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Zurich

Saturday 26th September 11:23 am

That's him.

The balaclavas.

Don't move!

Nothing will happen.

Enemy of the people!

Zurich - Business district

Saturday 26th September 12:51 pm

Please accept out sincerest regrets for the delay etc etc...

Alright George, down to business.

About Balestrat, any news?

I stopped at his hotel, it's all set.

Glad to hear it.

Cost of the operation: 6% of the value of the diamonds.

Is he satisfied?

You know him. He's like all Frenchmen. He always seems to feel...

he has to have a political explanation to justify putting money in Switzerland.

Well when you're finished with him call me back here.

Thanks George. Good work. See you Monday sir.

What about the investment trusts?

All the transfers have been made.

Good. Phone calls?

Avident credit & loan, Alpine brokers...

and Mr Zimmer has called three times so far he ended up by saying he'd come by to see you.

Zimmer you say? That's right.

Was he here? No.

We'll worry about that on Monday.

I wanted to thank you for those tickets. I thought the play was wonderful.

Glad you enjoyed it. Goodbye Ms Frost.

Bye Mr Grenier.

Have a good weekend.

Today's stock market quotations mean another victory for the dollar.

Here's a special bulletin concerning the killing in Zurich.

Shortly after 11. 30 this morning

a tram was attacked by several masked men who shot down one of the passengers.

The victim was a man named Mr Zimmer, director of a travel agency

The assassination was claimed by a partisan activist brigade called PAM'.

This group also claimed the bomb explosion in Zurich airport

3 weeks ago.

First reports indicate that Mr. Zimmer was not linked to any political movement

and no threat had previously been made on his life.

We will communicate further bulletins as we received them.

Zurich - Central Post Office

Saturday 26th of September 2:32 pm

Mr. Sebastien Grenier?

Yes, that's right.

What have you got there?

Alexander Dumas. Hand delivered free of charge.

Aren't you going to open it?

No...

If I open it I can't send it back. Just kill the Nobel Prize.

I'll change my clothes. We have to leave early

Reports say the traffic is ghastly in the middle of town

Really, what's causing that?

That business on the streetcar.

Someone was shot and killed this morning by PAV brigade.

Did you hear about it?

No.

Twenty years later. Page 138.

I see you like Verdi Mr Grenier?

We Swiss are quite talented when it comes to Italian music along with...

English nurses, American cinema and German Mercedes.

And old French literature. Don't forget that.

Indeed.

I was afraid you would show up. I should've known better.

I haven't introduced myself:

I'm Jean Paul Chance Federal counselor to the ministry of Justice.

You often approach people and talk to them like this in a public park?

No, unless I'm meeting someone.

Your meeting someone are you?

Proof is, you're here.

An exquisite setting isn't it? Baroque I'd say, wouldn't you?

Baroque but noisy.

Quite rig ht.

You familiar with a bakery called Schlimers?

You can get a marvelous fresh cucumber sandwich.

Sounds delightful.

But at the risk of being thought prudish...

I'm not the type of man to follow strange men, even from the ministry of Justice...

into a pastry shop.

I mean of course unless it's an act of God.

I can think of 3 possibilities:

Hunger, plague...

and the secret service.

In your case I'd suggest the 3rd one.

Saturday 26th of September 5:05 pm

Your reputation as a high ranking financier is in perfect order.

From 1950 to 1962 you were

assistant director in a large sugar industry

in the north of France. After that in 1963, you ran

the loans department of a bank on the river front.

Then in the spring of 1971, for personal reasons...

divorce, if I'm not mistaken, you decided to start a new life.

You opened in the middle of Zurich a holding company.

Well that's the term your ministry of finance has dreamt up for it. Affiliates elsewhere.

So much for the facade, which is unimpeachable.

Underneath it's not so pretty.

A French undercover agent in the office of documentation and counter-espionage.

What we would call a spy.

Perhaps I'm boring you. You seem very tired.

No no, I'm alright. Just had a bad night.

Trouble sleeping?

You spent the last 8 years sleeping. It's not enough for you?

I think I might have some more tea.

I'm referring to the long sleep

in which you were confined by your superiors til today I think.

Really can't imagine why I say "think", because I know...

actually I'm positive.

An honorable associate in you service,

Mr Alfred Zimmer,

was just murdered in Zurich tramway

by a commando in the Partisan Activist brigade.

This PAV brigade is in itself nothing.

They carry out orders. They're manipulated. Question number one is manipulated by who?

That's undoubtedly what Mr Zimmer had discovered.

For question number two:

Was he murdered before you met or after?

All of this is very probably...

very subtle. Subtle but a bit obscure.

Well one things not obscure:

We opened that book you had before you.

You can always reach me at this number.

If you happen to get any information about Mr Zimmer's death...

you will get in touch with me won't you?

Otherwise my government, will act on my instructions and...

you'll be accused of endangering national security and imprisoned for 10 years.

Which would be a shame...

I mean it. I've developed a very friendly feeling towards you.

It's not mutual?

It is. I've got a very friendly feeling too but to be a frank I'm sick of cucumbers.

Tages Anzeiger newspaper building

Saturday 26th of September 5:50 pm

Collector of Alexander Dumas would like original edition of

Joseph Balsamo - Urgently - Is that it?

Yes. Will it appear tomorrow morning?

Yes of course.

Because it is very important.

Your ad will be in the first edition

on the stands at 6 am.

I don't think I'll be able to go with you.

You know Horst & Irene will feel let down now we can't play doubles.

Well I'm sorry but I'm snowed under.

I have to finish all this by tomorrow morning.

I'll try to join up later. You can play a couple of games without me.

Yes I can do any number of things without you Sebastien.

I can go to the movies, out to dinner, even sleep without you. But I...

like it better with you.

You should know that by now?

Are you still going to the theater with me?

Of course! What a question.

All right, see you later.

At least take time off to go for a walk.

I will but this could take all afternoon.

Mr Grenier, You put in an ad regarding a rare edition of J. Balsamo?

We have a message from an Alexander Dumas fan.

He'd like a meeting with you right away.

So would I.

I'm late.

I hope I didn't make you wait too long.

The trouble with our Hockey is that it has no class...

The professionals from Canada are too mercenary and those from

the East are hesitant.

Ever since the time the Czechoslovakian team forgot to go home.

You're surprised to see me aren't you.

No more so than yesterday.

This time though it was you who summoned me.

We're working for the same boss.

And I'm on page 138.

Lover of Alexander Dumas would like an original edition

of Joseph Balsamo...

That's the code for an emergency meeting, right?

What's your problem?

Well for the moment it's you.

I say that's Zurich's gonna take this game with no trouble. They outclass Bern...

You really wanna stay?

You aren't taking me to eat cucumbers?

How about a drink at my place?

You know even in the most ambiguous situation

there's always an element of truth.

With my position with the ministry of Justice in Bern.

You'd find that extremely easy to verify.

You're right, it was.

You could never mistrust me half as much as Paris mistrusts you.

Well you're reaction was quick enough to reassure everyone.

The climate in Zurich is quite mellowing.

You might have fallen into a sort of apathy...

after 8 years.

Besides, your very success here in Zurich works to your disadvantage.

In love as well as in business.

Sit down.

Would you mind if I asked you a question?

Why haven't you got around to marrying Ms Gretz?

Is that your business?

Yes.

Because we're alright as we are.

Perhaps also to avoid this kind of question.

For what reason did you marry? Why did you decide to marry a German?

Yes, we're very puritanical.

Forget all that. Paris wanted a security check and you've moper than passed it.

Would you like a drink?

Yes, a drop of Scotch if you don't mind.

What do you think of this Partisan Activist Brigade?

Personally...

I must say this Partisan Activist Brigade

is hardly representative of our national genius.

Therefore we must ask if a foreign power is at work.

The OAV brigade is manipulated we know, but by whom.

It's because he was getting close to the answer that Zimmer is now dead.

And it is because we had to replace Zimmer that you were reactivated.

But why me?

You know that the university, even in Zurich, is a breeding ground...

for left-wing agitation. The worthy Ms Gretz teaches at

the university and lives with you. You follow me?

No, not very well.

Would it bother you if I talked about Ms Gretz's activities?

Whatever you want.

Before coming to Zurich to take up a teaching post, literature and linguistics

Ms. Gretz taught at the university in Munich.

I may be chauvinistic but I'm hardly blind

I refuse to believe that anyone leaves a place like Munich for Zurich.

Well you can get tired of a city.

And the city can get tired of you.

Ms Gretz ran with a group of youngsters that were pretty much suicidal.

The whole Baader Meinhof gang mixed up in the worst kind of mayhem.

She's never told you about any of this?

Is that all?

All from Munich.

But since she moved to Zurich,

her contact with certain activists kicked out of Germany or

the Middle East are well known to everybody,

except apparently to you.

I suppose Paris ordered you to give me this message?

No, I took the initiative. It's strictly personal.

We like our agents to look as pure as virgins.

I just wish their playmates could be equally as immaculate!

I'm hoping you can take up this little affair of Zimmer's...

Without ending like him.

Zimmer, you do know who he is?

Because up to now your cooperation has hardly what I'd call enthusiastic.

It's true your not fully awake. You've only opened one eye!

I'll tell you when to open the other.

To our mutual health!

And if I hadn't happened to sound the alarm?

We would've known exactly which side you were on...

University of Zurich

Monday 28th of September 10:45 pm

Goodbye Dieter.

How are you? I'm fine.

What a surprise!

A very nice surprise!

A meeting just finished and I thought we could go out somewhere for a bite.

I'm in favour of that!

Our discussion group is all fired up tonight.

Dieter was full of ideas. He was in the stratosphere

Dieter? He's a favourite of yours?

You're being silly!

I've been meaning to talk to you about your discussion group.

You think maybe you could suspend them for a while.

Because I have a vague idea about what you discuss...

and what it might lead to and to be frank with you I'm not so crazy about it.

Oh your not. Is that why you came tonight?

I came to take you to dinner, but also a bit for that.

Well it's just too bad...

you may not like our meetings but I don't like yours any better.

What do you talk about sitting about that long table in that fancy building?

Promotions, investments, and money, always money!

We talk about money as well but we talk about those who don't have money.

The old, the sick, the unemployed.

You think terrorism is going to generate job offers?

Who mentioned terrorism?

I know you hate me to bring this up but at this very moment in Zurich

things are going on very similar to when you were in Munich.

I don't say anyone's responsible but...

No, of course you don't.

When certain causes lead to the same effects you begin to search for a relationship...

The relationship of cause to effect. What books are you reading?

Come on Sebastien, save your high school philosophy for your clients.

Tuesday 29th of September 3:30 pm

Did your lunch meeting go well?

Yes thanks, very well.

This number does not exist.

Please refer to the list of subscribers.

Who were you looking for? Everyone's gone home.

I left a folder in this office yesterday.

I was sure I wouldn't need it. It's always like that isn't it?

If you left anything lying around it'd be put aside by the cleaners.

Mr. Chance gives you a passkey doesn't he?

Who?

Mr Chance. Isn't this his office?

It's anybody's who has the money.

These offices are for rent,

at a daily rate, sometimes by the hour.

You pay in advance. So keeping track of names...

If we find your folder, where do we send it?

To the lost and found!

Thanks.

They're lovely aren't they?

I must say your friend has excellent taste.

They're kind of a wold dahlia. Can you imagine that?

The Latin name is...

Tregonias Plopesis.

All these years I've lived without knowing that!

Two bouquets in one day!

Yours are nice too. I appreciate it.

The name for them is daisies!

Finally, ten minutes more and I'd have led Ms Gretz off to a restaurant.

I was to be here at 8, wasn't I?

Well yes, off course.

Blessed be whatever delayed you as that way Ms Gretz and I were able to have a little chat.

About what?

Well tell him your idea, about sending out a petition.

It was just a hypothesis. I wasn't serious.

Why do you say that?

Mr. Chance suggests all professors get together and write a petition

banning all soldiers and police from campuses.

Why limit it to professors?

Have all the radicals sign it, students too?

Then if the police are still lacking in names, this will overwhelm them.

I think I should apologise for my husbands sense of logic!

What are you doing here?

You went to my place.

Yes, but you weren't there.

Your methods are probably very original but they leave me cold.

So keep my wife out of this. Anna has nothing to do with it.

Let's hope not?

Don't mind me, go on talking

why don't you have a drink while I prepare a quick dinner.

You will stay for dinner, won't you?

Oh no I...

Of course he will, it'd be a pleasure for us both!

Zurich - Central Train Station

Wednesday 30th of September 2:25 pm

Pull over there on the right.

I didn't get your message until 10. What's the matter? Something wrong?

There could be.

Where are you going?

No place. We're just riding.

Like the old days!

Chance, do you know that name? Jean-Paul Chance.

Chance?

No. What's his line of work?

Ministry of Justice.

Very high level.

But underneath the facade, the picture's a bit murky.

1st manifestation he was slipped in by our Swiss counterparts

to watch over me.

Talks about throwing me in prison if I don't play ball.

2nd time around he claims he's from our parish

not only that, it seems he's my superior.

No more no less.

What would you think of an old comic who in 24 hours puts on two faces?

Well I automatically begin looking for a third one.

I'm sick of this mess, Henri.

The past 8 years taught me to have relationships with ordinary people.

Top get phone calls other than out of to public booths,

To read the mail without having to decode it,

To leave the office in the morning and go home to Anna at night.

I wanted to ask you about her. How is she?

Fine.

Sometimes I think it would be nice if we could meet some place else

other than a railroad station or a godforsaken park.

I once read somewhere that ours is a noble trade. We live like rats.

Your right, except that real rats don't bump each other off.

You mean Zimmer?

Somebody pointed the finger at him.

The PAV brigade might manage to rob a bank or even plant TNT in an embassy,

but kill an old hand like Zimmer,

they're too dumb.

That was my first thought as well.

Well who else?

You have someone in mind?

Kaufman, Meyer?

Me maybe?

No, anybody but you.

I hope all these years of inaction haven't made you soft Sebastien.

At this moment, someone here, or in Geneva or Munich or Paris,

is sitting on a detonator. He has to be eliminated or he'll push the button.

You mustn't exclude anyone from the list. Everyone is suspected.

Even in Paris?

You may not know this but,

there have been a bunch of changes in Paris in the last few years.

New faces int he corridors, old faces have disappeared.

Could even be that we have ceased to please.

For what reason?

Call it reasons of state.

Or the rats grappling over the dirt!

What a business!

I suppose certain professions must carry germs the way

certain foods cause cancer.

I'm so tempted to let everything go to pot. If you only knew Henri!

I feel like that now and then.

Sometimes too soon, like you,

Sometimes too late, like Zimmer.

If Chance is from the home office I'll soon know

even if I have to go high up. Even if I have to run a couple of red lights.

My train's in 40 minutes but don't bother driving me. I need to walk to sweep the dirt from my head.

As you wish.

Give Anna a kiss for me.

I can't even mention that I saw you.

So kiss her but don't tell her why.

See you again Henri.

Thursday 1st of October 8:35 am

I've brought your tea Mr Grenier.

Thank you Ms. Frost.

Accident or suicide? The mysterious death of Henri Marchand.

Hello.

You alright?

I was about to leave you a note in case you got home late tonight.

What in the world is going on? You aren't leaving me are you?

Don't be ridiculous, I've got to go to Munich for a meeting with the president.

I'm sorry I've had a lot on my mind. I guess I wasn't thinking.

I completely forgot to tell you.

I'm only going for one day. I'll be back tomorrow night.

Well I'll drive you to the airport.

No, don't drive me. It's better if I get a taxi. Why be stuck in traffic.

Come on...

If anyone from the office calls me, you've no idea where I've gone?

Even if it's Ms Frost?

Even Ms Frost.

And don't tell Chance where I've gone,

in case he happens to call.

But why would he call?

Your right, why would he call.

And if I should need to call you for something,

no reason, just to tell you goodnight, what hotel are you staying in?

I don't know yet. But I'll be in touch with you.

Where are you going?

Munich.

Grenier is just boarding our plane to Munich.

Munich International Airport

Thursday 1st of October 3:50 pm

Do you wish to see Mr Meyer?

He must be rather busy and I hate to disturb him but it's a very special request.

If I knew what you were looking for I could try to find it.

"Chinese agrarian methods in the early 12th Century" Karl E. Böhme.

Normally you could certainly consult it here but

by strange coincidence it was loaned last week to Mr. Bojarsky,

Curator of the Metropolitan Museum.

Mr. Meyer!

What is it Kirchen?

This gentleman would like to see the treats by Karl E. Böhme.

It's rare anyone asks for that work.

I explained to him that at the moment it's on loan to Mr Bojarsky...

Bojarsky, all he cares about is getting himself photographed reading the works of Böhme

Keen to have his profile in the New York.

That's every foolish immigrants dream!

But if your televisions broken and you can't get to sleep any other way,

I think we have the entire works of Böhme on microfilm.

Your extremely helpful.

I'm simply curious.

Anyone who can stomach Böhme is either a madman or a genius.

Grenier, what are you doing here? Are you crazy!

Are you aware of what's happening right now in Zurich?

The reason I came...

I'm not interested in your reason. Whatever it is it's not to be trusted.

Any violation of the security code is not to be trusted.

The code says we go through channels and the channel for you and for me is Marchand.

Marchand is dead.

We'll end up in the same boat if you don't help me.

"I believe one day I shall die

but I do not accept it's reality".

"Lucius Aurelian... "

Save your fancy quotations for the fagots on that fancy square in Berlin!

Alexanderplatz, so far away.

Do you remember Eric Walser?

Of course not. Who does anymore?

That paragon walked out on me for a pudding-faced bitch with hairy nostrils!

Italian contessa. Richer than the Vatican!

What can I tell you. You have all my sympathy.

Now listen to me Meyer.

Someone in our parish is trying to blow up the church,

or else someone in a rival parish.

The famous mole is that it?.

Give it any name you like.

What we've got to do is identify him.

I may be completely off base, and I hope I am

but I have someone in mind, someone very high up.

Over you and me there was Zimmer.

Over Zimmer, Marchand.

And over Marchand...

Chance, you know that name?

Let me think...

Jean-Paul Chance,

He's in the Ministry of Justice in Bern.

That's him.

In that case, he's untouchable.

I'm not asking you to blow him up in the street.

I simply want to know his pedigree. He knows mine in full.

A young charmer I once knew,

now a bit battered, gives me access to certain file cards.

I'm sure I can get what you want, but I won't go further than that.

However, in my opinion, nothing you are going to do is going to help much.

If Zimmer and Marchand have both been liquidated that means...

that someone high up has decided on a purge

and nothing will stop it.

Not your citations, your reputation for action,

nor my great talent for inertia.

Nothing.

We'll make a photocopy of all the material and you can pick it up when it's ready.

Let's say first thing tomorrow, will that suit you?

That's very kind Mr Meyer, I can't thank you enough.

Don't mention it. We always try to please.

Favour for favour.

That calculation Italian contessa I told you about,

her name is Graziella de Scabelli.

Somehow you can put the squeeze on her for cheating on her income tax...

Have we got more important problems right now?

Alright, I'll do my best.

Oh well actually it was pretty boring...

No, no problems.

I'll be back tomorrow night as promised. Any news at your end? No.

Oh yes, Chance called you.

Around 7. I said you'd just gone out and I didn't know when you'd be back.

That's fine.

I've been missing you. And I can't wait for you back.

I miss you too Anna.

Good night darling.

Sleep well. Goodbye.

Munich

Friday 2nd of October 9:15 am

Zurich Airport

Friday 2nd of October 8:43 pm

You had a good trip I trust?

Yes, it was fine.

I tries to call you last night. I had the pleasure of speaking to you charming companion.

She told me "I don't know where he is, I don't know when he's getting home. "

She had it down pat.

She knew perfectly well you were in Munich.

I was told about Meyer an hour ago.

You're not a healthy person to have around. But you always come out of it.

You should give your friends your secret recipe.

Henri Marchand was a friend of yours?

I never want to hear you pronounce Henri Marchand's name again.

Or Anna's either.

Do I make myself clear?

Can I drive you home?

Do not count me in to sign this paper. This is literature!

Perhaps Vallès is not towards literature?

Yes, but hers were good. This is obscene.

Goos evening Mr Grenier.

I'm so glad your home Sebastien..

It's awful. Henri is dead.

I know.

So hard to believe.

You don't simply fall out of a train.

He did. Forgive me Anna...

Meyer was killed this morning in Munich. You know about it?

Yes.

There's a phone booth just opposite your place.

Be there in 10 minutes.

I can't seem to sleep tonight so

I'm going out for some air.

Are you sure there's nothing you want to tell me?

No, nothing.

Friday 2nd of October 11:17 pm

I've been sent by Paris.

So?

Tomorrow morning, museum of technology, 11 sharp.

When you took the plane to Munich, did you already know about Marchand?

Yes.

But why couldn't you have told me on the phone?

You mean you weren't alone.

Don't be so stupid Anna.

You know Henri is dead and you don't say a word...

Then you refuse to let me go to the airport...

Your just back again and you get a phone call and you go hurrying back outside.

I question you and you say "Don't be so stupid Anna. "

That's not much of an explanation is it?

All I can say is...

All I can say is you can't be more wrong.

Well then, explain yourself.

You probably won't accept this but the less you know

the better it is.

For who?

For both of us.

Both of us?

A storm is gathering around me.

Friends are dying, strangers appearing.

There's someone putting my head in a noose. But who?

I know I've gotta wake up and do something, but what?.

But about Henri I know.

It was no accident. Henri was killed.

Zurich funicular railway

Saturday 3rd of October 9:35 am

Chance will kill you.

Paris wouldn't mind the idea of losing so much but,

what's really annoying is the way it's accumulating.

Zimmer, Marchand, Meyer.

Security boys are starting to get a little nervous.

It has to be brought to a halt.

And you could hardly blame them.

I'm just here on a visit to bandage a few wounds

stop the internal bleeding.

If it doesn't stop you know what will happen next.

One morning the Swiss police will liquidate the PAV brigade

That'll be a nice mess.

And who'll wind up smack in the middle?

Not only Anna Gretz, but you.

Sebastien Grenier, French secret agent

armed with one of our pistols and a pocket full of leaflets

Out and out collusion between Paris and the brigade.

Oh really.

And for those slow on the uptake,

You can bet Mr. Chance won't fail to pound the message home.

The dossier he'll put together is bound to be a classic.

Apologetic, the least bit Francophile, but damning.

He's a curious man, this Jean-Paul Chance.

I wouldn't know but...

rumor has it that you and he are great pals.

I hope we're talking about the same person.

Jean Paul Chance

born in Geneva in 1931 of a Swiss father and a French mother.

Honors student at the school of administration,

doctorate from Harvard.

Golden boy of the Bundesrat darling of the Intelligentsia.

In short, the elite core of the K. G. B.

Slick, amusing, incorruptible,

and absolutely deadly.

And this one Ramos Bavilla, you know him?

Is he as interesting as Chance.

Neither slick not amusing, but someone to worry about.

Do you mind if I ask you an indiscreet question?

Exactly who are you?

Just call me Richard or captain or page 138.

It's not important.

If your so absolutly certain that the minister of Justice is a mole then...

why didn't Paris pass the file onto Bern?

We've got troubles enough. Let's not make it worse.

But since you ask it's because Chance is not making use of you...

and we still consider you our winning ace.

If that were the case I wouldn't be here to clarify your part in all this

but to put an end to it.

Tell me something,

was it merely to tell me this that you had me awakened?

But it wasn't us that had you awakened.

See you soon Grenier.

University of Zurich

Saturday 3rd of October 11:50 am

The government chauffeur Mr Alfred Gantz was killed instantly.

Andrei Kieffer of the federal council died on his way to the hospital.

The body of the terrorist shot down by the police has now been identified

as Ludwig Schaer, teaching assistant of political sciences in the university.

The entire teaching staff is in uproar after the explosion

since two professors, a man and a woman were seriously injured.

They haven't been identified but yet but they are both critical.

Other members of the faculty, suspected of being in sympathy

with the terrorist movement are now being interrogated by the police.

Later today the council will call an emergency session to debate...

Will you let me by...

I want to find out if anything happened to Professor Gretz. She's my wife.

The police are jumpy. They have reason to be.

I'm very sorry about your wife.

Don't worry she's not hurt but she was arrested with three others.

What is Anna accused of doing?

So maybe she signed some asinine petition which in fact was...

No it has nothing to do with that. This time they killed someone.

That's stupid. Anna wouldn't be a party to murder.

Now that I know her I feel that's true.

Climb in the car, we'll go see if there's something we can do.

I'm a little bit embarrassed gentlemen.

If a federal councilor will give us a personal guarantee for Prof. Gretz...

in that case so be it.

However, the fact remains...

The fact remains, I agree.

But the content of the petitions is nothing more than opinion.

No one has yet found any indication,

of violence or murder in any of the texts.

Nothing that's true...

nothing at all.

Well if the inspector agrees with that interpretation,

maybe Ms Gretz could be set free pretty soon?

Yes, I'm sure we can arrange something.

You realise that won't be the same for those three colleagues or hers,

that's why I think we'll have to hold onto Prof Gretz for the moment...

for... how shall I put it...

For the sake of appearances.

Quite.

I'm fairly confident she'll be free by 6 O'clock.

Do you believe in coincidences?

Not any more.

Good because this wasn't one.

The K. G. B. arrives and a diplomat is blown up.

And two and two makes four.

Is that right?

Let me explain

Late last night Colonel Lermontov passed the border into Switzerland

under the name of Alain Richard.

Calculators, telex, office computers...

then several hours later, just by accident the PAV blasts

a diplomat car, outside the university.

Enigmatic character, this Alain Richard.

Personally it annoys me but people here in Zurich

treat the man with the utmost respect.

His appearances are rather pleasant.

One could say your appearances are rather pleasant too.

I'm just joking.

You won't catch him joking.

I don't think he'll try to approach you but it could happen!

In case the improbable comes to pass I'm sure I can count on you.

I would like to thank you for your help, I mean on behalf of Anna.

Forget it, it was the least I could do.

Saturday 3rd of October 1:42 pm

Just a minute.

I must've locked it without knowing what I was doing.

I've prepared the cheques you wanted me to make out for Mr. Patticker

Yes but I haven't the time no Ms Frost. We'll see to it tomorrow.

You've two tickets for me for Amsterdam. I reserved by telephone.

What's the name sir?

Mr & Mrs Baron.

Just a second.

Two tickets, that'll be 640 francs please.

There you are. Thank you.

Just walked out. Two tickets for Amsterdam.

Alias Mr & Mrs Baron.

Zurich police headquarters

Saturday 3rd of October 5:54 pm

I started to think they'd keep me in there forever...

then they fell all over themselves to be friendly. “Ms Gretz this Gretz this,

your friend in the Ministry of Justice that... "

Where are you taking me?

We're getting out Anna.

What? What's going on?

Listen to me Anna,

you'd better do just as I say beginning this minute,

without asking any questions.

Sit down.

Why do you need my picture? What is this?

The past 8 years you've been living with someone who

wasn't what you thought.

I have an office with a fancy brass plate, a telephone. It's all a mask.

And under that mask a poor pitiful clown, me, Sebastien Grenier.

Over and above me there's an immense Medusa, silent and menacing, grotesque.

Known as the French Secret service. Now you know.

But what are you saying? It sounds absurd.

You couldn't be more right.

You recall the day that book was delivered?

Well that's when all this madness started.

Since then everywhere I go I leave death behind me.

Because of me Henri was murdered.

And those who killed him will kill us.

Because once they start something, nothing stops them. That's the way they do things.

But what does it have to do with you?

I'm just like they are Anna.

All that they learnt, I learnt. Their values were my values.

And I may as well let you know the worst of it because I learnt that too.

No matter where they go, no matter how far, they'll find us.

It may be too late even now but we have to try.

Why didn't you ever tell me all of this?

How could you keep on lying to me for years and years?

You'll see. It gets to be a habit.

Because now you're going to have to lie.

Your name is Miss Janine Baron, secretary.

You're married to a certain Martin Baron.

In other words me.

If you want to stay, there's still time. I'll understand.

You'll understand what? You've never understood anything.

Do you think I'd have been more interested in politics in the

third world if you'd been more interested in me?

Sebastien, you don't just pick up and leave like that, just walk out of home...

Yes you do.

Well of course I'm coming with you Sebastien but first I've got to...

I have a family Sebastien, my mother, my brother.

I can't just disappear this way with no warning.

Give me time to go call them at least.

Give me that.

Were you with them?

Yes, he was with the person.

Below, right, sign.

Sorry Mr. Grenier that prompted you a last effort.

We've taken some pictures,

perhaps allow us to identify the abductor or the kidnappers,

Who knows?

I follow you.

Rudi Kaller...

Biographer and interpreter of Schiller.

Militant pro-Palestinian, hardliners.

This is Moshe Graham, American,

professional agitator,

and occasionally drug supplier.

This is a pure, Dieter Krauss.

A literary. Dangerous only when he distribute the leaflets.

Our reports mention he was frequently with Anna Gretz in Munich.

You very sure you've never seen him before?

Never.

Mr. Grenier, you're quite free to go home now.

It might do you a lot of good if you rest up a little.

I often find that when you are overtired our memories play stupid little tricks.

I'll go with Mr Grenier. I'll be right back.

No point in fooling ourselves. The service is on the spot.

After all the arrests this morning there was sure to be some reaction form the PAM'.

What could they have possibly foreseen that Ms Gretz would be the scapegoat.

And what do you foresee from now on?

We've gotta be patient.

Patient?

It is a very irregular case to be settled by irregular means.

A word that's taboo around the police.

The terrain is much more familiar to me than to Insp. Lohmann.

Given other circumstances he's really very efficient, but here...

You know the routine. His informers will nose around,

shake down the usual hideouts, lure out of their hovels a few aging Trotskyites...

You know how far that'll get us.

Believe me, if they ask me to free a few left-wingers for your wife

I'd open the cage, and let them all out.

Free whoever you want, Chance but make it fast.

As soon as I know anything you'll hear from me.

I have to talk to you.

It'll only take a second.

My car.

Well, are you going to negotiate Grenier?

That's what's on your mind right?

You realise for us this is unacceptable.

The most disheartening thing is, you'll betray us for nothing.

You will never see Anna Gretz again.

She'll come out of this safe and sound but you...

you'll be dead.

Because she's in on the deal and you're not.

How do you face yourself in the morning Richard?

When I'm looking in the mirror I simply think of chance and I find myself quite loveable.

Cross Anna Gretz off your list Grenier.

Because if you don't, Paris is gonna cross you off.

That's all?

That's all.

Keep in mind that, if something should happen to Anna,

a lot of people are going to get crossed off with her.

Come on. Get out of here!

You'll regret this Grenier.

Meeting to protest police repression

Ah hello inspector, come in.

I'm sorry to bother you...

inspector Lohmann would like you to see him at the university.

Rig ht away?

Yes, right away.

Is there something new?

I haven't been told.

I'll be right back.

I know how you feel Mr Grenier.

You have all my sympathy believe me.

"Here is how we deal with traitors, and those in league with the police".

Those guys are really shabby.

I'm taking charge of this case personally Mr Grenier.

I'll do everything in my power, I assure you.

Right now we'll continue to interrogate the radicals we arrested from the campus.

Unfortunately, as far as they're concerned, I don't think we're gonna come up with anything.

You see, we haven't got very much to work with.

Inspector Lohmann!

The car they used was stolen, naturally...

sometime last night, in the center of town.

Oh it's you Mr. Grenier.

Call me the second you've got anything.

Well, any news with Grenier?

He seems to have totally disappeared.

He hasn't been seen anywhere.

We're watching all the usual places of course.

The airport, the rail stations, the highways...

we're searching all the hotels.

There's more than 70, simply in town.

And several hundred streets! In his place I'd stay in the street.

Simply because there's several hundred.

The suburbs of Zurich

Sunday 4th of October 4:15 pm

Where's Grenier?

Have you seen Grenier?

Last night, he came very late.

He stayed ten minutes then left again.

Sebastien Grenier's home

Sunday 4th of October 9:47 pm

You're waiting for me? Yes, I want to talk to you.

Why didn't you go in?

Normally you go in, you have a beer, you make with a lot of talk.

Miserable bastard! Was it you who killed Anna?

You're off your mind. Anna was my friend.

Then who did?

Quick, Dieter, quick, I'm in a hurry.

We were simply supposed to kidnap her. We'd set her free in exchange for our comrades in jail.

But then he took her away.

Who took her away?

Ramos. Bastard.

A month ago he infiltrated our group. And he was the one who killed Anna.

You know where this Ramos is?

No, but I bet I know where his boyfriend is.

Rudy, he always hangs out at the Kon-Tiki club.

Describe this Rudy.

Tall, blond..

He wears a big diamond in his right ear.

You know, about Anna...

I didn't have anything to do with it, believe me.

I believe you Dieter, you wouldn't have the guts.

Can I help you? What'll you have?

A gin and tonic.

There you are. Thanks.

Were you calling Ramos?

Well you needn't bother, we're going there. Let's go.

Can we get out the back exit? Come on.

Now where?

Open it!

Rudy...

Is that you?

Answer him.

Get out the car. They just called me.

I've gotta go up there.

He said he's going out, up there he said.

Where is up there?

The funicular.

What happens at the funicular?

That's where they get together.

That's where who gets together?

Rudy, I've got two bullets.

And I want to know. Chance or Richard?

Sunday 4th of October 11:54 pm

Paris - Palais del Elysee

Monday 5th of October 11:17 pm

The death of Jean-Paul Chance has greatly saddened the Soviet authorities.

Ourselves as well, naturally.

Our ambassador sent a wreath to the funeral, a very fine wreath.

You were quite right, after his wife's death Grenier's mind became unhinged.

This being said, you could imagine the consequences in Zurich, Moscow and...

even here in Paris if it was known that it was actually you who had Anna Gretz.

We therefore think it indispensable...

and to close the file immediately and permanently.

Immediately and permanently.

I'll see to that sir tomorrow morning.

Zurich - The Catholic Cemetery

Tuesday 6th of October 9:22 am

2 years later, hunters walking through this clearing

near the Catholic Center in Zurich,

discovered the remains of a body. It was never identified.

No one will see Sebastien Grenier again.