"STADELHEIM PRISON, MUNICH" "All the best, kid!" "Yeah." "See you next time round." "There won't be a next time for me." "Do you have a phone?" "A coffee!" "Hello!" "Does someone called Joanna Reiher work for you?" "I see." "You wouldn't know where she's working now?" "Maybe you could call me back." "636407." "07!" "GODS OF THE PLAGUE" "Hello?" "Yes." "Franz here." "No." "Yeah." "The Lola Montez." "Blond hair, dark-blue eyes" "I see wherever I may be" "And a silly, little child-like smile" "Haunts my reverie" "My blond baby" "Do not forget me" "My little baby" "Don't do that to me" "You've no idea" "What you mean to me" "For in your soul" "You're still a baby" "My little baby" "Listen to me" "In my dreams" "There's only you" "Hear my yearning" "Speak to you" "My blond baby" "Do not forget me" "Franz!" "Look!" "There it is." "Would you like to?" "Here!" "For the meal." "Let's go up there, OK?" "Come closer to me!" "Come on!" "You're here at last!" "Miss!" "Can I order now?" "I'll be with you immediately." "Was it bad?" "No different from outside." "Ah, come on!" "Don't be so sad!" "What would you like?" " Do you have snails?" " I'm afraid not." "Pity." "What would you like?" " Meat loaf with egg." " Meat loaf with egg." "And for you?" "Oh, dear!" " A rump steak." " One rump steak." "Anything to drink?" "Two beers." "Thank you!" " Wouldn't you like something better?" " No." "Meat loaf with egg!" "I like it." "I'm so fond of you." "I have to phone someone." "Who?" "Marian?" "Hi!" "It's me!" "Franz." "Yeah." "Doesn't matter." "Yeah." "I'm eating out with Joanna." "Where?" "Gotzingerstrasse 13." "Yeah, in about two hours." "Bye!" "Who was that?" "My brother." " Les is in America." " Is he?" "Good work in Paderborn." " Thirteen." " Shit!" " Bruno's dead." " I know." "We ate snails." "Thirteen." "Please!" "Put it on seventeen!" "The Gorilla?" "He's hiding out some place." "And why?" "Tell me why!" "He's changed his line." "I've won!" "Three, black!" "Good morning!" "Oh!" "Make inquiries in Landsberg!" "That's true." "Even so..." "Take a seat!" "Have you tried this Joanna Reiher?" " No." " Well, then." "Her guy is out of jail again." " I know." "What about him?" " I just thought..." "Do you know her?" ""Aulaulu, Carla." ""Peddler." ""Born Nov. 12, 1943, in Brasov." ""On police records for..." ""pornography."" "She knows everything that's going on." "She phoned." "It's not possible." "Joanna Reiher's guy, this Franz..." " Walsch." " That's right." "He was a friend of his." "Try this Carla Aulaulu woman." "Try Joanna Reiher... and this Franz Walsch." "A guy like that can't just vanish." "He'd be conspicuous anywhere." "My God!" "Marian Walsch!" "Yeah." "Franz." "I don't want to anymore." "For what?" "Nothing." "No." "Yesterday?" "Maybe... but that's all over." "What should we do at her place?" "Have it your way!" "What time?" "Hey, you!" "What?" "Come here, please!" "You still haven't shown me your ID card, Mr..." "Franz Biberkopf." "It's upstairs now... my ID card." "OK... but yesterday I gave you a bill for the week." "It has to be paid." "Don't worry, I'll pay." "Do I look like someone who wouldn't pay?" "Well, judging by your luggage..." "Stop, or I'll call the police!" "I was at the grave." "Oh, God!" "The coffee!" "I'll make you some coffee." "My son!" "I've bought a new record." "Shall I play it for you?" "Like it?" "My boy!" "Do you need money?" "I have enough." "Mom, what's Uncle Franz doing there?" "You're crazy!" "Get out of here!" "Come here!" "Marian hasn't been here for three days." "I don't know why I'm so unhappy." "It's because of what happened in the past, I'm sure." "My uncle's to blame." "He abused me." "It was terrible." "I was a nervous wreck at the time." "A girl alone in the big city." "You know what I mean." "And then there was your brother." "I was so young." "He was my uncle... and I was brought up like that." "Your brother doesn't have such lovely skin as you do." "All I'm concerned with is the Gorilla." "The check!" "You've got to help us!" "I'll give you my phone number." "My private one, of course." "Carla!" "Inspector!" "Shall I introduce you?" "No need." "We know each other." "I've got some new magazines... with new positions and so on." "Want to see?" "No thanks." "The last ones were no good." " You wanted to pay?" " Yes." "4 marks, 70." " Keep the change!" " Thanks." "Bye!" "Don't forget me!" "Where is he?" "Here!" "Do you like it?" "No, but I'll buy it." "Three hundred." "I have to live, too." "OK." "Well?" "He lives with a Magdalena Fuller." "Well?" "He gave her his number." "Just because of those few days?" "It's ridiculous!" "There was someone from the police here yesterday, too." "You might at least have told me." "You know he belongs to me." "He prefers blondes." "Everyone knows that." "I'm sorry, my dear." "Forgive me!" "Three hundred." "I don't have that much." "OK." "I'll make it cheaper for you." "How much do you have?" "A hundred." "OK, a hundred, then." "I'm looking for the Gorilla." "The Gorilla?" "Do you want to pull a job?" "That's my business, not yours." "Dreimühlenstrasse 31." "Calls himself Schöndorff or Schlöndorff." "Thanks." "Come to my place!" "It was his brother." "I'm sure of it." "There's more to this than meets the eye." "And what have you found out?" "I..." "Yes." "Nothing!" "Absolutely nothing." "We must use different methods." "Tougher ones." "Drastic measures are needed." "I want to see results from you." "I know." " Can I help you?" " Where's your personnel office?" "Room 218, second story." "The lift's on the right." "What are you doing now?" "I'm getting up." "And why?" "I have to go to work." "Stay here!" "And what about my work?" "Stuff it!" "I'll lose my job." "What'll I do then?" "I have to send my mother something every month." "We could go for a walk." "You're sweet." "All creatures, great and small, gathered for a grand masked ball" "The turtle from a turtle race played trumpet at a hurtling pace" "The chameleon, chameleon puffed on a bulky bombardon" "And all the lice, the little lice, they made a noise that wasn't nice" "The bumblebees, the bumblebees banged on bombastic timpanis" "The eel, the eel performed a slithering reel" "The leopard, with a spotted scarf, was waiting for his better half" "The flamingo, the flamingo was looking for some place to go" "The mule, the stubborn mule, was sprawling in a vast fauteuil" "The water's mirror showed the swan that he was looking rather wan" "And the hippo, hippopotamus behaved badly like a lot of us" "The pig, who wasn't very fine..." "Do you want some ravioli?" "The buffalo, the buffalo bawls to the goose a gruff "Hello!"" "While the spotted salamander slides down to the veranda" "The fly, the fly stands outside in the pantry" "A parrot who could count to three squawked "Pretty Polly" constantly" "The storks, the storks were camouflaged as hawks" "The wolves, a pack of twelve, had sheepishly disguised themselves" "The bugs, even the little bug, began to dance a jitterbug" "And when it danced, the eagle did something very regal" "The fleas, the fleas hopped in the air with ease" "Then suddenly the hall was still, they all sat down to eat their fill" "The raven and the stork ate soup with just a fork" "The giraffé, the giraffé ate chocolate wafers with café" "Like a schnapps?" "Yes." "And the serpent, for a change, tried to eat a blood orange" "The lizard, oh, the lizard had pork crackling in its gizzard" "The gnu, the gnu had eaten quite enough, he knew" "The aurochs, who was soon replete, asked who would like the rest to eat" "The dromedary chewed at length on caviar to give him strength" "The snipe was but a snipe though clearly not a guttersnipe" "The llama, the llama finished off with a banana" "That this was just a nonsense song, was something we knew all along" "Stop a moment!" "You must help us." "You have to, understand?" "I know nothing." "Leave me alone!" "Otherwise you'll be an accessory to murder." "He killed his brother." "Marian?" "Not so rough!" "A King Ludwig." "A handsome man." "Yeah." "Twenty marks." "Twenty?" "It's the last one." "Hey, don't walk so fast!" "Well, what do you say now?" "Hello, there!" "It's crazy!" "Crazy!" " Is that yours?" " You bet." "Let's pay Jo a visit!" "Come on!" "I obtained a loan... on the strength of my job." "So what?" "We've spent nearly all of it." "Life is expensive." "Was that you with Marian?" "Yes." "Something I don't know about?" "A joke between men." "Why do they call you the "Gorilla"?" "Because I'm big and strong, and everyone has to have a name." "He sang." "It was an order." "Were you together with Joanna while I was away?" "Yes." "I love you." "Marie Luise!" "Jo!" "Franzl!" " This is Günther." " Hello, Günther!" "Hello!" " This is Margarethe." " Your girlfriend?" " May I give her a kiss?" " Sure." "Crazy!" " Is that yours?" " Yes." "Was it bad?" " How are things with you?" " Fine." "Well!" "Hello, my boy, how are you?" "Why?" "It couldn't be simpler." "I'm doing fine, honestly." "I have a wife... the house... and..." "Marie Luise's expecting a baby." " Getting old, huh?" " Ah, come on!" " Well, aren't you?" " Sure he's getting old." "Just look at him!" "Oh my!" "Kid!" "OK, let's get moving!" "Come on!" "Bye!" "Goodbye!" "Bye!" "Ciao, Jo!" "Take care!" "How much is this mag?" "Twenty marks." "Daylight robbery!" "OK, I'll take it." "Here!" "I have to know what's going on." " Don't you want to see which one you like?" " I must go to work!" "I've no time!" "Sorry." "I didn't mean to shout." "I'm just so desperate." "I have to know what's going on." "Oh, God!" "I just go on talking." "He's planning a hold-up in a supermarket... with the Gorilla and his old friend Jo." "Which supermarket?" "Do you know?" "The one in Müllerstrasse." "The owner's name is Martin." "He knows him from the old days." "Satisfied now?" "We could run an agency for newspapers." "Subscriptions and that sort of thing." " We should call it off?" " Yes." "Then we'd always be together." "Shit!" "There's nothing to be earned in that." "And if we were to start a business?" "A delicatessen or something?" " "A little more, if you please"?" " "Seen our special offer?"" "You're not being serious." "We'll go south." "To Greece." "You need money for that." "Help me, will you?" "We don't need no money." "Because we love each other." "That's right!" "You two are strange." "We'll go to an island and live from fishing." "And hunting." "And the sun will shine." "And it never rains." "And we'll eat crabs." "And drink wine." "Why not?" "What?" "I said, "Why not?"" "Because it's too expensive." "Why too expensive?" "It's just too expensive." "I know what he's planning." "He wants to hold up a supermarket." "In Müllerstrasse." "Can't you shoot him in the act?" "Please!" "Please!" "Well then?" "I don't know." "Well I do." "We need money." "You can't simply say, "We need money."" "As if it were so easy to get money!" "We'll do a raid." "Is there no other way?" "No." "I could earn money... with men or whatever." "What do you mean?" "For you, Franz." "Franz!" "Go round there!" " Hi!" " How are things?" "You've got to prevent it!" "Don't let him do it!" "Please!" "Don't hurt him!" "You mustn't condemn him!" "He's so dear." "Please!" "Oh, you swine!" "You're all swine!" "You still owe me ten pfennigs!" "What a hysterical creature!" "What are you up to these days?" "This and that." "What does that mean?" "Oh, this and that." " Are you still with Joanna?" " No." "Where do you come from?" " Bavaria." " What?" "Don't touch things!" "What do they pay you here?" "Oh, it's OK." "Hey, what's the game?" "Cobbler, stick to your last!" "Who did you blab to, darling?" "I need the money." "I have to be beautiful for the others." "I need it!" "I need it!" "Come on!" "Talk!" "Out with it!" "Joanna Reiher." "We herewith commit your body..." "Franz Walsch... to consecrated earth." "For from dust you come... and to dust you shall return." "May the Day of Judgement... hold no horrors for you." "Therefore... let us pray for his poor soul... that it may be cleansed in purgatory." "For the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ... who leads the lost sheep back to the way of God... and cleanses us of all our sins." "Amen." "I loved him so much." "[Skipped item nr. 460]"