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The numbers shown as (DVD: 2) indicate the chapter numbers from the DVD. Not all dialogue segments are at the start of a chapter. In dialogues with a mixture of German and English, the German text is in boldface.

6 Am Fenster - At the Window - Lime's Flat (DVD: 8)

Portier: Es ist gleich da unten. Da ist es passiert. - Passiert? "Passiert" in Englisch?

Holly: What's he saying?

Anna: He says it happened right down there.

Portier: Yes, happened. It happened right down there.

Holly: You saw it?

Portier: Well, not saw. Heard. I heard the brakes...

The conversation continues in English; Anna looks around in the bedroom...

Portier: ...not with his head in the way it was.

Holly: I was told that he did not die at once.

Portier: Aber woher denn? Der war gleich tot. Da brauchen Sie keine Angst zu haben.

Holly: I mean...

Portier: (very insistent) Er war gleich tot. Gleich tot. Moment, wart a bissel, warte. - Bitte, Fräulein Schmidt, bitte - bitte, wie sagt man auf Englisch, er war gleich tot?

Anna: He was quite dead. [Note: Should be translated as "dead right away"]

Portier: He was quite dead.

Holly: But this sounds crazy...

Phone by bed rings...

Anna: (am Telefon) Hallo. Hallo. Wer ist da? - Hallo. Warum antworten Sie nicht? Hallo!

Anna hangs up phone.

Later: Porter gets upset with Holly, raving in German...

Holly: ...You've got to tell your story to the police.

Portier: Police? Why police? Das ist doch Blödsinn, was Sie da sagen! It's nonsense, all nonsense.

Conversation continues in English...

Holly: You only saw a dead man with three men carrying him.

Portier: Der Ami macht mi(ch) noch ganz deppert. I should have listened to my wife. She said...

...von mir aus gehts auf zur Gasanstalt, aber mi lasst's aus, aus mit der Polizei.

Holly: Now hold on.

Portier: Das hat ma(n) davon, wenn ma freundlich ist zu de(n) Ausländer. Hätt' i do(ch) nur auf mei Frau g'hört, de hat ma glei(ch) g'sagt, de Hand von der Butt'n, du verbrennst dir nur deine Finger. - I have no evidence...

Conversation continues in English...

Holly: We'll make it your business.

Portier: Ach, jetzt hat's aber zwölfe g'schlagn, mi lasst's aus mit der Polizei. Das hat man davon, wenn man freundlich ist mit de Ausländer, gehn mir aber... Fräulein Schmidt, sie waren mir immer sehr sympatisch. I have always liked you, but...

Please! Sonst vergess i mei wienerischen Charme. Please! - Und ich blöder Hirsch. Nur weil i höflich sein will, krieg i de ?? Schererei mit der Polizei.

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