[phone rings]
[ringing continues]
-Hello? -Nadine?
-The police are coming. -When?
This afternoon.
-Uh... -Nadine, did you hear what I said?
Yes, Angela. That is very kind of you,
but I don't think I can make it for tonight.
-Nadine? -Another time.
Goodbye.
-[Herman] What is it? -She just hung up.
I think he was with her.
[in French] Who is Angela?
[in French] Oh, no-one. I don't really like her.
[in French] She is trying to learn mahjong and wants me to join,
but I don't feel like going.
[in French] Her loss.
-[in French] Shall we go? -[in French] Yes.
[line ringing]
Knippenberg, I got your message. What the hell's going on?
Janthasin has agreed to send police into Kanit House,
but under the pretext of a narcotics raid
so Gautier won't suspect Nadine.
-Cloggy, you did it! -Yes, Paul, but listen.
We were on the phone to her and I believe Gautier overheard.
-But you said the cops are going in. -In two hours!
I'm trying to get through to Janthasin to get him to move right away.
Christ, Herman!
We didn't think she'd get trapped there.
Paul, listen, I need you to go there right away.
-All right. -Just until the police arrive.
All right, my friend.
Finally, we do it my way.
Paul, as soon as I've squared things with Janthasin, I'll be right behind you.
[line continues ringing]
[chattering]
I found her in here yesterday, snooping around.
Then she and Remi left as soon as it got dark
and then she comes back this morning alone.
You know how close she and Dominique were.
I know, Ajay. I see these things.
[in French] I think I'm through with Asia now.
Alain is moving the business to Europe.
We're going to be moving there.
[in French] But you only just got back. When are you leaving?
[in French] Oh, not for a few months.
But that's where I want to be now.
He's taking me to meet his mother.
-[in French] Where? Europe? France? -Mai Tais!
-This one's for you. -Thank you, but it's a bit early for me.
They're good, Nadine. And Ajay went to the trouble.
[Ajay] Yes, Nadine, I went to the trouble. Drink.
[Charles] You should try.
To friends.
[phone rings]
Hello?
Angela, she still won't pick up the damn phone.
[Angela] Remi's here. He's going out of his mind.
-Well, he's not the only one. -But what are you going to do?
[hushed] Major General Janthasin!
I have to go.
-Major General, thank you. -Knippenberg...
a man in your position ought to understand,
limited resources stretched to breaking...
I cannot spare the men yet.
Major General, with all respect, I do,
but a woman's life is in danger. Please, you have to act now.
[thudding]
-[Charles] Again. -[man] You sure, man?
[man grunts]
-Whoa! Shit, brother! -You see? Everything is in the mind.
Yeah, whatever you say, man. That's strong magic.
[in French] Nadine, your turn.
[in French] No, I don't feel like it.
Alain, no. She does not want to.
Do not force her.
[in French] Leave her alone.
Hey, Monique, we should go.
Where are you going?
[Charles] Monique has a new dress being made she wants to try on,
and I want Ajay to collect something for me.
-[in French] When will you be back? -Uh...
[in French] I don't know. With the traffic...
Maybe I should--
Come on!
[phone rings]
[speaks Thai]
[in Thai] Captain, as many men as you can gather. But it must happen now.
[in Thai] Understood, sir.
[in Thai] Green unit!
[in Thai] New orders! We go, now!
[officers calling out in Thai]
[tires screech]
[horns honking]
[sighs]
[engine revs]
[tires screech]
[Paul breathes heavily]
[in French] Shit! Crap!
[in French] Come and try.
[in French] I don't feel like it.
I think maybe I should go.
[in French] Try.
-[gentle thud] -[in French] Harder.
[Nadine gasps]
[in French] Shit, I think I've sprained my wrist. I'll go up for some ice.
[in French] Let me see.
I find it hard to understand Dominique didn't say a thing to you.
You were so close.
[in French] I've heard nothing from him.
[in French] He had no passport, no money.
We were his only friends in Bangkok.
It's so hard to understand how he left, never mind why.
[in French] I miss him too. I don't know what to say.
-[in French] I miss him too. -[in French] You're really hurting me.
[Nadine gasps]
[in French] Better?
Good. Let me show you why it hurt.
First make a fist. Squeeze hard like this.
And when you strike, use your hip.
[Nadine gasps]
[Nadine breathes rapidly]
-[in French] I know you helped Dominique. -[Nadine sobs]
[in French] Okay? But who is going to help you?
-Who? -[Nadine sobs]
[in French] Let me go home. Please.
-[Nadine sobs] -[Charles shushes]
-[horns honking] -[man] What are you doing?
You can't leave your car there!
[Paul] Nadine?
[Paul] Nadine!
Paul!
[in French] What are you doing here?
[in French] They're not here! They're not here.
-[in French] Is that him? -[in French] Yes, but follow me.
[Charles] Nadine?
[in French] This is Paul. He works with Remi.
-Join us, Paul? -No, thanks. I can't stand this heat.
[in French] The police are on their way. Herman is telling them to come now.
[in French] No! I told you, they're not here!
[in French] Who? The other two? So what? The cops can take Gautier and--
[in French] No! They must arrest the three!
Or Remi and I, we're dead.
[in French] Then you need to go back down.
And keep him where we can see him.
[Lawana] Mr. Knippenberg!
-[Lawana] Mr. Knippenberg! Wait! -Yotin, get in the car.
[approaching footsteps]
Lawana, I cannot wait! I need to get to Kanit House now.
Telephone. Mr. Siemons. Very urgent!
-She said what? -[Paul] Don't make me say it again.
-Is she out of her damn mind? -No, Herman, she's terrified.
She still wants us to wait. Besides, you want them all, don't you?
All right, Paul. I'll do it.
Get me Janthasin on the phone now.
[in French] Feeling better, Nadine?
[in French] Oh, you don't punch that hard.
[in French] Now I want to swim.
[plays peaceful melody]
[Janthasin] Knippenberg, you will forgive my confusion.
But first you want my men to go in as soon as possible,
and now you want them to wait?
Major General, I will explain everything in due course.
Only look, I am begging you,
you have to make them wait. Please!
[tires screech]
-[speaks Thai] -[in Thai] Stop what you are doing.
[in Thai] You must wait until all three suspects are in the apartment.
[in Thai] Understood.
[radio chatter]
[peaceful music continues]
[Marie-Andrée, muffled] Nadine?
Nadine?
[in French] Everything okay?
[in French] All good.
[phone rings]
Knippenberg?
[radio operator, in Thai] Wait for order, do you copy?
[tires screech]
-[vehicles approach] -[tires screech]
[officers calling out in Thai]
Something is about to happen. You must listen to me.
As long as you do everything I say, there is nothing to fear.
Marie, all of your jewelry, put it on. Put it on.
As much as you can find!
[Charles] Take this.
[officers shouting in Thai]
[Charles] Do it.
Trust me.
[officers shouting in Thai]
[dog whines]
[in Thai] Captain. There's no key for the safe.
[in Thai] Let's take the whole thing. Take them away.
[indistinct PA announcement]
Flight NL652 from Hong Kong has now landed.
-[Ajay] Dominique, where the fuck are you? -[Marie-Andrée] Dominique?
[Marie-Andrée] Alain, all Dominique's things are gone.
[Marie-Andrée] Did he take anything from the safe?
Only his passport.
It'll be of no use to him. It has your photograph in it.
-Unless he changed it. -Dominique? No. He wouldn't know how.
Perhaps he had help.
-Nadine? -Mm-hmm.
Should we leave now? Get out?
No, nothing changes.
I wonder if his parents still write to him.
[Marie-Andrée in Thai] Hello.
We are worried about a friend. Can we check if he has collected his mail?
Dominique Renelleau.
[Charles, in French] Hello, Nadine.
[in French] Everything okay?
Good news? Heard anything from Dominique?
No. Why would I?
It's only, we... we just got back...
and he's clearly been gone for quite some time.
[Charles] We were getting worried.
Did you see him?
No.
[laughter]
Remi!
[in French] I'm sorry.
[in French] How are you doing, my darling? I'm sorry.
I told him I'd call him, but I completely forgot.
[in French] Your commission. For all the buyers you brought to me.
[in French] Thank you so much.
Bye-bye.
[in French] Thanks again, Alain.
[Marie-Andrée, in French] You're sure it's safe to stay?
[Charles, in French] I understand your fears, my darling,
but you must simply trust me and all will be well.
[Charles] Did I not call you, Miss Suda? Every week I was gone?
And each time you said you would be home the following week.
It was three months.
I didn't stay away from you for so long because I was enjoying myself.
I was working.
These are both for you.
Choose.
How much is this?
I want you to spend it all. I trust you.
This is it, Suda.
The moment we've been waiting for.
That will set us up forever.
Now, I want you to ask
for the largest single consignment we've ever ordered.
Rubies. Sapphires. We want only the very best.
So much money could raise suspicion.
And for Bangkok? You could never sell it.
For Bangkok, yes. But not for Paris.
So you're leaving again?
But I will return.
Open the box.
[Suda] Oh...
[Charles] Try it on.
Here.
But my father should be here.
But I don't want to marry your father.
Yes, I am going to Paris,
but only for a very short time,
because my home, where my heart is,
where I want my love to live, with all our little babies...
that will be here. In Bangkok. With you.
[Ajay] You guys! Congratulations!
Chérie, I hate to ask it,
but if I don't take back Frankie to Monique, the world will end.
Will you take care of this for me?
-Don't you need it? -Not for a few days.
It's a small thing, but important to me.
-I'll see you. -See you.
So what are you gonna do with Monique then?
That is not for you to worry about.
You and I will move backwards and forwards as we please.
Gems in Bangkok, money in Paris.
More gems, more money.
More than you could ever spend.
[in Thai] Excuse me.
-[Charles] Suda, it's me. -Hello.
-All set for tonight? -Dinner will be ready at eight.
But guests will start arriving around seven
and they are all desperate to meet you.
My cousins are here preparing already.
The family loves engagement parties.
It will be a wonderful occasion.
-Suda, do you have it? -Yes.
-And? -There's a lot of stones.
And I think you'll be happy.
-Are you? -Mm-hmm.
Then that's all that matters.
-I'll see you later. -I'll see you tonight.
-[in Thai] Goodbye. -[in Thai] Goodbye.
[women singing in distance]
[all singing in Thai]
[woman, in Thai] The guy who called you is your sexy farang boyfriend, Suda?
-All set then? -[Charles] All set.
[chatter]
[officer] Step forwards.
-[officer] Possessions? -Uh...
-I do not have any. -[officer] Jewelry.
-Nadine! -[in French] Darling, I'm so sorry!
[in French] No more playing Mata Hari.
[in French] I promise.
-Cheers. -Cheers.
[no audible dialogue]
[Paul] So this is what wine tastes like.
-[Herman] It's a good choice, Remi. -Thank you.
-[Nadine] I think it's time we went home. -[Remi] Oh, no! Not now!
[Remi] Not before I taste this Armagnac.
[Herman] You spotted it earlier? Paul?
-Oh, yeah. -[Kannika] Excuse me!
[Angela, in Thai] Yes, Kannika?
[in Thai] A call from the police station asking for Mr. Knippenberg.
-The police are calling. -The police?
What?
Yes, Knippenberg.
What?
Nobody denies it is Mr. Gautier's apartment,
but there was no Mr. Gautier there.
Captain Chupong, if I may,
so I know that we are talking about the same person...
This man.
You didn't find this man at the apartments?
He is an American citizen.
David Gore. As you see.
[Paul] Jesus Christ.
Captain, I'm not sure you...
This man is Alain Gautier.
This man's name is Mr. Gore.
And like his two friends, he is a foreign tourist
staying at Mr. Gautier's residence in his absence.
8I have no basis to hold any of them.
Please, Captain, he is just using Gore's name.
I follow evidence.
Maybe if I could speak with Major General Janthasin?
The Major General has placed me in charge of this investigation.
Me.
Then please understand, the passport is a forgery.
Just look at the last few places that Gore has been.
Contact the police there, and you will see that the real David Alan Gore
-has been robbed or worse-- -Mr. Knippenberg...
where would you suggest I begin that little hunt?
He's been to every country on the planet. Shit!
This... This man is Alain Gautier.
And this is what he does.
He robs, kills.
He changes his identity in the same way you and I would change our underwear.
Have you checked the contents of his safe?
It's where he keeps the passports of his victims.
We do not know what is in the safe.
We cannot open it without the presence of its owner... Mr. Gautier.
[laughs]
Paul...
-I'd like to speak to a policeman. -Paul, please.
A real policeman.
Is there a real policeman in this stinking squat-pot?
-Paul! -What?
Get out. Let me handle this.
Sure. That always works.
To hell with these connards!
My apologies, Captain Chupong.
Thank you.
How long will you hold them for?
Their release papers are already being prepared.
No, please...
Look, the Major General himself ordered the arrests of these suspects.
For you to release them barely within two hours
would reflect poorly on his judgment, don't you think?
Captain, you are an ambitious man...
and I admire that.
So I ask you, imagine if I am right.
Imagine Janthasin's embarrassment.
Particularly when I describe to him the conversation
that you and I are having now.
And the offer that I am making to you to please hold them.
[thunder rumbles]
[Herman] They are keeping him until 12 noon.
Noon?
How the hell are you gonna prove he's Gautier by noon?
It's as long as I could force Chupong to agree to.
-We have to do something! -"We"? I'm done.
No. Look, I have an idea--
Yeah? You've also got an asshole you can shove it up.
Paul, please, I...
We may not be able to prove that he is Gautier by 12 p.m.,
but we can prove that he's lying about who he is.
David Alan Gore's passport has been tampered with.
The Americans will see that.
-When they do, he won't be walking out. -Don't you get it yet?
Nadine said Gautier knew people in the police.
A colonel, for Christ's sake!
I don't give a shit how many colonels--
You stamped your righteous little clogs at dealing with Gautier my way,
and, for God only knows what reasons, I rolled over like a milkmaid.
And now they're going to let him go!
-Listen to me, please-- -You don't get a gold star.
You get top of the bill as Bangkok's latest clown show!
Paul, will you fucking listen to me?
I'll go to the Americans, get them to find the real David Gore.
You're gonna need a car.
[thunder continues]
[lock clatters]
-Alain... -[shushes]
[in French] My heart, do not be afraid.
[in French] I am afraid.
I am not a criminal.
[in French] No, listen to me. You're not a criminal.
[in French] Okay? You're not a criminal.
[in French] Remember who you really are.
[in French] Remember who we are.
We have come so far that nothing can stop us.
Nothing. Hmm?
[in French] Is Suda's father going to help us?
[in French] I have made new friends here.
-Listen to me. -I'm afraid.
-[banging on door] -[in French] Tell them nothing. Trust me.
I have it all under control.
[man] Jesus, Knippenberg,
you sure know how to make a man lose his appetite.
Yeah, yeah, look, I didn't know who else to call.
You're my only contact at the US embassy.
Good, because anybody else would think you'd lost your goddamn mind, but...
this little situation of yours...
I got a weird little wonder that maybe it's connected to something
that landed on my desk and won't get the hell off of it.
-The lot behind Soi 9. Thirty minutes. -All right.
[in Thai] It's not true. It has to be some stupid mistake.
[in Thai] They wouldn't arrest him without reason.
[in Thai] Drugs, Papa? Alain doesn't touch drugs!
He barely even drinks!
[in Thai] Can't you help?
[in Thai] Me, help? Are you mad?
I am a traffic sergeant!
And even if I was the Major General, I would never...
[in Thai] But it's not true, Papa!
That's him.
It's Teresa Knowlton. Aged 21, out of California.
Whereabouts unknown for five months and counting.
[Herman] She may be the American girl that my witness mentioned,
but I haven't come across her.
I don't know if she ever met Alain Gautier, but...
I can tell you that she is precisely the sort of person he destroys.
As is, I suspect, the American whose passport he's currently using.
What gives, Knippenberg?
You're the last man in Bangkok I'd expect to be running around playing gumshoe.
Unless, of course, it was The Case of the Missing Pencil.
You're missing an American.
We were missing two Dutch until Herman found them.
Yes, all right, Angela.
They were set alight while they were still in each other's arms, Mr. Redland.
-And you think it's this man...? -I don't think.
I know it is.
If it's a fake, it's a damn good one.
I want to talk to him.
-You ought to sit in on this. -He's in there.
Redland, wait. Wait.
Look, I think you should do it alone.
-Knippenberg-- -No, listen to me.
My ambassador would never allow this.
Oh...
I think it's best that I stay in the shadows.
If he ever finds a connection between me and Nadine...
Plus, I'm no interrogator.
What the hell am I? Columbo?
It's a hell of a mix-up, huh?
Let's hope they catch up with the real Gautier,
put this thing to bed, right?
[American accent] I find it hard to believe
he's done anything wrong either.
Well, you met him.
He didn't strike you as a, you know, drug dealer?
Like I said to the captain out there,
he seemed to me a fine man.
Generous, charming.
We should all hope to be such a man of the world.
From Iowa, huh?
Yes.
It's just your accent doesn't exactly sound Midwestern.
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents in Puerto Rico.
Well, before I head back to the embassy,
maybe you could help me on something?
We've had a missing person report.
A young woman, over here on vacation.
Name of Teresa.
Teresa Knowlton. You haven't crossed paths by any chance?
Thought maybe Americans far from home might find each other.
I'm afraid not.
[door unlocks]
-He's lying, isn't he? -Uh... I don't know.
Redland--
Hey. At least I went in the goddamn room, okay?
-Try the woman. -What? You try her!
Fine, okay.
ID an American?
The American embassy?
Yes, ma'am.
You see, your friend in the next cell, Mr. Gore...
well, he's entitled to consular advice during this little mix-up.
But while I'm here I wanted to ask about a missing person.
You see...
we're a little worried.
Teresa.
As her grandmother tells it,
she's been through the wringer in California.
Came east to join a monastery, of all things.
But in five months, nobody's heard a whisper from her.
And I can't tell a weeping old lady
where her beloved granddaughter is because all I know...
is she never made it to any monastery.
You're gonna get burned.
Your fingers.
I've never seen her before in my life.
-Something here isn't right. -I know.
-We have to make Chupong hold them. -We don't have the authority.
Even if we did, we don't have the grounds. Not until I get this checked out.
Well, we have until midday.
All right. I'll do what I can.
[phone rings]
-[in Thai] Hello? -[Charles] Chérie.
Alain! What happened?
-Are you-- -Shh! It's just a misunderstanding.
I'm told there's a Dutch diplomat spreading insane rumors about me.
-But, Suda, I need to ask you something. -What is it?
Do you still have my briefcase?
Yes, it's here with me.
Brilliant. I think someone here has taken pity on me.
You will see me before you know it.
Alain? Alain?
-Redland on one. -Thank you.
Knippenberg.
[Redland] I'm heading to Central Division to take Gautier.
I put out a wire to every US embassy on the continent, and guess what?
Mr. David Alan Gore was drugged and robbed in Hong Kong.
He's alive, thank Christ,
and gave a full description of his assailants to the embassy there.
You did good, Herman. You did real good.
Redland has found the real David Alan Gore.
It's everything we need.
You two can go home.
Thank you so much, Herman.
[mellow rock music plays]
I thought you'd be more jubilant.
I am, I...
I can't stop thinking about...
Gautier in that interview room and...
Why you didn't go in?
Oh, I mean, I had to be respectful of protocol, and...
Van Dongen would never have permitted me to...
-You think I was afraid? -No.
Not that.
I think you...
What?
I think a part of you wanted very much to go in there...
to see the man that you have been hunting.
The man capable of such darkness.
But there is another part of you...
a braver part...
which refused to allow his darkness to touch you any further.
I wasn't afraid.
[phone rings]
-Hello? -Knippenberg, it's Redland.
-You're not gonna believe this. -Redland?
They've gone.
Someone just left the doors open and they walked out.
[in Thai] Why did you let this happen?
What I find hard to understand, Major General,
is what Chupong here is calling an administrative error.
I will discover who was responsible.
[in Thai] Get me the paperwork now.
[Nadine, in French] Remi, come and see.
[in French] Someone in their apartment.
[in French] It's probably just the concierge.
Looking for anything worth taking.
It's nothing, I'm telling you.
I'm going to take a shower.
Wait. The safe.
We still have the safe where he keep all the documentation
that he robs from people.
You have it?
We have it. But we cannot legally open it -without the permission of its owner--
[in Thai] What's wrong with you? Open the safe now.
[in Thai] What if the evidence is in there?
[in Thai] Go and open it now.
We do have the safe and we will open it now.
[in Thai] Go and get a technician!
[door opens]
Hi! Nadine.
-I thought you were-- -Thought we were what?
In jail? [tuts]
You don't know Alain at all, do you?
We saw the map that you drew.
For your new Dutch friend.
If you think a nasty little government man can touch Alain...
think again.
How could you two-time us like that?
Huh?
Oh, we won't forget it.
[thunder rumbles]
[Suda, in Thai] Papa, the police at the Central Division released Alain.
They've apologized. Please be nice to him, Dad, for me.
[in Thai] Dad.
Suda, please. I don't take offense.
Your father is right to feel the way he does.
Let me see.
One of the claws has bent.
-I can't see it. -I can.
Slip it off.
I'll fix it.
I want it to be perfect.
[drilling continues]
-No passports. -Nothing.
Fuck!
["Something On Your Mind" playing]
We will be watching you, Nadine.
♪ Yesterday... ♪
♪ Any way you made it was just fine ♪
♪ So you turned your days into nighttime ♪
♪ Didn't you know... ♪
♪ You can't make it Without ever even trying? ♪
♪ And something's on your mind... ♪
That's where it belongs.
Here comes the future.
♪ Leaving all your dreams too far behind ♪
♪ Didn't you see ♪
♪ You can't make it Without ever even trying? ♪
[in Dutch] Goddamn it!
♪ And something's on your mind ♪
♪ Maybe another day You'll want to feel another way ♪
♪ You can't stop crying ♪
♪ You haven't got a thing to say ♪
♪ You feel you want to run away There's no use trying ♪
♪ Anyway ♪
♪ I've seen the writing on the wall... ♪