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# Dashing through the snow... #

# A sleighing song tonight! #

(EXPLOSION)

(GUNFIRE)

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

(INTERCOM BEEPS)

Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.

We're about to begin our descent into Washington, DC.

Please finish your cigarettes.

MAN: Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen, I...

Um, I've just come back from Mexico.

I'd like to sum up the results of my trip in a very simple way.

(TAPE FAST-FORWARDS)

I strongly believe that

we should fundamentally consider the following.

Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

(DOOR OPENS)

Here, here! Please.

Please follow me.

Dr Herrhausen.

MAN: Welcome to the press conference of Deutsche Bank.

My esteemed co-speaker will take over now.

Dr Herrhausen.

Ladies and gentlemen, I've just come back from Mexico,

and I'd like to sum up the result of my trip in a very simple way.

Let us cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries.

What's next? Abolition of the death penalty?

Sir!

Ladies...ladies and gentlemen,

let us take this step before we can no longer afford it.

This isn't...

WWII would've never happened, isn't it?

How will you absorb...?

REPORTER: Are you essentially saying

that Germany can be compared to Mexico?

Yes. No.

Do you want to bring American banks to their knees?

Do you want to sabotage the American banks?

Well, we Germans also profited from debt relief at one time.

When Germany was completely destroyed and lay in ruins

after World War II,

it rightfully owed substantial debts to the countries it had devastated

during the war.

Hurtado is not Hitler.

(REPORTERS CLAMOUR)

The London Debt Conference realised that by paying off

all its recognised war debts,

Germany would, without a doubt, be driven into bankruptcy.

If our debts hadn't been cancelled, we wouldn't be where we are today.

(DOOR SLAMS SHUT)

One of the world's foremost economic powers.

MAN: ..we'd also like to hear what he has to say.

Everyone is permitted to...

..have their own thoughts, but we naturally insist that...

Did I bore you, Mr Burwell?

You lost the war. Don't you ever forget that.

Mexico owes the banks 200 billion.

If you're dead, the banks are doomed.

Especially the US banks.

You are an intelligent man.

A dead debtor will never pay anything back.

# Yeah

# We're on a road to nowhere

# Take a night ride to nowhere

# We'll take that ride. #

# There's a life that gently flows

# There are some that... #

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

(WOMEN GIGGLE)

Uh-uh-uh.

Out of the darkness...

..comes the light.

(ACTOR CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

What does he mean by that?

And then he says they probably wouldn't intervene.

Who is this guy?

One of the spokesmen of the Deutsche Bank.

The Mexico guy? Yes, sir. Alfred Herrhausen.

OK.

Can you put together everything I don't know about this guy, please?

# I don't know what I can say

# You don't want me to stay

# So I go, yeah, I go to find someone to hold instead. #

Very nice to have you here.

I hope you had a nice trip.

Yes, the trip was fine.

Mr Arbatov, can we go somewhere inside?

It's cold. No. Let's walk.

So we'll be in private.

Did you have time to check the numbers?

Yes. Of course.

Your budget shows a clearly negative balance.

And due to inflation, it shrinks more and more.

You need a price reform and an unregulated market.

And you should open up to foreign investors.

That is not possible.

Not yet.

That's why I'm here.

How much do we need?

5 billion to begin with?

Uh, I was hoping to meet

General Secretary Gorbachev to discuss the matter.

I will let the Kremlin know about your efforts.

Mr Arbatov, if you want a loan, you have to be quick.

Mr Herrhausen, wait in the hotel.

We'll get in touch very soon.

What do I wait for? Trust me.

Your trip to Moscow is a proof that it will happen.

OK? Wait at the hotel.

Where is the hotel?

By the end of the bridge, that direction.

By the end of the bridge.

Hunt!

Hunt?

Oh, what the fuck?

Mr Burwell.

I thought you'd sworn never to set foot

in this goddamn land of the Nazis again.

Yeah, yeah.

So? Just through here.

OK. I'm jet-lagged.

Sorry.

Hamburg, Deutsche Bank board meetings...

Herrhausen with Kohl.

I mean, did you really come all this way

to tell me that this man is a threat to America?

The man is harmless.

Harmless? Taxi.

If he's successful with his debt relief,

he'll force half our banks to their knees!

They are our allies. Friends. Really?

And our friends are allowed to do business with our enemies?

REAGAN: General Secretary Gorbachev,

if you seek liberalisation,

come here to this gate.

Mr Gorbachev, open this gate.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

(GASPS)

(PANTS)