"THE LAST FANTASY |" "TLF HALFCD team Le Pont du Nord |" "Encode: xqtsss" "October or November 1980, already a long time ago " "Babylon, for both of us!" "THE FIRST DAY" "I'll get off here, thanks." "Bye!" "Excuse me, I can't come in." "Could you bring me a croissant, please?" "Actually, make that two croissants." "Thank you." "I'm so sorry." "Is there anything I can do?" "Get lost!" "Is that you, Julien?" "Do you know when he'll be back?" "Do you have his phone number?" "Well, alright." "Sorry to disturb you." "Goodbye." "Thanks." "Thank you." "Dear Mathias, I hope all is well at the Hotel de la Sant?" "See you soon!" "?" "Marie" "You!" "That's enough!" "What抯 going on?" " It's my record." " No, it's mine!" "What record is it?" "They stole it." ""The Police"." "Which one of you did this?" " I did!" " I did!" "Enough!" "No more fighting." "The weakest one gets the prize." "Thanks... but I'm not the weakest." "Bastard!" "He took it!" "And now?" "Alright... could you do me a favour?" "Could you go into that hotel and ask if Julien Lerouge still lives there?" " Here you go." " Oh!" "Thank you." "Hello, Julien?" "Hey, you're not easy to get a hold of." "You recognised my voice?" "Good." "I was worried." "Sure." "Good idea." "I've never been up there." "I'll be there as soon as I can." "Wait for me, Julien." "Oh!" "Alright, see you." "I'm headed this way." "If you抮e going that way, then so am I." "Really?" "Why?" "One, two, three." "What's your name?" " Marie." " Marie, of course." "It had to be Marie." " Why?" " It had to be... don't try to understand." "I'm not trying." "So what's your name?" "My name is Baptiste." "Baptiste?" "That's not your real name." "It is my name, the only one I have." "You're the first person I've met." "The city is vast..." "the streets, the people..." "You need me." "I need only one person at this point..." "and it's not you!" "It certainly is me!" "Much more than you might think." "Why?" "Once, twice, three times." "Fine, once is an accident." "And then twice is chance." "But three times?" "That's fate." "There's no such thing as fate." "When you say that, that's fate too." "I see." "And what if I hadn't said it?" "Same thing!" "It's still fate!" "Your "fate", Baptiste, is just superstition." "It's not like everything's written down in some book." "I know we don't always have a choice." "But if you抮e lost like a leaf in the wind - here, hold my bag " "it's not going to change just because you want it to." "I'm not crazy." "I don't believe in miracles anymore." "Things don't change just because you want them to..." "But I still want to believe that we're not trapped." "And I've decided to fight." "And now, more than yesterday, more than tomorrow, more than the day before yesterday and more than ever." "I said to myself, Marie..." "Heaven helps those who help themselves." "If it wants to, Marie." "If what wants to?" "Don't go thinking that you can just do whatever pops into your head." "It's all mapped out, from A to Z." "But, listen, Baptiste, I'm free." "Look, I can take a step to the left and two to the right - watch out!" "Look, I can raise my arm like this..." "Yes, you've just raised it towards a hidden star." "There!" "Behind that big cloud above us, like a white whale." "It called your hand across space and all the galaxies." "No, not at all." "The star is over there, right in front of us." "Farewell, Baptiste!" "See you soon, Marie!" "That was horrible!" "I was suffocating in that lift." " Feeling better?" " Yes." "They haven't changed you, you know?" "You're beautiful, Marie." "Beautiful." "I'm out of breath." "I ran, it took a long time to get here." "I was waiting for you." "I've been waiting for you for a long time." "I've been waiting for you too." "What a great cliff." "You didn't forget that I like wide-open spaces." "What's the matter, Julien?" "Are you in trouble?" "You could have told me you were getting out this morning." "You moved?" "Where are you living now?" "Here and there..." "I'm not very settled." "Gambling debts?" "No, no, it's not that." "I'll tell you later." "Here, take this." "You can have my hotel room, I've discussed it with them." "Your hotel?" "I couldn't even set foot in there." "What was it like, inside?" "If you really want it, I'll give you the address, but it has to stay our secret." "What do we do now?" "Are you taking me out for oysters?" "No, Marie." "There's something I have to sort out." "In three days, it'll all be over." "I love you, Marie." "We'll meet tomorrow morning, wherever you like." "Who was that person you met a moment ago?" "Someone I care about." "Your fianc?" "Sure, I guess." "So why didn't you stay with him, once you found him?" "Had you lost him?" "I hadn't seen him for a long time." "The place where I was... it was like a boarding school." "I couldn't stand a place like that." "As soon as I feel cooped up, I just have to escape." "I can't help it." "It's hard to escape from that place." "I only stuck it out because of him." "I was in prison." "I got out this morning." "You understand?" "Why did they lock you up?" "Oh, I did something stupid and got caught." "With my record I got sent down for a year." "Not too bad." "We're all being watched." "So how did you manage, inside?" "Same as all the others, I don't want to talk about it." "Inside the only thing that changes is the date." "I thought about Julien all the time." "He used to write to me, he came to see me as soon as he could." "We'd been together for just a week when I was arrested." "Sounds like a great novel!" "It's nothing like a novel, Baptiste." "It's real life." "Real life is a reign of terror." "From now on, my life is Julien." "You see, Baptiste, for years I believed..." "all sorts of things." "Then I had time to think, and ultimately the only thing left..." "is love." "Even though sometimes it hurts like death." "Oh well..." "let's go." "Here, could you hold this and stand in front of me?" "I need to pee." "Love, a great burst of the fantastic, the huge, the extraordinary... with an intensity spinning around sensuality." "The senses... it's beautiful." "No." "It feels like a long-lasting lightning, but... it takes time for the feeling to become real." "What a day!" "I'm tired." "Aren't you?" "No." "Where do you sleep?" "Everywhere." "Nowhere." "It's all the same to me." "When I was in my cell, for months," "I dreamed of a big double bed with white silk sheets." "The King Size Bed at the Tropicana Motel." "What's that?" "A magic bed I've heard about." "I don't know if it's magic, but ever since this morning I can't stand being indoors." "This open air is intoxicating." "It's better that way, Marie." "All the hotels are under surveillance." "Oh yes, I know that!" "Let's go!" "But not the kind you're thinking of." "It's an absolute surveillance." "Every moment, every word you say, every move you make." "You really believe that?" "I know it's true." "I know it!" "THE SECOND DAY" "Thanks a lot!" "Careful with my armour, OK?" "Have you noticed how small people are this morning?" "Look." "Food is really..." "You have to eat." "I'd like some of these little mandarins, please." "Clementines, Madame." " Ah yes, they're clementines." " How much?" " Um... a pound." " A pound it is." "Want some?" "I'm not eating." "I only eat when I can't stand the hunger anymore." "Sure you don't want to eat anything?" "No." "A bit of cheese would do you good." "How much are the shoes, please?" " Excuse me?" "Ten francs." " Nice, aren't they?" " Yeah." "Try them on." "Are they in good condition?" "Great condition." "They're lovely, really." " Can I try them on?" " Of course." "I think they're a bit..." " ...out of date." " As long as they're the right size..." "Too old?" "And you feel good in them..." "Really out of date, yes." " Can I wear those?" " Absolutely." " Well." " They look really good on you." "Don't they look a bit..." "Minnie Mouse?" " Look, we've got a lot of walking to do." " And they're in great condition." "How's it going?" "Where did you sleep?" "Oh, don't worry about me, I'm fine." "And you?" "Where were you?" "Where are you, Julien?" "We have to stick it out, Marie." "Believe me." "After that we'll be together forever." "Why?" "Julien, you have to tell me the truth." "I want to know what you're doing." "Marie, I know it's hard, but you've got to trust me." "It'll be worth it, believe me." "I know you've got things to straighten out but at least tell me what it's about." "Don't worry about it." "I've already told you: in three days' time." "Three days and three nights without knowing." "Do you understand what that means?" "It was supposed to be three days from yesterday." "What about tomorrow?" "In three days." "Lucas!" "Let me go and try my luck." "Here, look after this." "Let's play, pass the card, let's go!" "100 francs on this card?" " Yeah." "Wait a minute..." "This gentleman has won." "There you go." "And you've lost." "Thank you." "Alright, let's have some fun." "Here's the red card, now find it." "Let's go!" "Everyone wins at this game." "Go ahead, place your bets." " This one." " This one, sir?" " You've lost." " Shit." "Thank you." "Shh!" "Don't say anything!" "Baptiste!" "Baptiste!" "I lost it all!" "Of course, that game's a scam." "I have to take a taxi." "Got any money?" "See you later, at Stalingrad." " Don't forget this!" " Oh yeah." "Thanks!" "Why did you take Julien's briefcase?" "Because I saw and I know." "What did you see and what do you know?" "I don't like this." "I've got a bad feeling about it." "It's to make you understand." "So what's in it?" "It抯 just a map of Paris." " So why all the drawings?" " To make you talk." "Here, give me that." "BADLY WOUNDED" ""BLACK SQUADRON" ATTACKED POSTAL WORKERS" "MAURY-LARIBI萊E ABDUCTOR ARRESTED IN TOURS" "PITOUN ABDUCTION:" "KIDNAPPERS KEEP SILENT" "RIOT POLICE SAVED MY LIFE" "MESRINE TRIED TO ABDUCT PHILIPPE BOUVARD" ""PRINCE'S MURDERER IS A HIRED KILLER"" "MESRINE'S DRIVER ARRESTED" "HYVERT ON THE RUN, MAY HAVE KILLED RESTAURANT OWNER" "This girl's pretty." "She looks like an actress." "What kind of letters are those?" "It's Hebrew." "WHY EMPAIN WAS FREED" "LAWYER ABDUCTION:" "RANSOM PAYMENT FAI?" "LYON ABDUCTION:" "BLACKMAILER ARRESTED" "TO BE THE STRONGEST" "I don't understand why some things are underlined in red and others aren't." "I don't know what it means." "WHY EMPAIN WAS FREED" ""It was in everyone's interest that Mr de Broglie be in good health."" ""Alexandre Sanguinetti has died in the Val-de-Gr鈉e following a heart attack."" ""Peyrefitte takes a stand on the Goldman affair."" "I don't understand." "I don't understand what any of this means." "BROGLIE:" "POLICE CLOSE IN ON KILLER" "Again?" "THREE GANGSTERS ESCAPE CUSTODY" "Again?" ""Baron Empain, and his wife Sylvana."" "It's strange the way they all wear their glasses on their hair." "I never got that." "Shouldn't glasses sit on your nose?" "Anyway..." ""Goldman hit by nine bullets."" ""Boulin affair, meeting of the R.P.R."" "MESRINE SHOT DEAD" "HE CHERISHED FRIENDSHIP" ""A former minister murdered in Paris." "The victim's body remained on the pavement for almost an hour." "Two witnesses, a concierge and a Spanish cleaning lady."" ""Eyes closed, Dutronc plunges into the Swiss fog, not knowing what awaits him."" "DASSAULT'S PRIVATE LIFE UNDER SCRUTINY" "BROGLIE:" "HE MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED FOR MONEY" "ON THE TRAIL OF THE BIKER" "AFTER FONTANET'S DEATH:" "EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT BUT NO MOTIVE" "FEARS OVER BERNARD GALLE" ""Weapon found at the home of police officer Simonet... who murdered de Broglie."" "I'm always terribly... 3000 FRANCS "BONUS" TO MURDER DE BROGLIE" "I'm involved too!" "CR蒁IT LYONNAIS BANK, ST OUEN Two criminals wounded, three on the run" " Is that you?" " Yes, Marie Laf閑." "I wonder what I'm doing in here." "Who's that guy?" "Look: "Young Mathias D. and his accomplice Marie Laf閑."" "A young man who got mixed up with me." "Look at our faces!" "We always look like that in the papers." "He's a friend." "My young partner in crime." "We got caught up in it." "I'd just come back from abroad, having spent several years in Germany, Italy... all over Europe really." "Long story." "I don't really want to get into it now." "A very long story... and a long time ago." "You weren't even born yet." "And then, I came across a group of really friendly people, they explained to me that we should take money wherever we found it... and that maybe the real robbers were the banks." "We settled on the bank in St Ouen, but it could have been anywhere." "And well," "I'm the one who got caught with Mathias." "I was... how can I put it?" "Manipulated, maybe." "At any rate, we were the victims because we weren't pros." "Mathias is still in prison." "He's serving three years." "If I can't find money for him to pay his lawyer, who knows, maybe he'll stay there longer..." "He's really nice." "There's no reason why he should be a victim rather than someone else." "I'm almost positive those people were using us." "Obviously." "They've dropped us now anyway, but that's not surprising." "As expected." "Not surprising at all." "We were too inexperienced to pull off that stunt with the bank in St Ouen." "There you have it..." "It's a sad story." "Here, give me back the briefcase." "As you wish, Marie." "Anyway, your friend Julien's got one good quality, he's always early." "No, it's me that's late." "Don't you say goodbye anymore?" "Well... goodbye, Baptiste." "Here." "A present for you." "That's too much!" "You really shouldn't have done that, Marie, you're completely mad." "I told you, Julien." "I needed to know." "So, what did you get out of it?" "I don't think you understand, this isn't a game." "You nearly wrecked everything." "I managed to rescue it, but only just." "You shouldn't have left me in the dark." "Things won't happen any faster if you keep acting like that." "Are all those files yours?" "No, it's a debt." "And is this why we have to wait?" "Are all those newspaper cuttings that important?" "Since we've got this far, I'll tell you." "But on one condition, that you forget everything immediately." "Go on." "The other night, I was gambling with a guy I'd seen once or twice before." "He seems to know a lot about important people, and everything that's going on lately." "He talks a lot and yet manages not to say anything at all." "And then?" "The other night he lost really badly at poker." "Since he didn't have enough money, he had to give me something as a guarantee." "The briefcase?" "Yes, and he wants it back." "What else do you know?" "You've seen what's in it as well as I have." "At first sight, it doesn't seem like much." "But I'm sure it's worth much more than you'd think." "Why aren't you telling me everything?" "That's everything, Marie." "I've got to meet him and I'm late." "I really have to go." "Don't lie to me, Julien." "That's it!" "I promise." "I've really got to go." "What is going on, Julien?" "I'm scared." "Come on then, but don't say I didn't warn you." "I know your name." "Hello." "Hello, Max." "Oh yes, Max... of course." "Of course." "See you tonight." "I know where he's going, I heard the address." "Let's take the m閠ro." "No, I can't, it's like the taxi." "But look, it's up in the air, you can breathe." "THE SILENCE THAT KILLS" "Marie?" "See that person over there in the car?" "No." "I didn't notice..." "Where?" "His face, the way he's pretending to be busy doing something else..." "He can't fool me." "I can't see anything." "Well then, we better get moving, or we're going to be very late." "We'll go that way, it's quicker along the railway line." "Who is that guy, anyway?" "I don't know him, but I recognise him." "I can always pick them out." "No, that guy抯 just meeting someone." "Maybe he's waiting for someone who's late..." "Maybe he's not waiting for anyone..." "Maybe he's waiting for someone to pass by." "Do I have to explain everything to you?" "Seedy and grey?" "He's a Max." "A Max?" "Maximum what?" "Maximum of Max." "A dealer, a sentry... you know, a guard." "We see them all the time." "Are you blind?" "Look, another car stopped just next to his." "Someone else is taking over." "We're being followed, they're cops." "There's no point in running." "They're everywhere." "When they're in plain clothes everyone notices them right away." "The others are the really dangerous ones." "But I can spot them." "What do they do?" "They gather information, they observe, and sometimes they act." "The city is like a spiderweb." "There are so many of them that sometimes they even shoot each other." "There's no smoke without fire, but to imagine that..." "I'm not imagining anything." "These are the facts." "I only believe in facts." "They record, they spy, they watch us all the time, they want to devour us with their eyes." "Shh!" "Lower your voice." "We don't want to draw attention." "Shall I open it?" "Gently." "Hell and Damnation." " I knew it." " What?" "About your friend Julien, of course!" "What do you mean?" "I mean what's happening to us because of him, since you need to have everything spelled out." "I trust Julien." "I don't know what's happening." "It's nothing to do with him." "Love is blind, Marie." "Julien might not be a Max since he's your friend, but he's moving in that direction." "The slightest suspicion and he has to be guilty." "It's all so simple, isn't it?" "The good guys on one side, the bad guys on the other." "The air stinks, evil does the rounds, the Maxes are everywhere." "Their gaze chases anything that moves." "I'm telling you Julien is with them." "When I was little I lived in the country." "The first time I said, "What a beautiful white horse,"" "they all laughed at me." "I don't understand." "Neither did I." "So, they explained to me that there were no white horses, and no black horses." "That horses can be dark grey, pale grey, dark chestnut or light bay." "Horsehair comes in different colours." "You should know that, Baptiste." "In nature, there is no good and no evil." "Nature is in the past." "Today it's all a disaster." "In my opinion, good means... life, and evil means death." "Then hurry up and open your eyes." "The other Max!" "Phew!" "Good riddance." "But why were you keeping that map?" "I want to know what it's good for..." "What was that dead man good for?" "A Max with a bullet in his belly is no good for anything." "Now it's time to sleep." "I'm not sleeping on a bench tonight." "It's too cold." "I don't mind." "There's a movie theatre over there that's open all night." "I spent a couple of nights there once, when I could still stand being indoors." "Look, Marie, heaven is on our side!" "THE GREAT OUTDOORS" "THE THIRD DAY" "THE PRISONER" "It's strange, this spiderweb over Paris." "No, it's not a spiderweb, it's more like a big dragon with its tail curled up around it." "Really?" "To me it looks more like... the Game of the Goose." "What's that?" "You don't know it?" "It's a children's game, a game of chance." "There are good squares and bad squares and traps." "For instance, the Grave is a trap." "The Grave?" "Yes, the Grave... death." "Death?" "But, death is also a new beginning." "You start a new game." "It's a really scary game." "Shall I show how we play it?" "That's where we were yesterday." "That's the Grave." "I hadn't made the connection." "It's square number 58." "Remember?" "59, 60, 61, 62, 63." "There." "That's the end." "The winner." "The end of the dream." "And a treasure maybe." "So what are all those squares?" "They're nothing." "They don't exist because this is the end." "I see, they're there to muddle things up, to confuse the enemy." "So we'll put a line through them." "What about the other traps?" "I'll tell you." "58, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 ...there, 52!" "Prison." "That's where I've come from." "That's where my friend Mathias is, still." "I wish someone else could take his place." "You see, in this game one piece can knock another off a square." "So, then you carry on." "44, 43, 42." "The Labyrinth." "That's very complicated." "And then it goes on and on... 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32," "31- and you land on the Well, which is horrible." "For me it's not the Death square that's the scariest, it's the Well." "I think that's what caused my claustrophobia." "As a little girl, whenever I landed on the Well I thought I was dying." "I think everyone's like that." "The next trap square is the Inn." "I never understood why that was a trap, since inns are nice places really, you might meet a prince charming." "It means you miss two turns." "Complete rest." "The Inn." "Next, from 19, you land... on square number 6, which is the Bridge." " And you drown." " The Bridge?" "That's right." "All these squares are pretty dire." "Then 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,1, start." "There you go." "The start." "Sometimes you also go back to the start when you land on the Grave." "So the Grave isn't so sad, since you go back to the beginning." "It's an old game." "Nowadays if you fell in the grave, that would be the end." "This game is maybe several centuries old." "And..." "Start." "There are squares that don't do anything, so I'll get rid of them." "The Grave, the Labyrinth, the Well, the Bridge," "the Prison, the Inn." "So to win you have to get through all those traps?" "Yes, without getting caught in them." "Since the Grave is there and the Labyrinth is here, we'll go to the Labyrinth." "Excellent idea, it'll warm us up." "Here's your apple." "And, as always, one for the road." "Look, number 42." "Is this your labyrinth?" "They've knocked it down." "Or they're rebuilding it." "Wait here a moment." "Paris is a tiny place for a love as big as ours." "You're trying to confuse me." "Or perhaps you're lost?" "Don't worry about me, I'm always lost." "I'm never lost, I've got my compass." "It will be fine, you can go." "You don't know me, I don't know you." "But I've seen you before." "Do you, by any chance, have something that doesn't belong to you?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "I think you do." "You look like you've often made mistakes in life." "Are you psychic or something?" "I like looking at people." "I'm interested in the people around me." "I can be very discreet." "No, wait." "It's not in my best interest to say this, but I'd like to help you." "You have a friend." "He's screwing up." "Really screwing up." "I can tell you where to find him." "So, on the corner of Rue de Nuit and Rue du Port de Bercy." "Good luck." "Be careful!" "DIRECT FROM PRINTEMPS" "Hello Julien." "It's you." "You weren't expecting me?" "No." "But I did need to see you." "What's happened to you?" "Where did you spend the night?" "Somewhere warm." "We can meet later if you like." "This isn't the time to run away, Marie." "I wasn't expecting to see you here." "Now it's your turn to talk." "And say what?" "That I'm freezing?" "That I'm always waiting for you?" "I never know where you're going, I've had enough." " That's enough!" "I know all that." " What, then?" "If you抳e got something to say to me then say it." "This is no time for games, Marie." "You know a thing or two about games, Julien." "Oh, give it up." "Your childish games have got me walking through a minefield." "The first time I took the briefcase back, I had the money, that was that." "But the guy wanted to check what was in it." "And when he opened it, surprise, surprise!" "It was full of old rags and things, 400,000 francs up in smoke thanks to you." "I sweet-talked him." "I tried to save the situation." "I had until yesterday to give back the real briefcase." "And?" "Did you keep it?" "Did someone steal it from you?" "Of course not." "I took it back." "All the papers were in it." "But it seems they weren't the most important thing." "So what was?" "Something that wasn't there." "Something you took." " Are you accusing me?" " Marie, I'm begging you." "Give me back the map." "It's no use to us now." " We could lose everything." " But I don't have the map!" "Look for yourself!" "Go ahead, search me!" "We don't have a choice." "It's the map or me." "I'm finished!" "Do you get it?" "At the second meeting it was really touch and go." "They sent someone else, and he wasn't exactly the non-violent type." "So what did you do?" "I got rid of him as best I could." "The last meeting is tonight." "Help me, Marie." "I don't have that map." "But I can try to get it back for you." "You'll only get it if we go somewhere else." "If we leave this place." "Baptiste has it." " Who's he?" " Baptiste?" "She's a girl who follows me around like a shadow..." "She thinks she's protecting me." "She'd move mountains." "You've always had a gift for collecting lost cats and stray dogs." "I don't want to know how you'll get a hold of the map." "This is where to go." " I don't understand." " You've tried too hard to understand." "Do what it says." "Take this." "Is it that bad?" "It抯 just so you won't be alone." "But you can still say no." "I said I'll go." "Call me when it's all over." "I'll come and pick you up." "See where we are?" " The Inn?" " Square number 3." "We have to get out of here." "Is that your lighthouse?" "Yes." "The lighthouse behind the two tanks, that must be it." "I have to go alone." "Will you wait for me here?" "I'll go say hello to the girl." ""Power rules the daylight hours, might rules the night."" "Pardon?" ""Power rules the daylight hours, might rules the night."" "Where do I go now?" "Forget all of this." "Aren't you the one I'm supposed to say that to?" "Not to me, nor to anyone else." "It wasn't for you to come here." "What do you mean?" "I'm here because of you!" "You sure it's not because of Julien?" "He always gets someone else to carry his briefcases for him." "Julien and I are none of your business." "What do you all have against Julien?" "For now, you're not my business." "And I'd like it to stay that way." "So?" "Listen." "Marie, you can't help with this." "Forget Julien, forget us, forget Paris." "And go where?" "As far away as you can." "That's what I want to do." "I want to see the ends of the earth!" "But not on my own!" "I wanted to go with Julien and I don't want to lose him!" "Over time we always lose our friends." "That's how it is." "No, that's not how it is." "Not all of them." "It wasn't all bad, what we did in the old days." "In the old days?" "We didn't do anything." "We all got caught, one after the other." "Werner coming out of the Acropolis in Frankfurt," "Heinrich who committed suicide in his cell," "Maria Chiara who blew up with her car on Campo dei Fiori?" " That's it, go on." " That's enough!" "I don't want to go on." "What about you?" "Go on!" "I'm still here." "I'm still alive." "Don't you ever wonder why?" "I haven't seen your file." "But there are lists." "A number of lists." "When they start crossing off names, they go on till they're all gone." "Stories like yours make everyone's life more complicated." "You're supposed to disappear, so disappear!" "Stay calm." "You're going to sleep now, it's all over." "You're saved." "Another little drop?" "Just this once won't hurt." "I don't know if I need you, but I think sometimes you need me." "Who knows?" "Time will tell." "Who are we?" "Where are we going?" "Where do we come from?" "Yes, where do you come from, actually?" "You've never told me." "From somewhere else." "Somewhere else..." "That's a big place." "Somewhere-Else-on-Sea, or Somewhere-Else-on-Marne?" "Just somewhere else." "Somewhere-Else-in-Gooseland." "And what did you do there?" "Nothing." "I got ready." "You got ready for a life of action and... adventure?" "Like the Wise Man of the Mountain?" "It's empty." "Too bad!" "What a pity!" "Let's hit the road." "Hit the road, Jack." "We can't spend all night on this platform!" "None of this exists, Baptiste." "It no longer exists." "None of what?" "The Big Bad Wolf, Mother Goose... the King of the Cats," "the Old Monkey of the Mountain, the whole menagerie!" "You're forgetting the lions and the eyes." "I've had enough of walking." "Somewhere else... that's where I'd like to go, for good." "Before the end..." "the end of the world." "On my little desert island, like everybody, or sleeping in the sun, in silence." "Or in my oasis." "A bunker for me." "What?" "A bunker!" "That's it, I've got it." "The Game of the Goose is for ducks." "What's that bird?" "Remember, at the end of the game, square number 63, that's where the papers are, the files, hidden in the shadows and ready to come out when they're needed." "Understand?" "Files about whom?" "About everyone!" "Big and small, good and bad." "And when the moment comes, I'll tell you what we'll do." "Look!" "Better than shooting at shadows." "Be careful, Marie!" "It might be loaded!" "Marie!" "Marie?" "Holy Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with me." "Blessed am I amongst women." "Marie!" "Blessed am I amongst women." "I'm cuckoo and you're cuckoo so let's take a chance and do a new dance?" "God, I'm so tired!" "Careful." "The whole street, the whole street." "Let抯 just sleep on the ground, it'll be easier." "Everything's locked." "Your motel for the night." "Make yourself at home." " Be my guest." " Careful!" "Thanks." "I would have preferred a limousine... or, better still, the Popemobile." "We'd have a fridge, a telephone, a bottle of vodka, a television, a mohair-cashmere blanket... maybe a bit of caviar." "Let's go to sleep." "THE FOURTH DAY" "Good morning." "Did you sleep well?" "Is this your car?" "Yes." "I'm leaving in two minutes, I thought I'd warn you." "All right." "I don't want to wake up." "I had a strange dream last night, strange and penetrating." "No, I didn't dream." "The spiderwebs were the Prison." "Yes, maybe." "You see," "1is the Grave," "2 is the Labyrinth, 3 the Inn," "4 the Prison." "The Bridge and the Well." "Where should we go?" "If Julien were here, he'd toss a coin." "Which one's your bridge?" "They're everywhere!" "Pick the prettiest." "This isn't a game, Marie." "I'll look at my compass." "Ah!" "Look!" "This way, Marie!" " Look hard." " What is it?" "A dragon." "It's guarding the bridge." "I have to fight it." "Is that what you think?" "I have to, so we can reach the Treasure." "And I've got to make a phone call." "Look after my headphones." "Baptiste!" "The maps!" "I'll look after those as well." "O rabid dragon, you cleft dragon..." "I challenge you!" "Gaze upon me, Guardian of the Bridges..." "I come to you bare handed." "May the Wise Man on the Mountain be with me, may he assist me in this fight." "Hear me... and die!" "What's taking so long?" " I defeated it." " Bravo!" "I'm still waiting." "Look out!" "Another Max!" "Out!" "Hands up!" " Do you know who he is?" " Higher!" "Hands up!" "Hands up!" "There!" "Up, I tell you, higher!" "Higher!" "Legs apart!" "Feet apart!" "Put your hands right up!" "Be quiet!" "Hands up!" "Baptiste, I want to make a phone call." "Move!" "Careful!" "Slowly!" "Move slowly, turn around!" "Turn around!" "Again!" "More!" "Turn around!" "Shut up!" "Stay back!" "Julien, it's me." "I couldn't take the map back last night." "Because I couldn't, Julien!" "Turn around now." "Turn around!" "Turn around!" "Listen, I can't talk for long now." "Come as soon as you can." "I'll return everything to you." "Lie on the ground!" "Legs!" "Don't move!" "I'm by the canal, Quai de l'Oise, at the bend." "Are you coming now?" "I'll wait for you." "That's enough, Baptiste." "One less." "Where's the Well?" "Hand me the map." "You're completely insane." "Why did you say that to me?" "Never mind." "Marie!" "Hey!" "Come over here, I want a word with you." "I'm busy." "Come here anyway." "It's a secret." "I won't eat you." "If that抯 all you've got to say to me..." "Give me that." "Do you care about your friend Marie?" "Touch her and you'll regret it, as sure as my name's Baptiste." "That's not it." "There are people who want to hurt her." "Marie, she's on a hit list." "Me too." "If that抯 all you've got to say, I already know it." "Will you open your ears for once!" "She's been condemned to death!" "You're just trying to get rid of me." "Try and understand!" "She played with fire too much in the past." "They haven't forgotten." "Let me through!" "She needs me!" "She needs you to leave her alone." "She's grown up." "She can fend for herself." "Draw a line... draw a line below the past." "That's it, start again." "Start from scratch." "What is it they say?" "Wipe the slate clean, that's it." "You're going to wipe the slate clean, Marie." "It's a lovely day today..." "I don't know why I'm chilled to the bone." "A promise is a promise." "I loved you, Marie." "What the...?" "Wait, hold on." "You're actually quite good!" "Watch your head though." "That's very good!" "Come on!" "Come on, good!" "Careful." "Go on, come back." "Don't look down." "Good." "Go on, go on." "Go on!" "Mind the dog!" "That's it..." "That's really very good, keep going." "Very good." "Very good." "Breathe, breathe..." "It's a fight, but it's life too, you have to breathe." "Watch the face." "Elbows in." "You can still respect the traditional aspect of the Kata... and take things from boxing." "In other words, your elbows." "That's good!" "Stop a minute, you're messing up." "You've got your hands open like this." "This movement here is to protect your head." "Keep your hand on the inside." "You go from here, like this." "Do you know the first Kata?" "At the end of the first Kata, you're like this." "From here, this hand comes up and around to your ear, see?" "Never forget that a Kata is a fight with imaginary enemies." "You'll never do anything if you don't feel it for real." "When you're here, ready in this position, an enemy comes at you from here with a stick..." "So from here, weapon at your ear, you turn and you attack..." "Also, it's not dance, because you've got a tendency to..." "I mean it was invented with swords, sticks." "No!" "When you do that, you're not blocking anything." "Hand across your face, see?" "That lets you twist and release." "End of the first Kata." "Stand there." "Right, start from there, right leg." " Yes." " Ready?" "It's not just a little shout, instead you really express yourself." "Not bad."