

They were in the war together.

And they were in Spain together.

Once in Spain,

Max made a medal from a ring.

"I make you a medal

because you're a fine soldier," he said.

And once, six months ago...

...Max rescued Kurt from the Gestapo

on a train and Kurt was badly hurt.

Max carried him on his back

for seven miles across the border.

But they caught him in the end.

If Max was caught...

...nobody's got much

of a chance anymore.

Nobody.

But wasn't it careless

to have $23,000 lying around to be seen?

No, it wasn't careless.

We've carried money that way for years.

There didn't seem to be any safer place

than my house.

It was careless of you and David

to have a man like that in this house.

- Yes. It was very careless.

- But how could we know?

The world has changed, Mama.

And some of the people in it

are dangerous.

It's time you knew that.

It is true.

But he is not dead.

Hans and Ernst were taken with him.

Max is not an easy man to kill.

But most of his face and one arm...

It is not nice when it comes.

Well, Sara...

- No.

- It must be yes.

But Max knows you're not well enough.

He sent you here.

But now I am more well than he is.

When?

I think tonight, Sara, darling.

But I do not know.

It will depend on

the Count de Brancovis.

What will depend upon the count?

Did he steal the money?

He's not a man who steals.

It will come another way.

But why are you afraid of him?

You're in this country now.

There's nothing he can do.

We will see.

We will wait and we will see.

Kurt's not going to be in this country.

He's going back to get them out.

Is that right, Kurt?

Is that right?

Yes, darling. I must try.

They were taken to Sonnenberg

and guards can be bribed there.

It has been done once before

at Sonnenberg.

I will try for it that way.

Of course you must go back.

I guess I was trying to think

it wouldn't come.

Kurt's got to go back.

He's got to go home.

It's hard enough to get back...

...but if they knew he was coming...

They want Kurt bad.

All right, Kurt.

You'll do it. You'll get them out.

Kurt will do it. You'll see.

Don't be afraid, darling. You'll get back.

You'll get Max out all right.

And then you'll do his work, won't you?

And you'll do a good job.

The way you've always done.

Don't be afraid, darling.

You'll get home.

Yes, you will. You'll get home.

[SARA CRYING]

What is it, Mama?

You will be told later.

Don't worry now.

Will you go in to dinner, please?

We'll come in a minute.

Marthe...

...much has been going wrong.

With us and between us.

But suppose... Suppose we could go back

to Europe again.

And with a little money.

Do you think we might pick up again

what we've lost?

What we've lost?

I don't think there was ever

very much to lose.

And I left nothing in Europe

that I'd want to go back to.

You have other plans?

If so, you're wasting your time.

I will tell you what to do.

We are leaving the Farrelly house.

You and I. You understand?

Anything going wrong back there?

- Drop me at the German Embassy.

- Like a hot potato, boss.

Now, go on to dinner.

I'll pick you up later.

Well, how did you manage

in the game the other night?

Count de Brancovis,

in this room I work.

That is commendable.

Your people caught Max Freidank.

Are there any others close

to Freidank perhaps that you want?

BLECHER:

We want them all.

If I should know where one or more

of such men could be found...

...what would that information

be worth to your government?

It would depend on who they were

or where they were.

In the United States,

they would be worth very little.

- Nothing.

- Nothing at all?

What are we to do here?

Have them assassinated in an alley?

Kidnap them?

Follow them for months, hoping we'll know

when they go back to Germany?

Here are the lists.

With such men as these, that is not easy.

But show us where we can put our hands

on one of them in the fatherland...

...or in any of the countries where we have

influence, that is another matter.

You could name your own price,

in reason.

We might also manage a visa for you.

I'm sure you are homesick

for shabby palaces and gaudy cafs...

...and the rest of the decaying things

that represent Europe to you.

Blecher, we do not like each other.

But that will not stand in the way

of our doing business.

Would you stop that pacing about?

Please.

And tomorrow,

because it's Babbie's birthday...

...I shall go and buy presents

for everybody.

We always do that here.

It started because I didn't like not getting

presents on other people's birthdays.

And we'll have music in the evening.

Yes. Yes, we'll have a fine time.

- You think you fool us.

- What?

Something has gone wrong.

Always Mama and Papa look like that

when it happens so.

You must not be nervous

for our sake, Grandma.

We will do whatever it is

Mama and Papa will ask of us.

Yes, you... You always have.

Now, would you go upstairs?

Later I will come and say good night.

- Good night.

- Good night.

You're going away again,

aren't you, Papa?

Yes.

You must let me come along.

I will help in... In small ways.

I will learn. You will teach me.

I am not as yet a man...

...and it would not be of such importance

if anything happened to me.

I will give you some rules now.

Please remember them, Joshua.

And never to disobey them.

Our forces are small.

Therefore, we must risk no more men

in any enterprise...

...than it is needed to carry it out.

Always in our work,

a man will wish to go with you.

That is wrong.

We are not here

to show that we are brave...

...and not to be modest, either, and say:

"I am not important.

Let me take the risk."

He takes the risk who is entitled to it.

Soon you will be a man.

Never have I doubted that for you.

Also...

...this will be what a man

should most do.

I'm right?

Of course, Papa.

You are young.

You are smart. You are strong.

You are a fine investment for our work...

...when the time comes.

In the meantime, I give you orders.

You think...

...you've trained yourself

in mind and body.

Your day is not so distant.

If it should come

and I have not as yet returned...

It is not wise, perhaps,

to speak so far in the future...

...but the world goes bad...

...and who knows

how long that will last.

Therefore, with delicacy and care,

I wish you also to prepare Bodo...

...when his time too shall come.

God help us.

Go upstairs now.

Say nothing to the others.

I will come later.

FANNY:
Does Kurt intend

to bribe his friends out of prison?

- Is that what he said?

- Yes.

FANNY:

It's all very strange to me.

I thought things were so well run that...

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