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Morning. What's the time?

It's all right.

It's only six.

Hmm.

Good. Yes, isn't it?

Yes.

Shall I just...

Very good idea.

Like this?

Yes.

Exactly.

That's nice.

That's excellent.

Look, why don't you just... Really?

There you are, sir.

Thank you. They should be announcing the water flight in about half an hour.

Thank you, my dear.

You have been very kind.

Thank you, father.

Oh,

I see. He was your father, was he? No wonder you had such a long chat.

I beg your pardon, sir?

Nothing, nothing, nothing at all. Could we just, um...

I'm afraid there's a delay on this flight, Mr. Bazaar. Buzzard, buzzard.

Robert Buzzard. Let it pass, let it pass. And the flight's delayed.

Oh, fine, fine, excellent, fine.

Morning's appointment, Smith. A few millions' worth of export orders down

drain. But never mind, can't be helped.

The pilot's a bit hungover, you see. Doesn't feel like flying the plane

Brilliant, excellent.

God, we might as well be living in the Solomon Islands. Wish we were. At least

the weather would be all right.

Smoking or non -smoking, Mr. Bazaar?

Non -smoking, please.

There you are, sir.

We'll be announcing the flight as soon as it's ready. Thank you very much

indeed.

You're welcome.

Hello, baby.

How are you today?

Did you have a good sleep?

Yes.

Who's this?

Thank you, darling.

He's such a good man, your dad.

If only his feet weren't so cold.

Who is it this week?

What? Who are you lecturing on in Krakow?

Oh, tomorrow Malevich, today Chagall.

One Russian, one Jew.

Very popular in Krakow, I don't think.

Wasn't Chagall the one who painted his dreams?

Yes, that's right.

There we are. Just the job.

Just the bee's need.

What the bee need?

Thank you.

God knows what for.

Crab you in like battery hens and feed you on cardboard and cotton wool.

It's not good for you.

Used to be a doctor in the dim and distant. Know what I'm talking about.

Not a priest with a plane, you notice that?

Worrying. Bit like vultures, priest.

See one hovering about. Odds are someone's going to snuff it.

Well, hello.

Another intelligent person.

Buzzard fails again.

What's this?

Is this breakfast?

Is this English breakfast?

These long, fat things.

I think I shall have to eat them to find out. As a medical man, in all

seriousness, I couldn't advise it.

Well, you may have a point.

After all, God knows where the next meal's coming from.

Come on.

Come on.

Oh, shit.

Hi, Theo.

Oh.

I'm so stupid.

Who am I, after all, to have a radio in my car?

Stupid. Well, at least they didn't steal the car.

No.

They can't did my car because the bathtub won't bloody well go.

Will you, you bathtub?

Will you?

Crazy.

You know, I think everyone here is crazy now. Everyone except us. You think? I

think we're crazy too because we stay here when we could leave.

I like it here.

You see? Crazy.

You love to suffer.

So? You think we have a perfect life here or something?

Well, I wish I didn't have to go to Krakow two days every week.

Oh, you don't want me to have a job, is that it?

You want me to be a vegetable, is that what you want?

Of course that's not what I want. I just miss you when you go away, that's all

I'm saying.

You know what?

All my girlfriends are crazy about you.

They think you're such a lovely man.

They're saying I don't deserve such a lovely man. Well, have you ever stopped

think they might bloody well be right?

Yes.

Yes, I have.

What is it? What's the matter?

Listen.

Don't worry.

I'm sorry.

Rude, nasty girl.

I miss you too.

So much.

Bye -bye, Thomas.

Take care of your father.

And be a good boy, yes?

Take care, Stephen.

And you.

Love you so much.

Okay pal, you and me, eh?

You and me.

Thanks very much, buddy, and the same to you.

Bloody idiots. Same everywhere, isn't it? The polls do seem to be particularly

shambolic. No offence, buddy, but one does notice these things.

Well, at least they managed to get the bags off the plane.

Yes. No trolleys.

Typical.

Are you going into the centre?

Yes. I wouldn't mind a little bit taller hotel, if you know where that is. Sure.

We share taxi.

Good idea.

Please don't shoot! I'm English!

But we have to eat it anyway.

How's it going, Barbara?

Not too bad, Doctor.

Not too good either, hmm?

Still nauseated?

I'm sorry, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about that.

Look, I know you feel awful, but you're actually making very good progress.

OK,

Helena.

Nothing shows up on the x -ray.

Zameczuk's considered opinions that he's malingering. I mean, God, Stephen, does

he look like that to you? Hello, my name's Dr. Dacre.

I'd like to examine you for me.

Have you had these pains before?

No, nothing like this.

I'm just going to feel your tummy. Be as gentle as I can.

Very tender epigastrium.

Is it worse when I press?

We've done tenderness. There's something going on in there, you're right.

I wish we could do a gastroscopy. Any blood on Rick for examination?

No, no, Melina.

Could be acute pancreatitis. Has he had anything for the pain?

No, not yet. What do you reckon, 75 milligrams of pethidine? Yes, except we

haven't got any.

What? It was supposed to be here yesterday, but apparently it was

I think someone is making a little private enterprise.

So what have we got?

Paracetamol.

Oh, brilliant.

I was travelling with a heroin smuggler. They thought I was a heroin smuggler.

Do you speak English?

Taurus Hotel.

Savvy?

Hotel Taurus.

Foreigners? God!

Dr.

Buzzard. Oh, never mind.

Dr. Buzzard.

Brilliant. Thank you. Well done, buddy.

We'll take him to the Taurus Hotel. Taurus Hotel, that's right.

Brilliant, at last.

Good morning, Doctor.

Good morning.

Good morning, Tanya.

Everything all right?

Please, Doctor, over here.

What is it? Throw the screen, please. I don't want them to see.

Yes,

for you.

My son brought them all the way from Berlin.

Are you sure?

Thank you.

You're very grateful.

So, you think you are so special.

I also have my own banana.

I don't believe you, Marek.

Would you be so good as to reach into my trousers and show Dr. Dacre what you

find there?

You see?

Suddenly, bananas everywhere.

There is the new currency.

Forget about the blotting.

Poland is now a banana republic.

Where did you get it?

The Haitians, naturally, whatever.

I cut off his leg. He gives me a banana.

Funny how it works well, isn't it?

And you should see the operation.

Terrible. You see the table through there?

Halfway through, I just saw him through, this poor bastard's leg bone.

And he starts to slip down.

Like the earth is opening.

I look down.

And I see the table is breaking apart into pieces.

Narska Ziniewska.

This brave and resourceful woman. She brings herself down and she is holding

table together with all the strength in her lovely body.

Show Dr.

Dacre, darling.

Go and kick the bastard table from me.

Thank you, Lord Stratinewska.

She's so beautiful, don't you think?

Yes, very.

47 years old now.

Good God, is she really?

The table, the table.

We mustn't be angry with the table.

It's been a good table in its time, but now it's time for a new one.

And that bastard Trafokki says we can't afford one. We've run out of pethidine.

We're giving him paracetamol for severe pain.

Helena says it's fine for the enterprise.

But of course it is.

You know your match, don't you?

Why do you stay in this terrible place?

Why do you?

I'm Polish.

You stupid bastard, I'm Polish.

It's my tragic fate and destiny to stay here.

And what about you?

Do you have to suffer or what? I suppose I must do.

I really like it here, America. All the overcrowding, all the shortages, all the

squalor. And we're all working so hard. We're all in such a state of

desperation. There's no time to feel worried or guilty.

You know what this place reminds me of?

Walsall.

You are crazy.

The poor crazy bastard. This is Walsall.

No, no.

Walsall. It's a place in England.

Had my first job there.

People get iller in Warsaw than anywhere else in the Midlands. I don't know why.

I hated that job, but I loved it too.

I was working 18 hours a day, crawling home, absolutely gutted, wrung out,

shredded, and you know what?

I didn't have a care in the world.

Angela hated it.

Angela? Sorry.

My first wife went off with another chap.

Oh, women, huh?

All the same.

Now, come with me. I want to show myself.

It's along here somewhere.

Good God.

Morning. Who is he? He's the spearhead of our director's new five -year plan

economic revival.

Our first private patient.

Stephen, you're wasting your time.

Stephen.

Dr. Dacre, he was tackling me.

I'm sorry. I was just, you know, knocking and coming in.

Yes?

I was wondering, you know, whether I could see him if he's free.

I see you are looking at my breath.

No, no, not at all.

I mean, I was just admiring your jumper.

Yes, it's Angora wool.

It's very soft.

Would you like to feel how soft it is?

No, I'm all right, thanks.

I breed, you know.

I'm sorry?

I breed Angora rabbits for their wool.

They are very tame.

They are my friends.

It makes me weep when it is time for me to kill them. I do this myself, of

course. I would not trust anyone else.

How do you do it?

I smash their necks.

Dr.

Krapowski, Dr.

Dacre, we should see you if you have a moment.

He says, of course, he is delighted. Please go in.

Stephen, my good friend.

Always a pleasure.

I am treasuring our talk to get a cigarette.

No, thanks.

Of course you don't. So what?

We have a little trick.

Um, not for me. No, I'm still on... On the wagon.

Very good. I congratulate you.

One day at a time. I understand.

No, it isn't that. I shouldn't... I do drink, actually. No, no. And I have...

Don't apologize. I respect your... I'm still on duty.

So, tell me, Stephen, what's on your mind?

Well, um... I don't want to be alarming, but...

But we're in a desperate crisis, aren't we?

You think?

Well, of course we are.

We have actually run out of penicillin, pethidine.

We're having to give the patients paracetamol for post -operative pain

Marek Stokowiak is trying to operate on a 47 -year -old table that's falling to

pieces.

He is?

Well, in the circumstances, it seems hardly the time...

Look, people are dying, people are in pain, and our response is to turn public

wards into private rooms.

Your analysis is incorrect, comrade.

I beg your pardon, Stephen.

Sometimes I forget we are all revisionists now, eh?

These are complicated times, experimental times. We are learning how

the newborn, and we have thrown off the crushing yoke laid on us.

By the men of the party who were, after all, nothing but self -serving

swindlers, for the most part.

But, um, forgive me, weren't you quite prominent in the Communist Party?

Naturally, when it was correct to be.

If you wish to change the system, often best to do it from within. You don't

agree? Well, yes, but look... And now we must all be capitalists, I think.

As for private medicine... Name of the game, Stephen.

Shape of the future.

Look, what are we going to do about the drugs?

Bear with me a little while about the drugs. I am working all day long on a

old telephone, getting very close to finding the best way to do it. Maybe

through Tadeusz Melnyk, maybe directly to the Swiss.

Now Hamburger International is wanting a piece of the action. It's all so

interesting, especially for the patients.

You know...

Some people here are asking me, why do you put up with this English knowing -it

-all who goes around so pure like Jesus Christ getting up everybody's noses?

But I am saying, no, no, you don't appreciate.

He's giving very interesting input.

A lot of people now are saying Poland only for the Poles.

You should really be aware of this, Stephen.

Some people...

Not so fond of you as I am.

So, your wife is well? The very beautiful and interesting Greta?

Yes, she's fine. She's in Krakow at the moment.

Oh, really?

Krakow?

She teaches part -time at the university there.

So.

And the little boy, all is well there?

Fine. He's in the nursery.

So, nothing to worry about.

Will you be my representative this afternoon at the international

Me? I want you to be happy, Stephen. Go, look around, see what you like. Come

back and tell me.

We have another stimulating talk.

And there we are ladies and gentlemen. Easiest tool and fully retractable.

A new world view on social care. From diagnosis to disposal.

Hamburger International.

We're number two and right.

Bob, by the way.

Robert, actually, if you remember.

Hello, buddy. I was wondering if you'd show up. What on earth are you doing in

Warsaw? Same as you, I imagine.

Earning the old crust. Trying to get on with my life.

Good to see you, buddy.

Dr. Dacre of the Doggy Eyes.

You haven't changed a bit.

Nor have you, Bob.

Robert. Oh, sorry, Robert.

So you're, um... I'm a hamburger man now. Yes, I made the decision to get on

with my life, start living in the real world.

Poland's quite real, actually.

As if you could have fooled me.

More like a bad dream, I'd have said.

Look, don't fiddle with that, buddy.

This is the deluxe model.

State -of -the -art Camp David special.

Elizabeth Taylor gets done on one of these. No, this is the one we're putting

East Europe.

Reconditioned, but none the worse for that.

It's actually my own pet project, this one. We get them run up in the

Philippines for about tuppence -height in each.

I call it the buzzard marker.

Actually, I'm quite proud of it. A very decent little operating table, this one.

Got some shiny bits. It's the appeal to the peasant mentality.

What do you think?

I'm very impressed, Bob.

Are you?

Really? It means a lot to me, this project.

God, it's good to see a friendly English face. I mean, these girls here, they

look all right, but they're American, you know. Advanced robots.

You can't... Well, a chap can't... Look, come and have dinner tonight at the

hotel. I'm staying in the Taurus. It's not the Marriott, but it's not bad. What

do you say? On me.

Well, if I can get a babysitter, thanks very much, Bob. I'd love to.

It's really good of you, Renata, at such short notice.

Greta has such good friends.

Your friends, too, Stephen.

Well, yes, of course.

Thanks.

I'll try not to be too late back.

Buddy, over here.

Good to see you, Stephen.

Let me introduce you to this chap, Tadeusz.

Oh.

Oh, well, never mind.

Let's go and eat.

Thought you had shortages in Poland.

No shortage of wild boar, anyway. Feel as if I've eaten six or seven of them

tonight.

Let's have another bottle, shall we?

Um... That's my boy.

You know, I feel at home here. I feel that Poland is somehow Robert Buzzard

territory. Like Rommel in the desert.

I think I'm going to make my mark here.

With the Buzzard -Marcus operating table?

That and other things, buddy. Poland has needs. Hamburger International can

supply. We want everything you've got, Bob.

The only snag is we can't pay for any of it.

You haven't got any money?

That's all right.

Manufacture here under license, pay for it that way.

My idea, and this is just one of my ideas, is to bring the whole operation

here, rechristen it Buzzard Valenza, and then export it worldwide.

Big league stuff, Stephen.

All right, thanks. Do you want to buy some caviar?

How much? Ten dollars.

You're on.

Can I read you? No, not interested. Your friend? No, can't afford.

Too bad.

Got an appointment with your boss tomorrow, Dr.

Raynard Krapowski. Now, there's a name to conjure with.

Oh, come on. We haven't got all night. Couple of tired businessmen here. One

large vodka, one beer.

No need to push, my friend.

Robert Buzzard is in situ and will not be moved. Thank you.

No, no.

On me.

On hamburger, I should say. I realise you're living in a shoebox on Thornton's

Hickney a week.

There you are.

And that'll be a good sell.

Right.

Excuse me, please.

Taxi with precious cargo.

You see, what it is, Stephen...

The new big thing in Eastern Europe will be private clinics.

Not like the old days, perks for the party bosses, no.

There'll be luxury clinics for the new rich, paid for with real money by the

actual customers. Now, that's a novelty.

Overseas trade as well.

Plastic surgery.

Come to Poland looking like a sack of potatoes, go home looking like an Aston

Martin. Now, a chap like you, English medical man, doggy eyes, no criminal

record.

You'd be an ideal frontman or medical director, as we call you, for one of

private clinics.

No, thanks, Bob. That's not really what I came to Poland for.

Fair enough, fair enough. Don't say I didn't ask you, though.

God, this vodka goes down well, doesn't it? Shall we have another one?

My God.

I think I gave that barman a 20 ,000 -slotty note by mistake.

I've got to get it back.

Bob, Bob, it's only about a quid. It's the principal.

I say, Bob, could I have that note back, please?

No, come back.

Look,

do you mind? This is important.

No,

none of that, please.

Look, dear, you know I'm on an important trade mission.

I am a hamburger man.

Bloody English.

Well,

that's the Polish temperament, I suppose.

Fancy a drink of the Marriott? Supposed to be a bit more civilised there.

Well... All right, why not?

Taxi! Well, why not walk? It's just down there.

Right, buzzer can cope with that.

Um, look, um... What I said just now about the Polish temperament, a bit off

that. What?

Well, you know, your tot is Polish, isn't she?

Wife, not totty, wife.

Wife, right. Well, you know, no offence.

None taken.

So, how is she, by the way?

Greater, wasn't it? Well remembered. Always think of cheese graters.

All right, is she? She's fine.

She's wonderful. Oh, good.

So you're actually happy then, are you?

Yes, we are.

Amazing. How's Daphne? Oh, you know, still there.

And the boys?

Oh, thriving.

Life's just a battlefield, isn't it?

Sometimes you feel like curling up and waiting for the man who comes and hauls

the bodies away.

Thank God for marriage, eh? Otherwise we wouldn't have a reason to get up in the

morning and flock halfway round the world selling rubbish to foreign

Oh, take no notice of me, Steven. I get these sudden lurches into despair from

time to time.

Do you find this Polish vodka makes you want to cry at all?

Now, this is more like the natural habitat of Hamburger Man.

They've got this rather special, exclusive little bar. A chap can relax,

-arsed in peace. Now, what was it? The Golden Stag Club. Yes.

My God, now he's an ugly man.

Golden Stag Club.

Chicken flour, sir.

Right.

Good Lord, that's that chap.

Hey, buddy.

Come on, I'd like you to meet that chap. He could straighten you out on a thing

or two.

Did you see that party with him? Not among your young lady, in a way. Must be

Polish type.

We'd like to come in, please.

I'm very sorry, sir. Private party tonight.

Invitation song.

Oh, come on!

We're with friends.

Hello.

I've been robbed!

Yes.

Stephen, look, this is awfully short notice and you must play now if it's

difficult. You want me to swap days off with you and go into bed?

Yes, please.

I'm awfully sorry. I need to get a crack of.

Morning, Piotr.

Morning.

Up early?

I am up all night listening to my new car radio and guarding this bitch of a

car.

This bitch who won't go for me.

Go, you bitch.

Excuse my language.

Have a nice day.

There once was a man who was horsewhipped in China for making

a slide in an ice cream saloon.

He then wiped his teeth.

What a man!

Stephen!

Tomek! How did you grow up?

Come on, come inside.

Can I have a kiss?

And do I throw you?

Come in.

Well, lovely to see you.

Oh, look at me.

I was impressed, you know. I'm so ashamed.

Let's have some coffee.

And some cacao, yes?

Oh, yes, please.

So, how are you, Maria?

I'm fine.

Well, big handover.

Big party last night, you know.

Well, it's so nice to see you.

What are you doing here?

Well, I had a day off.

Thought we'd give Gretchen a surprise.

But she's not here.

But look, I saw her off at the station yesterday. She's teaching at the

university today.

Oh, yes. I just mentioned she's not here now.

But you didn't sleep here last night.

Yes, of course.

So you came here to spite me, is that what you're saying?

No, I was worried when you didn't answer the phone.

I was worried about you, that's all.

And you think I go out with other men.

You think I'm having a lover.

How could I be in Warsaw with other men when obviously I was here in Krakow?

I'm sorry.

I was sure... She looked so much like you from a distance and they just...

They just looked like lovers.

They looked as if they loved each other.

And you thought it was me and you were jealous?

No, not at all. I was just... Yes, I felt jealous.

I felt as if I'd been shot through the heart, as a matter of fact.

You did?

Because you thought I was having an awkward other man.

No! And I was here in Krakow all the time. I know!

Look, let's just forget it, all right?

All right.

with other men. Would it be any of your business?

No, I don't suppose it would.

It's not your property, you know.

I know.

You know what?

You're getting more and more like a pole every day.

Did those drugs came?

The one you were waiting for?

The president?

No.

It's all right. We don't have to talk about the hospital.

Good.

I'm hating that shitty old place.

You know, how I feel about your work, I think it's important, but I don't find

it interesting.

How you feel about my work, you don't think it's important or interesting.

That's not true.

Yes, it is.

You and me, you know.

We don't have very much in common, do we?

Yes.

And we love each other, don't we?

Yes.

I will forget you.

There once was a man who was forswipped in China

for making a slide.

You and me, eh?

The bear went over the mountain. The bear went over the mountain.

The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see.

Close your eyes.

But the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, the other

side of the mountain was all that he could see.

Close your eyes.

Dad's here now.

Mum's back tomorrow.

Everything's fine.

Uh, please, thanks.

Uh, diner, danker.

Nick. Tim Cooley. Oh, do get off.

Mr. Buzzard.

Dr. Buzzard. Yes, what is it? You come with me, please.

Certainly not.

What for?

Look, I'm not one of... Oh, right.

Is Tadeusz Melnyk over? I'm sorry to mess you about.

Circumstances beyond my control.

Can you come straight to the chateau?

Take a taxi. On my account, naturally.

See you soon.

Yes, but I don't know...

Chateau

Rajiville? Hello, hello. It's a long way round, merchant.

On the meter this time, if you don't mind, and I want a receipt.

Compendee?

Thank you again about yesterday.

Was everything okay?

How's that chap with the acute abdominal pains?

He died.

Oh.

I wanted you to see this before I told anyone.

Stockholm.

Well, congratulations.

Brilliant person.

Should I go, Stephen?

How could I advise you?

I'd miss you if you went.

Very much.

The hospital would miss you. You are a brilliant person. But this place,

Stephen, this bloody country.

I know.

Why don't you go, then?

Well, someone has to stay, I suppose.

You bastard!

I knew you'd say that!

I'm sorry.

feel guilty, you bastard!

I don't want to go, but I have to! And I don't need bastards like you making me

feel bad about it, alright? Alright, alright, I'm sorry.

Say, this is something like it.

Right for development, I should say.

Forget about Dolly Digger. I wouldn't mind fronting a place like this myself.

Chateau Radziville. A Robert Buzzard clinic.

Or simply Chateau Buzzard.

Chateau Buzzard.

Merde. Good to see you, Teddiers.

Stop twisting my arm, you rotten swine. God, this is worth a big bag of prep

school.

So, Dr. Dacre, what would you like?

Well, I, um, I know that he wants to see me.

Dr. Krapowski?

Yes.

I suppose you know I am his mistress.

Well, um, no.

Yes.

Well, I mean, I try not to listen to hospital gossips, not really any of

He is not a proper man.

No?

He does not make love to me as a man should make love to a woman.

Oh, dear.

Always I am having to walk on his back.

I see.

Yes.

I send you in now.

Go in. He's expecting.

Steve, you weren't here yesterday. I was worried about you. I thought maybe

something had happened to you.

What would happen to me?

Oh, I don't know. Probably nothing.

Anyway, it's good to see you.

So, cigarette.

No, you don't.

I would like your opinion, as an English gentleman, of this new suit I'm

wearing.

Well, I'm not exactly an expert. It looks like a very nice suit.

Personally, I prefer something a bit shinier, you know.

It's a small business gift from Hamburger International.

Ah.

It's a bit long in the sleeves, isn't it?

Oh, this is the fashion now in London. Dr. Pagard is assuring me.

Well, it's a while since I was there.

So, you are very happy that we buy this Pagard Marcus table from Hamburger?

Well, to be perfectly honest, I think we could do much better.

Your friend is making it very attractive.

I understand he has brought several suits, including Tweed Harris.

Tweed Harris, eh?

Well, that's very tempting.

Look, Dr. Kropotkin, is there any use at all in reminding you that patients in

this hospital are dying because of the inadequate facilities and shortages of

essential equipment and drugs while we are talking about Tweed Harris?

No, actually, no question. I am loving your English irony, Stephen.

But, uh...

This is a tricky situation.

The offer that Hamburger is making to the state hospitals like this one is

conditional upon Hamburger holding the exclusive contract to supply the

private clinics that our consortium is setting up now.

The finance for the private clinics is being raised by an independent Polish

businessman.

with first -class international contacts, but he has run into, how shall

a spot of bother. The police are saying he is a drug dealer. Would you believe?

It's a frame -up, of course. It goes without saying.

Anyway, Tadeusz Melnyk has a temporary problem, and if Tadeusz has a problem,

all have a problem.

Yes, I see, I think.

So... Maybe now you are thinking not so easy to be Reynard Kropotsky after all.

Life is not always sit at the office and play with the intercom.

No, I do realise there's more to being a medical director than that.

She has been talking to that one out there. What has she been saying?

Nothing, nothing.

Well, she did say that you found it helpful if she walked on your

back.

You have to understand, Stephen, sometimes I am experiencing intolerable

pressures.

Maybe if you asked her to keep one foot on the floor.

Sorry, sorry.

I misunderstood for a moment.

I do understand now, and I'm not laughing.

In fact, the whole situation is ineluctably tragic.

You did say Tweed Harris.

Yes. Do excuse me now, Dr. Kroposki.

My patients are waiting.

The bazaar.

Possibly. You are so sorry to hear of your troubles.

Please come with us now. Mr. Manic is waiting to see you.

Now look here!

Oh, all right.

Ah!

Making a slide, in and slide.

Here she is.

But this is not how we do business at Hamburger International.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Robert, my friend.

I'm so sorry about all this.

There are complications.

You must be patient.

What can I tell you?

It's Poland.

I have to leave you now.

We'll meet tomorrow at the hospital.

Rainer will contact you.

Take care of it.

His name is Tadeusz.

I've known him a long time.

Long before I knew you.

I knew him when I was 18 years old.

He's done so many things for me, Stephen.

I really owe him, you know.

What things did he do for you?

He got me out of Poland that first time.

He didn't even want me to go, but I wanted to go.

And he fixed everything for me.

I couldn't have done it for myself.

Those nasty bastards would never give me a passport.

He took risks for me, you know?

He said he would do anything for me.

Anything.

Kill for me.

Anything. Die for me, even.

And it was all true.

He loved me so much, you see.

And what I asked him to do?

I asked him to get me out of Poland and away from him.

Nasty girl, eh?

Was he... Was he your lover then?

Oh, yes, of course.

And did you love him?

Oh, yes.

So much.

Too much.

So why did you want to get away from him?

One, he was married.

Two, because I loved him too much.

He could have treated me like a dog.

He didn't.

He was kind and gentle.

But I could feel it in me.

You know?

That feeling.

I could be that man's slave.

I had to get away.

To save my soul, I suppose.

Melodramatic Polish person.

No, I can understand that.

You're not angry with me?

It was all before you met me.

You're not jealous?

Well, actually, I am, but I don't think I've got any right to be.

Why shouldn't you have been in love before?

And if your old lover turns up, of course you'd want to, well, talk about

times or... I mean, that was all, wasn't it?

No.

You see, he still loves me.

He's still crazy about me, as a matter of fact.

And I made him a promise when he got me out of Poland that time.

I'm sorry.

What promise?

I said...

If he ever came back and asked me,

I would go with him.

No, no, no.

Happily married man.

God, what do they take me for?

A large vodka, please.

Evening.

Hello.

I see you in here one night.

Tough cookie, I'm thinking.

Ah, this guy knows how to take it.

And he knows how to hand it out.

Oh, well, thanks very much.

Actually, I did... box a bit at Shrewsbury.

Yeah?

Me?

I'm Hotel Motel.

How about you?

I beg your pardon?

S &M?

Oh, no, no.

Hamburger International.

Sorry.

I'm only having SpaceX now.

What on earth are you talking about?

I haven't done anything with him. He isn't here. Your son isn't here.

You see, Dr. Bazard, we are doing what we can with the little we have

perhaps like your own National Health Service.

Well, not quite. I was rather hoping that we'd be able to finalize the deal

morning, Dr.

Kropotkin. After our last excellent meeting, the chaps in head office seem

have the impression that it's all sewn up, you see.

All sewn up, like a Tweed Harris suit.

Yes, well, more or less.

Where did they get that impression, all sewn up? Well, from me.

It is all right, isn't it? I hope so, Dr. Bazard. I hope so.

Call me Robert.

Yes, I hope so, Robert.

Robert. Yes.

You may call me Renard if you wish. Here is where we put them while we are

waiting for them to die.

What can you do?

Nobody wants them there of no use.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Morning.

Jolly good.

Look, I thought Tadeusz was going to be here this morning. Yes, perhaps later.

Many people are anxious to be talking with Tadeusz.

Some gentlemen from Switzerland, I understand.

Look here.

You don't want to get involved with the Swiss. That's absolute rubbish.

I've gone through a lot to set up this deal, Renard. I know, I know. It was

up to me.

Right. Here now is our operating theater.

I'm almost embarrassed to show you. Oh, a rabbit.

This terrible old check table that we have.

47 years old. And good for nothing.

Except osteopathy.

Maybe we go to the office, have a small vodka.

Yes.

All right.

From each according to his ability.

To each according to his need.

You are familiar with this fragment of discredited Marxism, don't you?

Sounds like a lot of dangerous nonsense to me.

Yes, yes, I'm sure you're right.

But for some of us warped old bastards, it retains a certain elegiac charm.

Let the child go to the one who is most motherly. Let the orchard go to the

grower of good fruit.

Not anymore.

Oh, rabbit, rabbit, it's a brave new world we live in.

Let us go to my office, drink some vodka, and wait for Taddeus to come.

Very soon.

You're not going now?

It's early.

Hey, we haven't heard about your fight with the editor. We haven't heard

anything. No, I think I have to go.

I'll just be at home, Britta. You can call me anytime if you want to talk.

Okay.

Stephen, be gentle with her.

She's in a state.

I'm always gentle with her.

What about me? I'm in a state. She's going to be gentle with me.

I am, Stephen.

Any time, whatever happens, she knows.

So...

She knows all about this, doesn't she?

She's always known about Tadeusz.

She was my best friend then when I met him.

That felt strange just then.

As if you were trying to pass me on to her or something.

Like school kids do with boyfriends.

No.

We're Tomasz's parents.

I know.

Look, however you feel about him, neither of you can be bound by a promise

was made, what, 12 years ago when everything was different?

You don't think?

Anyway, why now? Why has all this come up now?

His marriage is annulled.

All these years he's been trying and now he's managed.

Well, bully for him.

And he has to leave the country very soon.

He has lots of enemies.

Now the police are making trouble.

Sounds like a charming character.

Yes, as a matter of fact, he is charming.

And also good.

And generous.

And clever. And brave.

He helped lots of people, not only me.

He's not some miserable bastard, sit on his ass and moan about the shortages.

He's making things happen.

He's giving people hope. Hope? Brilliant!

So he's a bloody saint now, is he?

Rhett, you wouldn't really leave us, would you?

Hello. Hello, buddy. Robert. Robert Buzzard.

How about dinner?

Bob, I'm sorry. We've just finished eating.

Well, come over for a drink then, both of you. Or I'll come over there. How

about that?

Bob, look, it's been a bit of a bad day.

Oh, come on, buddy, please. I don't think I could face another roast warthog

my own.

Sorry, really, we can't tonight, Bob.

Fine, fine, don't worry about me. I know how to entertain myself. Some other

time, perhaps.

Good night to you and all my very best to your good lady.

So much for Dolly Dacre.

Oh, God, that bloody restaurant.

Want to buy some caviar? Want to buy a Russian general's hat? Want to buy the

kitchen cat?

Room service.

Uh -huh.

Nine.

Hazard here, room 148. Could you send me up a mixed grill and a bottle of

Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon?

A mixed grill.

Mixed grill.

Yes, thank you.

Oh, God.

Please make everything come out right this time.

I just don't understand.

Maybe because you're not Polish.

Remember what I used to be like at Lowlands University?

That stupid Polish person.

Now I'm the stupid English person.

It's not your fault.

You have the doctor?

Yes, what is it?

Come quick, please. My friend is hurt.

Oh, right. Hold on.

What

happened?

I don't know.

Borshapana?

Tsushima in Japan?

Thank you.

What are you

doing?

Get back!

This is stupid.

All I wanted was to have a little talk.

That turned tilt.

Yes? Hello?

Yes, yes, hello. Where's the food?

Food? They said you wanted a girl.

Girl? Yes, girl, for sex.

And a bottle of wine.

Girl?

No, grill.

Mixed grill.

Mixed girl?

Oh, never mind.

What the hell? Come in.

I don't know what Greta has told you about me.

Not bad.

We should play poker one day.

Did she tell you I was a doctor of philosophy?

I was going to have an academic career.

But then I was offered an opportunity.

Business opportunity.

Import -export.

One thing led to another.

Now I have a number of factories.

I'm making clothing.

Electronics.

The big thing now is recycling.

That's very big in Poland now.

What do you recycle?

Industrial waste, chemicals, car and truck batteries, anything.

Sometimes people.

I'm sorry.

I wanted to talk to you. I don't know how I was able to talk to you.

The situation is very difficult.

This night they broke into the factory and demolished everything.

I know them.

Yes, I understand.

I'll deal with them.

And my... Please calm down.

Everything will be okay.

It's people.

It's problems.

And now you have become a problem.

So, feeling better now?

Head not so bad?

I'm all right.

Shall we take a little walk, maybe?

Some people think that private enterprises only just now come to

Stupid. I made my first million here by 1983.

And I'm talking dollars now, Stephen.

Poland has always been a land of opportunity.

Believe me.

Poor bastards.

They can't afford the good stuff, so they're injecting compote with the dirty

needles.

Running shoes.

The other day I saw an old lady, a grandmother, wearing a brand new pair of

Adidas.

She's so happy.

People are crazy now.

We should make all these things here and sell it to the world.

I know how to do all this.

Why are they screwing me about?

I worked with the communists. We got on fine. They understood that I was

necessary.

They had to put me in prison for a while, of course.

Just for show.

Another Wednesday says that Poland can do without people like me.

That guy.

I wouldn't give him a job in one of my factories.

Well, maybe to change a light bulb.

Somebody is trying to destroy my business here, Stephen.

Just the other day, one of my employees was arrested at the airport.

They found three kilos of cocaine in his bag.

You mean someone planted it on him?

He should never have been stopped.

There have been other things.

The message is clear.

I must leave my country for a while.

Perhaps a long while.

I must become an emigre.

Just like you.

Where will you go?

Switzerland.

It's a nice, clean place.

People say very cruel things about Switzerland.

But what's the matter with a cuckoo clock?

A cuckoo clock is very nice.

So is a numbered bank account.

I understand you want to buy some drugs, but you are unable to pay for them.

I would like to help you.

I can usually supply people with the drugs they need.

No, you've got the wrong end of the stick.

It's not me, it's the hospital.

These are specialized drugs, specifics.

In particular, pethidine for the treatment of severe pain. Yes, of

familiar with pethidine.

I'm getting this drug in Basel. I have a reliable line of supply.

Any amount you need.

I know this business.

In this case, I'm selling heroin in Amsterdam for Swiss francs. The profit,

of it, will pay for the pethidine.

Heroin? I can get you a little of that, too, if you like.

It's very pure.

What do you want? You know what I want.

I want to take Greta with me when I go.

I told her I would come back for her one day.

She said she would come with me when I asked her.

Now I'm here.

Christ.

She's my wife, Tadeusz.

She loves me.

We have a child. What about him? She can bring him.

I will treat him like my own son, I promise you.

Or he can stay with you. It's no problem.

But you don't understand, do you?

Greta has another life now. With me.

She doesn't love you anymore.

That's... How can I put it? That's immaterial.

She's mine.

From way back.

From before you ever met her.

I'm asking you to give her to me.

Don't you understand?

I could simply take her from you.

Look at me.

Don't you understand?

I could simply make you disappear.

Why should I care about you?

Why her?

You could have anyone. Why her?

Why couldn't you just leave her alone? For the same reason as you.

I'm crazy about her.

All I do is for her. Everything.

Can you say that? No.

She says all you think about is your fucking hospital, your fucking useless

patients. You hardly see her anymore.

You don't know how to love a woman.

Everything I do is for her.

Don't you understand?

Oh, maybe I should simply make you disappear.

Listen, I don't think you are a bad fellow.

I know I am taking something away from you, but I would like to give you

something back as well.

So, I will get you all the drugs you need for your hospital.

Now, is there anything you would like for yourself?

No.

Really?

Nothing?

You know what I want.

Who are you?

I was so frightened.

I was with the deus.

Oh.

I feel as if I've never really known you.

That you know people like that.

He was actually thinking about killing me, Greta.

He would never do that.

You were always safe with him.

He would never hurt you.

How do you know?

Because he knows how much I love you.

And you're still going away with him?

I don't know.

What about Tom?

Bob, look,

it's a bit of a bad time.

No, you look, buddy. This is urgent. It's a bad time for me. It's a very bad

time. Do you know I've been robbed?

Again? This bloody place is like the Wild Bloody West.

Can you come over right away?

Bob, I've been up all night.

I'm desperate, buddy.

All my money, cards, I haven't got a zloty to my name.

And, um, could you bring a pair of trousers?

Trousers?

Not exactly Harley Street, is it? You might have managed a pair of suit

trousers. I've only got one suit, Bob. And you thought you'd keep it for

yourself. Yes, typical. It's at times like these you find out who your real

friends are.

Got the cash.

Here we are. That's all we have on the flat.

What's this?

This is only about ten pounds.

All right, don't worry. Fine, fine.

Robert Buzzard knows how to operate in the new Europe.

As a matter of fact, I think we've got everything sewn up and we'll be rowing

in this morning.

Oh, Lord.

Bob, how did you manage to get your trousers stolen?

What? What are you talking about? How should I know? God, Dakey, you do ask

irrelevant questions.

No wonder you haven't got on in life.

I mean, honestly, buddy, here you are working a 12 -hour day in an East

abattoir for what, about £40 a week, living in a rat hole, driving a rock box

when you could be earning a fortune in Saudi and getting on with your life.

What's the matter? What are you staring at?

It's not what you think, not what you think at all.

Listen, buddy, if one word of this gets back to Daphne...

Bob, it's all right.

I've got to go now.

Work to do.

Hold still now.

There.

Good morning,

Stephen.

What were you doing just then?

Giving him a shot of Pasadena.

Come here.

The lorry started coming in at six this morning.

Krapowski wants to see you.

Urgent, he said.

Oh.

Not the bazaar, the mark of your death.

He went for the Camp David model.

The one they did Elizabeth Taylor on? No, no. We decided not to go with

Hamburger after all.

This is Swiss precision engineering.

Tadeusz Melnyk arranged the deal on very favorable terms. Come, look.

But this is ridiculous. You know who I am.

No ID, no enter. But she stole it. She stole my trousers, you stupid,

stupid man.

You should have kept your trousers.

Dr.

Dacre. No, of course you don't.

So, you see, somehow in Poland things get done.

Tadeusz, as always, was able to provide us with a solution.

Forget about solidarity.

The future of Poland lies with the Tadeusz's of this world, and though I

it in all humility with chaps like me.

Yes, I'm dreadfully afraid you might be right.

Is he here this morning, Mr. Melnick?

Certainly no.

He is catching the morning plane.

Matter of fact, he's leaving the country very quickly. Certain people are making

things very difficult for him.

You know what he said?

He said, to each according to his need, from each according to his ability.

British and American luxury goods. Look at

this.

Philo facts.

Personal memo.

Dictaphone.

Dear sir.

Useful and decorative.

My God.

It's Bob.

What about your lady, your wife?

What on earth are you doing? Oh, don't you worry about me, buddy. I'm all

As soon as I've raised the taxi fare for the airport, I'm off.

And I'll tell you one thing, Robert Buzzard will not be coming back to

a hurry. Come on.

Get in.

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