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Previously on Genius...

As long as you're still married,
we cannot be together.

I need to think
of my daughters.

EINSTEIN: I moved my family
to Berlin for you.

ELSA:
You came to join the Academy.

I do wish Elsa
could have joined us.

Apparently, she's
gone away to Essen.

That's where Albert is.

When were you going
to tell me about Elsa?

I want a divorce.

I am not letting you
walk away from the boys.

Fritz Haber. The man who pulled
nitrogen out of thin air.

I'm a proud war veteran.

Really, Fritz? You're proud
of your military service?

Walther Rathenau!

The only way to confirm
general relativity

is during a solar eclipse.

TOBIAS: The Kaiser's
declared war on Russia.

MILEVA:
Your foundation

for general relativity
is flawed.

I could have been ruined.

You wanted me to fail.

You're right.

Mileva's agreed to end things.

There is quite a difference
between separation and divorce.

Mileva. I wanted
to end our marriage.

I didn't want to
lose my whole family.

You can't have everything,
Albert.

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(applause)

Tonight, I will demonstrate

blackbody absorption,
and the forces...

Forgive me,

but there is a more
urgent matter to discuss.

My friends,
England and all of Europe

is facing catastrophe.

The natural fertilizer
that we have long used

to grow our crops
is dwindling rapidly.

Without it,
our soil becomes barren.

What we are left with

is too many mouths to feed

and not enough food.

Tonight,

I call on the great minds
of Europe.

Barring a monumental
scientific breakthrough,

in a few short years

Europe will starve.

(audience murmuring)

HABER: Did you read what
this Crookes fellow claims?

Millions of people will starve

if we don't find a new way
to grow crops.

I must do something.

Fritz, you can hardly keep
a houseplant alive.

Guano. Do you know what it is?

Of course.

Bat excrement.

And why do we ship bat excrement

to Europe from a world away?

It's a good source of nitrogen.

So is the air.

80% nitrogen, to be exact.

You could never harness
enough energy

to break apart nitrogen bonds.

A lightning bolt
could do it.

Yes, but you can hardly corral
a lightning bolt, now can you?

Not yet.

RATHENAU:
Gentlemen.

The very fate of our nation

depends on the men in this room.

Our generals have informed me

that the army's ammunition
stockpile has dwindled

to a six-month supply.

And I say it's nonsense.

In six weeks our boys

will be hurling rocks
instead of firing artillery.

My God.

I have taken it upon myself
to fund a military department

devoted to
scientific innovation.

Make no mistake,

we are facing
a bloody surrender.

(scientists murmuring)

I need you.

Germany needs you.

You have my support,
Dr. Rathenau.

And I'm surely not alone
in that, hmm?

MEN:
Hear, hear. Yes.

Gentlemen, I am circulating
a letter to the Kaiser,

pledging the commitment
of the finest minds

of Germany's
scientific community,

and I beseech you to sign it.

Stand with the Fatherland
in its hour of need.

EINSTEIN:
Dr. Rathenau,

some of us still indulge
in the wild notion

that scientists are meant

to unravel the mysteries
of the world,

not find new ways to destroy it.

We are all free to make choices.

And history will take note.

ELSA:
You didn't sign it.

EINSTEIN:
Of course I didn't sign it.

I'm not a lemming
like the rest of them.

Aren't you worried

it might affect your standing
in the Academy?

I won't make weapons, Elsa.

I have actual work to do.

You must miss them terribly.

I'm sure they miss you.

She was welcome to
every stick of furniture,

but how...

how could I let her
take my boys?

What choice did you have?

(sighs)

It's cruel, isn't it?
That... (sniffs, swallows)

...what is most important
in life

reveals itself to be so
only in its absence.

You can't stay here, alone,
in this empty apartment.

Are you offering to take me in?

Of course not.
You're not divorced.

Don't start this again, Elsa.

There is a flat available
in my building.

I could look after you.
I am quite capable

of tending to myself,
thank you.

Yes, clearly.

No sleep, a bare apartment,
a flaring ulcer--

you're the picture
of independence.

I know that this empty space

must seem uninhabitable to you,

but to me such a vacuum

is second nature.

Even I know that vacuums
can't sustain life.

General relativity

is everything to me now, Elsa.

Once I've solved it, the
rest of my life can rush in.

You are unbearable.

It's a pity
I love you so much.

(knocking on door)

Mileva.

How good to see you.
Come in.

I'm afraid I don't
have time today.

Anna was just
setting out breakfast.

Anna!

Anna, Mileva is here.
Come.

What a lovely surprise.

Yes. Well,
I only came by to...

borrow some sheet music.

I find myself with some
spare time on my hands.

I thought I could
teach piano again.

Is everything
all right, Mileva?

The money Albert sent for
a month only lasted a week.

You must write
to him for more.

He wouldn't want you
and the boys to suffer.

He sends all he can.

But with the war, the German
mark is practically worthless.

I'll go find
that sheet music.

Has Albert made any
plans to visit the boys?

I'm certain he will soon.

You are too kind to him, Mileva.

I know that you will
find students quickly.

Thank you.

♪ ♪

(gasping):
Mama.

Frau Einstein.

Herr Nicolai.

I was not expecting company.

And apparently,
neither were you.

Nicolai is only
here bearing news.

Yes.

You see, I am the
leader of a new caucus

advocating against the war.

Actually, I was, uh,

wondering if you would introduce
me to Professor Einstein.

Ilse tells me
you are quite close.

I am told

he was the only scientist

who refused to sign
the war manifesto.

The support of a man
of his stature

would help my
cause greatly.

I'll convey the message.

But Dr. Einstein
is a very busy man.

Frau Einstein.

Fraulein Ilse.

(door closes)

You didn't have
to treat him with such venom.

He's a cad, groping a
young woman half his age.

It's unseemly.
You,

of all people, are lecturing me

about what is unseemly?

Don't you dare speak
to me in that tone.

And it is careless of you
to insinuate to a stranger

that Albert and
I are so close.

No one need insinuate anything,
Mama. The neighbors have been

gossiping about
you two for months.

You shouldn't waste your time
worrying over my affairs.

What I worry over
is my own mother's behavior

impeding my chances
of ever getting married.

You've acted so outrageously

that no self-respecting man
will give me a second look.

I will make certain that you
and your sister are settled.

But then where will I be?

When you are older,
you will realize

there is little for
a woman in this world.

One way or another, I must
salvage a life for myself.

Eduard.

Is everything all right?

HANS ALBERT:
Uncle Michele?

BESSO:
Dear God.

Mileva?

Mileva, can you hear me?

She'll wake up.
She always does.

This has happened before?

She says her heart
beats fast, and then...

she doesn't remember
what happens next.

Help me.
Help me lift her.

She'll be all
right, won't she?

Professor Hilbert?

Ah, Professor Einstein.

Come, come.

I-I was most taken with
your lecture on relativity.

I couldn't wait to meet the man

with such a
boundless imagination.

These are calculations
for relativity.

Well, I should hope you would
recognize your own quagmire.

You know, the prickly points
in your theory

have even me at a loss.

Well, for the moment.

I had hoped to show you
my most recent work.

I... I never imagined
a mathematician

of your stature would actually

put your mind to it
before I even arrived.

I've spent the last two days
puzzling over it.

I've lost
the last few years of my life

trying to complete
the damn thing.

I'm overjoyed that you're
willing to assist me.

Assist you?

(chuckles)
Well, that would be fun,

but that would take
far too long.

No, no, I can solve this
much more quickly on my own.

On your own?

Professor Einstein,
physics is far too complicated

to be left to physicists.

PLANCK:
Albert, what are you

so upset about?
He's going to finish it first.

Well, consider yourself lucky.

It's not every day that one
of the greatest mathematicians

in the world decides to take
up the cause of a physicist.

(grunts) Sit down,
Albert, please.

Relativity is the greatest idea
I've ever had.

Is it so wrong that I want

to bring it to completion
on my own?

(sighs)
Albert, are you really

going to start
a public pissing contest

over academic credit
when our boys--

my sons--

are out the there
fighting an actual war?

(grunts) Hmm? Besides, Hilbert

is a top-rate mathematician.

You'd be foolish
to try and match his pace.

Max, this is all I have.

Life is more than work, Albert.

I am about to embark
on a great folly.

This will be
the first

of four lectures.

I will certainly be dubbed mad.

(laughter)

But by the last lecture,

I will have either
tamed this beast...

...or will have been
trampled by it.

The Riemann tensor...

...leads to the consideration

of the Ricci tensors.

In which case,

Grossman was right

to reconsider them.

The Lagrangian

must be
constructed

in such a way

as to respect the
transformations that we saw.

And now we can attempt
to write various

field equations,

analogous to what Maxwell wrote

on electromagnetism.

(muttering): This equation
works for planetary orbits

that never shift.

But here...

the constant shift in Mercury's
orbit due to the constant

gravitational pull
of the sun should...

(coughs)

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Have you solved it,
Professor Einstein?

Not quite yet,

but the beast is cowering,

that's for sure.

CLARA:
If only they'd let women

into the Academy.
What I wouldn't give

to see Albert
sweat out his calculations

in front of
an audience.

It says here
he-he doesn't sleep,

stays up all hours
of the night, working.

He should be applying himself
to more urgent matters.

You certainly are

puffing yourself up

just for making gunpowder,
aren't you?

I'm doing much more
than making gunpowder.

By forcing air

over the iron and potassium
hydroxide promoter

at such
intense pressure,

hydrogen from natural gasses

combines with nitrogen
from the air,

producing pure liquid ammonia...

(lever hisses)

...containing the form
of nitrogen

most easily consumed
by plant life.

That is not enough
to feed one common ficus.

We will build a large-scale,
high-pressure reactor

that would...

Blow up a small town?
The pressure you would need

to produce ammonia
in large quantities

would explode
any reactor on Earth.

Were you going to inform us
of this risk, Herr Haber?

We... can build

a new reactor.
Bigger, stronger.

Of course, it will take
money, quite a lot of it.

But gentlemen,
Germany will go hungry

without fertilizer.

And I do understand
the difficulty

of industrializing
such a process.

But what's in this beaker

is most of the way toward a
feat no one thought possible.

I have devised a way to pull
nitrogen out of thin air.

I imagine there
would be profit

to be had in
feeding the world, no?

Albert.

Dear God, have you been eating?

With the war rations,
nobody's been eating.

You need rest.
Your ulcer...

Relativity is at
my fingertips, Elsa.

I can-I can almost touch it.

The universe isn't going
anywhere, Albert.

A little sleep
will do you good.

I had a glorious
breakthrough today, Elsa.

Michele wrote to
you five times.

You'd know if you didn't
disappear under a rock

when you throw
yourself into work.

When you didn't answer,
he finally wrote to me.

Has something happened? The boys...
They're fine.

It's Mileva.

She's been suffering
from heart troubles

and is recovering
in the hospital.

Who-Who's taking care
of Eduard and Hans Albert?

Michele is looking after them.
Oh, they're in good hands.

Don't worry yourself about
Mileva. She'll be fine.

She does this. The woman
craves attention.

But your boys need you.

I'll write to
Michele at once.

And I'll be there for them as
soon as I finish my lectures.

(coughing)

Uh, Dr. Einstein?

Georg Nicolai.

I am acquainted
with Elsa.

Surely she has mentioned me?
The committee?

I'm afraid I have no idea
what you're talking about, sir.

Y-You see, I am the leader

of a new caucus
advocating against the war.

I wish you good
luck with it.

All it would take
is a signature.

To show that men of science,
like yourself,

stand against
the treachery of war.

It's not that I don't sympathize
with your mission, sir.

But I am a scientist,
not a politician.

I've made a name for myself
by refusing to sign my name.

Good day.

Albert.

This just came for you.

From Hilbert.

He's done it.

He's completed
the last equation.

He's defeated me.

I am so sorry, Albert.

I was so close, Max.

The theory is still yours.

No one can
take that away from you.

The final calculation?

Merely a footnote.
And at least now

you can go and see your boys.

Yes?

Thank you for
looking after them, Michele.

But you won't
have to be burdened

with these two rascals
much longer.

The doctor says
I can go home in two days.

Just in time.

Just in time
for what?

I received
a letter.

From Albert.

He is coming
to Zurich.

Isn't it wonderful, Mama?

(train whistle blows)

OFFICER: By order of the federal
council, all Swiss borders

have been closed
due to the war.

This train and all passengers
will be turned back to Germany.

Excuse me.

I have a S...
a Swiss passport.

Here, let-let me show you.
The train

is going back, sir.
But I must see my sons.

Their mother is ill.
No exceptions, sir.

By order of the
federal council,

all Swiss borders have been
closed due to the war.

It's getting cold.

Come inside, Hans.
Have some cocoa.

Just a little longer,
Uncle Michele.

He's coming.

I know it.

(knocking)

Good evening, sir.

Frau Haber, I presume.
I have an appointment

with your husband.

At this hour?

Would you inform him that

General Lehning
is here to see him?

No need.

This way.

♪ ♪

(buzzing, whooshing)

(gasps)

(grunts)

(laughing)

A glorious day!

It's raining,
Professor Einstein.

Let it rain!

Hilbert made a mistake!
(chuckles)

And so, when the next eclipse
is upon us,

these calculations will explain,
once and for all,

relativity

and the reason for Mercury's
pesky orbit around the sun.

There.

It is complete.

(applause and cheering)

EINSTEIN:
Clara?

Clara, what a nice surprise.

But there's little use
in freezing to death

before our time. Shall we?

How are the boys?

Do tell me some news of them.

Clara, what is it?

Surely you haven't come
for news of my boys.

I-I'm worried about Fritz.

He disappears all hours
of the day and night, and

he's always wearing
that damn uniform,

like a child
playing dress-up.

I wouldn't be concerned.

He's-he's only helping Rathenau
produce gunpowder.

He's working on
something else, Albert.

Something terrible.

I cannot live with a
man who engineers death.

(rats squeaking)

(squeaking, gas hissing)

(panicked squeaking)

(sighs)

It's abominable.

Have you ever seen men
twisting in agony

on the battlefield,
shot through with bullets?

Or witnessed the horror
in an infirmary

after sepsis overtakes a body?

That's abominable, Albert.

This... this is humane.

You would burn a man's insides,

make him drown
in his own phlegm?

They're slaughtering our boys.

Because we attacked them!

Are you taking their side?

I'm taking the side of humanity.

Sitting on your hands.

That's a convenient vantage
point from which to judge.

Great men of history
aren't remembered

for doing nothing, Albert.

They are remembered for taking
action when no one else would.

I see. So you're
doing this for glory.

No, I am doing it to save lives.

Fritz, you're not
making any sense.

We will only need
to use it once.

The French, the Russians--

they will see
the power we wield,

and will have no choice
but to surrender

before any more people die.

My friend, listen to me.

You don't have to go
through with this.

It's-it's not too late.

We're-we're scientists,

not purveyors of death
and destruction.

During times of peace, a
scientist belongs to the world,

but during times of war,
he belongs to his country.

Peace cannot be kept by force,
Fritz.

It can only be achieved
by understanding.

(coughs, clears his throat)

Do you know, Max, what
Fritz has been working on?

Max?
They say

they will give him a medal.

A... a medal.

Oh, Max.

He was killed

in a battle in Verdun.

They told me he faced his final
moments with great courage.

I'm sure he did.

(quietly crying)

You really think so?

Because all I can picture
is the little boy

who ran into my arms when the
neighbor's dog barked at him.

That little boy, lying...

in a cold field
without his papa to hold him.

(sniffles)
God.

I can only imagine how scared
he must have... (gasps) ...been.

You should be
with your family.

Come.
(coughs)

Come, I'll take you home.

(gulps loudly)

(crying): You-you were right to
defy Rathenau's call to arms.

Right and wrong become blurred
in times like these.

I signed their damn
war manifesto.

(rattling breathing)

And now I feel I have signed
my own son's death warrant.

We cannot just stand
by any longer, can we?

Your good name will draw
the attention we need.

I'm afraid the attention
may not be what you want.

Many of my opponents
think I'm a traitor

for opposing the war.

To stand for your principles

when all others
have forgotten theirs...

isn't traitorous.

It's patriotic.

The wind is picking up, sir.

(wind whistling)

Inform the general we are ready.

(squeaking, hissing)

(hissing)

(whooshing)

(indistinct chatter)

(whooshing)

(siren sounding, men coughing)

(loud, violent coughing)

(men yelling, coughing)

(wind whistling)

GENERAL:
To a true hero!

The English papers are
calling Captain Haber's gas

the "death cloud."

The enemy will surely
surrender soon

thanks to our gracious host.
To Captain Haber!

PEOPLE:
To Captain Haber.

Yes, well, um, thank you,
but even victory

isn't worth letting a fine lamb
shank turn cold, so, please.

(soft laughter,
quiet chatter)

I've heard rumors

the Kaiser himself is to bestow
a medal on your husband.

You must be very proud,
Frau Haber.

Whatever grand
invention will you

contrive next,
Captain Haber?

At the moment, I'm still trying
to perfect this one.

We need a more efficient means
to deploy the gas.

I think
it's quite efficient already.

(laughter)

(gunshot, people gasping)

(people murmuring)

Clara!

No. No!

No! Oh, my...

(whimpers)

(Haber crying)

PAPERBOY:
The war is over!

Troops return home!

Armistice signed!
The war is over!

Albert?

The Kaiser has fled.

The war is finished.

Thank God, Elsa.

ELSA: It says here we
are a democracy now.

Demokratia--
rule by the people.

Let us hope the people
have their heads on straight.

Oh, my love,

don't fill your brilliant
head with gloomy thoughts.

It's finally finished.

Hmm.

Yet I cannot help but feel
that it's only just begun.

PAPERBOY:
Troops return home!

Armistice signed!

The war is over!

MAN: One loaf of
bread per family!

Please, ma'am, can you
spare some coin?

ELSA:
Albert,

there's a telegram for you.

Britain, the United
States, Russia--

they all want reparations.

France is threatening to occupy
the Ruhr if we don't pay.

Forgiveness never
comes cheap.

It's from Arthur Eddington.

What is it?
A silver lining, it seems.

"U-boats no longer threat. Stop.

Will sail to Africa. Will
photograph eclipse. Stop."

Albert, that's wonderful news.

"Relativity proof
imminent. Stop."

I cannot wait to read that
in the scientific journals.

Hopefully with a little...
a little more flair.

What is it?

You can forget
about the journals, Albert.

When you're proved right,

your name is going to be printed
in every newspaper

around the entire globe.

You'll be famous.
Don't be silly.

I'm a scientist.
They'll want interviews.

They'll want to know
about your life, your family.

Me.

We'll tell them
you're my social secretary.

It took the neighbors
a couple of months.

Imagine a journalist clamoring
for a story.

How long before they discover
that you are...

you are living in sin

with a divorcée
who is your first cousin?

Who cares what they think?

I care.

Elsa, I have asked Mileva for a
divorce in every way imaginable.

Then you must ask her again.

Make her an offer
of some kind.

We don't have
any more deutsche marks to give.

Fritz does. He would lend to you.
No.

I cannot take blood money
from that warmonger.

Well, you had better think
of something.

Because it's one thing
for me to withstand

the shaming stares
of our neighbors.

But you cannot expect me
to do that

in front of the entire world.

EINSTEIN:
I need the divorce.

Are you asking me?

Or is it Elsa?

I'm sorry I couldn't be
what you needed, Mileva.

What about Hans and Eduard?

All they needed
was a reliable father.

You took them away from me.

I didn't...

(sighs)

A British astronomer
is heading for Africa

in a few months' time
to capture the solar eclipse.

The first one in years.

Are you sure
you're right this time?

Your equations are covariant?
Yes.

They will define
the general relativity

of all forms of motion.

It's an extraordinary
achievement.

And you were there to help me
from the beginning of it all.

I will never forget that.

(chuckles) Recognition from the
greatest scientist in the world.

At last. My career is complete.

There's already much discussion
of a Nobel.

You know it comes with
a great deal of prize money.

I want you to have it.
All of it.

You want to pay me for a divorce.
Mm-mm.

You deserve to be taken care of,
Dollie.

Don't call me that.
I'm offering you

more money than either of us

have ever seen, Mileva.

You need this.
Don't be proud.

Get out.

If not for you,
do it for the boys.

Get out!

What more do you want from me?

Why are you doing this
to yourself, Mother?

He obviously wants nothing
to do with us.

He hasn't since he left me
sitting on that step.

(crying)

Just give him what he wants.

He'll be out of our lives
and we can all move forward,

once and for all.

(sniffling)

(door opens)

(door shuts)

Well?

She finally agreed.

But it comes
with a terrible price.

MAGISTRATE: State the reason
for your divorce.

EINSTEIN:
Adultery,

Herr Richter.

MAGISTRATE: And who
is the guilty party?

I am, Herr Richter.

I have been living
with Elsa Einstein,

divorced Lowenthal,

for approximately four years

and have had continued
intimate relations with her.

Have you proof?
She's the woman

s-seated behind me,
Herr Richter.

Well, please indicate
to the court where she is.

Is this true, Madame?

Yes, Herr Richter.

The provisions of the divorce
state that Mileva Maric,

married Einstein,

will receive an annual stipend
of 9,000 deutsche marks.

Adding to this,
Professor Einstein promises her

the full proceeds

of a Nobel Prize,
should he be awarded it.

Very well.

On to the children.

Mileva Maric is to retain
full custody in Zurich,

and the boys
shall not be permitted

to visit their father in Berlin.

Professor, do you object?

No, I do not object.

PHOTOGRAPHER: Dr. and Mrs.
Einstein. Over here.

(indistinct chatter)

(laughter)

REPORTER: Dr. Einstein.
Dr. Einstein!

What did you do
when you first heard

Mr. Eddington proved
your theory correct?

Well, I went back to work.

And I bought myself
a new violin.

(laughter)

Uh, Mr. Eddington, uh, what did
your photographs prove, exactly?

That gravity bends light
passing next to the sun

by approximately
1.7 arc seconds,

just as Dr. Einstein predicted.

Uh, meaning what?
Meaning,

gentlemen, that the greatest of
all scientific generalizations,

the laws of Sir Isaac Newton,
have just received

their first major modification
in over two centuries.

We are all witness to one of the
most resplendent achievements

of human thought

in our lifetime.

Write that down.

(laughter)

Relativity is a hoax.

Dr. Lenard, it was just proven
by Arthur Eddington.

What happens at the next
eclipse, when the results vary,

hmm?

You will look
like fools.

Our discoveries
changed science

because they were
grounded in facts.

They weren't
philosophical conjectures

cloaked in equations
designed to deceive, hmm?

As the Nobel selection
committee, it is

your duty
to know the difference.

EINSTEIN:
They're giving it

to Max Planck.

Well, you always said
it was a shame

how the Nobel committee
overlooked him all these years.

They're giving it to Fritz, too.

In chemistry. Hmm.

For his nitrogen trick.

Hmm.

Quite a year for the
Prussian Academy.

Well,

I'm sure a lovely celebration
will be in order.

I'm not going if Fritz
is to be honored.

Albert, if you insist
on condemning a man

for his mistakes,
you must be willing

to applaud him for his triumphs.

Fritz didn't start the war.

He's responsible
for thousands of deaths.

He also saved half of Europe
from starvation.

Doesn't that
mean something?

I cannot congratulate a killer

and call myself a pacifist.

But if you insist
that the worst disputes

between warring nations
can be resolved,

then... can't two old friends
make peace?

(indistinct chatter)

Albert.

What can I say,
old friend?

It's about time
they honored you.

How many years has it been since
you discovered light quanta?

About 3,000.

(chuckles)

Truly, Max, congratulations.

It should have been yours.
Nonsense.

You deserve it more
than any man in this room.

MAN: Excuse me, uh, Dr. Planck?

We'll talk.

(indistinct chatter)

Albert.

A Nobel

in chemistry.

That is something.

I'm not a genius like you,
Albert.

All I did was see a problem
and find a way to fix it.

That's what I try to do,
I suppose-- fix things.

Yes, of course.

Or destroy them.

That is entirely unfair.

Did you not invent a new way
to destroy human life?

Yes, but that was
not my only innovation.

I am being honored tonight
for the good I've done.

Life cannot be balanced
like an equation, Fritz.

Good deeds do not erase
the evil ones.

I certainly pray to God
you're wrong for once, Albert.

Perhaps I've been too harsh.

Perhaps you haven't.

I never told you, Fritz,
how sorry I was about Clara.

We couldn't manage to hold on
to the more brilliant ones,

could we?

PHOTOGRAPHER:
Gentlemen,

smile.

LENARD: He didn't
even win the Nobel,

and yet he still graces
our front pages.

Not only in Berlin.
Frankfurt, Paris, London,

New York, Tokyo.
(scoffs, chuckles)

I could go on.

All about general relativity,
yes.

Relativity, politics, his hair,
what he ate for breakfast.

(scoffs)
It's despicable.

It's to be expected.

He's a Jew.

A publicity-seeking Jew
who uses

his influence
for his own profit.

Well, now, Herr Weyland,

I didn't quite say all that.
You are standing

in the German National People's
Party headquarters, Dr. Lenard.

We are not afraid
to speak the truth here.

In fact, I imagine
my candor is

the very reason
that you've come to see me.

Now, please,

what can I do for you?

I have a proposition to make,

but one with which

I cannot afford to be
publicly associated.

You can be assured
of my discretion.

I read your paper
denouncing relativity.

I think you deserve
a wider audience.

(chuckles softly)

Albert Einstein has engaged
in a profit-grubbing promotion

of his theory,
as our country suffers

deprivation
and indignity.

And for what?

(scoffs)
For a lie.

For a hoax.

For a deception
unlike any other!

Over the next two days,

you will hear from Germany's
most preeminent scholars,

who will show you exactly how
we've all been hoodwinked

by one enormous bluff.

EINSTEIN: Hear, hear!

(murmuring)

Oh, apologies.
Continue, Dr. Weyland.

We all eagerly await
your scholarly proof.

I'm sure
it will be very interesting.

ELSA: What in God's name
were you thinking?

It was a public lecture
and I was curious, so I went.

I didn't expect much.
I also didn't expect

a packed house
of anti-Semitic imbeciles.

What are you doing?

Writing
to the Berliner Tageblatt

to give them my honest critique.

Albert, stop. You are sticking
your hand into a hornet's nest.

These men are vindictive and dangerous.
This world

is dangerous, Elsa.

Not because of those
who do evil,

but because of those who look on
and do nothing.

I cannot do nothing.

LENARD:
"I admire Lenard

"as a master of
experimental physics,

"but he has not yet produced
anything outstanding

in theoretical physics."

He wrote that?

On the front of
the damn newspaper.

(scoffs)
Jewish publishers, of course.

"Lenard's objections to
the general theory of relativity

"are of such superficiality
that, up until now,

"I did not think it necessary
to answer them.

I intend to make up for this."

It's an affront!

I will not stand for it!

Why would he assume
that you had anything to do

with that lecture series?

You did not
even attend.

That huckster Weyland listed me
as a coming lecturer

in the programme. No doubt
trying to add my prestige

to his cause.

(panting)

But it doesn't matter.

Einstein obviously
desires a public battle.

Perhaps it's time I
enlisted some public allies.

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