[in French] Here's your bag.
[woman sobs]
[in French] He's going to Australia to work on a yacht.
[in French] Come on, that's enough.
[in French] He's not going to war.
[in French] Have a good trip, son.
Hey, Papa.
[indistinct PA announcement]
[pilot, in French] Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,
this is your captain speaking.
[in French] Welcome on board this Air France Boeing 747 to Singapore.
[speaks Thai]
[overlapping chatter]
[in French] Dear Mum and Dad...
[in French] The yachts and Australia were amazing,
but I spent every day with the sort of people I've known all my life.
[in French] I will be home soon,
but first I want to have some new experiences.
Excuse me, do you have a light?
Uh, yes.
[in French] French?
[in French] Yes.
Alain.
[in French] Hello. Dominique.
[insects chirping]
[Angela sighs]
-Please. -Thank you.
So, I was given this diary at the British Embassy.
Alongside a note with your address on it,
which is how we came to find you.
I believe this diary belongs to... belonged to this man.
Willem Bloem, or Wim.
-You do know this man? -No.
Not really, Monsieur Knippenberg.
You did see...
You did see this couple at the same apartments as Gautier?
No, I didn't. But I believe they were there.
Madame Gires, did you ever actually see them?
I'm sorry, but no.
Then, well, why did you take this?
Madam Gires, please... Look, this man, yes?
This man... He now looks like this!
Hey. What do you think you're doing?
You brought us here, remember? You're supposed to be helping us.
I...
[in French] What am I supposed to say? He's crazy!
I'm sorry. He... He didn't mean to be so, uh, insensitive.
But he found the bodies of these two Dutch, do you see?
And he identified them. It was awful for him.
We very much want to find out what happened to them.
What happened to them?
The same thing that happened to all of them.
What do you mean by that?
All?
"All" is more than two Dutch.
How many?
A number? How many people are we talking about here?
I don't know. Many.
[Charles, in French] Wasn't it all a little bourgeois?
[in French] White boys in white T-shirts on white yachts?
[Dominique, in French] Yes. That's why I haven't gone home yet.
[Charles, in French] You're looking for something different?
[Dominique, in French] Yes.
[chuckles]
[Charles, in French] You trust me?
[yelling]
[Dominique whooping]
[Dominique coughs and groans]
[Charles, in French] I've always known boys like you, Dominique.
[in French] My mother sent me to a French boarding school.
[in French] A half-caste boy from Saigon. You can imagine how I was bullied.
[in French] When my mother returned for me,
I had forgotten all my Vietnamese.
[in French] I could speak only French.
[in French] I had forgotten everything.
[Dominique groans]
[in French] Mind the step.
[in French] If he's been so ill, shouldn't he go to a hospital?
[in French] No, absolutely not.
[in French] The hospitals here are a death sentence.
[in French] Yes...
[in French] And we're caring for you here. Right, Dominique?
-[Charles, in French] Sit down. -[monkey squeaks]
[Charles, in French] That's Coco.
[Charles, in French] Before you eat, however, medicine.
[in French] What is the correct amount, Monique?
[in French] One glass, twice a day.
[in French] Here you go.
[in French] Well... cheers!
[Dominique groans]
[in French] I don't know what to say, Alain!
[in French] If you can just help Monique around the place.
[in French] Of course, anything. You tell me.
-[in French] Get better. -[in French] Thank you.
[door shuts]
[insects chirp]
[in French] Fuck.
[in French] Remi...
[in French] Do you remember?
[in French] Fuck.
-What? -The radio here.
Alain gave it to me.
He gave it to me as a gift.
As a reward, you mean.
[in French] You're an asshole.
[in French] Me, an asshole?
-[in French] Yeah, an asshole. -[in French] Really?
[in French] If you'd listened to me from the start,
we wouldn't have been living through hell all this time!
I brought clients to him.
-To Gautier? -Yes.
Clients for his gem business?
Yes. You see, I used to take him to parties at the Alliance Française
and introduce him to people there.
Alain is very good at going to parties.
They all were.
[Remi] Party, party, party.
[in French] And what was I supposed to do?
[in French] Wait for you at home?
[in French] They were neighbors.
[in French] How could I have known? They were neighbors!
You marry a chef...
get used to your own loneliness.
So, yes, I was lonely.
I think that is what he saw,
that he looked for it in the people he met.
So, if you were lonely, or sad, or lost... Whatever you may have needed,
even if you didn't know it yourself, you see?
He saw it.
And he fixed it.
It was like the sun shone on you.
[overlapping chatter and laughter]
[retching]
[in French] Get me to a doctor. I'm dying.
[in French] Calm, Dominique. You don't need a doctor.
[in French] I've got to call my parents.
[Charles, in French] Don't call them, they will only worry.
[in French] It's an ordeal, I know.
[in French] But see it as a purge.
[in French] Once recovered, you will feel...
like a new boy.
[in French] No...
[in French] Like a man.
[in French] A man who doesn't need his mama.
[retches]
-[Ajay] Charles! -You call me Alain.
-[Charles] Ready to go to work? -Yeah.
[Charles] Let me introduce you to Ajay.
-[Ajay] Time to party, girls. -[girls laugh]
Hey, look who I found.
You have a girlfriend?
["Funk #49" by The James Gang playing]
[in French] Ah, Dominique, I have a present for you.
You both look very handsome.
You live with these guys?
Yeah, they are cool.
7:00 a.m.
As soon as it starts ringing, I gotta go.
[thudding]
[monkey squeaks]
[exhales]
[stomach gurgles]
[in French] That is not for you, Coco!
[retches]
Coco!
[groans]
[clock ticking]
[exhales]
[monkey shrieks]
Coco?
[Marie-Andrèe] You ought to be more careful, Dominique.
It was medication for a grown man. He was only a tiny little monkey.
[Ajay] What do you think is going on here, Dominique?
You think we like having you shitting yourself four times a day?
That we want to spend all of this money on toilet paper?
[Dominique] No, of course not.
[in French] Listen, Alain,
I just want to see how I feel without it, you know?
[in French] Of course he must stop taking the medicine, if that's what he wants.
[in French] You mustn't force him.
[in French] Also, Alain...
I was wondering, can I have my passport back?
[in French] Of course.
[Charles] Dominique is asking that I return his passport.
[Dominique] I feel much better.
And I cannot stay with you forever, after all.
I went to Australia to, um... working on the boats.
I was traveling back to France when you found me.
I don't buy gems, I have no money.
I want to finish my journey now.
I want to go home.
[in French] Now don't worry, Dominique, I have been a little naughty with you.
[in French] It's just something I do for the business. For us.
[Dominique gasps]
Of course, I will change it back for you.
As you can see, I'm very good at it.
But your tourist visa has expired
because you were too sick to renew it.
And they will not let you travel without it.
But don't worry,
my friends at the French Embassy owe me a few favors.
Stay close to the apartment.
If the police stop you, you will go to jail for this.
[in French] Don't worry.
[Herman] Any more information you could give us would be very helpful.
Information about the people you mentioned, coming and going, ages--
[Siemons] Never mind about them for now, Cloggy.
Tell me about him. Gautier.
That's his real name?
That's the only name I heard him use, yes.
The same for Monique or Ajay.
[Remi] He had the initials "CS" on his shirts, but maybe he stole them.
Ajay, who is Indian. Monique, who is French-Canadian.
But what is Gautier? French, yes?
I thought so, yes. He speaks like a Frenchman.
He said he went to school in France.
But he's also...
[in French] Asian.
[Nadine] Yes. He talked about growing up in Saigon.
And that he and Ajay met in India.
-Right. -And that's it.
Perhaps he lived in Saigon,
perhaps he's from India, but he's French.
And he might be called Gautier. Where is he now?
We don't know.
We haven't seen him since Christmas.
But every night, we are scared they'll walk through the door.
Christmas? That's over two months ago.
Herman, this is a waste of time, it's... [blows]
No, it is not. He could be out there killing people right now!
And we must take them to the police station today.
-Oh, no, we don't. -Why not?
Major General Janthasin of the Bangkok Central Division
has encouraged Herman to report back--
The one who said he was welcome
-to keep on investigating? -Yes.
You have a very German faith in authority, but none of this is evidence, woman.
Okay.
Well, over to you then, Mr. Siemons, sir. What is it you suggest we do?
You come with me to my car, where I will collect my pistol.
Then we find this... might be yellow, might be brown, whoever he is,
and I shoot him through the mouth.
We're not going to shoot him.
Then what are you going to do?
I can and I will find a way to corroborate the details she has given us elsewhere.
-Like a report, then? -Yes, like a report.
The kind you take to your ambassador?
Assemble statistics and costs?
-Cross-reference your sources. -Yes.
Yes, a case I can present to Janthasin that will force him to make the arrests.
You're a functionary.
A functionary whose efforts
have meant the parents of Wim Bloem and Lena Dekker
will now be able to bury their children.
A functionary who, at each turn, was told to leave it and forget them,
-and who you now insult in his own home. -Angela, please.
No! I won't stand for it.
My apologies, Mrs. Knippenberg.
What?
What? You don't think we need him?
[Herman] Paul! Paul, wait.
Please! Paul!
[Herman] We need to protect these witnesses.
[Siemons] And I already told you how I'd do that.
Let me know if you change your mind.
I'm sorry if I upset your new friend.
They think I've saved them now.
[Herman] But what if Gautier returns and finds them gone?
He'd be suspicious, and he would target them next.
We have a big house. They don't have to go back.
They can stay here until we've worked out what to do.
I don't know what to do.
-Paul is right, I am just a functionary. -That's not true.
You have valuable and important qualities.
That fat Belgian mocked you for it.
But so what? We'll do exactly as he said.
Assemble the information?
Research the facts. Cross-reference our sources?
Write a report, Herman.
Nadine and Remi know more than they realize. Keep them talking.
Thank you.
[Dominique, in French] Alain, maybe I should talk to the police myself.
[Charles, in French] No, Dominique. That's a very bad idea.
[in French] But why?
[in French] No. Wait in the car.
[mutters in French]
[Charles, in Thai] I can give you a lift home.
[in Thai] See, I've brought the car.
[in Thai] And dinner tomorrow?
[Suda and officer speaking Thai]
[in French] I'm taking Colonel Romyen and Suda home.
[in French] Take a tuk-tuk back.
[in French] I know the authorities here and how to deal with them.
[in French] I told Colonel Romyen you're here illegally
but that I vouch for you.
[in French] Let me handle everything. Okay?
[in French] And...
[in French] About Monique and Suda...
[funk music plays]
[man laughs]
[Nadine, in French] Dominique, why do you look so unhappy?
[in French] I'm fine.
Dominique, let's go to the Santa Cruz.
You know what kind of girls there are?
Japanese girls. German girls.
Any kind of girl you want, I'll help you get one.
I think I'm just going to stay here, Ajay.
You know, you don't always have to be a little pussy.
Do not call him that. Hmm?
He's a nice person.
-Not a fucking pig like you. -Whoa!
Take it easy, Monique. Please don't get sand in your vagina.
-[in French] What an asshole. -[in French] Yes, for sure.
[both, in French] How you doing?
[in French] Going to work already?
[in French] Alas...
-[in French] You're good? -[in French] Yeah.
-[man groans] -[partygoers gasp]
-[Nadine] Oh! [speaks French] -[Marie-Andrée] Shit.
[man retches]
[insects chirp]
[door closes]
[Charles and Ajay grunt]
Monique?
[in French] Where are they taking him?
[in French] The hospital.
[in French] He is very sick.
[door closes]
[man grunting]
[breathes heavily]
Hello?
[Ajay laughs]
Hi, Dominique.
-[woman] I'm gonna get dressed. -While the cats are away, right?
Alain said that he was taking Monique to Pattaya for the weekend.
Said she deserved a break.
Which is weird, because it's not like she ever does anything.
But I'm here.
If you need anything, you let me know, okay?
-Okay. -Maybe tonight we can go out.
-Yeah. -Okay.
-You want to join? -No. No, man.
[Ajay laughs]
[clock ticking]
[Ajay laughs]
-[Ajay] Go to the sex clubs yet? -[woman] No, not yet. You gonna take me?
[Ajay] You're in for a treat.
[Marie-Andrée speaks French in distance]
[indistinct chatter]
[Herman] You had never been suspicious of Gautier before this point, Nadine?
[Angela] You said you liked him. You worked with him,
-went to parties... -Yeah.
What changed your mind?
It's not "what" changed it.
"Who."
Dominique.
Who is Dominique?
My friend.
And where is he now?
We don't know.
[clattering in distance]
[woman groans]
[in French] Who is she?
[in French] The lover of the Turk.
[in French] The guy who got sick at the party?
[in French] Who went to hospital?
[in French] Yes.
[in French] What's wrong with her?
[in French] They are both junkies, you know?
[in French] Junkies and heroin smugglers.
[in French] They are not worth your concern.
[in French] Why does everyone who comes here get sick?
I would like to make a call to France, please?
Telephone number?
[line ringing]
[father, in French] Hello?
[in French] Hello?
[tearfully, in French] Hi, Dad.
-[in French] Dominique, is that you? -[in French] Yes, it's me.
[in French] How are you? How is Mum?
[in French] She is fine but she misses you.
[in French] I miss both of you too.
[in French] Where are you?
Um...
-[in French] I'm in Bangkok. -[in French] Bangkok, still?
[in French] Yes.
[in French] Dominique, when are you coming home?
[in French] I...
[in French] I... I've been a little bit sick, um...
[in French] You've been sick?
[mother, in French] Give me the phone!
[in French] Dominique? Dominique, my God, are you okay?
[in French] No, really, I'm better.
[father, in French] You have to come home!
-[in French] I... -[father mutters in French]
[in French] I can't come back, Dad.
[in French] I can't come back, it's so expensive.
[in French] I love you so much and I think of you all the time and...
[mother, in French] Dominique! My God, you must come home!
[hangs up phone]
[sobs quietly]
[door thuds and rattles]
[thudding continues]
-[gasps] -[Ajay] Dominique?
[Ajay] Wakey, wakey.
Dominique, open the door.
[banging on door]
-[Ajay] I'm not going to say it again. -[banging continues]
[Dominique] One second!
-[Ajay] Open the fucking door! -[banging continues]
-Why'd you lock the door? -Uh...
What happened to the lights?
Damn power cuts.
Alain wants to see you.
-Now? -Mm-hmm.
[Wim and Lena groaning]
Alain?
[Charles, in French] Take a seat, I'm coming.
[Charles] Mon amour, have Wim and Lena taken their medicine?
[Marie-Andrée] Yes, Alain.
[Ajay] Did you meet Stephane? You would have liked her.
It's a good life that I provide here.
I have been good to you.
Yes, of course.
Then you understand why it's hard for me to accept
that you just want to leave?
I just haven't seen my parents in so long, you know?
[Charles] Ajay, do you miss your parents and want to go home?
No, Alain. I like it here.
You see? Ajay understands what you do not.
What is it that I don't understand?
That the man you have become
is not the boy your papa and mama waved goodbye to.
Your family, your home. You can never go back now.
You have been away too long
and seen too much.
Now, I know I said that I would help you,
that I would fix your passport and your visa.
But the truth is...
I don't want to help you leave.
You are not my friend, Dominique.
You are my brother.
-[breathes shakily] -And this is where you belong.
[woman groaning in distance]
Hurry up.
[Lena groans]
[Lena continues groaning in distance]
[Herman] Did Dominique say if Monique was directly involved in the murders?
[Nadine] She drugged Dominique. But murder? No.
When they left before Christmas, she looked scared.
-[Remi] Yeah, scared of going to jail. -[Nadine] No, scared of Alain.
[Nadine] Scared of what he might do to her.
I haven't heard from her since.
Ajay?
Has he told you what we're going to do with her?
You can't take dogs on airplanes.
No, Monique, he hasn't.
Maybe we should drop her in a canal.
[Ajay chuckles]
[in French] Are you leaving already?
[Charles, in French] Just a little trip to Hong Kong.
Monique needs a holiday. Doesn't she, Ajay?
All these guests she has to care for.
-[in French] You okay, Monique? -[in French] Yeah, bye.
I may return for a day or two, here and there.
Don't worry, I've asked Colonel Romyen to pass by from time to time
to check in on you.
Okay.
[in French] A little present to say thanks. Merry Christmas.
[in French] Thank you so much.
[Nadine tunes radio]
[in French] Thank you, Alain.
[Ajay] Merry Christmas, Dominique.
[Nadine] Ciao!
[Nadine, in French] Dominique, come for supper?
Dominique?
-[Nadine, in French] Dominique, it's me! -[knocking on door]
[in French] Dominique, please open.
[in French] Remi is going to kick down the door!
[in French] Nadine, I'm not...
[in French] Open!
[in French] How can I trust you, Nadine?
[in French] You help him sell his jewels.
[in French] You take his gifts and his money.
Huh?
[in French] I don't know what you're talking about.
-[in French] I got you food. -[in French] No, no...
[in French] Dominique, please open the door.
-[Nadine] Dominique! -[banging on door]
[Dominique] Shh. Shh.
[in French] She...
[in French] She came to the apartment a week ago.
[in French] You remember the Turkish guy who got ill at the party?
[in French] She came looking for him. I saw Alain and Ajay take her away.
[in French] The other one is the Dutch couple.
[in French] Dutch? It says Australian.
[in French] It's the Dutch couple who were staying here!
-[in French] How can you be sure? -[in French] I saw them, Nadine.
[in French] They were here lying on the bed.
[in French] Right by the clock that belonged to that American girl.
[in French] Alain made them sick, just like the Turk, just like me.
[in French] Why have they kept me around for so long?
[in French] What are they going to do with me?
[in French] Dominique, listen, we go to the police.
[in French] No, we can't!
[in French] He is friends with the police.
[in French] He could be back from Hong Kong any moment!
[in French] I don't want to die here.
[in French] Of course you won't die, you're going to leave--
[in French] How?
[in French] I have no money, no passport! My visa's expired!
[in French] I'm screwed, he's trapped me here!
[in French] No, we can help. We have money.
-[in French] No? -[in French] How? No visa, no passport?
[in French] We will find a solution. [shushes]
[in French] Calm down.
[knocking on door]
-[in French] It's me, Remi. -[exhales]
[in French] I'll pay you back, I swear.
[in French] This is mine.
[in French] Damn.
[in French] It's okay.
[in French] Just remove the picture and replace it with yours.
[in French] Get a knife, look for some glue.
-[in French] It'll work. -[in French] Okay.
[in French] What is that?
[in French] You said a knife.
[in French] What about the visa?
[in French] You can't get through without it.
[in French] What about these French passports? Maybe in one of them?
[in French] Found one.
-[in French] Is it valid? -[in French] Yes.
[in French] You're going home.
-[in French] You're going home! -[in French] It's her.
[in French] Who?
[in French] The dead girl in the newspaper.
[Dominique, in French] What if he's at the airport?
[in French] Maybe he's been watching us!
[Nadine, in French] Don't worry, it'll be okay.
[in French] Thank you.
[Nadine sobs]
I think my neighbor is a murderer...
[Nadine] I tried to get help from the embassies...
-[speaks French] -...but nobody wanted to help me.
-You are my only option. -Look...
[Nadine] The worst part is that we don't know if Dominique made it.
He was so scared of running into Alain coming back from Hong Kong.
So we said, "Write to us from France. Let us know."
-Where? -Of course, not at the apartments,
-in case it was intercepted, but... -Of course.
...care of Poste Restante.
She goes every week, but...
Nothing.
I'll go and check my mailbox again today.
Well, we know how to check whether he left the country, don't we?
-Angela? -Coming!
[indistinct PA announcement]
Do you remember me? Mr. Knippenberg.
This is my wife Angela. She will translate.
I am looking for an exit stamp of a French citizen.
Male. Renelleau, Dominique.
[in Thai] We are looking for an exit stamp.
[in Thai] Around 25th December last year.
[in Thai] Here. He definitely left the country.
Someone left under his name using his passport.
Well, it might just as well have been Gautier.
He forged it once. He could have done it again.
You mean to actually travel
and not just use his victims' passports to cash their stolen travelers' cheques?
Hold on. Sorry.
You remember a Dutch couple last time?
A Miss Helena Dekker and Willem Bloem.
[in Thai] The same question.
[in Thai] Exit stamps for Bloem and Dekker, December 1975.
[speaks Thai]
[in Thai] Get them something to eat.
-No-- -Herman, eat it.
[door opens]
[in Thai] They also left the country.
[Herman] Yes, that's them.
Both flew out on the same day, 18th December.
When we know they were both burned alive in a roadside ditch on 16th December.
Gautier must have flown as Willem, and the girl as Lena.
I think he's killing people and using their passports to travel on
to confuse the police.
Then what about Dominique?
Is he dead on a roadside,
and the other one, Ajay, now using his passport?
[indistinct PA announcement]
[woman on PA] Flight number 302 from Hong Kong.
Your luggage will be available to collect from carousel number five.
Attention, please. Air France Flight 37 to Paris is now ready to board at gate 12.
[woman argues with official in Thai]
[woman raises voice louder]
[guard shouts in Thai]
[Dominique breathes heavily]
[presses stamp]
Have a great trip.
[child laughs]
This is your seat.
[engines whirring]
[engines thrusting]
[overlapping chatter]
[Dominique, in French] My dear Nadine and Remi.
[in French] It's hard to explain why I haven't written until now.
[in French] It is one thing to be safe, but another to feel it.
[in French] Every morning I wake terrified I am still there in Kanit House.
[in French] I've just wanted to forget it all.
[in French] But you must know,
not a day goes by when I don't thank God for the two of you and all you did for me.
[in French] Your friend, Dominique.
[Nadine chuckles tearfully]
-[Charles, in French] Hello, Nadine. -[gasps]
[in French] How are you?
[in French] Alain! Where have you been?
Monique!
[in French] I missed you.
[in French] You look great!
-So how was the trip? -[Marie-Andrée] It was beautiful.
And good for business too.
Good news?
Yeah, it's just my father... He's like...
He thinks Remi doesn't make money so he sends me cash.
And you've heard nothing from Dominique?
No. Why would I?
It's only, we... we just got back...
and he's clearly been gone for quite some time.
We were getting worried.
Did you see him?
No.
Is Remi with you?
No. He's working.
[Marie-Andrée] We have the car outside.
We can take you home if you like?
Yes, with pleasure. I just need to, you know...
[Nadine] Okay. [chuckles]
[Angela] Nadine? Remi?
-[sighs, curses in Dutch] -[curses in German]
-[Angela] We can't possibly go. -[Herman] It's the Ambassador's birthday.
[Herman] It'll be remarked upon if we're not there.
[Angela] And God forbid it might be remarked upon.
-Hey. -[Herman] Remi.
-You're going to a party? -Yeah, a silly embassy thing.
There's documentation that says Dominique left the country.
Actually we don't know that it was him that left.
We also have evidence that suggests that Gautier and Monique
travelled on the passports of my two Dutch.
Who knows where they've ended up
-and how many people they've murdered-- -Herman.
Yes. Sorry, Remi.
Where's Nadine?
She went to check her mailbox again, to see if Dominique has written...
and she should have been home an hour ago.