"Come in." "We can't find her." "We've looked everywhere, she could be anywhere by now..." "It's alright." "If Sólveig reaches the city..." "You've done a terrific job, Magnea." "What do we do?" "That's an excellent idea." "You're getting better." "Magnea, hand me the phone." "All done." "Hello there, I'm Dr. Torfi Ezekíel, the head of staff at the Heimsendir mental ward." "I'm reporting that a patient has escaped from us." "Perfect." "CHAPTER 7:" "THERMIDOR" "Let me out!" "I must speak with my daughter!" "Stop that!" "You want us to be discovered?" "That hole is tiny, we'll never get through!" "I'm enlarging it, it might go faster if I got some help." "Seriously, you must help us." "Leó?" "I'm so weak." "There there, Leó." "Sólveig will come back with help." "You're just angry due to hunger." "Charlie was just like you." "Charlie who?" "Charles Atlas." "Hello?" "Help!" "Where's Daddy?" "Is he OK?" "Don't you worry about him." "He's being treated nicely over in the hobby room." "The same cannot be said about your mother." "What do you mean?" "Your mother has left us." "She betrayed you." "She betrayed us." "Can I leave this room?" "Perhaps, if you'll be nice and behave properly." "I haven't done anything, let me out!" "Acting like that is not going to get you out of here." "Be a nice girl and help me out here." "Had you found Kííkíí?" "Kííkí!" "is dead." "I have a new advisor." "Would you like some grapes?" "No thanks." "Álfheiður Björk, I love you..." "Remember that song?" "Oh yes." "The one we sang the other day?" "Those were fun times." "Don't you want your bone back?" "No." "It's just a toy." "You can keep it." "A gift from me to you." "But the scars, had you learned anything..." "Didn't I tell you to continue?" "!" "?" "I'm sorry." "Please, have some grapes." "As much as you'd like." "Leó, come on!" "But I'm so tired." "Am I a bat here?" "No." "I can't see in the dark." "Hold the light for me." "There isn't a trace left of Margeir in there." "A personality has taken over him that I've never met." "He's calculated and in control, things we've never seen in him." "Haven't you been working with him for 20 years?" "It'll be exciting to chat with this new side of him." "Exciting?" "!" "?" "He's holding my daughter hostage!" "You're talking like this is some kind of game." "Relax, Lúðvíík." "We're in this together." "He's been recovering nicely and about to be released, when he lands in these extreme circumstances..." "Could it be that it's this side of him that...?" "That what?" "As a child he..." "Well, it's kinda hard to explain it." "Margeir is like an onion." "Each personality is a layer to protect a sensitive soul." "Could this one be the core?" "What nonsense." "There are no cores in onions, only layers." "Yes!" "We're through!" "I told you guys so!" "Let me see!" "I can see through!" "We're finally through!" "The enemy waits for an opportunity to attack us, it's not a question of if, but when." "Yes, Karl Magnús?" "I'm not so sure it's a good idea to cover the windows." "These changes are important, we must protect the community." "Kristmundur and Sigurpáll, cover all the windows in C block." "You three, do the same in the employee wing." "Each of you is an important link in the chain, if one of you breaks, everything is lost." "Will be stand together?" "!" "?" "Yes!" "All as one?" "!" "?" "Yes!" "Excuse me..." "I shouldn't be here." "I'm not a patient here." "I had myself committed in here as I'm working on a Master's thesis." "Opinions on psychosis within the health system." "It's all part of my research." "You can call my professor in Denmark..." "We need to tighten our security here!" "We must restrict access between areas and nobody goes outside without permission from me." "Margeir is making a mistake." "This is not Margeir." "He doesn't follow the constitution." "Nobody listens." "We must stand together." "We must call a meeting..." "You are the leader!" "You can break the chains!" "What chains?" "The guillotine!" "It must be stopped!" "I must speak now, she no longer makes any sense." "I'm going in the guillotine." "Nobody is going in any goddamn guillotine here!" "Karl Magnús!" "He wants a word with you." "Kneel before Julius." "What?" "Kneel." "Take your helmet off." "No." "Leave him alone." "Give us some privacy." "I'm sorry about Magnea, she sometimes goes too far." "Can I offer you some grapes?" "No." "You are a clever man, Karl Magnús." "I was fascinated by your suggestion for a new calendar." "It's just a simple idea." "The image of the world has been distorted." "People have lost sight of..." "The bigger picture." "The decimal system is in every system in the world." "The number 10 is much easier to use than 7, or 14, or 28, not to mention 31." "Exactly." "But tell me... what about birthdays and such?" "They just disappear." "Otherwise we'd have to..." "Very good." "We must adopt this system at once." "Are you ready to see it through?" "I plan to build a clock with 10 hours in a day." "That's very good." "Men like you and me, we must stand together." "We know what the goal is." "We have a new constitution and a new calendar, but we lack order and discipline." "We also need good ideas." "That's where you come in." "If you help me, I'll help you." "I don't think you realize this, but you are a genius." "Food for the staff." "Put it here by the door." "Come on now!" "Hurry up!" "Leó, what's keeping you?" "We all need to get through!" "I'm stuck." "Help me, I'm stuck!" "Shut up, man!" "Just hold your breath!" "Damnit, you're stuck there!" "You guys must push!" "You dislocated my shoulder!" "Damn you, fatass!" "Hello?" "Is anyone there?" "No..." "Don't go!" "Come back here!" "Am I talking to you today, or was it yesterday?" "Good day." "Got a cigarette?" "The new system will be much more efficient." "Everyone serves an important role in every committee." "In what committee am I in?" "The welfare committee." "Karl Magnús has all the details on who is on what committee." "The biggest change is to the investigative committee." "We've set up a Council of Public Awareness that I lead, and is chaired by the people standing here next to me." "All the committees will answer to this council," "Defence, Sentencing, Welfare, Expansion and Information." "Why do we need a Sentencing committee?" "It's to enforce the sentences upon the staff that will be handed out in the upcoming trial." "Why are we punishing them?" "You should ask the Sentencing Committee about that." "There your query will be discussed and its findings sent to the Council, who will then send the findings to the" "Information Committee for discussion." "Any further questions?" "You'll never get away with this!" "We'll just have to pop it back in." "Ready?" "This is just one screwup upon another." "You must stop this madness!" "We have families!" "So do we!" "Court is in session." "You have intentionally acted in a criminal manner, caused destruction of property and bereft yourselves of trust." "It's useless to escape." "To turn your backs on us." "That was Toggi's idea." "Shut up man!" "Do you admit to having undressed inmates here, rubbed them with soap and washed down with water?" "Yes, of course." "Do you admit to having given drugs to inmates?" "What is this shit?" "Have any of these actions been done without the approval of the inmates involved?" "So you admit to inflicting physical and mental violence upon members of our society?" "Violence?" "We just do what we're told." "If Sólveig says..." "The guards at Auschwitz said the exact same thing!" "I was told to do it!" "What the hell is this?" "Leó once put vaseline on Hulda's doorknob so she couldn't get out." "That was Toggi, not me." "I didn't do anything." "Oh yes, you did." "You even bragged about it." "She was always wandering about in the night." "Guilt hounds the guilty." "Has your defence any comment on this?" "What verdict from the jury?" "Guilty." "You are hereby sentenced to suffer the same treatment as the people that you have acted against." "I suggest that they be made to listen to jazz." "I don't get it, what are we guilty of?" "I'm not about to take any drugs." "I am to participate in a tournament and need to pass a drug test." "You are sentenced to eat only meatloaf for a week." "A bad treatment of food and a simple menu are not tolerated!" "Also a small dose of Haldol." "Bad manners, humiliation of inmates, sexual harassment..." "And last, but not least, total lack of ethics." "Do you wish to make a statement, Sólveig?" "What of the defence?" "We then sentence you to suffer the same treatment as you have inflicted upon the inmates." "All your wishes and desires will be ignored." "As Sólveig is in absentia, her sentence will be delayed." "Because I love you, Álfheiður Björk!" "There you go." "Please, for us." "Remember our plans?" "I'm useless." "I ruin everything I touch." "Einar, you are everything." "I am nothing." "Forgive me." "Daddy!" "Álfheiður!" "Just do what Margeir says." "Álfheiður!" "What's going on here?" "Margeir!" "Lúðvíík is accused of two escape attempts, betrayal and violating the trust of the inmates here." "For that, you shall be punished." "If you touch a hair on her head..." "Why should I do that?" "She has done no wrong." "People that don't do wrong won't be punished." "Sadly that does not apply to you." "I helped you!" "I've always stood with you!" "You failed us when we most needed you!" "You're so busy trying to help everyone that you don't have time for anyone!" "Lúðvíík has always been kind to us!" "Silence!" "This is a witch hunt!" "This is a trial of the council!" "Do not belittle the will of the people!" "You've put everyone here in danger!" "Locking people up, pumping them full of drugs," "Abusing your power..." "I sentence you!" "Injection of 200mg of Largactil!" "You can forget that!" "I want to see Álfheiður now!" "Silence!" "Let me go!" "I'll take him from here." "We're supposed to..." "I'm on the Sentencing Committee, he's my responsibility." "Can you walk?" "Come on." "We've never met." "What should I call you?" "Look at this man." "He is a victim of serious crimes against him." "Twice he was subjected to a pre-frontal lobotomy." "That was before my time." "Yes, but by men who made the same oath as you did." "Answer me one thing, do you know Margeir?" "I am Margeir." "The Margeir I know has changed." "We all changed when we escaped from the drugs." "At last we became ourselves." "Do you feel like yourself now?" "I am not the one on trial here." "Why won't you let me get to know you?" "I know nothing of you." "What?" "Didn't you write a whole book about me?" "You know everything about me." "And I know everything about you." "How are Elsa and the children doing?" "It was so much fun at the summer home with them." "Look here, Margeir." "This trial is over." "We sentence Torfi to be completely cast out from our society." "Yes." "For a new republic to be born, an old king must die." "Hello?" "We were once good friends." "How did he die?" "An aneurysm?" "But... what was he doing there?" "Did he have his grandfather's old photos?" "No, it's very important, there were 10 old photographs from the pages of the Archimedes Palimpsest..." "But you don't understand what it means!" "I'm next on the list!" "The others also all died from aneurysms..." "It was Strauss and Strauss, and I'm the third one..." "Jósefsson!" "What happened that night?" "The night of the fire?" "Were you there?" "Why won't you tell me who you are?" "Does anyone really know who he is?" "You're not Helgi, are you?" "Fjalar?" "Stop." "Davíið?" "Sigrún?" "Gunnar?" "I am Móri." "Móri.."