The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs)

Scene two, take three.

Set.

Three, two, one. Action!

THE NOISE OF ENGINES

My name is Pierre Fortier.

I started with Canada Customs when I turned 18.

It was my summer job when I was in university studying business administration,

and then when I graduated I stayed on full time.

I spent 16 years in cargo.

Since 2004, I've been posted to the land border.

They told me this was the best training for customs agents

but also the most demanding.

I'm expecting to enjoy this, but I'm also expecting to work hard.

Welcome Pierre.

My name is Myriam Jean.

I've been with Sylvie at the airport for the last 17 years.

I've never held a loaded weapon in my life.

I have no expectations about this course.

I'm Michael Duchesne.

I've worked at the land border for 8 years.

At home I have several guns of different calibers,

so I'm pretty comfortable with guns.

I've got a 12-gauge, a 22-gauge, a .30-06.

In handguns, I have a 38mm, 9mm,

among others.

Hello, my name is Laura Girouard.

I'm a university student in history

and I work for Customs part-time.

When I started five years ago, they gave me a shirt, pants, a stamp for passports

and that was it.

Now I have a bullet-proof vest,

pepper spray and a defensive baton hanging from my belt.

I'm a tax collector dressed up like a soldier.

Now they're asking me to fire a gun.

I really don't identify with the new values at Customs,

or those of the current government,

but I'm here to pay for my studies so I'll do what my employer asks me to do.

Okay, I'm not here to talk about politics.

I'm here to do a job.

But we can agree that things have changed, eh?

Before we'd never had two towers fall in New York.

Now, we know what that's like.

We hear about it all over the world.

Terrorist attacks have become part of our everyday life.

Here at the Canada Customs, we're just adjusting to what's going on in the world.

The world goes crackpot,

so we adjust.

Us here, it's not our intention to make anybody fail.

All we want to do

is give you the resources you need to successfully complete your training.

We know that arming customs agents is new and that it's not easy training.

But if you practice

and work hard to improve on the pointers your instructors will give you,

there's no one here who isn't capable of succeeding.

You are all customs officers

and we're convinced that with the training you will receive

you'll be able to leave here in 4 weeks with big smiles on your faces.

Alright?

I am a customs agent and you are under arrest.

Put your arms out perpendicular to your body.

Turn around.

What?

Me under arrest?

Come tell me that to my face Mr. Customs man!

C'mon!

Come tell me that to my face!

Come arrest me you little police wannabe!

Knife! Knife! Knife!

Drop the knife right now.

Drop the knife or I'm going to shoot you.

Drop the knife. There's a warrant for your arrest.

I am a peace officer, I have my gun pointed at you and I'm going to shoot.

Okay, okay. Fine. I'm dropping my knife.

But I'm not going to be arrested by some little rent-a-cop.

Come on!

Come on!

Come at me! Get over here!

Back away, ma'am. You are under arrest.

Back up now.

That's all right.

I'm bending down.

I'm picking up my knife

and I'm coming at you. - Bang! Bang! Bang!

Good,

okay,

good,

yes,

good.

Reholster.

And how did you react?

I backed up behind my cover

to protect myself and give me some distance from the subject.

At the same time, I took out my gun and started firing.

The man was shot in the torso and quickly fell to the ground.

I advanced on the subject to grab his gun.

I emptied the magazine before putting it in my pants pocket.

Then I used my walkie to call the ambulance because the man had bullet wounds.

I handcuffed the subject

and waited for help.

End of report.

Okay.

Good work, Laura.

You were quick to react when the man took out his weapon

and you used the cover behind you very well.

I don't have much else to say.

It went well.

I would just give you one piece of advice for your mask that fogged up

during the exercise.

What happened is simple:

you're nervous in the simulation,

you're not used to the mask, so it gets fogged up really fast.

If you don't want that to happen again, you need to get used to the mask.

When you're alone in your dorm at night, wear your mask.

We told you this.

Wear it when you're watching tv.

Get used to forgetting it's there.

Okay?

Yes.

Okay, thanks.

...that you had a consensual sexual encounter with Ms. Laura Girouard,

and that, during this encounter, Ms. Girouard was wearing her protective mask

and then, at some point, you realized that she was no longer conscious.

So, seeing that you started CPR and Ms. Girouard immediately regained consciousness.

Then, paramedics arrived and took charge of Ms. Girouard.

It's at this point that we became aware of the situation

from the paramedic's report.

Is that right?

Do you confirm that this is what took place?

Regarding your reaction, you were exemplary, Alexandre.

Ms. Girouard had a serious asthma attack

and that's why she stopped breathing.

Your instant reaction probably, or certainly, saved her life.

You spent the night at her bedside, and she is now in stable condition.

She is expected to be discharged in the next 24 hours.

Ms. Girouard has some bruised ribs because of the cardiac massage.

But that is normal.

We're told that this is always the case with CPR.

Now, as the director of this college, I would like some reassurance

as to your state of mental and physical health.

The mask and the leather gloves

Ms. Girouard was wearing during your sexual encounter are objects frequently used

in sexual practices in fetish and BDSM circles.

Your work as a firearms instructor

demands mental equilibrium at all times,

and for this reason I requested that we shine

a light on any potential sexual deviance on your part.

An internal investigation, not exhaustive, was conducted

to learn more about your sexual practices.

The results allowed us to reject the hypothesis of sexual deviance

because none of the sexual partners we spoke with

mentioned any unusual sexual practices.

It's reasonable to say that one time is not customary,

and that exploring one's sexuality is part of the

natural development of all human beings.

For example,

my husband and I have an open relationship.

Sex is one of the great pleasures of life and

one way to fully enjoy these pleasures is to open

oneself to the different experiences others can bring us.

No, I'm not interested in sleeping with you and husband, Madame Director.

This investigation revealed that you had a minimum of 7 sexual partners

in the year at the college.

Without being alarmist,

that number demonstrates a certain interest in the pleasures of the flesh, but also,

which seems to me more problematic, compulsive sexual behaviour.

This sexual behaviour could eventually have negative social effects.

Last night's events are probably the first manifestation of your hypersexuality.

As a preventive measure,

you are being placed on leave without pay for a period of 10 days

in order for you to correct your inappropriate sexual conduct.

Seven sexual partners

in one year,

leather gloves

and a helmet

make me a sex addict.

-Inappropriate sexu- -Inappropriate sexual conduct, yes.

You understand, ma'am, that everyone is screwing everyone in this college?

There's nothing else to do.

We're stuck in the middle of nowhere all alone.

So yeah,

Laura and I were sleeping together.

Everyone knew.

But since it's written on a piece of paper and because you had to read that paper

because it's in your job description...

I knew coming here this morning that I'd be punished.

And I know it's a delicate subject

and that I'm not supposed to sleep with a student...

But now you're telling me you conducted an investigation

on my sexual conduct

and concluded I have too much sex.

I don't know but your actions seems

really inappropriate, don't you think?

Mr. St-Germain will escort you to the station so you can go home and get better.

You'll take the time to read and fill out this guide provided by human resources.

Ok.

That's it, Vial.

Alexandre?

Hi mom.

What are you doing here?

I'm on vacation.