Code 46

I think about the day we met.

I suppose you would have arrived par avion.

Maybe you were the first to get to security.

You didn't intend to stay.

You only had 24-hour cover, so luggage a mano.

And they probably had a driver waiting...

so you didn't need to find un coche.

You'd never been to Shanghai before. It was all new to you.

How do people live out here?

It's not living. Just existing.

- You ever lived al fuera? - No.

Can I have your papel, please?

Sherbet fountains, cigarettes, batteries, haircuts.

Who gets their hair cut at a checkpoint?

But I'm vite. I will show you.

- Give me a couple of sherbet fountains. - Two sherbet fountains.

Get me in, mister. I can do haircuts in there.

- I'm wasted out here. - I've only got cover for myself.

- You got any spare cover? - I only cover for one.

- Sorry. - You want to swap places with me?

- You and me? - I wear suit, you wear this.

It's tempting. Good luck. What's your name?

- Nabil. - All right. Bye.

I don't think it's a good idea to encourage them.

If people can't get cover, there's a reason.

You arrived in the morning, so the streets were deserted.

Did you call anyone? Did you have a cerveza?

Sometimes I imagine you watching the news.

Sometimes playing a game.

Sometimes sleeping, preparing yourself for the night ahead.

The thing I can't imagine is that we hadn't met.

Hadn't even heard of each other.

That you thought it was going to be just another night.

Happy birthday, Maria. Time to wake up.

It was my birthday, which I hate.

Every year on my birthday I have a dream.

Always the same dream.

I go down into the subway, I wait for the train.

I'm worried I'm going to be late.

The train leaves the station.

I feel like going to sleep, but there's someone I have to find.

And I have to find him before the train stops.

The train goes through one station.

There are 19 more to go. I have to find him.

And then I wake up.

Happy birthday, Maria. Time to wake up.

The next year I had exactly the same dream.

Only this time I went past two stations.

Don't ask me how I knew. I just knew that there were 18 stations to go.

Next year, 17. Next year, 16.

Every birthday, one less.

Today's my birthday. Today I'm down to the last one.

If I fall asleep, I'll get to my destination.

If I want to, I can discover my fate tonight.

- Lo siento. - That's okay.

So, what am I going to do?

I'm going to stay awake all day.

Who wants to discover their fate?

Who wants to take a chance like that?

- Hello. - I'm here to see Mr. Backland.

I'll let him know you're here, he'll send someone along.

I'm here on an investigation, and I would find it useful...

if I could wander around a little bit.

All visitors have to be accompanied, so if you'd like to wait over there.

- Someone will take you through. - Let me do my job.

If I let you do yours, then I wouldn't be doing mine, would I?

That is a conundrum.

If I could figure out your password, your palabra...

You couldn't do it.

I just need to know one piece of information.

- Is this some kind of trick? - No. It could be anything. Just one thing.

Tell me one thing about yourself. Anything at all.

My birthday. My palabra's not my birthday. Vingt-neuf.

Your palabra is "carrefour."

- Crossroad. Carrefour. - Wait. How did you know that?

- Can I register now? - How did you know my palabra?

I listened to you while you weren't speaking.

- Don't worry about it. - I could get into trouble doing this.

I'm just gonna go straight to his office, that's all I'm gonna do.

Don't worry about it.

- William Geld, salaam. - Mr. Backland.

You caught me off guard.

I was going to come down and greet you properly.

I guess that's one of your skills. Cunning.

I have no cunning I'm afraid.

- This is your first visit? - Yes.

Will you have time to see the mammoth?

We specialize in short-term cover certificates.

We do limited cover pour specific tasks.

Maybe a parachute jump, maybe a medical procedure.

People only buy fakes if we won't grant legitimate cover.

If we won't grant legitimate cover, believe me, there's a reason.

The Sphinx knows best.

Fake cover is a ticket to avoidable suffering.

I worry about them, you know.

We know which printer the fakes come from.

Every printer has its own fingerprint.

This one is from our number 8 printer.

Only a few people are cleared to use it. It has to be one of them.

All I need is a nice quiet room and some time...

and I'll have this cleared up for you by this evening.

It's a happy workplace. I don't want to create an atmosphere.

I don't want anyone to know what's going on.

Tell them what you like. Tell them I'm the tooth fairy.

Tell me something about yourself, anything at all.

I was born in Nampally Road, Hyderabad.

- Tell me something about yourself. - Anything?

Try to make it interesting, I've got a long day ahead of me.

I have una cosa about freckles. A sexual cosa.

I find freckles a turn-on.

Freckled skin, it's like it's clothed and not clothed.

There's no freckle pornography.

Women get famous for breasts and legs, but not for freckles.

There's Anne of Green Gables.

I regard Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic.

Normans. Amazing.

They invented the whole English language out of nothing but French.

And some Latin, obviously.

Yeah, obviously.

There's a girl here, Maria.

She's tone-deaf.

She can't hold a tune to save her life.

That's beautiful, don't you think?

- What are you thinking? - I'm thinking, "Have we met before?"

Upstairs, the foyer, we almost bumped into each other.

I feel I know you.

Come on. One thing about yourself.

I'm not sure I want you to know something about me.

Anyway, I can never think of anything when people ask me straight out comme ça.

You want to prompt me?

- It won't work if I prompt you. - What won't work?

Tell me what you're doing later tonight.

- Is that a question or an invitation? - It's a prompt.

Tonight, I am going to stay awake...

until the sun goes down.

I'm not going to sleep.

Pourquoi?

It's my birthday.

Happy birthday.

I'm gonna need to take your information for future reference.

It's difficult.

When you can get a big dinero for a piece of paper...

it's a big temptation.

Are you sure it's him?

- I thought it might be her. - I don't think so.

Do you have evidence?

I don't need to give you evidence. It's intuition you're paying for.

You okay?

Bueno. Absolutely.

- Am I under surveillance? - No.

So what? Do you wanna go out with me?

It's your birthday. Don't you have other plans?

I have to meet someone later, but I'm hungry.

- Let's go and eat. - All right.

I was never scared of you. Even when I should have been.

Even though my fate was in your hands, I always trusted you.

Why did you do it?

For the money. Why did you do it?

- What? - Lie for me.

I don't know.

It's very impulsive.

I can be impulsive.

- Happy birthday. - I love these.

How did you know? Is that on my file?

- Lucky guess. - Fate.

Actually, I have a whole bag full of them. For my kid.

- You have a kid? - Yeah.

- Chico or chica? - Chico.

Jim. His name is Jim.

I bet he's very special.

He is special.

Everybody's children are so special.

It makes you wonder where all the ordinary grown-ups come from.

These are good.

You wanna come to a club?

Don't you have to meet someone?

- Come. I want you to. - Why?

Because I want to corrupt you.

If you come, there's a definite risk that you'll have a good time.

And if you don't come with me, then you'll regret it.

Come on.

Come on.

- Drink? - Vodka, rocks, please.

- Would you like to sing? - No.

- Are you sure? - No. I'm sure.

You don't wanna hear me sing.

- I was actually hoping to hear you sing. - Why?

Someone told me that you have a very distinctive voice.

What else did they say about me behind my back?

You can take a virus to make you more musical.

Gives you perfect pitch. You sing like an angel.

I tried a virus once for Mandarin Chinese.

Chinese people knew what I was saying, but I didn't.

It was weird. I didn't like it.

I'm on a virus right now, an empathy virus.

I take an empathy virus to help with my work.

I don't like that, that's weird. That's like you could pick up...

- all sorts of stuff about me. - Yeah, I can.

That's like wearing x-ray specs to look at girls' underwear.

- I bought x-ray specs, they don't work. - But you bought them?