All language subtitles for The Punished

Most fables and stories

are centered around a hero.

This one is about a villain.

Actually, it's about two villains.

I don't think the contractors

are gonna bring this in on time.

Let's get a more realistic appraisal of the timeframe.

I don't want to risk losing a government contract.

Also I need you to call...

Mrs. Mendelssohn's office.

Oh, I guess it's not this phone.

I'll take this call privately.

Stacy, why don't you go to your lunch break.

Hello.

Did you get the cellphones?

You're worth every penny, Mr. Wolfgang.

Hi.

I didn't mean to eavesdrop.

Do you need a translator?

I can also speak English.

Oh good.

So I just looked right here at your x-ray

and you have a very serious fracture on one of your ribs.

It's a very precise impact.

How did this happen?

I fell.

Are you alone?

It is dangerous to be wandering around at night.

Smoking is a lot more dangerous than wandering.

You're right.

I'm gonna quit as soon as I'm done with this one.

Besides I'm not wandering, I'm escaping.

Escape?

I have my reasons.

Now are you gonna give me a ride or not?

Not. Why not?

I don't even know you.

What if you turn out to be a bandit or a kidnapper?

I'm just a kid.

Well where do you need to go anyways?

Someplace important.

My life depends on it.

Maria, I've been looking everywhere for you.

What are you doing out here?

Trying to get a ride.

Can you please take her inside?

Thank you.

Can you give me a cigarette?

But you said... Just give me a cigarette.

I almost had a heart attack over here.

Thank you, seriously, thank you.

So what's up with the little escape artist?

She's been living in and out of hospitals her whole life

so she tries to escape every now and then.

Says she has to go to some special place.

You know how kids are.

Special place?

I don't know.

All I know is that life is unfair.

You have this sweet little girl who's chronically ill

and you have murderers running around

who are in perfect health.

I've already told you I'm only here to placate my family.

They need to think that I'm taking steps

to deal with the loss.

And knowing that I'm seeing a psychiatrist

makes them feel better,

but I'm in no way ready to talk about my grandson.

Facing his death will help you move on

and have a productive life.

It's important for your state of mind

that we face this head on.

That's what I'm here to help you deal with.

I dealt with my husband's death three years ago

and I stayed strong for myself and for my family.

It was difficult but I managed

because that's life, that's nature.

Almost every wife has to deal with that at some point,

but losing my grandson,

watching my daughter suffer unspeakably

at the loss of her little boy.

That's not nature.

That's not how things are supposed to go.

If it wasn't for those miserable bastards

he'd still be alive.

Do you know what I was doing

when my daughter called to tell me?

No.

I was putting in a play set for him in my backyard.

When that phone rang I had no idea

of the kind of news that I would receive.

I honestly didn't know that,

that that kind of pain existed.

The deepest darkest pain

and it's all because of those filthy animals.

God don't you dare ask me how that makes me feel.

I swear to God if you ask me one more time

how something makes me feel...

I don't need to ask.

I can already see what you're feeling.

I see a lot of grief,

but what I see the most is anger.

You seem to be fixated on your hatred for the killers.

That shouldn't be your focus.

It's kind of hard to ignore, Doctor.

And what do you think you're going to achieve

by giving these men so much of your thoughts and energy?

Oh, I can't achieve anything.

I can't put on a cape and go out and fight crime.

I'm just a little old grandmother

or rather I used to be.

As this is his first attempt at being kind

he's understandably nervous.

What will she think?

Will she be able to tell that he's a killer?

Only one way to find out.

I didn't want to say anything last time,

but you kind of talk like a robot.

I've been told.

So what are you doing here?

I just wanted to see how you are.

I'm sick every day so...

Isn't it better for you here?

Why did you want to escape?

'Cause we're in Redding.

Where?

Don't you know where we are?

I was a few hours away

and I was just driving to the nearest hospital.

Here.

Redding has all the funnest places

but I've never been able to go.

Have you always been sick?

I was born sick.

I see.

I'd rather have a short life out there

than a long life in here.

Have you ever asked your parents about...

I don't have any, I'm alone.

I'm a ward of the state of California.

I wish I could help you. Why?

I have a good reason but you're too young to understand.

If you're serious about helping me

then get me out of here.

And so this somewhat odd

and technically illegal friendship has begun.

Have a good day with your daughter, Mr. Hernandez.

Thank you.

Just be sure to have her back by six

so we can administer her treatments.

Of course.

Goodbye, Maria. Bye.

I can't sit in the front.

What's your name anyway?

Wolfgang.

Wolfgang, why are you being so nice to me?

Ask me some other time.

Do you have a child seat? Just get in the car.

Hi, welcome. How can I help you?

We need a tour guide.

Sure, the next tour starts in...

We need a tour guide to show us around Redding.

I'll pay you $500.

Oh, you actually don't need

a tour guide for the attractions in Redding.

Most of them are...

I'll pay you $1,000 for the day.

What?

Here's the first 500.

I'm going to get the rest.

Please show her around.

Mm-hmm.

So your dad seems pretty serious

about having you see the sights, huh?

His name is Wolfgang and he's not my dad.

I see.

But he is serious.

I've actually never seen him smile.

Oh no, I just meant that he's serious

about showing you a good time.

I mean even hiring me as a tour guide, it's nice.

It just seems a little extreme.

Who are you and why are you following me?

The main question is

will the little girl be safe in Wolfgang's presence?

I mean look at this, being attacked

by a stalker is kind of normal for him.

You know if you guys want to see a lot of sights

we should really get going.

Do you have any idea where Wolfgang is parked?

Yeah over by the cement there.

All right let's go see if we can find him, come on.

There you are.

What happened to you? Are you okay?

I fell, but I'm fine.

I have the rest of the money in the car, let's get going.

Shouldn't we get you to a hospital?

Thanks, okay.

So let me know what you guys want to do.

As you know, Redding has a ton of fun things to do.

I'm sure that's why you came here, so...

We have a huge water slide park, we have a trampoline park,

we have a casino, we have volcanoes, rivers, lakes,

caverns, waterfalls, hot springs.

Let's see, you guys could go camping,

you could go river rafting, you could go jet boating

or mountain biking or fishing, skiing, sailing,

we have house boats and cabins

and tours of historical places.

So just let me know what sounds fun.

The list goes on.

I want to do them all.

Then we do them all.

I want to go on that. Okay.

Will you please take her? Of course, let's go.

Hi, Elise.

Oh hi.

Hey is that your new boyfriend?

No, I'm just showing him and his daughter around town.

I already told you he's not my dad.

Right.

Is he married? I don't know.

Anyway I'm just enjoying the water slide.

Oh my.

And it's just beginning.

If this is going to be her big day.

He's going to make sure it's a great day.

But why?

Why is he doing this?

Who's he doing it for?

Her or him?

And most importantly who is he becoming?

This is a request from the public relations office.

They say it's good for the company's image

to have our most successful business woman

sign the freedom of the nipples petition.

Petition for what?

It's a gender equality issue to empower women.

I was reading up on it.

Can you believe that women have to cover

themselves in public while breastfeeding,

but men can take their shirts off in public?

Serious inequality.

Yeah, that's tragic.

Do you know that in India children work in filthy factories

just to keep from starving to death?

Do you know in Africa soldiers with AIDS and other diseases

rape little girls on a regular basis?

In Southeast Asia children are displayed

in the windows of brothels to be used for sex

and right here in the United States of America

children are sold as sex slaves.

I'm not talking about runaway teenagers

turning to prostitution.

I'm talking about little children held by force.

I didn't know, but I mean...

So if I'm gonna put my time towards

trying to make this world a better place

what should I do, save the children

or should I focus on boobs?

Well we can do both.

Stacy, we're only human.

We only have so many hours in the day to devote to causes.

You have a point, but if everyone thought that way

we wouldn't ever get anything done.

The gender equality issue is serious and it's...

My dear, you say they're interested

in me signing this petition

because I'm a successful business woman, is that right?

Yes.

I didn't become successful

by complaining for things to be easier.

I worked hard in spite of the inequalities.

If you've got a mountain in front of you

you work hard to climb it, you don't petition

for the mountain to be leveled

so that you can easily walk across.

Yes, ma'am.

To be succinct, when every single child

in this world is safe from harm

then and only then will I worry about

giving more rights to lazy entitled Americans

with frivolous causes. Is that clear?

Yes.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a call to make.

Stacy.

I don't mean to seem so harsh.

It's nothing to do with you.

See, my life was destroyed

by a random act of street violence.

I know about your grandson.

He was only three years old.

I understand.

Hello.

Did you get the information from the cellphones yet?

Yeah.

Followed you? Did you kill him?

So Maria tells me that you're not her father.

She said that you're just a stranger

who's being generous with her.

Correct.

So you just decided to make

another stranger's problems your own?

Yes.

Why?

You don't know anything

about the movie business, but I do.

I even have a guy in LA who says

he can put up the rest of the money for us.

Look, he's serious and he says

he can get DiCaprio to do a cameo in the film for us.

All right?

Just think about it and get back to me, okay?

All right, bye.

Sorry I couldn't pick you up from work, babe

I had to take care of some business.

That's okay.

I needed the exercise anyway.

I paid rent.

We're finally caught up.

How?

I got a gig as a tour guide for a little girl.

Well that's perfect.

Do you remember I had to get that plane ticket to Iowa?

Where?

The Ottumwa Iowa film festival,

they accepted my short film.

Nick, that was our grocery money.

I gotta get out there.

I've gotta get on that red carpet and make myself known.

Isn't Ottumwa a really small town in Iowa?

What makes you think they're even gonna have a red carpet?

Even if they don't, I'll get a picture

in front of the theater.

Either way I need to boost my social media status

by showing that I'm out there with my film.

And did you buy new clothes?

Just a couple of outfits, for the pictures.

Great and I get used clothes from thrift stores.

I thought you liked thrift stores.

Besides I need to build up my self confidence.

I feel like I don't even know who I am anymore.

All I am is Nick's girlfriend.

I don't have an identity.

I don't have any aspirations.

I've just made all your dreams my own

because I've forgotten who I'm supposed to be.

Where's all this coming from?

I saw something today,

something that made all of this,

that made you and me just seem ridiculous and self centered.

I am not self centered.

I saw a random act of kindness

from one stranger to another.

It was pure.

I haven't seen anything like that since my dad died.

Your dad, wasn't he a priest or something?

He was a pastor. Same thing.

Just another holy man trying

to repress the masses with ignorance.

He was a selfless man.

I'm sure he was great, babe.

But weren't you the one who was always telling me

he was just trying to manipulate you all the time?

I guess so.

Didn't he want you to be

some like '50s homemaker or something?

No.

He wanted me to be a princess.

So misogynistic.

Just sounds like another way to dominate women.

No.

That's how those people are.

No it wasn't like that, he treated me like a princess,

he wanted me to be happy and I was so happy.

Oh, you mean spoiled.

No, not spoiled, he made me work.

He taught me that princesses were kind and selfless.

And we donated our time

to helping those who were less fortunate.

Well if he's so great

than why were you always complaining about him?

Because I was angry at him for leaving me.

I was just a stupid teenager who rebelled

against everything that he taught me, it was a mistake.

But you're always telling me

that all he ever did was try to brainwash you into being...

Into being what, into being kind and selfless?

Is that wrong, is that uncool or something?

I mean is our life here any more noble?

Look why are you trying to turn this back around on me?

It's not my fault he had a heart attack

and frankly I find it offensive

that you're making me pay for the fact

that he filled your head with such nonsense.

Do you want to know another silly thing that he told me?

He told me that one day I would meet a man

who would fall deeply in love with me,

so desperately in love with me

that he would want to marry me

because he couldn't imagine his life without me.

Well that didn't happen with us

because we don't live in a fairytale, Elise.

This is the real world.

No.

No this is my world now

and if you want to live in my silly fairytale

you're gonna have to ride in like a hero.

After the fun,

after masquerading as an altruist of sorts

it's time to go back to his world,

to the smell of gun powder, the deafening bangs,

to the blood and the pain.

This is what happens

when you come into work on a Sunday.

Is this your daughter?

She's hot.

Just take what you want and get the hell out of here.

What we want isn't here. What?

We want the safe.

The safe that's at your house.

We know all about it.

Now we have your address.

If you touch my family, I'll kill you.

No actually,

we'll kill you.

Those security cameras they're recording all of this.

In the morning the tapes will be reviewed

and this will all be on there.

That's why we're wearing masks.

We thought this whole thing out.

My friend here is gonna drive over to your house.

No.

Let me finish.

He's gonna go over to your house,

you're gonna call them,

your daughter, your wife, whoever's home

and tell them to calmly let him in

and open the safe for him.

That won't work, they don't have the combination.

But you do.

That's why God created phones.

You can call them, keep them calm.

Tell them that everything's gonna be okay

if they follow our instructions.

I won't do it.

Well in that case,

my friend is gonna go over to your house

and torture whoever's home and he'll have his phone on

so you can hear every agonizing scream.

Why are you doing this?

We want your money.

And maybe your daughter.

You see we have your address so this is gonna happen

one way or the other. No please, don't.

Okey-dokey then.

He'll call us when he gets there.

Man, please.

I'm really hurt.

Don't shoot me, man.

I'm out of bullets.

I'm unarmed, don't kill me.

I promise that I won't kill you.

I just need to know where your friend is.

I'll tell you anything, man, but just don't kill me.

Where is James Thompson?

You want Jimmy, that bastard?

I'd be happy to give it to you, man.

He stays with his girlfriend.

Her name's Shari, she lives on 23rd street.

Look, I got her number in my phone.

I have his number too, man.

Call an ambulance please.

Show me your phone.

Here take it.

Look, I can help you set him up, man.

He owes me money.

What the hell is going on?

Who are you?

Oh thank God.

There's another one, he's heading for my house.

The other one is dead.

Now this one has to die.

No, you said you wouldn't kill me.

I won't, he will.

You want me to kill him?

Why, why, I got it all on security cameras.

I'll just call the cops, he'll go to jail.

And so will I,

for saving your life.

You're wearing a mask, I won't say a word to anybody.

Not good enough.

You kill him with the cameras rolling

that way I know you'll erase the security footage.

I've never done violence, not like this.

A small price to pay.

There's gotta be another way around this.

Either you do it

or we'll kill both witnesses in this room.

No, no, no please don't, no, no.

No.

Back to his perfect little town,

his new paradise, back to the lie

where he can pretend to be a good man.

Hi, Wolfgang.

Hello, I'm back in Redding.

Oh I didn't even know you were gone.

I had business, but I'm here now.

Are you able to take Maria and I out

on another tour through Redding?

Well I am actually in the middle of nowhere right now

trying to accomplish what I'm sure is an impossible task,

but I'm free tomorrow.

Impossible task?

I mean I'm exaggerating,

but I am out in the middle of a field

looking for a necklace that I lost

and I'll probably never find it.

Anyway, but I am free tomorrow if you want to do that?

Send me your coordinates via text now.

Okay.

Hi.

What's that?

This is a metal detector to help you find your necklace.

You went out and bought a metal detector?

Yes.

Where should I start looking?

Well, I'm pretty sure it was around here,

but it's been a few years.

Understood.

Did you really come out here just to help me?

It seems that way.

What is it that we are looking for exactly?

Oh it's a silver cross.

It was my grandmother's and she passed it down to my dad

and he passed it down to me.

And you lost it out here?

After my dad died I was really rebellious

and I just came out here one night

and threw it as far as I could.

I just wanted to be rid of it,

but God, it was a family heirloom

I can't believe I was such an idiot.

That's how teenagers are sometimes.

Even before my dad died we were really at odds.

He was really old fashioned

and everything he said to me

just sounded so cheesy at the time.

What is cheesy?

That is what we Americans say to make fun of something.

We call it cheesy.

Your dad was a cheesy man?

Well, like for example, he would tell me

that I should be a proper princess

and that princesses never lie

and princesses are virtuous and princesses never give up.

I don't know, I just,

it just sounded condescending to me when I was a teenager.

Never give up.

Your dad may have been right.

He was.

Thank you for helping me remember.

Seems like you already had it on your mind.

No.

No, not only did I not have it on my mind,

I had completely forgotten what he was trying to tell me.

Which was?

Just to be selfless and not selfish

and to remember my self worth.

Since he died I've just given my virtue

to men who haven't earned it and don't deserve me.

I just feel like I've been a pathetic shell

waiting for the real me to come back

and you've helped me remember.

You give me too much credit.

No.

You might not think it's a big deal

but your act of kindness towards Maria

has started something wonderful.

Hello Hershel, how's my trusted accountant this evening?

Yes I did take $80,000 out of that account.

I'm helping a sick friend.

It's really quite indiscreet I'm afraid.

As a matter of fact I'm gonna need to take a few more

large withdrawals out of that account

before it's all over with.

This is a very private matter.

I'll appreciate it if you'd keep it that way.

Good, thank you, yeah.

Mr. Hernandez.

Mr. Hernandez.

Mr. Hernandez, you've been lying to the nurses.

You told them that you were Maria's dad.

Yes.

Her father, the real Mr. Hernandez

died four years ago in Iraq.

That's too bad.

What you did is illegal, you know?

That's also too bad.

So why'd you do it? I have my reasons.

That's not good enough.

She needs someone.

I want to be that someone.

Wolfgang came back.

I said I would.

Well, can we go do some more fun stuff?

It's up to her. Can we?

As long as I come along to supervise.

It's a date.

Hey Wolfgang, so I got this car seat for you, no.

Hey Wolfgang, so you know I noticed

you didn't have a seat for Maria in your car

and oh, I was at the thrift store

and I just happened to see this and, you know,

thought for her safety it'd be good to have it

and you know I know you don't know about kids

so don't worry about it.

Oh, don't worry about it, it's no problem.

No, it's a gift, it's a gift.

You're welcome.

Oh, you got her a car seat.

Oh, Wolfgang's just a big lug.

He didn't know anything about child safety seats

so I bought it for her.

Hi.

Hi.

Welcome to Jones Valley at Shasta Lake.

Can I go on with you?

Yeah, this is the Titan

and Wolfgang rented it just for you. Come on.

Okay.

I'm beautiful.

I'm smart.

I have a job.

I'm a princess.

I'm not intimidated by her.

She's probably just a brainless bimbo.

Hi.

Hi.

Elise, this is Lauretta the hospital administrator.

Oh, you're a hospital administrator?

Yeah, I'm also a nurse practitioner.

I'm just here to monitor Maria's condition.

Great.

Hey look at this slide.

Wow, that is a nice slide.

So do you like the house boat?

It's perfect. Good.

Well I guess since your friend is here

helping with Maria you won't be needing me?

Do you want to leave?

No, it's not that, I just figured

you want to have private time with the nurse

so I don't want to be in the way.

Stay.

He wonders how long

he can keep this masquerade going.

How long can he fool them?

What if they look closely at him?

Will they see who he really is?

Wow, look what Wolfgang got us.

Do you want to try it? Yeah.

Well Maria's sure having fun.

Yeah.

I'm glad she's here. Me too.

You know I've actually been meaning to ask you

why is it that she needs to be hospitalized?

You want to know her condition?

Mm-hmm.

Actually even children

have the privilege of patient confidentiality.

Right, I understand.

Let's just say she requires medication

that needs to be administered by a nurse every day

and she needs to be checked by a doctor every day,

but if you really want to know you should just ask her.

I'm sure she'll tell you.

Somehow I think it's better

if we don't even make her think about it.

Let's just let her enjoy being happy.

What is this really?

He's a murderer.

Are these girls even safe with him?

Is he forgetting who he is?

And more importantly does he want to?

Is it possible that a little girl's smile can be so pure,

so powerful that it can change the heart of a grown man,

the heart of a killer?

Will he be making a change to his life

or simply an addition to his life?

An addition to bring balance, killer on one side,

altruist on the other.

Maybe somewhere in between he could be normal.

And back to the hunt.

Back to the blood.

And there will be blood this time.

Using the phone from his last victim

he's finally found his quarry.

We had a real time with her.

All because you stole from us.

And we aint' done with you either.

Watching your woman burn to death.

Well that's payback.

But watching you getting eaten alive,

that's just a treat.

You know why we brought you out here, don't you?

This forest is crawling with wolves

and mountain lions, and other animals with sharp teeth,

and all they need to do is smell you.

And I think this will do it.

Put the gun down or I'll shoot him.

Hello.

The ones who killed your grandson, I got them.

Are they alive?

One is still alive.

He's chained up and waiting for you.

Does anyone know you're here?

No, I followed your instructions to the letter.

I hope so.

I do like you, Mrs. Mendelssohn.

I don't want to have to do anything unfortunate to you.

You can trust me.

I just can't believe we're really going through with this.

I'm afraid I've allowed those criminals

to turn me into a monster.

Those who won't fight against evil

are in league with evil.

I salute you.

High praise.

Are you ready to meet him?

Yes.

It's really him.

You have the wrong man.

I don't even know what this is about.

This is about you shooting a machine gun off

in the middle of a neighborhood.

16 of your bullets entered my little baby grandson's room.

One of those bullets killed him.

Now I'm here to kill you.

Ma'am, I don't know anything about your grandson.

I'm willing to face the law.

Just call the police, let them sort this out.

The police?

The police have already arrested you

over a dozen times for other crimes.

Every time they let you go. The police

care more about the rights of murderers

than protecting the public.

They never even caught you

for killing my little baby grandson.

I'll bet they never solve your murder either.

Look, your man killed two of my friends

in cold blood here today.

Let's not let this get out of control.

You don't even have proof that I did this.

Somebody recorded you doing it on their phone.

They gave the footage to the police,

but the police did nothing.

There's no need to converse with this creature.

I do not want you to lose your nerve.

The only thing you have to worry about

is whether or not you have the stomach

to carry out my vengeance.

I like your style.

Ma'am, no, please.

Shooting him would be too merciful, too quick.

The pain you caused my daughter and me

will last the rest of our lives.

I think you'll suffer the rest of yours

however short it may be.

That's perfect.

Mr. Wolfgang, that's the worst thing I've ever heard.

This isn't right.

Do you really want to see this?

You don't want to see, no.

They'll tear me apart.

Come on.

I got a three year old too.

Oh God, don't do this.

Don't do this to me, don't.

Don't do this to me.

When the raccoons and the mountain lions start biting you,

and they will, think of me.

You can't do this.

You can't do this to me.

Okay guys, thank you again for coming out here.

So have as you guys may know

Redding is the second sunniest city

in the whole United States.

It's the sunniest city in California.

We also have the most fun attractions right?

And so since we live in such a vacation paradise

I was thinking that I would like to take Wolfgang's lead.

To help people?

Yeah, that's what I would like to do.

And Wolfgang, I don't want you paying for anything.

Now that I'm not supporting my boyfriend anymore

I can take the three of us out

and one person who's in need once a week.

Is that why we're here? Mm-hmm.

There's someone in that house who needs our help.

Who?

It's a little boy who was injured by a drunk driver.

He's disabled now and he's lonely.

He lost both his parents in a car accident

and his grandma's too elderly

to take him out in his wheelchair.

So I was thinking that we could go take him out

to do some fun activities and show him that he's not alone.

Are you guys with me? Yes.

Yes.

You two go ahead, I'll be right there.

Hello.

You've given me closure, Mr. Wolfgang.

You've also given me new purpose.

How so?

It felt good, making the world safer

by doing what we did.

I agree.

There's a lot of bad guys out there.

So many children are falling victim to violent criminals.

What do you want to do about it?

Well, I've got the money if you've got the bullets.