surveillance.
Me?
No, it's totally absurd.
Or our bosses have lost their heads
in this turmoil...
Stirlitz, didn't you teach me
to analyze everything and keep cool?
You advise me to keep cool
after what you've just told me?
Yes, I'm worried.
I'm mad
and I'll go to Mueller right away.
He's sleeping. And don't
be in a hurry to confront him.
First listen to me.
I'm going to tell you what I've dug up
in connection with the physicists' case.
I haven't reported it
to Mueller yet.
I waited until I tell you.
Okay, shoot.
I summoned three experts
from the new armaments development
department.
I also summoned them,
when you put Runge in jail.
Right, we put Runge in jail.
But why did you check on Runge
in the military intelligence?
- You don't get it?
- No, I don't.
Runge went co colleges
in France and in the States.
Can't you guess
that his connections there
are by far more important than
he himself here?
We lack courage to view the problem
in perspective. It's our disadvantage.
We can't allow ourselves
to set our imagination free.
From here to here, and not a step
aside - that's our big mistake.
Well, I agree with you.
As for not being daring,
I'm not going to argue with this.
But I can argue over
the separate points.
Runge claimed that we needed
to continue researching
the possibility of getting plutonium
out of radioactive elements.
That's what his scientific opponents
charged him with.
So,
it was them, who wrote the letter
denouncing him.
And I made them confess to this.
But I never doubted it.
What did you never doubt?
That they'd written the letter
denouncing him.
Then why were you investigating
this case for so long
and Runge still ended up
being dismissed from his job?
I needed to find out whether
Runge was simulating,
and if "yes", who benefited from it -
we or our enemies.
And you concluded that our enemies
would benefit from his proposals?
You've read the case, haven't you?
I have.
And now our people from London
inform us
that Runge was right.
The Americans and the Brits
followed his suit,
while we kept him
in the Gestapo.
You kept him in the Gestapo.
You, Holtoff.
It's you who arrested him, not us.
It's not us who opened the case,
but you, Mueller and Kaltenbrunner.
And not mine, nor yours, nor
Schumann's granny is a Jew, but his.
He concealed it.
May his dad be three times a Jew!
A gypsy or not a gypsy, a Jew or not
a Jew - what's the big deal?
It's no big deal who his dad was,
if he served us,
and like a fanatic.
You believed those bastards.
Bastards.
The movement's old-timers.
Tested Aryans.
Physicists, who were decorated
by the Fuhrer himself.
Okay, okay, okay.
That's true.
You're right.
Give me another glass of brandy, please.
Have you disposed of it, yet?
Stirlitz, you're holding the cork in
your left hand.
I'm asking you about the fuses.
The fuses are in the small table
by the mirror.
I think I've taken to drinking.
What do you think, Stirlitz,
what will Kaltenbrunner undertake
if I report to him the results
of my investigation?
First you must report the results
to Mueller.
It was him who issued an order
to arrest Runge.
And you were on that Runge's case.
Yes, I was. Absolutely right.
Carrying out the order, prescribed
by my superiors.
If you released him now
we could make a breakthrough
in creating the retaliation weapon.
- Can you prove it?
- I've already done it.
- All physicists share your view?
- Most of them.
Most of those whom I summoned
for the talk.
- So you're in for...
- Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The research results
can be corroborated only by practice.
- Where are these corroborations?
- In my pocket.
Really?
Really.
I got something from London,
the most recent news.
It's a death verdict.
To you.
What do you want, Holtoff?
You're hinting at something,
but I can't get you.
I'm ready to say it again.
Deliberately or not, but it's you,
and nobody else,
who killed