The Bureau (Le Bureau des légendes)

Characters and events from the movie are fictional.

Similarities with people or events are random.

The Bureau

More to this great day?

Yes.

Is Russia home?

Pavel.

It was Paul before and now you're Pavel.

Maybe a moment to stop.

Ah.

I present myself to destiny.

Me too.

I tried to work for Syria without Bashar and Bashar is still there.

Syria is everything.

I've to get back to work.

To a foundation of convenience?

Center for Studies of Data Analysis and Geopolitics.

Russian? - Russian.

What are you giving them?

Can you imagine?

This peace?

They pose simple questions and I answer.

I bring in thought that I know would please them...

No, but not to please yourself.

What do see you in the end?

In the end?

A megaphone.

To...meet people.

People? - Hmm.

Russians only talk about it if you do something for their country.

To a woman and a child.

Yes. Pavel Lebedev.

You good? - Yes. Thank you.

Hello, Pacha.

Why are you so thoughtful?

Don't tell me you're homesick for France.

I'm not telling you.

I have good news for you.

Nadia El-Mansour is in Moscow.

I know.

I know that you know.

I know you always watch.

When someone drops a package for you here,

we get information.

It's normal, isn't it?

Yes.

How did that happen?

What makes you ask that?

My curious mind.

How is it that we see this woman

who betrayed you three times

and made you suffer two detentions?

Are you going to see each other again? How long will she stay?

I don't know. A few days.

Do you like paintings?

Yes.

If you want, I can have a very beautiful private collection open.

Why are you doing all this?

I just want you to feel comfortable here.

Like if it were your place.

Thanks to you,

I received the highest reward of my career.

Mikhail Dimitrievich Karlov.

Officer in the Second Directorate of the FSB.

Responsible for around thirty recruitment within European services,

in charge of defectors between 2001 and 2005,

Entered the FSB at the age of 22,

he climbed up the echelon

and can claim to take one of the major Directorates of the FSB in the next two years.

He is respected and feared,

he has networks within the services which makes him invulnerable,

to the point of being able to afford today a humanity that he has spent all his life putting aside.

Decorated with the great medal of merit,

he is at the mercy of a thunderclap:

Of being faced with the two biggest mistakes of his career

with the FSB's reputation on the two biggest defectors in ten years,

to know:

that Pacemaker and I are French agents introduced through his fault.

The disgrace that would result in destroying him.

Hello, sir.

Hello. - Bernard Batch. Pleased to meet you.

Hossam Fouad.

My colleague will soon arrive.

Do you have a good flight?

Excellent.

Air France?

No. Schedules are impossible.

Eh yes.

EgyptAir leaves us crumbs for schedules.

Crumbs are always better than nothing.

Here is my colleague.

I present you Brice Albrecht.

How was your trip? - Excellent, thank you.

Sorman's management informed us of an

upcoming inter-tribal meeting

at the Nile Sorman Hotel in Cairo.

I'm aware of that.

The hotel security manager met with Sheikh Al-Ergani

from the Tarabin tribe.

You were there I think?

That's right.

From the report the hotel sent us

we gather that Sheikh Al-Ergani

would be a good source of information

of Islamic States present in the Sinai.

Yes, I think so too.

We're proposing that

we handle the source and share information with you.

You handle the source?

Yes.

The Bedouins are not exactly wild about the Egyptians

am I right?

They're only wild about people who bring them businesses.

What are you bringing them?

Weapons?

Water pistols.

We're helping them in getting some of their land.

You should watch out from the Bedouins you know.

Sometimes they're against the terrorists,

sometimes they're with them.

Okay.

There, that's the end of your trial period.

Welcome to Sorman.

This is the first contract I signed. Thank you.

It's a 6 month internship.

Then we'll see.

Well I really love working here, it's great.

I would like to continue.

I can't guarantee you anything.

It's tough in the travel business right now.

And the hotel industry has a very strict hierarchy.

You have to work your way up, step by step.

And now...

The legion of honor.

Now you won't get stuck at the door anymore.

Thanks.

You want one? They're the best in town.

It's sweet of you but I have a lunch.

Okay.

Yeah. Hello, it's Amelie.

What's the special today?

Okay.

I'll have a burger with fries.

Oh shit!

Jordan

Salaam Ailekum, what's going on?

The engine died.

I'm waiting for a spare vehicle.

But I have a tourist who has to go to the airport,

she will miss her plane.

Can you drive her to a taxi?

Of course.

Thank you, my brother.

Hello.

Thank you very much. It's very nice of you. I can't miss my flight.

No problem. It's a pleasure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Tell Al-Touf that Yosuf Ahmed is selling one these samples.

You will tell him he has ordered 50 the second time.

What is it?

These new ones are the same the market used to replace the old ones.

This measures the uranium enrichment rate.

In the market?

You read this. I'm here to answer the questions you ask. I can drive.

Why is the pipeline attached to the gas lines.

The Iranians mainly use a method of enriching uranium gas diffusion.

With the internal computer we install?

Yes.

It processes the data sent by the encryption.

It functions with four algorithms which, from raw data,

provides the uranium enrichment rate in the pipeline.

The Iranians can modify the algorithms?

Yes. They did it twice to re-program the internal computer so that

Tehran shows a time lower than the standards accepted elsewhere.

Are you fine?

Yes.

Did you read this thoroughly?

I play with stuff. Doesn't matter if you are a specialist.

Fine.

Are you of Italian origin?

My parents are French.

I spent part of my childhood in Italy.

My father worked for the DGSE so he wanted me to speak Italian like an Italian.

To serve France better.

What?

Italian raised as an agent?

I was twelve years old.

Took me in his car.

Sundays to the worst places.

It was a a nasty stash.

Said that if I wanted to become a spy for the common good of France...

I should be able to pass off as an Italian...

to make a living.

Perfectly raised.

And you? How did you get to DGSE?

I was at the polytechnic...for Seismology.

I was propositioned to enter DGSE. And I said, "Yes".

Government and their elements.

A father's story.