All language subtitles for Traffik [1989] E04 - The Chemist.english

How are you feeling, Grandad?

You never come here.
Why have you come to visit me?

No reason, I just wanted to see you.

- Your father's worried about you.
- That's what fathers do, isn't it?

Shall I tell you something?

I never really liked him very much.

That's a terrible thing to say
about your own son.

I think he's always been...

too self-righteous for his own good.

You're more like me...

a little... reckless.

I haven't been home for a while.

Your father says you took some heroin.

Tell me that isn't true.

He likes to exaggerate.

I don't understand how you could want to...
poison yourself.

What did they give you
before your operation?

What do they give you each night?

- What do you mean?
- They give you morphine.

- How does it make you feel?
- I have to have it, it's a pain...

How does it make you feel?

Well... wonderful.

I don't mind about anything.
It's wonderful.

That's what they make heroin from.

That's why kids shoot up in alleyways
in the middle of winter.

Because it makes them feel wonderful.

But you're not dying.

If you say so.

It'll be all right, you know, Caroline.

In the end, life's not so bad.

Honestly.

So, this is where you came from?

I don't belong here any more.

Didn't you want to go to the village
to see your friends and relatives?

- No.
- Why?

They think I should have stayed here.

But what is there to stay for?

The farmers are forced into more and more
remote areas to grow their opium.

The Government's solution is to poison the
fields they can't get bulldozers through.

The soil's not good enough
to grow anything else.

The fertilisers we were supposed to get
never arrived, of course.

However far we go,
authorities chase after us.

I don't know what we can do.

(Sighs) Go where the authorities
have no power.

Afghanistan.

I'll have nothing to do with you, Butt.

(Tariq laughs)

We have come a long way.
Won't you at least offer us a drink?

I have many men and many guns
but I have come to you unarmed.

Doesn't that tell you anything?

(Speaks Pashto)

If you wish me to manufacture your heroin,

then you must pay me ten lakh.

That's double the normal price.

Then you must turn it down
and look elsewhere.

If you don't do business with me...

then you become my enemy.

(Sniggers)

You don't want to do that.

I don't respond to threats.

Very well.

I accept your terms.

I'll bring you the opium
crop in a few days.

You must also bring the money.

I'll bring you half the payment.
The balance will be paid when you finish.

All the money.

Or I will not help you.

Very well.

I thank you for your hospitality.

I don't understand, sir. Why did you agree?

I agreed to nothing. He's a fool.

Watch me and learn how I do business.

A-ha!

Tariq, my friend!

You are not the only one
interested in poppy these days.

We have sold so much opium
to the Russians

they will have a big heroin problem,

just like the American soldiers in Vietnam!

(Tariq laughs) Yes.

They come and fight us
and they go back with a big drug problem.

In five years, there will be more heroin
on the streets of Moscow than New York.

And no problem since the end of the war
from the Americans?

- Huh! Americans are crazy!
- (Gunfire)

The CIA support us
and give us money to fight the Russians.

The Drug Enforcement Agency, they
send their men to destroy us. (Chuckles)

America is never a problem
as long as it's fighting itself.

How is your business in the south, Tariq?

Very difficult. The European scum
are always trying to cheat me.

Every year my profits get smaller.

So,
what have you brought to trade with me?

Come and see.

These are brand-new, never been used.
From the Pakistan army.

Look: FLNs, Kalashnikovs.
There's everything you could want.

Go on, try it out.

And especially for you, American
rocket launchers. The best money can buy.

Excuse me, sir.

Where are we taking the opium?

Back to MacMoud, of course.

- But surely his price is too high.
- His price is of no interest to me.

Stay with him. I want you to learn.

He will teach you how to make heroin.

Watch him very carefully, Fazal.
This is your chance to learn his secrets.

(Dog barks)

You're a rich girl. You don't even know
how much smack costs, do you?

Are you gonna give me some?

I could have gone to university.
Got ten O levels.

I left school early to
study amphetamines.

(Knock)

First time I tried smack, I loved it.

Some people say it weren't that good
and they weren't sure,

but I knew I was gonna do it
again and again, whenever I could.

I used to throw up a lot but it never
bothered me. It's just like sneezing.

I was never ill or anything.
It's different when you're stoned.

Yeah. I just smoke, I don't inject.

Nah. This'll give you a better hit.

(Knock)

It's Monday morning, see.
They know I'm loaded.

Started drinking when I was seven.

I moved onto hash when I was fourteen.

Did a lot of speed, acid, bit of coke.

It was my mate who
used to do all the smack.

But it made him sloppy
and he started falling down on his deals.

One day, they came round, these three guys.
Tipped him over the balcony.

I found some smack he left in the kitchen,
got out of my head.

I don't want anyone to know.

I started buying ounces,
selling halves and quarter ounces.

Then I went down on my luck,
smoked too much. Now it's just grams.

Get a gram, split it into fifteen
five-pound bags, smoke the rest myself.

That's how I keep my head above water.

(Groans)

Oh.

Karl Rosshalde ist 43 Jahre alt und seit
fast zwanzig Jahren im Baugewerbe t�tig.

In den letzten zehn Jahren hat er
unerm�dlich Wohlt�tigkeitsfunds...

Prulager is talking of Karl's contributions
to charity during those last ten years.

1984 wurde ihm das Bundesverdienstkreuz...

Mentioning that he has been awarded
the German medal of honour.

And has loaned his construction equipment,
without payment,

to developing nations in Asia and Africa.

He says Karl has never been convicted
of any crime, not even a traffic violation.

The court should bear
this in mind when the

witnesses present their
so-called "evidence".

(Breathes heavily)

(Television)

Hi, Jackie. Ready to testify tomorrow?

It's good to see that prison
hasn't spoilt that smiling face.

What do you think? Homely?

I'm not spending three
weeks in this shit hole.

Das ist Zeugenbeeinflussung.

We're going to lose, aren't we?

They have a very strong case,
it's going to be tough to discredit it.

But it hinges on Ledesert's testimony.

I can't just stand by and do nothing.

I want you to come to court each day
and be strong.

That's the best thing you can do for Karl.
Show you're standing by him.

Oh, yeah.

I look at people sometimes.

I see them running backwards and forwards,
hoping for things that never happen.

Hurting each other.

We get nowhere. Nothing lasts.

- Why don't you go home and go to bed?
- This country!

I have no friends here.

I make clever conversation
with people's wives

and take the credit for meals
I haven't even cooked.

We all get older
and we dress it up as something else.

I retired when I was nineteen.

People said I could go on television,

interview athletes,
as though it were something great.

People assume you must be happy
because you're good.

But talent isn't happiness.

I regret everything.

I wish it had never happened.

- Come on, I'll drive you home.
- We've got to get to Ledesert.

Helen, I am a lawyer, I'm not a gangster.

I have no idea how you deal
with things like that.

I don't believe you've handled
my husband's affairs for ten years...

without knowing exactly who to contact.

- You promised to destroy that.
- Who does this kind of work for Karl?

"This kind of work?"
What are you talking about?

Are you prepared to pay someone
to kill Ledesert?

Because that's what
it's going to take to stop

him testifying.
Are you prepared to do that?

I don't know.

You're saying no.
Because you're not a murderer.

This is crazy, go home.

'And the Russian is fighting back
in these last twenty metres,

the British girl is still ahead,

she's led all the way
but now it's stroke for stroke.'

'Can she hold on?
It's gonna be a fingertip finish,

and the Russian girl just gets it!
What bad luck for the British girl!'

First, we pour the opium...

into hot water.

And then it dissolves.

Calcium carbonate. It separates the opium
into morphine base and water.

The manufacture of heroin is,
er, like cooking.

You have to stick to the basic recipe
and procedure.

But then the real art begins.

It's really a matter of taste:

What strength, what colour
and what taste you are after.

(Chuckles) My heroin is about 80% strong.

That is what I manufacture for Tariq Butt.

- And for yourself?
- Ah! (Chuckles)

You are quite observant.

I prepare a small amount, much purer,
for myself and my assistants.

You may have some later.

No, thank you.

Why do you work for a man like Tariq Butt?

We all have to work for somebody.

You're not like the other people
he has with him.

Perhaps. But I'm learning how to be.

He reminds me of my own son.
How old is he?

Six. You're from around here?

Yeah. Used to be a farmer.

Ah! Tariq Butt must favour you indeed
to let you see all this.

Be careful of him.

Every year Butt cuts my profits more.

I have to pay the police
and the local officials.

- What about the guards?
- Guards? They're only my family.

They are not really guards.

- What do we do now?
- Now?

Nothing.

(Laughs)

This is the finished product.

In late autumn
I used to sow the poppy seeds.

Spring came and the plants always grew.

When the harvest was ready,
a man would come and buy my opium.

Now that man is me.

Everything changes
and everything stays the same.

(Screams)

(Wailing)

You don't set prices for me.
You are nothing.

Sir, please!

And where have you been?

I only went down to the river. I'm sorry.

Yes, I am beginning to wonder about you.

- Kill him.
- (Woman) Oh, no!

Sir, I am only your driver.

When I employed you,
you said you would do anything.

Were you lying to me then?

- No.
- Well, then.

Hurry up. We have a long journey.

Please don't ask me to do this.

No. Please. Please.

You are making me angry, Fazal.

(Speaks Pashto)

Sir, it's foolish to kill this man.

- Let him live and work for us.
- Yes, I'll be loyal to you. Only you.

Very well, but your insolence
won't go unpunished.

(Cries)

My authority must not be questioned.

(Woman screams)

Tony? Tony?

What are you doing?

I can't get the bloody thing off! Come on.

- (Smash)
- (Alarm goes off)

- Here!
- Come on, let's go!

- Nobody bothers about alarms. Come on.
- Tony!

- Tony, are you all right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bingo!

- Come on!
- I am, I am.

(Alarm continues)

Come on!

(Siren)

Come on, the police are coming!

Don't panic!

Come on, they're here!

Get me up, get me up!

(Both laugh)

# (Caroline plays Gnossiene No 1
by Erik Satie)

I don't feel too good.

- Ten seconds... nine... eight...
- Stand by VT Gorbachev.

OK, Peter.

...three... two... one... and zero.

We're on air. Good luck, everybody.

We can't trace him at the moment.
He left the Commons over an hour ago.

- Who do we get if he doesn't turn up?
- Townsend, if we send a car.

Ten seconds for studio.

Five seconds. Lights on. Stand by.

Good evening. Customs officers
are threatening industrial action

if proposed cuts in manning levels
are implemented.

Also tonight, the Soviet leader...

I phoned you two hours ago.

I had to vote, I couldn't come sooner.
I'm sorry. Now, don't start, please.

I could have come before.

I was trying to be strong.

So, what's going to happen to her?

I should think we'll clean her up,
she'll go out and eventually overdose again.

I'm sorry,
that is not what I was asking about.

She needs to go into a specialist clinic
but nowhere's free.

I've been trying to get places
for three other patients.

With the waiting list, it'll be summer
before she can go anywhere.

Are you telling me there is no clinic
she can go to within the next six months?

The situation changes daily
but that's how it is at the moment.

There's little provision
for any long-term drug treatment.

I'm sorry, that is not good enough.
My daughter needs help now.

I know a private residential clinic.
It's nice and quiet. It has a good reputation.

I teach there sometimes.

- Excellent.
- But there's a deposit of ?1,000,

then there's ?170 a day
with extra for consultants' fees and tests.

And how long would she be there?

I can't possibly say. We normally plan
a course for about a month.

If she's accepted, she'll be given
a methadone detox programme,

then relaxation techniques,
psychotherapy, biofeedback machines.

- Doctor?
- Yes, I'm coming.

Each patient is looked over
by a team of nurses and a consultant.

They've also got self-help groups.

Would you call them
and see if they have a place?

Yes.
But I've some other people to see first.

Could you tell them
that I can write a cheque straight-away?

- You're a government minister, aren't you?
- That's right.

Do something so that people
who can't afford ?170 a day

have the same chance
to save their children.

The Government say the staff reductions
will only come from natural wastage.

We can swap figures
till the cows come home.

This government are past masters
of moving figures about

to show that cuts haven't been made
or that things aren't getting worse.

Well, I'm afraid they are.
We've got less men now than we had in 1979,

and there are six times more heroin addicts
in the country now.

Government policy doesn't make sense.

I'd like to say how impressed we are

at the level of seizures achieved by
customs officers and Mr Ashby's members.

It proves the success of targeting specific
areas and forming intelligence groups

and this is something that we will continue
with for the success of the service.

I'm sure my members will be thankful
for the minister's appreciation.

'However, you are not going to solve this
problem with a few undercover officers...'

In case he reacts, stay on, Peter.

What's needed are more uniformed officers
standing in the green channel,

searching people at random.

That's the only way
you're going to stop

an explosion of drug
smuggling into the country.

I can understand that
and I have sympathy with that.

Why don't you do something about it?

Mr Lithgow, given your role as chairman
of the Drug Abuse Committee,

wouldn't you like to see a special
case made for the customs officers?

I also have to implement
wider government policy

and in this case I can
see no special reason.

But in an open vote,
would you oppose the cuts?

'Well, that situation won't arise,
Mr Snow.'

'Let me ask the question a different way.'

'Are you in favour of more money
being spent on fighting drug traffic?'

'I think there is an argument
for increasing resources.'

'So you'd like to see
more government expenditure?'

'Yes,
I think there is an argument

for increasing resources
over a period of time.'

When you first took the job,

did you not say present resources
were adequate for tackling the problem?

That is the current attitude of Government,
it is no longer my attitude.

- Do you want a drink?
- (Helen) No, thanks.

I love Hamburg. It's a great place to live.

I like all the activity of the port.
Karl would rather live in the country.

I'd like to use explosive.

Explosive?

- Can't you just shoot him or something?
- I don't like guns.

Shoot somebody three times in the head
and doctors will still save them.

Is your house being watched?

I think so.

Don't meet anyone there.

Don't use your phone for business either.

I don't need to tell you that.

It's hard not to get paranoid.

Keeps you alive.

How urgent is this?

Ledesert starts testifying
the day after tomorrow.

This isn't enough time.

I'll have to see.

The security is really tight.

There may not be a way.

There's always a way.

If people can shoot the Pope or the
President, you can get to anybody.

(Chuckles)

You sound like Karl.

Is she still having her periods?

I don't know.

Do you know if she takes contraceptives?

Heroin makes periods irregular and addicts
don't tend to be very interested in sex,

but pregnancies can still occur.

Some babies will be
born addicted to heroin.

She's not pregnant.

You have to stop making assumptions
about your daughter.

I have twenty minutes then
I have to leave for the airport.

What will her treatment be?

We start by getting patients to substitute
heroin for a methadone syrup taken orally.

But that's purely physical.
Our main task is

to discover why Caroline
wants to take drugs.

Sure. But this methadone syrup,
how long will she be on that?

I wouldn't be too concerned
about medical withdrawal.

Stop thinking your
daughter has a heroin

problem and the
solution is getting her off it.

She has personal problems which
are surfacing in her desire to take drugs.

She was fine before. Now she's behaving
in a very antisocial manner.

In my experience,
most addicts have very nice personalities.

They're often intelligent, caring people.
Perhaps they're just more vulnerable.

Perhaps.

The body has natural painkillers
in various parts of the brain.

I think addicts have a
low volume of natural

opiates and an
inadequate remedy to pain,

so they seek out narcotics.

That theory gets a lot
of people off the hook.

Why are you getting angry?

If you ask me,
the reason we have problems

in this country is
because nothing is simple.

It's the housing. It's their broken homes.

Criminals are victims,
we're supposed to see a wider perspective

and you're telling me that people take
heroin because they're sensitive to pain.

I'm sorry, with all due respect,
I think that's a lot of crap.

Have you thought about
Families Anonymous?

Listen, I am paying you
to get my daughter off heroin. That is all.

That is what I expect you to do,
that is what I want you to do.

I'll be in Pakistan until Friday.

- We can't take industrial action.
- We've got to take it.

(Cheers and shouting)

It'll be an open invitation
for smugglers to visit Britain,

and all the good work we've achieved
will vanish overnight.

Well, give us some options, then!

We are failing to control
a smuggling problem.

The reason is not
because we're inefficient,

it's because we don't
have enough officers.

(Shouts of agreement)

We've made a reasoned
argument as to why

more customs officers
would be cost-effective

in terms of the problems
trafficking causes.

And how have the Government responded?

By proposing more staff cuts at a time
when smuggling is going through the roof.

- It's absurd!
- (Shouts of agreement)

The proposal is that we ballot our members
on taking industrial action

in protest against government cuts.

All those in favour?

- Against.
- (Murmurs)

Carried.

(Cheers)

People are extremely pissed off with you.

The Prime Minister has just had
the most embarrassing Question Time ever.

I'm going to miss this plane.

You're representing the Government,
not fucking about with your own anxieties.

Yeah, well, I've got to do something.

- You're too involved.
- Only people who care get things changed.

Christ! You sound like
a first-year college student.

You're having a
personal crisis and you're

deluding yourself that
it's a political problem.

It's not,
it's your problem and that's all it is.

Look, let it be.

Just do your job.

While you still have one.

(Helicopter)

OK, go.

(Tyres screech)

This is driving me mad.
How long can he keep postponing it?

- It's all right.
- It's not all right!

I'll be an old man by
the time this is through.

The appeal courts will reject it and
you'll be on the stand tomorrow. Trust me.

OK.

Ach, �brigens, Ulli.

(Phone)

- Yeah?
- 'It's all good.'

They've brought him out.
It's set on the ignition.

You said you'd get me some more Gitanes.

Shut up. You're a real pain in the ass.

I need cigarettes.

So do I.
We'll go to the hotel and I'll get you some.

It's two minutes to the hotel.

- Let's walk across the park.
- Nope.

Ulli, come on!

I've been five weeks in jail.

We're going back to that damn bloody room.
Two minutes of fresh air.

OK.

But try any move and you'll be dead.

I'm shaking with fear.

And don't slam the door.

Sie sind wieder ausgestiegen.

'What? What's going on?'

I don't believe it.

- 'They are not taking it.'
- Uwe, what's going on?

- 'Tell me what's going on.'
- They are crossing the road towards me.

'They must be walking back to the hotel.'

You can't let him testify tomorrow.

They are going to walk right past me.

You've got a gun, get out of the car
and shoot him in the head.

No, I haven't planned.
There's too many people around.

When they find the bomb,
we'll never get him again.

You've got to do it.
Do it! Come on!

Drei Packung Gitanes.

Come on, we haven't got all day.

(Screams)

(Shouting)

- Pass auf!
- Alles in Ordnung, Ulli?

Dieter! Schei�e!

Dieter! Dieter!

Dieter!

Dieter!