All language subtitles for A Very Peculiar Practice s02e08 A Very Polish Practice

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.

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. It was your father, was he? No
wonder he 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. Buzzard. Buzzard, Buzzard,

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

Oh, fine, fine, excellent, fine.

Warnings appointment missed. A few
millions worth of export orders down the

drain. But never mind, can't be helped.
The pilot's a bit hungover, you see.

Doesn't feel like flying the plane
today.

Brilliant, excellent.

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

the weather will be all right.

Smoking or non -smoking, Mr. Buzzard?

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?

He's the trend.

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 on this plane, you notice
that?

Worrying. Bit like vultures, Rhys. See
one hovering about, odds are someone's

going to snuff it.

Well, hello.

Another intelligent man.

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 am 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 steal my car because the
bastard won't bloody well go.

Will you, you bastard?

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 get a
cracker off 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.

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, Tomasz. Take care of your
father.

And be a good boy, yes?

Take

care,

Steven.

And you.

Wow.

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 tactics.

Good idea.

Please don't shoot! I'm English!

Good morning!

Good morning, doctor!

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.

Stephen.

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, if I may.

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 or let go?

We found tendinitis. There's something
going on in there, you're right.

We should do a gastroscopy. Any blood on
record 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 to me. 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.

No, Stasiniewska.

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 in the king.

And you could 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 this time, but
now it's time for a new one.

And that bastard Trafoski 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 always think you're time.

Nina.

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 rabbit 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 wishes to 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 talks 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 the
way gone.

Very good. I congratulate you.

One day at a time. I understand.

No, it isn't that. I shouldn't... I do
drink, actually. 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 alarmist,
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.
Egypt is full and fully retractable.

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

Hamburger International.

We're number two and right.

Bob? 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 -half an
each.

I call it the buzzard marco.

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.

Bob.

Bob. Good evening, 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 Romulan, 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.

Oh, 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 come to it.

Oh. Come on, we haven't got all night. A
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 hate near weekend.

There you are.

And that's for your good self.

Right.

Excuse me, please. Chats here 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 these 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, barman, could I have that note
back, please?

No, come back.

Excuse me.

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.

Oh, that's your house.

Excuse me, I've got to talk to you, sir.

Bloody English homosexuality.

Extraordinary. Well, that's the Polish
temperament, I suppose.

Fancy a drink at the Marriott? Supposed
to be a bit more civilised there. Well,

um... 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, uh, 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 flog halfway round the world
selling rubbish to foreign peasants.

Oh, take no notice of me, Stephen. I get
these sudden lurches into this.

bear 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 Stack. Yes!

My God, now, here'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 zone.

Oh, come on!

We're with friends.

Hello.

I've been robbed!

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

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 inside.

Can I have a peek?

Anyone from 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 meant she's not here
now.

But you did sleep here last night.

Yes, of course.

So you came here to spite me, is that
what you say?

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
dead?

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.

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 ones you were waiting for?

The Pepidon?

No.

It's all right. We don't need 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?

And we love each other, don't we?

Yes.

I will forget you.

There once was a man who was
horsewhipped 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, danke.

Niet. 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

Radzivill? 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.

Thanks 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.

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.

Hey, 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'll send you in now.

Go in. He's expecting.

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

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. Bazard is assuring me.

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

So, you are very happy that we buy this
Bazard 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, that's a good 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.

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.

All right.

Ah.

Making a slide.

In and slide.

Here she is. is perfect.

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

Oh, I'm sorry.

Robert, my friend.

I am 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, Robert.

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 safe sex now.

What on earth are you talking about?

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

doing what we can with the little we
have available, 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.

Johnny, 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. They're such 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 Basta Mama's walk told Basta that 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.

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. Oh, 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.

Hey! 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 had 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. You know how I
was treated by Mr. Ibański and Mrs.

Ibański. But right now my situation is
very difficult.

They broke into the factory that night
and demolished everything.

I know them.

Yes, I understand.

I'll take care of it 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.

And now Bowen 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

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 course. I'm 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.

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.

Morning.

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.

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.

Decker. 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 needs,
from each according to his ability.

British and American luxury goods. Look
at this.

Filofax.

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 Warsaw in a hurry. Come on.

Get in.