Carlos (2010): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript

Budapest, March, 1979.

Not bad!

So much better!

They just left.

According to wiretaps,
they're going to the airport.

The house is empty.

I want to get a look inside.

Careful, they may come back.

We'll hurry.

Come here!

A stockpile!
Something's in the works!



I'll alert airport security!

Tell them to be careful. No gunfire.

Understood.

The Alfa Romeo?

I can try.

Permission to fire back!

He's out of his mind.

Open the door!

Open the door!

Don't move!

- Are you OK?
- I'm fine.

Vice-Minister of the Interior

I spoke to the Minister.

He wants a report on Carlos' group.



They have backing the world over.

Especially in progressive
Arab countries.

Friends of our big brother, Moscow.

What do our Soviet comrades think?

Sorry we're late.

- Have a seat.
- Thank you.

The question is: does
he work for the KGB?

The West thinks they
have very close ties.

Our comrades in
Moscow are tight-lipped.

He studied there,

but was expelled for misconduct.

They claim to have no file.

It's the best possible cover.

So what do they recommend?

They say that as a sovereign state,

we should act as we see fit.

Let's make sure he has
no targets here in Hungary.

- What's out there?
- Nothing at all.

Let go!

You think I'm an idiot!?

You think I'm an idiot!?

Come here!

Some whisky, please.

Tripoli, Libya.

Libyan Secret Service.

Aden, South Yemen.

Come on, guys! The documents!

Burn them on the double!

Writer.

Aden Airport.

Moscow Airport.

I told you your time would come!

It will never come!

Calm down!

Don't touch me!

Is this what you want?

Know what? You're right.

Your time will never come. Never!

Not until you learn discipline.

You think this is a game?

You! Think! It's! A Game!?

It's a war!

We're soldiers!
Soldiers fighting a war!

It's no game!

I'm not just your
husband. Understand?

I'm your leader.

I'll send you out on the field,

only when I decide it's time.

Not a minute before.

Until then, you have
absolutely nothing to do

except to stay ready!

Watch out!

Stasi Headquarter, East Berlin.

Why does Weinrich want to talk?

Probably about the weapons.

- What does the KGB say?
- Nothing, as usual.

They know of no arms
that came via Moscow.

Carlos wants to make East Berlin

a base for attacks in Western Europe.

The arms transit by
Syrian diplomatic pouch.

Syria is allied with
us and the Soviets.

According to my report on Carlos,

he met with Qaddafi.

He's also a Libyan agent.

Syria and Libya work hand in hand.

Al-Assad and Qaddafi
will soon announce their alliance.

Carlos is a mercenary.

He's dangerous.

We have him under control.

You're naive.

He's uncontrollable.

If Western intelligence
locates him here,

we'll be under pressure.

Let him stay in Budapest, anywhere.

But not here.

Understood?

Major Voigt!

Tell those idiots they're
making a serious mistake.

They'll have to answer for it.

It's their duty. Don't insult them.

I don't think it's their duty

to undermine my
agreement with the Soviets.

They let me transit
arms and explosives.

I am aware of no such agreement.

I want to see Dahl.

You shall.

Given that Moscow

is helping us with these deliveries,

I wonder how you can dare stop us.

I'll keep you posted.

You have no business here now.

I need to know about
Ceausescu's money.

Get going.

Can we come back?

When I whistle.

What's going on, Ali?

We didn't hear much. They're wary.

They mentioned Ceausescu.

He offered them a million dollars.

- What for?
- We don't know.

I want to be paid more. He hit me.

I have blood in my mouth.

Find a place for them

to load their weapons
into a camping car,

with French license plates.

Colonel Dahl is returning
the confiscated arms?

It came from higher up.

It was approved by Minister Mielke.

On one condition:

the transfer must not
occur on Stasi property.

Find a suitable place.

Come on! Back it up!

All here. You can check.

I assume there's no use asking

where you're taking them.

We have an agreement
with your superiors.

We're asking you to secure

the transportation of the weapons

to the border with West Germany.

Beyond that...

it's not your concern.

I'll personally follow
the vehicle to the border.

- Don't cheat.
- I'm not cheating!

Not so fast. Can I look now?

One more step.

Not so fast!

It's a big surprise. Open your eyes.

You're insane!

Totally insane!

I'm 30.

It's my birthday.

I'll never get inside!

Of course you will!
You're getting inside!

I can't believe it.

I have a gift for you.

The flag of the Cuban revolution.

The flag of victory, Ilich.

I haven't been called Ilich in ages.

OK?

Five.

Show me...

what you're made of.

I'll hit three.

Beirut, 4 September 1981.

France's Ambassador
to Beirut was killed.

Louis Delamare was assassinated

near his residence.

He was alone with
his chauffeur in his car.

He was shot with ten
bullets, three to the head.

Damascus, Syria

6 October 1981.

Couldn't find gloomier?

It's discreet.

There are others downtown.

Throw out your joint on the double!

- You do what I asked?
- Sure.

It's here in Rue Marbeuf.

Here's the entrance.

Al Watan Al Arabi is located here.

And Abu Zahr's office?

Here on the right.

Everyday at 9am he goes down

to buy the Arab press.

He reads it in this café here.

He's back in his office by 10.

I'll tell you when.

You'll pick up the car bomb,

and park it in Rue Marbeuf.

Just below his office.

I'm no explosives expert.

The timer will be set.

Magdalena will come. It'll be easy.

She'll have my instructions.
Follow them to the letter.

Bruno Bréguet. I don't know you.

My friend François Genoud
speaks highly of you.

Can I trust you?

I just spent seven
years in Israeli prison.

I'm as committed
to Palestine as ever.

Paris, 16 February 1982.

I brought you 2,000 dollars.

I need pictures for the passports.

We had some taken.

It wasn't very clever
to get your bag stolen.

All your stuff, your money...

First day in Paris!

50,000 dollars.

Can't file a complaint!

Today's the day.

A white Peugeot.

Basement of the George V parking lot.

Hello, sir.

- Can I help you?
- No, thank you.

Have your ticket?

From the gate.

Don't move!

Hang up! Now!

Don't move!

Get down!

To Gaston Defferre,
Minister of the Interior:

I'm writing to inform you
that two members of our organisation,

Magdalena Cecilia
Kopp and Bruno Bréguet,

were arrested in Paris
by French law enforcement

during a mission which
wasn't targeting France.

Budapest Airport.

They should not serve time

for being dedicated to
the revolutionary cause.

On behalf of our group leaders,

I issue the following warning:

One,

we refuse that our
comrades stay in prison.

Two,

we will not accept their extradition

to any country whatsoever.

We demand their
release within 30 days

upon receipt of this letter.

We are not at war
with socialist France.

I ask you in all sincerity

not make us wage one.

Signed, the Organisation
of the Armed Arab Struggle,

Arm of the Arab Revolution,

Carlos.

French Embassy at the Hague.

Kopp and Bréguet's Attorney.

Come...

Let's get away from the bugs.

I've been tailed since
I set foot in Hungary.

They won't let up till you leave.

The newspapers printed my letter.

Who leaked it?

The Ministry.

Defferre wanted to negotiate.

His advisors were against it.

He's stuck.

He won't give in?

Chirac, the mayor of
Paris, is dead set against it.

He knows I weigh my words.

If he ignores my ultimatum,

I won't hesitate to strike.

Public opinion prevents
them from giving in.

So war it is.

Paris, 29 March 1982.

Two days after the ultimatum expired.

Chirac is traveling in this wagon.

In the VIP section.

I heard a terrible explosion.

The window on one side...

on my right... exploded.

What's strange is that I
was wounded on this side.

At 8:40pm

the Capitole train was
traveling at 140 km/h

when an explosion tore
through the second wagon.

Pieces of the roof were
found 100 metres away.

Travellers ran to help the victims.

Shouts, cries for help, corpses...

AFP?

This is the Armed Wing
of the Arab Revolution.

We blew up the train.

We won't let up

until the release of Bruno
Bréguet and Magdalena Kopp.

I told you it would be war.

Beirut, two weeks later.

Coder at the French Embassy.

Don't tire yourself.

The embassy is becoming unbearable.

The Syrians have gone berserk.

French TV is running a
documentary blaming them

for the Ambassador's murder.

But they did it.

They deny it. They're
using Carlos as leverage.

Any news?

A second ultimatum.

It's being kept
secret to avoid panic.

They say they'll
strike here in Beirut.

What for?

To be heard. The trial's an excuse.

Isn't it today?

Prison guards are on strike.

All the Syrians want

is to block the documentary. Period.

You shouldn't have!

East Berlin, two days later.

Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.

Postojna, Yugoslavia.

The same day.

Italian-French border.

The next day.

Paris, 22 April 1982.

Offices of Al Watan Al Arabi.

The same evening,

TF1 broadcasts the documentary

implicating Syria in the murder

of the French Ambassador to Lebanon.

The next day, 9:00.

Beginning of the trial

of Magdalena Kopp and Bruno Bréguet

9:01, Rue Marbeuf.

A car parks in front of number 33.

The violent detonation,

rocks the windows and storefronts
up to 150 metres away.

The car was parked by the
Al Watan Al Arabi newspaper.

Last report: one dead,

46 wounded, 11 very seriously.

Did you work at the paper?

Is there a connection?

We had a bomb threat in December.
We often got letters.

What kind of letters?

"We're going to blow you up."

Sometimes the night
guard would get a call:

"It's gonna blow. You
got five minutes to live."

It had to happen.

Like when it was based in Lebanon.

Now they did it in Paris.

The government

will use every means

to find the perpetrators,

to bring them to justice

and to reinforce the
protection of the population.

As of today,

Minister of the Interior

the government has decided

to declare persona non grata

the military attaché

and the cultural attaché

of the Syrian Embassy in Paris

because of their
actions on French soil.

By remaining silent,

by awaiting your verdict,

the man you call Carlos,

a man of audacity and courage,

has shown the poise
of a great politician.

Kopp and Bréguet remained seated,

showing total
indifference to the trial.

Despite being entitled
to express and defend themselves,

they saw no interest or
value in the proceedings.

Five years for
Bréguet, four for Kopp.

Twice what prosecutors asked for,

but the Rue Marbeuf
bombing tipped the scales.

Budapest, State Security.

Get the whisky.

Rome, Fiumicino Airport

18 June 1982.

Follow me, ma'am.

Fleury-Mérogis, three years later

2 May 1985.

Get your things.

You leave today.

French-West German border.

We've informed her

that she's banned from France.

We'll question her, then let her go.

It's no longer our business.

Neu-Ulm, West Germany.

The next day.

Mama!

No one calls me so late.

Frankfurt Airport.

Düsseldorf, West Germany.

What are you doing?

Leave that!

9 November 1989.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

15 January 1990.

Stasi Headquarters.

Damascus, Syria.

Where's Carlos?

He could help for once.

Where's the little girl hiding?

Where is she?

Here!

I'll catch her!

I'll eat her up piece by piece!

There she is! I found her!

Game over. Time to
go. Mama's waiting.

Where are we going?

Libya. A city called Tripoli.

Is Tripoli far?

Very far.

Tripoli, Libya.

Damascus, the same evening.

Khartoum, Sudan.

Islamic Guide of the Sudanese regime.

Damascus, Syria.

Secret Service Headquarters.

Hello, Ali.

Have a seat.

You're at home here.

My Carlos assignment is over.

You've done your duty.

You stayed by his side.

He's... all washed up now.

No longer of any use.

Neither to us, nor to anyone else.

I'm at your service.

I need proof of your loyalty.

You know what I mean.

Carlos can be of use one last time.

The Americans will bid highest.

They'll need our help.

Are you willing?

To help the CIA?

Khartoum Airport.

- Had a good trip?
- Excellent, thank you.

French Secret Service.

Follow them.

He won't be much longer.

What kind of surgery?

Plastic. Liposuction.

For his love handles.

We know him, but not by name.

Our services call him The Phantom.

Now you can put a name on him.

That of a murderer.

There's a warrant out for him.

He killed two of our men,

and committed
attacks all over Europe.

He must be judged in France.

August 1994.

State Security Headquarters.

Head of Secret Service,
National Islamic Front.

You can't go home.

Too risky. Your enemies
have your address.

How?

The Syrians never forgave
you for cutting off contact.

Sold me to the US?

Maybe.

You're protected by our
guide, Hassan Al-Tourabi.

You'll stay near his residence.

His guards will watch over you.

The pain in his
testicles is terrible.

Can I see him?

Yes, this way, please.

Can you lower your pyjamas?

You have any news?

How long are we staying here?

Probably several days.

We have no information.
It's a state secret.

It's in the hands of the
National Islamic Front.

And here?

You're on French territory.

Johannes Weinrich
was arrested in

1994 in Yemen, then
extradited to Germany.

He is currently serving a life
sentence in a prison in Berlin.

Magdalena Kopp spent three years
in Venezuela with Carlos' family.

She returned in 1995 to
Neu-Ulm, her hometown,

in exchange for cooperating
with German investigators.

Hans-Joachim "Angie" Klein was

arrested in 1998 in
a town in Normandy,

after several years in hiding.

Tried in 2001 for the OPEC raid,
he received a 9-year sentence.

Given amnesty in
2003, he lives in France.

After 10 years in a Swiss prison,
Gabrielle "Nada" Krocher Tiedemann

was extradited in 1987 to Germany

where she was tried
for the OPEC raid.

Because witnesses were scared to

testify, she was
acquitted in May of 1990.

She died of cancer five
years later, at the age of 44.

Anis "Khalid" Naccache
was sentenced to life

for trying to kill the former
Iranian Prime Minister in Paris.

He was released and extradited
after a series of bombings, in 1990.

He is now a geopolitical
consultant for Lebanese TV.

He was never prosecuted
for the OPEC raid in Vienna.

Lana Jarrar came to
France after Carlos'

arrest, but left
without seeing him.

She has since
vanished without a trace.

Kamal "Ali" Ali-Issam
is still on the run.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez was
sentenced to life in prison in 1997

for killing two DST agents in 1975,
on Rue Toullier in Paris.

He is currently serving his sentence
in a penitentiary in Poissy, France.

He is soon to be tried for bombing
the Capitole train and Rue Marbeuf.

Indicted for the Drugstore bombing,
which is still under investigation.

He was never prosecuted
for the OPEC raid.

PART THREE