Carlos

Got time for breakfast?

No,I have to be at the theater by 8.

Doubts remain as to the origin of the explosion

that killed Mohammed Boudia,

but the political context of the incident is clear.

Boudia was a fervent partisan of the Palestinian cause.

Some people even maintain

he ran the Black September terror cell in France.

Arab sources place this car bombing

in the series of assassinations

undertaken by Israeli secret service

that claimed the life last January of a Fatah delegate in Paris.

Don't drive in circles. I know Beirut.

How long have you been with us?

I did a training course in Jordan in summer of 1970...

but didnt learn that much.

Most of the people were european leftist, the people who were students. Not real fighters.

So you have never really fought then?

I have, I wasn't on your side for Black September. Under orders from Abu Eyar when I was in the mountains...

fighting until February when I was wounded in my leg. You can ask Bassan Abu sharief or Hosh Habash.

Habash?

Habash is not longer with us.

I know that, thats the reason Im here. I don't agree with with him.

Like you I strongly beleive that the Palestinian struggle should take an international level.

Arafat is a traitor. He's ready to make any kind of compromise. Our organization serves the Palestinian revolution.

The cowards who betray us are our enemies.

I live in London, I can be very useful there.

Mohammed Boudia who headed operations from Europe was executed by Israeli agents from the Mossad.

I believe I can replace him.

You are still a boy, I need man. So you don't trust me because I'm young?

You've to prove yourself, we'll give you a mission.

What mission?

Andre will tell you.

Andre is a fighter I have chosen as Abu hadiya's successor. He's in paris now, he'll contact you.

When?

In time.

Wait.

Consider yourself a member of PLPF.You'll backup Andre. Choose a code name for yourself.

I already have.

Are you André?

Come in.

We'll work together.

You in London, me in Paris.

Tell me nothing.

No address, no number.

Choose a contact you trust,

who can serve as a mailbox.

Can you use one?

I'm used to more serious weapons.

This is all I can offer.

Five? That's all?

Where's your Boss?

Upstairs. Take me to him.

Take me to him. Upstairs.

Sir! Sir! Yes? What is it?

What are your memories of what actually happened?

Accidently happened in a hmm..flash door opens all of the bathroom opens then I saw cannon.

The chairman of retailer Marks and Spencer

was seriously wounded yesterday at his home

when a masked man fired at him.

Vice president of the Zionist Federation,

Sieff has publicly sided with the Israeli cause.

You skipped the demonstration against Pinochet's coup.

Demonstrations never change a thing. It's war.

It can't be won by picketing.

How then?

There are other methods.

Such as?

Words get us nowhere.

It's time for action.

What kind of action?

We have to commit.

Commit to what?

To the revolution.

How do you mean?

By covert actions?

By resistance.

I've formed a group.

I want you to join us.

Ilich, fighting capitalism with guerrilla means is romantic,

but doomed to failure.

No more desperate causes. They lead nowhere.

So we do nothing? Is that what I do?

You talk politics in London cafes.

Is that the answer?

While they kill our comrades in Chile and Jordan.

I told you what I saw.

The balance of power is against us.

A myth. Not true. Look at Che!

He ended up dead. Despite his experience!

Why fight the right in Latin America?

You think Latin American dictators operate alone?

Gringos pull the strings.

Overthrow them and imperialism still wins!

I'm advocating an internationalist struggle

uniting revolutionaries the world over.

Look how the Vietcong disgraced the gringos.

Squashed them like shit.

The balance of power isn't against us.

The fight I propose will lead us to glory.

Glory?

That's what you want. To be admired!

Bourgeois arrogance hidden behind revolutionary rhetoric!

Just another selfish, two-bit petit-bourgeois!

I'm talking about true glory.

Not what the Zionist media drones on about.

But the pleasure of doing one's duty in silence.

Behind every bullet we fire,

there will be an idea.

Because we act in harmony with our conscience.

You say I'm arrogant? I guess I am.

For defending the innocent.

You know what? Look at me when I talk!

You'll be hearing my name a lot.

What's more,

it's no longer Ilich.

It's Carlos.

You travel to Europe often.

I told you. I import oriental rugs.

Don't you think we know?

You were at Wadie Haddad's.

I don't work for him.

So why were you there?

I'm a middleman. A middleman?

For whom?

Nourredine.

Who is Nourredine?

PFLP delegate in Europe.

Nourredine who?

I don't know.

I know only his first name.

You contact him?

No, he contacts me. Only when he needs me.

Does he pay you too?

Answer the question!

No one pays me.

It's for the Palestinian cause.

Your tip was good.

He works for Haddad.

We have nothing on him. Fake passports.

Not enough to keep him.

So let him go.

They'll pick him up in Paris.

And his bag? I'll send Xeroxes to the DST.

What's in there?

A Tokarev.

A Vzor, M50.

Are you scared?

Why are you scared?

Weapons are meant to be touched...

and treated gently.

Touch it.

A grenade.

You didn't learn this in Venezuela!

What's so funny?

You.

Why?

You and women...

You and guns.

That makes you laugh?

Weapons are an extension of my body.

Like my arms.

I learned that at training camp in the Bekaa Plain.

What else?

I also learned that...

to kill, you have to act fast

and aim straight at the nose.

Go get me cigarettes.

Please.

You took a direct flight.

One lay-over is the rule. It would have changed nothing.

Says who?

Someone gave my name. Who?

I don't know. Mossad.

What's this bullshit?

The Mossad ID'd you?

Why did they let you go?

I said I was a middleman.

They didn't buy it.

They have nothing.

Some fake passports.

Where are the documents?

Here, with me.

We have to put them in a safe place.

They don't know you. You'll do it.

I have a safety deposit box.

I'll erase our traces

in Geneva and in London.

André disappeared.

Is he in Lebanon?

He panicked.

Maybe he's hiding. Exactly. What crap.

He's getting worse and worse.

Don't overdo it. I'm not, Nydia.

He's irresponsible!

You never complained before. I was dumb!

But I warned them about him.

This asshole's dangerous. I've said it for a while.

Police!

Know him?