Au service de la France (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - Tétanos et Fièvre Jaune - full transcript

PARIS, 1961
FRENCH SECRET SERVICES

Good morning, Dubreuil,
is Préjean.

Okay, I appreciate it.

Dubreuil, the file is ready.

When can I
turn him over to the minister?

All right, Thursday.
Thank you, Dubreuil.

I owe you one.

All right, Moise. We got him.
He's screwed.

MERCAILLON DOSSIER
EVIDENCE OF ACTS OF COOPERATION

Yes, he just arrived.
Don't hang up.

Colonel,
connection from the minister's office.



-Pass into my office.
-All right, Colonel.

If I can do it
that thing works.

I'm confused, but this new one...
phone is now standard.

It's very good,
but I have difficulty.

I hope so.
is a routine service. It's easy.

Today we have facilities

worthy of the great
country that France is,

but that's not for pretty.

Let everyone be well aware.
It is to be effective.

All right, Colonel.

Mercaillon, go ahead.

Good morning, Dubreuil.

Slander, that's obvious.

Thanks for letting me know, Dubreuil.
I owe you one.



BRUSSELS

And why do you want me
give out that information?

Because France and the United States
are allies.

We're on the same side,
Agent Calot.

Maybe.

But who said that this alliance
is reciprocal

and that today's side will be
the same as tomorrow?

Your missing agent was made
hostage in Cuba, by the Castristas.

If this information
doesn't matter to the French service,

say it once and for all,
Calot.

Stop believing that the CIA knows
what others should know.

France knows very well
where are your agents

and if we lose one,

is because there were good reasons
to lose him, whoever they are.

All right, Calot.
Thanks to you

we finally found the trail
of our agent.

So tomorrow, you three are going to Cuba...

to extract our agent who was taken hostage.

-Priority mission.
-Not possible.

We still have to unpack
all the boxes.

All my
boxes are empty,

classified, organized.
I am available.

Moulinier's right.

-Why us?
-Because you are the best.

In fact, we usually forget.

You, maybe.

Gomez,
what manners are those?

Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me,
but that sounds urgent.

Colonel.

-We have a problem.
-What happened now?

You don't like our new facilities?

Aren't they modern?
Isn't your office big?

No, Colonel.

-There are minors.
-No, Colonel, it's all right.

It has to do with Cuba.

Our agent is lost.

The CIA is asking us not to move.

The form came from above,

without a stamp.

I don't give a shit about the CIA.
and the Americans piss me off.

It's an order from
Palace of the Elysée.

France never abandons

nor its departments
and neither are your agents.

Don't worry. Don't worry,
can intervene.

I'll see you.

Save our agent.

Thank you for him, Colonel.

No traitors from France
on the wall of dead agents

with courage and loyalty.
Take it off now.

-Three black pants.
-Received.

-Three black sweatshirts.
-Received.

-Three sungas.
-Received.

Three pairs of marlin.

-Received.
-Signature.

All right, then.

Good mission.

Right or left?

Right.

Right.

Ambidextrous.

Which arm do I apply to?

Both of us.

Yellow fever,

Hepatitis A, typhoid fever.

Tetanus, polio,
smallpox, dengue.

Japanese encephalitis,

meningococcal meningitis,

Pertussis,

diphtheria.

I could apply against the plague
and the anger, please?

What was that about?

One. Two.

Three.

Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Let's go.

Hello, Clayborn.

Oh, yeah!
You've wasted your time.

Get your things,
we're taking her to France.

No.

-How can I not?
-I'm not going back.

I'm staying here.
You can warn Paris.

You're leaving public service?

And your retirement,
benefits, bonuses?

Get out of my house.

What do you mean, my house?

Brainwashing,

clear indoctrination.

Looks like the Soviets did it.

Gentlemen, let's not stay
of gossip for hours.

The orders are clear.

All right, Clayborn,
don't make ceremony. Let's not look.

Sure, of course.

With that belly,
it's gonna be hard to wear that.

It's not very smart.
to be in that state.

What have you done?

I've got an idea.

Classic technique.

Cuban revolutionaries generate a being

to thicken your ranks
and maintain fidelity to motherhood.

Inevitable.

You could have taken precautions.

How are you gonna get out of this now?

For your government,
I'm pregnant

and I'm going to live with the father of the child,
Ernesto,

here in Cuba.

She's marrying a Cuban...
called Ernesto?

-Who said anything about marriage?
-Ernesto!

-Are you all right?
-Yes.

Take these imperialist invaders
and hang them.

Let's go.

Ernesto, they're French soldiers.

You may need France
in the future.

You're right, honey.

They're soldiers.

Let's shoot them.

Come on.

If you talk, we'll shoot you.

If you don't talk,
we're gonna shoot him, too,

but very slowly.

We start with a
bullet in the knee,

then in the liver.

Have you come to disarm the revolution?

You, the French,
are subject to the Americans.

Don't confuse us with the English.

I'm sorry.

We just came to look for
our agent.

On the other hand, the Americans,
don't like your revolution at all.
Character limit: 5000

And if they get nervous,
You are no match.

You are totally alone.

You risk not having enough coconut,
Ernesto

You will be hanged tomorrow,
at ten o'clock.

-Good night, sir.
-Good night.

Good night.

Good night, daddy.

Good night, daddy.

Yvon, sit up straight.

Spent the day well,
Maurice?

As always.

Marthe,
You forgot the ice.

I'm sorry, ma'am.

"I'm sorry, ma'am."
She has no education.

It's faster me
do her service

than say how to do it.

Sophie,

This reading makes you dark.
Would be better

read Aurore.
Soap operas are better.

These leftist publications
These are not readings for a young woman.

I didn't hear from André.

Do not worry honey.

Telephone communications
They are bad where he is.

-No doubt.
-He asked me to marry

and disappeared.
Don't you think it's weird?

A working man,
It is far from the eyes, far from the body.

From the heart, I mean.

I've seen enough with your father.

André doesn't remember
nothing daddy.

Soon you will have news.

Good or bad.

-Murice!
We never know.

Yvon received his military documents
in the morning.

It is allocated in Germany,

at the Sigmaringa barracks.
The city is far away, Maurice.

Twenty-eight months goes by fast.

650 kilometers.
Nine hours by train.

I thought you could fix it.

You had told me
from Balard barracks.

I tried to find a way,
but my influence is not that big

As you imagine, dear.
I'm just an employee

at the Ministry of Veterans.

It's better than Algeria,
do not you think?

Thanks dad.

Sigmaringa is a beautiful city.

Madam, dinner is served.

Finally.

And the ice?

Good.

The following bonuses are valid:

exotic vaccines,

time difference,
aquatic environment,

special equipment,

aggressive tropical flora

and finally lonely evasion
in enemy territory.

Forgot about practice
of a foreign language.

Also.

Practice of a foreign language.

Congratulations, gentlemen. Mission Accomplished.
You are the best.

Today there is a cocktail.

The revolutionaries
Cubans are known

for cruelty, lack of compassion,
whatever we want,

but in the face of rigor and experience
French, this is nothing.

Too easy.

They put the tortillas in jam
for the Cubans.

Guy, what a figure!

-May I ask you a question?
-Everything you want.

The mission in Cuba has been accomplished,
but Agent Clayborn didn't come back.

Do not.

As I do not know yet
the procedure,

I wonder

how to
mission be stamped?

Already saw an agent suckle,
changing diapers,

knit, clean,

do the dishes, feed the husband?

Not an agent anymore,
It's a pregnant woman.

AND?

So, it's not an agent, so

no extraction soon

Mission accomplished, stamp, bonus.

Very good, Guy.
The appointment is in the chat.

Very well.

One more cup?

Yes, the same thing?

The same thing.

He is indeed very good.

We haven't had in a while
an intern of this level.

-Never.
-Never.

That's it, Calot. Stop with the spanish.

-It's all right.
-Very well.

Great!
Congratulations on this mission

and above all for the prodigious evasion
kind of hostile.

Prodigious.

Caution, electromagnetic material.

-Sir?
-Yes, Gomez?

My parents are going to celebrate crepe wedding
this Sunday in Touquet.

Almost next door in Cucq-Trépied.

Wedding of what?

Crepe wedding,
39 years of marriage.

Next year will be 40 years,
Emerald Wedding.

Then, iron wedding,
mother of pearl wedding, flannel wedding,

topaz, ruby, lavender,
cashmere, cedar.

Okay, Gomez, so what?

I must leave tonight.
The train to Touquet leaves at six o'clock.

It seems reasonable to me to arrive
to the station at five o'clock.

How it takes 25 minutes
to get to Gare du Nord,

I prefer to consider an hour,
which makes me leave at four o'clock.

I consider eight to nine minutes
to get to the subway station.

I would like to consider 20 minutes.
-Gomez, I already said that.

The time to pack my things,
close the door, say goodbye,

check that the doors are securely closed,
10 to 15 minutes. We consider 20.

Best 30.

Knowing that lunch time
It ends at 1:45 pm, I ...

What time do you want to leave?

Now. It's 12:30, I would need ...

-Can go.
-What? Clear.

Deputy Director Moïse,
from this moment,

you are suspended
for serious disobedience

and non-compliance with the stamp procedure.

I don't understand, colonel.
Said it would cover me.

Assured me that ...

-You pity me.
-I do not know what you're talking about.

Did you save an agent
against the order of a general.

You ventured
and put the country at risk.

You are afraid of me.

Fear of you?

You're right to be afraid.

We all have little secrets
that we want to keep stored.

I'm not afraid of a man

who goes to court martial
for defying the orders of a general

-and put France in danger.
-Clear.

Afraid that what I know is
informed to other people.

I do not believe that
Don't know that I know.

What I know someday will be knowledge
Overall, it doesn't matter what you do.

You are far from knowing
which I really know.

Your days are numbered
leading this service, colonel.

You piss me off, Georges.

Your immaculate honesty,
his moral rigor, his meanness.

I'm not stingy.
-Course is.

I don't like to change
Character limit: 5000

No problem.
Where do I intend to send it

for the next ten years,
You won't need change.

Just a few pebbles.

Have a nice day,
Georges Prejean.

You and I are not done yet.

At least one
time we agree.

BREAK BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA
"OUR REVOLUTION IS SOCIALIST"

By ignoring missing stamp
of a mission form,

Deputy Director Moïse
disobeyed a general

and triggered a diplomatic crisis
unprecedented world

Therefore, the downgrade procedure
for serious double fault

must be applied.

Gomez, go on.

Gomez?

Gomez is at a wedding
Crepe, Colonel.

Then I'll do it myself.

Removal of decorations.

Who expected that?
Are you really surprised?

I always thought he was hiding something,
but what?

It's because?
Whose is it?

Delivery of office supplies.

Supplies delivered,
Colonel

We need to be suspicious
who has hedgehogs in their pockets.

"Moïse" is ambiguous as a pseudonym.

Or is not.

Georges Prejean,

in the name of the powers
given to me,

waiting for your judgment
in court martial,

you are stripped of all
their decorations and functions.

Take him.

I remind everyone that
should vote yes

in the referendum
self-determination of Algeria.

It's loyalty to the general
that is at stake.

Make no mistake.

How you doing, Mr. Moïse?
Do you need something?

It's fine, thanks.
You're kind, Marie-Jo.

Wait.

I have a favor to ask.

Nothing complicated,
but it's important to me.

If I can help.

Take my keys
and go to my house.

-Not.
It's for my parrot.

Could you feed him tonight?

I don't know, Mr. Moïse.
-He is very tame.

He needs to eat.

The poor thing doesn't have
nothing to do with it.

Thank you, Marie-Jo.

If you could talk to him too,
he loves.

It is a parrot. It's pretty chatty.

Of course, not to miss the turn.

Tell him:
"Napoleon is in St. Helena."

Napoleon is
in St. Helena?

He loves.
I do not know why.

It's fun.

"I said nothing, Mr. Moïse."
-Of course not.

"Napoleon is in St. Helena",
remember if.

Thank you thank you very much.

For him and for me.

All right, dear?

Napoleon is in St. Helena.

Napoleon is in St. Helena.

It's ok.

I found.

Napoleon is
in St. Helena.

What is it?

It's the plumber.

It is full of grain in its beak.

It is a generous neckline.

It is a generous neckline.

Napoleon is
in St. Helena.

Henri, you bite.

Napoleon is
in St. Helena.

What did you say?

What did you say?

Repeat.

Repeat.

Napoleon is
in St. Helena.

You don't ask yourself
who could have delivered us to Cuba?

How is it?

There were noises.

Then we cut our contacts.
Noises?

-I understood nothing.
-Me neither.

-We were delivered. It is.
- Looks good, Calot.

You see mysteries in everything.

You're right, the problem is me.

Long live Cuba!

Long live Cuba!