"Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." " Nervous?" " No." "Jeez, I hate flying." "It's something I ate." "I think I've been poisoned." " Oh, you're just excited about getting home." " No, I think it's the baklavas." "Told you not to eat them." "Look, I gotta go to the john again." "You go on through, and I'll catch up to you, okay?" " So I'll wait." " No." "Go." "I'll catch up to you." "I'll only be a minute, okay?" "Okay?" "Okay." "Passport." "Basket." "Frisbee." "Frisbee." "You throw it, catch it." "It's a game." "Game." "Baseball." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." " Hello." " You okay?" " Yeah, I'm great." "Want a piece of gum?" " Sure." "Thank you." " See this?" " What?" " Janis Joplin died yesterday." " No." "Overdose in a Hollywood motel." "There never was anyone like Janis." " Never was anyone like you." " Stop it." "Knock it off." " You never take anything seriously, do you?" " Nothing." " What's he saying?" " I don't know." "Jesus Christ." "They always do everything ass backwards in Turkey?" " Billy, what's the matter?" " My passport." " Oh, no." " Susan, forget it." "Go get a seat on the plane now." "What is it, Billy?" "What's wrong?" "Are you sick?" "For Christ's sake, just get on that plane now." " Go!" " Okay." "Looking for my passport." "Hey, Harry." "You'd better get rid of those grenades." "What is this, Turkish insecurity?" "Oh, God." "Get down." "Get down." " Name?" " William Hayes." "William..." " Hayes." " Hayes." "Hiyes." " American?" " That's right." "Yes." "American." "United States." "America." " Name?" " Oh, Jesus." " William Hayes." " Name?" "Hayes." "H-A-Y-E-S." "Wait a minute." "Howdy, Billy." "How you doing?" "Okay?" "I think these gentlemen have finished for the time being." "If you'd like to put your clothes on." "The officer wants to know if you're afraid, Billy." "No, I'm not afraid." "The officer said there's nothing to be afraid of." "Cooperate, you'll be on a plane home." "Yes?" "Where did you get the hashish?" "From a cab driver, in the pudding shop at the bazaar." "Would you recognise him again?" "Yeah." "I think so." "Well, you decided to fly at a bad time, Billy." "Guerrillas all over the place, blowing up planes and all." "It's stupid." "Four planes in four days, but I guess you kids don't read the newspapers, and what with our people kicking up a shit storm about heroin from Turkey..." "I didn't have heroin." "I'm not up on all that." "A drug's a drug seems to me, Billy." "It was my first time." "I'm not really a smuggler." "It was only two kilos." "See, right now, it don't really matter, Billy, if it was two kilos or 200." "Turks love to catch any foreigner." "Shows the world they're fighting the drug trade." " Are you with the consulate?" " Something like that." " Cigarette?" " Thanks." "How much you pay this joker, this cab driver?" "$200." "It was my last 200." " How much you figure to make?" " I was only gonna sell it to my friends." "I'm not a pusher." "Honest." "Beats working." "You got a family back there?" "Yeah." "Mother, father, brother, sister." " Babylon, Long Island." " Be tough on them." " Girlfriend?" " Yeah." "She was on the plane." "She didn't know anything about it." "I didn't want her to." " Lucky girl." " Yeah." "She used to say I was the lucky one." "Well, let's hope so, Billy." "Let's sure as hell hope so." "You seem like a nice enough kid to me, Billy, but you try it, and I'll blow your fucking brains out." ""Dear Mom and Dad," ""This is the hardest letter I've ever had to write." ""I hoped somehow to get out of this quickly so that you'd never have to know about it," ""but that just isn't possible now." ""I don't know what's gonna happen, but what can I say to you?" ""Will 'I'm sorry' make a difference?" ""Will it ease the pain, the shame you must be feeling?" ""Forgive me." "Please."" "Could I have a blanket?" "Do you think I could have a blanket?" "It's cold." "Could I have a blanket?" "Blanket?" "No, sir." "Too late." "Tomorrow." "You be here tomorrow, I think." "Good night." "Jesus." " Can you speak English?" " Your cell." "No key." "Open." "Blanket three cell down." "You get me one." "I needed a blanket." "I was cold." " William Hayes." " William Hiyes." "William Hiyes." "I needed a blanket!" "I was cold!" " Jesus." " Hey, hey." "He's up." "Come on." "You must stand." "Jimmy." "You gotta walk around some, man." "Your feet are gonna swell up something bad." " You gotta be crazy." " Yeah, we're all crazy here." "Smoke some of this rocket." "Cool the pain." "You been out for days, talking all kinds of shit." "We'll walk you down to the courtyard." " How's it feeling?" "Okay?" " About as good as it looks." " Gecmis olsun." " What?" "Gecmis olsun." "It's Turkish." "It means may it pass quickly." "Looks like a cheap hotel." "Only, the room service is lousy." "I'm Jimmy Booth." "This is Erich, something Swedish, I don't know." " Just Erich." " He cleaned you up." "Thanks." "I'm Billy Hayes." "At least, I used to be." " Peacocks." "Why peacocks?" " Turks use them instead of dogs." "They scream like mad if they're disturbed, and they don't get rabies." "The old sultans used to use them to guard their harem." " Who are the kids?" " Kids." "Little fuckers." "Thieves." "Rapists." "Pickpockets." "Murderers." "You name it, they do it." "Don't trust any of them." "They tell Rifki everything." " He's the squealer around here." " Yeah." "We met." "Sells watered-down tea." "Hash." "Blankets." "Nembutals." "Anything for a buck." " What you in for?" "Hash?" " Yeah." " Where?" " The airport." "Trying to get home." " That's heavy." " You think so?" "Yeah, I think so." "This ain't the good old U.S.A." "This is Turkey, man." "It's a fucking accident here if you're innocent." " There ain't nobody here who's innocent." " Don't pay too much attention." "Anything is possible in Turkey." "He's talking about if they hit you for smuggling." "It can be bad." "But if they make it possession, it's easier." " You might even get bail." " Bail." "And if you make bail, you're free." "You can get yourself a fake passport or sneak across the border to Greece." "Yeah, sure." "Keep dreaming." "See where that gets you." "Like Max, up in the head, you know?" "You're gonna eat a lot more fasoolia beans, Billy baby, before you taste a hamburger again." "'Cause you broke the law, man, and you got caught." " The law is sometimes wrong." " The law is never wrong, asshole!" "The fucking law is!" " People sometimes get on his nerves." " What's he in for?" "He was caught stealing from a mosque." "That's heavy here." " What did he steal?" " Two candlesticks." " That's all?" " That's all." "Jimmy has more balls than brains." "He was in for a year and a half before he even told his parents he was here." " What about you?" " Hashish." "Ninety percent of the foreigners are in for hashish." " Yeah, well, what'd they give you?" " Twelve years." " How much did you have?" " A hundred grams." "You just have to get yourself a good lawyer and some money." "Talk to the Englishman, Max." "He's been in the longest." " How long?" " Seven years." "Gastro." "Stomach medicine." "It's got codeine in it." "Best I can do around here." "Max?" "Lawyers." "Yeah." "Well, there's no straight lawyers in Turkey." "They're all bent." "Bent as hairpins." "Occupational necessity." "They have special classes in corruption at night school." "If you get suspected of honesty, then you get disbarred." "I knew a lawyer fellow once." "Got the Frenchman off." "LaRoche." "Yeah." "A big smuggler." "Two hundred kilos." "He put enough bread in enough pockets." "Got bail." "Vanished." "His name?" "Who?" " The lawyer?" " What?" " The lawyer?" " Who got the Frenchman off." "Oh, Yesil." "Yesil's his name." "I don't know anything else about him." "Yesil." "Best thing to do is to get your ass out of here, best way you can." "Yeah, but how?" "Catch the midnight express." "What's that?" "It's not a train." "It's a prison word for escape." "But it doesn't stop around here." "Dad, I'm sorry." "Forget it." "Punch you in the nose later." "Right now we gotta get you out of here." "This is a suit I bought for you in Istanbul." "Smarten you up in a courtroom." " Are you all right?" " Yeah." "How's Mom?" "Well, she's bad." "Couldn't make the trip." "You know Mom, her boy..." "Susan told us, before we got your letter." "She's fine." "She's trying to get the money together to come back here and..." " Don't let her." "Don't let her come." " She..." "How's Rob?" "How's Peg?" "They're the same, you know." "None of the neighbours know." "We told them that you were in a hospital in Europe." "This is Stanley Daniels." "He's the American consul here." "Hello, Billy, nice to know you." "I want you to know we're gonna do everything in our power to get you out of here as soon as possible, believe me." " Thank you." " And that's Nechtit..." " Nechtit Yesil." " Nechtit Yesil, the lawyer you wanted." " Hello, Billy." " Mr Yesil." "I know exactly what you feel, but you must not worry." "We are acting immediately." "We got the right court, the right judge." "I arrange everything just right." "Mr Yesil, I understand that if you get bail, it's very easy to get across the border into Greece." "That's right." "That's what we're shooting for." "Mr Daniels and I have been in touch with the State Department, only, right now, relations with the Turks aren't too good." "Nixon's upset the hell out of them." "Our best bet, right here." "Dad, I'll pay you back for this someday, I promise." "Right now money doesn't matter, Billy." "Not at this stage." " Where'd you get that limp?" " Oh, nothing." "I just twisted my ankle." "So, well, where you staying?" "Hilton." "How do you like it?" "Istanbul?" "An interesting place." "I tell you the truth." "I think the food is lousy." "Crap they sell in these little restaurants." "I had to run to the toilet." "You should've seen the toilet." "Anyway, I'm not taking any more chances." "I'm gonna eat at the Hilton every night with steak and French fries and lots of ketchup." "Billy, why did you do it?" "Money." "Look, I know you kids smoke that stuff, and we drink booze." "But taking it across the border, that's stupid, Billy." " That's stupid." " I know." "Dad?" " Get me out of here." " I promise you, Billy." "Sit tight." "Let me work with Mr Daniels and Mr Yesil here." "And we are gonna get you out, okay?" "Hey, Billy?" "Okay?" "Okay." " What did that prosecutor say?" " It's no important." "Just technical." "We make our case." "You are very good." "You spoke well." "The judge like you." "Mr Hayes!" "The judge is coming back." "Come on." "Four years, two months." "It's good, very good." " Four years?" " We appeal it." "You will see." "He will have maybe one year taken off the sentence for good behaviour." "Remember, it is only for possession." "The prosecutor wanted life sentence for smuggling." "There is quite a difference." "Believe me." "To be honest, Mr Hayes, it is a great victory." "With good time, Billy, it works out to about three years." "And then there's the appeal." "And," "Daniels and Yesil, they're all working for you." "We're gonna try to get you transferred to a stateside prison." "And Daniels thinks there might be a political amnesty any month now." "All right." "All right, Billy." "I know it sounds tough, but we are gonna get you out." "I promise you." "I don't want you to get stupid and pull anything." "That can play with your sentence." "All right." "Now." "I'm putting $500 in the bank." "Anything you need, you write." "There's food here." "There's candy." "And there's writing paper." "Books." "Cigarettes." "Soap." "Toothbrush." "I've been writing insurance policies for 30 goddamn years, and now I gotta see my own son..." "Jesus." "Jesus!" "Billy." "Billy, if I could be where you are," "I'd be there." "I love you, Dad." "You take good care of my boy, you hear?" "Or I'll have your fucking head, you Turkish bastard!" ""Dear Susan," ""1970 has now passed into 1971." ""You can drift in here and never know you're gone." ""You can fade so far out you don't know where you are any more" ""or where anything else is." ""I find loneliness is the physical pain which hurts all over." ""You can't isolate it in one part of your body."" "Hey!" "Right there, huh?" "Right there, huh?" "Right there, huh?" "Hey!" ""To the Turks, everything is soyle boyle," ""which means, 'like this, like that. '" ""You never know what will happen." ""All foreigners are ayip." ""They're considered dirty." "So is homosexuality." ""That's a big crime here, but most of them do it every chance they get." ""There are about a thousand things that are ayip." ""For instance, you can stab or shoot somebody below the waist," ""but not above, because that's intent to kill." ""So everybody runs around stabbing everyone else in the ass." ""That's what they call Turkish revenge." ""I know it must all sound crazy to you, but this place is crazy." ""One day, one of the new kids was raped in the children's kogus." ""So they picked out four of the worst kids." ""Then there's Rifki." ""The more I know of him, the more I hate him."" "$10 for this shit." "You pig." "There are no pigs in Turkey." " Rifki, this shit is shit." " No, is good." "Me good shit." " You big shit." " I are." "Me big shit." "Yeah." "You arsehole." "What is with you?" "Just what the hell is it, man?" "You're ayip!" "Look, you don't fuck with me, I don't fuck with you, all right?" "But you fuck with me." "You fuck with me all the time." "You make crummy tea, and you rip us off on the hash!" "No, I make a special tea for you, Hiyes, okay?" "We have to live like brothers." "We have to be in here together." "Oh, shove it, Rifki." "For all the money you got, you got nothing." " You are American." "You don't know." " Know what?" "Dog eat dog, Hiyes." "You fuck other men before they fuck you." "And you must fuck last." "Higbert." "Come, boy." "Come on down." "Come on." "Higbert." "Sorry cat." "Shit." "William!" "William, you all right?" "Your new American ambassador here is following your case very closely." "He says there is progress." "Do you want a cigarette?" "But there is another route," "that is quite possible." "For the proper amount of money, it is possible, I can convince our town officials to strike off your papers before the high court in Ankara confirms the sentence of a lower court in Istanbul." "You would not exist." "And you could be in Greece by the time a Turkish court discovered their stupid clerical mistake." "But I have to act before the official sentence is handed down." "And for that," "I must pay certain officials an address." "What's that?" " The blueprints." " To what?" "To the prison, man." "There's this German cat, an architect, in the hospital." "He was helping the Turks build some shit around the place." "I laid some bread on him, and he let me copy them." "It's too bad you didn't have a Xerox machine." "Now, there's two ways out of here, I figure." "The first is over the roof, but that's kind of risky." "Maybe one person, two at the most." "The other way, I need you guys' help." "And that is under." "Tunnel?" " Wait a minute." "Are you serious?" " All right, listen." "This is Sagmalcilar prison, not Stalag 17." "Well, that's where you're wrong, fuck face, 'cause it's already built." "There's a basement substructure where they used to keep weapons and stuff." "But beneath that, there's these old catacombs that the Christians built about 1,000 fucking years ago to bury their dead." "We're sitting right on top of it." "Here." "The Kraut says that there's a whole bunch of hollow, sealed shafts, sort of like dumbwaiters, you know, all along inside these walls." "One of them is right down in there, right next to our shower." "Now, we get in there, he says, we can get down into the catacombs." "Three of us working, shouldn't take too long at all." "Must be around here someplace." "I swear I heard a couple of dead Christians singing down there." "Look, you stop shitting me, man, okay?" "Jimmy, how do we get into the shaft?" "I suppose we just knock three times and say we're a friend of the deceased." "Now, I'm getting this together, man, and I don't need no fucking gastrohead along on this trip." "Now, you understand me, huh?" "We go through the wall." "We go through the wall?" "We go through the wall." "The Kraut was right." "I checked it out." "There's no reinforced steel in those shower walls." "Real soft from underground seepage." "The water, like, weeps through the cement, you see?" "Twenty, thirty years." "You could almost push it over." "Now, all we have to do..." "All we have to do is use gastrohead's screwdriver to scrape the mortar out." "We pull out two, three stones, squeeze through." "Squeeze through, put them back and get our ass down the shaft." "Now, it's a two-night operation, maybe three." "Yes, but what do we do when we get into the catacombs?" "The catacombs?" "What do you want, a door?" "There's miles of them down there, like a sewer system." "You must be fucking crazy." "Well, they gotta come up someplace in Istanbul." "You've had your ass stabbed just one too many times." "You're not gonna find catacombs down there, you'll just finish up in Section 13." "Billy." "Billy?" "The tunnel or the roof?" "Look, I don't want to go through any wall." "Rifki's there all the time." "And the roof, the bullet percentage is too high." "But if we take the shaft, I need you to help me move those stones, man." "Jimmy, if we get caught, I'll get the shaft." "Now, I'm facing another 20 months." "If I get caught, I'll be back up to three years again, maybe more." "Well, fuck it, then." "You choose your own death, babe." "I'll do this thing on my own." "I'm taking the roof out of here." "No!" "No!" "No!" "I can't take it!" "No!" "No!" "Jesus, no!" "No!" "No!" "No!" ""Dear Susan, poor Jimmy was caught and beaten so badly," ""he got a severe hernia and lost a testicle." ""He's been in the sanitarium for months." ""In comparison, my problems seem very small," ""but two and a half years have now gone by," ""and in their own fashion, the Turks are slowly draining my life away."" " Why do you keep your hair short, Billy?" " To remind me." " Remind you of what?" " How much I hate it here." " Prison, monastery..." " Prison, monastery cloister, cave." "...cloister, cave." " Prison, monastery..." " Prison, monastery cloister, cave." "...cloister, cave." " Prison, monastery..." " Prison, monastery cloister, cave." "...cloister, cave." " Prison, monastery..." " Prison, monastery cloister, cave." "...cloister, cave." "Prison." "Okay," " I've been thinking about another way." " Another way what?" " Out of here." " Oh, yeah?" "When I was in the sanitarium, there was only one guard on my ward." "I could've got out of there anytime I wanted to." "Why didn't you?" "Because as soon as I could walk again, they threw me right back in here." "Lucky you." "But I tell you, Billy, there was another ward in that sanitarium that had no guard on it at all." " Who was in it?" " Three guys." " What was wrong with them?" " I don't know." " I think they were dead." " Dead?" "Figures." "I gotta go." "It's Daniels!" "Soyle boyle." "Turkish justice has done it again." "They must have let me off my last 53 days!" "Hey, Jimmy, I'm going home!" "Oh, God." "Gotta go." "What's wrong?" "Sit down for a moment, Billy." "I'm afraid I have some bad news for you." " What is it?" "Is it Dad?" "Mom?" " No." "It looks like you're gonna have a new court." "What do you mean?" "The prosecutor objected to your sentence for possession." "He wanted a smuggling conviction, and the high court in Ankara reviewed it." "It seems everyone wanted an example made." " Lf you like it, a scapegoat." " And?" "We've been notified that they rejected the sentence." "There were 35 judges on the high court." "Twenty-eight voted for a life sentence." "The lower court in Istanbul had to go along with the decision." "The judge likes you, Billy." "He likes you a lot." "We notified your dad." " What do you mean, life?" " Billy." "Billy!" " Life?" "For what?" "For what?" " Billy, please." " Billy." " For what?" " I have 53 days left!" " Billy, let go!" " I have 53 days left." " Let go!" "God damn it!" "I have 53 days!" "Goddamn bastard!" "Let me go!" "Damn you!" "So now it's time for me to speak." "What is there for me to say?" "When I finish, you'll sentence me for my crime." "So let me ask you now, what is a crime?" "What is punishment?" "It seems to vary from time to time, place to place." "What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow because some society says it's so." "And what's illegal yesterday is suddenly legal because everybody's doing it, and you can't put everybody in jail." "I'm not saying this is right or wrong." "I'm just saying, that's the way it is." "But I've spent three and a half years of my life in your prison, and I think I've paid for my error." "And if it's your decision today to sentence me to more years, then I..." "My lawyer..." "My lawyer, that's a good one, says, "Be cool, Billy." "Don't get angry." "Don't get upset." ""Be good, and I'll get you a pardon, an amnesty, an appeal."" "A this, a that, the other thing." "Well, this has been going on now for three and a half years, and I've been playing it cool." "I've been good." "And now I'm damn tired of being good, because you people gave me the belief that I had 53 days left." "You..." "You hung 53 days in front of my face, and then you just took those 53 days away." "And you!" "Boo!" "I just wish you could be standing where I'm standing right now and feel what that feels like, because then you would know something that you don't know, Mr Prosecutor, mercy." "You would know that the concept of a society is based on the quality of that mercy, its sense of fair play, its sense of justice." "But I guess that's like asking a bear to shit in a toilet." "For a nation of pigs, it sure is funny you don't eat them." "Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't." "I hate..." "I hate you." "I hate your nation, and I hate your people, and I fuck your sons and daughters because they're pigs." "You're a pig!" "You're all pigs." "My hands are tied by Ankara." "I must sentence you, William Hayes, to be imprisoned at Sagmalcilar for a term no less than 30 years." "May it pass quickly." "Got the blues, babe" "Got the old Istanbul blues" "Got the blues, babe" "Got the old Istanbul blues" "Istanbul blues" "They give me 30 years" "Ain't got nothing left to lose" "We are gonna get you out." "I promise you." "I don't want you to get stupid again, pull anything." "They could play with your sentence." "He's in my shoes" "Said I was busted at the border, babe" "Best thing to do is to get your ass out of here, best way you can." "And they give me 30 years" "To learn the old Istanbul blues" " This is hard too." " Yeah." "Hey!" "I think I found it." "I think this is it." "Come here." "Come here!" "Listen." "Listen to that." "Do you hear anything?" "I told you." "I told you, you suckers." "You didn't believe me." "Keep it down." "Keep it down." " Keep it down." " Okay." "Look, look, look how easy." "Look how soft this." "Look at it." "It's so easy to dig them out." "Now, okay, Max, go see if you can get Rifki's poker, but don't wake him up." "Go on." "Go on." " Look how soft it is." " Oh, yeah." "It looks really soft." "It's coming." " Hey, Jimmy, it's coming." " Here." "Use this." "Oh, yeah, it's coming real easy now." "Look at it." "It's coming right out." "This is gonna be easier than I thought." " It's a piece of cake." " Yeah." " It's coming." " Yeah." "Like butter." "Hey, Max." "Rifki." " Keep checking for Rifki." " Yeah, it's all right." "It's okay." "God." "I wish I had some chocolate." "Man, watch it, man." "Will you?" "I'm sorry, man." "I thought you wanted to get out of here." "Hey." " Loose, very loose." " Yeah." "Come on." "Let's try." " Hey, you wanna split your hernia again?" " Fuck the hernia." "Let's just get this..." "Okay." "You got it?" " That's it." " Shit." "We hit the shaft." "It's coming." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Okay." "Come on." "Let's go." "Let's go play." "No, no, there's no time." "It's too late." "We're not prepared." "We'll come back." "We'll go tomorrow." "It's too late." " Let's go now." " It's too late." "We'll go tomorrow." "Let's put them back." "Come on." "Help me." "Now any fuck-ups, we should be back by dawn." "You got everything?" "Maps?" "Railroad, bus timetables?" "Everything." "Okay." "Let's do it." "Come on." " Can you see?" " No." " Jesus." " Come on, Max, get your ass down here." "It's easy." "This way to Istanbul, baby." "Watch it, watch it." "Mine didn't go there." "Watch..." "You all right?" "Come down this pole and cross over." "Terrific." "All right, there's a tunnel." " Yeah." " Let's go." "Come on, Max." " Fuck!" " What is that?" " Shit." " It's nothing." "It's nothing." "It's a stick." "Shit." "Shit, it's a dead end." "Turks must have blocked it up." "Shit." "Shit, shit, shit." "Billy, Billy, Billy." "Well, what the fuck are we gonna do?" "What time is it?" "4:30." "Go back." "I fucking can't believe." "I'm not joking." "We go back, seal it up and come back tomorrow." "Every night, till we get out of here." "There's gotta be a way out." "Billy!" "They found it!" " Who?" " Rifki." " No!" " Jimmy." "No!" "No!" "Filthy little bastard." "This time I'm gonna kick your brains all over your fucking kitchen!" "Fine." "Good." "Man to man." "We fight now, and when finish, I bring him in, too, and he kick your fucking ass." "Let's go, Max." "Come on." " I know what I'm going to do." " What?" "I'm going to cut his fucking throat." " Whose?" " Rifki." "I would really enjoy it." "Max, why don't you sit down, huh?" "You're in no shape to kill anybody." " I want to cut his fucking throat." " It's already been cut." "Then I'll cut his balls off." "You know, if you really did wanna hurt Rifki," "his money." "Steal that, and you steal his life's blood." "Could you see his face if everything he worked so hard to get suddenly got snatched?" " Lf we only knew where he hid it." " I know where it is." "Max." "The money?" "Them that I eats and finds, says I." "I've seen him, the big dick." "He looks at it late at night," "talking to it." "Where?" "Max." "Max, where?" "The money." "Where?" "In his radio." "In the back of his radio." "That's why he never plays it." " He'd never had one." " Soon, he back to Istanbul street." "No friends, no money, plenty enemy." "Plenty enemies!" " I drink to that." " Me, too." "Max." "Max." " I just got some news on Jimmy." " Oh, really." "What?" "It's bad." "They sent him to the city hospital." "They ruptured his hernia again." "Oh, shit." "I guess he didn't talk, poor bastard." "Hey, look at Rifki." "Why the suit?" "Maybe he's got a new job." "Jesus, not again." "Hashish." "You're kidding." "Me?" "I didn't sell him anything." "I didn't sell him..." "No, he's lying!" "Rifki's lying!" "He's a liar!" "Max!" "No!" "Let me go, damn you!" "Let go of me!" "Go!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "Get out of here!" "Happy, happy." "Rifki!" "You son of a bitch!" "Rifki!" "Rifki!" "Rifki!" "Rifki, I'm gonna..." "Please, please." "Please!" "Cigarette, cigarette." "Cigarette, cigarette." "Cigarette, cigarette." "Listen to me." "Please, listen to me." "Excuse me, my friend." "I've been wanting to speak to you." "You're an American?" "Yes, America." "My name is Ahmet." "I studied philosophy at Harvard many, many years." "Though Oxford is my real alma mater." "I also studied in Vienna, and now I study here." "Well, they put me here." "They say I raped a little child." "I've been here a very, very long time, and they'll never let me go." "They won't let you go either." "I mean, they tell you they'll let you go, but, in fact, you stay." "You never go from here." "See, we've all just come from a factory, and sometimes the factory makes bad machines that don't work, so they put them here." "The bad machines don't know that they're bad machines, but the people at the factory know." "They know that you are one of the machines that doesn't work." "Well, I think we've spoken enough for today." "I wish you good night." "Up!" "Up!" "Up!" "Up!" "Hey!" "Oh, oh!" "Hey, oh!" "Hey, oh, oh!" "Oh, my God." "Oh, Billy." "Billy, what have they done to you?" "Billy, your family's fine." "Senator Buckley's made a special plea on your behalf in the Senate." "They've called you a pawn in the poppy game between Nixon and the Turks." "The letters are coming in, Billy." "People do care." "What?" "Take it off." "Take it off." "Oh, Billy." " You'll just make yourself..." " Take it off." "Oh, Billy." "I wish I could make it better for you." "Please, stop." "Don't..." " Susan?" " Yes, Billy." " I love you." " Oh, Billy." "I love you." "Billy." "Your father gave me this for you." "There's pictures of your mom and dad and Rob and Peg." "And in the back, Billy, there's a picture of your old friend, Mr Franklin." "Remember him, from the bank?" "Billy, he's over in Greece now." "He bought a ticket." "I'll give it to them for you." "Oh, Billy, don't count on them." "Don't you count on anyone but yourself, you hear?" " Susan!" " Oh, Billy." "Billy, you're running out of time." "If you stay here, you'll die." "Jesus Christ, you've gotta get yourself together." "You've got to get out of here." "Go on!" "Go on!" "Go on!" " Go on!" " Go on." "Good morning, my American friend." "There will be trouble if you go this way." "A good Turk always walks to the right." "Left is communist." "Right is good." "Come on." "See, you, you must go the other way." "The other way is good." "Where are you going?" "Why don't you walk the wheel with us?" "What is the matter, my American friend?" "What has upset you?" "The bad machine doesn't know he's a bad machine." "You still don't believe it?" "You still don't believe you're a bad machine." "To know yourself is to know God, my friend." "The factory knows." "That's why they put you here." "You'll see." "You'll find out." "In time, you'll know." "Oh, I know." "I already know." "I know that you are a bad machine." "That's why the factory keeps you here." "Do you know how I know, huh?" "I know because I'm from the factory." "I make the machines." "Hey!" "Defol!" "Defol!" "Max." "Max." "Max!" "Max, I'm going away." "I've come to say goodbye." "You see, if I stay here, I'm gonna die." "You'll die." "Don't die, Max." "Please, don't die." "I'm gonna come back for you." "I promise." "You hang on." "You hang on for me." "You're not taking me to the sanitarium." "You're not taking me to the sanitarium." "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Hey!"