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A WEEK BEFORE

LESSON EIGHT OPERATION JOB

In recent weeks,

we have practiced recruitment using standard methods.

Sex,

weaknesses,

emotions, money.

But let's assume for a moment

that our target doesn't need money,

he doesn't have any embarrassing sexual perversions.

He isn't addicted to anything.

He's organized, honest, reliable.

What can be done with someone who is high and mighty?

"There was a man in the land of Uz,

whose name was Job.

And that man was

sincere and upright, God-fearing and shunning evil."

Does anyone know the rest of the story?

God and Satan argue.

Over what?

Whether Job will remain righteous after Satan is done with him.

Okay, and does God let Satan have his way with Job?

-Yes. -By which means?

His house is destroyed,

they kill his children,

his livestock is burned.

Job himself catches a disease,

Boils, I think.

Congratulations to the winner of the Bible knowledge competition.

When there are no weaknesses that can be exploited,

they need to be invented,

break the target,

and then create him all over again according to our needs.

A bit like God.

Like Satan, you mean.

Really?

Without forming any investigation committees,

who do you think is guilty?

The one who carries out the orders?

Or the one at the top giving the orders?

I have a very nice office, you know.

I don't want Yona to know that we are meeting.

What's up, Doris?

I found this a couple of days ago.

What is that?

Aaron and I in better days.

See what is written on the back.

A code Aaron left me.

I deciphered it. Read it.

YONA HARARI

Yona Harari.

That's the name Aaron left me before he died.

So why do you turn to me, instead of him?

Micha, I'm not stupid.

Yona was the commander in the field, right?

-Can't discuss what happened in Bulgaria. -Why not?

It's not on your ordinary need-to-know basis.

There's a thick wall of bricks surrounding it.

If you want to knock your head against the wall, go ahead, but...

I would stop.

Before what?

Something always breaks at the end.

Either the wall or the head.

-Micha, I'm begging. -I can't.

When we did the exercise in the hotel,

I saw you arriving with Abigail

and it has nothing to do with the course or the exercise.

Okay, so?

You know, I know your wife.

We're not girlfriends, but we occasionally meet

and every time we meet, I like talking to her.

Blackmail and threats at this early stage of the course?

Nice, Doris.

You're top of your class.

Micha, you're the Mossad's deputy director.

You can help me, I just need to encourage you.

Look at the time. Gotta run. Yona will kill me.

The American company Lockheed Martin and the French company Gazelle

are the two finalists in a $450 million tender

to acquire the next generation of battle helicopters.

The companies' representatives are in Israel these days,

ahead of a decision due to be made by the end of the week.

Mr. Yoav Gil, chairman and founder of Gil foundation.

He has fourteen centers.

-One in Ashdod, another in Netanya. -In the closet.

In the closet?

-Very deep. -The boy is in the closet.

We can't be certain if he'll come out of it, the poor guy.

-So where did he get his money from? -Stock exchange.

He retired when his wife passed away.

-Poor guy. -His wife was a social worker.

That's probably the connection.

Hey.

-They have two kids. -Are you okay?

-One is nine years old... -I'm fine.

-Do you need anything? -I'm fine, Katarina.

And one is 11 years old.

Excuse me.

My own intuition says there's no dirt here.

The man is impeccable or as they say in Yiddish, a "mensch."

What did I miss?

Start with collecting intelligence before operation, schedule.

-Not much. -Work in pairs.

What is the mission?

Ruining this poor guy's life.

Good luck.

How is it going?

Bureaucracy.

I've been filling forms for three days.

Excited?

Nothing is certain. The Americans haven't cleared me yet.

They will.

The beautiful and tough Mossad woman, of course they will.

For them it's like Hollywood.

So, what does Micha say?

He's not satisfied.

Not satisfied.

Well...

He thinks my leaving will impact the course.

And I agree with him, by the way.

No, but you will be great at that,

you are a natural.

I'm a natural...

Thanks.

I... Okay, concentrate on that.

I'll talk to you.

EMILI ENDOL AEROSPACE GAZELLE

Hello, you've reached the Sheraton hotel.

Hello, I would like to book a room please.

Yes, sir?

If possible, I would like it be on the 14th floor, I like this floor a lot.

Fourteenth floor? I'm checking.

I've only got a suite.

That is fine.

-What is your name, sir? -Uri Ziv.

GIL CENTER

Really, I don't understand why I have to be stuck with you all the time.

What are we? Siamese twins?

I asked Simon if we could work together.

Really?

What, why?

Because I feel you have a problem with me.

You've been angry with me ever since that report I wrote about you.

I'm not angry with you, I just can't stand you.

Thank you very much.

Actually, I don't know how I would react

if my family was threatened.

You...

You would probably behave like a saint, like...

that Yoav Gil over there.

Did you see how everyone's been looking at me since the last exercise?

Actually, Kobi,

I'd rather be with someone who can't stand me

than with people who pity me

which is almost everyone.

It's okay. You can be both terminally ill and shit. There's no contradiction.

Right.

This sclerosis of yours, or whatever you call this shit,

doesn't make you a less annoying person.

-I couldn't agree more. -Good, I'm glad you actually agree.

Okay, Kobi, if you didn't notice, I'm trying to apologize.

Do you have this apology in a less patronizing tone?

I'm a sick person, Kobi,

pity me.

Come on, go inject something, you asshole.

There's no way he gives so much money to these drug addicts

without getting anything in return.

He is... what do you call it?

-Money laundering. -Exactly.

He has legal capital. Why would he launder money?

-Go figure. -Take more pizza and shut your mouth.

-Shut the fuck up. -But for the thousandth time,

we want to make him dirty, right? Not look for dirt related to him.

How can you make him dirty? There isn't any dirt.

The guy got the Israel prize.

He's registered as an NGO.

-So? -So, maybe if we manage to prove

he's getting unlawful donations...

You give him a big headache.

-How can you compare this to Job? -Believe me, the IRS is one hell of a Job.

And then God said to the IRS...

Fuck them.

You think small.

Use your imagination.

I got one.

We'll frame him for murder.

Excuse me, because...

His Mom dropped him on his head when he was eight days old.

You wanted a heavy case?

Yoav Gil, the murderer, is a heavy case.

It's amazing that despite being dropped,

he still functions like any other human being.

-Asshole... -Don't touch me!

Enough already.

-You need a corpse for a murder. -There's Avsha with...

What's the name of your shit?

-MS. -Yes, so if we wait a little bit longer,

you know, maybe...

-Stop being a jerk, Kobi. -Okay.

In short, if there's no corpse, there's no murder.

Don't focus on logistics. Be creative.

Come up with something good that we can work with.

We'll take care of the details...

Later.

SOFIA

He's dead.

What's the matter?

I understand you met our guest.

Say hello to Andrey Kutchinsky,

born in Kazakhstan, 19 years old,

immigrated to Israel five years ago.

Overdose.

That's something that can be changed.

-You guys are sick. -Way to go.

Why "way to go"?

How was this corpse brought here so quickly?

Junkies, there are plenty like him in Abu Kabir.

Oy, I feel like vomiting.

You couldn't care less?

Well, maybe you got used to death, so...

-What? -Kobi!

Okay, I understand you are upset.

So let's calm down.

If anybody has a problem

with the possible methods of action, then...

they've got a problem.

Because right now we're in operational mode.

-And operational mode has a schedule. -Excuse me, I...

I don't know if I speak on behalf of everybody else here,

-but I think we got carried away a bit. -Totally carried away.

-You don't speak on behalf of everybody. -No, you don't.

Sveta is right. I also feel we are a bit--

It's only an exercise, it's not like we're really going to

ruin someone's life. Right?

What are you talking about? We're going to frame him for murder.

Bravo, Sveta.

I would like to tell you a story, okay?

When I was in Russia, I met a man

called Sergey Yablinsky.

A very nice family man, a grandfather.

One day he came home and found his son committed suicide. A tragedy.

Then his wife ran away from him

because of what was written in the suicide letter.

Now, maybe because of all these disasters,

Grandfather Sergey went to work,

and boom!

He became blind

and lost both his hands.

And his entire body was full of mustard gas burns. Just horrible.

Sergey Yablinsky was

the key figure in the Iraqi chemical weapons project.

Does anyone want to see a picture of a Kurdish baby

after a mustard gas bombing in order to decide

whether what we did to cute grandfather Sergey

was justified or not?

There's only one difference, Yoav Gil isn't a Russian scientist

who worked on mustard gas bombs. He's a normal person,

even a good man.

Right, and that's why nothing like what happened to Sergey will happen to him.

Everything that happens to him

will be changeable and reversible.

You've got my word.

All right, until you decide,

stick Andrey in the fridge at minus two.

Something smells fishy to me here, Kinder.

Maybe it's Andrey.

Listen,

first you stick me with an exercise and vanish from sight,

then Abigail doesn't respond to a mission file, doesn't show up to team briefings.

I find myself all alone,

like someone with psoriasis at a cocktail party.

Abigail has more important things to do than briefings,

Oh, yeah? Such as?

There's talk. She's...

She's getting command of the Washington station.

-So that why you're so busy? -Me? What have I got to do with it?

Kinder, I was your first instructor at this place,

don't play innocent with me, please.

Simon, I'm really happy for her.

You're going to derail her promotion.

It's a decision of the head of Mossad. How can I derail a head of Mossad's promotion?

-How, actually? -How, actually?

How?

The guys at the institute want their corpse back in less than two days.

Focus on the exercise.

-The one with the high haircut. -Nah, forget about it.

Such a big guy, and still such a big wuss.

So talk to everybody already, let them do it together.

-Me, speak to everybody? Why me? -Why me? Why me?

A homicide case, it was your brilliant idea, right?

-So I gotta do everything on my own? -Get to it. Go on then.

Here, it's from the exercise budget, so make sure we've got some left for hummus.

Look out for the one with the neck collar, don't let her bite you.

-Hey! -Relax, I'm protecting your eardrums.

You'll thank me when you grow up. Any of you kids know what an eardrum is?

-You a fucking pig? -No.

Money later, work first.

Work, yeah?

She's a bit like Grandma's Filipino caretaker but with a real cool twist.

Check this out.

Okay, let's see if these kids will do their job.

Wow, hey!

Stay out of it! Don't touch him!

Yaheli?

Hey, it's Grandpa. How's it going?

Listen, sweetie,

I'm on the computer now and I had a document in the morning

that I suddenly don't know how to find.

How do I find it again?

History?

Where's that?

Here, found it.

Thanks, sweetheart, thanks a lot.

American company Lockheed Martin and French company Gazelle...

-What is that? -What will we do with that?

Anybody want to say a eulogy?

Right then, rest in peace

and roll over.

Wow.

Okay, what...

What do we need now?

The murder weapon.

Good, very good.

This is how all great plans fall apart,

exactly like this,

I can't.

What?

I didn't hear you.

I can't.

-You can't? -I can't.

All right, give me that.

Avsha, you don't have to do it.

I'm sorry, guys, but things are starting to get rather embarrassing.

Totally.

Right, let me have that.

There you go.

-Me? -Yeah.

Okay.

Go on, he's already dead.

Okay, you'll have to excuse him,

the fact that the body isn't moving is throwing him off.

Yeah?

Nice.

Go on, cover it up.

Cover up the vomit.

Are you all right?

Will you lay off me?

We're out.

Hey! Hey!

-There's a man lying down there. -What happened?

Down there, there's a man on the ground.

-He's got blood, I don't know what it is. -Is he injured?

He's lying here, down there. There, injured, look.

There he is, do you see?

We need to call the cops.

I don't think he's breathing.

Here, they're asking him about the facial bruises.

He should say he got hit by the door.

Some woman in black tights stopped me

and told me that there was a...

Now he's telling them about me.

A girl who showed him the body and then vanished.

He doesn't sound very convincing.

I'm telling you you're wrong, guys.

This doesn't make sense.

Okay, that's it then, they're taking him downtown.

You're making a mistake. I'm a law-abiding citizen.

Go on then, you've got work to do.

194327533. Okay?

Repulsive.

Everything we do here is disgusting.

You've got two minutes and forty seconds. Out you go.

Come on, come.

Avsha.

Police are on the way, you've got 53 seconds.

Avsha!

Avsha.

Avsha, where are you? Disengage, get out!

Avsha.

Avsha!

Now.

Scott! I want you to meet... This is Sarit Shashua.

Say, have you lost your mind?

-First, nobody uses that phrase anymore. -I don't give a rat's ass.

You're out of line, Kinder.

-What do you know? -Here you go.

Scott Russel.

Tell me, what deal did you make with the CIA?

The fact that you're messed up is something I've known for 15 years.

I thought that you'd smarten up with time.

I don't want her to go?

What are you, a child?

Don't want her to go...

You've got no right to meddle in her life

or her career, Kinder.

Whoever's meddling with her life and career surely isn't me.

Who?

How do you think she got the Washington appointment?

I don't know.

Micha worked his influence on the head of Mossad.

He wants her as far away from him as possible.

And without an extra baby aside from the ones he's got at home.

Do you see? He's getting her right in his web.

For her it's either the job or the child.

Head of Mossad won't put a pregnant woman in charge of the Washington office.

Get real, not in this life.

If you've got an issue with Micha, work it out directly with him.

I don't have any issue with Micha.

Didn't you hear me say I don't have an issue with Micha?

I heard you, I'm hearing every word you're saying.

But you're not God.

You don't have the right to decide about anyone's life.

I'm not deciding for Abi,

I'm undoing a decision somebody else made for her.

If she doesn't go because of you, she'll never forgive you.

And if she does go, she'll never forgive herself.

Yeah...

Let's go, the trainees are waiting.

Why the sad faces?

These, gentlemen, are Andrey's death certificates.

Autopsy results.

Hour, day of week, date.

Yoav Gil couldn't have murdered somebody who had died of an overdose

two days earlier, right? Right?

Okay.

Let's see if you're a news item.

In that, the finance committee gave its final approval

to an extra two point five billion shekels to the security budget.

Moving on,

businessman and philanthropist Yoav Gil

hanged himself in a jail cell in Ayalon Prison

minutes after being interrogated for the murder of seventeen-and-a-half-year-old,

Andrey Kutchinsko,

with whom he had allegedly had an affair.

Mr. Gil was arrested earlier this morning near the young man's body

with signs of a struggle on his face and body.

A source familiar with the inquiry said

that evidence had been found in the businessman's house

allegedly linking him to the murder.

Yoav Gil is survived by a son and a daughter.

Reversible, eh?

Everything is reversible.

This is a serious operational error.

Right, an operational error.

If the commander of the operation had been onsite

-it would have been better. -Simon, this isn't the time.

-I heard you. -This isn't the time now.

I quit.

What are you doing?

-I quit. -You're making a mistake.

-I don't think so. -You're making a mistake

because we fought for you, in spite of your difficult situation.

I'm grateful for that, but I won't be continuing with you.

Goodbye.

Avsha,

I'm coming with you.

Mr. Frachdel, sit down.

I've had enough, I'm done, sorry.

Anybody else here got a problem with what happened here?

You, too, Doris?

Me too, Yona. Excuse me. Sorry,

I can't go on.

Okay, guys, looks like we'll be continuing

in a smaller group.

Yes, what about you?

We're not making anybody stay here.

Look, you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

A wonderful saying.

Yes, Uri?

Look, I feel sorry for the man,

but I assume you're not looking for bunch of tree-huggers here.

A round of applause to the duo, Evil and Malice.

-Sure, Kobi, we know all about you. -Shut the hell up, Kobi.

Go on, get going. Go.

Yoav Gil was survived by a daughter and a son.

How was it? Satisfied?

Great, Oren, thanks.

Always happy to help you guys at the Mossad.

I don't get it, what happened?

Yoav Gil wasn't arrested by the police, he was arrested by us.

He was released five minutes later.

So yes, he had a bit of an unpleasant morning, but that's all.

Guys, have you ever heard the name Motke Keidar?

Motke Keidar was the office's first and last try

to recruit a convicted murderer.

The result, the murder of a Jewish collaborator

who just loved the State of Israel and wanted to help it.

And the lesson?

An agent with no red line and no judgment

is a dangerous agent.

In this line of work we live outside the law,

which means we need to be the defendants, the lawyers,

and our own judges.

You might also call it a conscience.

Spector brothers,

this course is now over as far as it concerns you.

-Are you serious? -What?

-What do you mean? -Bunch of amateurs.

All the rest, talk by military intel. Liaison starts now in the small hall.

Blessed be the Lord and all his doing.

EXPELLED

The guy you're looking for is called Yaniv Mimon.

We call him Muammar after the nut-case from Libya.

-He's-- -Part of the Bulgarian operation, yes.

We pulled him out of the course just for this.

Don't write it down, memorize it.

Sparkles Car Wash, 46 Ben Tzvi Boulevard.

Thanks, Micha.