"FILE 51 Custom subs by Drone139x CG" "Jean de Malarielle," "Appointed ambassador of France in Copenhagen" "Will be replaced as head of the French delegation to "ODENS"" "by Dominique Auphal." "October 12th, 1977" "Originating from: "Minerva"" "Destination: "Mars"." "Following the announcement of Dominique Auphal's appointment... by the way, did you ask about the Auphal documents at the archives?" "Yes." "Concerning...?" "Concerning Dominique Auphal's nomination to the Organization for the Development of the North-South Exchange, i.e., the "ODENS"," "We request from you every bit of information on Dominique Auphal." ""RETURN"." "Auphal will be designated by code name "51"." " Ah, the Senate." " Exactly." "First, some images of the subject" "Shot following your October 12th request." " He's a senator?" " No, Exterior Minister." "Tell us which one he is." " The one who's just turned around." " Very precise..." "The one facing backwards." "The problem is that his back is facing us." "Typical of Mars." "Thanks..." "He'll eventually turn?" "Err..." "Yes." "Explain the "Err"." "Ok, let's move on." "Born on March 31st 1940, in Paris," "Son of Lucien Auphal, MD, deceased in 1970, and of Monique de Servas;" "No profession." "Married to Liliane de Maupertain, 30 years old, also without profession." "He's coming out of his house." "13th, Avenue de L'Observatoire, Paris 6th." "Children?" "Err..." "Two." "Stephane, 6, Elodie, 4." " When is he leaving for Luxemburg?" " Very soon." " His family are going with him?" " No." "They'll join him later." "Continue." "I'll jump over his elementary and high school, and focus on the National School of Administration." "and at Foreign Affairs which he joined March 1st '67." "Appointed Commercial Attache in Madrid, July 68." "That's him in the circle." "April '71, appointed" "Second ambassador to Stockholm," "Where he specialized in economic and financial matters." "No pictures." "1st Secretary to Rabat, in May '72; it was there our man got noticed." "To resume:" "Hassan II escaped assassination." "51 held his ambassador who wanted to rush the palace to congratulate Hassan." "51 reminded him of the Ben Barka issue, while," "Explaining, and I quote, that "Rushed congratulations would be incompatible,"" ""..." "With France's dignity"." "Well; next document!" "Right away Sir, just a small glitch." "He was totally furious with the "Royal Clique", I quote..." "No, we already saw that one!" "In the meantime he's called back to Paris." "51 is on the right, his wife in the center." "Things quieted down thanks to the connections 51 has in certain circles," "Notably, that of Michel Debre." "Report from our agent in Rabat, August 25th '72:" ""Liliane Auphal;" "Wife of Dominique Auphal," ""1st secretary to the French embassy in Rabat...", that's her," ""Is the mistress of the cultural attache at the Italian embassy in Rabat."" "Really..." ""They meet Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the early afternoon."" " That picture is from Tuesday." " You're sure?" " Looks more like a Friday." " Come on..." ""At the house of Comi," ""94 Ceasar ave.." ""Doesn't seem like Dominique Auphal knows."" "In February '73, finally, promoted Director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau for the Technical Cooperation Service." "No documents." "No documents." "In summery;" "Very few documents." "October 12th, 8 days ago, we requested, I quote:" ""To obtain all possible information on Dominique Auphal"." "January 9th '77, "Jupiter" ordered:" ""Upmost caution must be taken in operations involving France."" "Bad timing." "No, read for yourself." " When's it dated from?" " October 17th." " 3 days ago, from?" " "Jupiter."" ""On pretense of... etc.," ""The ODENS is becoming the economical spearhead of Western Europe in the third world." ""800 billions dollars of contracts slipped out from right under our noses"" "You're starting to get it?" "Jupiter wants to infiltrate ODENS." "How?" "By recruiting one of its members." "We have so far failed." "A new chance has arisen; and that's 51." "We NEED 51." " Was I clear enough?" " Very." "But I repeat, he..." "November 5th '77, Minerva to Mars." "As soon as 51 leaves for Paris, a close watch will be established around his wife, henceforth nicknamed 52." "Also we've established a surveillance network in Luxembourg" "In case 51 moves into the house of his predecessor," "Bug it permanently." "Luxembourg." "51 takes office on November 16th." "He occupies the official residence of his predecessor." "In accordance with your request we have installed a micro transmitter there." "I still say it was risky" "The French secret service could have inspected the house before 51's arrival." "Anyways, it doesn't work." "There's a transformer nearby that jams its transmissions." "Paris, November 18th 1977." "14:58." " It's the wife..." " Yes, yes." "Rabat." "On Friday." "Sorry, Tuesday." " 51's wife..." " Equals 52." "To be precise." "15:11, 35 Sevres st." "17:09." "After verification, the person accompanying 52 is her sister:" "Genevieve de Maupertain." "17:14." "Raspail boul." "17:20." "29 Calle Lieutenant st." "20:25." "Datsun 260 Z," "Driven by an unidentified man." "52 sits by him." "November 22nd." "17:26." "Same address." "The subject rings the 2nd floor apt." "You're early again... 21:02, Same car, same driver." "He was identified:" "Philippe Lescarre, 40, single." "52's lover." "Well, there you go!" "We'll call him 52 "twice"." "Next." "November 21st." "Paris." "Luxembourg Gardens." "Marguerite Marie, born in Maupertain, housemaid at the 51's household." "His children." "Our agent." "I had this scene filmed to get visual material on the children." "Conversation partially captured by LAV mic." "And your employers, they're cool?" "As you say, COOL." " He cheats on the side?" " No, he's not that way." "He's rather cold." "His wife mustn't party too often..." "Maybe she parties someplace else." "That's her business." "Why do you care?" "You know you're nice." "I'd love it if we could be friends." " You're cute..." " Drop the violin." "Put a ring on my finger, then do whatever you want." "So, is it ok for Sunday?" "The same 2, the following Sunday, at Les Champs Lis." "No I mean, maybe they had fights in secret." "They're all diplomats" "Now stop bothering me with my boss." "I really like you." "Listen..." "There." "That's enough for today, we didn't stop talking for a second!" "Let me tell you one thing..." "Our agent noted that Margerite became very standoffish after the 2nd meeting." "She never went to the 3rd one." "We'll see." "Well, the first certainty:" "52 is having an affair." "And 51?" "What's new with 51?" "He still hasn't tried to" " Fill up his Luxembourg solitude?" " No, we haven't seen him with any woman." "Except for his ODENS secretary" "Sylvie Mouriat." " That's her?" " Yes." "Investigate around her." "She's not bad." "He's alone." "It could work." "If she's protected by the French secret service, we're risking alot..." "And if we don't risk anything, we'll never get 51 under control." " About that..." " Just a second." "I also want a bug in that Datsun driver's apartment, 52 "twice"." "Record what they're saying 52 and him, if it's interesting we'll move onto visuals." "November 28th, 1977." "Origin:" "Mars." "Destination:" "Minerva." "Recording of a conversation between 52 and 52 "twice", by a Mars technician on November 26th," "Starting at 18:41, 29, Lieutenant Carre st." " How long has he been gone for?" " Who?" "Your husband, of course." "One month." "He wears a 3 piece suit to the office?" "That's how I imagine him, and a leather patch under his stuck up ass." " He loves to play tennis." " With his suit on?" "Raise your skirt." "No, higher." "I thought I told you not to wear panties." "A 49 second silence follows." "Mars' technician was unable to install a permanent surveillance bug at the apartment of 52 twice." "He presented himself as from the Electric Company." "The recording he finally managed to get 5 days later," "Was obtained under difficult conditions, with a remote KDS listening device." "Recording Playback." "What's wrong?" " Nothing, just wondering..." " What?" "What kind of suit he wears." "I have to know." " Call him." " Are you crazy?" " Keep moving and call him." " No!" " Call him now otherwise..." " No!" "Then call him." "You're a pig." "A pig?" "Why are you laughing?" "Keep moving." "You'll fall asleep!" "Hello?" "Ext. 240." "Yes." " I'll have to hang up, I can't talk." " Don't forget to ask about his suit." "Hello, darling?" "Nothing, I just wanted to talk to you." "They're fine, They're with Marguerite." "No, Stephane no longer has a cold." "Yes, I'm starting to pack." "You must be tired of washing your suit." "No never mind, I was just teasing!" "Right now?" "Very well." "Yes, I think I found the right rhythm." "I said..." "Someone's at the door." "I'll have to go see who it is." "I'm hanging up." "Bye." "A 27 second silence, and then..." "You're really packing?" "Pass the cigarettes." "Well, I'll start soon." "Say "Thank You"." "What can I say, I don't know what to tell him." "2 days ago on the phone he almost went berserk." "Told me if I didn't hurry he'd come back to get us himself." " Luxembourg is pretty nice." " Yeah, but the house..." "He sent me a picture." "Nothing like what we had in Rabat." "You'll get used to it." "Where do you want to eat?" "...Laperouse." "Shall I put on a record?" "The music renders the rest of the conversation inaudible." "Associated documents:" "3 pictures taken that same night, between 9 and 10pm at the aforementioned restaurant." "Luxembourg, November 22nd, 16..." "Yes?" "One moment." " It's for you." " Me?" " No, you." " Yes?" " Your wife." " No." " You...?" " Yes, yes." "He'll call you back." "That's right." "That's right." "Goodbye." "That's right." "Let me resume." "November 22nd, 16:15." "During the investigation on a possible relation between 51 and his secretary," "A recording was obtained with a LAV mic." "So much misery!" "People dying on sidewalks," " Skeletal children..." " India, in other words." "Yes, but when you see it in pictures..." "I told my boss that the ODENS should try to do something." "He said, with a little smirk:" ""India, my dear, has nothing to sell," ""and therefore nothing to buy." "It's of no interest to ODENS"." " He's quite sentimental." " Wait." "I was so shaken:" ""But what about the children, sir?" "The children?"" "I could have sworn I hurt him, he answered softly:" ""Ah, the children of course, the children."" "And then, in a very firm tone, he said:" ""Unhappy children are God's jab to face of the world"." " That man must have suffered a lot." " It's blasphemy!" "Therese, it's a terrible blasphemy!" "Listen, Sylvie, you keep wishing hell on people." "Not at all!" "He's a good man." "He's very nice at work, he knows how to keep his distance." "Alright, drop Sylvie Mouriat." "You might recognize 747," "Housemaid to 51's predecessor." "No." "Or else she lost weight." "51 kept her in his service and we re-hired her into ours." "She found a letter behind a desk from 51 to his son, that 51 thought he had lost." "A piece of little interest." "We'll be the judge of that." "747 was also able to copy the beginning of an unfinished letter from 51 to his wife." "Very snobbish, using the third person." "51 mentions his new secretary." "I quote:" ""She's 28, seems serious and is a very fast typer." ""As for her looks," ""I imagine one might find her attractive"." "Yes; she's a nice nun." "Yes; rather banal." "But 747 also pulled a nice one." "HER?" "Also in his wallet; 2 letters." "The first, dated October 2nd '77 from a Jean-Francois." "He seems familiar with 51 and mentions he will soon be in Paris." "Yes?" "Very well." "The second letter is from 51's wife asking forgiveness after an argument." "747 took the time to copy it in its entirety because 51 asked his chauffeur to pick up his wallet for him." "Very good." "One might believe that you're finally starting to get interested in this task." "Unfortunately, the French secret service is just as interested." " How do you know?" " From the agent supervising 747." "Let me read his report:" ""On 1/12/77, while cleaning at 51's," ""747 found cigarettes butts;" "Gitanes and Gauloises" ""In the trash can. 51 doesn't smoke." ""747 also noticed that the furniture had been moved."" "So?" "Routine inspection from the French counter-espionage." " I don't see the problem." " Yes." "The mic." "The one that didn't work?" "It's malfunctioning didn't make it disappear." "You mean you didn't remove it?" "This is the whole file;" "I can't find a service note from you requesting it's removal." " Good god, it's the basics!" " Please!" "Each time that we, Mars, have taken the initiative, you've reprimanded us to remind us of our executive role." "Conclusion: the French technicians have assuredly found the mic." "All that remains is to close File 51." " If there's a decision to make, you won't..." " What did I just say!" "First;" "I'd like to know more about 747." "That woman is starting to interest me." "Mediocrity incarnate for years, and suddenly: poof!" "An expert informer." " I order that her supervising agent..." " No, Minerva." "You no longer order anything." "I refuse to maneuver under the scrutiny of the French intelligence." "Very well. "Jupiter" will decide." "December 2nd, '77." "Origin:" "Jupiter." "Destination:" "Minerva." "First:" "I put all blame on Minerva and order a stop to all actions relating to 51." "Secondly:" "I order a security control on 747." ""Minerva to Jupiter"." "(type this impeccably)." ""Minerva will take full account of your blame, and will strive to respect the security protocol."" " What flavor are your candies?" " Mint." "No, thanks." ""It remains that operation 51 has allowed us to assembled a good deal of material." "We would ask..." "We ask..." "No, We would ask" "Permission to transfer the file to Asclepius, to determine if the material we have on 52 can allow us to take control over 51"." "There you go, send it, we'll see." "Origin:" "Jupiter." "Destination:" "Minerva." "I authorize the transfer to Asclepius of file 51." "Please, remain seated." "I'm not here to report, I'm bringing you back your file." "It's empty, hollow, it's botched." "Your whole hypothesis is absurd." "You want to blackmail this man by threatening his wife's fling to his entourage." "It's infantile." "I'll tell you what 51 will do." "He'll inform his superior and quit." "You don't need to be a psychologist to foresee that." "You just had to re-read his file on how he acted, in Morocco." "The attempt on Hassan II." "Remember." "Did he hesitate between his career and what he considered his duty?" "He chose his duty and sacrificed his career." "And he always will." "51 is a man of order, and duty." "You understand?" "A firm, sober, rigid personality." "The exact contrary of a man you can blackmail." "Granted, he's not made of marble." "There must be weaknesses." "Intimate conflicts, probably." "But all of that, you've pushed aside." "It would have meant working a little." "Take, for example" "That scotch-taped picture he so preciously keep in his wallet." "The woman with the punched eyes." "Interesting..." "Fascinating." "Because it's not like him to do that." "Doesn't fit with his personality." "You should have dug around that woman." "And you just might have..." "Oh well." "Tomorrow Jupiter will receive my report" "With a protest on your work ethics." "Thank you for your attention." "We're in deep." "And that son of a bitch 51 will get off easy." "I'm not so sure." "Yes, it's called project "Zephyr", conceived by the best brains from Mars." " They have brains in Mars?" " Enough." "What's this all about?" "Project "Zephyr", sir." "It concerns spying on the content of 51's weekly reports to his minister." "Which he types in his house Thursdays at night." "From what I understand, Mars is basing everything on 747," " The housemaid that..." " You, what are you doing with those pictures?" " Filing them, I thought that..." " Put them back." "and get Jupiter's permission." "Very well." "Our last chance is the investigation of 747," "The miracle agent that Mars pulled out of his hat." "If Security demolishes 747," "I have a small chance of demolishing Mars." "December 20th 77." "Origin:" "Security." "Destination:" "Jupiter." "Object: procedure 3 on 747." "Our agent, 8446 visited 747 on December 18th." "With orders to determine if 747 was doubling for another service, or if she was susceptible to do it." "Attached: a copy of his verbal report." "Well, briefly:" "She bit the bait like no one else." "I introduced myself as a TV employee doing a survey on our programming, but I should have stuck to the old trick of home appliance salesman." "Real funny to think that all the money she's getting from the service goes into her kitchen." "We talked about the latest soaps, and about their bad language." "and we gradually came to the wonders of modern appliances:" ""I hope you don't mind, but that must be quite expensive!" ""You must have a good job to afford all of that."" "A prolonged silence followed while I smiled nervously." "I gathered we understood each other and went for it." "The lady surprised me, she's obviously been there before," "She asked me with confidence:" " How much?" " Just like that, no beating around the bush!" "I tried finding out how or why," "But the only thing on her mind was:" "How much?" "Here's one not to romanticize the world of espionage." "and then as requested, I inquired about "exclusivity", on which she said:" " You're all the same." " Worthy of quotation." "She's the "everything for $100" of espionage." "In my opinion, a simple jobber." "Incapable of doing intelligence work aside from cleaning," "An hour here for one, two hours there for another." "Why shouldn't everyone be happy?" "You know, I really believe she thinks we're privates," "And that she thinks it's all about a morality bust." "It's important." "Try to remember precisely what she told you about that incident." "Incident, incident..." "For her it really wasn't an incident." "She just blabbed about it." "And all the while we were talking, I could sense all she was thinking was if she could afford to buy the latest egg beater." "I just briefly mentioned 51, just to see." "she said: "Nothing bad I can say about him, a real monk"." "I insisted a little, and that's when she started talking about it" "The cigarette butts, the dirty glasses, the furniture that had been moved." "She deduced that 51 had had a little party." "So she teased him a little about it, just to have fun." "Well; there really hadn't been a party." "At least not with 51." "Some of his ODENS colleagues from Senegal, they came to town and he took them home for a few drinks." "Diplomats or not, these Senegalese wanted to dance," "So they pushed the tables aside, rolled the carpet off, and said "let's tango"" "on their music too," "Apparently, 51 was just..." "Origin:" "Minerva." "Destination:" "Jupiter." "Firstly:" "Our security control of 747 has allowed us to establish that the displacement of furniture at 51's house can in no way be attributable to French intelligence." "We request that the blame be put on Mars for the imprecision of his information, and therefore, the cancellation of his "Zephyr" project." "Secondly:" "We immediately request that 51 be re-added to our objective's list." "From the analysis of all documents assembled on him," "We propose a full exploration of 51 and of his past." "An operation code-named:" ""Dead Leaves."" "to be specific, the essential objective of the Dead Leaves operation will be to identify and to find the lady with the punched eyes of which the reassembled picture, was described by 747 in her inventory of 51's wallet." "Jupiter to Minerva." "Firstly:" "I am cancelling Mars' proposed Zephyr project." "Secondly:" "I authorize operation "Dead Leaves"." "Association of the Ladislas college alumnus." "Posing as head of publicity for a real estate agency, agent 8047 obtained a copy of this document." "At what cost?" "The printing fees of the association's next 3 bulletins." "And it was unexpectedly that I joined the bank." "And Louvain?" " Marc Louvain?" " Yes." "No idea what he became." "In 5th grade he wanted to become a fireman." "He probably became a blue collar too." "Auphal?" " Auphal..." " Dominique." "Worse, I can't even remember him." "Say; since our class was chosen as focus group for your survey, maybe you could..." "Introverted, not really friendly you know, a teacher's pet." "You're an actor?" " Yes." " Doing well?" "Say, you wouldn't know a director?" " Can I talk to your Daddy?" " No one can." "Why not?" "He's dead." "As a resulf of his car accident." "I remember him, a good Frenchman;" "but timid, not chatty." "He went into stuff like the boy scouts, Catholic Youths..." "I was about to say unholy things, but it was in fact, VERY holy." "Ah yes!" "Auphal!" "Yes, they threw him out for 8 days." " 2nd year." " Really?" "He'd brought a porn mag." "It was around '55 or '56." "I was Chaplain with the Catholic youths and for Easter I had asked my boys to do something special for our lord Christ, and to write about it." "The results were nice and trivial." "Except for Dominique Auphal's report, which stunned me." "It was the longest and very well written." "It told of his meeting with a boy who, like him, was on vacation in Senlis, and who had lost his faith." "He told of his conversations with him, of his efforts to bring back this lost sheep into our lord's flock." "I was touched to my very soul." "The end was especially moving." "It was Easter Sunday," "Dominique and his new friend, now re-conciliated with God, kneeled together at the altar." "I read his text in front of the boys, everyone was awed, starting with me, they looked at Dominique with respect and envy, and that little son of a bitch lowered his eyes, flushed." "You see father, 20 years later I still feel the ridicule it bothers me to a degree I hope you can forget." "It was all made up, father." "For a moment I thought he had sought glory," "Dominique was a strange boy, unstable, who feared not integrating with the others" "I think it was because of that insecurity that he had made that story up." "He must have thought that after such a feat, he would be accepted by our group." "That's often the case with teens." "We think they want to impose, when all they want is to integrate." "I never saw him again." "You say he's married with children?" "I'm happy he did not favor purely material gain." "Here father, please accept this fruit of our holy labour." " My God, don't know how..." " There's no need to thank me." "These are misprints that we can't sell." "Mars to Minerva." "I protest." "It was always recommended to use Agent 810 only in his specific field:" "Intelligence of the French church and Vatican politics." " The end." " No." "Continue." "Simone Derelle." "Perfect, I'll expect you." "It's one of the directors from your survey firm" " He's also a friend, he's on his way" " Alright, fine." "I sell life insurance." "At least, I try." "The survey story opens doors," "Be nice, give out my card and forget about me." "Absolutely not." "Alright, it'll be the police." "Of course, urgently bring back your man." "He's already back." "How did you find that Simone Derelle?" "Her first name appeared in a letter 51 wrote his wife, the young maid identified her:" " Simone?" "It's the old Derelle." " Tell me about her." " No." " Why not?" "I don't like her." "She's dirty, smelly, annoying." "Why do your bosses host her?" "They like her?" "You wish!" "They keep bad mouthing her." "Strange." ""Puzzling"." "Why do people use "strange" or "puzzling"?" " Strange..." " Puzzling." "Etc." "Say," "Hasn't she left for Luxembourg with 52 and the kids?" "She left and came back, sir." "We needed her for "Dead Leaves"." "She could identify certain objectives." "I had her called back to Paris by our agent," " And she came back right away." " Excellent idea." "The problem is that he had to propose to her." "Well see about it later." " And who's replacing her?" " 747's daughter." "Good, which one?" "Not the cripple." " The slut?" " Yes." "Well say it, the slut." "And 52's wife?" " 52, yes." " So?" " So what?" " Flings?" " Lovers?" "Not yet, we're sure of it." "What're you waiting for?" "You think we have too much information on 51 in Luxembourg?" "Origin:" "Minerva." "Destination:" "Venus." "Firstly:" "Select a male agent with the following characteristics:" "Accentuated virility," "Sadistic possibilities," "Horseback riding abilities, is familiar with high society's etiquette." "Secondly:" "His mission will be to start a relationship with a subject designated as 52." "Contact will take place at an equestrian event attended by the subject." "Thirdly:" "The operation will be code-named "Jumping"." "Good, let's get back to "Dead Leaves"." "Any brilliant ideas?" " 51's mother, Mrs Auphal." " No, too dangerous." "Under what pretext will you approach her?" "Any wrong step and she contacts her son." "Her apartment must be interesting, I insist." "51 lived there until he got married." " A full sweep could..." " Now THAT'S different!" " Does she ever go out?" " Three afternoons per week." "She's volunteering for an association of the ex-deported." "Alright." "Sweep, my dear." "And start by typing the instructions for Mars." "Well..." " You want pictures of what?" " Do all the portraits, then the ensemble." ""Gaston Auphal, died for France, Verdun, August 17 1916."" ""Jacques Auphal, died for France, Chemin des Dames, February 19th, 1918."" ""Marcel Auphal, died for France, July 21st 1916."" "Jesus they have no luck in that family." "Ah, a civilian." ""Bernard Auphal, died for France," " Paris, February 6th, 1934."" " I don't get it." "A revolt." ""My country must be the greatest in the world."" "You saw this box?" "Sweep the rest instead of watching me." "Take a picture of each object separately." "After the cemetery-bedroom, the museum-bedroom." ""Lieutenant, Sir, please excuse my..."" ""Dear Dominique", (feminine spelling "Dear"), another army buddy." "What do they learn in the army?" "Listen!" "It's written to a Jacqueline." "It's a poem." ""Summer love is swept by the wind but yet my heart aches..." ""Your hair forms an ebony helmet," ""Roman legionary or Athenian hoplites," ""Or else a ship-boy beloved of sailors."" "and he ends: "with your first kiss a leaf fell"." "Touching." "See, that wasn't so hard." "Well, well!" "The bedroom trashcan!" " Want a drink?" " Come on, back to work." "Shit!" "8848, listening." " You're ok?" " Ok." "We've got about..." "An hour to go, and on your side?" "It's raining." "Hurry up." " So?" " Interesting." " Intriguing." " Yes, intriguing." "We're sitting on a gold mine." "But only one person can open it's doors for us." " Mrs Auphal?" " Exactly." "Well, well, isn't that exactly what I said..." "Find an agent and I'll greenlight it." "Under what cover?" "It has to originate from the picture hanging above her bed." "That picture of the Nazi death camp." "Start from there." "You'll find your cover..." " Shall we start?" " Ready." " Where should I start?" " With yourself." "(accent) I'm English, of course, Pamela Newman, 23." "Preparing my thesis for the Royal Institute for Social Research." "The subject:" "The physical and psychological reaction of British subjects," "Most often Protestants," "Arrested by the Gestapo during the war and deported to German camps." "I'm contacting Mrs Auphal in her function of general secretary for the association of the formerly deported." "Tell me about her." "She's 60." "At 19; married Lucien Auphal, MD" "Deceased in 1970." "You know," "I have a weird feeling about our conversation." "It's chilling me." "No, it's not you, dear child, Would you mind if I said..." "That I find you absolutely adorable?" "So serious, so studious," "So well informed on that terrible subject." "That's just it, You are history." "History that comes to pass its neutral, cold look on what still burns and tears us apart." "You'll come to the Association, you'll see these poor souls forever marked." "And now we've even created a scientific classification for them:" "Protestants, Catholics," "Latin, Anglo-Saxon." "Back at the camps, they were simply the triangles." "Reds for politics, Green for social rights, Yellow for Jews." "It's normal." "It's as it should be." "It would be worse if history was forgotten." "I find it excellent that young people like you have a passion for it." "But, why?" " Why you; someone in your family...?" " No." "Not at all." "I met a former SOE, Special Operations Executive." "He was fascinating." "In 4 years, he'd lived 10 lives." "It made me want to know more." "Still, you don't spend your life listening to people my age, it would be too tedious." "Young people are so boring, conformist." "Their cars, their cricket championships." "Their money." "Their love." " You don't want to get married?" " God, no!" "Right now I live with a girlfriend, and we love it." " Well maybe SHE'll get married..." " June?" "Definitely not!" "She's decidedly on the other side." " You say it so matter-of-factly." " I'm not saying it matter-of-factly." "I'm just telling you." "You're so nice." "You want to drink something a little.." "Stronger?" " No thanks, don't go to any trouble." " It's my pleasure." " What's wrong?" " I'd like to ask you the same question." "You," "What's it all for?" "All that volunteering for the deported?" "Simple charity?" "The man that I loved died in Mauthausen." "My husband..." "Died at Mauthausen in July 1943." "That's why I..." "What was he like?" "He wasn't interested in money, in cars and not at all in cricket matches." "He was a wonderful man." "Was he handsome?" "Well..." "Yes, very handsome." "Here, let me show you." "Come and sit." " Aren't you drinking, my child?" " Yes, yes." " Who's that?" " Lucie." "Born after a year of marriage, died at 7 months." "I thought I would never get over it, but with time..." "And..." "There;" "That's him." "Your husband?" "Isn't he handsome?" "Very." "He looks "fair-play"." "Loyalty incarnate." "And..." "He fell victim to the worst treason." "Here; that's my child, all that's left of my happiness." "But it's a lot." "Dominique is the best of sons." "If you knew how close we were before he got married." "He's my only reason for going on." "But I'm boring you." " Let me get more ice!" " I'll go." " No, let me." " No." "End of the corridor, left door." "You found it?" "It's so dark!" "and the light doesn't work." "My husband's room." "Just in his image." "Yes, I lied, the other man wasn't my husband." "My legal husband slept in there," "Amidst his dead brothers, as dead as they were," "and as dead as he wanted me too." "But once buried alive I found the strength to bang on his coffin." "And that's what I did." "I stole 5 years of happiness." "For 5 years I escaped his pessimism," "His contempt for everything and everyone, his bitterness" "You can't understand." "We were the hecatomb generation." "He couldn't get through it, like so many others," "He hated the world that derided his sacrifices." "The roaring 20's." "Bernard; his younger brother," "Was killed by the national guard at the Place de la Concorde." "My husband..." "He told the Gestapo about the man I loved." "Not because he was in the French Resistance, but because I loved him." "I know, I have proof." "And he knew that I knew." "And still we lived face to face for 27 years," "I, with hatred and he, with contempt." "Why didn't you leave him?" "Because he was Dominique's father?" "No, he wasn't Dominique's father." "His father is Roland." "But he was also married and had children" "That were sick." "He couldn't abandon them." "No, I mean after the war, after Mauthausen," "Why would you stay with that... murderer?" "I don't know." "Do we always know why we act one way or another?" "Lie back, rest." "But I also must confess something." "The ice was an excuse, I really need to use the bathroom." "Why didn't say so?" "You're still very British, despite your emancipated looks." " I'll go with you or you'll get lost again." " No, I'll find it." "It's the first door on your left." "To the left, at right is a closet." "A closet?" "No way." "The closet... and the door to the left." "Dominique, my darling, I beg you." "Forgive me for the pain I've caused you." "For him you were nothing, you didn't exist." "You couldn't understand why your father didn't love you." "I beg you, Dominique," "Once you discover the truth, you'll have to forgive me." "I wasn't always this old, you know?" "I once inspired desire in a man." "But I had to pay for it." "I paid." "27 years in this prison of hatred." "No, that's not true." "After it was for material reasons:" "How to live, on what." "And he still helped raise Dominique." "But it was also..." "It was mostly to not cut off the past." "Because this man, this monster, remained my only link to the one I loved." "Can you understand that?" "No, you can't, you're too young, superficial." "And that's how it should be." "So here you are, my Dominique's bedroom." "I left it" "As it was when he left it, forever." "It seems when you're old there's nothing to look forward to, except the inevitable," "And the only joyful moments one can find, are through happy memories." "He's very handsome." "And yet he doesn't look like Roland, I was so disappointed." "He takes his looks from my mother's side." "But his passion for music, that's Roland." "We often went to concerts." "I even kept his little secrets in their hiding place." "He forgot all that." "That's..." "Valerie Rossignat." "Well, not yet, that was before her marriage to Philippe, Dominique's friend." "They were all in Political Sciences." "Dominique and Valerie liked each other a lot and..." "I think that..." " They were sleeping together?" " Right." "I even thought they'd get married." "But they didn't, too bad." "I do like Liliane, his wife." "That's... at her home, I mean her family's, the Maupertain manor." "Rustic people, quaint people from La Varende, you know?" "No, of course you don't know La Varende." "So they spend all their vacations there and..." "I never see them." "So." "Yes." "He ended up marrying her, to get out." "Like someone jumping at sea to avoid the storm." "Poor Dominou." "He couldn't get out of a sordid affair with a terrible girl." "A girl..." "Valerie referred to her as the anarchist-whatever, trotskyist, maoist." "A fanatic." "Jewish, but that..." "Dominique was so enamored with her," "It was the only time I agreed with his father," "Well, my husband." "She acted terribly." "Once she found out he was to marry Liliane, she wrote a letter, to HER that was just coming back home." "A letter that was..." "Hysterical," "With nonsensical details..." "About what?" "About my son." "She dragged everything in mud." "Anyways." "They were all young." " But I'm boring you with my old tales." " But not at all." "I'm lonely you know, very lonely, despite my work for the Association." "Because I don't really exist over there, I mean... for the others." "I listen, I try to help." "But that's your fault." "That a young woman like you," "Can listen to a 60 year old woman, I didn't think that was still possible." "You're my friend, you agree?" "And friendship knows no age." "Little girl," "You'll forget all these friendships once you find love, waiting on a street corner." " On a street corner?" " It's an image." "Come on, hurry off." "And..." "Forget all the silliness that I've said." "January 17th, '78." "Mars to Minerva." "747's daughter;" "Put in parenthesis," "Err no,with quotation marks, "The Slut"," "Describes 51's family as "Without blemishes and quite united"." "She insists on the marital fidelity of 51." "We've deducted that she tried to put that fidelity to the test." "Her first impression was that his wife must be quite the opposite but she's no longer sure of it." "According to her 52 tells 51 of the advances a man makes at the equestrian events she attends." "51 and 52 mock that man who looks," "Strong and tall, with thick eyebrows and a menacing glare." "They nicknamed him King-Kong." "Minerva to Venus." "Operation "Jumping" is cancelled." "We requested an Errol Flynn, not an Orangoutan." "TWA Flight 308, embark immediately." "January 30th, '78." "Mars to Minerva." "Following your instructions from January 16th," "Everything's been put into place for Operation "Dead Leaves"" "Focused on the young Jewish woman;" "Mentioned by 51's mother, referred to as:" ""The anarchist-whatever"." "It remains to be confirmed if that woman matches the woman seen in the picture," "The picture with the punched eyes." "Dear fellow, you have to agree we're going through a recession of productive investments." "Absolutely." "I'd even go farther, Rossignat," "We see before us the spectre of a British-style "stop-go"." "The problem as I see it is that the Bretton-Woods system has collapsed." "Philippe Rossignat 38 years old," "Sub-director of the financial markets for the minister of finances," "Was 51's friend at the time of his relationship to the unknown woman." "Rossignat was approached on January 25th by Agent 9000," "Selected because of his past relationship with him." " What're you having?" " Today's special." "Two specials." " And some house wine?" " Yes." "Saint-Varjoux did one of his patented presenations" " At the Eurodollars." " Brilliant, that Varjoux." "I think Giscard was somewhat jealous of him." "They were rumors of his possible nomination to the ODENS," " Or the Euratom, I'm not sure." " Forget ODENS." "Auphal only got the post 6 months ago," "Saint-Varjoux at Euratom?" "Strange job for a financier." " Auphal; the one from Rabat?" " He left the embassy awhile back." " The Ben Barka affair?" " He's just like you:" "Fanatical about the dignity and sanctity of the state." "I know him well, we studied political sciences together." " His wife's a knockout, isn't she?" " You really haven't changed." " Liliane is indeed charming." " I hope I wasn't being untoward." "Absolutely not." "It's just that I was a very close friend of Dominique's," "But our wives didn't get along." "It happens." "I'm sorry." "It's all in the past." "Say, you know that Merlot was named to the international Monetary Fund?" " You know him, don't you?" " We graduated together." "It seems he's on great terms with Burns." "Since that contact did not allow any progress in identifying the objective," "Agent 9000 initiated on his own, a new approach on the following day." "Dangerous." "Agent 9000 should NOT take any initiatives." "9000 is not an easy agent." "Doesn't look like your friend's home." "Wait some more." "Yes?" " Mr. Rossignat?" " Yes, Madam." "Mr. Philippe Rossignat?" "Yes, Madam, speaking." "I'm sure you don't remember me." "Catherine, is that you?" "Hello?" "Is that you, Catherine?" " Stop this ridiculousness." " No, it's not Catherine." "Am I interrupting anything." "No, not interrupting, but intriguing." "Who are you?" "You don't know me, we've never met." "Then what can I do for you?" "Err, it's about Dominique." "I'm looking for his current address." " Who is she, this Dominique?" " Dominique's a HE." " Dominique Auphal." " Ah!" "You know him?" "Very well, yes." "I was his friend about 10 years ago." " You were both in school." " You too?" "At school?" "No, not all." "Even if I had had the chance" " My political convictions would..." " Ah yes!" "You're Sarah!" "Sarah who?" "Sarah Trotskyist." "You see?" "Can't even remember my name." "My dear, I never knew it." " Dominique hasn't mentioned me?" " Him no, his wife, yes." "They knew each other well, he confided in her." "Really?" "What things?" "Bad things." "For example," "Your complex, unjustified, I'm sure, about your breasts." "But say, you know that Dominique is now married?" "What do you want from him?" "It's personal." "I see." " Maybe he doesn't want to get hassled." " That's not my intention." " And what ARE your intentions?" " It's difficult to say over the phone." "Listen, I'm a widower, but I'm not free." "At all." "We could still meet, just to talk." "You might be disappointed, Sarah as our "preferences" do not match." "What do you mean:" ""Our preferences"?" "I like to take girls from the front, I'm not keen on treating them like guys." "You're ridiculous." "My dear, have you ever heard of Paul Valery?" "He said there's the troublemakers, the troubled and those that are just trouble" "I think you're highly qualified for the last category." "Asshole!" "Are you Sarah?" "This is Minerva." "Object:" "Sarah X." "Pythia, you hear?" "What're they doing in Delfos." "Hello, Pythia?" "Good, I repeat." "Object:" "Sarah X." "We request the identity of a person subject to references in your archives because of her extreme political beliefs." "Urgent." "Up to date information gathered on the subject:" "Name:" "Sarah." "Sex:" "Female." "Present age between 25 and 45." "Particular sign:" "It was indicated that subject is unhappy with her breasts." "Race:" "Presumed white." "Racial sub-classification:" "Jewish." "Nationality:" "Presumed French." "Address:" "Resided in Paris in '67." "Sexuality:" "In '67;" "Heterosexual." "With no guarantee of exclusivity." "Political Opinions:" "In 67, Trotskyist sympathizer or militant, or else, anarchist sympathizer or militant." "February 7th." "Mars to Minerva." "747's daughter, 51's maid in Luxembourg, was surprised by 51's son while having sexual contacts with the chauffeur." "She was fired that very night." "We find it probable that 51 and 52 will try to get their old maid back," "Marguerite Marie." "Requesting urgent instructions." " No shit!" " I'm through with all this." "I didn't come back to be your maid and endure all this bullshit." ""Who's Berasse, and who's Jean Francois?" "And what do you know about Mrs Champon"." "Enough;" "I'm tired of it all." "Why do you care about all these old farts?" " Marguerite, come on, I'm missing the game..." " And I'm missing the dishes!" "What do you want?" "Will you marry me or not?" "I won't lose my time in here." "But we're engaged!" "Then go announce it to my parents!" "Minerva to Mars." "Firstly:" "Marguerite Marie must remain in Paris for the ongoing operation "Dead Leaves"." "It would be risky to let her go back to Luxembourg," "Where she could warn 51 and 52 about your agent's investigation." "Secondly:" "Give your agent a special credit line." "with which to buy an expensive gift for Marguerite Marie, which will be considered an engagement present." "Thirdly:" "As a final option, you are to consider the impregnation of Marguerite Marie who would then become completely dependent on your agent." "Shit..." "Fourthly:" "A computer search was performed with all materials gathered on Sarah X." "Pithya designated 18 subjects corresponding to our profiling." "You will begin the research to definitely identify Sarah X" "As soon as the archives transfer the files or documents on the selected subjects." "February 15th, '78." "Mars to Minerva." "After deep research," "Requiring numerous agents," "We have located 5 days after the launch of the Sarah X operation, the location of Sarah Robski," "Who has moved three times in the last four years." "Information from Agent 7014 allows us to confirm that this is the subject we're looking for." "We immediately stopped investigating the remaining 7 subjects." "Attached is the report from our Agent." "7014 to Mars." "Object:" "Sarah Robski." "Born on July 15th 1943 in Kracow, Poland." "of David Robski and of Golda Liberstein, store owners." "She moved to Paris in '65 where she took literature classes." "She also started joining leftist organizations." "Her political activities intensified after May '68." "Simply, it appears that the subject's behavior is marked with generous romanticism." "Her instinctive reaction places her on the side of victims." "The subject has had few professional activities." "She's an assistant teacher at the Vincennes University." "Of note: a trip to Cuba in 1974." "End of the manifestation at 17:00." "Return home with the subject." "Complete and satisfactory sexual relations." "It was possible to verify," "Following Minerva's instructions, that the subject accepted anal intercourse." "What're you doing?" "I'm drawing." "No, don't do that." "Why not?" "I don't like it." "Superstition?" "No, it reminds me of something." "Something bad?" "Tell me." "No." "It's funny, ever since we met..." "How long ago, 5, 6 hours?" "7 hours and 14 minutes." "It's the second time I've thought about it." "When was the first?" "Was it a man?" "A long time ago?" "Let me guess." "30 years ago." "No." "You're not that old." "15 years." "No answer." "2 years?" "2 months?" "He's hiding in the closet!" "What's his name?" "Not his last name, of course." "Why do you care?" "Jealousy, comrade." "His name's Dominique." "Like yours." "Ah, that's what reminded you of him?" "Right?" "Yes." "No." " You don't find them too small?" " No." "Perfect!" " Liar!" " Why?" " Everyone finds them too small." " Liar." "No that's true, Dominique finds them sufficient." "Again with him?" "You still love him, right?" "No, of course I don't." "It's true, you know." "But you LOVED him?" "A little." "He loved me a lot." "You always love someone a little that loves you a lot." "He got married, joined the flock." "A man saved by his family." "His family, then his country." "Anyways, an affair with a young girl... a "revolutionary", doesn't open political doors." "So we accepted the outcome." ""Yes daddy, yes mommy"." "Then, jump!" "You marry the first little bourgeoise that comes along." "Isn't that a nice recuperation?" "A classic." "Why am I telling you all this?" "The punched out eyes." "Ah, yes." "I don't see the connection." "We met by accident 2 years ago." "He told me he regretted not having enough courage." "Poor idiot." "He showed me a picture that he keeps in his wallet." "The punched holes in the eyes," "He said he did that when he left me." " A little childish, no?" " He's not happy." " The amount of problems he has!" " Don't we all." "He's got them all." "When I met him, he was in a strange state." " He'd just been out of the army." " Algeria?" "No, that was over." "They'd been..." "You can't imagine." "Wretched." "The commando type, you know?" "Too happy to get their hands on a young intellectual." "Hazings?" "Worst." "When it happens to a woman, some men find it funny." "I could introduce you to friends who are still trying to cope." "Later the friends..." "You love me a little?" "Yes." "You love me a little." "I don't know." "Yes." "Because I..." "I love you a lot." "A lot." "A lot." "Separation on the following morning at 8, for the writing and presentation of this report." "Since this contact was initiated in a sociopolitical context particularly satisfying for the subject," "It is probable that this relationship can continue for a certain time," "Which would allow the gathering of supplemental information." "End." "February 24th, '78." "Mars to Minerva." "The "Jean-Francois" from 51's wallet" "Was identified by Marguerite Marie." " It is..." " Brauchite, yes, old Brauchite!" "Salesman, living at Yvelines." " He was..." " An army buddy." "of 51." "He would call during his visits in Paris, trying to get invited over." "Which really upset the Mrs!" "Our agent went undercover as a insurance salesman." "Negative, sir." "Hearing stuff like that makes me hot under the collar!" "Here, in '68, nothing changed." "I'll tell you if they'd try to do their shit here, they'd hit a wall." "I know how to use a rifle." "I was in the service." " I even came under fire." " Oh really?" "Where?" "Haute Provence." "A pine field on fire because of a fucking tourist or a fucking leftist." "We were doing commando operations in Canjuers." "And suddenly, 45 days playing firefighters!" "That's funny, I had a client telling me about it not long ago." "It was about fire insurance too." "Let me think..." "Ah, yes, Dominique Auphal!" "The world is small indeed!" "Auphal?" "We were in the service together." "How's old Auphal doing?" "Married with children, and since he's a responsible man, he also took out life insurance." "You're pretty quick on your feet." "I can appreciate that." "After all, we're in the boat, you and I." "Whether it's insurance or calculators, you've got to sell your stuff." "Good old Auphal!" "That's so funny!" "Believe me, we had some great moments over there." "Well, he rather seemed to remember the bad." "Ah, when he almost shot me while cleaning his rifle?" "No..." "Not surprising." "Back then we kept the whole thing secret to protect him!" "Good old Auphal." "No, he vaguely mentioned a terrible story, a little..." "The rape?" "That event really turned him upside down." "The first day we got to Canjuers." "Or rather the night." "A young recruit raped by a commando who thought he was still in Alger." "Or rather 3 buddies held him down while the officer..." "That one really woke us up." "After that, we got bulletproof underwear!" "With good cause." "But Auphal, you know what he did?" "He wrote a story about it." "Seriously!" "A well written story, like a novel, but shorter." "We all had a great laugh reading it." "He hid it in his supplies but..." "But you know, he didn't hesitate to exaggerate it too." "After the rape, described in minute detail," "Always precise, Auphal, a reversal of roles!" "If I dare say it, and bang!" "The recruit cut the commando's dick off with his own knife." " The commando's?" "No!" " On paper." "Good grief!" "No, but wait, the "bang" was imagined." "Added by Auphal." "He said: to appreciate a situation," "You must push it to its logical limits." "That's typical Auphal." "He said: "You're lucky, you have no problems"." "Affirmative." "But I don't like it when others cause me some." "A teenager robs me, I go..." "They fondle my kid..." "They fuck up my car..." "Well, almost." "Am I right or not?" "There's probably a lot of truth to it." "So you're just like me, The customer is always right." "Yes, yes, I know the song." "Alright." "About our deal;" "Here's what we'll do," "We'll ask Nicole." "Nicole!" "She's my wife, we'll see what she thinks." "After all, she's the first to benefit." " Yes honey?" " Get the arsenic and come down." "This man has offered you a lot of money for offing me." "March 3rd '78." "Origin:" "Minerva." "Destination:" "Jupiter." "Object: 51." "Operation "Dead Leaves" is over." "We've assembled a large amount of material which allows us to foresee our control over 51." "Our work hypothesis is to reactivate the relationship between 51 and Sarah R." "This reactivation could be helped by having Sarah Robski reveal to 51 his adulterous affiliation." "The resulting emotional shock would facilitate the reprise of a passionate relationship." "We highlight that 51 would not collaborate with us consciously, but would be used without his knowledge by Sarah Robski." "She;" "Properly manipulated by her treating agent might accept to play this part because of her personal extremist views." "We request the authorization to submit to Aesculapius the project of this double manipulation and to transmit File 51 to him." " Is Miss Robski there?" " She's out." "Ask her to come to the police station." "On Saussaies street." " You live with her?" " No." "I'm just around." "Extreme emergency." "Minerva to Aesculapius." "Object: 51." "Sarah Robski is under police surveillance as a dangerous person." "We've abandoned the manipulation angle, eliminating our working hypothesis." "Request the return of File 51." "Yes, I kept it." "For once, you sent me a juicy file." "So, 51." "Aesculapius' psychological sub-division, that you've met, studied it a long time with a lot of attention." "The results are interesting." "It might surprise you." "Your turn." "His parents." "No need to loiter on Lucien Auphal, the proxy father who successfully created a highly unbalancing climate." "51's mother was submitted to the manic-depressive influence of her husband, but her own personal history is itself mined with affective disasters." "Death of her first born, Lucie." "Adulterous relationship and illicit pregnancy." "Indirect assassination of the lover by the husband, through the Gestapo." "Here we have to pause." "Why doesn't this women leave he who murdered the man she loved?" "Her explanations don't stick." "The truth is more sinister." "The truth is that this woman had only her son to love," "And she tried to force him to love no one but her." "And her best method was to expose him to the constant hatred of her husband to force him onto the maternal breast." "In short, a powerfully neurotic family unit." "In short, source of neurosis." "It's very important." "or secondary." "Depending on how the subject reacts." "Take me for example, I am the product of a powerfully neurotic family." "So what?" "Good." "Now we get to 51 himself." "What does it represent?" "51 keeps this reproduction in his wallet." "So it's important." "So?" "Well;" "It represents a woman, lying on a rock." "and up there in the sky?" "Tridents." "The painter is probably a surrealist." "He is." "These objects, can you find their link?" "Absolutely, they are childhood memories." "Exactly." "Perhaps insufficient, but exact." "Now I will read a poem that 51 composed at the age of 17 for a certain Jacqueline." ""Summer love is swept by the wind but yet my heart aches..." ""meeting the indifferent vagabonds." ""Your flowing hair forms an ebony helmet," ""Roman legionary or Athenian hoplites," ""Or else a ship-boy beloved by sailors."" "Your reaction?" " I think at 17 I was better." " Bravo." "What else?" "If I was that girl, I'm not sure I'd like to be compared to a legionary." "Not bad, not bad." "Listen, I think it would be simpler to hear your conclusions." "Soon." "Guiltless pleasure." "I want to sleep with my brother's wife." "But he is my brother." "I'll dream that I make love to her." "I'll have the pleasure, my sheets will bear the evidence it, but no guilt, for I am not responsible for my dreams." "Limit case." "But there are many ways to reach this guiltless pleasure." "And our 51 knows a few." "A women." "really," "If I must draw a woman, what do I do?" "Breasts," "Vagina." "Where are the breasts or sex?" "Long hair, it's true, but these days..." "What does this so-called woman comes down to?" "An ass." "Firm, round." "Not Ruebenesque." "The crevice, profoundly over-lined." "Now if I try to link this crevice, maybe female, maybe not to these peaks, to these flaming tridents..." "What does it evoke?" "It could arouse the male sex." "Yes." "Of course." "So maybe you're starting to see where I'm going." "I have in my wallet a benign reproduction." "officially showing a woman." "there's no guilt." "that yet evokes sodomy." "I have the pleasure," "Without the guilt ." "Jacqueline or Jacques?" "Because as you mentioned, what am I comparing her to?" "to a Roman legionary, an Athenian Hoplites," "Or else a ship-boy loved by sailors." "I have the pleasure with my legionary, my hoplites, my ship-boy, but not the guilt, this poem is for Jacqueline." "You'll say all that is..." "Alright." "Let's proceed." "Imaginary conversion, you remember?" "That little atheist that 51 brought back to God, which ends with a side by side communion on Easter." "Why would he make such a story up?" "The chaplain said it," " to integrate himself." " And he was right." "51 needs to feel integrated because he feels different, and that he suppresses that difference." "but that conversion process, blasphemous, is a total invention," "I call it a process of seduction." "And I say it culminates on Easter, in a carnal union, like the proxy wafer." "I have the pleasure, not the guilt." "On the contrary." "I'm bringing back a lost soul to God." "Valerie Rossignat." "With Jacqueline we don't know." "But we know he did sleep with Valerie." "There again, a document." "THE document that 51 kept, that he hid to remember this relationship." "Strange: a man." "And not just any man;" "Valerie's future husband." "We can guess that this Rossignat really liked Valerie," "Is that what made Valerie interesting to 51?" "I wonder:" "Wasn't there a homosexual union through a common mistress?" "The men that make their wives sleep with another men, in front of them or not, they're not perverts, poor devils, they simply want to sleep with another man." "So they use tricks." "Let's talk about his military service." "Happiest days of 51's life." "No, everyone said the opposite!" "Blessed days." "He was thrust into a purely virile environment." "And on top of that..." "Childhood memories, yes, with a common trait" "All these objects reminds of a virile order." "It's even clearer in the letters:" "Not a single letter from a woman, many from old army buddies." "But the interesting episode, the fascinating one," "is of course the rape." "We worked a lot on that one." "You worked a lot." "Yes." "Brauchite tells us:" "51 was particularly impressed by this rape." ""Turned upside down"." "You must understand why:" "What's interesting is the use 51 will make of that rape to allow a literary and verbal release," " That will be therapeutic..." " Remain clear." "Yes." "Well," "He writes a tract on that rape." "describing its details, and finds pleasure in that description, which he begins to notice and worry about." "Because it might force him to recognize what he is:" "A closeted homosexual." " So he extrapolates." " If we dare say..." "I mean that he gives that story a imaginary ending." "The young recruit, castrates the rapist." "Why?" "Because 51 is ashamed of the pleasure he derives from retelling the rape." "And because he wants to eliminate the fault by eliminating the penis, which is the source of pleasure." "A tranquilizing gesture:" " He erases." " But that's not all." "That episodes obsesses 51 so much, that he retells it to his lover, Sarah Robski." "and again modifies the story, but in an even more "enlightening" way since he becomes the victim." "Never has he gone so far into what for him is pleasurable." "but at the same time, there's no guilt" "Pleasure was forced upon him." "He was raped." "It's the essence of guiltless pleasure." "Sarah Robski was wrong thinking that 51 came out of the army traumatized." "He WAS traumatized, but because he had to come out." "Because he was leaving an exclusively virile world, going into a sadly heterosexual world." "Please note:" "That Sarah facilitated the transition." "A militant." "Not very girly." "Physically, discreet in his feminity." "Strong look, small breasts." "and she enjoys being taken as a man, sodomized." "the typical solution for closet homosexuals." "There again, guiltless pleasure." "I'm sleeping with a woman but, if I close my eyes, it could be a boy." "Alright, I simplify too much." "But it is clear that with Sarah Robski, 51 came the closest to living out what he really is." "But he backpedaled when confronted by the truth." "He refused to take the last step." "and he left Sarah, because of family pressure, sure." "But also," "Because he felt she would push him all the way." "That's why your working hypothesis was worthless." "To reactivate the relationship between 51 and Sarah Robski." "51 wouldn't have agreed." "He's too fearful of Sarah's lucidity." "And as a drowning man, 51 jumped on the first buoy he saw." "52; who became his wife." "Classic escape reaction." "I ignore 51's exact feelings for her," "I ignore if they make love, and how, nothing on file, and that in itself is a sign." "I wouldn't be surprised if our man talked about her as he did of his Luxembourg secretary." "Remember:" ""I suppose one might find her attractive."" "He doesn't, it's "one"." ""might"." "The truth is that he doesn't care." "And it's normal that he does, because 51," "I think we just demonstrated, is a closet homosexual." "Very well." "It's convincing enough." "And now?" "Now what?" "How do we take control?" "The one who reveals 51's homosexuality to him, will have control over him." "But how?" "Since he resists, since he refuses that homosexuality." "That's true." "That is a wall to dynamite." "But you have that dynamite." "Reveal to him that he's a bastard?" "Precisely." "Reveal to 51 that he's a bastard, and you will open in his defenses a large enough breach" "for the rest to follow." "That implies that you must find an Agent of the highest caliber." "March 17th, '78." "Minerva to Jupiter." "We are submitting for approval project "Hymen"." "Which consists of involving 51 in an homosexual relationship." "Venus has pre-selected 3 Agents from 28 candidates." "These 3 agents went through screening tests" "During which Hades; an Agent from Venus, played 51." "All 3 agents ignored that this was a rehearsal and thought that this was the real 51" "They believed they were dealing with the real 51." "Agent Pylos managed to make a closer contact, and was particularly brilliant with the physical aspects, where he managed a seduction appealing even to an heterosexual." "Pylos was therefore selected, and trained by Venus under supervision from Asclepius." "Hades was still portraying 51." "It was centered on providing Pylos with a guiding line for the initial phase of seduction:" "The revelation of his illegitimacy." "Your father was in Mauthausen for 6 months," "When mine was transfered, coming from Buchenwald." "That was in 1943." "34 years ago." "Yes." "34 years." "And why did you wait so long before coming to me?" "I hesitated a lot." "Indeed." "Yes, indeed." "It's very simple, Pylos." "Your father didn't tell you when he came out of the camp." "He just told you." "Say, on his death bed." "Resume, go on." "Yes, well..." "My father just died, last minute revelations..." " I'll skip." " DON'T SKIP!" " You're incredible, I was just explaining..." " One moment." "I'll remind you that this phase is under Venus' authority." "My authority." "We'll only progress if everyone remains calm." " Agreed?" " Of course." "But understand me well:" "This phase is crucial." "Worse still:" "It's dangerous." "We're blowing up all 51's psychological barriers in one swoop." "I felt it since my first report:" "That man," "To dominate and repress his homosexuality built a iron personality." "We want to bend someone that could snap in two, disintegrate." "Of what use would a disintegrated 51 be?" "That's your risk." "Which we're working on limiting." "One word of advice." "Pylos' original contact can happen anywhere," "Except in Luxembourg." "Use for example 51's professional trip to Paris." "He'll be alone, therefore stripped, vulnerable." "And he loves children too;" "That could be useful too." "Let's resume." "Pylos, try to introduce a maximum of emotion in relation to the 2 fathers." "Don't forget you're in a death camp." "S.S.., the furnace... and get closer to Hades." "You know that physicality was your selling point." "Just before his death at the camp, your father made mine promise to look after the woman he loved, your mother." "And her son." "You." "Very good." "But why...?" "Why didn't he hold his promise?" "Yes." "He was convinced your mother would divorce when she learned her husband told on him." "But she didn't divorce." " But then, why...?" " Stop!" "There's something very interesting happening that we'll try to perfect." "These revelations, their dramatic historical context, will kindle, in 51, an extreme curiosity," "Which will cause him to ask Questions." "The dialogue's initiative will then fall on 51." "There will no longer be any imposed revelations from Pylos, but revelations requested by 51." "Go on." "Indeed;" "My mother didn't divorce." "Why did your father wait so long to make these revelations?" "Just before dying, he became tormented." "He wondered if he shouldn't have tried to contact you, to tell you about your real father, tell you what man he had been." "And how he died." "And how he died." "Good." "Good." "Pylos, I suggest that now you tell him why you came to make these revelations." "Why are you here?" " To respect my father's will." " No." "Your father made no such demand." "He merely talked of his regrets, of his remorse." "You came, because with 51 you wanted to end those lies and discover the truth." "You understand?" "You put yourself in 51's shoes, this creates a climate of trust." "Recap from the father's death." "Very good on the affectionate display, the hands that touch." "You know the physical approach won't be a problem for Pylos." "The last stage of rehearsal was centered on 51's possible reactions faced with Pylos' revelations:" "Interest," "Stupor, anger, incredulity, etc." "It is clear that uncertainty remains, no matter how much preparation we use." "But we believe to have reduced it to its minimum." "March 20th, '78." "Jupiter to Minerva." "I accept Project "Hymen"." "The Operation will take place as soon as possible." "April 4th, '78." "Mars to Minerva." "51 is called to Paris on April 11th, to participate in a meeting with a delegation from the Mali Republic, on April 11th to 13th." "Hello?" " Mr. Dominique Auphal?" " Speaking." "Hi." "Who is this?" "My name wouldn't tell you much." "Christophe, please, Daddy's on the phone." "My son, I'm sorry." "I must see you." "April 12th." "18:07." "Venus to Minerva." "Established contact as planned." "April 13th." "Venus to Minerva." "Pylos informs us that Operation Hymen was conducted during the night of April 12th with positive results" "and favorable conditions for future exploitation." "April 13th, '78." "Mars to Minerva." "51 is dead." "He died on the road at 10am, at which time a conference was held that he was schedule to attend." "He was alone in a car he had rented in Paris 30 minutes earlier." "The road was dry at the time of collision." "No mechanical failures were found." "No attempts to brake were made." "DOMINIQUE AUPHAL WILL BE REPLACED AT THE ODENS BY..."