The Deal (No Deal)

[00:06.14] Isn't it strange the complications, people attach to situations,
[00:10.73] Almost as if they want to miss the wood for the trees?
[00:15.29] Nothing will change my basic feeling,
[00:17.10] When they have done all their wheeler-dealing--
[00:18.89] Those in the strongest situations, do as they please.
[00:24.36] You might see all kinds of human emotion here--
[00:26.16] Passion and pain, love and hate.
[00:29.73] I see nothing other than a simple board game!
[00:36.04] At the Dusit Thani hotel, Bangkok, Alexander Molokov makes his move.
[00:40.64] Molokov: We did not bring you to Bangkok for a holiday, my dear.
[00:43.32] You must tell your husband, he has to lose the match and come home.
[00:46.97] Talk to Anatoly!
[00:47.88] You can have the life you want, and anywhere you want it.
[00:56.00] But if Anatoly wins,
[00:57.84] Life is going to be very tough for you and your children.
[01:01.40] Tell Anatoly that!
[01:03.27] Make him think of you, not narcissistic dreams of glory.
[01:10.46] How many times does he want to be champion, anyway?
[01:13.17] Arbiter: Two days later, the wife, Svetlana Sergievsky, makes her move.
[01:17.77] Svetlana: How many times do you want to be champion, anyway?
[01:20.43] Come home, Anatoly!
[01:22.20] Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition?
[01:32.23] Who'd be the fool in my position?
[01:41.20] Once I had dreams...
[01:44.82] Now they are obsessions.
[01:50.23] Hopes became needs--Lovers possessions.
[01:57.54] Now you're where you want to be and who you want to be,
[02:02.04] And doing what you always said you would.
[02:03.81] And yet you know you haven't won at all.
[02:08.36] Running for your life and never looking back,
[02:11.49] In case there is someone right behind to shoot you down,
[02:13.26] And say he always knew you'd fall.
[02:16.89] When that crazy wheel slows down,
[02:25.07] Where will you be? Back where you started!
[02:35.45] Arbiter: And at the Oriental Hotel,
[02:38.18] Walter de Courcy from Global Television plays his opening gambit.
[02:43.54] Walter: You father is alive.
[02:44.42] Florence: My father? Alive?
[02:47.22] Walter: Alive in Russia--30 years in prison.
[02:49.98] Florence: And you think I would believe you?
[02:51.77] Walter: Well, the evidence is conclusive.
[02:53.54] And if you don't believe me, Anatoly will.
[02:54.46] Now, you get him to lose against Viigand,
[02:56.25] And Molokov assures me he can get your father out.
[02:58.94] And not only him.
[03:03.90] We have some people to recover.
[03:05.76] I know that you would simply love a
[03:08.41] Chance to make sure your father's name was high on our list.
[03:12.07] We want him back, which is to say a
[03:14.73] Gesture is needed from your player.
[03:16.58] We wouldn't mind if he got beaten, in fact we insist.
[03:20.21] There must be a lie, you wouldn't tell me.
[03:22.94] A limit to your devious ambition.
[03:25.62] But what it could be, I can't imagine.
[03:27.41] Is there no one here who's not a politician?
[03:32.86] There is no deal!
[03:40.16] When I was young,
[03:41.05] I learned that memories shouldn't be built to last.
[03:46.41] Luxuries, such as father, mother, jettisoned in the past.
[03:54.57] How can a half-remembered figure from a past--
[04:00.02] So remote that it's hardly real,
[04:04.59] Alter the way I feel?
[04:09.93] Pity the child who 25 years on, finds her confidence gone!
[04:23.52] Arbiter: While in subterranean marble surroundings,
[04:26.28] Two of the world's most powerful players make a mid-game assessment.
[04:30.89] You should have seen how she reacted.
[04:33.50] I couldn't leave till she'd extracted
[04:35.31] Promises she would see her father, simply I said.
[04:39.82] Told her the way she could achieve this,
[04:42.52] Even though you might not believe this.
[04:44.30] She said that I was not to worry, go right ahead!
[04:48.09] You don't know her well. She could have fooled you.
[04:50.77] She could, despite herself try to resist us.
[04:52.56] Yes, I may be wrong, but to be certain,
[04:55.24] There are others we can call in to assist us.
[05:00.61] Arbiter: And who better than a dethroned king?
[05:03.37] Walter: Now remember who has been paying for you
[05:07.01] To be here, Freddie, in Bangkok.
[05:08.82] We have a deal with the Soviets to get some people out,
[05:10.64] Including Florence's father,
[05:12.44] Provided Anatoly loses and gets on back to Moscow.
[05:15.12] You'd like that, wouldn't you, huh?
[05:16.96] Communist, democrat--An intriguing collusion!
[05:26.08] Fair exchange, tit for tat--Comradeship in profusion.
[05:35.03] And the appeal, partner, of this deal, partner,
[05:40.46] Is we both stand to win, you and me, the lady also.
[05:45.05] Don't break her heart, partner; just be smart, partner.
[05:49.59] Throw the match, show your love is as pure as snow in Moscow.
[05:55.82] Thank God we are so civilized. And our word can be our bond.
[06:04.06] We can turn this into friendship for life--and beyond.
[06:13.97] Refugee, total shit--That is how I've always seen us.
[06:22.15] Not a help, you will admit, to agreement between us!
[06:32.06] There is no deal, partner. Who is your real partner?
[06:35.60] Could there be just a chance that you have got some heavy clients?
[06:42.07] That is not true, partner. How could you, partner,
[06:45.63] Think I'd want to pursue any deal but our alliance?
[06:51.90] How can you only think of your selfish ambition,
[07:00.17] And not of her position?
[07:01.95] Or you'd rather perhaps see her world collapse
[07:06.42] For a tinpot competition!
[07:12.80] Anatoly: Who put you up to this? There is no deal!
[07:16.45] Arbiter: So Frederick makes a desperate final play for the woman
[07:20.91] He hasn't seen in a year.
[07:22.77] Silly boy, woman who, I should not have let walk out.
[07:34.51] There is no hitch that we two, can't untangle or talk out.
[07:42.66] And the appeal partner, of this deal, partner,
[07:48.18] Is we both stand to win--We will bring back the golden era.
[07:53.59] Stick with me, honey; leave him be, honey.
[07:58.07] You don't know what they have planned for you,
[08:01.60] Long ago in Moscow.
[08:04.33] Can't you see, we have moved on?
[08:08.01] Chess has nothing to do with this. Chess isn't life.
[08:12.51] Frederick: But I have changed. He won't help you with your father.
[08:16.18] Anatoly will never throw any match.
[08:17.10] I am telling you the truth, Florence. Come back to me.
[08:19.85] Anatoly & Florence:
[08:20.85] Who'd ever think it? Such a squalid little ending--
[08:24.45] Watching him descending just as low as he can go.
[08:29.85] I am learning things I didn't want to know.
[08:38.08] Who'd ever guess it? This would be the situation.
[08:41.62] One more complication--Should be neither here nor there!
[08:46.12] I wish I had it in me, not to care!
[08:51.53] Let him spill out his hate, till he knows he's deserted.
[08:59.78] There's no point wasting time, preaching to the perverted.
[09:08.73] Who'd ever think it? No one makes the moves intended.
[09:13.20] Till the game has ended, then they say I told you so.
[09:17.83] I am learning things I didn't want to know.
[09:25.04] Frederick: It can all be different now, Florence. I love you.
[09:28.69] Come back to me!
[09:29.57] Everybody's playing the game.
[09:34.15] But nobody's rules are the same.
[09:36.89] Nobody's on nobody's side...
[09:40.43] Never be the first!
[09:42.27] Everybody's playing the game.
[09:44.07] But nobody's rules are the same.
[09:48.55] Nobody's on nobody's side!
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