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we can begin mr lawrence ms fraser

members of the transnational board with

your permission i would like to give

some background on the monastery which

the bank has undertaken to re-establish

proceed mr lawrence

the monastery of saint soler

is situated on an island off the coast

of montenegro

for four hundred years the monks of

saint saler observed the rule of

absolute silence

they worshipped in silence

they fished in silence

they harvested their grapes and coopered

their barrels without a word

they gathered herbs from the cliffside

to flavor their monastic brandy and

never spoke or cried out even in direst

emergency

and legend has it that their monastic

brandy when ignited

burned in the shape of an angel

mr lawrence

we are not interested in fairy tales you

were employed to re-establish the

distillery at st solaire have you

succeeded in reproducing the monks

brandy or not

i've brought a sample bottle miss fraser

miss paraguard we're ready for my father

you're looking well father

as well as can be expected from a dying

man

father you've been dying for years well

so have you daughter but you're too

young to know it

oh so you're back mr lawrence

have the monks returned to saint solaire

well no sir uh as you know colonel

frazier the monastery has been abandoned

since the earthquake of 1978 and the

yugoslav ministry can't locate any of

the monks you can't produce brownie

without the monks

they alone know it's secret well i i

found books sir ancient recipes and by

chemical analysis of the vats never mind

that

i pay money and i want results let me

have it

it looks the same

it has that same

pungent aroma

this kept me alive many a long winter

night when i was with the partisans in

yugoslavia

i remember

the monks came from their island and

carried our wounded back to the

monastery and that was the first time

i tasted

the brandy of saint

solaire

it was like

a drink from

the holy grail

to the valiant monks of saint slayer

he walks it's america horse piss maybe

it doesn't travel well you know a lot of

brandies don't

bother speak to me

ella

you take charge

you go to san salaam

you

find

the most my god i'm

you're old enough and sick enough and

rich i love

to get what i want when i want it

you tell the minister

no brandy no money

mr lawrence we leave it once for

belgrade

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so

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this

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we'll go straight to the embassy

district

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i was so sorry to hear about your wife

minister pontovich uh thank you mr

ambassador

she was an enduring woman mike watson

uncle jack

hello

oh

welcome to belgrade

minister pandovic this is my niece ella

frazier and i believe you know mr

lawrence

miss frazier to meet you at last come

and have a great day uh colonel frazier

for us

is a great patriot well my father sends

his greetings minister and regrets that

he could not be here in person oh i

regret equally as much

uh the work has been completed am i

right mr lawrence

the final account of our cost has been

sent to transnational but how could the

monastery been re-established without

monks minister

hunks there are no monks a monastery

without monks is nothing but masonry

minister our contract clearly states

that the monastery was to be

re-established

reconstructed

something appears to have been lost in

translation

my father wishes to re-establish the

monastery complete with monks and their

distillery they made an excellent brandy

and it should not be allowed to vanish

after all would the spanish turn their

backs on sherry or the portuguese on

port would the carthusians abandon

chartreuse or the benedictines

benedictine

madame

those are religious matters

i'm a communist my father is willing to

overlook your politics minister

but i assure you that he will not pay on

our contract until the monastery of

saint saler is re-established complete

with monks

excuse me mr ambassador

i have another reception to attend

ms fraser minister

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he's upset

but our contract was clear on that point

the ministry has put out a lot of money

on this ella if they're not paid

politics neck is on the block i mean

after all in this country you can't

expect it to pull monks out of us i know

but we need monks

i know

we'll advertise

we'll offer to pay them ten dollars an

hour until they're on their feet ten

dollars an hour i mean that's more than

part of it makes i mean you simply

cannot do that in this country it's just

not dumb uncle jack you've been in this

country too long

we'll do it the american way

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speak english

my secretary doesn't understand one word

of it

wait wait

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i am

your trusted minister ah to be trusted

is to be ignored this way everything i

say goes straight to the top

all right

miss frazier wants monks

we will give her a monk

yes but too you

no minister no i'm sending you to sun

silaire as an undercover monk

but

what what could i say

nothing it's a silent order

you know as of now

i wash my hands of this entire mess it's

on your head boogaloo

oh by the way when you get to burger

please give your mother my warmest

regards

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you know the language i picked up some

of the basics

very quick miss frasier businesswoman

has to be mr lawrence

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take it ms frazier they'll be insulted

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charles what is going on it's a wedding

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they're a very

spirited people

you not only speak the language you

dance it too charlie i mean you know all

the steps

thank you

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i really think you would be more

comfortable at the hotel

the monastery

doesn't have a phone no amenities i'm

not looking for amenities mr lawrence i

am looking

for money

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uh

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mama

mama

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how much longer is it

well it's three hours this way two and a

half hours coming back

you mean it takes longer going down than

going up yeah

it's 55 miles going down

50 miles coming back

that is impossible it has to be the same

distance both ways well that would seem

logical but i've checked the odometer

100 times there's always a 5 mile

difference the road gets rough ahead

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come inside please quickly come on come

inside come on

oh it's you bubba

this is my thursday class

please

speak english everybody

listen

here is

my son bogolube

the police spy

that's right mother tell the world

very good

very good

now take your seats and start your

lesson

and

pray for my son

children he's turned his back on god

i thought he was everywhere

don't be smart

my poor husband bless his name would

spin in a grave if he knew what you've

become

don't tell him

god knows

ask god not to tell him

why have you come back are you business

for minister pontovich pantheric oh

how is he he's depressed his wife is

dying

oh gosh is gone

really

oh you cross yourself my son please

please please kneel with me ask our lord

to forgive you

another time mother

promises

always promises

it's only his back i see

how far is it to the island about a half

an hour

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water's beautiful

you must swim every day

i don't have the time

that's the coast patrol they try to

control smuggling in the area contraband

fiddly is big business

you can see the monastery pretty soon

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oh charles

it's magic

my father tried to tell me but

i couldn't imagine it

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hey petar

i'm back

can you help us with this luggage

mr frazier

thank you charles

you may be the first woman to pass

through these doors in 400 years

well

another first for ella frazier

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you just put those down go back to work

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charles it's perfect

the earthquake dropped a lot of stone

and rubble in here which had to be

cleared away see the whole island is

honeycombed with caves sometimes when

the temperature drops you can hear stone

falling in the depths but this area

stays secure so i set up my lab here

and this

is my bed your bed

charles you mean to say that you sleep

in this drafty place oh yeah see i

monitor the temperature humidity air

circulation all the time it all plays a

very important part of the process

this

is the still

it's old but effective oh charles you

make it sound all so complicated

it is complicated i think my failure

proves that

i've been a wine chemist for 10 years

and i just don't know what went wrong i

don't know what i forgot but

i goofed that's why we need a monk who

knows the process

that are a couple of centuries of

experience

charles

what's that awful racket oh that's the

generator we use it for lights and hot

water you get used to it i hardly notice

it anymore

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he doesn't speak that proves he's one of

ours oh charles what are we going to do

i know ask him to stamp once for yes

twice for no three times for maybe uh

lupe yeah

it is

got it good good

um now ask him to to write his name

uh napishime

mia

welcome nick mia

brother nicomia my name is ella frazier

oh

of course

um

charles asked him ask him if he's

willing to stay and if the wages we

offer are satisfactory

he's stepping in english

where are you from

he's pointing in english do you speak

english i mean of course you don't but

if you did could you

oh that's wonderful that makes it very

easy charles brother nicomia are there

any more monks of this order monks who

can distill the brandy of saint solaire

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oh sad

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you mean they all passed away

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what do you mean maybe

charles this poor man is soaking wet

let's dry him off and then we can ask

questions later come along brother nico

mia

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get it

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five

i count five charlie six

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they're coming back

stamp up brothers this is pretty simple

stuff okay

nicomia

come and meet your brothers

so

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so

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um

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charlie aren't they sweet

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brother nicomia since you were the first

one to arrive i would like to nominate

you to be our prior

um uh charles ask the brothers if that

would be agreeable with them

zana stoinic

oh well then that's settled um charles

tell them that payday will be every

friday

okay

prata

a dobie svaki paytock

well then

prior nicomia

let the monastery begin

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hey better

you have our goods

now we are in business

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there are only ten

that is the rest

the american come back

i sold those guns

i need them all

american trials

that is my island

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foreign

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yes

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february

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foreign

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telephone

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david

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is

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trust

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faith

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is

foreign

problem

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so

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um

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charles

i just came from the bell tower and you

know the big bell it has no clapper no

wonder it can't ring i mean what's a

bell without a clapper do i get three

guesses

you know what i mean

well it's a unique bell and there is a

legend if you can stand another legend

that only the pure in heart can hear it

you mean the ringing

well i don't believe that

neither do i but i guess i'm not all

that pure in heart

charles i

i think that we should just forget about

these legends and put the monks back to

work

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okay

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oh nicomia

you're the very monk i wanted to see

i'd like to know if you think the mash

is ready to distill

maybe

well you see i think i started too early

last time and i was hoping you might

know

i found the herbs i need in this old

book

now some of them i have already

i've got the tanacetum bulgari dwarf

elder galingal i've got plenty of cloves

nutmeg aloes but no rutvika or peronica

do you know where i might find these

perhaps they have different names in

serbo-croatian charles

uh

prior nicomia would you know them if you

saw them

well charles we should mount an

expedition and take all the monks into

the mountains to find these herbs

they've been working very hard these

last few days and i think they deserve

an outing isn't that right prior

is that you

i

i i thought you were a ghost there in

the moonlight

well

uh

i'm very glad that we're going ashore

tomorrow i'm getting a bit jumpy here

not used to the monastic life i guess

i i've never talked to a man who who

didn't answer back before it's it's very

odd

there must be some things that only can

be expressed anymore don't there

although now that i said that you know i

really can't think what they are

you know i once

just listen to how often i use that word

i

you must think me a very self-centered

person

but you know i'm

there it is again

you know i'm going to try to stop that

but

it it it's well it's very difficult not

to stumble into references to one's own

person but this person

is going to try there i've avoided two

eyes

that's a record for me i'll bet

well

tomorrow's another long day and this

person is tired

so

good night fire nick and me and um

holy dreams

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laughs

they have left the island

now we can enter from the caves

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i got you the trump channels

idiot

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that's it did they see nacho

we found one

it smells really good

there's more

you know where

there

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this person is doing better have you

noticed

not one eye all day well unless you

count that one

i'm really sort of

oh damn it i flew it

twice

you laughed

oh

i didn't think the laughing was

permitted

well i mean then god wouldn't object to

a little laughter would he oh

do it again please i love the way you

laugh

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what made you decide to become a monk

prior nicomia

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oh i'm so s

i'm sorry that's a very silly question

i mean the answer is in everything you

do every

every every thought every gesture it's

devoted to god but isn't that right

uh

it must be wonderful

this person

can't help being

a little envious

even jealous

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so

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i told you

it's just stone falling

it's your stone

falling in the caves

up

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the distillery's all right

the rear wall collapsed let's see what

damage was done ms frazier you should

stay back

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i wouldn't go in there

i wouldn't go in there

i lose thousands

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i had no idea this was here

these must go back for centuries

what would this old fellow say if he

could speak

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of course i suppose he never did

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oh

this is terrible do you mind if i hold

on to you

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i've given up trying not to say i have

you notice

it's because well as a monk you've made

me feel really good about myself

i think it's the silence it makes me

feel

accepted for the first time in a long

time just for who i am

being an only child isn't all that easy

i mean you try to be all the children

that your parents never had and

it's absolutely impossible

but listen to me talking it can always

i'm going to try

silence as soon as we get back i'm going

to well i can't until we've done the

banking but when we get back

i'm really going to try

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the american

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if she leaves now

i ring your chicken

ah

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see

five six months time

for your work week equals

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uh excuse me madame uh moelem telephone

oh you speak english conversation

well i'm an american i've got the thing

right here

in the bank

how do you do

my name is zorka bogdanovic a telephone

i know the manager very well i'll ask

him to let you use his instrument well

thank you very much that would help me a

great deal name a problem

i need ford men who can speak english

and keep their mouths shut

yes

my name is bran kurashitsar i took

english lessons from your mother zorka

bogdanovic i know who my mother is

bronco

those who understand me

stamp once for the s

twice for no and three times for maybe

let's see it now

yes yes

no yes

no

no

yes

maybe

no

yes no

yes baby

youtube

you

you

and branco

thank you sir yes dismissed

this is a top secret assignment

you're going as police monks of saint

silaire

what is it now bronco

are we to be silent in english too sir

as of now you'd be silent in all

languages at all times

is that understood

oh did you make your call yes i did i

had to call minister pantovic minister

pantovich i have known him for 40 years

really my son works for him

i think the bank manager is uh

cashing your check oh that's very nice

of you thank you

he asks if you want to count it count it

yeah

i can't even carry it

why this exchange rate's great

uh

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well this is the car but um i don't see

our prior

brother nicomia

is that you

um

is there something wrong with the car

uh that's our prior

brother nicomia come out right now

there's someone here i want you to meet

oh there's no need for you to do that we

can call a mechanic

come on

come come

what are you doing

i'm what are you doing

um i've just got it started i've got to

go

you've been very helpful mrs berganovic

thank you so much

please come and see us anytime all right

i'm

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what is with you

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you are a magnet for monks

but you look like the devil himself

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she's going back

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she got money from the bank

loads of money he can rub her hair

this is stupid

do you think

misha

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do

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shake them down

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oh

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hey

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foreign

um

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is

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morning prior uh today's payday miss

fraser will be right here

if you want to tell me something oh okay

all right oh

uh you're leaning against the wall

you're not

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uh uh you're showing me

uh a rock is that a rock it's a rock

it's it's tumbling rock

rocks are falling in the cave

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are you building a snowman

ah i'm not good at this

okay okay you're running right you're

jogging you're jogging

you stop jogging

you're running again you're a lunatic

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what

what

you're standing still

um the still

you mean just still it's time to start

distilling he means it's time to start

distilling charlie oh of course this is

it this time we're gonna do it miss

racer oh i hope so charlie

so

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that packs a wallop

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another bullet

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and brother nick mia

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brother nicomia

where is he charles he was just here

here

but

listen

don't be silly look i'm accustomed to

paying for what i get

come on

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i'm sorry

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i didn't mean it that way

i i just meant that

i don't know what i meant

i don't know what i mean anymore

except that your silence is unfair it

makes people say things that they don't

want to be heard and hide things that

they feel

you are safe behind your silence and i

just live and hide behind my words

i'm all words that's all i've ever been

words and chatter and talk and prattle

and i can't stop

this foolish idol idiot talk

it controls me

i don't want to be like this [ __ ] mia

i don't

but i don't know how to change

i don't know how to change

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oh i wish i could be just stricken dumb

so

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mrs mcdonough you came well i'm so glad

to see you no

i would have come sooner but i had my

class yes

of course

oh

brother keep it going

so we add these distilled herbs

to the honey and mix it

right

okay

good

now we put this in the vat to marry with

the brandy

all right

it has to be done by hand

that's right

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we have a visitor hello

hi

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charles

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charles this is mrs bigdanovich the

woman who was so lovely to me at the

bank how do you do mrs bug

i am so sorry i don't know what i was

thinking this sets up like crazy glue

it's the herbs you

see sorry

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given to me by a choreographer years ago

crazy things happen around here but i'm

sure we can say at least we've got hot

water

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oh jesus what was

oh

my god god here let me help you oh this

is just awful

thank you

look um perhaps you'd like to see the

chapel i'm gonna change my clothes and

then we can put your gloves out to dry

all right

is

foreign

yes

my son he converted to the breed i don't

know this woman she's crazy your own

mother

our prior is your son he finds a god and

denies his mother

ms frazier i'm here to protect you

you s you speak

you

you perfidious

rat

my god i confess my sins to my own son

god forgive me oh he will i won't you

think

i trusted you oh boggle you've let me go

cats we're

judas priest our prior has a clapper

that's right charles a phony hunk

monk those monks are impostors

three of them are police officers speak

up man that's an order this is not the

test

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officers i order you to arrest these

criminals

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whatever they were before they arrived

they've earned the right to be here now

and they're welcome

newtoneers

holy brothers

are you with me

traitors

one for all and all for one

i knew from the first day that you were

a faker

you didn't fool me for a minute

you

trotsky i

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so

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ladies and gentlemen

it is my great honor

to welcome you to this

first international

disarmament conference here in belgrade

i remind the delegates that these

proceedings are being televised and

should give hope to the peaceful

aspirations

of all mankind

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is

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i still can't believe your son is an

undercover cop he made such a convincing

monk

as a child he was always play acting

when velco panto which offered him a job

my son took it i mean in a ministry

he should have stayed with the ballet

you see bogeliob in the ballet oh no no

a velcro pantheric he was such a

graceful young man before he married

that gossa

but it was long time ago when everyone

was so happy

and so

careless

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i stay with the boat

you get america goose

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marching in marching marching

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so

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then the same went the same

when the saints goes marching

i hope to be in that number

when the saints went the same

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it's bitched

looks like the milk from a sick goat

charles what's missing

there must be something that we've

overlooked yeah i never should have

listened to that hugo

he didn't say a yahoo

you pantomimed it and i fell for it

so did you

what do we got goat's milk not exactly

what the colonel had in mind

well we'll just have to start again from

scratch charlie

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so

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it goes it's cooked

now for the satin

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um

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come in

ambassador

there's an urgent call for you

yeah what the hell time is it

5 20 sir

5 20. what is it war revolution

or the resident something about ransom

for your niece miss fraser sir ransom

at this hour

outrageous

the person is on the line sir

hello

yes this is the american ambassador who

the hell are you

this is commander said

of the romani revolutionary caterpillar

independent gypsy state

the american lady ms fraser

is a presenter of war

war

what war

and where the hell is romani we'll bomb

you back to the stone age you want to

see this ghost alive pay up look uh let

me speak to my mates please i'll put her

on the line

i'll let you send 200 million dinners

kiss

200 million

200 are you insane

i am

i like last america

you want american girl back

you listen

yes i've got that

but

but where will we find my niece

trust you

why the hell should i trust you

bastard hung up on me 200 million

how much is 200 million dinars in money

about 200 thousand dollars here at the

current rate of exchange oh is that all

get me mr fantovich on the line please

be quick about it oh only two hundred

thousand

they have this others

i'll meet you there

then

when i'm ready

do not mess about

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no you me they think it's you but that's

impossible i mean i'm here radio them

tell them that i'm here this radio won't

reach

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charlie

i'm going the helicopter's here are you

coming or not

i've got to finish this ellie your

father paid me to do a job

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so

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is

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we never make deals for hostages

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always

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can you tell us what steps are being

taken to recover ms frazier from the

kidnapping i am not going to answer that

question

you can simply say that we are

individuals

no more questions

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is

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mr ambassador i have her in the radio

form come on

put this

is that you

uncle jack yes it's me

are you all right

have you uh

have you been molested what are you

doing here you're supposed to be

a monks rebuild i'm on my way

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no no don't call father he doesn't know

i've been kidnapped and i haven't been

well why the hell did i get a phone call

about ransom them

they got your mother who who got my

money commander zed the gypsy terrorist

who is dorba bachdanovic

ella i'm sorry hell it's me bogey uh uh

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no wait wait

idiot

i'm such an idiot by him ella

ah

what's the ransom demand they want 200

million dinar put in a barrel and

dropped in the danube salmon daniel

that's stupid don't say it stupid your

mother's life is in danger

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it's a formality sir well formalities be

damned none of these men could have been

involved i need their help they're

innocent the police commandant says that

their silence condemned them well this

is a silent order what about the old

monk brother gabrielle he hasn't said a

word you let him go because he is the

police commander's great uncle he's been

missing since the quake of 78 living up

here in the catacombs he's lost his wits

you mean he's a real monk

yes

judas priest he could have the answer

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the police commandant has agreed to purl

these monks to your custody mr lawrence

what's wrong with him

i think he wants you to turn off the

radio

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hey

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ah

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you

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eureka

we made it

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there

as long as it moves with current it's

free but if it moves cross current has

been picked up

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started

how dare you order me down i'm trying to

reach

where's your mother i don't know what do

you mean you don't know they said they

would kill her if they saw helicopters

why didn't you say so i just did

uh

okay

oh

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oh

foreign

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busy

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take it easy bronco you're rocking the

barrel

you don't want to spoil the brandy

before we get to miss fraser

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your ambassador shouldn't have made this

deal what else could he have done

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i i would have bargained with them oh hi

you what are you talking about what half

the mother for half the money could

write down the middle country seal

he could have stalled you say sold for

time you know if it had been me you

would have been haggling over bits and

pieces you're just a i don't know a

mother slicer not true elle i won't you

hold any price

shish kebab

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so

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we've got contact

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all right

it's headed for many inside let's go

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careful what it's

detonator a bomb in that cake

i a

you don't deal with terrorists

your mother's not a terrorist

you try to live with her

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stupid plan is working if they get the

romanian line we can't arrest them

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give me the detonator let them have the

damn money

there is no money what do you mean you

mean you wouldn't have given 200 million

dinars to ransom me i'd give the world

for you i love you

liar

bogey

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wow

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b

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what is it

my mother's been arrested for drunk

driving

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ladies and gentlemen there's a bomb

threat

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please please evacuate the building in

an orderly manner

please don't panic let's not panic

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let me go

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uh

ladies and gentlemen we had a false

alarm now the conference will resume

please

ella we made it the brandy of saint

celery oh charlie

but we still haven't seen zorka

evacuate the lobby

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smaller

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i was so sorry

when i heard about the godzilla

she's gone at last bless her name

we're together zoki

and we're alive yes

we are alive

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ladies and gentlemen there's a bomb

threat

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please please evacuate the building in

an orderly manner

please don't panic

let's not panic

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oh

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let me go

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it's not a bomb

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that's brandy

ladies and gentlemen we had a false

alarm now the conference will resume

please

ella we made it the brandy of saint

celery oh charlie

but we still haven't seen zorka

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smaller

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sweet silence

the brandy rendered those who drank it

as silent as the monks who made it

and the world was a quieter

a more serene place

except of course for those of us who can

hear the bells of saint silaire

can you hear them

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bye

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you