Au service de la France (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 5 - Le Pouche - full transcript

While André tries to enter the KGB, Mercaillon, wiped out by the departure of his wife, joins Jacquard in Algiers to lead the negotiations with the FLN. Marie-Jo discovers that a nuclear ...

SECRET ARMADA

Come on, get back home!

Come on, quick!
-All right, all right.

YES

Where did the native go?

That's what I said.
We must not trust them.

-Hands up.
-Ready.

Well done to you scoundrels!

Come on!

-Are you the FLN?
-Yeah.

-And the GPRA.
-Who do you represent?



With what right do you treat him like this,
a colonel in the French army?

A colonel sent by De Gaulle
to put an end to these events.

We're in France here.

We're here to discuss

and we're authorized to negotiate
with the French occupier.

-Ocupatious?
-Leave it there, Jacquard.

No one will leave this house
until all this is resolved,

even if it takes a week.

We don't pay for 130 years of life
in common like this.

I'd like to know why the FLN

is not satisfied
with self-determination.

If you don't want that, what do you want?

For starters,
we want the right to vote

for those they call natives,



the Algerians,

on an equal footing with the French.

I'll take it.

Colonel.

Forgive me,
but that doesn't seem very wise to me.

Listen, Jacquard, we're not gonna...
to spend the day here. What else?

We want liberation
of political prisoners.

I'll take it.

We want recognition
of Algerian nationality.

I'll take it.

-Independence.
-Accept.

-Colonel!
-We want independence,

the departure from France,
...to recover all the assets.

The land, the shops, the factories...
and the houses.

I'll take it.

Anyway, I guess that's it.

Do you have something to sign?

Are you coming with me, Jacquard?

Come on, pretty boy.

Come on, baby. How about a walk?

Good morning, ma'am. How much is it?

Depends, pretty boy.
What do you want?

For everything, but if it's done right...
and very vulgar.

Thank you, ma'am.

Colonel, the general really wants...

to deliver
French departments?

A little air is good for you.
We were suffocating in that shithole.

Sidi Colonel.

How are you, Sidi Jacky?

Do you have it in yellow?

Especially not brown. 43.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's for Marthe.

Colonel, I'd like to understand.

130 years ago
that France asks the settlers

to develop Algeria
and we're gonna let them go like this?

You have developed without
to ask our opinion.

-His native friend is right.
-Moktar, Sidi Colonel. Moktar.

Are you sure these
are the orders of the general

because it wasn't like that.
that he declared in public.

-It hasn't been two days...
-Let's not talk about it all day.

Here you go, 45 francs.

45 francs. In France,
for 45 francs I buy moccasins.

Algeria is France.

You know, always...

She's pretty.

It's for my wife.
It's a little cold now.

Marthe?

Marthe? What are you saying?
My wife's name is Irene.

You don't listen to me, Jacquard.
I will speak again.

But, Colonel, France has predicted
at least one indemnity?

No, because if we need
to count on insurance...

That's 270 francs.

-270 francs.
-Keep the change.

Colonel, we can review the NFL,
to re-discuss.

I'm taking a turtle.
She's cute.

And this one too.

I'll get this one and this one for you.

And one for Moquard.

Your native is nice, Jaktar.

Three hundred francs, sir.

Divided by three.

ELEVEN O'CLOCK, PASSAGE OF ABBESSES
"FOR EVERYTHING, BUT IF WELL DONE AND WELL VULGAR"

Four o'clock, Garden of Luxembourg.

Hello, Merlaux.

Hello.

Sir.

You're in shape.

We were told he was dead.

It was a lie.

The service betrayed me. France betrayed me.

Now, I want to fight for a just cause.

What do you want from us?

What do you want from us?

I want to get into the KGB.

Bye, sir.

Is that all?

No, nothing at all

No, I don't regret anything.

Not good they've done to me.

Not the bad

It's all the same to me!

Enough noise!
Go sing somewhere else.

It's none of my business,
we're in France here!

What's that? What's that? Not for long.

I don't give a shit about the past.

With my memories...

I lit the fire

My sorrows, my pleasures...

I don't need them anymore.

## [Continues]

With your fears

Forever drunk

New start

France betrayed you.

De Gaulle betrayed you.

He secretly negotiates with the LNF.

De Gaulle not only negotiates with the LNF..,
general,

but you agree with all the requests.
All of them.

General,

the French army won the game,

has indisputably imposed itself
and final

but de Gaulle will give the crown
to the opponent.

Not just the pantry, general,
but the terrain,

the T-shirts and the shorts.

De Gaulle sells Algeria
to have peace in the metropolis.

And who's the target of the joke,
General?

I'm not military, generals,

but if I was, I'd be tough.

I wouldn't accept that.
It's a matter of honour

and damages.

I'd take a kawa.

How do you say "kawa" in Arabic?

Kawa.

They owe us everything. Let's leave it all.

A cup of coffee, buddy!

The weather is pleasant in this country,
but it's still very noisy.

Looks like some of the military has decided

to maintain French Algeria, Colonel.

They don't have to do that area.

PARIS, 21 APRIL 1961
22h05