How to steal billions - Money Heist

Chapter 36: Interview (Part 2)

Meanwhile Seoul was sitting on Berlin's chair in his office doing nothing other then spinning around in his chair.

Then she got up from the chair and took a sneak peek again through the window and saw the police officers were getting their snippers ready.

"Seems like they released the 11 hostages, finally."

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"We'll release hostages in order to negotiate the conditions of our surrender." Berlin said.

"Have you decided to surrender?"

"We are aware that we lost...open the doors!" He told Helsinki. Nairobi was just standing next to Nairobi.

Everyone went upstairs to a room. Nairobi let's everyone go in first, so she could go get Seoul.

Nairobi carefully opened the door. Seoul puts her mask on quickly.

"It's just me, Nairobi. Anyways, you can come out now." She still had her mask on.

"Oh, thank god." Seoul puts her hand on her heart, and starts getting ready.

Nairobi walked inside a room. Seoul was just confused and wondering why they were in a room with Oslo laying on a cart.

Seoul stood next to Helsinki and Nairobi.

"I don't know if you've ever seen a corpse before...for some of us, it's also for the first time." Berlin looked down at Oslo.

"You've come here to spread the truth. Here you have it. This is the truth, we've been beaten. We've been defeated. It's important that you confirm it, please." He started looking sad.

The interviewer was checking if he had any pulse. "Yes. He doesn't have a pulse. He's dead."

"The hostages who escaped hit him in the head. He died within a few hours...maybe to the people out there, this man is just a thief. But to us, he was a colleague and a friend." He looked at the interviewer and looked back down.

"Nobody can prepare you for that. No one. It's one of the reasons why we decided to release hostages. Some of if here thought we weren't going to make it out alive. But I never thought he wouldn't make it."

"So, you're saying, there were people in the group...willing to sacrifice themselves?" The interviewer looked at him.

"No. Not at all. We're just simple people. We have gone through...all kinds of hardship. Like anyone else. Including terminal illness. And we have had to...take desperate measures like these in order to...leave something for our families. To leave something for our loved ones."

Berlin started to get emotional. He excused himself and walked behind a table. The interviewer and the cameraman walked behind him.

Nairobi, Helsinki and Seoul walked a bit closer to them.

"As a matter of fact, I have a degenerative disease called Hellmer's myopathy. The police knew it. That didn't stop them from spearing lies about me. I'll tell you something, I may be a thief...I have always been. I've robbed banks, jewellery stores, I've broken into mansions, but I have never sold anyone." He looked even more emotional.

"I've never ever sold a woman. I'm not a pimp who traffics...or raping minors. That's not me. When you leave, ask the police where these files are kept." His eyes were starting to get teary.

"You mean the police have been lying to the public?" As the interviewer was taking notes.

"The police lie! They lie to the public! They've lied to my friends. They've dragged my family name through the mud. I'm a thief. But I have every right in the world not to be defamed. I have the same right as anyone else to die in peace with dignity."

Berlin looked down. "No, no, I can't go on, cut. Please, cut." He puts his hand in front of his face telling them to cut.

The interviewer and the cameraman left.

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Berlin and Seoul sat around the table, while Nairobi was smoking.

"How's your head?" Seoul puts her hand on his lap.

"It's alright, cariño." He leaned closer to her face and pulled in for a kiss.

Seoul held him on the cheek, while her hand was still on his lap.

The phone started ringing. Berlin and Seoul stopped kissing, Nairobi walked over to the phone and picked it up while smoking.

"Professor, did you see us on TV?"

"Nairobi, I want you all to be one, like rowing team. Tell Rio that, as captain of the ship, I'll get Tokyo out of jail no matter what."

"Yes, sir. That's more like it!"

"Put Berlin on."

"Berlin." Nairobi continued to smoke.

"Me?" He said.

"Yeah, you." She handed him the phone.

"Thank you." He waited for her to leave the room.

"Yes?"

"Deputy Inspector Rubio is waking from his coma."

"What are the odds of that being true?"

"I don't know."

"That's elementary police work: saying he's waking from his coma to lure you in. That doesn't even work on sitcoms."

"And what if it's not? He's the only one who knows who I am. The only loose end."

"What room did they put him in?"

"Room 119."

"Well it's a trap."

"Yep... there's a 90% chance it's a trap."

"99% chance."

"99% chance... but are we going to leave one percent to chance?"

Seoul was just listening to the conversation.

"No, then you'll have to make sure. And if it isn't a trap, finish him off."

"Enter a hospital in which, surely, there'll be 50 police officers waiting for me?"

"Sergio, think about it..."

Seoul was looking down, as she was listening to the conversation she heard Berlin saying the Professor's real name. "Great, you just exposed his name." She looked up.

Berlin turned to her and smirked at her. And then he turned back to talk to the Professor.

"You spent half your childhood in a hospital. How do you walk into a trap and not get caught, knowing that the cavalry is waiting for you?"

"The way to do that... by making the cavalry ...run away."