AANYA ANGEL CREEM DUTCH EICHHORST EPH EVE FET GUS HELGA KARL KLAUS MARCUS MARIANNE NAREN NORA OSCAR POLICE_OFFICER RUDY SETRAKIAN VHINI VICTOR RUDY That’s not going to work. SETRAKIAN Show yourself. SETRAKIAN Where did you get that book? RUDY I’ll ask the questions. Who are you? SETRAKIAN Your ear... SETRAKIAN Your father burned it against a stove when you were a young boy. Am I right, Rudyard? RUDY Who told you that? SETRAKIAN In 1966, a man arrived at a nunnery in Austria. Right after your mother had died. That man found you hiding in the library, and that man saved your life. RUDY You. SETRAKIAN You did not recognize the cane? SETRAKIAN Untie me. FET Goddammit. FET Who do you think grabbed her? Palmer? EPH I doubt it. Palmer was at the jail himself. To see me. FET What for? EPH To rub my nose in failure. NORA What did you expect? You’re not some kind of trained sniper. The odds were not really in your favor, were they? EPH I knew I wouldn’t get your support. So I went to Dutch instead. NORA Because she’s as reckless as you are. There are people who love and rely on both of you. It’s just not fair. FET And now Dutch has disappeared. EPH We’ll get her back. FET You better hope so, Doc. EICHHORST Tell me something about yourself. That no one else knows. DUTCH I’m a mystery to myself, Mr. Eichhorst. EICHHORST You enjoy being looked at. Your hair, your clothes... Your perfume... It’s all very cultivated. DUTCH I don’t wear perfume. I’m not sure how your sense of smell works, but you’re probably smelling my shampoo. EICHHORST I’ll tell you something about myself that nobody knows... This scent reminds me of a certain perfume that used to fill me not only with desire but despair. Because I knew I could never possess the woman who wore it. My life didn’t include that for some reason. I possessed other things... power, the respect of other men. Listen to me, the philosopher. EICHHORST Funny to long for desire when it never brought me any happiness. DUTCH So you joined the Nazi party because you couldn’t get laid. EICHHORST Someone like you could never understand a thing like that. You wear the mask of a rebel, but your choices are very safe. EICHHORST Good day, Madam. EICHHORST My name is Thomas Eichhorst, and I’m here to offer you an exciting opportunity to radioize your home, courtesy of the Triebig Electrotech Company. MARIANNE Oh my, they’re beautiful. EICHHORST Yes, the mahogany cabinets make for an exciting addition to any parlor. And Electrotech’s new Super 4 W65 Eight-tube Table Top Receiver allows you to pick up stations as far away as Luxemburg. EICHHORST With the simple twist of this knob, you’ll have the power of an orchestra conductor, calling forth the melodies of Beethoven and Wagner... MARIANNE How much is it? EICHHORST Just 100 Marks. MARIANNE We cannot afford that. EICHHORST Oh yes, you can! Triebig’s easy installment plan lets you acquire this very model for just two Marks a month. EICHHORST Just sign here and the radio’s yours. MARIANNE I’m buying you a new radio. VICTOR They’re laying people off at the plant. I might not even have a job next week. EICHHORST Two marks a weeks, sir, it’s only a modest sum – VICTOR -- There’s no such thing. OSCAR Tommy, we’re all waiting to declare a winner -- how many radios did you unload today? KARL We all know Tommy’s results. EICHHORST Today? None. OSCAR Why did I even ask? OSCAR Tommy, your problem is you have no Fire in your belly. EICHHORST Most people can’t afford a luxury item like a radio. OSCAR People aren’t buying the radio. They’re buying you. You need to project confidence, especially in times like these. OSCAR If they see your weakness... you’re dead before you say a word. OSCAR Helga, could I have the sales bonus, please? OSCAR To Karl Spurzem! A salesman who leads with courage – and strength!! OSCAR To the bar. The drinks on me. HELGA Oscar is a bully who will never be more than a radio salesman. I think you are terrible at selling radios, Tommy, because you’re destined for bigger things. EICHHORST Thank you -- thank you for saying that. HELGA I mean it. EICHHORST Helga, I -- I was wondering... HELGA Yes? EICHHORST Would you have dinner with me tonight? HELGA I can’t. I have plans. HELGA But I could on Saturday. EICHHORST Saturday it is! GUS Aanya...? Angel said you might be up here. AANYA Yeah, I’m doing some sorting. GUS Is it okay if I come up? AANYA Sure. GUS What? AANYA Nothing, just funny to have somebody up here. It’s always been just my private spot. GUS It’s okay? AANYA Yes, you can help me remember it after we leave. AANYA You’re not coming with us. GUS That ain’t me -- running. AANYA It was a stupid idea anyway. I mean, really, how would that work? FET This can’t be the place... NORA Whoa. This is the National Guard Headquarters. FET Now what? SETRAKIAN Are you going to untie me? RUDY Why would I do that? SETRAKIAN I saved your life. RUDY Yes. SETRAKIAN So now you need to pay me back. RUDY But if I let you go, you’ll take my book. SETRAKIAN I’ll purchase it. Name your price. RUDY Mother Superior told me it was cursed, that I should burn it. But it’s never been cursed for me. It’s been special. SETRAKIAN It is special, Rudyard. Very special. In the right hands it could save all of humankind. RUDY It’s in the right hands now. SETRAKIAN Please, just tell me what you want for it. RUDY You know, you’re not the only person who wants to buy it. Maybe someone else will give me more... SETRAKIAN Who else have you spoken to? SETRAKIAN Eldritch Palmer?! Rudyard, you are making a calamitous mistake! Please! The fate of the world is literally in your hands! RUDY People always underestimate me. They talk to me like you do now. Like I don’t understand. But I do understand. I have the book. All this time, I’ve kept it safe. I knew it was special. People would say, “You couldn’t even find Tahiti on a map, Rudyard.“ RUDY Well, I’m going there now. And this is my silver ticket. SETRAKIAN Rudyard, please! -- Don’t! SETRAKIAN Rudyard! Rudyard! FET That cop lied. EPH Maybe. NORA That makes no sense. We saved his life. FET We’re not going back to ask him. We have no time! EPH He said she was here. There’s only one Mayfield Hotel. C’mon. Let’s look around. DUTCH God damn it!!! HELGA I don’t feel as though I’m playing the violin so much as it’s playing me. EICHHORST What do you mean? HELGA Well... it had so many owners before me, each with their own way of playing, their own emotional life -- I feel as though the violin absorbed all that and developed it’s own personality and sound -- HELGA Sound’s kind of crazy, I guess. EICHHORST Not at all! But tell me, why haven’t you pursued a professional career? HELGA That was my dream. I hoped to go to Vienna, audition for the symphony. But then the crash came. Father lost his job. My family needs every penny I can bring in. EICHHORST But you must go to Vienna. If you don’t, you’ll regret it. HELGA What about you, Tommy? Do you have any idea what you want to do with your life? EICHHORST I don’t know. I envy you, Helga. You have a passion. A direction. My father’s a carpenter. From the time he was a little boy, he loved working with wood. In school, my friends all knew they wanted to be engineers, lawyers, or what have you. But me? Nothing’s worked. I can’t seem to find anything at which I can excel. HELGA Some people are late bloomers. KLAUS Excuse me, can I have some room, please? Pardon me, I need that table. KLAUS Gentlemen, ladies, if I could please have your attention! KLAUS On my way here tonight, I passed a bread line that stretched over a kilometer. People who’ve lost their jobs, their pensions, their homes. Their self-respect. Some say Germany’s days as a great nation are finished. But I refuse to believe that, my friends... HELGA Let’s get out of here. EICHHORST In a minute... KLAUS A Third Reich is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Weimar Republic. A Reich in which there are no more bread lines. A Reich in which each and every German has a job, a sense of purpose and pride. A Reich that needs the blood and sweat of true Germans. KLAUS A Reich that needs you... and you... and you... KLAUS Yes, you, my friend. Germany needs you. KLAUS Who here has lost his pension? Who here has lost their home? Who here thinks they have lost their ability to hope...? EICHHORST What’s the matter? That was a great speech. Hitler wants to unite all the German people HELGA Except the Jews. You do know what the Nazis think? EICHHORST Of course. They’re finally saying it out loud: the Jewish bankers crashed the stock markets. They’re the ones who saddled Germany with debts and ruined our economy. They’re parasites and leeches... HELGA You’re so blind. You can’t see what’s right in front of your face. EICHHORST Helga -- what? – HELGA -- I’m a Jew. HELGA Is that how you see me? Am I a parasite? Or a leech? EICHHORST I didn’t mean you -- or your family. Hitler’s talking about the foreign Jews -- from Poland and Russia. Hitler has no problem with the German Jews. And neither do I. HELGA I was wrong about you. You’re not destined for better things. You’re right where you belong. At the bottom of the blackboard. GUS It’s time to go. NAREN Would you mind? Please? GUS Yeah, get together. VHINI Angel. You are with us. GUS Nice. Got it. NAREN Now we can go. Are you ready, Angel? Is everything all right? ANGEL Everything is fine. Ready to go. Angel starts to leave, but Gus pulls on him, wanting an answer. NORA Doesn’t even look like there is a back entrance... FET What the hell? NORA Fet! She was here. FET Shit. EPH She could have been put in another car... FET If you’re going to switch cars, you don’t do it behind the National Guard Headquarters. FET Oh shit. FET It’s right there -- right in front of our goddamn faces. NORA What is? EPH Look up at the hotel -- the whole right half is lit up. EPH But on the left... It’s dark all the way to the top. FET No lights at all, not even a television. FET The Mayfield was a famous hotel in the ‘30s and ‘40s, then became sort of a flea bag transient place until around the 1980s when they remodeled it. Looks like at some point they sealed off that whole part of it. Maybe they didn’t have the money to do the whole thing... NORA Just like that place we stayed at in Los Angeles for the CDC symposium. EPH The Alexander Hotel. One whole wing was walled up. All right, so how do we get in? FET Franklin Delano Roosevelt. EPH Not the answer I was expecting, but okay... EICHHORST I brought you a snack. DUTCH What, you’re seasoning me now? No, thanks. EICHHORST Did you hear me ask, “Would you care for some pineapple?” No, I did not. This isn’t a dinner party where someone passes you the peas and you say, “No, thank you, I’m fine.” EICHHORST Tell me you will eat the pineapple. EICHHORST Say it. DUTCH Yes, I’ll eat it. EICHHORST No. Say: yes, I will eat the pineapple. DUTCH Yes, I will eat the pineapple. EICHHORST Good girl. And yes, as a seasoning, pineapple is exquisite. POLICE OFFICER How can I help you? GUS My name is Augustin Elizalde. Gus. POLICE OFFICER Can I see some papers, Mr. Elizalde? GUS I didn’t know we needed any. POLICE OFFICER You living under a rock, Mr. Elizalde? Because everyone knows this gate is only open to government officials and citizens with special credentials. GUS Can you check the list for my name? POLICE OFFICER This isn’t a night club. There is no list. NAREN What is wrong? GUS It’s okay, Mr. Gupta, I’ll – NAREN -- We are all well. None of us are sick. Just let us go. AANYA Dad! Let Gus -- POLICE OFFICER Here’s what I’m going to do -- I’m going to let you turn around and drive off before you get arrested. VHINI Please, can’t you just let us go through? GUS Everybody. Be quiet. POLICE OFFICER What the hell --Hey! Turn off your brights! ANGEL What do you want me to do? GUS Don’t do nothing. POLICE OFFICER Drive through. Let’s go. Let’s go. VHINI Aanya, where are you going? AANYA You can still change your mind. GUS We would work, just not now. What kind of man would I be if I didn’t stay and fight this thing? AANYA You’d be a fine man in my book. But not in yours, I know... GUS I got people. Like that lady. AANYA Whoever she is. GUS Yeah. I’m figuring it all out. There’s a network. I won’t be alone. Then I’m coming for you. POLICE OFFICER C’mon, get moving. VHINI Thank you, Gus. NAREN Yes. We are very grateful. GUS You be safe. Good luck, amigo. AANYA Is everything okay, Angel? ANGEL It is now. EVE What is this? GUS This here’s the Silver Angel, baby. You wanna talk or drive? EICHHORST Take off your pants. DUTCH Pardon? EICHHORST Remove your pants, “Dutch.” EICHHORST Now! DUTCH I know you lost your dick seventy years ago, so what are you going to do? EICHHORST You’ll be surprised. It is a night for trying new things. EICHHORST Your mouth. Lift it towards me. EICHHORST Gut, gut... gut... now spread your legs. DUTCH Agghh! Shit! DUTCH What is this?!?! EPH I’m still waiting for the history lesson. FET The Mayfield sits right above two dead end lines from Grand Central, tracks 61 and 63. Back in the day, they used those lines as a private subway entrance for President Roosevelt when he visited New York. So no one would see him in his wheel chair. NORA This is a strigoi passage. FET Exactly. Not good. C’mon! FET We got it. EICHHORST Where are you, Fraulein Velders? Please stop running. There is no way out for you. EICHHORST Your shampoo, Fräulein. And your blood. I am almost there. DUTCH Bloody hell! Noooooo! DUTCH No... No, no, no... NORA Did you hear that? Dutch’s voice... from somewhere... DUTCH Get away from me! FET This way! EICHHORST Thank you for an engaging chase, Fraulein. DUTCH Stay away from me, asshole! EICHHORST Most days eating is simply a duty. But this... I have not looked forward to a meal like this in – I can’t remember how long. DUTCH I hope you choke on me. FET That’s her! EICHHORST Time for us to be going. DUTCH Screw you! You bloody asshole bastard! FET What? No... EPH It can’t be. There’s gotta be a way -- FET Dutch! We’re coming for you! FET Get back. DUTCH Help! Somebody!! EICHHORST Scheiße! FET Dutch!! FET Dutch...! Dutch?! Are you all right?! EICHHORST Agghhhhhh! KLAUS Ah, Untersturmfuhrer. Thank you so much for coming. EICHHORST How can I help? KLAUS This Jew claims to know you. HELGA I’m so sorry to bring you into this-- but they are threatening to deport me -- and my whole family. Thomas, I need your -- KLAUS -- You do not address an officer of the SS by his first name. Do you understand? KLAUS Is it true, sir? That you have a relationship? EICHHORST We worked in the same office for seven months. Then she was accused of stealing. HELGA What...?! EICHHORST It was not proven, but the money was gone nonetheless. HELGA This -- none of this is true! KLAUS Do not talk again unless you are asked a question. EICHHORST That was the extent of my “relationship“ with her... KLAUS Thank you for clarifying this matter, Untersturmfuhrer. OSCAR Heil Hitler, Herr Untersturmfuhrer! OSCAR Good to see you, sir. MARCUS State your business. RUDY Mr. Rudyard Fonescu to see Alonso Creem. MARCUS Is he expecting you? RUDY Cardinal MacNamara sent me. MARCUS Jordan -- Kahlil -- take him to the church. RUDY My name is Rudyard Fonescu. The Cardinal said you could help me. CREEM The Cardinal’s dead. RUDY This was before he died. In fact, I think it’s why he died. RUDY I have something – something people will pay a lot of money for. CREEM The Lumen. RUDY How’d you -- ? CREEM -- Why do you think I let you onto my island? Let me see it. RUDY I need money. I need safe passage out of New York. CREEM And I need to see the book. CREEM I think we can do business.