"Thank you." "Thank you." "Thanks." "Ok., stay like that." "I just want to put on a little more..." "not too much..." "No, it's ok." "Right." "How about one with my tongue out?" "It's gonna look great." "That's it... that's it." "Perfect" "It's exhausting to be dead!" "I bet." "But for a sister you make one hell of a corpse, paula." "Oh yeah, well, for a brother you make a hell of a photographer." ""Studying philosophy"." "The minute we're born we're dying." "Grossmann needs everything by tomorrow." "What?" "No, he can't!" "I'm no where near done yet." "look the invitations are wrong, I can't believe they screwed up." "They're being amended and reprinted, stop worrying!" "It's gonna be fine." "I have to run, so I see you later, don't be late." "Hey, could you put me through to Dieter Grossmann, please." "Player." "Knight to King 5." "G7 to G8." "He had no choice." "But to return to her." "Because without love there is no life." "Without life there is only darkness... and he had known the darkness." "A darkness more than night." "He felt its cold embrace... as dark forces battled for his soul." "But she had lifted him into the light... with the warmth and strength of her love... as she battled for his heart." "The heart of a man reborn." "Hoohoo!" "Bravo, paula!" "I always loved him." "What are you drawing?" "An idea..." "It was a good reading, paula, congratulations." "And may I say you look exquisite as always." "Rita, how would you Iike to die for me?" "How would you Iike to pay me?" "I'II take that as a "No"." "Have you heard the story about the princess kissing the frog?" "Yes, and unfortunately lothar... one can kiss a Iot of frogs before finding a prince." "You were so wonderful." "Thank you Rita!" "really!" "Thank you" "You were awesome!" "Do you think so?" "Bye, Rita." "Bye." "Bye-bye." "Where are we going?" "We are going this way." "Bye." "The money was transferred as usual, Petrov." "You did a good clean job in London!" "always." "You have to meet a very important client in Vienna." "Password "Donau'." "How about this?" "No, no, no, it's still wrong, try the other way again!" "Which other way?" "The other way!" "How many other ways do you think there fucking are?" "Sorry, it's the lighting." "It's all wrong in here!" "The lighting's perfect." "relax." "paula, I'm baring my soul here, please don't tell me to relax." "I know it's hard but no one's gonna be able to live with you... if you're going to act like this until the show opens." "You're right, I'm sorry." "Guys, I'm sorry." "It's just nerves." "It's going to be quite an event!" "Media's clamoring for invitations." "tell me you got the invitations?" "On their way from the printers and they made all of the corrections" "ScheIIenberg from Arts Magazin... wants to do a profile on you." "Gudrun ScheIIenberg?" "Oh, please, the woman is a rottweiller, she eats artists!" "You'II charm her." "She has a weakness for attractive young men in dark suits." "This woman can make you." "Guys, that is great, but first I don't own a suit... and I don't need to explain my work." "What's wrong?" "She is the influential critic in the business" "For fuck's sake paula, please just stop pushing me, ok?" "Artistic temperament." "paula, the title of the collection." "Not for discussion" "Last call for the passengers to Vienna." "Please proceed immediately to terminal 26." "Hi, my name is Rene Bonnard, I'm calling from..." "KehImann international, a montreal based company." "I'm wondering if you currently have any office space available?" "The third floor is available for renting... but really you have to speak to Mr. klein in our management office." "Mr. klein?" "Settle down, settle down." "I don't like being stuck here this time of night either... but the sooner we get through this the sooner we can all go home, ok?" "Franz..." "Shame we are protecting shit like him." "HoogezahI is scum but he's also a witness... who has information that the courts need to hear." "Franz." "If someone tries a hit... he'II do it between the safe house... and the court house." "Have we had a tip off?" "No tip offs!" "What makes you think someone will try to take him out?" "If I'd helped embezzIe three an a half billion Euros and... someone was about to blow the whistle on me, that's what I'd do." "paula, look, about what I've said." "Wow." "You look great!" "really?" "Except for." "well no one's perfect, right?" "look, Rita, do me a favour, ok, you tell paula that..." "I'II take her out to dinner tonight." "I will make it up to her, ok?" "Okay." "Cause I. I, I've got to go." "Ok." "Hurry up." "Put this on." "What...." "What is it?" "What are you doing?" "Why are you doing this?" "W-Wait..." "Where are we going?" "let's go." "What's going on?" "let's go." "What are you doing?" "Why do I need this?" "It's ok, it's ok." "Is it safe?" "talk to me!" "That way." "I have got a wife and family." "Don't worry, it's ok." "Did you make arrangements for them?" "They're safe." "Where did you bring them to?" "Sit down." "Why don't you answer?" "Speak to me!" "One minute late." "They are going to kill me." "Here." "tell them I'm not going to talk, tell them..." "tell who?" "Are you going to kill me?" "Is it you, are you the one?" "You helped embezzIe three and a half billion Euros in African aid money." "Kids died of starvation because of you." "believe me I couId quite easily kill you... but my job, unfortunately, is to keep you safe." "Shit." "I've got an appointment in like 5 minutes." "What is going on there?" "I'm sorry, we'II soon be there, just relax." "Fuck it. here you, take this." "You keep the change, ok." "Thanks very much." "Oh, and if you wanna come you can." "But bring a friend." "Thank you very much." "Good bye" "Inspector..." "Keep it." "I wouldn't like you to drown in your own sweat." "Hey." "Gudrun ScheIIenberg, please." "Arts Magazin?" "Fourth floor." "Take the lift." "Thanks." "Come on." "Hey." "Sorry." "Aproaching with target now." "Stand by." "let's go." "You stay." "Step out." "walk." "hello?" "Get down everybody!" "Over there." "There!" "Top floor, second window on the right." "Move!" "please!" "I didn't see anything." "Yes you did." "paula..." "The open window!" "Come on!" "police!" "Watch the elevators." "You on the Ieft." "No one leaves the building!" "Move, move!" "Yes, come in." "Hi." "Mr klein?" "I'm Rene Bonnard from KehImann international." "We spoke yesterday on the phone." "Monsieur Bonnard, nice to meet you." "Hi." "hello." "Yeah." "Here's my card." "Thank you, okay." "What the hell is going on down there?" "KIinger, call the morgue." "We fucked it up." "The canvas we had to cover HoogezahI, was suddenly blown away." "Hartmann." "Didn't take you long to get here." "What do you want?" "This is a STAPO, intelligence case now." "Jorg HoogezahI died twenty minutes ago." "That's two people killed today, so if you don't mind." "I got work to do." "You're a tiresome man, Vashon." "You've been suspended twice for insubordination." "You'II need more than luck to survive a third suspension." "Fuck you, Hartmann." "The kid is my case and this is my office, so move your arse now." "You'II be pissing in the wind, Vashon." "This is way above your head." "Yeah, well." "I may not loo very tall, but sometimes I surprise people." "Don't we all?" "Austrian Airlines Flight 417 to Paris is..." "now boarding at...." "The employer is nervous, Petrov." "He got what he wanted." "He got more than he wanted." "He saw me." "l understand." "Did he suffer?" "No, he died very quickly." "Detective Inspector Vashon, I'm in charge of the case." "We need you to identify his things." "There is something missing." "His sketchbook." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." "He was on his way to an interview." "Maybe he left it at home." "He always carried his camera and sketchbook?" "Who killed him?" "We are working on it." "Don't give me that bullshit!" "Who killed him?" "A professional assassin, hired to kill Jorg HoogezahI." "No, no, why would a payed assassin kill Rick?" "So what was he doing there?" "You know, what he was doing there." "Do I?" "From what I know, he had an unhealthy interest in death." "My brother was an artist." "I don't expect you to understand that." "I want it back." "What?" "His sketchbook." "We are bound together, I am the ground you are the step." "How unfair is this love." "I can see your world but you." "I cannot." "welcome from Zurich, Mr PicheIsberger." "It's so nice to have you here." "Did you have a good flight?" "I took him for a ride once." "What do you think..." "feels strange looking at it." ""I feel apart, dispassionately studying my fate."" "He ran away to Bosnia when he was sixteen." "It had a profound effect on him." "He said it was a place where men lost their humanity." "To study philosophy is to study how to die." "Montaigne." "You're the only one who got it." "paula... we're ready." "will you be alright?" "I'II be fine." "Hey, over here." "Ok, thank you." "ladies and gentlemen... as you all know, the opening of this show... is overshadowed by the most tragic of circumstances." "However, rather than cancel the opening..." "paula Stern decided to continue... in memory of her beloved brother." "paula Stern will now say a few words." "My brother Rick Stern was able to provide his images... with a suggestive metaphorical dimension." "He was greatly inspired by the japanese photographer Araki... and by Kubin and KIimt." "But his real intention... his intention was to strip away the mystery of death with his images... and to make us think about life." "He believed that life is a blink of an eye." "and should be lived to the full." "And he hated art-shows... and the superficial people who attend them... almost as much as he hated their senseless conversations... and their false pretentions." "Rick had an amazing talent." "A talent that was brutally destroyed in its inception." "I'm sorry." "I can't do this." "paula!" "let me get you a drink." "let her go." "Taxi." "Taxi!" "Oh, it's you" "Get in." "Take a left." "It's quicker." "I made a complete fool of myself." "Do you mind if I smoke?" "Do you have a name?" "Ok, Mr. No Name." "Andrei, my name is Andrei." "So Andrei." "Did you know Rick?" "We met once." "briefly." "Oh. take the next right." "He was a remarkable artist." "Was." "Now there is a word." "Stop here." "Thanks for the lift." "Are you trying to kill yourself?" "You're bleeding." "It's just a scratch." "Miss Stern." "It's Detective Inspector Vashon." "We didn't locate the sketchbook... I'm afraid." "Sorry." "Call me." "There's a piece of something of Rick's is gone missing." "A piece of his soul." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry you must think I'm..." "No, no." "I'm sorry." "They're from the department." "That's very kind." "You didn't find it?" "No." "Can you think of anywhere your brother might have left it?" "I told you he had it with him." "It seems to me you're clutching at straws, Inspector." "Cigarette?" "Thanks." "When I was a boy..." "I stuck an entire anthiII into a glass box." "So that I couId watch them build their tunnels." "But ants love the dark." "So to make sure they build against the glass..." "I covered it with black paper and left them alone for a few days." "What happened?" "I was too impatient." "I took the paper off too soon." "And?" "The light scared them off and I had to start all over again." "That's what police work's like, Miss Stern." "paula" "They are stone cold killers." "They kill for money." "Anonymity is the core of their survival and... they go to extreme lengths to protect their identity." "You're telling me that there's no chance of catching whoever did it." "Not much." "unless he makes a mistake." "Hello." "That's a very nice book." "How much is it?" "It's, twenty Euros, please." "Thank you." "Your honesty is no comfort." "But. thank you for the lift." "Goodbye Inspector Vashon." "Max." "My name is Max." "Hi Rita." "You're ok.?" "You startled me." "I'm sorry." "That, wasn't my intention." "You, ehm, left this in the car." "Thank you." "I would Iike to buy this book." "You can't." "It's a gift for saving me." "Thank you." "I'd better be going." "would you Iike to see more... of Rick's work?" "It stinks in here." "You have to stop." "I will." "When I catch this one." "So lung cancer is on the cards." "The bullet is hand-made." "That's all we have." "What we need is access to an European wide data-base." "We could always look in the STAPO intelligence" "System." "You could get in?" "Never come across a system that could keep me out." "Not that I would do anything illegal of course." "Of course not." "would Hartmann know?" "Not until it's too late." "So do it." "And if anyone asks you." "You're acting on my orders, ok?" "Good." "Because I have already." "Just trying to keep one step ahead, sir." "There' s fifteen cases in the Iast seven years." "Four in the Iast twelve months, which fit this pattern." "politically motivated, always clean and well executed." "Apart from the bullet he takes nothing and leaves nothing." "But he left something this time... an innocent victim." "I haven't been in here since..." "Grossmann sold the "loss of humanity" work." "Did you buy it?" "I'm glad." "people thought it was strange my brother photographing me like that." "Sisters are cheap models." "Why did you come back?" "You felt it too, didn't you?" "suddenly it's hard to breathe." "I have to go." "Hello." "Hello." "It's me." "Meet me at the opera." "Don't think I don't know what you're up to, Vashon." "Hacking into our systems is a federal offence." "I thought we were both on the same team, Hartmann." "You're bIundering around in areas you have no business being." "Wrong, Hartmann." "The boy is my business." "What the hell are you so afraid of me finding out, huh?" "Andrei?" "Andrei, is that you?" "Andrei, are you here?" "Are you afraid?" "You're late, Petrov." "You are to meet a new client in a club in Dusseldorf." "You must act quickly." "Give me the password." ""Rhein'" "My name is Andrei losing." "I'm a financial broker." "I was born in Russia, but I Iive in Paris." "Why should I believe you?" "I can think of one good reason." "Champagne, eggs and caviar for breakfast." "I thought you'd gone again." "look, if or when you leave, please, don't go without saying "good-bye"." "I won't." "I'II set the table." "I have never seen a man so out of place in the kitchen." "It's not my world." "What is your world?" "I don't know." "I'd love to show you somewhere beautiful." "This was my parents' holiday house." "Rick and I spent a Iong time here as kids." "My mother taught Rick and I to play." "What?" "It's so nice to have you here." "Excuse me?" "It's amazing." "You were a soldier?" "My father was an allied soldier." "He met my mother and then stayed in Vienna." "Was he an infantry?" "No." "He was a press officer." "Then after they married, they opened a book store." "And, where are they now?" "They died in an accident." "I'm sorry" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Where did you grow up?" "A small place in the UraIs called ShaIvia." "I never met my father." "And your mother?" "She was very young." "She couldn't get work so she went to Moscow." "She visited me once a year on my birthday." "And then..." "she vanished." "Who took care of you?" "There was an old priest." "He taught me chess, philosophy and poetry." "I Iike poetry." "paula!" "Gotcha!" "Don't do that again." "You scared me." "I was joking." "I was joking." "Untie me!" "Trust me." "What." "What are you doing?" "What are you doing, paula." "Trust me." "Are you afraid?" "Very afraid." "It's wonderful, isn't it, Inspector?" "It's good of you to do this on a Sunday." "Have you got that invitation list?" "I have indeed." "Is this everyone who was there on the opening night?" "No." "Rick handed out invitations to all and sundry, Inspector." "Even to people he didn't know." "What about the photographs that were taken that night?" "half the people here?" "I haven't a clue who they are." "I mean to say look." "official invitations." "Someone's name on every one." "No thank you." "But all these. blank." "No names." "AII given out by Rick." "That's odd." "What?" "This, look." "It's the proof." "Rick's proof." "The colour of the reproduction of Rick's photograph was all wrong." "So he wouldn't have handed out one that wasn't perfect, right?" "absolutely Inspector." "Rick would never have done that." "So, what happened to the priest?" "He died." "And then I felt alone." "completely alone." "That's how I felt when Rick died." "I took care of him for so long." "A part of me died with him." "Why did you to take care of him?" "Someone had to." "And who took care of you?" "You don't understand." "He was a golden boy." "My parents adored him." "And didn't they adore you?" "Of course." "But he was special." "Everybody said so." "I wanted him to have the sort of Iife that he would have had..." "if my parents had lived." "And what about your life paula?" "My life?" "When I was a little girl I thought I'd become a concert pianist... but that's the way it goes." "And instead you looked after Rick?" "He had no one else." "You had no one else." "Why did he have to die?" "I wished somebody could explain that to me." "How can someone just take another human being's life?" "To some people it's just a job." "A job?" "What kind of a job is that?" "You killed people." "How could you do it?" "You get used to it." "Anyone can kill... it's in us all." "I don't accept that." "I couId never kill another human being... even if it meant losing my own life!" "How many?" "How many what?" "How many people do you have to kill before you get used to it?" "Were they all soldiers?" "Or were they civilians, women, children?" "You have no idea of what it's like to be a soldier!" "Sometimes in life things have to be done." "But you will never understand that." "No matter how you try to justify it." "It is wrong!" "people cannot take life!" "real life is not that simple!" "We don't live in Utopia!" "I don't want Utopia!" "What do you want?" "I want my brother back." "let him go, paula." "You have to get on with your own life." "What do you know about my Iife?" "You want me to let go of Rick?" "I'II let go of Rick when they find the bastard who killed him." "could you fill it up, please?" "I'II pay." "Where have you been?" "You should have..." "I'm out." "I quit." "That's not possible." "It's over, lomax." "No!" "It's not over!" "There's unfinished business!" "Hoogezahl's alive." "It's not possible." "You fucked up." "Get someone else to do it." "Petrov, it's important to us that this relationship continues." "This is a courtesy call, lomax." "You can't threaten me." "You don't even know me." "You shouldn't have gone after the girl." "Which girl?" "Which girl, Petrov?" "Or should I say Major Sacharov... 2nd battalion 3rd guards regiment of red army... much decorated after serving in Chechenya." "Known as "The Poet'." "What is it?" "slow down." "Andrei!" "What was that about?" "I can't lose you, paula." "So you nearly kill me?" "You won't lose me." "I can't live in your world." "So we'II live in yours." "My world doesn't exist anymore." "Don't ask why." "Trust me." "We could find a world of our own." "A life of our own." "We would have to start all over." "You want to?" "I want you." "I want to go with him." "Can you understand that?" "You hardly know him, paula." "Yeah, well, my father and mother were married for 20 years... before he found out that she even didn't like red carnations." "What about the store?" "SpengIer was always interested." "lothar?" "But I am leaving it to you." "Oh thanks." "I am very, very happy for you, really." "Thank you." "Max." "Come on in." "It's nice to see you happy." "Thank you." "I found this at the murder scene." "It had fallen down a vent." "You were right all along." "He had the book with him." "We have identified most of the guests." "Except for these." "Hmm-hmm." "That's someone Rick went to school with." "I don't know them." "Or them." "I'm sorry." "Don't be." "And he used this to get into the gallery on the opening night." "He was there?" "You must be careful." "Andrei." "Come meet Max Vashon." "Andrei losing." "You are not from Austria, huh?" "He lives in Paris." "How did you two meet?" "We met at Rick's show." "Andrei losing financial broker." "lives in Paris." "Get onto our friends in France, KIinger, check him out." "Why?" "Because the bastard is too good looking, that's why!" "You don't mind leaving so soon?" "In fact I can't think of one good reason why we shouldn't." "Why do you think Rick's killer would show up at the gallery?" "What make's him think he did?" "One would think that someone that evil would have a dark aura." "But I didn't see anyone like that, did you?" "No." "But do they have any idea who he is?" "Not the faintest." "paula, I need to get some air." "How about going to your place?" "No." "My neighbour always complains." "I'm sorry." "I'm looking for a bar called "Morgenstern"." "Do you know?" "No, but why don't you join us?" "Stop it." "Thanks anyway." "asshole!" "You tell lomax that when I said I was out..." "I meant I was out." "And if he sends anyone else I will kill them." "You're in luck." "He's just arrived." "It's for you." "I gave my office your number." "I hope it's ok." "Of course." "hello?" "There's a certain Inspector Vashon who is checking you out in Paris." "The net is closing in around you Major Sacharov." "I've given my answer before." "Hoogezahl's in a secure ward in the military hospital." "He's been in a coma, unfortunately he's showing signs of recovery... and they're transferring him into another unit." "Tomorrow night is your best chance." "If you fail us we kill Paula Stern." "She... that means nothing to me." "We'll still kill her." "Complete your mission and make for Slowak border... where a car will pick you up... I'll make sure you'll have a new identity, a new face, a new life." "Andrei losing is clean." "No criminal record." "Pays his taxes on time, hasn't even had a parking ticket." "Sounds to clean to me." "I don't have a criminal record." "But you hacked in the STAPO computer system." "No one is perfect, KIinger." "Okay." "Put his picture in the central computer... check with the airlines, hotels and car hire outlets." "See if you place him in dusseldorf or Vienna the time of the murders." "What?" "You wanted an autopsy report on HoogezahI for our files." "They've been giving me the run around." "And?" "I hacked into their system... there is no autopsy record." "letting everybody believe he was dead, the best way to protect him." "That's why I didn't want you stirring things up." "Don't give me that bullshit." "What game are you playing now?" "No game." "Just doing what I have to do." "Where is he?" "In a safe place." "I want to see him." "Thank you." "Your change." ""l loved thee." "Perhaps my love has in my soul not ceased to be." "No need the troubled furrow in thy brow." "No further shall my loving burden thee."" "Quick!" "He's gone." "Where is he?" "Okay, I'II take the park." "I'II cover this side." "Complete your mission and make for the Slovak border... where a car will pick you up." "I'll make sure you'll have a new identity, a new face, a new life." "What' going on?" "No guards on the roof." "None in the grounds." "You set this up, you bastard." "You wanted HoogezahI and the killer dead." "But you lost him, Hartmann." "As you said, Vashon, it was your job." "To lose your man once is one thing... but to lose him twice that's negligence." "The car hire people recognized Andrei losing." "But they know him as charles Duchez." "charles Duchez was here and in dusseldorf... at the time of the killings." "Paula?" "Are you there?" "Max Vashon." "Please, pick up!" "It's urgent." "paula?" "You killed him." "It was you." "He saw my face." "He saw your soul." "Don't come near me." "You killed my brother and then you sleep with me?" "Did it turn you on?" "Did it?" "When you touched me did you think about Rick dying?" "When you kissed me, when you fucked me." "Rick." "Don't you dare use his name." "You're not allowed to use his name." "It was your true face Rick saw before he died." "Do it." "I'm not Iike you." "I can never be like you." "You made me love you, why, why?" "I am sorry." "No, your sorry means nothing to me." "You are nothing to me." "What do you do now, Andrei?" "kill me?" "Here, take it!" "I'm just one more." "Just one more should be easy." "Just one more!" "Everybody in position." "losing's car is parked around the corner." "I have to go." "If we go in, we could endanger paula's life." "Her life is in danger any way." "I don't think so." "Andrei Losin?" "This is the police." "Come out of the building." "We know you're in there." "Miss Stern!" "Paula!" "Can you talk to me?" "I Iove you." "I don't want to hear that." "Good-bye paula." "Just tell me why." "I am a killer, that's what I, that's who I am." "No." "Why did you come back?" "I wanted to ask you to forgive me." "I'm sorry." "I can't do that." "Come out of the building." "This is the police!" "The last thing he said was your name." "Losin, this is your last chance, come out of the building!" "We know you're in there!" "?" "hold your fire, hold your fire." "You're not going to die." "You're going to live on." "A good life this time." "You did something good." "Andrei, you did something good." "We never would have caught him."