"Schlunz!" "* Recently, something is going on. *" "* We're having lots of fun. *" "* Since Schlunz moved in with us. *" "* It'll never be the same as before. *" "* We hope he stays with us for a long time. *" "* We hope he stays with us, Schlunz. *" "* He stays with us. *" "* He's funny and clever, Schlunz. *" "* And even more a friend and helper. *" "* That's why we do everything we can * * so that our friend can stay here. *" "* We hope he stays with us a long time. *" "* We hope he stays with us, Schlunz. *" "* He stays with us. *" "* Schlunz. *" "He was anxious and scared when we found him in the woods." "He'd lost his memory." "All he knew was that he was called "Schlunz"." "The police said that he could stay with us until they found his parents." "But Rosenbaum wants to put him in the orphanage." "Turbulent times, I tell you." ""Schlunz" " The Series" From an idea of Harry Voss" "Direction  Script" " Rainer Hackstock" "Episode 4:" "LUKAS RUNS OFF" " Stop it." "This is my puzzle." " Stop it." "This is my puzzle." " Have you seen the cordless screwdriver?" " No." "Please get changed." "We'll be having supper soon." "I have to go back over to the Claassens'." "I left the lawn tractor half disassembled." "The lawn tractor?" "Really?" "Can we have a ride?" "No you may not." "Nele is right." "Firstly, it does not belong to us, secondly the accelerator is jammed." "And the brake shoes are not yet mounted." "Could we just sit on it for a bit?" "We'll leave the accelerator jammed." "And we'll also leave the brake pads alone." "Please!" "Well, fair enough." "I just need to find the cordless screwdriver." "We'll go on ahead." "Wow, cool." "Schlunz, don't do that." "What could happen?" "That part is jacked up, anyway." "Get down." "Dad could come any minute." "Don't be a spoilsport." "How do you start it?" "Schlunz, please!" "Ah, a key!" "Like a car." "Don't, Schlunz!" "Let's go..." "Turn it off, Schlunz!" "Just a moment, let me get to the finish line." "Left turn..." "And the finish line." "Schlunz!" "Schlunz, stop!" "Brake!" "No problem." "Will do." "Goodbye." "Schlunz, stop!" "Stop!" "Brake!" "It doesn't work!" "No..." "Stop!" "Schlunz, pull out the ignition key!" "No." "Schlunz..." "Hello!" "This will have consequences." "I know you." "You are Schlunz ." "And I know Mrs. Rosenbaum." "It's clear to me that the boy would be best put in the orphanage." "But, I acknowledge your arguments." "And I will not be like that." " One last chance?" " Last one." " Really the very last." " Thank you, Mrs. Rosenbaum." "My coins." "This is from the Middle Ages." " And the picture is Henry..." " The First." "Unmistakable." "And this beauty..." "No, don't tell me... is a Celtic, no, a Gaelic coin." "Copper." "Not bad, I didn't know that..." "Well, I used to have more, more time and more coins..." "But once you start collecting properly, you can't easily let go." "I'm just the same." "And you get attached to every single coin." " I have many duplicates, also." " Me, too." " Then maybe we could..." " Yes..." "Please come over sometime with your coins, and we can swap." "Gladly." "Numismatists among themselves..." " Did Dad just ally with Rosenbaum?" " No." "It's just a ploy to divert attention from your pranks." "Nice of him." "Nele, have some fruit." "Nah, maybe later." "By the way, Mrs. Rosenbaum will be visiting this afternoon." "Because of me?" "Don't worry, to exchange coins and get the lawnmower issue out of the way." "That's the only reason?" "Oh well." "Exchanging coins is fun." "A little bit, at least." "It reminds me of my youth." "I knew it." "Especially with like-minded people." "With one like-minded person." "Now, what's this about?" "The point is that Mrs. Rosenbaum calms down." "And that she sees how we live with Schlunz." "And she might have nice coins that remind you how you were once young and pretty." "Whatever." "Because of the coin-thing," "Schlunz was very lucky." "The Schlunz and maybe you as well." "Today, I have another nice story for you." "This time it's about a man, who wanted nothing more to do with his father." "A man had two sons." "One day one came to him and said:" ""Father, give me my share of the inheritance I will get one day."" "So the father divided his property." "The son cashed his share and went abroad." "He lived the high life and spent everything pretty fast." "Then there was a famine." "And he even had to work herding pigs in order not to starve." "Then the son thought:" "The laborers of my father get enough to eat." "And he decided to return to become at least a laborer for his father." "As a son, he dared not even come home." "But when he came up to the farm of his father, the father ran to meet him, and embraced him." "The son was very embarrassed and he said:" ""I am guilty before God and before you." "I am no longer worthy to be your son."" "And what did the father do?" "He ordered his servants to bring the best clothes and to prepare a feast." ""My son was dead," said the father." ""Now he's alive again."" ""He was lost, but now he is found again."" "And they began to celebrate." "This is a beautiful story." "Yes, I think so, too." "And why do you like the story?" "Because the son came home and the father was still there." "Of course the father is still there." "Where else would he be?" "Well, it could be that the son came home many years later." "And then his father would be long dead, the house demolished, and the son had to wander through the world the rest of his life." "Without a father." "That will never happen." "God will never die." "Why God?" "I meant the father." "Yes, God the Father." "God is a Father?" "Look, the story is a parable." "An example story to show us that God, as a good father, is always with us and we can always turn to him." "Turn to?" "Where is God, anyway?" "Where should we turn to?" "Well, here with us." "With you also." "That is super handy." "Then I don't have to turn back." "I'm already with God." "You turn to God when you engage yourself with him." "Talking to him, listening to him and stop constantly interrupting my stories." "I don't interrupt at all." "I only want to know everything." "Is there something wrong with that?" "No, kiddo." "No, it is quite wonderful that way." "Well, that's what I said." " There's something there." " Where?" "Right on your face." "Let her in, please!" "If that's what he wants." "Hello!" "So this is the new, sensible Schlunz of whom your parents spoke so highly?" " Are these your coins?" " Yes, because I'm off duty." "What luck!" "Today I'm visiting your father." "And I'm not your nutritionist." "Mr. Schmidtsteiner." "Do come in." "I have everything prepared." "For the first century B.C., it is in an enviable condition." "I would love to have it." "Have you seen something here?" "From the Prussians, from Frederick the Great," "I have nearly nothing." "Let's go play soccer now." "Let's wait a bit." "Till Rosenbaum is gone." "Better safe than sorry." "Because of me." "You're right." "All because of you." "I have to say, this was really very nice." "And the boys indeed behaved and were suspiciously quiet." "Yes, I think that Schlunz's wild time is about over." "He understands that his pranks don't do any good." "Mr. Schmidtsteiner, I do believe, but not in miracles." "We've all pulled a few pranks in our youth, didn't you?" "No, never." "Well, almost never." "And then only in very exceptional cases." "But that's the past." "You see!" "Well, let's hope that Schlunz's pranks are also in the past." "What's the matter?" "Do you still hear them?" "No." " Come on, let's go." " Yes, wait a minute." " But then we go right away." " Yeah, man, pass!" "The pleasure is all mine." "That's it." "What's wrong with you?" "First the lawn tractor, then the chocolate cream, and now this." "That was just an accident." "Lukas, how will it ever work out with Schlunz, if you join in his nonsense?" "We just wanted to play soccer." ""Just." You say that every time." "Especially for you, I had higher hopes." "I am very disappointed in you." "Oh, yeah?" "And I'm disappointed in you." "You only have eyes for your coins, and crazy Rosenbaum." "I don't have to put up with that." "Not in that tone." "This is really going too far." "This is too much." " I'm going away." " Away where?" "Just away." "Then we'll see if he is happier without me." "But you can't run away over something like this." "Well, I am running away, you'd better believe me." "You're making a big mistake..." "and that's why I'm coming along." "We'll do it like the prodigal son in the story." "We'll go abroad." "There's no Rosenbaum there." "You won't be told on, if you take a little spin on the lawn tractor." "Exactly, and there are no scolding dads, either." "Yes, we'll go abroad." "So, I don't see any more." "Did we get them all?" "Yes, what luck." "I'm really glad..." "No!" "One of the Roman coins is missing." "Really?" "Check it again." "No, it's definitely not here." "Is it a special coin?" "Emperor Augustus." "All my coins are special." "Hey, where are you going?" " We're going abroad." " Where is that?" "No one knows." "Far, far away, where no one else goes." "Cool, I want to come along." "Are you sure?" "Abroad is in fact very... weird." "And cold and dark and dangerous." "And there are robbers." "And if they catch us, we'll never get back." "What nonsense!" "I don't believe one word of it." "So?" "Can I come, too?" "Alright, but hurry up, so Dad doesn't see us." "Okay." "Hello..." "With a backpack..." "Where are you going?" "Abroad." "Abroad?" "Where is that?" "Far, far away, where no one else goes." "Alright, but be back for supper." " We're having pancakes." " Okay." "I really don't understand." "It's like it was swallowed up by the Earth." "Yes, but it can't be gone." "That's impossible." "Did you look over there?" " Where now?" "There or there?" " It doesn't matter." " But what if we go the wrong way?" " Then we come back and are no longer abroad." "Because it is no longer unknown here." " Somehow she might be right." " Well." "So I say we go that way." "Since I've never been there." "That part about the unknown reminds me of the story Adelheid told us." "What a coincidence..." "Oh, that's how you got the idea?" "Exactly." "So we're going to the same unknown place as the prodigal son?" "You guessed it." "It would be cool to meet him there." "You already did." "I am the prodigal son." "What?" "That's not true." "The real prodigal son wanted nothing to do with his father." "You see?" "Neither do I." "Cool." "A hut." "Super." "It's sure to be locked." "No, it's open." "Cool, we can stay here overnight." "Overnight?" "Sure, what did you think?" "But today we're having pancakes." "And then you want to stay here?" "Yes, we will." "That's life abroad." "You don't like pancakes?" "Normally I do, but now everything's changed." "Right Lukas?" "Exactly, everything is different now." "We won't ever go home." "Never?" "Never." "Can I have your room, then?" "Fine by me, just, don't touch my soccer stuff." "Don't worry." "Bye." "It's a good thing that Nele isn't here." "She would have gotten scared in the middle of the night." " You think so?" " Sure." "She'd imagine that wild animals or people were sneaking around." "People?" "What people?" "Well, gangsters or murderers." "Nonsense, there are no murderers and wild animals around here." "Or are there?" "Only those in your imagination." "Don't do that." "Funny..." "There are pancakes, but no boys in sight." "They went abroad, I told you." "What?" "Abroad?" "And when are they coming back?" "Never again, they said." "They want to spend the night." "What?" "How was I to know that abroad is overnight?" "We need something to drink." " There are also pancakes." " No time." "Only after we find the coin." "Did you hear that the boys have gone abroad?" "Where?" "Well, abroad." "Well, and where is that?" "Far away." "What else do you know about abroad?" "Not much, just that it is strange and dark." " Then you were there as well." " Sure." "Then you surely know how to get there." "Of course." "Abroad is a little hut on the way to Laurenzberg." "Well, good." "That's not so far away." "Not far away?" "I almost didn't find my way back home." "Jens, you're gonna have to go get them, please?" "I think that a night alone in the woods will do them both good." "Jens, I want you to fetch them." " Shall I come?" " Never mind." " I have something to discuss with the boys." " What is it?" "Men things." "And I'll look for my baby one more time." "Why don't you give up?" "You have so many other coins." "Do you have things that are really important to you?" "I mean, really important." "I guess I understand." "When I'm a father, I'll never scold my children, no matter what they've done." "And if they run away forever?" "Well, then I would be very sad." "I would think that they no longer love me." "God's probably the same way." "He is somehow the father of everyone." "Somehow, yes." "I hope my dad's worried about me." "Sure he is." "I have no idea if he and mom are fine." "Or whether they miss me at all." "I don't know whether my dad misses me, either." "Certainly." "Your dad is a good dad." "Yes, most of the time." "If he were here now, that would be fun." "We should go back." "At least briefly, to see if they are worried." "You're not angry anymore?" "It's okay." "In the morning, when it's light, we can go abroad again." "So..." " What was that?" " There's someone out there." "Maybe there are evil animals here." "Or evil people." "Everything's all right." "They're both fine." "They'll show up any minute." " Did you talk with them?" " No, but trust me." "So, are we going?" "To be honest, I'd rather not go out, now." "But the prodigal son also went home." "But there was no murderer at the door." "I had no idea that the boys are so brave." "So you can be mistaken." "So what do we do?" "Let's wait a bit?" "Oh, this stupid shoe has been hurting me all this time." "So what is it?" "The stupid coin!" "Now we have no other choice." "We have to go back." " But not because we are afraid." " No." "But only to return Mrs. Rosenbaum's coin safely." "Exactly." "I'm ready." "Me too." "Just one more thing." "So, Dad." "I mean you, the Big Daddy." "It would be no problem for you to protect us, right?" "And to scare away the gangsters who are now perhaps at the door." " The bears and the wild boars." " And the murderer." "So, Dad, we're counting on you." "End of message." "So be it." "Now quietly and unobtrusively." "I hate to give up." "But in this case it's kind of pointless." "There are more important things in life." "Your family, for instance." "You're right." "Although, I'm sorry about the Emperor Augustus." "I could give you one of my Romans." "Would you do that?" "I also found out there are more important things." "So, I would give you a Caesar." " A real Caesar?" " Yes." "But you have only one." "As my son, I also have only one." "Mr. Schmidtsteiner." "But only on one condition." " And that would be?" " Schlunz does not go to the orphanage." " Good." " Yes." "Agreed." "We'll forgive him the incident with the coins." "And here is the reward." "Well, hello." "Yes, but where was it?" "Suddenly it was in front of us." "The most important thing is that nothing happened." "That it's not scratched." "Don't worry, it was quite softly packed." "It's all right." "I'm sorry, Lukas, I wasn't fair to you this afternoon." "I'm sorry as well." "I just didn't want Schlunz be taken away." "I guess I freaked out a bit." "I'm sorry that I scattered the coins." "All's well." "The coins are complete and so is the family." "The prodigal sons are back." "This calls for a celebration." "I'll make another round of pancakes." "Oh, yes." "I love pancakes." "And so God also celebrates, for anyone who comes to him." "Does God like pancakes?" "Sure, God likes everything good."