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What are you saying to me?

What do you mean?

Why is she talking to me like that?

What's the problem? Why are you angry?

We're sick of hearing about it.

Just because we want to see the world?

I don't want to hear about your voyage

until I read it on a card from Fiji.

Until then, shut the f*** up!

Frederik, stop. He can't help it.

Excuse me?

He says one thing and does another.

Our impulses to act are formed in another

area of the brain,

than the area that regulates

what we say and do.

Even the slightest injury to the frontal

lobes impairs that connection.

There is no neural contact between

words and actions.

Are you calling me brain-damaged?

Henning.

No.

But that's what she's...

She says I'm brain-injured.

No, she says you're an idiot.

And she's rig ht.

Let's have some wine.

F*** yeah.

No more wine for Frederik.

What?

What are you talking about?

Let's do it.

I'll get some wine.

I'm coming along.

It's great to see that Frederik

is well again.

Well? What do you mean?

He's well and that's more important than

your having to move.

But he's not well, far from it.

Before Frederik got ill,

he wasn't like this at all.

Mia, I don't know how to say this...

What?

Maybe Frederik wasn't the perfect man

that you remember him as.

You know?

You don't understand.

I'm just trying to help.

I know, but you don't understand.

Okay, I'm trying to do you a favor.

You don't understand, okay?

We've also heard the defendant's close

friend and chairman, Laust Saxtorph,

who didn't notice any changes

prior to the charge.

Finally, most important of all, we have

the medico-legal council's evaluation.

They conclude that the defendant's mental

state at the time of the crime...

didn't prevent him from being aware of the

consequences of his actions.

So his actions were deliberate.

The huge sum is an aggravating factor as

is the long period of time,

as well as the fact that the defendant has

abused his position as principal.

I therefore see no grounds for a

suspended sentence.

As 12 million kroner were embezzled the

defendant should be sentenced...

to three and a half years in prison.

"The medico-legal council doesn't find

that Frederik Halling was mentally unsound

at the time of the crime.

He was...

fully aware of the consequences of his

actions and as such accountable."

This means that medico-legal council...

disagrees with the conclusion of

the mental examination.

But the mental examination stated...

They say your mental abilities were

reduced at the time of the crime,

but that you were well enough to resist

your selfish impulses.

But this isn't a verdict.

What if they are wrong?

If their evaluation is wrong?

Let's say they made a mistake, then what?

We contact the council, and tell them

they overlooked something.

But that requires that we present new

facts they haven't been privy to.

I've told them everything.

Is there anyone you've worked closely with

in recent years that we could interview?

Someone who can confirm that

your behavior has changed?

No. Well, the three secretaries at

school, but...

But they all work for Laust and the new

management. That won't get us anywhere.

I could go straight to Laust.

No, that won't do.

You don't have to pretend to

understand me.

I do understand you.

Aren't you well enough to know that your

empathy and emotions are limited?

No, I'm trying to understand you.

But your brain prevents you.

But I do understand you.

You have to say that.

I understand you. I understand you.

Acknowledgment of illness, Frederik.

I understand you. I understand you.

You keep repeating yourself.

You're perseverating.

You're not well.

Why aren't you with Bernard?

If I weren't here,

you could be happy together.

Everyone would be happy.

Don't say that.

But...

You'd make a great couple. I can tell.

You'd make a really great couple.

Stop saying that.

I'm just stating a fact.

I understand if you don't want to

have sex with me again.

I understand.

I think you have to leave me.

I'm dragging you down.

I'm dragging you down.

Let's talk about it later.

Talk about it later?

That means you've made up your mind.

You're going to leave me.

I can't...

I can't...

I can't... I can't turn back time

and undo things.

I've said I'm sorry for each...

If I'm ill, I'm ill,

but I can't feel it myself, damn it.

This is a stupid time. We're in the

middle of moving... Sorry.

Now for the defense's closing arguments.

Thank you, Your Honor.

All day we have scrutinized

the life of a man,

whose life was turned upside down

because of a tumor.

Which changed the defendant's personality

and decision-making ability.

I claim that we have proven today that

the defendant's free will,

and ability to act with intent

has been suspended.

The surgeon showed us

there actually was...

a tumor in the defendant's brain.

Both the defendant's wife, his son and

the psychiatrist explained,

how the tumor changed his personality in

a manner he could not control.

The defendant's actions have indeed been

devastating to the school.

But could he have acted any other way

with the tumor's strain on his brain?

Hi.

I was just passing by.

It's nice to see you.

It is?

Our life has changed, too.

We've moved.

We've lost our pensions.

The car...

My furniture... everything.

I trusted Frederik more than anyone

else in the world.

But so did I. We didn't know he was ill.

Then one day he goes to the bank,

and robs the school of 850,000 kroner.

We'd had coffee and cake and had

discussed the future of the school,

and then he marches on down and

robs us of 850,000 kroner.

He must have known it would

mean the end of the school!

What's going on in his head?

He knew very well!

He was a different person, Laust.

The bastard!

He was ill. But the tumor is gone,

and he's slowly getting better.

He's getting better.

He really is.

Mia, we felt sorry for you.

He couldn't stand being with you.

I know.

He said you bored him.

Oh, did he?

Yes.

He said there was no back and forth.

But all that changed, didn't it?

In the years up to his diagnosis,

he liked staying home with me.

After the suicide stuff.

He had to stay home to look after you.

What suicide?

Your suicide attempt in the kitchen.

Don't you remember?

Three years ago in the kitchen.

I didn't attempt suicide. He said that?

Everybody knew.

Everybody thinks I attempted suicide?

There were pills everywhere.

There weren't any pills.

Oh, come on. Mia, for God's sake.

There weren't any pills.

There weren't any pills, Laust!

Can you give us a hand?

Grab the speaker, please. Thanks.

It must be terrible not to be

able to enjoy music.

I'd do anything to get that joy back.

I thought the speaker was broken.

Only sounds came out of it.

No coherent melodies.

No.

Let me take that.

People underestimate hearing.

I don't understand people who spend a

fortune on expensive homes.

Expensive mansions, stuff like that.

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