PMTA (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript
I sentence the defendant,
Eliyahu Morduch,
to 15 years in prison.
There's a prosecutor position opening.
You should apply for a job
with the Tel Aviv District Attorney. -What?
Bank employees,
stay where you are.
Ten suspects so far have been arrested
and are being held for questioning
regarding their involvement
in the giant embezzlement case.
The Governor of the Bank of Israel
announced a general ban on mortgages.
Everyone, meet advocate
Marcelle Ben David.
First Senior Deputy to the District Attorney.
Come in.
Who are our leading suspects right now?
Only one suspect,
Rachel Yerushalmi,
mortgage clerk at the central branch.
No lieved Etti Alon
w bezzler, either.
We h i' found any evidence
's involvement in this.
He's got nothing to do with it.
Marcelle will join your team.
Are you the interns?
What do'^ou a • you want?
You're with me today.
It's all intrigue.
Everybody's someone's son,
taking over someone's job..
You're better off. Okay?
After everything that happened,
you're better off.
I want you to talk to your Frenchman.
-I'm on it.
Where is he?
-Who? -Gilbert.
What's wrong, Meir?
You're making me nervous.
Shh...
You keep quiet.
There's an email from Yerushalmi,
the clerk, to Bergman.
I found one of his emails.
Something suspicious.
There's no evidence against Bergman.
Is this the mgrVs room?
Partly
You're the new one, aren't you?
Would you like to have a drink tonight,
you and I?
I don't date.
But I'm okay with Sodom an Gomorrah.
Kaminsky, Bergman's attorney.
He's a weasel.
I'd like to enter into the record
a statement and a request to remand
until the end of proceedings another suspect,
Ophir Bergman.
Excuse me, Your Honor,
this is unthinkable.
Counsel Ben David is being undtily hostile
towards myself and my client
because we have an intimate relationship.
Are you kidding me?
I am hereby remanding suspects
Yerushalmi and Bergman
for five days.
I wanted to congratulate you
on your new job.
I'm thinking of you, Marcella.
We'll meet again, you and I.
Dad, I don't have the purple leotard
I need for the show. -Why not?
Because you don't give Mom
enough money.
Who told you that?
-Shut up, moron.
You want them to fight again?
-It's alright.
I'll buy you whatever you need on Wednesday,
okay, sweetheart?
Dad, what's that?
Why's your name written there?
It's nothing.
A gift from work.
We're here outside the DA's office,
and the judicial system's inflexibility.
How do you know it was sent by him?
Of course it was.
Who else could it be?
Did you report it?
If Orit hears about it
it'll be the end of me.
She'll mess up
my visitation rights.
That motherfucker.
I will fuck him up.
That's exactly what he wants.
That's what he's trying to do,
to drive you crazy.
Just report it.
Legal justice!
The people demand...
I'll talk to you later.
-The people demand legal justice!
This morning the District Attorney's office
declared that it also intends to indict
the VP of the bank,
Ophir Bergman.
Following this,
the Governer of the Bank of Israel announced
that the mortga e ban will con i
until the investigation is compl
Tell me, this is barely your second
How dare you
go to the courthouse
and accuse a suspect you decided on?
I don't get it!
-After I stood before her
and specifically told her not to do it.
Face to face.
The judge ruled in favor.
Did she now?
This will blow up in our faces.
Why should it?
-Look...
What if the money Yerushalmi
transferred from the mortgages
went to Bergman's company?
How do you know so much
about Bergman's so-called company?
You have another task force
working the case?
Maybe if your task force
had done its job
I wouldn't have to look for my own evidence.
That's the last time you make
a fool of me in court.
Do you understand me? The last time!
-You're unhinged.
Guys, let's try and calm down.
I'm the prosecutor in charge of the case.
What's happening here is unacceptable!
-Marcelle.
Marcelle,
come into my office please.
I know I didn't act according to protocol,
but I had the evidence
and I didn't want to miss an opportunity.
Who told you to do it?
What do you mean?
Did any of the supervising staff on the case
authorize you to submit against Bergman?
I tried to talk to Bar-On,
but he wasn't available.
Not everyone is right for this job, Marcelle.
The DA's office is an organized system.
There are rules and regulations,
a hierarchy, team work.
I don't deal with disciplinary issues.
I understand.
You understand,
but you're not apologizing.
I put you on this case
because you're a good face for the press.
Don't fool yourself.
' You don't have the seniority or the expertise
to lead a case this big.
I'm not here to be your model.
You've got some nerve.
And in this case,
you're also legally wrong.
We have nothing against
the bank's VP
other than vicarious liability.
But there is evidence.
His counsel has petitioned
to rule them inadmissible.
Because there's no
certificate of confidentiality? -Yes.
Nonsense. That's just bureaucracy.
-It's not.
These are legal procedures, the penal code.
You represent the State,
and you've caused real damage.
If the judge approves the defense's request
we won't be able to use that evidence at all.
What you did was so ridiculous,
that I don't even know
which prosecutor to send over there
to defend this position of yours.
Okay, I get it.
What do you-get? -I made a mistake,
I'll fix it. When's.the hearing?
In 30 minutes.
Marcelle, no nonsense.
Listen,
Bergman had a real estate entrepreneurship
called A.B. Holdings.
He may have used it
to squirrel away the scam m ney.
I want you to go over
all the mortgage files
that Yerushalmi approved
and look for that name:
"A.B. Holdings".
if you find a file like that,
write down the buyers' ID number
and run it through the terminal.
Is ' that additional investigation?
Isn't the police supposed to do this?
Ya'ara, do we have a problem?
-No, of course noL
Then why do you argue with me
whenever I ask you to do something?
I'm just trying to understand
the procedure.
The procedure is that you're an intern
and you do whatever the prosecutor
tell you to do. Cool?
I'm late for the hearing.
Let me know what you find.
You still don't think shi's a bitch?
I asked around about her,
just so you know.
They say she got shot
during the Morduch investigation
and she's been crazy ever since.
She's off her rocker,
I'm telling you
Then maybe you should stop
getting in her face.
Marcelle. Marcelle.
-Hi.
I'm late for the hearing.
No, it's not about the case.
I'm here as the Chairperson
of the Prosecutor Committee.
I wanted to make sure
you're coming tonight
to Margalit's goodbye party.
-Margalit?
Margalit Weiss,
the prosecutor you're replacing?
We'll use the opportunity
to officially congratulate you
on your new position.
-Okay.
It's tonight at 20:00.
I'll put the invite in your box.
Sure.
-Sorry, it's 65 shekels.
For Margalit's present.
I need exact change.
I don't have anything on me.
I'll get it to you later today.
Okay.
ID number 38725528.
Dror Gershoni.
ID number 32362246.
Amir Sharabi....
-We said we'll do two each.
Strike that last one.
Nadav Khakshouri,
45666721...
Marwan Said.
How many more?
-Not that many.
About 60.
Are you just about done?
Leave your lists here,
we'll let you know when it's done.
When?
That many people could take days.
You have enough to do with these.
Sorry.
You have everything you need?
Shampoo, toilet paper?
Is everything okay?
Did something happen?
Why don't you tell me what's going on?
Is anyone threatening you,
or your husband?
Is it his creditors?
Someone from the bank?
Is it Bergman?
What's your connection to him?
Rachel, if I know what this is about
I'll be able to defend you.
I know you didn't steal
hundreds of millions.
I've been in this profession
long enough
to know who's a thief
and who's being used.
These forged documents,
who brought them to you?
I don't understand.
You hired me to defend you, right?
You're paying me.
So help me help you.
Let me do my damn job.
Let me do my job.
Rachel.
Wait, Rachel.
Let me out!
Sweetie, careful
you don't drop the ball into the pool.
He hasn't gotten back to me, Meir.
No texts, nothing.
It's never happened before.
Honestly, I'm really worried.
We should call the police.
-Absolutely not.
Why not?
People don't just disappear like that.
You're so naive.
-Naive?
He's run off, Natali.
That's what he did. -What?
I bet that French bastard
sold the house and the car
and left you in debt.
What are you talking about, Meir?
Why would he do that?
-Why would he do that?
Because he's an asshole,
that's why.
No way.
No way he did that to me and Ori.
Come on, Natali.
Enough with the drama.
You know exactly
the type of men you fall for.
It's not the same, Meir.
He loves me.
Okay. So check.
Go check your bank account.
Go ahead.
He cleaned out his Israeli bank accounts.
But that's nothing,
150,000 or 200,000 shekels.
I'm worried
that I can't find the rest of it.
Does she know?
Yes.
She thinks he just left her.
It's better that way.
This doesn't make any sense.
-What.
rson is-o
governmental ineome assistance
but still got a mortgage
of 1.5 million shells
What?.
they'd never approve that .
Weird.
We should let Marcelle know.
Hi, you've reached Marcelle.
We're here to discuss a petition
from the defense counsel
for suspect number 6,
regarding confidential evidence.
Counsel Kaminsky,
would you like to proceed?
Your Honor, excuse my language
but the State is simply spitting
in the face of the law
They presented confidential evidence
without a certificate of confidentiality.
This is an invalid and illegal procedure.
If the court permits,
this performance is unnecessary,
Counsel Kaminsky.
I'd like to inform Your Honor
that the State retracts its stance
to keep th evidence confidential.
We will submit it as it is
and will circulate copies.
You are waiving confidentiality?
-Yes, Your Honor.
What do you have to say,
Counsel Kaminsky?
What can I say, Your Honor?
The State is trying its luck
in the court.
I've never seen such insolence.
Have they only just studied evidence law?
I demand exemplary costs.
Mr. Kaminsky,
putting aside your impressive rhetoric,
you are getting just what you asked for.
The procedural error was corrected,
so what are you shouting about?
My apologies, Your Honor.
You're forgiven.
Mr. Kaminsky,
even you can agre
that the defendant needs justice
more than costs.
Perhaps you'd prefer to withdraw
your petition?
Considering the State's position,
it is now redundant.
Yes, Your Honor.
Tell me, what position did Judge Ganor
get at the DA's office,
Senior Deputy, or is she a Supervisor by now?
-Still whining?
Not at all.
-Then what?
Bergman isn't guilty.
I know what you're trying to do,
but you're wrong, it's not him.
Thank you for letting me know.
I'll go withdraw my statement
against him right away.
Your client is being interrogated.
Why aren't you with him?
I'm here with you.
I'm not worried about the interrogation.
I know he isn't guilty.
This is your strategy?
I'd expect someone like Bergman
to find a better lawyer than that.
Nice.
What do you want, Kaminsky.
I want a pre-indictment hearing
at the DA's office.
It won't happen.
-It will, and you know it.
I'll ask your superior
and I'll get it.
Don't come out looking like an idiot.
Are you really such a loser
that you petitioned a dismissal
over intimate relations?
Our moment in the bathroom
was very intimate.
I wasn't the one who said
Sodom and Gomorrah.
So is that what you fuck?
Minds?
You know,
if anything happened between us
it could be very problematic,
ethically speaking.
Thank you for the ethics lesson.
It's not just theoretical.
You could get the boot.
You could be disbarred.
No, I won't be disbarred
because of you.
I'm not sure it's up to you.
Yes.
I'm on my way.
...when they're working for the rich!
Prosecutors to the ditch..
-Advocate Ben David,
how does the prosecution responds
to the protesters' claims
that you're out of touch?
-No comment. Talk to our spokespeople.
When will you decide whether to indict?
Prosecutors to the ditch
when they're working for the rich!
Prosecutors to the ditch
when they're working...
Where is it? Show me.
I found seven of them.
Mortgage cases with
A.B. Holdings properties
and buyers who would never
have gotten approved.
I have another two, I think.
I'm not sure.
I knew it.
I knew it.
They're all straw men.
This changes everything.
-It changes the indictment?
Yes, we're now looking
at charges of organized crime.
If there are straw men,
then they have operators.
This is an entire network,
not some debt-ridden clerk.
Is that all you found?
-There must be more,
but she told us to leave the list
at the terminal
and they'll check it in a few days.
What do you mean,
a few days?
That's what she said.
Marcelle.
Marcelle.
The Prosecutor Committee gift money?
Oh, right.
I hope it's enough.
Tell me,
if I need to run a lot of names
through the registry urgently
and the secretariat is busy,
do you know how I can speed that up?
Wait, don't make me lose count.
I can't approve something like that.
Talk to Elisha.
Elisha?
-He's in charge of the case.
Elisha.
I wanted to update you
that we identified a pattern
that we need to look into right away.
We need to let the task force know
for additional investigation.
Really?
It seems you started
your own task force here.
The terminal is busy.
I need to gain access
to a second police terminal.
Why don't you ask Nati?
Tell him you need your own special terminal.
I'm sure he'll be glad to help you.
You're the prosecutor
in charge of the case, no?
I'm telling you we made
a significant discovery,
what's the deal?
You know, I'm trying to understand
this behavior of yours,
whether it's inexperience,
borderline personality disorder or what.
Honestly,
I don't really care.
Your childish behavior
is jeopardizing the case.
You go to court pretending
to have an indictment that you don't.
What you have
is worth nothing.
So what?
Are you now trying to make noise,
so people think you have something?
-That's not it.
I can show you at least
seven suspicious mortgages.
Okay . Excuse me,
I'm late or court.
But...
You're welcome to put together
all your newest discoveries
and present them in an organized fashion
at the case staff meeting.
That's how we operate.
Get used to it.
When's the meeting?
-4 O'Clock. See you.
they're all straw men.
Someone sent them to get the mortgages
and took the money.
That clerk couldn't have done it alone.
Someone's extorting her.
Do me a favor,
run these names for me.
Do you know how much trouble you'll be in
if they find out you did it through me?
So..
Make sure they don't find out.
Make me a list of all the IDs
you haven't checked yet
a send it to this number.
Jerusalem?
Is there a problem?
No, nothing.
I'd appreciate it
if this stays between us
for the time being.
At least until the case staff meeting.
Marcelle.
I know this person.
Hussein Shahada.
He's my neighbor in Jaffa.
He's mentally disabled, poor guy.
Lives with his mother.
They ask me for money
whenever their water gets shut off.
There's no way his mortgage was approved.
He's a straw man for sure.
Can I talk to him?
Will he understand me?
I think so.
-Can we go see him now?
Yes. Okay.
Ya'ara, we'll be back in 90 minutes.
Send the list to Jerusalem
i the meantime
I'd like to talk to you
about this email from Yerushalmi.
"Waiting for approval of request A"
You responded
"Use standard procedure."
Can you explain to me
what the standard procedure is?
-Do you know how many emails
I get every day?
So I let Nofar, my secretary,
answer some of them.
In my name, right?
What can you tell me
about a holdings company
called A.B. Holding
-Wow.
A real estate entrepreneurship
owned by you?
After I left the Ministry o Construction
I considered moving to the private sector.
But I'm an employee at heart
I don't like chasing after clients.
So when I came to the bank
I sold off everything,
I took e cooling off period.
i did it right
And you have nothing to do
with the company today?
No, I told you
I sold it.
But yo did start the company.
You don't,care what projects
they're involved in?
Maybe there's, a conflict of interest
with your current engagements?
I don't even know
who owns it now
I told you
when I got the position at the bank
I signed a Conflict's of Interest Affidavit.
Everything was done by the book
What has i got to do with anything?
Ophir, relax.
Thank you.
I apologize.
but i swear to you
I don't know what's happening here
Do you speak Arabic?
Not really.
I understand a little.
Okay.
Hello.
Eisen.
You're Jewish,
you're a government employee
and you're a stranger.
The place where we work,
they even give me the side eye for it.
So watch yourself.
-Sure. You lead.
What... What do I ask?
I don't know.
Ask him if someone he didn't know
took him to the bank
and made him sign any papers.
Maybe he needed to help
his mother with money.
Above all, don't make him feel
like you're accusing him of anything.
They're the victims here,
not the criminals. -Okay.
Nasrin.
Please, it's Khalil.
Your neighbor.
Hello.
Don't wor
. I'll be here.
Ddn't be afraid.
I only want to help.
I'll ask you a few questions,
that's all.
thank you
have you ever seen to the bank?
Lahav Bank?
Tell him.
Don't worry,
I won't be mad.
No.
Did anyone you know, or don't know,
come here to talk to you?
Gave you money
to sign a document in Hebrew?
Maybe someone you know
from the neighborhood?
Don't know.
What did he say?
That he doesn't know anyone.
Someone you don't know
gave you a present?
A gift?
Yes? What?
Red Bull and 200 shekels.
-Red Bull?
You like Red Bull?
Was he Jewish? Arab?
What was he?
Jewish.
-Jewish.
Where did he take you?
The mall?
The bank?
Where?
You don't know?
What did he look like?
Like this? Is this him?
Don t worry.
she's just showing you a picture
have you ever seen this man?
Don't know.
-No?
and her?
No.
Does it have any games?
What did he say?
-Games.
Do you have any games on your phone?
-Oh. Yeah, here.
Is that helpful at all?
He's talking about an excha
It's a start
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
Hi.
Do you need help?
Looking for something?
Yes.
The binder with the falsified mortgages
from 2017.
Do you know where it is?
I think it's somewhere here.
Ben David isn't here?
-She left to do something.
I understand there are some new discoveries.
She was supposed to update me
but she's not here.
Honestly, she didn't tell me.
Do you know the details?
I don't really know what I can...
I think it's better
if you wait for her to come back.
Fine.
Here it is.
Thanks.
So?
After you're done here
you'll go work for your mother?
I'm planning to do my PhD in Harvard.
International law.
-Wow.
Standards are high
at the Sadeh household.
Yes. I'd like to gain some experience
in international tribunals.
You know,
the Dean at Harvard
is a close friend of mine.
We went to school together.
You went to Harvard?
For a semester. Student exchange.
It's was a pleasure. -Wow.
If you like,
I'll put in a good word for you.
Really?
Yeah
Wow that.,
would be amazing
I'm just putting together
my application, and...
getting a recommendation from you
would be a dream.
Tell Ben David I was looking for her, okay?
We found straw men.
In the A.B. Holdings files.
I found them.
Straw men?
-People who clearly
weren't eligible for a mortgage.
-I know what a straw man is.
Do we know who the operator is?
Hold on, I'm getting a fax.
These are records of straw men?
Why is it coming from Jerusalem?
Do you know?
No.
She told us to send it
to some number in Jerusalem.
She didn't say why.
It must be a correspondence
between my secretary and Yerushalmi
The secretaries always order
lunch together
I explained it to the investigator.
And this company, A.B. Holdings?
-I sold it off a long time ago.
I know
I checked.
It's been writte off.
-So what do they want?
They've latched on to you
so they're grasping at straws
You think someone is using the company
to implicate you?
You know what?
I didn't think of that. Maybe.
Who could it be?
Who has it in for you?
Who doesn't?
The job I did,
just getting to the office in the morning
earned me some enemies.
I don't know where to begin.
Okay.
At least we have the evidence
We know what they have on you
I trust you completely, Kaminsky.
But you have to get me out here
I can't stay here.
I'm starting to lose it.
No, Ophir.
Don't flake out on me now.
No way.
That's just what they want,
to put words in your mouth.
Hold your head high, take a deep breath.
You'll be o in a few days.
okay?
-I'm trying i swear. But...
I also wanted to talk about your fee.
It's okay.
What e agreed on
will cover the preliminary hearings.
We'll see how trial goes.
I want yo with me, Kaminsky.
You calm me down.
-I'm with you.
I'm with you 100 percent.
But how can it be?
Is this where the meeting will be?
When a meeting start at 3:00
it's customary to arrive at 3:00, Ben David.
Not at 4:00
-You said 4:00. -No.
We said 3:00.
There's an event tonight.
We need to finish early.
-Okay, Nati.
Get a statement from all the straw men
We'll need them to testify.
Fine. I'll call them
-What straw
How'd you get that?
Are those the straw man records?
You're going to arrest them?
Do you know other way
to interrogate suspects?
Since when are they suspects?
Maybe in Jerusalem you don't consider
straw men to be criminals
but we do.
You know what else is considered a crime?
Interfering in the work of a police task force
It's a disruption of
investigative procedure isn't?
Tell your friends in Jerusalem
to expect consequences.
This wont blow over
without disciplinary measures
Oh, Elisha. -Yes?
-Your 65 shekels for Margalit's present.
I'll go down to the ATM in a bit.
What did I ask you?
Put down that phone.
What did I ask you?
To keep this between us.
Why did you let Elisha
take our material?
He is the prosecutor in charge of the case.
He cam in and saw it.
what was i supposed to do,
They're issuing arrest warrants,
for everyone, Hussein included.
What do you mean?
You mean he'll be arrested?
Yes, for questioning. Or debriefing.
I don't know exactly.
But there are procedures
for the arrest of dependents.
I need to talk to his mother now.
You can't warn a suspect
about a pending arrest.
You told me he won't get arrested!
-I never said that.
You told me they're the victims,
not the criminals.
I need to go.
-Where are you going?
Khalil, what are you doing?
-I'm going there. -You can't.
He needs a lawyer, no?
-You can't represent him.
You're a prosecutor.
Khalil!
Khalil.
That motherfucking task force head.
I don't know why he has it in for me.
He said he'll enact
disciplinary measures against you.
All I did was open a terminal.
What can he do?
Hello,
you've reached Khalil...
Kobi, I'm nervous.
Khalil isn't picking up.
What if he gets into trouble
because of me?
Believe me,
people have no shame.
They charge you 6,000 shekels
for 500 square feet?
Unbelievable.
wow.
Why are you laughing?
This is how they dress.
-No, it's nice.
Really nice.
Kobi, you don't know the mess I'm in.
First the task force head's complaint,
and now my intern.
What if he pulls some nonsense
during the arrest?
Did you talk to him?
-I called him about 20 times. No answer.
Go there.
-No way. I can't do that.
I have to show my face
at this party.
Why don't you come with me?
Forget it.
It's not my thing, Marcelle.
Why not?
Come as my date.
-You...
Come here.
That's the internet,
that's the cable and that's the TV.
Okay.
-Okay . Yes.
You're all set.
-Thank you. -You're welcome.
And Margalit,
who always performed her best
here at the DA's office
and at the Open University.
Hardworking,
she always took the effort
to diligently and professionally
teach every student and intern,
never neglecting her prosecutor colleagues
as she did.
So today, we offer our warmest thanks
and wish you good luck.
I'd like to call Margalit to the stage
and present her with a gift
from all of us at the Prosecutor Committee.
Margalit, a few words?
Thank you very much.
It's very touching
that you came all this way.
The DA's office is like family to me.
Surely you remember what Tolstoy
wrote about families,
that the happy ones are all alike,
but the miserable ones
are each miserable in their own way.
So, Meri,
thank you for everything,
even for the misery.
Thank you.
Any sensible person knows
these are straw men,
which turns it into charges
of organized crime.
Elisha, let's stop here.
I believe that President Kahan,
who is well known for his strict
ethical standards,
wouldn't want to know the details
of a case he's not presiding over.
Still, I hear your staff
is doing excellent work, Meri.
Thank you.
-Good evening.
Good evening, how are you?
-Fine.
You know each other?
-I know her from her police days.
I presided over the Eliyahu Morduch case.
Judge Kahan was the one who recommended
I apply to the District Attorney's office.
Really?
Why didn't you tell me, Avigdor?
So we have you to thank for Marcelle?
You should thank her,
rather.
Meri, it's time for your speech.
-Oh, yes. Excuse me.
What did we get her?
She always talked about
her trips abroad,
so I got her a guidebook
to Australia and New Zealand.
What will she do with that?
She'll be dead soon.
Hold this.
It's not every day that a layman
gets to hold a conversation
with the President of the district court.
So many years in the system.
And you, Margalit, were always there.
Always direct, always honest,
hard-working and diligent.
You will surely be missed.
I would also like to take this opportunity
to welcome our newest prosecutor,
Marcelle Ben David.
Welcome, Marcelle,
and good luck.
Enjoy.
Pardon me, even the President
needs to wet his throat occasionally.
Excuse me, Sir.
Come on.
We could use some whiskey.
Sorry, I should have warned you.
Warn me? Of what?
I didn't want Nahmias to know
about our connection.
She might make things harder for you.
Because she's been so lenient
up till now.
I'm hoarse.
To empathize with Margalit, maybe.
I should tell you that Meri and I..
have a long-standing competition.
Can we get two whiskeys?
Our careers advanced side by side.
Occasionally one of us stole
a rising star from the other.
Margalit is one example.
I can't imagine Meri would ever
steal me away from anyone.
On the contrary.
She'd love to be rid of me.
Meri likes yes-men.
She surrounds herself
with sycophants.
You're not like that.
That doesn't make you any less than them.
On the contrary.
That's your advantage.
Cheers.
Do you have any rolling papers?
I left mine in the car.
No?
Don't look at me like that.
It's medicinal.
You're prosecutor Ben David, right?
-Yes.
Look at that.
Small world.
Someone new comes in
while you're still talking.
Yeah, I understand
I've taken over your job.
They love that stuff here.
Job openings,
optional working days,
hoarding printing paper
because it always runs out
by November, and then...
you can't get any till January.
Want a toke?
How do you feel?
I'm dying.
How do you think I feel?
Cancer?
Pancreas.
They say I have three months to live.
Seems superfluous.
Might as well have ended it now.
So I hope it'll happen as soon as possible.
But I won't say it in a speech.
I'm no good at those.
Watch out,
prosecutor Ben David.
Don't let them kill you, too.
Who?
The Tel Aviv District Attorney's office.
Let me in.
Listen to me.
I know him, he's...
You don't know him.
He's mentally disabled.
Marcelle.
-Khalil, what's going on? Where are you?
They're here to arrest Hussein.
They came without a social worker,
nothing.
He lost it,
shut himself in the shed with his mother,
beat up the cops, God knows.
He could kill himself now.
I don't know what to do.
Can you come help me?
I don't know what to do.
-Wait for me. I'm coming. -What?
Wait for me. I'm coming.
Let me in.
Let me in.
Khalil, what happened?
Khalil!
Eliyahu Morduch,
to 15 years in prison.
There's a prosecutor position opening.
You should apply for a job
with the Tel Aviv District Attorney. -What?
Bank employees,
stay where you are.
Ten suspects so far have been arrested
and are being held for questioning
regarding their involvement
in the giant embezzlement case.
The Governor of the Bank of Israel
announced a general ban on mortgages.
Everyone, meet advocate
Marcelle Ben David.
First Senior Deputy to the District Attorney.
Come in.
Who are our leading suspects right now?
Only one suspect,
Rachel Yerushalmi,
mortgage clerk at the central branch.
No lieved Etti Alon
w bezzler, either.
We h i' found any evidence
's involvement in this.
He's got nothing to do with it.
Marcelle will join your team.
Are you the interns?
What do'^ou a • you want?
You're with me today.
It's all intrigue.
Everybody's someone's son,
taking over someone's job..
You're better off. Okay?
After everything that happened,
you're better off.
I want you to talk to your Frenchman.
-I'm on it.
Where is he?
-Who? -Gilbert.
What's wrong, Meir?
You're making me nervous.
Shh...
You keep quiet.
There's an email from Yerushalmi,
the clerk, to Bergman.
I found one of his emails.
Something suspicious.
There's no evidence against Bergman.
Is this the mgrVs room?
Partly
You're the new one, aren't you?
Would you like to have a drink tonight,
you and I?
I don't date.
But I'm okay with Sodom an Gomorrah.
Kaminsky, Bergman's attorney.
He's a weasel.
I'd like to enter into the record
a statement and a request to remand
until the end of proceedings another suspect,
Ophir Bergman.
Excuse me, Your Honor,
this is unthinkable.
Counsel Ben David is being undtily hostile
towards myself and my client
because we have an intimate relationship.
Are you kidding me?
I am hereby remanding suspects
Yerushalmi and Bergman
for five days.
I wanted to congratulate you
on your new job.
I'm thinking of you, Marcella.
We'll meet again, you and I.
Dad, I don't have the purple leotard
I need for the show. -Why not?
Because you don't give Mom
enough money.
Who told you that?
-Shut up, moron.
You want them to fight again?
-It's alright.
I'll buy you whatever you need on Wednesday,
okay, sweetheart?
Dad, what's that?
Why's your name written there?
It's nothing.
A gift from work.
We're here outside the DA's office,
and the judicial system's inflexibility.
How do you know it was sent by him?
Of course it was.
Who else could it be?
Did you report it?
If Orit hears about it
it'll be the end of me.
She'll mess up
my visitation rights.
That motherfucker.
I will fuck him up.
That's exactly what he wants.
That's what he's trying to do,
to drive you crazy.
Just report it.
Legal justice!
The people demand...
I'll talk to you later.
-The people demand legal justice!
This morning the District Attorney's office
declared that it also intends to indict
the VP of the bank,
Ophir Bergman.
Following this,
the Governer of the Bank of Israel announced
that the mortga e ban will con i
until the investigation is compl
Tell me, this is barely your second
How dare you
go to the courthouse
and accuse a suspect you decided on?
I don't get it!
-After I stood before her
and specifically told her not to do it.
Face to face.
The judge ruled in favor.
Did she now?
This will blow up in our faces.
Why should it?
-Look...
What if the money Yerushalmi
transferred from the mortgages
went to Bergman's company?
How do you know so much
about Bergman's so-called company?
You have another task force
working the case?
Maybe if your task force
had done its job
I wouldn't have to look for my own evidence.
That's the last time you make
a fool of me in court.
Do you understand me? The last time!
-You're unhinged.
Guys, let's try and calm down.
I'm the prosecutor in charge of the case.
What's happening here is unacceptable!
-Marcelle.
Marcelle,
come into my office please.
I know I didn't act according to protocol,
but I had the evidence
and I didn't want to miss an opportunity.
Who told you to do it?
What do you mean?
Did any of the supervising staff on the case
authorize you to submit against Bergman?
I tried to talk to Bar-On,
but he wasn't available.
Not everyone is right for this job, Marcelle.
The DA's office is an organized system.
There are rules and regulations,
a hierarchy, team work.
I don't deal with disciplinary issues.
I understand.
You understand,
but you're not apologizing.
I put you on this case
because you're a good face for the press.
Don't fool yourself.
' You don't have the seniority or the expertise
to lead a case this big.
I'm not here to be your model.
You've got some nerve.
And in this case,
you're also legally wrong.
We have nothing against
the bank's VP
other than vicarious liability.
But there is evidence.
His counsel has petitioned
to rule them inadmissible.
Because there's no
certificate of confidentiality? -Yes.
Nonsense. That's just bureaucracy.
-It's not.
These are legal procedures, the penal code.
You represent the State,
and you've caused real damage.
If the judge approves the defense's request
we won't be able to use that evidence at all.
What you did was so ridiculous,
that I don't even know
which prosecutor to send over there
to defend this position of yours.
Okay, I get it.
What do you-get? -I made a mistake,
I'll fix it. When's.the hearing?
In 30 minutes.
Marcelle, no nonsense.
Listen,
Bergman had a real estate entrepreneurship
called A.B. Holdings.
He may have used it
to squirrel away the scam m ney.
I want you to go over
all the mortgage files
that Yerushalmi approved
and look for that name:
"A.B. Holdings".
if you find a file like that,
write down the buyers' ID number
and run it through the terminal.
Is ' that additional investigation?
Isn't the police supposed to do this?
Ya'ara, do we have a problem?
-No, of course noL
Then why do you argue with me
whenever I ask you to do something?
I'm just trying to understand
the procedure.
The procedure is that you're an intern
and you do whatever the prosecutor
tell you to do. Cool?
I'm late for the hearing.
Let me know what you find.
You still don't think shi's a bitch?
I asked around about her,
just so you know.
They say she got shot
during the Morduch investigation
and she's been crazy ever since.
She's off her rocker,
I'm telling you
Then maybe you should stop
getting in her face.
Marcelle. Marcelle.
-Hi.
I'm late for the hearing.
No, it's not about the case.
I'm here as the Chairperson
of the Prosecutor Committee.
I wanted to make sure
you're coming tonight
to Margalit's goodbye party.
-Margalit?
Margalit Weiss,
the prosecutor you're replacing?
We'll use the opportunity
to officially congratulate you
on your new position.
-Okay.
It's tonight at 20:00.
I'll put the invite in your box.
Sure.
-Sorry, it's 65 shekels.
For Margalit's present.
I need exact change.
I don't have anything on me.
I'll get it to you later today.
Okay.
ID number 38725528.
Dror Gershoni.
ID number 32362246.
Amir Sharabi....
-We said we'll do two each.
Strike that last one.
Nadav Khakshouri,
45666721...
Marwan Said.
How many more?
-Not that many.
About 60.
Are you just about done?
Leave your lists here,
we'll let you know when it's done.
When?
That many people could take days.
You have enough to do with these.
Sorry.
You have everything you need?
Shampoo, toilet paper?
Is everything okay?
Did something happen?
Why don't you tell me what's going on?
Is anyone threatening you,
or your husband?
Is it his creditors?
Someone from the bank?
Is it Bergman?
What's your connection to him?
Rachel, if I know what this is about
I'll be able to defend you.
I know you didn't steal
hundreds of millions.
I've been in this profession
long enough
to know who's a thief
and who's being used.
These forged documents,
who brought them to you?
I don't understand.
You hired me to defend you, right?
You're paying me.
So help me help you.
Let me do my damn job.
Let me do my job.
Rachel.
Wait, Rachel.
Let me out!
Sweetie, careful
you don't drop the ball into the pool.
He hasn't gotten back to me, Meir.
No texts, nothing.
It's never happened before.
Honestly, I'm really worried.
We should call the police.
-Absolutely not.
Why not?
People don't just disappear like that.
You're so naive.
-Naive?
He's run off, Natali.
That's what he did. -What?
I bet that French bastard
sold the house and the car
and left you in debt.
What are you talking about, Meir?
Why would he do that?
-Why would he do that?
Because he's an asshole,
that's why.
No way.
No way he did that to me and Ori.
Come on, Natali.
Enough with the drama.
You know exactly
the type of men you fall for.
It's not the same, Meir.
He loves me.
Okay. So check.
Go check your bank account.
Go ahead.
He cleaned out his Israeli bank accounts.
But that's nothing,
150,000 or 200,000 shekels.
I'm worried
that I can't find the rest of it.
Does she know?
Yes.
She thinks he just left her.
It's better that way.
This doesn't make any sense.
-What.
rson is-o
governmental ineome assistance
but still got a mortgage
of 1.5 million shells
What?.
they'd never approve that .
Weird.
We should let Marcelle know.
Hi, you've reached Marcelle.
We're here to discuss a petition
from the defense counsel
for suspect number 6,
regarding confidential evidence.
Counsel Kaminsky,
would you like to proceed?
Your Honor, excuse my language
but the State is simply spitting
in the face of the law
They presented confidential evidence
without a certificate of confidentiality.
This is an invalid and illegal procedure.
If the court permits,
this performance is unnecessary,
Counsel Kaminsky.
I'd like to inform Your Honor
that the State retracts its stance
to keep th evidence confidential.
We will submit it as it is
and will circulate copies.
You are waiving confidentiality?
-Yes, Your Honor.
What do you have to say,
Counsel Kaminsky?
What can I say, Your Honor?
The State is trying its luck
in the court.
I've never seen such insolence.
Have they only just studied evidence law?
I demand exemplary costs.
Mr. Kaminsky,
putting aside your impressive rhetoric,
you are getting just what you asked for.
The procedural error was corrected,
so what are you shouting about?
My apologies, Your Honor.
You're forgiven.
Mr. Kaminsky,
even you can agre
that the defendant needs justice
more than costs.
Perhaps you'd prefer to withdraw
your petition?
Considering the State's position,
it is now redundant.
Yes, Your Honor.
Tell me, what position did Judge Ganor
get at the DA's office,
Senior Deputy, or is she a Supervisor by now?
-Still whining?
Not at all.
-Then what?
Bergman isn't guilty.
I know what you're trying to do,
but you're wrong, it's not him.
Thank you for letting me know.
I'll go withdraw my statement
against him right away.
Your client is being interrogated.
Why aren't you with him?
I'm here with you.
I'm not worried about the interrogation.
I know he isn't guilty.
This is your strategy?
I'd expect someone like Bergman
to find a better lawyer than that.
Nice.
What do you want, Kaminsky.
I want a pre-indictment hearing
at the DA's office.
It won't happen.
-It will, and you know it.
I'll ask your superior
and I'll get it.
Don't come out looking like an idiot.
Are you really such a loser
that you petitioned a dismissal
over intimate relations?
Our moment in the bathroom
was very intimate.
I wasn't the one who said
Sodom and Gomorrah.
So is that what you fuck?
Minds?
You know,
if anything happened between us
it could be very problematic,
ethically speaking.
Thank you for the ethics lesson.
It's not just theoretical.
You could get the boot.
You could be disbarred.
No, I won't be disbarred
because of you.
I'm not sure it's up to you.
Yes.
I'm on my way.
...when they're working for the rich!
Prosecutors to the ditch..
-Advocate Ben David,
how does the prosecution responds
to the protesters' claims
that you're out of touch?
-No comment. Talk to our spokespeople.
When will you decide whether to indict?
Prosecutors to the ditch
when they're working for the rich!
Prosecutors to the ditch
when they're working...
Where is it? Show me.
I found seven of them.
Mortgage cases with
A.B. Holdings properties
and buyers who would never
have gotten approved.
I have another two, I think.
I'm not sure.
I knew it.
I knew it.
They're all straw men.
This changes everything.
-It changes the indictment?
Yes, we're now looking
at charges of organized crime.
If there are straw men,
then they have operators.
This is an entire network,
not some debt-ridden clerk.
Is that all you found?
-There must be more,
but she told us to leave the list
at the terminal
and they'll check it in a few days.
What do you mean,
a few days?
That's what she said.
Marcelle.
Marcelle.
The Prosecutor Committee gift money?
Oh, right.
I hope it's enough.
Tell me,
if I need to run a lot of names
through the registry urgently
and the secretariat is busy,
do you know how I can speed that up?
Wait, don't make me lose count.
I can't approve something like that.
Talk to Elisha.
Elisha?
-He's in charge of the case.
Elisha.
I wanted to update you
that we identified a pattern
that we need to look into right away.
We need to let the task force know
for additional investigation.
Really?
It seems you started
your own task force here.
The terminal is busy.
I need to gain access
to a second police terminal.
Why don't you ask Nati?
Tell him you need your own special terminal.
I'm sure he'll be glad to help you.
You're the prosecutor
in charge of the case, no?
I'm telling you we made
a significant discovery,
what's the deal?
You know, I'm trying to understand
this behavior of yours,
whether it's inexperience,
borderline personality disorder or what.
Honestly,
I don't really care.
Your childish behavior
is jeopardizing the case.
You go to court pretending
to have an indictment that you don't.
What you have
is worth nothing.
So what?
Are you now trying to make noise,
so people think you have something?
-That's not it.
I can show you at least
seven suspicious mortgages.
Okay . Excuse me,
I'm late or court.
But...
You're welcome to put together
all your newest discoveries
and present them in an organized fashion
at the case staff meeting.
That's how we operate.
Get used to it.
When's the meeting?
-4 O'Clock. See you.
they're all straw men.
Someone sent them to get the mortgages
and took the money.
That clerk couldn't have done it alone.
Someone's extorting her.
Do me a favor,
run these names for me.
Do you know how much trouble you'll be in
if they find out you did it through me?
So..
Make sure they don't find out.
Make me a list of all the IDs
you haven't checked yet
a send it to this number.
Jerusalem?
Is there a problem?
No, nothing.
I'd appreciate it
if this stays between us
for the time being.
At least until the case staff meeting.
Marcelle.
I know this person.
Hussein Shahada.
He's my neighbor in Jaffa.
He's mentally disabled, poor guy.
Lives with his mother.
They ask me for money
whenever their water gets shut off.
There's no way his mortgage was approved.
He's a straw man for sure.
Can I talk to him?
Will he understand me?
I think so.
-Can we go see him now?
Yes. Okay.
Ya'ara, we'll be back in 90 minutes.
Send the list to Jerusalem
i the meantime
I'd like to talk to you
about this email from Yerushalmi.
"Waiting for approval of request A"
You responded
"Use standard procedure."
Can you explain to me
what the standard procedure is?
-Do you know how many emails
I get every day?
So I let Nofar, my secretary,
answer some of them.
In my name, right?
What can you tell me
about a holdings company
called A.B. Holding
-Wow.
A real estate entrepreneurship
owned by you?
After I left the Ministry o Construction
I considered moving to the private sector.
But I'm an employee at heart
I don't like chasing after clients.
So when I came to the bank
I sold off everything,
I took e cooling off period.
i did it right
And you have nothing to do
with the company today?
No, I told you
I sold it.
But yo did start the company.
You don't,care what projects
they're involved in?
Maybe there's, a conflict of interest
with your current engagements?
I don't even know
who owns it now
I told you
when I got the position at the bank
I signed a Conflict's of Interest Affidavit.
Everything was done by the book
What has i got to do with anything?
Ophir, relax.
Thank you.
I apologize.
but i swear to you
I don't know what's happening here
Do you speak Arabic?
Not really.
I understand a little.
Okay.
Hello.
Eisen.
You're Jewish,
you're a government employee
and you're a stranger.
The place where we work,
they even give me the side eye for it.
So watch yourself.
-Sure. You lead.
What... What do I ask?
I don't know.
Ask him if someone he didn't know
took him to the bank
and made him sign any papers.
Maybe he needed to help
his mother with money.
Above all, don't make him feel
like you're accusing him of anything.
They're the victims here,
not the criminals. -Okay.
Nasrin.
Please, it's Khalil.
Your neighbor.
Hello.
Don't wor
. I'll be here.
Ddn't be afraid.
I only want to help.
I'll ask you a few questions,
that's all.
thank you
have you ever seen to the bank?
Lahav Bank?
Tell him.
Don't worry,
I won't be mad.
No.
Did anyone you know, or don't know,
come here to talk to you?
Gave you money
to sign a document in Hebrew?
Maybe someone you know
from the neighborhood?
Don't know.
What did he say?
That he doesn't know anyone.
Someone you don't know
gave you a present?
A gift?
Yes? What?
Red Bull and 200 shekels.
-Red Bull?
You like Red Bull?
Was he Jewish? Arab?
What was he?
Jewish.
-Jewish.
Where did he take you?
The mall?
The bank?
Where?
You don't know?
What did he look like?
Like this? Is this him?
Don t worry.
she's just showing you a picture
have you ever seen this man?
Don't know.
-No?
and her?
No.
Does it have any games?
What did he say?
-Games.
Do you have any games on your phone?
-Oh. Yeah, here.
Is that helpful at all?
He's talking about an excha
It's a start
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
Hi.
Do you need help?
Looking for something?
Yes.
The binder with the falsified mortgages
from 2017.
Do you know where it is?
I think it's somewhere here.
Ben David isn't here?
-She left to do something.
I understand there are some new discoveries.
She was supposed to update me
but she's not here.
Honestly, she didn't tell me.
Do you know the details?
I don't really know what I can...
I think it's better
if you wait for her to come back.
Fine.
Here it is.
Thanks.
So?
After you're done here
you'll go work for your mother?
I'm planning to do my PhD in Harvard.
International law.
-Wow.
Standards are high
at the Sadeh household.
Yes. I'd like to gain some experience
in international tribunals.
You know,
the Dean at Harvard
is a close friend of mine.
We went to school together.
You went to Harvard?
For a semester. Student exchange.
It's was a pleasure. -Wow.
If you like,
I'll put in a good word for you.
Really?
Yeah
Wow that.,
would be amazing
I'm just putting together
my application, and...
getting a recommendation from you
would be a dream.
Tell Ben David I was looking for her, okay?
We found straw men.
In the A.B. Holdings files.
I found them.
Straw men?
-People who clearly
weren't eligible for a mortgage.
-I know what a straw man is.
Do we know who the operator is?
Hold on, I'm getting a fax.
These are records of straw men?
Why is it coming from Jerusalem?
Do you know?
No.
She told us to send it
to some number in Jerusalem.
She didn't say why.
It must be a correspondence
between my secretary and Yerushalmi
The secretaries always order
lunch together
I explained it to the investigator.
And this company, A.B. Holdings?
-I sold it off a long time ago.
I know
I checked.
It's been writte off.
-So what do they want?
They've latched on to you
so they're grasping at straws
You think someone is using the company
to implicate you?
You know what?
I didn't think of that. Maybe.
Who could it be?
Who has it in for you?
Who doesn't?
The job I did,
just getting to the office in the morning
earned me some enemies.
I don't know where to begin.
Okay.
At least we have the evidence
We know what they have on you
I trust you completely, Kaminsky.
But you have to get me out here
I can't stay here.
I'm starting to lose it.
No, Ophir.
Don't flake out on me now.
No way.
That's just what they want,
to put words in your mouth.
Hold your head high, take a deep breath.
You'll be o in a few days.
okay?
-I'm trying i swear. But...
I also wanted to talk about your fee.
It's okay.
What e agreed on
will cover the preliminary hearings.
We'll see how trial goes.
I want yo with me, Kaminsky.
You calm me down.
-I'm with you.
I'm with you 100 percent.
But how can it be?
Is this where the meeting will be?
When a meeting start at 3:00
it's customary to arrive at 3:00, Ben David.
Not at 4:00
-You said 4:00. -No.
We said 3:00.
There's an event tonight.
We need to finish early.
-Okay, Nati.
Get a statement from all the straw men
We'll need them to testify.
Fine. I'll call them
-What straw
How'd you get that?
Are those the straw man records?
You're going to arrest them?
Do you know other way
to interrogate suspects?
Since when are they suspects?
Maybe in Jerusalem you don't consider
straw men to be criminals
but we do.
You know what else is considered a crime?
Interfering in the work of a police task force
It's a disruption of
investigative procedure isn't?
Tell your friends in Jerusalem
to expect consequences.
This wont blow over
without disciplinary measures
Oh, Elisha. -Yes?
-Your 65 shekels for Margalit's present.
I'll go down to the ATM in a bit.
What did I ask you?
Put down that phone.
What did I ask you?
To keep this between us.
Why did you let Elisha
take our material?
He is the prosecutor in charge of the case.
He cam in and saw it.
what was i supposed to do,
They're issuing arrest warrants,
for everyone, Hussein included.
What do you mean?
You mean he'll be arrested?
Yes, for questioning. Or debriefing.
I don't know exactly.
But there are procedures
for the arrest of dependents.
I need to talk to his mother now.
You can't warn a suspect
about a pending arrest.
You told me he won't get arrested!
-I never said that.
You told me they're the victims,
not the criminals.
I need to go.
-Where are you going?
Khalil, what are you doing?
-I'm going there. -You can't.
He needs a lawyer, no?
-You can't represent him.
You're a prosecutor.
Khalil!
Khalil.
That motherfucking task force head.
I don't know why he has it in for me.
He said he'll enact
disciplinary measures against you.
All I did was open a terminal.
What can he do?
Hello,
you've reached Khalil...
Kobi, I'm nervous.
Khalil isn't picking up.
What if he gets into trouble
because of me?
Believe me,
people have no shame.
They charge you 6,000 shekels
for 500 square feet?
Unbelievable.
wow.
Why are you laughing?
This is how they dress.
-No, it's nice.
Really nice.
Kobi, you don't know the mess I'm in.
First the task force head's complaint,
and now my intern.
What if he pulls some nonsense
during the arrest?
Did you talk to him?
-I called him about 20 times. No answer.
Go there.
-No way. I can't do that.
I have to show my face
at this party.
Why don't you come with me?
Forget it.
It's not my thing, Marcelle.
Why not?
Come as my date.
-You...
Come here.
That's the internet,
that's the cable and that's the TV.
Okay.
-Okay . Yes.
You're all set.
-Thank you. -You're welcome.
And Margalit,
who always performed her best
here at the DA's office
and at the Open University.
Hardworking,
she always took the effort
to diligently and professionally
teach every student and intern,
never neglecting her prosecutor colleagues
as she did.
So today, we offer our warmest thanks
and wish you good luck.
I'd like to call Margalit to the stage
and present her with a gift
from all of us at the Prosecutor Committee.
Margalit, a few words?
Thank you very much.
It's very touching
that you came all this way.
The DA's office is like family to me.
Surely you remember what Tolstoy
wrote about families,
that the happy ones are all alike,
but the miserable ones
are each miserable in their own way.
So, Meri,
thank you for everything,
even for the misery.
Thank you.
Any sensible person knows
these are straw men,
which turns it into charges
of organized crime.
Elisha, let's stop here.
I believe that President Kahan,
who is well known for his strict
ethical standards,
wouldn't want to know the details
of a case he's not presiding over.
Still, I hear your staff
is doing excellent work, Meri.
Thank you.
-Good evening.
Good evening, how are you?
-Fine.
You know each other?
-I know her from her police days.
I presided over the Eliyahu Morduch case.
Judge Kahan was the one who recommended
I apply to the District Attorney's office.
Really?
Why didn't you tell me, Avigdor?
So we have you to thank for Marcelle?
You should thank her,
rather.
Meri, it's time for your speech.
-Oh, yes. Excuse me.
What did we get her?
She always talked about
her trips abroad,
so I got her a guidebook
to Australia and New Zealand.
What will she do with that?
She'll be dead soon.
Hold this.
It's not every day that a layman
gets to hold a conversation
with the President of the district court.
So many years in the system.
And you, Margalit, were always there.
Always direct, always honest,
hard-working and diligent.
You will surely be missed.
I would also like to take this opportunity
to welcome our newest prosecutor,
Marcelle Ben David.
Welcome, Marcelle,
and good luck.
Enjoy.
Pardon me, even the President
needs to wet his throat occasionally.
Excuse me, Sir.
Come on.
We could use some whiskey.
Sorry, I should have warned you.
Warn me? Of what?
I didn't want Nahmias to know
about our connection.
She might make things harder for you.
Because she's been so lenient
up till now.
I'm hoarse.
To empathize with Margalit, maybe.
I should tell you that Meri and I..
have a long-standing competition.
Can we get two whiskeys?
Our careers advanced side by side.
Occasionally one of us stole
a rising star from the other.
Margalit is one example.
I can't imagine Meri would ever
steal me away from anyone.
On the contrary.
She'd love to be rid of me.
Meri likes yes-men.
She surrounds herself
with sycophants.
You're not like that.
That doesn't make you any less than them.
On the contrary.
That's your advantage.
Cheers.
Do you have any rolling papers?
I left mine in the car.
No?
Don't look at me like that.
It's medicinal.
You're prosecutor Ben David, right?
-Yes.
Look at that.
Small world.
Someone new comes in
while you're still talking.
Yeah, I understand
I've taken over your job.
They love that stuff here.
Job openings,
optional working days,
hoarding printing paper
because it always runs out
by November, and then...
you can't get any till January.
Want a toke?
How do you feel?
I'm dying.
How do you think I feel?
Cancer?
Pancreas.
They say I have three months to live.
Seems superfluous.
Might as well have ended it now.
So I hope it'll happen as soon as possible.
But I won't say it in a speech.
I'm no good at those.
Watch out,
prosecutor Ben David.
Don't let them kill you, too.
Who?
The Tel Aviv District Attorney's office.
Let me in.
Listen to me.
I know him, he's...
You don't know him.
He's mentally disabled.
Marcelle.
-Khalil, what's going on? Where are you?
They're here to arrest Hussein.
They came without a social worker,
nothing.
He lost it,
shut himself in the shed with his mother,
beat up the cops, God knows.
He could kill himself now.
I don't know what to do.
Can you come help me?
I don't know what to do.
-Wait for me. I'm coming. -What?
Wait for me. I'm coming.
Let me in.
Let me in.
Khalil, what happened?
Khalil!