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Ladies and gentlemen...

In case of an alert...

a fallout shelter in this theater...

is at your disposal.

Follow the Emergency Exit signs.

A bar, telephones, a radio set

permit 24-hour contact with the outside.

Enjoy the show!

Even a medium-sized bomb...

creates a gigantic fireball...

Intense heat, almost the temperature of the sun.

Then the shock wave...

I keep having nightmares.

Did I wake you?

Radioactive fallout...

Effective, isn't he?

That's one bomb!

He has a way with catastrophe...

France's nuclear arsenal equals 4000 Hiroshimas.

In world war, multiply that bomb by thousands.

Billions of humans and animals annihilated.

Survivors suffering in agony before they also die.

The atmosphere would change radically...

making the sun's rays deadly.

Pollution of vital resources...

would produce cancer and mutations.

We'd have an arid planet of monsters and living-dead.

That's this morning's news article.

Draw your own conclusions.

Tomorrow our experts will explain...

how to build your own atomic shelter...

and the latest innovations in self-protection.

In a moment, Claude Lelouch, presenting...

his film VIVA LA VIE...

a paradoxical title, after that gloomy news item.

After today, our friend Martin...

will no longer be hosting...

Satellite NOW's entertainment review.

You'll soon see him as anchorman...

on a new TV channel, so far very hush-hush.

Stay tuned in for Claude Lelouch.

Tell us about Viva la Vie.

As I've already said...

if ever there was a film to see cold, this is it.

That's whyl ask moviegoers...

after they've seen it...

like it or hate it...

not to give away too much.

Don't spoil it for the others.

The film's premiere is a benefit showing...

for a world peace organization.

Is there a connection?

Not really.

I'm not so sure.

Can we play the theme song? It won't reveal anything.

Sharp people might find a few clues.

There are 3 kinds of directors...

They tell a story... refuse to tell a story...

or explain how to tell a story.

Didier Barbelivien...

the song "Viva la Vie" is already a success.

It's selling well.

Any explanation?

Not really.

Maybe people want a salute to life...

like in 1939, when they sang...

"Come on, get happy!"

So you think we're on the brink again.

Not far off.

Spielberg tells a story...

Fellini refuses to tell a story...

Godard explains how to tell a story.

But it will take much longer...

and you'll never get the humidity out.

I can treat it, but it won't help.

Also, your husband said it was urgent.

Here, I put in my joints and it's done.

Whereas down there I've got...

at least 3 months' work.

Here, 10 days and that's it.

Besides, it's the ideal size.

You put your bunk beds here...

you could even have 2 bedrooms.

Kitchenette, chemical toilets...

your decontamination chamber with shower...

your radio-telephone hookup.

Over it, a slab of impact-proof concrete.

Top quality.

The ideal size!

So we'll have no more pool.

In any case, we're in the cold season.

When it turns nice, what do I do?

I remove the concrete, and there's your pool!

You don't realize what you've got.

This is practically Olympic-size.

These people with little pools...

end up with little shelters.

You thought big from the start, so you have space to...

It's M. Perrin.

The vet's here with Seraphin.

Hello Michel?

I have tickets for the premiere of Viva la Vie.

We can end up at Takvorian's for caviar.

Formal dress?

Yes, it is.

You'll pick me up?

Yes, since it's formal.

I have a number for you!

The rise in the price of gold.

No, 0.9 percent.

That's not a diet drink, that's mineral water.

Put the shelter salesman on

M. Perrin, my respects.

I talked to your wife and she agrees.

We're dining out, so you and Pauline have the night off.

It didn't last long.

Tree down in January, bad luck in February.

So we say.

Speaking of bad luck, how are your chickens?

I'm being robbed, or they have a secret exit.

Seraphin is there.

He's fine, he's had his shots.

Is that foot all better?

Go ahead with the pool... I mean the shelter.

Do you do pools, as well?

With a shelter in this pool, I need another pool.

Pauline, you and Charles can go out tonight.

Do you really think we need a shelter?

If my husband will give up his pool...

Where's the jam you made?

The usual place.

Do I take the others up to your room?

What movie should we see tonight?

It depends... you'll go with Charles?

Always the same, we get the night off that suits them!

You're right, Charles.

That's not what I meant to say.

You said it very well.

Your jam is delicious! Did you taste?

Will there be room for us in the shelter?

What would we do without you?

When do we put these on?

After the explosion.

Though if you're in the shelter already...

you won't need it.

Are the shelters expensive?

Very!

As usual, the rich will survive.

Don't worry about that! This time...

no one will survive!

USA-USSR: TRUCE CALLED OFF.

What do you think?

That we'll buy gold.

Captain Antegor, what about Earth?

They'll soon have nuclear war.

Their energy will be useless to us.

Get me some intelligent earthlings.

Intelligent?

That's not easy.

- Two intelligent earthlings. - They're all gone.

I'll go get Papa and Mama.

They aren't intelligent.

I know where to find some!

It's very complex.

I could say the opposite of what I said before.

Michel's not here yet?

What time is it? It must be 8:30!

It's 8:35.

Where can he be?

Shall we stay?

No, go ahead... you look lovely.

A few more pounds and I can wear all your dresses.

I'm sorry for what I said earlier

M. Perrin left the office at 6:30

I saw him drive out of the garage.

Yes, just as usual.

Just as usual...

It's Charles, Madame.

Where are you?

In M. Perrin's car.

Put him on.

That is... we found M. Perrin's car, but without M. Perrin.

What do you mean?

We found his car, but not him.

Where?

500 yards from the house.

I'll be right there.

Here come Mme Perrin.

The car's here, but not him.

We have to call the police

It's done.

It had the headlights lit, door open, radio on?

You looked to see if it's been in an accident?

Hand me the phone.

Dial Julia... hurry!

Exactly what happened?

I found my husband's car like this... without him!

Don't touch anything.

In this position?

Just like this: headlights lit, door open, radio on!

I hate to say this, but...

your husband is so well-known...

it has to be a kidnapping.

I thought of that.

You should go home to be by the phone.

Yes... Charles, see to the cars.

The cars must stay where they are.

Bring the cars!

They stay here.

Yes, Madame!

Dreams are essential, they nourish us.

We have to direct our dreams.

They're part of our universe, our food and drink.

You have to dream your life, not live it.

The last time you saw your husband...

was when exactly?

This morning... he left for work and I went riding.

Did he say anything special?

At breakfast he said...

"I had an idea last night, I must work on it".

What was this idea?

He didn't say.

He always gets ideas first thing in the morning.

Night brings good counsel?

My husband says all great projects...

were first the subject of a dream.

Back to reality...

when did you last see him?

The same time... Coming home from shopping...

our car passed his.

What is this NOW Enterprises your husband is head of?

An American firm... he's European director.

Do their activities include horses?

Among other things.

Without being indiscreet, mayl ask you...

how you met your husband?

I'm sorry to bother you...

It's my pleasure.

You own a horse named Seraphin.

I've often dreamed of riding him...

and I wondered if it was possible.

I'll have to consult Seraphin.

I'll be seeing him soon.

Will you be here later?

Until the end.

I'll ask him and find you again.

I talked to Seraphin.

He said: "How can I refuse a dream?"

"A... A... A..."

"E... E... E..."

"I... I... I..."

"O... O... O..."

"U... U... U..."

She often helped you like that?

Now and then.

What time was this?

7:00 or 7:30.

When does your class end?

It depends... 10 or 11 o'clock.

That night we got to talking.

We discussed all sorts of things and...

the class broke up late.

You noticed nothing unusual?

The situation counts.

Not the words, they don't matter.

You can say"I love you" and think the opposite.

It may mean "I hate you".

The words don't count, you must...

play the situation and the words come later.

Delambre, come recite us some Shakespeare.

Do Hamlet's soliloquy, all right?

Forget the text and use letters instead.

That was: "To be or not to be"?

Supposedly.

It's a marvelous speech, but...

listen to it in Italian.

"To be or not to be, that is the question" is...

that part's okay...

That's ludicrous!

It's impossible!

Sarah! ABCDEFG.

What did I say to my wife?

I'll pick you up at the theater after the show.

How did you know so exactly?

You say it every night.

Sarah Gaucher, age 25, actress...

hasn't been home for 2 days.

You last saw your wife January 3 at 7:30...

when she gave a demonstration for your acting class.

You were to pick her up after her performance...

as Madelon in a play about World War I.

The director called you at 8:15...

and finally they had to cancel.

Family and friends haven't seen her...

and she's not in any hospital.

Sign there.

Why did you wait 2 days?

I thought she'd run away.

But she'd call for news of the baby.

6 months.

Like mine.

Your wife didn't leave.

Yes, she did.

- Been married long? - 2 years.

Rich?

I buy on credit.

And I've had no ransom call.

I meant something else.

Suicide?

Well, an actress...

Stars commit suicide, not beginners.

Sarah was just voted most promising actress of the year.

She was meeting with a big US film company.

Mama? I'm not waking you?

I had a weird call from Charles... about Papa.

Papa's chauffeur!

Good-bye, Anouk.

See you after school.

What's wrong?

My husband's disappeared.

I've disappeared?

Not you... Michel.

How long ago?

Three days.

Why do they only tell you now?

Sorry we're late.

Kidnappers will want a bundle.

No contact in 3 days, it's not kidnapping.

What is it?

With all his problems...

Suicide? It's not his style.

He always copes.

You're right.

He coped with you for 20 years.

Very funny!

What do we do?

We go there.

That's hardly ideal country wear.

What's wrong with it?

We had a dinner date we couldn't cancel.

Sarah is dead... what now?

I thought...

I'll go on living.

Of course I will, one has to be...

I'll go on.

What's going on?

Where were you?

Why are you all here?

I've been waiting for 3 days! Everyone has!

What is this?

I'm Inspector Barret... hello, M. Perrin.

A glass of water...

Mayl ask where you've come from?

My office.

From your office.

On foot!

On foot, yes.

Go away!

You said something that bothered me...

"I've never met an actor who was happy".

No, a good actor who was happy!

Bad actors are happy.

It's true off all the arts.

Happy artists have no urge to create.

But let's stick to actors

An actor feeds on his anguish...

on his wounds.

He scratches at his scabs...

in order to act.

Scabs are produced by wounds.

Actually, everything I teach you is worthless.

What counts is you: who you are, what you feel...

what life makes of you.

That's how you become actors... good actors.

Why are you here?

I'm replacing you.

Who are you?

Where have you been?

This is crazy! 5 minutes late and you replace me?

5 minutes late!

You're 3 days late!

What are you talking about?

Where were you?

Where was I? You're sick!

I left François half an hour ago!

I came straight to the theater!

François has been looking for you for 3 days!

He went to the cops!

Since when is Madelon blonde, with curls?

You never saw anyone use the phone?

Thanks a lot!

Sarah, what's going on?

Don't you understand?

No, I don't!

5 minutes late and you replace me!

3 days late, I had to replace you!

What day is it?

Thursday.

Not Monday?

Thursday... 9:07 PM.

What's happened in 3 days?

Where were you?

Please... what happened?

The same old things, it never changes.

It's not Monday.

Thursday.

That's impossible, it can't be!

Everyone says it's Thursday!

I'm not crazy!

I go to the theater, they sayl'm late, and now you...

Calm down.

Feel better?

Do you have any water?

Here?

Usually if you're late, the whole world knows.

Any ideas?

You're not much help.

I ask where you've come from and you say...

"From my office, on foot".

Get those lights off, will you?

Anyway, we're glad you're back.

I left my office an hour ago.

Julia, tell them!

Why are you here?

I said I was going to the premiere!

You said it 3 days ago.

What do you think?

You drink too much water.

Is it possible to reconcile marriage...

with an actor's life?

Leaving aside yourself.

If you believe, you have to get involved...

to expect the worst.

No matter what, you're unhappy.

Women are even unhappier than men in this profession.

I don't know why, but it's true.

Maybe women are more...

more sincere than men.

They give more, tear themselves up more.

A woman in the theater...

has to give up so much.

Maybe even the essential thing: motherhood.

Mayl have a fourth?

Can I use the phone?

The actor is never entirely sincere.

When Othello kills Desdemona...

never in all the play's history...

has he really killed her.

He's not sincere, or he'd strangle her.

You have to play with this madness...

because Othello must believe he's going to kill her.

I know, it's Thursday.

You don't walk out on a baby.

When did you come?

Monday, obviously.

François?

Teaching, where else?

Been drinking?

I wasn't with anyone.

Do you love me?

Where were you?

Say you love me.

I love you. Where were you?

Not where you think.

Who is it, do I know him?

I don't remember anything.

At the theater they said I disappeared 3 days ago.

You hadn't noticed?

I need answers.

Cool as a cucumber, isn't she?

You disappear for 3 days, then walk in and...

Call a doctor, Mama.

The low blood pressure indicates a prolonged coma.

That would explain the memory lapse.

Tomorrow we'll run some tests on him.

He lost consciousness twice?

Once downstairs, when everyone was here...

and again coming up to the bedroom.

This'll raise her blood pressure, but get her to the hospital.

She may have been in a coma.

For 3 days in the heart of Paris? She'd have been found!

I can only give a medical explanation.

Do you remember? After the A... A...

You yelled at me.

I'm sorry.

But that's not why you fainted.

Try to remember.

I can't.

Sleepy?

I was so worried.

I was desperate.

Don't do it to me again.

Think about it.

What if I disappeared, then said: "I can't remember".

You'd believe me?

He left an hour ago, Charles drove him.

Hold on a second.

You drove M. Perrin to the office?

He said he felt fine and would rather go alone.

Why didn't you take him anyway?

I'll be right there, with Charles.

Telephone for you.

Never show anything, let the camera come to you.

Remember Monty Clift.

Not at the hospital? I put her in a taxi myself.

No, I had a class.

He could not say where he'd been...

nor explain his unnatural thirst.

He had fainting spells...

due to low blood pressure.

The next day he disappeared again.

With kidnapping and suicide excluded...

it promises to be a tough case.

11:30 PM... No press, naturally.

Can you take me to the airport?

New York is sending the big shots... Find anything?

NOW Enterprises, which Perrin heads in France...

ranks 20th among international corporations.

It is active in the food, auto and TV industries...

and communications satellites.

NOW has 80,000 employees.

I myself once worked for NOW Radio.

M. Perrin's brother.

She's not here, sorry.

He's still around?

Unfortunately.

You can drive me home...

then be available for Julia.

Who are you?

It's about your husband.

Where are you?

In the lobby.

Come up and I'll see you.

I had the same reaction, but thinking it over...

I was angry, I was hurt...

but I had imagined the worst.

So in a way it's reassuring...

if you love your husband.

At least you know he's in good health.

In my profession...

I deal with lies, with credibility.

Your husband couldn't have achieved his position in society...

if he weren't a man with...

a taste for lying.

That's absurd.

If you knew how absurd it is.

A mediocre man invents mediocre lies.

Your husband's lies are extravagant,

worthy of his talent.

My wife is an actress, for actors, the lie is...

another way of imagining the truth.

You're not convinced? It's not easy.

I swear it's true.

My wife disappeared and reappeared at exactly the same time...

and in the same condition.

Low blood pressure, unnaturally thirsty...

But a story like that!

To make up all that!

I agree... it's insane.

Most adulterers invent...

a sick relative, a business trip...

With them it's amnesia... and all its advantages.

I don't know your wife, but I know my husband.

He'd never involve police and press in anything as trite as...

Who says it's trite?

What about the low blood pressure?

It can be induced medically, I checked.

I'm sorry, I just don't believe you.

My husband wouldn't do something so...

enormous for something so trite.

Why keep insisting it's trite?

When a man and woman meet, it's an event!

A great event, greater than going to the moon!

Mayl have coffee?

Why let the police and press go on floundering...

in a trite love affair?

An actor's main tool is imagination.

Jealousy is one way of cultivating our imagination...

giving it a workout.

Jealousy is all imagination.

When jealousy eats at us, we can say...

"Enough, I'll think about something else".

We can be intelligent about it.

But if we indulge it, imagine very delicious detail...

it's a great stimulant!

Jealousy is a defect, but...

as actors, you can't be afraid to give in to it.

Mayl talk to you for a minute?

I enjoy your class more and more, and I'd like...

to be your wife.

I'd like to be your wife.

Say it again.

I enjoy your class...

Yes, and...

I'd like to be your wife.

Marriage, children and everything.

I thought about...

the difference in age, and it's ideal.

- I could be your father. - I like that.

You're doing this on a bet.

You said to your friends: "See if I dare".

Last night I dreamed about you...

my dreams usually come true.

You believe in dreams, too.

Do you have champagne... good champagne?

You do drink champagne?

We have to meet and discuss this calmly.

If you're calm, it's a bad sign.

Don't you want me?

Yes, I do! Honestly!

Not just today, not because of this!

Can I have your scarf?

I'll have some champagne for myself.

Who's there?

Who did this?

The latest in the Perrin drama!

Since his return, and what a return...

we've learned of another disappearance...

Sarah Gaucher, prize-winning young actress.

The Perrin case is now a double mystery.

Startling similarities rule out coincidence.

Stranger still: the stitches on their heads...

suggest trephining.

Trephining completed!

Take him to the desert to inform his leader.

What about the woman?

Take her, too.

Oddest of all is the story each one told...

though they clearly don't know one another.

A shelter in a pool, people seated on beds...

an orchestra, a singer, children...

light-bearers who will be instrumental...

on the eve of a catastrophe...

which could endanger all humanity.

A dream or hallucination dreaded by both...

since each time it precedes a great change.

They have been taken to Foch Hospital...

to meet with medical and police authorities.

Professor Sternberg, respected neuro-surgeon...

will run tests on the CAT scan...

hoping to shed light on this bizarre case...

where no one knows anyone else.

You really don't know each other?

Hardly the place for introductions...

The cranium... the brain...

The same trephining, done by the same surgeon.

But the brain wasn't touched... you see, Inspector?

Are you sure?

It's obvious, here's the operation...

the brain is undamaged.

As if they were interrupted or disturbed.

Like a burglar cracking a safe...

then not taking the money.

It makes no sense.

Another odd thing is this zigzag cut.

In a trephining, you drill a hole in the skull.

This cut isn't necessary.

Let's superimpose M. Perrin's picture...

on Mme Gaucher's.

No doubt about it: it's the same operation...

done by the same doctor.

You're meeting today for the first time.

Neither of you has any memory...

of the last ten days.

You get thirsty at the same time.

Do you feel you've been programmed?

Some more...

please.

Programmed? No.

You have no memory of surgery or anesthesia?

There's a big organization behind this.

Right! One man can't anesthetize and operate.

Maybe these two just met today...

but I'd say you two already know each other.

M. Gaucher came to tell me his wife had disappeared.

Why not go to the police?

I did.

When?

The first time it happened.

Not to my department.

To my local police station.

And?

A charming man took down my statement.

You understand that I must...

keep you here a while longer.

Shall we meet again tomorrow, when we have...

more test results?

A far cry from your adultery theory.

A far cry from anything!

Will they keep them long?

Once they start tests...

If an organization did this, which one?

It can only be your husband's.

For publicity?

Espionage.

That's even crazier than adultery.

You're right, I'll shut up.

Can you picture your wife as a spy?

All spies are part actor.

You have no desire to be an actress?

People become actors because they're...

uncomfortable with themselves.

Otherwise you don't act, you live!

And it's marvelous to live!

There's no more daylight...

It's all over.

Why is it dark?

No idea.

What's happening?

Somebody stole the sun.

Laurent, something terrible is happening.

The sun didn't rise.

Are you crazy?

Noon and it's still dark.

And you didn't wake me?

It's like this everywhere!

The radio said so!

Here's Charles, I'm going down!

Viva la Vie, we're alive...

Life is not lost, we'll revive...

Delta and Earth both will thrive...

Life will win out, we'll survive.

It's dark everywhere: Tokyo, Berlin, New York!

M. Perrin is calling from the hospital.

Is it like this in Paris, too?

Total darkness everywhere!

11:00 AM... ECLIPSE THEORY REJECTED

ENTIRE PLANET DARK...

UNKNOWN ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENON

Astronomers are baffled by this mysterious planet...

invading our solar system and blocking the sun.

Temperatures are falling by 5 degrees daily.

The earth is entering a new ice-age.

In the tropics, more vulnerable to cold...

millions have already died.

The worst catastrophe of all time...

it's the glacial era in fast motion.

If this temperature-drop continues...

scientists say humanity cannot survive a month.

No heating system can overcome such cold.

What is it?

There's no more sun...

The sun is gone forever.

Everyone will die of cold.

It's burning!

The earth is burning!

It's hot... so hot...

About 3 AM they both had a nightmare.

3:10 for Mme Gaucher.

They were given a sleeping pill.

And now this morning...

I don't get it.

Nor do I.

No one was with them?

We had guards outside their doors.

Now what?

Unbelievable!

More and more unbelievable!

They didn't jump!

I know that.

At 3 AM they each had the same nightmare.

At the same time, but not the same nightmare.

M. Perrin woke up saying it was all dark.

The world would freeze and we would all die.

Mme Gaucher said it was hot and the world would burn.

When did you find out they'd gone?

At the 6 AM bed-check.

How often are these?

Every half-hour.

So they were last seen at 5:30.

The sleeping pills you gave them...

how long do they last?

They're effective for 4 or 5 hours, maybe more.

They should've been out cold at 6:00.

I'm handling this investigation.

You saw them take these pills?

Where were you last night?

Questions like that won't find them.

Nevertheless, I'd like an answer.

I was at home.

- Alone? - Alone.

And you?

I was at home.

Alone?

Yes, of course.

You agree that Mme Perrin was home alone last night?

Not alone... with me and my wife.

Come on, we're leaving.

Watch it, this isn't a gangster film.

Nor a musical comedy.

I can't any more...

Do you speak French?

This is Earth, isn't it?

Speak!

I'm talking to you... talk to me!

She's not my wife, she's my daughter!

It's a bit scorched.

It couldn't take the heat.

We held up, but not our clothes.

Can I phone?

What millions are about to witness...

could almost be something from a dream.

Official documentation of...

extra-terrestrial phenomena...

goes back to June 24, 1947.

An American claimed to see 9 luminous objects...

"disks flying at high speed." Thus the expression...

"flying saucers".

Since then, there've been hundreds of cases...

never treated very seriously.

Latest reports say our two celebrities...

who turned up in the Sahara...

now remember everything.

The famous trephining was done to...

learn their language and control their memories.

A man and a woman are about to get off a plane.

A common event... yet they come from another world.

We have no right to scoff.

Those crying "trick" should remember...

not long ago, saying the earth orbited the sun...

got you burned at the stake.

M. Perrin, Mme Gaucher...

human samples lifted from earth.

A sort of ideal couple... why not?

We're glad to be here.

What is this message they asked you to bring us?

I have already...

repeated it so many times.

The message is this.

In order to preserve a source of energy...

that they have been safeguarding...

energy that for ages they have taken...

from our planet...

they want an agreement...

bi-lateral and binding...

between East and West.

It must be protected...

from pollution...

from nuclear disaster...

on our planet.

That's what haunts them!

It's a kind of... plea for survival.

For them and for us!

It's a cry across space!

A cry of survival!

Theirs and ours!

If we endanger this energy...

they will be forced to destroy us.

We hear that since your press conference in the Sahara...

the US and Russia take this seriously.

If only it does some good.

What do they look like?

We haven't any vocabulary to describe them.

They're a kind of...

perfection... compared to us.

But we can say that...

they're nothing like the little monsters...

they show you in the movies.

Nothing like that.

He did all the talking.

Now we will interview several people...

who have come forward since our couple's return...

with their own tales of strange encounters.

People once judged as crazy or drunk.

I had the same experience as M. Perrin.

Of course I believe him!

There's no reason to invent things like that.

What M. Perrin said...

and that famous scar on his head...

Well, after I saw that...

by a miracle, I had the very same scar.

Maybe sometimes in the last ten years...

I said it wasn't true...

but deep down I'm sure it's true.

I'm sure it's true.

I was afraid to see them.

Because it's strange at night...

they're all lit up.

I stayed at the window a long time...

waiting for them to make another sign.

I wanted them to take me.

But they never did.

Now I'm all alone.

I keep waiting, for my friend to come back...

but he doesn't come.

Where is she?

She wasn't at the airport or the press conference.

We thought she was with you.

Where?

Up there... where you were.

When did she go?

When you last disappeared.

She's gone and you don't worry.

Disappeared and you don't worry!

She's disappeared!

Where is she?

She's with someone... where?

If you know anything, tell me.

I pay you to tell me.

You'll see... first they'll be jealous.

If they doubt our disappearance, then theirs is phony.

...as if we should learn to stop hurting each other.

Were you with her?

I saw at the hospital!

You love her?

She's homely... but you like them homely!

That's funny?

You think I'm an idiot!

A glass of water...

Think I'll fall for the extra-terrestrial gag?

You're very sweet, but go away.

Get me a glass of water.

What's your game?

- You in love? - With you!

- Swear! - I swear.

By Salome.

I swear...

I'll go home... about the same time she does.

You go home as late as possible.

If things go wrong, call me.

Where were you?

And you?

What's true is true.

- Where were you? - Where You were.

You're afraid, too.

Darling, tell me where you've been.

I promise I'll tell you everything.

M. Perrin.

Which Perrin? Oh yes!

"Viva la vie, we're alive".

"Life is not lost, we'll survive".

Sorry, it's the best table I could get you.

But it's the same caviar.

I'll wash my hands.

Well?

Confirmed.

When did it arrive?

Yesterday's shipment.

I can't believe it.

Our Caspian agent is seldom wrong.

Think back...

You said we'd been to Takvorian's 3 times that week...

a bit much, even for caviar-lovers.

That night we decoded the incredible news.

It arrived the day before, in the caviar.

It was all there: the date, the hour.

And Moscow Sturgeon was always reliable.

I'll get Washington. Come back at dessert.

There go the holidays! All clear?

Not yet.

If they need it checked, I'll go to Moscow.

It had begun 2 months earlier.

Their inside man at the Pentagon ferreted out...

our shocking nuclear inferiority.

On paper, the US had just lost the next world war.

From then on...

we were looking for an idea.

Something to stop it once and for all.

You never thought it would happen before. Why tonight?

It will happen, Catherine.

There'll be a war.

You washed your hands and decided there'll be war?

Within 3 months.

I have to call Julia about the Australians.

No need to go to Moscow, Tokyo confirmed.

If Tokyo is onto it, something's up.

If Tokyo has it, they gave it to them.

Therefore they want it known.

Therefore maybe it's a bluff.

If we get an idea, they'll buy it.

What idea?

Anything... Mobydick pays us to have ideas.

There's your wife.

Call you tonight.

Never since the Service first set up NOW Enterprises...

had we had such grim news.

Did you talk to them?

I was in the men's room...

That's fine!

Sorry to call you so late.

If Edward hadn't watched his kids playing...

Mister President, destroy your bombs...

or spacemen will destroy you!

How?

I'll burn the earth or freeze it.

You have 5 minutes.

Your answer?

Agreed! Why are you against us?

Your war will pollute the energy we get from you.

A threat from outer space.

They send an ultimatum: total disarmament...

or they obliterate mankind!

How do we work the trephining?

The Foch Hospital... Sternberg often helps us.

He's clever with a scalpel... remember the Russian defector.

How do we get out?

Rooms 309 and 409 have false ceilings.

And the second fall-guy?

A fall-girl.

In today's paper.

A nice little actress for a nice little part.

"Most Promising Young Actress".

Why an actress?

It's a nice part.

We contacted Sarah Gaucher through normal channels...

as if we wanted her for a part.

A sort of modern-day Mata Hari.

Until we were forced to...

dot all the i's.

An American company?

Couldn't be more so.

Who's the director?

The President of the US.

The real President.

What is this?

A true story... one that will come true.

Thanks to you.

To both of you.

Who are you?

You and all those with "weird" experiences...

who can be manipulated.

Who are you?

I'm an actress, not a spy!

Who mentioned spies?

We aren't spies.

You'll be well-paid.

Spy is such a nasty word.

Why the caviar?

I own a restaurant specializing in caviar.

Caviar that talks.

This is unbelievable!

In 1938, Orson Welles panicked America with a radio show.

Why me?

You're the "promise" of the future.

You have a husband and baby you're very fond of.

And now you know far too much.

Please... let me go.

I won't say anything.

I don't know anything.

Don't choose me!

Even for you, it's no good!

I couldn't do it.

I swear I couldn't.

You can trust me!

I promise your husband and baby won't be harmed.

Please let me go.

M. Perrin... Professor Sternberg.

Is this really the first time you've met?

The first time.

Absolutely.

Are you sure?

From my office, on foot.

Sarah, where were you?

5 minutes late and you replace me?

From my office, on foot.

Now the water, the cab driver and the nurses.

Again!

It's the same nurse, she must see the same awakening.

Do these beings have a philosophy?

They have a philosophy, but...

it's not ours, it's not one we can know.

Theirs is the philosophy of the dream.

Here on earth, we dream, but...

our dreams serve no purpose.

They record their dreams.

They remember them and live them.

Can you tell us the exact terms...

of their message for us?

It's a kind of cry of survival!

For them and for us!

You don't get parts like that every day.

You were great...

too bad we can't tell anyone.

It mustn't get out, Mama, it could be dangerous.

STURGEON TO MOBYDICK: Operation ORSON ended

Awaiting instructions

Details in 30 minutes

Alert mop-up crew for housecleaning

Compliments of Edward Takvorian.

Fresh caviar, to be eaten immediately.

What is it?

Caviar from M. Takvorian.

With his compliments.

You're another James Bond.

Yes... but more tired.

Does this often go on in restaurants?

It's a place to meet without arousing curiosity.

Something went on with him.

Why?

You made love differently tonight.

Is that a proof?

Sometimes.

And with her... where did you two hide?

The hospital basement... we got Sternberg out of Budapest.

You made love differently, too.

Those people and their crazy stories.

That'll be very useful to us.

Movie producers will be fighting over her.

She'll disappear again.

This time the aliens will keep her for good.

She knows too much.

And you?

It's my job.

And me?

I know everything now.

Why did you insist on knowing?

US and Soviet leaders in secret session...

over the extra-terrestrial threat announced by M. Perrin.

More about that after Madame Horoscope.

Aquarius: you like to lie, deceive, play tricks...

but beware of going too far.

Scorpion: it's your year, use it well.

You're in a period of anxiety, you sleep badly.

Heed your dreams, they mean more than you think.

Now is when they come true!

Synchronize your watches, get in step with time...

and remember, the best years are yet to come!

Ronald Reagan proposes new arms talks with Russia...

on the eve of the Stockholm conference.

French Minister Claude Cheysson meets with Gromyko.

In a moment, further discussion of these items...

the weather: more storms coming up...

and the Sci-fi Film Festival in Avoriaz.

Reagan invites Russia to resume negotiations...

on nuclear arms.

The Stockholm disarmament conference opens tomorrow...

a chance for East-West dialogue...

Seeing that... no wonder I had nightmares.

You had me followed?

It's been 20 years, I can't...

I can have a fling, too, I never reproached you!

You know your daughter's in love with him?

That's whyl made him my assistant.

You've hurt me and your daughter.

I didn't know about her.

Call the vet.

In the pool, as usual?

By the way, I know who's been at the chickens.

M. Perrin's brother.

Every weekend, another little raid.

Don't say anything to Papa.

Are they up?

Not in a good mood.

Where's the jam you made?

The usual place.

Sleep well?

- Got a cold? - a slight one.

And your brother?

He's back from the Caribbean.

I'll see him later.

You go riding with no jacket?

Tell him I'll finance his radio project.

He could've called me.

He has something to tell you.

Excuse me, sir, but it's about your brother.

What's he done now?

When he comes for the weekend, he's always...

after my wife.

If you could do something about it...

By the way, you were misinformed.

You can't build an atomic shelter in a swimming pool.

Why not?

It just isn't done.

Julia, is my brother there? Put him on.

Charles, I've warned you before...

Whether you're at my house or in the office...

leave the female personnel alone!

I won't tell you again!

Put Julia you again!

Now let me talk to Takvorian.

Did you get my letter?

An engineer who sells my plans to Japan... isn't he a spy?

I'll arrive in 18 minutes, I want you gone.

Put on my secretary.

Get Gaucher.

You've seen the photograph?

Your opinion?

Then we agree! I trust you will hand in your resignation...

effective now!

You're very decisive today.

I can't thank you enough.

Tell me...

In that bistro where we stop to buy the paper...

have you noticed that woman having coffee?

You'd like me to make inquiries?

Since we moved our offices...

I stop here every day to buy the paper.

I sit in my car...

I watch you...

and every day you make me dream for a minute.

Today you want to stop dreaming?

Todayl can offer myself this luxury.

Do you like the country?

And horses? I'm sure you like horses.

We must have dinner together before the next world war.

Do you really think there'll be one?

Nothing can stop it?

I had an idea last night, but I don't know who to tell it to.

I have 5 minutes... go ahead.

5 minutes? All right.

Do you have an imagination?

Five minutes isn't very long.

I'll have to talk fast...

if we're going to save the world.

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