Original subtitles

Knippenberg has lost a couple of longhairs

and it's troubling him

I work for the Dutch embassy

Here on the landing cards it says "Santa Cruz Hotel"

They arrived in Bangkok but never made it to the hotel

Where DID they go?

Lena..

Welcome to Kanit House Thank you very much

I want to help you

Please, Lena, just buy the gems

How can we help find them if we've lost their damn photographs?

Nobody has ever caught me, Ajay

No-one

Peace and love, right, Ker-nippenberg?

They are someone's children and they're missing

My God

It's them

Relax. We must take the fever down

Sh, sh

SHE SPEAKS THAI

The man was strangled

THE DOCTOR CONTINUES IN THAI

The woman was hit over the head with a hard object

PAINED BREATHING

SHE CONTINUES IN THAI

There's smoke in both their lungs

So the conclusion is made that

they were still breathing when they were set on fire, sir

Monique?

Please

Help us

Alain, this place is far out

And the price you beat him down to. Cool, man!

Lucky to have found you all

Thank you, Alain

ENGINE APPROACHES

He was a war photographer No!

Yeah. He was in Vietnam Wow

He's here to shoot a spread for Paris Match

How long have you guys been on the road for?

We're not really on the road,

it's just a two-week holiday

RETCHING

RETCHING STARTS AGAIN

Mr Knippenberg Yes, Lawana?

What is this?

The missing enclosure containing the photographs and letters

from Willem Bloem and Helena Dekker arrived this morning

I thought you'd like to see it..

..before it went to the police

Thank you, Lawana

DISTANT SHOUTING IN THAI

This region suffers complex problems, Mr Knippenberg,

and communist insurgents don't stop at national borders

I know I don't need to tell a diplomat of your experience

the fragility of our democracy here

Forgive me, Major General

These people were not revolutionaries

They came here as guests and were killed in your country

And we grieve for them

Pardon me. Are...Are you saying that you won't open a case?

No. The case is open

but our resources here are not limitless

Then you can't investigate?

Major General..

..these people were set on fire while they were still alive

You must investigate this!

It is not for you to give me my orders, Mr Knippenberg

Forgive me

I meant no insult

The impact such terrible atrocities would have on all

those in Western Europe who wish to visit your beautiful country,

if this killer is not found

THEY CONFER IN THAI

Please understand, Mr Knippenberg,

it is not that we do not want these crimes addressed

Of course, sir

Put perhaps, with our consent, you can continue your own inquiries

You have made admirable progress so far

But I-I'm not a policeman

No

Heroin laboratories in Marseille

and elsewhere in the South of France have been shut down

The end of the war in Vietnam..

..leading to the increase you're seeing in

heroin trafficking from this continent to mine and yours

Thank you, Mr Redland

Not for the first time,

Mr Knippenberg must apologise for his late arrival

In this case so late as to be almost entirely pointless

MURMURING

Yes. A-Apologies

My appointment with the police ran over time

And then the traffic, of course

Police, Knippenberg?

Unfortunate business Two of our young,

bodies found in the city morgue

But one for the Thai authorities now

Yes. Although, they, erm, they did suggest that

I continue with my inquiries

Which is, erm, quite preposterous, of course

And not your work

Moving on

DOWNBEAT FOLK MUSIC PLAYS

Herman?

Well, it's incredibly loud!

How was your party? Oh

It was magical There was dancing

Alain Delon was there

He refused to dance with anyone else and invited me to his suite tonight

Well, don't let me stop you

This is them?

Yeah

Good God

Look, here. They both wrote letters from Hong Kong

just days before they left for Bangkok

They talk about the sights they saw, how terrible their hotel was

And then they mention this French gem dealer

based out of Bangkok

He helped Bloem with a ring for Miss Dekker

and then invited them to come and stay at his home with his wife

Well, do they name this French gem dealer?

No Kannika?

KANNIKA REPLIES IN THAI

Did you read the Post today?

The Washington Post?

Yes, Herman, the Washington Post

Kannika, outside, erm..

SHE ATTEMPTS TO ASK FOR THE BANKOK POST IN THAI

Oh, THAT Post!

Everyone was talking about it

A diplomat and a bar girl

"Count Michel-Andre Jurion of the Belgian Embassy is to make himself

"known to the lawyers of Monsieur Alain Chartier..."

I-I'm sorry, Angela, I don't..

This man, Chartier, is a gem dealer

A French gem dealer

What? Based here? Yes! Here in Bangkok

PILOT: We will shortly be landing in Bangkok

Please return to your seats..

SHE SOBS

MUSIC: Requiem Pour Un Con by Serge Gainsbourg

Ecoute les orgues

Elles jouent pour toi

Il est terrible

Cet air la

J'espere que tu aimes

C'est assez beau non

C'est le requiem

Pour en con

Je l'ai compose specialement pour toi

A ta memoire de

Scelerat

C'est un joli theme

Tu ne trouves pas

Semblable a toi meme

Pauvre con

Voici les orgues

Qui remettent ca

Faut qu't'apprennes par coeur

Cet air la

Que tu n'aies pas meme une hesitation...

What is it, do you think, they say?

Eh?

I'll tell you

They ask themselves what a beautiful woman like you..

..is doing with a half-breed like me

How do you know?

Because people have been saying this all my life

Why not go over and say hello?

But you don't call yourself Marie-Andree

Say you're Monique

Tell them you're a fashion model

and I'm your photographer husband

We'll make them love us

It's a game

Hi. Erm, hello. What is your name?

Hi. I'm Viola, nice to meet you

Erm, Monique. My husband, Alain

Alain! Hello. Aw, cute dog

Nah, nah, nah, nah You've got to understand, Alain,

the price of oil quadrupled in under a year!

Imagine what the war was costing the Yanks

with oil at $12 a barrel

There's no way they were staying in Vietnam

No, the ferocity of the Vietcong meant far more

I'll show you a souvenir

From the time I photographed the United States Army retreat

from Huwei

That was a slice of aluminium,

the size of your glass

SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

The day he gave up military campaigns

for fashion campaigns was a great relief

I'm telling you, you know?

VIOLA GROANS

Viola? Are you all right?

Oh. Excuse me

SHE PANTS

Guys, will you give me a minute?

Is she OK? I'll go and see now

Viola, sweetheart? Can I help at all?

I'm sure she'll be fine

Monique!

They're only rich assholes

And when they wake up in the morning,

they will still be rich assholes

They don't merit your concern

Oil Politics. What does he know?

All he does is recite what he's read in a fucking book

You will be handling this problem, correct?

Tell me what this is

Tell me why I should, Cloggy

Two murdered Dutch?

I have letters they wrote home

in which they both describe meeting a French gem dealer

based out of Bangkok

He invited them to come and stay at his home, here

So if this Chartier is the same gem dealer,

he might know what happened to them

You've taken the cops up on their offer, then?

Does your ambassador know?

H-He's been nothing but encouraging

I'll bet!

Pay for my lunch, Herman

Excuse me?

I can't take you to meet this gem dealer,

but if I'm taking you to meet Jurion, you're paying for my lunch

I have my driver. He can take us

No. Send him away

Why?

Because you don't you want him seeing where I'm taking you

INAUDIBLE

LOUD MUSIC

Come on, Cloggy

The gem dealer is suing Jurion, one of our Belgian attaches

It was just a stupid fight over a bar girl

So we go looking for dirt on him, to make him back down. Understand?

Anyway, Jurion hears this crazy story

'ippenberg from the Dutch You say it K..

I know how you say it, Herman It's just easier that way

He shares an interest in your gem dealer

Alain Chartier

Hi. Do you want girl? No

No Thank you

Go on

Two murdered Dutch, they wrote of meeting

a French gem dealer here in Bangkok

He invited them to his house

Well, then it is true! Just like I told you, Siemons!

What is true? Tell him

A French woman, two months back in December,

very frightened, is doing the rounds of the embassies,

looking for help, making accusations, wild accusations,

against a French gem dealer

with an apartment near here in Patpong

What...? What were these accusations?

Drugging and robbery And murder?

Yes Of who?

Of some young longhairs who'd been persuaded

back to the gem dealer's apartment

And you didn't think it fit to tell me?

My two Dutch were burnt alive, for Christ's sake

You know how it works, Herman

Belgium's interests have to be confidential

No, you mean this lecher's reputation was at stake

Hey! Hey! I'm not a lecher

So..

..what happened?

Nothing

Nothing?

No-one did anything?

I suppose you find this story encouraging? This man Chartier,

this enemy you've made. Yeah, he won't be able to slander you

if the Thais prosecute him for murder

Well, he won't And you think to yourself - well,

how many French gem dealers can there be in Bangkok?

Precisely Well, I'll tell you

There are at least two of them

If this man Chartier was the killer, he'd have to be some kind of

fool to openly publish his name over a row with a degenerate Belgian!

Hey.. Which makes you fools as well

Eh, Cloggy. Herman? Look, wait Where are you going?

Where you should have gone immediately

To find that woman

I just hope no harm has come to her

I have been a photographer, just as you have been a fashion model

I am Charles

You know at...Dal Lake?

He was not even my boyfriend

Jules, I mean

We were engaged before

But I broke it off

There was nobody else who wanted to go on holiday with me

Nobody wanted to do anything with me

All you needed to do was..

..ask

Me, I mean

Ask?

From the age of 15, there was no-one and nothing that wanted me

I was denied everything

Not even allowed to be a member of the country

No passport, no papers

All my life

So if I'd waited for the world to come to me, I'd be waiting still

Everything I ever wanted, I had to take it

THEY PANT

MUSIC: 69 Annee Erotique by Serge Gainsbourg

SONG CONTINUES FAINTLY IN BACKGROUND

Er..

THEY CONTINUE TO CHAT

CAR DOORS OPEN AND CLOSE

DOOR BANGS SHUT

COUGHING

Erm..

Salut!

MONKEY CHATTERS

HE LAUGHS

THEY STRUGGLE ON TO CHAIR

Il c'est qui? Sh. English

Why is he here?

I thought you only robbed people

I don't want you doing housework, Marie

Keep him a little sick and he will do anything for you

Hey, hey, hey

We are rescuing him

Hm?

That's what people will say

That nice couple rescued that poor boy

All right?

PHONE LINE RINGS

Hello, my name is Knippenberg

I'm looking for a French woman

She came to you making very specific claims

Claims of drugging, robbery,

murder even

Of course. Erm, thank you for your time

Hello? Hello. Yes

My name is Herman Knippenberg

I'm calling in regard to a French woman

She would've visited you in December,

just walked in off the street I'm sorry, sir, I can't..

She was making very specific claims, about drugging, robbery, murder

Phone back another time LINE CLICKS

Erm, could you check your records to see if she came in to see you?

They're all at lunch I'll leave a message

OK. No problem. Thank you so much

Hello, yes

Yes, erm, my name is Knippenberg, I'm calling from the Dutch Embassy

Might I speak with someone in your consulate department?

I'm calling in regard to a French woman

Yes, a Donna Franchese, yes. She would've visited you in December

Sorry, yes, it's Knippenberg from the Dutch Embassy

Mr Knippenberg

Oh, sorry, I will call you back

Ja..

All the invitations...? Perfect

Knippenberg

Meneer Ambassadeur

PHONE RINGS

Consular department

Mr Knippenberg?

Yes. One moment, please

WHISPERS: The British Embassy, sir Thank you, Lawana

Hello? Cartwright Am I speaking to Knippenberg?

Yes. Herman Knippenberg Yes, I called you earlier

I was calling regarding a French woman who

came to visit you in December

Yes, that's right

She...? You have a record of someone visiting you, yes?

Yep. I saw her myself

MUSIC PLAYS: Les Cactus by Jacques Dutronc

MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH

Excuse me

Monkey! Oh, my God!

Who is your guest, Ajay?

Hey, I'm Teresa

Monique. It's her place

Oh, erm, you're the gem dealer?

I am not

He is the gem dealer

My husband, Alain

HE MOANS

Where've you been?

You've been gone all night

Pattaya

The girl wanted to swim

She and Ajay swam

Will you see these cashed?

The American girl's traveller's cheques

Don't worry

I'll fix the photograph

But she's been here

She can tell the police where we are

No, she can't

You don't need to worry about this

About any of it

Take a photograph

For my mother

So she can see you

See how well we're doing together

Did she not give you her name, Mr Cartwright?

No, she wouldn't She was highly agitated

What DID she tell you?

Just as you described

Allegations against this gem dealer

Drugging, theft.. Murder? Yes!

And you didn't believe her?

It's irrelevant whether I believed her or not

It's not within our gift to help It's far better gone to the police

And? She said that was impossible

This Frenchman had connections with the police

Friendships. Actually, she left something with me

I imagine you'd like to see it Yes. Please

I don't suppose she left a contact address with you,

somewhere that she might be found?

Oh, yes. Yes, she did

There's a slip in the back leaf

But no name? Oh, no, no

Far too frightened Oh, keep it. Keep it. No use to me

This is the man whose diary this was

Willem Bloem

He was burnt alive

What? Oh, no. No. There's no need for that, Knippenberg

And laying next to him is his girlfriend

Helena Dekker. They were very much in love, I believe

What is it you think we're here for? Hm?

I don't mean our work, I mean as human beings

If it is not to have a care for one another, then what is it?

I-I'm sorry. I-I..

LINE RINGS

Belgique Paul, it's Herman

I thought you weren't talking to me, Cloggy

Paul, I've found her, I think

I helped him choose this

You're Monique. I'm Suda

Have you missed me?

Alain told me the monkey died

How did you get in?

FLUSHING

I'm just explaining to my father

that you are Alain's secretary, right?

Oh, you're here already

Good

Colonel Romyen

If we go now, we will make the reservation

MUSIC PLAYS: Vital Juices by Funkadelic

Oh, hang on, I want to show you something. Look

That's my woman, Stephie, and little Cleo

HE LAUGHS

She's like a life raft for me She's beautiful

Mm. So are you

Hey, don't get too close

Oh!

HE LAUGHS

Monique

COUGHING

RETCHING

GROANING AND PANTING

What's wrong with me, man?

You've got to take me to hospital, man

It's OK, my friend, you're safe

I know how you suffer, but relax

I'm just really scared, man

Monique has made you some warm condensed milk

It relieves stomach cramps

Call Stephie I will call Call her

Look who I found

Hey

Lena!

TUNES RADIO

You've been very unwell

We've been looking after you for almost two days now

Wim?

Sh. Hey, he's sleeping

You love him, don't you?

And he loves you

It's like a natural instinct for him

He doesn't have to tell you

You just feel it

Like the sun on your face

Monique

Please

Help us

Please

Why didn't you just do what he wanted?

You should've bought the gems, like I told you

Don't you touch her

What the fuck have you done to us?

RATTLING No. Don't

Don't, please

RATTLING AND SPLASH

That was your medicine

Your medicine makes us sick RATTLING AND SPLASH

What's happening here? Monique

Why haven't they drunk their medicine?

Fuck you, man!

THEY WHISPER

Hey, Wim. Relax, man. Back to bed

Wim, that hurt!

STRUGGLING

No! Monique

Monique, help me!

Monique, please!

Monique! Help me!

BLOWS LAND

OLD-TIMEY SONG DROWNS SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE

DOG BARKS

SCREAMING

DOG BARKS

LOUD GRUNTING

Open the glove compartment

Paul, be serious

I'm intensely serious

Your Dutch Reformist faith in progress has no place here

Men are beasts

It might not be the scared French woman that answers the door

but the murdering French man

It's been months

She might not even be here

If she is in there..

..what then?

Have you thought about that?

You've got a good career waiting for you, Herman

Doing sober, diligent work for your foreign ministry

Going in there with a gun is none of those things

I'm not going to take the gun

I ought to tell you,

Wim Bloem's diary confirms the man's name is not Chartier

It's Gautier

Alain Gautier

So, erm, I don't think Belgium's interests will be served

You can go home, if you like

Fuck Belgium's interests, Cloggy

Keep the engine running? Mm-hm

HE KNOCKS ON DOOR

My name is Herman Knippenberg

I am the Third Secretary at The Embassy

of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Thailand

I am searching for a woman

A woman who has been looking for help

DOOR UNLOCKS

SHE WHISPERS

MUSIC DROWNS VIOLENCE: Tous Les Visages De L'amour by Charles Aznavour

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