All language subtitles for 1973 - Because of the Cats

Everybody knows it, everybody knows it,
tonight is gonna be the night.

Everybody hears it, sure they're gonna
hear it, tonight is gonna be the night.

Gathering, gathering, dancing, dancing,
dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing,

dancing, dancing, dancing.

Anyone else in the whole department?

There are plenty of young blokes, aren't
there?

Another good night's sleep gone up in
smoke.

Don't stay out too late, dear.

No, darling.

They want us on Rubensprout?

Yeah, of course I think so.

Bastards.

Mrs. Marris.

Mrs. Marris, would you mind if I asked
you a few questions? No, you may not.

Don't you understand what this meant to
her?

Of course you may.

I feel better, Bob.

They were extremely efficient.

We've got no enemies.

Not that I know of.

What should this happen to us?

We had a very nice evening.

It was very pleasant.

It was our weekly bridge evening with
the Vegas's.

Then they must have known that Thursday
was our regular bridge night.

Oh, the pictures.

Who are you?

What do you want?

I'll give you all the money in the
house.

Not bad.

No.

Please.

You won't get away with it.

Look, I'll give you one more chance.

I'll give you all the money.

A few half an hour's head start before I
call the police.

Open your legs.

Open your legs!

Mother.

Mother.

anything they would have murdered me.

Are they armed?

Guns? Knives?

Bob, do something.

Yes.

Do something, Bob.

Hey, Bob.

Hey. Your wife wants you to do
something.

Your turn.

You like watching, Bob, don't you?

Maybe Bobby's one of those, eh, Bobby?

I'll give you all the money.

Son, is that all you ever think about,
Bobby, eh?

Eh? Do you ever think about defending
your wife's sweet, dripping little

honeypot?

What about you?

No. See for yourself.

The cats won't like it.

Shut up!

The cats won't like it.

Any other details?

Their voices.

They seemed well -bred.

University boys. Well -bred, she said.

I can't help thinking they're not from
Amsterdam.

They're not our kind of scum.

Better start in the suburbs.

That'll take you at least a month.

Who's man?

Are you sure you can do without me for a
month?

I'll have to, won't I? These bastards
are getting on my nerves.

Yes, well -bred. That's a fact.

Six of them.

Fine manners.

Where did they get off?

Blumenthal. You're quite sure?

Inspector, this isn't the first time
I've worked with you people.

The F case, you remember?

The Widow F.

And that was also on one of my trains.
Did they have round -trip tickets?

Yes, from Blumenthal.

Can you describe any of them? That's not
my strong point.

What a ticket collector ought to have is
one of those little Japanese cabins.

And you've got them.

But then anyway, how do you know they
committed a crime or if they're going

What did they do at the signal?

Rape.

Or sex.

Here, please.

God, there he is.

Bye. Bye.

Bye. Bye.

See you soon.

Maybe.

Not bad.

She's a good friend of mine.

A regular customer here.

Come back tomorrow night.

You'll meet her again.

Let me see what I see.

Where?

In the oil can.

I do.

I've been practicing.

What, with a cap gun?

No, my Uncle Max has a Magnum .44.

If you had dropped it, I would have
knocked your teeth out, one by one.

Watch.

Now knock my teeth out.

One by one.

When you think I'm ready to be
initiated, let me know.

Keep out of step.

Who don't want to get his ribs broken as
well, take care of his comfort.

Keep out of step.

Right, carry on.

That's the idea.

because we are doomed to emptiness if we
do not come together to explore this

world of immense opportunities with each
other.

Communication is not an empty word.

We are what we eat.

When we eat polluted, poisoned foods,
our minds and therefore our

actions become polluted.

Our judgment becomes poor.

No, thank you. Without our judgment, we
become... Yes, yes. I'm just not very

hungry.

We will eat to live.

To live means to be in harmony with the
laws of nature.

Want to say jamais?

Hey, you still remember me. Of course.

I haven't slept a wink since that night.

I'd bet.

Bonbon? No, miss.

I must do challenge.

For the night, I mean.

250 guilders.

What about that on me?

It's old enough never but much you can
own that

Well, it's very good

Do you work for them?

No.

You could be a traveling salesman.

I'm a police inspector.

Oh.

Bicycle.

Yes.

That's my department.

What would you say to five or six boys,
about 20 years old, who break into a

home for the fun of it, turn the place
into a shambles, and if the people who

live there happen to come home
unexpectedly, they rape the woman one

other for the fun of it.

A woman old enough to be their mother.

It happens.

They come from Bloomingdale.

I think so.

Sure, kids here have money.

Who are the kids?

Isn't that your job to find out?

Yes.

You're right.

You're my first.

Inspector Vanderbilt? Yes?

Chief of Police Marcousis wants to see
you immediately.

Now? If you don't mind, sir.

You had orders to report to me as soon
as you arrived in Bloomingdale.

You didn't do so.

Why? This isn't an official
investigation. I didn't want your

in it yet.

I'm sure you have plenty to do, as it
is. Let me be the judge of that.

No doubt you had your own excellent
reasons for visiting that prostitute. No

doubt.

Hmm. That's nice.

Italian? Yes, Martinelli.

So, the Amsterdam juvenile vice squad
has decided that an organized gang of

burglars is flourishing in Bloemendaal.

Yes.

If there were, I'd have known about it.

Of course I will cooperate with you, as
my friend Boersma has requested.

But I do demand one thing, and that is
tact.

You don't know the kind of people that
live here. I know the type.

They break into houses.

They destroy. They rape.

I want those kids.

Well, if they are in Bloemendaal, of
course I shall cooperate with you.

But in view of the fact that they may
very well not be here, all I ask... It's

discretion.

You'll get it.

But then don't have me picked up in the
street anymore.

That is not only indiscreet.

It's irritating.

Would you be wanting a cabana, sir?

Or perhaps a parasol?

Don't look at me around.

Where's the answer?

Oh, this kind of weather, you'll most
likely find him indoors.

At the discotheque?

Well, there's a jukebox.

Really, it's a kind of ice cream parlor.
What?

Ice cream parlor. You know what I mean?
Just for the youngsters. I'd love to see

it.

That's fine.

I like ice cream.

Seven out of ten.

Marksman. I once got eight.

You'll never be a raven.

What? A raven.

How many marks do you need to be a
raven? Ten out of ten.

That's a lot.

This is funny. He always welcomes a new
guest.

It's a habit of his.

What would you like?

You sell liquor?

Not to the kids, of course.

But he's not a miner.

He's probably swimming. What was he

saying about cats?

Oh, he's always talking about cats.

He hunts them.

I'm afraid one of these days he's going
to get his eyes clawed out.

Cheers. Cheers.

Come on.

Must come and try my restaurant
sometime.

Large company ad. Now that I know my
way, I'll make a point of it.

Good. Do that.

All right.

Bye.

Hey, son.

Yeah. Weren't you talking about the
Ravens? Uh -huh.

You know them?

Of course.

Michel Carnavale, 18 years old.

Son of a successful architect who
designed most of the new residential

Blumenau.

Receives an extremely generous
allowance.

Eric Mierle, 20.

Son of a multi -millionaire plastic
manufacturer.

Mother died two years ago.

Wagenfeld's half.

Engineer. Manages a big construction
firm.

Rich again.

Son, Bert.

18 years old.

Wim Brinkmann, 19, son of the export
manager of the plastic factory.

The poorest of the crowd.

But still better off than the son of a
police inspector.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Son of a European director of an
American publishing company.

Not rich, but comfortable.

Lots of folks.

Case and Sonnevelt.

19, son of the director of an
advertising agency.

The new recruit.

Cheers. Thank you.

Thank you who?

Thank you, Pedro.

Those boys.

There's something strange about them.

I can't put my finger on it. There's
something out of kilter.

Where do they take their girls?

To make love.

They still make love, don't they? The
younger generation?

In the dunes, mostly.

No.

They never take their girls to the
dunes.

Never take them anywhere.

Places empty.

And countrymen.

Lend me your aids.

I come to pay Caesar, not to praise him.

All that were no alcohol.

It's not my cousin Michael.

And father?

As usual, came home loaded to the gills.

Close your eyes.

Fantastic. But Father said I had to wait
until my birthday.

Oh, he was in a good mood.

Something about a premium or a bonus. I
didn't really pay attention.

Look, shall I wake him up to thank him?
Oh, God, no. He waited for you for a

while. But the White Horse gold label
got the better of him.

What do you estimate is the cost of the
damage?

Last year at Sotheby's, Reynolds sold
for 110 ,000. That's guilty.

British pounds.

Bad rate for the insurance company.

This may surprise you, but the loss of
my Reynolds and

the damage is irreparable. It doesn't
matter to me because of the senseless

thing that Wobbly has done.

And why?

Why does he hate me like this?

I always gave him love, affection.

Like a father.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I wish to register an official complaint
against Robbie for Kirk.

And I don't care what gets into the
papers.

Don't you think you'd better wait until
we've made a full investigation?

No, I don't.

Yes,

I do. I've made up my mind.

Don't forget your bag.

Well, just a moment, John.

Well, what's the meaning of this?

I want to talk to you.

Couldn't it wait half an hour?

No, it couldn't.

Well, wait for me at the clubhouse
terrace.

Why?

I'd rather enjoy watching you play.

You have a very subtle background. Come
on, Louis.

Stop chatting.

Let's get on with the game. All right.

I hope you know what you are doing.

If they're innocent, there's no harm
done.

It's ridiculous. That's the harm that
will be done.

Hello. Hello. Hello, Petra.

Ursma has requested you to cooperate
with me.

I am cooperating with you.

Aren't I?

Do you expect me to applaud when you're
making a laughing stock of the entire

police force?

I'll inform.

All parties concerned that you'll go to
their homes to question them.

That's all I can do.

And that's all I ask.

Then get dressed. I don't want to see
him.

But your mother promised the chief of
police, my cousin.

She shouldn't make promises unless she
knows that it's all right with me.

But if you didn't do anything, there's
no reason to be frightened.

I'm not frightened. I just don't want to
be questioned.

We're not living in a police state, not
yet.

You can tell that to the police
inspector.

I won't be telling him anything.

I won't be home today.

A number of burglaries have been
committed.

Willful damage to private property is
estimated at many thousands of guilders.

They were done by local boys of your
son's age.

Friends of Frank's?

Quite possibly.

to have a prospect?

Not officially.

Not yet.

Frank, this is a police inspector from
Amsterdam.

He wants to ask you a few questions.

On Sunday?

Yes, on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon, we
always lunch at half past one.

Will you be needing more than ten
minutes for your questions?

It's my jigo danio, you understand.

Five minutes at the most, madam.

Oh, how nice of you.

Goodbye. Goodbye.

Do I need to answer?

If you want to.

But I don't think the inspector's legal
position is very strong.

Well, it's strong enough.

Take Frank into custody right now.

Have him taken to Amsterdam.

In an armoured van, if I want.

So a little cooperation, it won't take a
minute.

Whose idea was it to rape the woman?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Every single one. Son of you, fuck that
woman. Who was the first? Watch your

language, Inspector.

You're in my home.

I refuse to answer your vulgar
insinuation.

All right.

Let's leave it at that for the time
being.

Take a good look at Frank.

And while you're savoring your gigot
agneau, remember, he raped a woman.

Your wife's.

Scott, you okay? Fine.

What's Eric been up to?

Observing, he'd tell me.

Marcuse has mentioned something about a
gang.

What do they do, chase girls? He could
call it that, chasing girls, among other

things. Well, we've all done the same
sort of thing. I mean, smashing milk

bottles, pinching girls in the street.

Yes, definitely.

But not organised burglaries.

Not the cold -blooded rape of a 40 -year
-old woman by five boys.

And Eric was one of them.

Come down, kid.

This is Inspector Vondervallen.

Hello. Hello, Eric.

Tell us about the cats, Eric.

Cats?

Well, one of you said very clearly.

The cats won't like it.

What cats?

It was in an apartment on the
Schuberstraat in Amsterdam.

It was Thursday, 28th of July.

It was heard very clearly by the woman
you raped.

I don't know anything about it.

There's no sense in covering up for the
others.

I know all about them.

Father, I don't know anything about it.

Then why are you sweating?

He was scared stiff.

Leave it to me.

I'll get to the bottom of this.

One of the six of you is bound to break
sometime.

A boy like Case Van Sonnevelt, for
example?

Case? Oh, I hardly know him. Case just
joined the Raiders.

Did you let him come with you last week?

To the antique dealers?

I wish I knew what you were talking
about.

Sounds kind of vague to me too,
Inspector.

The cats won't like it. What do you know
about the cats?

More than you think.

And that's another thing the cats won't
like.

What kind of story did Kate tell you?
Who are the cats?

What are they?

Inspector, I won't stand for this kind
of intimidation.

Okay.

I hope you'll be as helpful in court.

He's going to need you.

No. Why not?

I don't feel like it.

What's wrong with you?

I don't want you.

You can't afford to have me as an enemy.

I know.

It makes things very difficult for me.

I know.

Still, that's the way I want it.

It must have been Kies von Sonnenfeld.

Cop said so very clearly. Cats won't
like him. Why couldn't he keep his mouth

shut?

We just shouldn't have let him join in
the first place.

He's the only one that wasn't questioned
by that detective.

Ah, you.

Yeah. You.

I'll be 72 next week.

I've never once complained.

I still have all my teeth.

Ah, come to try our restaurant?

On the house, Fritz?

Or is this an official visit?

Well, I... Want to talk a bit of
business?

I have a faint idea.

I know what your business is.

I noticed some of the boys were in a bit
of a stew.

They've been questioned about something
or other by the police.

Yourself, perhaps?

Yes, myself.

Please sit down. Thank you.

Did they tell you what it was about?

No.

Kids have their secrets.

But they take you into their confidence.

Sometimes.

Are you surprised to hear about the
police investigation?

I'm very surprised to hear it was
something serious.

Is he?

I have my own ideas about that.

Would you beg your pardon?

There's one thing I'm very curious
about.

Maybe you could help me.

Gladly.

What's that?

The cats.

Cats. But... Do you know who they are?

There are a great number of girls here
in the club.

Cats are, I think, a sort of elite
amongst them.

Like the ravens, in fact.

Kids have their names.

Yes, so they do.

These cats, do they sleep with the
ravens?

How on earth do you expect me to know
that?

Well, you're not suggesting that I let
them use?

Spectre.

I'm not running a brothel.

Do they smoke a lot?

Certainly no more than in Amsterdam.

Any other drugs?

Inspector. I think you're going to find
things very square and dull here in

Bloomingdale.

Thank you.

Yes, no kicking tomorrow.

Gentlemen!

Gentlemen, you must tell them you have
to stop all of the ravens being so cruel

and vicious.

They want to murder me.

Why on earth would they want to do that,
Kate?

They think I squealed.

They think I told the police about the
ravens.

And you didn't.

Of course not.

How do you know that, sweetheart?

Because Kate told you.

Can you vouch for him?

Yes, if you want me to.

But then you must tell them to leave him
alone.

I'm not your leader.

Anything that happens is decided
collectively.

But they think I squealed.

You can tell them I didn't.

What are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

I'm on guard duty.

What has happened to all of you?

Eric.

Were you there today when that happened
to my cats?

Yes.

How could you, Eric?

How could you let something like that
happen?

How could you do something like that?

You never will.

But there's something you should
understand.

I'm not like my father.

Stay away from him, Theodora.

That's good advice.

And leave my father alone.

I won't tell them I saw you.

Why not use the equipment?

Got cramp, eh?

Death by misadventure.

It's a possibility.

It's a possibility.

We found his clothes.

Then we looked over at the lamp, then
brought back here.

Do you want me to phone your husband?

No, no.

He had to leave.

He's tied up.

What am I supposed to do with all this?

Leave it like this?

Make a museum of it?

The Keith van Sonneveld Museum.

I never could stand that thing.

Do you know where this came from?

Maybe Indonesia?

No, I mean, have you ever seen it
before?

This necklace was stolen from an antique
dealer in Amsterdam.

Recently? Yes.

One of those burglars our boys are
supposed to have committed?

Very probably.

Yep.

There's nothing wrong with the aqualung.

I could have told you that.

Sold them ever since they came on the
market. And Case Van Sonnenfeld was a

swimmer? Better than that. He was very
good. Hey, Doctor, could he have had the

cramp or tore the mask off in panic?

No sign of that. As far as I can see,
the boy was perfectly healthy.

Why were his lungs full of sand?

Seawater does strange things.

Anyhow, we'll find it in the medical
report tonight.

They're just waiting for the results of
some tests to come in. Right.

Have you checked with the weatherman?

Tide's normal. Water calm after
midnight, sir. So he couldn't have

than 25 metres?

That's right, sir.

So, no cramp?

Nothing wrong with the aqualung?

No abnormal weather conditions?

Therefore, not an accident?

Sea breeze, sunshine.

Make the most of it, eh?

thing to say my name my dress my
telephone number that's all this monkey

here doesn't keep his hands off me
there's going to be trouble really

Tell the press.

Or your daddy's important friends.

Police brutality, eh?

You're a witness.

I don't like rich rats, especially rich
rats with suede shoes. Come on.

your consent.

Has it occurred to any one of you that
this story might be true?

You can't believe that. I won't believe
anything until I've heard both sides.

So, Annie Troost on the beach as well.

Good. That's fine.

She was there, too.

It's fine.

I won't bother.

Oh, no, no.

No, of course not. You weren't there.
You just heard the others talking about

it.

Yes.

You're still afraid of me, aren't you?

Because you want to make us admit
something we didn't do.

All we did was go swimming together.

All right.

So you all went swimming together.

And what's wrong with that?

Nothing, nothing, nothing at all.

Only why didn't you tell me in the first
place?

Because I don't see why my private life
is any of your business.

I can go swimming whenever I want to.

Tell me, why did you go so far?

Just to go swimming.

Because there's more privacy there. And
because people can't understand why we

feel like swimming at night.

And of course they can't understand why
you like to swim without a bathing suit.

Exactly.

You were all in the wrong.

Does that shock you?

It was a case then.

With all these pretty, naked little
girls.

He undressed further on.

Further on.

So he didn't come near the rest of you
until you were all... He didn't come too

close? Not too close.

How close?

Ten yards?

Two yards?

He must have come close.

Why? He could fuck at least one of you.

Oh, come off it.

Does that shock you?

I'm not shocked.

You know anything about biology, Lena?

What I learned at school?

In the coroner's report, after the
autopsy on Case, it says, Traities of

spermatozoa evident.

Do you know what that means?

That he had an ejaculation.

And in order to have an ejaculation, as
you so nicely put it, he must have had

sexual intercourse.

Not necessarily.

You mean...

Well, he could have done it by himself,
alone, without a woman on him.

Solange, go to the canteen.

Honey.

There's no point.

There's no point in... What?

In keeping it a secret.

Not telling.

No point at all.

Who would believe it?

Who would believe it?

You know, I loved him.

I loved him.

I was in the resistance, Inspector, and
I can tell you that

the way the Gestapo treated people was
nothing compared to this. I certainly

must refer to your method of questioning
at trial.

like to inform you that the charge is
homicide, in the first degree, committed

both collectively and individually.

Come on, Paddy.

Come on, Minou. You have to learn.

One, two.

Yes. Yes, this evening.

I know exactly what I'm doing.

No.

No, we're not finished at all.

Faith?

I don't understand. What's going on?

Father, did you have me released?

What about the others?

The others are still locked up.

Safely behind bars.

Why was I released?

Because I think you're the only one of
the whole lousy bunch who's mad enough

face the facts.

You think I'm going to squeal? I'm not
talking about your friends or your

girlfriends. You're as guilty as they
are.

And the judge will throw the book at you
as hard as he will at them.

Don't worry about that.

Why are you protecting Hjalmar Janssen?

He's a corrupt, vicious pervert who's
done nothing for any of you.

And he'll betray you when the time
comes.

We weren't a gang.

We were a commune, a cell, a family.

But we had discipline.

Yelma noticed that we would... Well,
we'd steal a little something here and

there, pull a few pranks, just for
laughs, just for kicks.

What he did was to organize it.

Organization rules, he said, give you
far more of a kick and you don't get

caught.

I'm not a communist or a socialist.

Those are just superficial concepts.

My system goes deeper.

All governments are corrupt.

That is the basic premise.

Is there a more grotesque joke than
democracy?

Or a more absurd delusion than
communism?

The only way to achieve personal freedom
is to be free.

We.

We are society.

The smaller the group, the more
important the rules, the stricter the

discipline.

A secret society with a hard, solid
core.

One percent of the population has the
leverage to change the entire society,

Lenin said.

I say one in a thousand.

Yes!

One in ten thousand.

If the core is solid.

Discipline.

How can you hope to control others if
you don't have complete control of

yourself?

Most people refuse to act in cold blood.

Most people need an ideal.

A religion.

A myth.

Only strong emotions have any value.

And the strongest emotion is self
-control.

Shall I take you home?

May I please stay for you, though?

Here.

You're going to have to do without this
for a long time.

Thank you, Father.

And then the cats came into the picture.

Yes.

They really went in for the discipline.

No one ever suspected them.

Police wants to go to Cuba.

Or Israel.

A bed is a better weapon for a woman
than a machine gun.

To know all is to want all.

To know all is to dare all.

To take all.

trail.

Go to bed.

Three hours, we'll lock you up again.

I'm ashamed, Father.

All that.

Nonsense.

Because of that nonsense, the boy was
killed.

I'm sorry, Pam.

I'm off duty.

Will you take me home?

Don't go to that man.

He's dangerous.

Why do you want me to take you, ma 'am?

When will you be back in Bloemendaal?

Mr. Johnson is expecting you. He asked
me to wait for you.

I'll take you to him.

You may retire for the night.

So this is the spot?

Yes, this is the spot.

First feed the mothers and fathers,
cater to their every whim, destroy the

country and deprave the daughters.

A one -man revolution.

Do you have the slightest bit of
evidence?

Plenty.

Isn't that for the judge to decide?

And of course, you've got the best
lawyer's money combined.

How did you guess?

The funny thing about playing poker is
that you can never be really sure

that someone won't turn the whole table
over.

That only happens if you play with the
wrong kind of people.

Like now.

You're not the wrong kind.

To the tips of your toes, you're a
product of the system, whether you like

not.

Strangely enough, I'm a product as well,
but of a different system, a system

that I created myself.

No,

thank you.

You see, your system forbids you to do
what you personally would really love to

do.

What you yourself, in your core, would
love to do.

That is, destroy me.

On the contrary, you have to defend me
against yourself

with the aid of your pathetic legal
fallacies.

Isn't that right?

And how did you want to arrest me?

You couldn't be naive enough to think
that I'd submit to your powers of

persuasion.

Were you a threat?

Inspector van der Vaal.

Just for fun.

Shall I show you what I would do if I
were in your position?

What you condemn in me is now your own
heart's desire.

The sheer force of pure destruction.

Walk carefully.

Come on, then.

I

learnt

that in Burma.

Now I'm going to break your ribs.

All 24 of you.

With this.

Don't do it again.

I want them alive.

I only wanted to fuck you, that's all.

I'd give a whore a license for a gun.

Go home.

Now.

And you?

I'm going to phone Bozma.

Are you okay? Yeah.

All right.

We're standing here. I told you to go.

Take a vacation leave this morning. But
what are you going to do? No problem.

Just if I will feel defense.

I've gone.

When will I see you again?

Can I do something for you?