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Eliminate that man.

Moïse?

Of course not! We can't eliminate a deputy director,

a war hero, without people finding out.

It's the other guy, the young one.

The other young guy...

The young guy. There's only one.

Ah, right.

Officially, he's dead. It'll make it easier for you.

Right, it'll be easier to get rid of a dead guy.

Hurry up. It's urgent.

Oops.

André?

You could've knocked.

What the hell did you do to Mercaillon?

-I made sure he frees you. -I don't need you.

I had ordered you to stay still. Why don't you listen?

Don't worry, I took control of the situation.

Control? You're being reckless.

Can you air out this room? It smells horrible in here!

Now that he knows you're not dead,

you're dead. And what a mess!

-What a mess! -Well, it's my room.

Perhaps, but this is still my place.

Come on!

-You've put yourself at risk for nothing. -Not for nothing. We'll get him.

How? We have no evidence against him. No file.

There will never be a trial. It's over. He won.

And what's the coat hanger for?

A good agent never gives up.

You taught me that.

A good agent knows when to end a mission that's doomed to fail.

A good agent knows how to adapt to plot twists.

A good agent is tidy and picks up his crumbs

and doesn't expect someone else do it for him.

Where did he put my newspaper?

There's only one thing to do now.

We eliminate him.

Head of the top intelligence agency and father of your fiancee?

What will you tell your kids? "Grampa's dead 'cause Daddy killed Grampa,

because Grampa had tried to kill Daddy?"

Henri, you're prickly.

So what do you suggest?

-We're not going to give up, are we? -No, we'll wait.

-We'll get him when he retires. -What?

Well, he's going to retire soon.

I'll take his place and then I'll be able to rehire you.

Oh, God he's so stingy!

So you just wanted to take his place.

You're just a pen-pusher.

Who are you to say this?

I'll tell you. You're a bad agent

who's insignificant, irresponsible and messy!

I'm no fool, Mr. Moïse.

Since France voted "yes" to the General, the people are jubilant.

But this jubilation is unfortunately

tarnished by bad news.

Mr. Gomez, a category A, level 4 public servant,

the director of finance and accounting, will not be back from Le Touquet.

While he was picking cockles at low tide in Stella-Plage,

Mr. Gomez died of cold-water drowning.

-This is horrible. -He did not wait the required

four-hour period after lunch before entering

an aquatic environment.

This is what happens when one does not follow rules and regulations.

Picking cockles while ignoring the most basic rules

imperils our department,

imperils France,

and can cost you your life.

This applies to cockles, clams,

and razor clams.

This applies to low tides and high tides.

This applies to aquatic environments and any other environment.

This applies to Gomez and it applies to all of you.

Gentlemen, when the water temperature is 12 degrees Celsius,

one must expect the water to be cold.

In accordance with public service regulations,

Gomez will be sanctioned posthumously.

That's totally fair. It's justified.

Rules are rules.

To succeed him at his position, in accordance with procedure, I nominate

Mr. Schmidt, who is with us today.

It's Schmid, Colonel. It ends with...

with "d".

Mr. Schmidt was called upon at short notice

so he will need a bit of time to get used to what the position entails.

All of you will have to give him some leeway.

Well, it's nice to see a new face around here.

I'm not finished.

We're having drinks.

Welcome to our department, Mr. Schmid.

Allow me to introduce myself. Roger Moulinier,

I'm in charge of the African region.

I haven't congratulated you yet. To your reinstatement!

I'm delighted by this, on a personal level,

but especially for our whole service, it owes you so much.

-Marie-Jo. -Sir.

Long live France!

Long live the General!

And long live Moïse!

Cheers, Moïse. Cheers.

Well, Jacquard? You look miffed!

It's your region, isn't it? The "yes" is a victory for you too.

QED.

You can laugh now.

You won't be laughing when all the crazies

from all the shitholes that France has visited

will line up at reception demanding the same thing.

I think I'm pretty safe. Wouldn't expect any Africans to turn up...

Mr. Jacquard, if you're leaving the office party, I imagine

you've filled the exemption form and got it stamped, right?

You're learning fast for someone who just got here.

I'm just trying to do my job.

ABSENT DUE TO OFFICE PARTY

Hello Mr. Pochon. Still here?

Yes. No office parties for me this week. I'm on duty.

We can't leave our archives unsupervised.

Here's something to make you feel better.

-Is it for me? -Of course.

I made a cherry pie this morning, and suddenly, I realized:

"Poor Mr. Pochon, who's working like a dog

while others are having fun."

Watch out for the cherry pits, I leave them in, it makes it tastier.

You're very sweet. Thank you so much.

Hey, while I'm here, I'll need

a document that Mr. Moïse asked for.

-Of course. Tell me where it is. -No, I can handle it.

Eat your pie. It's still a bit warm, it'll be tastier.

You're right.

Who's in charge of your delegation?

Only one person. Otherwise, you need two forms.

Come in.

Oh, sorry.

New office. Colonel's decision.

Sorry to bother you, Mr. Moïse. I wanted to give you this.

It's the pictures I took at your place.

-I kept thinking about these men. -I thought I told you

-not to worry about all this. -I'm not worried

but I remembered typing out a report

for which I had attached photographs of these men.

So I went to the archives, discreetly of course,

and I found the files I was looking for.

Your janitor and his son are in fact

Mr. Moriou, who was discharged from our service for violence,

and Mr. Charlant, who was discharged for embezzlement.

You can have a look at it.

The bar cart won't push itself back into the closet.

Thank you, Marie-Jo.

This is very odd.

According to the form they filled in,

they are neither enemies, nor allies, nor unaligned.

-So what are they? -They look like Americans, don't they?

Do we really need to meet them? We're pretty busy.

You never know what's at stake

if you don't meet the people that you don't know.

Hello, gentlemen.

To whom do we have the honor of speaking?

We represent a group of intellectuals from Quebec.

Well, I'm Alain Robitaille, and he's Antonin Laliberté.

Fake names...

Anyhoo, thanks for having us. That's very nice of you.

They really look like Americans to me.

We're listening.

-Do you understand me? -Very well.

I have understood you.

We admire General de Gaulle

and his visionary policy regarding the independence of peoples.

He's already proved it in Africa, and now in Algeria,

with his referendum on self-determination.

So we decided to come here to ask for your help

and support for our independence struggle vis-à-vis Canada.

I didn't understand anything.

The form said they could speak French, right?

We do speak French.

I've heard a bunch of types of French.

Africans have as many variations as colors in their clothing,

but this guy right here...

I believe these gentlemen have come here to ask

for France's help

in liberating Quebec from Canadian domination.

What did I tell you?

People are already lining up. Who's gonna be next?

Belgium's Liberation Front or Saint Pierre and Miquelon's?

But...

-Is Quebec still Canadian? -Yes.

Are you Canadian, or are you dominated by Canadians?

Both.

What we want is to do this without any violence.

We ought to give a language test

to delegations before we meet them.

Examen. You used the word "test".

That's an English word. In French, it's examen.

We barely understand them, and they understand everything we say.

This is fantastic.

For the future of Algeria and the Algerian people!

Yeah!

De Gaulle thinks he can lure us to sleep with his referendum. He's wrong.

-His name is Yamine. He's a friend. -We took up arms

and we will never drop them.

Yeah!

France brags about having invented the right

to self-determination but it only wants one thing:

to keep oppressing us like they have for the past 130 years.

Yeah!

Will they keep exploiting our land?

Will they keep treating us like second-rate citizens, slaves?

No. Your referendum does not fool us, General.

We do not want your self-determination.

What we want is independence!

Long live Algeria!

-Long live Algeria! -I'm not done yet.

Excuse me. Do you mind if I take over?

Thanks.

This referendum makes no sense. That's true.

It's not about Algeria's future, it's about de Gaulle's present.

It's a long road to Algeria's future.

Bravo.

But giving Arabs the right to vote? That's absurd.

We can do way better than that.

We need to abolish it.

What do you mean, "abolish it"?

Algeria is France.

-You're going to marry that guy? -That's not like him.

Arab people in France don't need to vote for France's future.

Without France, there is no Algeria. There never was.

Algeria was created by France.

Get off the stage! Get off!

When we arrived there, what did we find?

Two camels, three palm trees and warring tribes.

-He's spouting nonsense. -What do we have now:

wine, oil, trains, roads.

All thanks to French labor!

That's enough. Get off the stage.

-Algeria will remain French. -Shut up.

-We won't leave it to... -Forget about it.

these uncultured savages...

Uncultured savages!

Stop!

That's enough, get up. Come with us.

Calvaire, we don't want to take up arms!

It goes against our concept of sovereignty.

Excuse me, but what exactly do you want?

We want some advice to conduct our independence struggle.

You don't speak French, but you understand it,

so let me tell you this:

you need to think this through. You may think

independence struggles are a picnic...

We want to be masters in our own house.

You're so misguided. Everyone will lose.

It'll create a huge mess everywhere. You have a real estate market, right?

Then you're in trouble. Do you have insurance premiums?

If you do, read the small print.

When shit hits the fan, it keeps getting worse.

He's right. I've seen it happen in Africa.

With you, it happened quickly, but it can drag on for years.

You fight, you reconcile and you fight again.

Go ask the FLN if you don't believe me.

Hold on. We don't want any turmoil.

We want to lead a peaceful struggle.

We want a war of independence without the war.

They're worse than the Africans. I can't understand a word.

Come on! They're seriously starting

to bust my nads, tabarnac!

Yeah, me too. Nads officially busted. Calice!

Do you think they can understand one another?

Ostie de niaiseux! All this fag talk

and then they act all condescending!

Hold on. Where are you going?

Since we can't count on you Frenchmen

to support our struggle, we'll go ask someone else.

They're going to talk to other people.

-Well, good luck with that. -Thanks a bunch.

-Especially you, ostie de taouin. -Why me?

Because you gave us the name for our movement.

We'll call it the Quebec Liberation Front.

FLQ.

Is it easy enough to dig? FLQ.

Anyhoo, we'll meet again.

Câlice. Damn Frogs.

So it's a language that claims to be French but isn't,

and yet it has its own logic, as they seem to understand one another.

Are these people Canadians from the east?

So?

Well...

Well, we identified the target

and followed it.

Followed it? What were your orders?

What were your orders?

To eliminate him.

Then when do you plan to start following through?

I demand results by tonight, or you'll be executed.

I'll be waiting for your report.

Go!

-It doesn't work! -It works fine.

When she starts taking her bra off,

the shutter goes down. I put a coin in, the bra's back on.

You're a thief.

You gotta insert the coin faster.

Sorry about that. You should've told me sooner.

Fix the bra problem or I'll close your joint down.

Good evening, sir.

You tell me. I don't know anything about flower symbolism.

How could I say:

"I'm sorry. I feel sorry for what I did. Forgive me."

That'll do.

Thanks.

We're here to model our struggle after yours.

Your struggle against France's arrogant and condescending oppression.

I'm not sure I understood.

Who are you fighting against?

Well, Canada's oppression. We have a lot in common.

These damn Frogs are just like the Canadians, but worse.

We pondered this, we've observed and we've consulted.

This is our conclusion.

Your model is what we'd like to emulate.

That's correc'.

In honor of your fight, we've decided to call ourselves

the FLQ.

We'd like to have meetings with you guys to learn about your methods

because we believe they'd be a good fit with our struggle.

Inch'Allah.

They're really mangling the French language!

This is way out of line!

Inch'Allah.

Dinner's served, sir.

Coming.

What has gotten into you?

As you can see, I'm putting lipstick on to go out.

It's 7:30 and Marthe just served dinner.

Take that coat off and let's eat.

No.

What do you mean, "no"? Who's the boss?

Well I'm tired of being bossed around.

I'm going out.

We can't go out now. Marthe made us dinner.

You misunderstood. I'm going out without you.

What? Where are you going then?

To get some air, some breathing room. We never do anything fun.

We're stuck in a rut. I'm bored.

Good night, Maurice.

When will you be back?

I don't know. I can't tell you whether I'll be back or not.

Will you be having dinner?

No. I won't be eating in either.

André?

Come on, stop sulking.

Sorry I got mad at you yesterday.

Unfortunately, I was right.

You never should've let Mercaillon know you were alive.

He'll try to kill you. The guys who stole the file are killers,

former agents. I'm sure they're on your tail.

Mercaillon, you bastard.

André, can you hear me?

I hope this is tidy enough for you.

My horrible smell won't tickle your nostrils tonight.

I won't be home for dinner. A matter to settle. André.

What the hell are they doing?

Câlice, tu vas-tu parker ton char ?

Calice, tu vas-tu parquer ton char ?

-Tu. -Tu.

-Tu vas-tu. -Tu vas-tu.

That's better.

This is very important if you want to be understood.

Tu vas-tu.

Yes. That's good.

You need to remember it's pronounced câlice, not calice.

And it's parker, not parquer.

What a fascinating language!

Tu vas-tu parker ton char ?

Nice one. Pretty good, pantoute. C'est bon.

C'bon.

-C'bon. -No, c'est bon.

-C'est bon, quand même. -Don't overdo it.

Don't overdo it.

Subtitle translation by Thomas Isackson