Apt Pupil

Kurt Dussander: Yes? What do you want? Todd Bowden: I... Kurt Dussander: If you're selling something, I'm not interested. Todd Bowden: I have your newspaper. Todd Bowden: I'm not selling anything. Kurt Dussander: Then what do you want? Todd Bowden: If you could let me in for a minute, I just want to talk. Kurt Dussander: Talk? I don't have anything to say to you, boy. Good day to you. Todd Bowden: [as he speaks, Dussander stops and slowly turns round] Bergen-Belsen, January '43 to June '43. Auschwitz, June '43 to June '44. Then you went to Patin. After that you disappeared, but then in 1965 you were spotted in West Berlin. Kurt Dussander: Listen, boy... I don't have time for this game. Now get out of here before I call the police. Todd Bowden: Call them if you want. I'm sure they'd love to meet you.

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Kurt Dussander: What do you want? Tell me. Todd Bowden: I want to hear about it. Kurt Dussander: Hear about what? Todd Bowden: The stories. Everything. Kurt Dussander: What everything? Todd Bowden: Everything they're afraid to show us in school. You were there. You did those things. No one can tell it better than you can.

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Todd Bowden: [about the killings at the death camps] What did it feel like? Kurt Dussander: It was something that had to be done. A door had been opened and couldn't be shut. It was the end... You don't understand.

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Todd Bowden: Well, try it on. Kurt Dussander: Have you completely lost your mind? What on Earth makes you think I'd put something like that on? Todd Bowden: I thought you would like it. Kurt Dussander: Like it? You are a bigger fool than I thought. Maybe I'll put it on and do a little shopping, is that what you thought? The indignities I've suffered with you, I should smash you. Todd Bowden: What you've suffered with me is nothing compared to what the Israelis would do to you. You forget that. And I'll admit that's my fault, but don't ever forget the file I have on you. I try to do things the nice way but you don't want it. So fine, we're going to do it the hard way. You'll put this on because I want to see you in it. Now, move!

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Kurt Dussander: You're messing things up with that carbon paper. Todd Bowden: Yeah, what do you know about it? Kurt Dussander: [slaps his hand down on Todd's shoulder, Todd gets up and Dussander takes his place] Here, out of the way. I was forging documents before your parents were born.

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Victor Bowden: Arthur, I wonder if you'd mind if I asked you a personal question. Kurt Dussander: Not at all. Victor Bowden: What did you do during the war? Kurt Dussander: I was in the reserves, as were most young men, Victor. My poor eyesight kept me out of combat, thank God. No, I spent most of the war in a military hospital washing bed linens and nurses' uniforms.

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