All language subtitles for Genius S01E08

What sort of animals would do this?

He was coming to dinner on Sunday.

It's only because my
customers requested it.

Everyone has a choice, Ernst.

I want to leave, Albert, please.

We're not going anywhere, Elsa.

There's already much discussion

of a Nobel.

Relativity is a hoax.

It isn't grounded in
any concrete discovery.

You want to pay me for a divorce?

Mileva Maric

is to retain full custody in Zurich.

You idolized your father, Eduard,

but he was never there and I could see

how painful that was for you.

Tell Papa I want to see him.

Albert Einstein has engaged

in a profit-grubbing promotion

as our country suffers
deprivation and indignity.

Einstein obviously
desires a public battle.

It's time I enlisted some public allies.

Stay down!

Elsa, you're right; it's time.

Hello... It's the United States embassy.

I am conducting this
inquiry at the request

of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover.

What does he want with me?

Osip...

Osip, go wash before your brothers wake.

Go. Go, go, go, go, go.

Get the kid.

Everybody up! Against the wall!

Mama.
What, what is this?

What have we done?
Shut your mouth, kike.

Mama!

Stop resisting!

Please, please.

He didn't do anything.

Please, please.

Almost 3000 subversives
taken into custody,

from 33 cities in 23 different states.

Well done, Mr. Hoover.

The majority were known anarchists, sir,

but we arrested a number
of socialists as well.

We sent a strong message to
these immigrants that threats

to the American way of
life will not be tolerated.

Interrogations are in progress.

Deportations will begin imminently.

And these reports of abuse?

The only publications
giving them any ink

are communist rags. Heh.

You got a bright future ahead of you,
Edgar.

Thank you, sir.

I'm conducting this inquiry

at the request of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover,

director of the United States
Bureau of Investigation.

Hoover?
Yes.

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.

What does he want with me?

He's been quite interested
in your political activities

and affiliations since your
first visit to New York.

So if you do not answer my questions

to his satisfaction,

you will not be granted entry
to the United States of America.

I don't have to put up with this.

Albert, sit down.

No. I will not.

The land of the free,

isn't that what you call it?

I've devoted my life
to freedom of thought,

to peace for all peoples.

And your American director of espionage

is concerned about my affiliations?

I meant no offense.
I'm not here to accuse you

of anything, sir, I'm merely here

to ask questions.
Really?

Or are you desperate for
the next rung on the ladder?

Albert, please.
Flattered to be asked

to interrogate the
famous Dr. Albert Einstein

with visions of promotion in your head?

Albert!

Please excuse my husband's outburst,
Mr. Geist.

Uh, let's return to the subject

of your former wife, Mileva Maric.

When did you last speak?

Thursday, I think.

And what did you discuss?

We discussed our son, Eduard.

He's not been well.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Are you acquainted

with Miss Maric's brother?

I met him 20 years ago.

I've not seen him since.

Are you aware he now resides

in the Soviet Union?

She might have mentioned it.

And to your knowledge,
has she ever visited him there?

She has not... to my knowledge.

Let's move on, shall we?

How did you come to know Chaim Weizmann?

Oh, I see.

This is a one-way street

we are driving down, is it?

The Weizmanns are old friends of ours.

Excuse me, Mrs. Einstein.

The question was for your husband.

How did you come to know Chaim Weizmann?

It's all right, Chaim,

you can admit you don't understand.

Albert, you have been
explaining general relativity

for more than three hours,
and I am fully convinced

that you understand it.

I anticipated

that many would struggle
to comprehend my theory,

but I must admit,
I've been a little taken aback

by the jeers and the snubs,

particularly from the Nobel committee.

There will always be resistance
to revolutionary ideas.

But we've proved it with mathematics,
with astronomy.

Some people see a beautiful proof,

others a damning repudiation.

That's why certain
scientists loathe you,

while the rest of the world
has fallen hopelessly in love.

It's unpleasant sensation to be beloved,

not for your ideas,

but for the image people have of you.

Of course, your fame also
affords us an opportunity.

Chaim,
if this is an attempt to recruit me

to the Zionist cause,
you should save your breath.

Albert...
No.

We have just barely made it through

the death and destruction of the war.

You cannot ask me to support
the creation of a new nation

that will inevitably
bring us to war again.

The world's Jews are in
desperate need of a refuge.

But is Palestine the answer?

It is not uninhabited land.

You should visit with me someday.

You'll find our Arab
friends living in harmony

with our Jewish brothers and sisters.

The Arab people will rise up to resist

such in influx of newcomers.

It's not a matter of "if", but "when."

Will you join me upstairs?

There's something I'd like to show you.

Kill the Jews.

That was their battle cry... 1903.

The day after the
Russian Orthodox Easter.

They celebrated resurrection

then brutally murdered
hundreds of our people.

This was but one of many pogroms.

Ukraine, Poland,

even Argentina.

Babies ripped from mothers' arms.

Slaughtered.

My God.

So, of course, they fled.

As our ancestors did from Egypt.

To Berlin, to London, to Chicago,

Minneapolis, New York.

And what did they find
when they arrived?

Squalor, pestilence.

Blamed for the ills of the nations

in which they sought refuge.

Last year, the attorney
general of the United States

ordered raids that rounded
up thousands of Jews,

accusing them of
anarchism and radicalism.

An excuse to deport them.

When I tell you that

our people are desperate for a home,
it is not harsh words

from jealous colleagues
they are fleeing.

Nor a snub from the Nobel committee.

It is endless death and destruction.

There are dozens of
nations hospitable to Arabs.

But our tribesmen?

They have nowhere to go.

I sail for the United States next week

to raise money for a Hebrew
university in Palestine.

Come with me.

I should never have let
you go to dinner with Chaim.

I knew this would happen.

You are providing ammunition
to those fools who believe

that Jews cannot be good Germans.

I've never aspired to be a good German.

Well, this does not concern only you.

No, it doesn't.

It concerns legions of our
people who are suffering.

And you're going to rescue them
all with Chaim's university,

are you?

Elsa,
I know you are not this cold-hearted.

And what about Brussels,
the Solvay Conference?

You're the only German
scientist invited,

and you're simply going to cancel?
Four years of carnage.

Now I should be the one
who is supposed to heal

all the wounds of the war?

And Eduard,

you're going to miss his piano recital.

I'll take him sailing this summer.

He'll understand.

To you, this is a chance to do good.

To the rest of the world, it is...
it's a famous man

putting his race above his country.

And your enemies will
use it against you.

How the world sees me,
it's not important to me.

I wonder if you'll feel the same way

should the world turn against you.

Dr. Einstein, how long will you stay...

Sir!
Professor!

He can't answer if he can't hear!

Uh, you, sir.

Professor Einstein,
can you explain the theory of relativity

in one sentence?

All of my life I've tried
to put it into one book

and this fellow wants
it in a single sentence.

You, there.
Will you be giving any lectures

while you're here?
Yes.

We have many scheduled,
but I am here primarily

to support a Jewish university...
Dr. Einstein

will lecture at Princeton,

and then visit Harvard.

Do you believe Zionism does more

harm than good?

No. That is foolish thinking.

Well, then what do you
say to those who believe

Jews should assimilate
into American society?

I say it is a Jewish weakness,

trying always to keep the
gentiles in good humor.

Dr. Einstein is here to raise funds

for a university.

Education is a boon to all.

Thank you very much.

I don't appreciate

anyone doing my talking for me!

Tell her, Chaim.
You brought me here to speak out,

not to trot in front of the
press like some circus animal.

Chaim brought you here
to advance the cause.

Insulting American Jews is
not an effective approach.

Elsa's right.

As I told you,
most of them are assimilationists,

especially the wealthy ones.

So we shouldn't attempt
to change their minds?

By calling them weak?
I was asked the question!

And I told you how to answer it.

"Education is a boon to all"

is not an answer.

You and I are in agreement, Albert.

We should not have to give
up any part of ourselves

in order to be treated as equals.

But we need their money.

I took the liberty of
writing some remarks

for you for tomorrow.

Tell me, Dr. Lenard,

why should we deny Einstein
the Nobel this year?

My case remains the same.

Theoretical physics is
the purview of con artists.

They are like... Cubist painters...

...unable to render form decently,

convincing the world their
scrawlings are high art.

I quite like the little Spanish chap.

There is no science

but that which can be
explored experimentally.

Albert Einstein, unpalatable to
you though he may be, Philipp,

is the most famous
scientist in the world.

To deny him the Nobel again... well,

some might say we are
beginning to look like fools.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

God bless you, Einstein.

Thank you very much.

Dr. Einstein!

Thank you.

Dr. Einstein! Dr. Einstein!

Hey, kid!
Where do you think you're going?

Dr. Einstein!

Where the hell do you
think you're going, huh?

Dr. Einstein!
You bastard!

Please, sir, let him go.

Are you all right, young man?

To build a home for the Jews.

I cannot take it.

They took my father away.
They said he was dangerous.

Please.

I want him to have home.

What is your name?

Osip.

Thank you, Osip.

I promise I'll make good use of it.

Thank you for coming.

As a young Jewish man

with dreams of discovering the
mysteries of the universe...

...I was lucky

to have many inspiring professors.

Well, the truth is,

most of my professors
thought I would not grow up

to accomplish much of anything.

I have not been the best of Jews.

Before today, I had not set
foot in a synagogue in years.

But now, I've come to believe

a university that
celebrates our heritage

is essential to the future of our youth.

Today, I am here with you to
celebrate our Jewish heritage

as special and of value.

Unique.

Some people think it is dangerous,

defining ourselves as different.

Blend in, they say. Do not stand out.

Do not ask questions of authority.

To me, they sound suspiciously
like my stuffy old professors.

We deserve to be accepted.

Our heritage, our faith,

our traditions and history.

Why must we assimilate?

There is no justice in that.

Only loss.

Our people

have sacrificed enough.

So the trip wasn't a success?

People were not as
generous as we had hoped.

That's not true, Elsa.

There was that little boy,
Osip, who gave me a nickel.

And the poor woman in the Bronx

who dropped her wedding
ring in the donation box.

Who knows?

Maybe one day, we'll bump into her again

and we can buy her a new one.

My husband's optimism is one of his

most admirable qualities.

Right, then.

Um...

were you aware of any
persons at these rallies

who held subversive beliefs?

Well, I was there.

Oh, Albert.
And what subversive beliefs

do you hold, Dr. Einstein?

Well,
they're mostly established facts now.

Things like the existence of molecules,

the notion that gravity bends light,

tiny...
Sir,

I was referring to
your political beliefs,

not your scientific ideas.

But I think you knew that.

You do?

Because you chose two words

which can mean many things.

Communists, socialists, anarchists.

Were you aware of their presence at...

I didn't take a survey at the door.

If you're going to
accuse me of something,

Mr. Geist, please,
let's get to the point.

Very well.

Dr. Einstein,
the United States government

has reason to believe that you are

a member of the Communist Party.

Oh.

"Albert Einstein advises, advocates,

"or teaches individual resistance

"to all accepted authorities...

"whether it be a
question of peace or war,

"government or religion,

mathematics or anthrology..."

She must have meant anthropology.

May I see that,

please?

The Women's Patriot Corporation.

You mean to tell me that
we are being interrogated

because a gaggle of honking
geese wrote a letter?

The Women's Patriot Corporation...

Frothingham?

Frothingham,
that can't possibly be a person's name.

Mrs. Frothingham and her compatriots

are concerned American citizens.

Director Hoover feels their findings

are worthy of being taken seriously.

Well,
these geese are right about one thing:

I do have a contempt for authority.

Oh, it's true.

The surest way to get my
husband to do what you want is to

tell him not to.
Dr. Einstein...

Mrs. Frothingham

suggests here that relativity is
of no more practical importance

than the number of angels

dancing on the head of a pin.

How many angels do you,

or Mrs. Frothingham,

imagine could fit

on the head of a pin...

...and still have room to dance?

I suggest you treat me

and these proceedings with some respect.

You're not making it

easy for me.

Well, let's get back to the
matter at hand, shall we?

Are you in fact a member
of the Communist Party?

Well, Mr. Geist,

despite my deepest sympathy
for certain socialist ideals...

Such as?

Economic fairness,

the belief that it is our duty as humans

to contribute to our communities.

But the notion that I should
join the Communist Party...

a commitment that would
require I surrender my autonomy

to the authority of the state...

that, good sir, is a nonsense.

A monkey in a hat riding
a dog to a donut factory.

Well,
I'm concerned that neither of you are...

appreciating the gravity
of this situation.

I dare say I know a
bit more about gravity

than you, Mr. Geist,

and a few other things besides.

How long have you lived in Berlin?

A little over two years.

What do you think about Mr. Hitler?

Oh, he's unpleasant.

But in the grand scheme of things,

he seems little more than a nuisance.

I don't understand you, Mr. Geist.

Hitler rejects economic rule

and talks of expanding German territory.

He advocates for eugenics.

Who are the impure ones he speaks of,
do you think?

I would like to leave
Germany of my own accord

and save him the trouble
of violently exiling me.

Or worse.

Do you really think the German
people would stand for that?

The government deporting the
world's most famous scientist?

Jewish scientist. I'm a Jew.

Zionism, communism...

these are not the threats

that should be concerning you,
Mr. Geist.

It's fascism that should
have you trembling.

Dr. Einstein, we're getting off...

Tell me,

have you heard of Walther Rathenau?

You know, it's five years

since I've looked at this.

And I...

I hardly remember writing it.

"That which produces harmony
in the chorus of the universe

can seem a discord to
our partial hearing."

These words, they're beautiful.

Thank you.

So, how can you write about
freedom for the human spirit,

and yet still be opposed to Zionism?

If I wanted to hear someone call me

a traitor to the Jews,

I would have invited your friend,
Weizmann.

I still don't understand why

you won't speak out for us.

Even if I agreed with your cause,

Albert,

do you really think

that my speaking out
would make it any better?

You are the most powerful Jew

in Germany;
your voice would make a difference.

The Gentiles respect you.

Yeah, and how long

do you think that respect will last

if I put my religion above my nation?

Oh...
Already, the radicals

are blaming me

for Germany's paying war reparations.

I am foreign minister

in a difficult time.

Thank you for this.

Are you still coming
for dinner on Sunday?

If Elsa is making the roast.

She will.

You'll never be one of them.

Walther was a German patriot.

Still,
they slaughtered him like an animal.

Minister Rathenau was
assassinated a decade ago.

Yes, it has been ten years.

And since then,
your stock market has crashed,

people are out of work,

starving.

Hitler promises jobs, bread,
pride to desperate people.

Why is it so hard to believe
they might follow him?

Mrs. Einstein,
would you please excuse us?

No, I think not.

My wife and I have no secrets.

Well, I'm afraid I cannot
continue the interview

with Mrs. Einstein in the room.

Why don't you go home

and finish the packing.

Please...

tell me about Betty Neumann.

She worked for me. She no longer does.

Mm.

I have a very efficient
woman handling my affairs now.

Miss Dukas.

Perhaps not as attractive

as Miss Neumann,

but I need a good secretary...
Secretary?

Was that the full extent of your
relationship with Miss Neumann?

You mean was I intimate with her?

Sexually?

I was. But what does that
got to do with anything?

Men who have been indiscrete
are vulnerable to blackmail.

A communist operative
could pressure you...

No one is going to
pressure me about Betty.

You better start walking.

Are you throwing me out?

The opera?

You've been looking
forward to it all week.

You'll miss the curtain.

I'm only going if I can wear a disguise.

Don't be ridiculous.
I have to.

Because I'm either Dr. Albert Einstein,

or I'm that dirty Jew who broke physics.

I've been those things for so long,

I'm beginning to forget
who I started out to be.

Have you seen this?

Lenard's latest,
condemning general relativity

as wild speculation,

propped up by the Jewish press,

signed by 19 physicists.

Good ones?

No.
Well, then...

My dear, I thought you

would have gone on to
the opera without me.

Sit.

I'm sorry. I was delayed.

I should have called.

Or asked Betty to do so.

Maybe she was otherwise engaged.

Between your thighs perhaps?

This is nothing, with Betty.
A momentary escape.

Some pleasure to numb

the world's constant pull upon me.

It has nothing to do with our life.

You are a selfish man.

You have convinced yourself that
your contributions to the world

absolve you from the
responsibility you bear

to those you claim to love.

They do not.

I've never said that.

Your actions speak for you.
You don't listen.

I do.

I don't feel safe, Albert.

And I have told you
this over and over again.

And still,
you fan the flames with Chaim,

insisting that we stay here.

For what, pride?

The cause is important,
so is my work here.

Your sons haven't seen you in months.

Yes, well, things have been...

Things are always.

I love this life,

but I will not be treated
as an afterthought in it.

So I will make a bargain with you.

You may engage in as many
dalliances as you like,

but when you have made
a commitment to me,

I come first.

And to prove it to me,
you will take me away from here,

at least for a month or two, and soon.

This is not negotiable.

Elsa.

You made me.

I was a lump of clay,

and you shaped me.

I'm not sure I'd still be
alive if you hadn't taken me in.

I should never have treated
you with such disregard.

From the bottom of my heart,

I'm sorry.

Elsa knows everything,

so there's no threat of blackmail,
Mr. Geist.

I see.
There's so much about the world

Elsa has always understood
more keenly than I.

The shifts and moods of the culture,

she sees such things the
way I see calculations.

If it were me and me
alone I had to worry about,

I probably would have
lived a more reckless life.

I owe Elsa a great deal,

so I did as she asked.

I gave my attention to science,
lectures, conferences.

I accepted the offer to go to Japan.

We sailed far from Germany.

I cannot deny the skill involved,

but it's a little too erratic for me,

this modern music.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Albert.

They've done it.

They've given you the Nobel Prize!

So they've finally run out of excuses?

If we disembark at the next port,

we can make it to Sweden
in time for the ceremony.

Ah.

Let them present the
medal to an empty chair.

I know you detest the committee, but...

They refuse to acknowledge relativity.

What?
But they cannot ignore me,

so I'm being given the prize

for my paper on the
photoelectric effect.

Really?
My dearest Elsa,

I know care not one whit about physics,

but let me remind you,

this paper would not have existed

without the work of Philipp Lenard.

Oh, my.

He's going to lose his mind.

Welcome to the Nazi Party, Dr. Lenard.

We are honored to have you in our ranks.

The honor is entirely mine.

I'd hoped when we returned home

that the mood would have cooled,

and I could have continued
my work with Chaim,

but Elsa wouldn't have it.

So the great Albert Einstein
bends to authority after all?

Who knew you had a sense of humor,
Mr. Geist?

If my wife had her way,
we would never have returned to Germany.

And sitting here today,
I rather wish we hadn't.

Why did you?

I like my study,
with all my things just so.

My tobacco shop, where Ernst
always has my favorite blend.

I was settled.

I'm not quite sure how
all of that happened.

A settled man is never
what I set out to be.

So...

your contention is that you gave up

your political activities entirely,

and devoted yourself
only to your science?

Mm.

Ernst, my good man.

Ah, two tins of the usual, Professor?

Indeed. And I would like
you to meet my good friend

and thorn in my scientific side,
Dr. Niels Bohr.

Hello.

An honor to meet you, sir.

Ernst, are you familiar with

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

I can't say

that I am, Professor.

Well, it states that the
more accurately we measure

the velocity of a particle,

the less accurately we can
measure its position in space.

So you know exactly how
fast a thing is going...

Yes, but if we do,
we cannot also know where that thing is.

Does that sound logical to you?

No, sir.
Of course not.

And according to my esteemed colleague,

the particle does not exist
at all until we observe it.

That makes absolutely no sense to me.

Exactly!

Thank you, Ernst.

Shall we stop by your butcher's as well?

Perhaps he has an opinion on the matter.

Ha, ha, ha, very amusing.

Albert, the uncertainty principle works,
it functions.

And it allows us to make
use of the quantum world.

The goal of scientific
pursuit should not be merely

to make use of the world around us,

it should be to understand it,
fundamentally.

No matter what use it might be.

Albert, Albert, watch out!

Just watch where you're going, please.

Why should I? Why should either of us?

According to you,
if that automobile was a particle,

but we didn't see it,

it wouldn't have been there at all.

We would be perfectly safe.

Automobiles aren't subatomic particles,
Albert.

Niels, it defies common sense

that the rules which govern
those things we can see

do not apply to those we cannot.

I will not turn off
my brain simply because

you've decided the matter is settled.

Well, if you don't start using
your brain to observe what's

right in front of you,
you're going to get yourself killed.

Hmm.

Did you read his speech? From Nuremburg?

Yeah, he's an egomaniacal swindler.

No one takes him seriously.

I'm beginning to wonder
if perhaps we should.

Well,
I didn't come here to discuss politics.

Of course not. Oh...

I've been thinking.

What if we imagined a box full of light,

and we placed a precise
number of protons

inside the box.

We weigh a single one of them,
and let it out.

What happens?

Sorry. One more time.

These particles,
smaller than we can see,

even with a microscope,

are measurable only as... probabilities,

where they might exist in space?

How fast they might be going?

Very good.

So it's a game of chance, then?

A mathematical guess?

According to Bohr.

But I do not believe God
plays dice with the universe.

You know,
in all this talk of your being a Jew,

this is the first time
you've mentioned God.

That's another one of those words

that can mean many different things.

But you do believe in God?
If I say no,

will it prove I'm a communist?

What I believe...

is the universe is so extraordinary,

only God could have created it.

My job is simply to
figure out how He did it.

What about you, Mr. Geist?

Are you a religious man?

I was raised Methodist.

Are you still?

Well... Mother was the true believer.

Every holiday,
she would make extra food,

and she'd pile me and my
brother into the Studebaker

with all the dishes,

and we'd drive across
town to the train station.

That's where all the men
who were out of work went

to get warm.

And we would serve them all plates.

I used to think we must be
the richest family in town

to be able to give up so
much when no one else did.

Your mother sounds
like a wonderful woman.

She was.

I thought about her when you
spoke about the wedding ring

dropped in your donation box.

That sounded like
something she would do.

How did you end up here?

I wanted to be of service.

You are your mother's son.

She would've preferred
I become a minister.

I suspect she was proud
of you nonetheless.

Call for you, Mr. Geist.

Take a message please, Eleanor.

It's Director Hoover.

...against the conniving,

corrupt, incompetent Jew.

Elsa.

You're right.

It's time.

Oh, well...

um...

I'll, um...

I'll call Princeton.

I'm sorry.

You have nothing to apologize for.

I knew you would make
the right decision.

Why did I take so long?

For all our travels together...

for all the places we've seen,

I've never actually lived
anywhere but Germany.

And I thought I was too
old for new adventures.

Oh, no.

Two spring chickens like us?

We'll be pecking at
each other for years.

We'll be all right. All of us.

Hans Albert could come with us.

Eduard...

I-I don't know.

It pains me to say it,

but I think he's in
the best place for now.

Switzerland is safe.

What about Margot and Ilse?

They're determined to
make their lives here.

Perhaps they will change their minds

once they see how happy a
person can be in New Jersey.

It'll take us a little time

to get our affairs in order, but...

I will book a passage
for after the wedding.

Congratulations.

They look so happy.

Very happy.

Oh, dear.

What on earth is she doing here?

I called and called.

Why do you not answer your phone?
That gives you permission

to appear at a wedding
uninvited to chastise me?

Oh, for God's sake, Albert.

Your son...

your son tried to kill himself.

He's asking for you.

I've just given him
an insulin treatment.

He's not likely to talk for a while.

Hello, Teddy.

I'm sorry I didn't come sooner.

I will do all that I can
to help you feel well.

Then when you are feeling better...

you can come to America
and live with me.

I should have been better to you,
I know that now.

I am much better at
theory than practice.

I do hope you know, though...

hope you've always known...

how so very loved you are.

Perhaps you didn't.

I used to play you to sleep.

Remember?

I'd like to play for you now.

May I?

A healthy German spirit
must deflect from itself

the foreign spirit of Judaism,

which arises as a dark power everywhere.

And which is so clearly designated

in everything that belongs
to Einstein's theory.

German scientists have a
duty to bring enlightenment,

to break the power of the dark
spirit everywhere possible.

Dr. Lenard, it's an honor.

He's expecting you, sir.

Heil, Mein Fuhrer.

Dr. Einstein.

I relayed your answers to Mr. Hoover

with the recommendation
that we approve your visa.

And?

I've been ordered to deny it.

Sir, I want you to know that I believe

I called you here in good faith.

And I believed that I...

that I was...

Empowered?

To be of service?

Yes.

You're a good man, Mr. Geist.

I apologize for suggesting otherwise.

I wish you the best of luck.

Well, do you have the visas?

You'll have to call
your reporter friend.

You're going to want to read this, sir.

Get me Geist!

Someone called The New York Times.

Hmm.

The State Department switchboard's

been overloaded by citizens
incensed that their government

is harassing the great Albert Einstein.

Hmm.

Thank you.

Congress has begun to receive calls.

Quite a few important men
have egg on their faces.

Your Mr. Edgar left me little choice.

I understand. Hmm.

How far we've come.

However...

I have been instructed
to issue your visa

only if you sign this.

It's a declaration that
you are not a member

of the Communist Party.

Yes, I can see that.

For your safety and the
safety of your family.

It's only a piece of paper.

Please.

Please accept this compromise.

Your nation, Mr. Geist, it's a miracle.

The beautiful myth of it.

Scrappy revolutionaries
rejecting monarchy

for self-government
built from shared values,

common purpose.

I can understand why a man
might want to serve a nation

that tells itself a story like that.

And I also understand

how painful it can be when the myth

does not quite fit with the reality.

I cannot sign this.

These were not your instructions.

No.

This will cost you your job.

Probably.

But there are other
ways to be of service.

What are you doing?

Keep your job, Mr. Geist.

But promise me

Elsa and I will not be the only Jews

you help find their
way to America's shores.