You Disappear Page #8

But they don't spend a dime on speakers.

The focus is on the sense of sight.

They never consider how ugly

their stereo sounds.

Have you considered electrostatics?

That's a tough choice...

Consultant Psychiatrist Herd is Lebech,

explained the well-known symptoms

of this diagnosis,

including impulse control disorder.

So no, the defendant couldn't

have acted any other way,

because the tumor forced

him to act this way.

The question before us is...

Can the defendant's actions be ascribed

to the tumor in his brain and only that?

And does that justify punishing him now?

Now that it's removed?

No. I claim acquittal according to

section 16 of the criminal code...

"Anyone deemed temporarily insane

at the time of the crime

is not to be punished."

I rest my case. Thank you.

I will set down the case for judgment

and deliver it later today.

I expect to deliver judgment in an hour.

Khayatt is awesome.

He sells these old records in

the parking lot.

You help him, right, Dad?

Your dad shouldn't sell junk in the

parking lot.

He's a principal, not one of them.

Relax, will you?

He just wants to help.

When I had my stomach pumped,

what did you tell people?

About Done?

No.

What did you tell people?

I think I said you'd had one too many.

You said I'd swallowed pills.

You said I attempted suicide because

I couldn't live without you.

That's not true.

That's just not true.

Even though that was the case.

That's why I came home.

To look after you.

So that's why you cut down on your work?

That's why you changed?

I don't know that I changed.

So now you didn't change

because of the tumor?

I think we're in for a tough

day in court tomorrow.

Darling, I did it because I love you.

You love me? You're pathetic.

Okay.

So I'm pathetic. Fine, I'm pathetic.

From Greek pathetikos.

Sensitive and passionate.

Just like our relationship in fact.

I'd say.

I'm sensitive and passionate when it

comes to you, darling. I really am.

I am.

I'm having an affair with Bernard.

I can't live with you anymore.

You're having an affair with Bernard?

Yes.

Our... my lawyer?

Yes.

Yes. He's going to divorce Laarke

and put her in an institution.

Don't you think you're imagining things?

Huh?

Mia.

I think you're imagining things.

Bernard isn't like that.

I think you're imagining it.

After the trial I'm going to

move in with Bernard.

I understand if you feel a

need to punish me somehow.

But this, Mia...

Why do you have to say that crap?

Dad.

Dad.

Niklas.

Frederik.

Frederik.

Niklas.

Niklas.

Do you think he went to Khayatfs?

Why didn't you just jump in

front of a train back then?

So I didn't have to find you

with the tequila and the pills!

There weren't any pills, Niklas.

Stop that!

Niklas.

I can't talk now.

I need to talk to you.

Not now. I have an important call.

Bernard.

Did you tell Frederik we were

having an affair?

He told you?

It would be very unprofessional of me.

Would I sleep with my client's wife?

What the hell were you thinking?

I'm sorry. It just burst out.

Don't go saying that about me.

Sorry, but I have to make this call.

We'll meet again, won't we?

Yes, tomorrow in court.

But what about afterwards?

Whatever you're thinking,

my answer is no.

There's never been anything between us,

and there never will be.

Excuse me, but I have to make a call now.

People ask me how well

I know my husband.

But what makes us who we are?

Help!

Are we shaped by the judgmental

eyes of others?

Or are only we responsible for the

person we become?

Are we just a patchwork of misconstrued

experiences and washed-out memories?

Just pee here, honey.

No, I want a proper toilet.

Dad?

Dad?

Frederik.

Or is everything predetermined?

Is our destiny in our DNA?

In the chemistry of our brain?

In the Saws of nature?

Does the chemical state of our brain

determine who we are at any given time?

And only that?

The Court finds:

Frederik Halling is sentenced to three

years and three months in prison.

The verdict is unanimous.

Please be seated.

The Court finds, in accordance with the

defendant's admission,

supported by the other evidence,

the defendant guilty of

embezzlement as charged.

Notably the evaluation of the

medico-legal council as well as the

evidence given doesn't prove to the court

that the defendant committed the crime

under the influence of

orbitofrontal syndrome.

Therefore, the Court finds that the

defendant was not temporarily insane

at the time of the crime and so

the defendant is found guilty.

In consideration of the embezzled

sum the sentence is determined

to three years and three months in prison.

The defendant is also liable to pay

the claimed.

We accept the verdict.

Duly noted.

The Court is adjourned.

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