The Assassination Bureau Page #3

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- You do?

- You will no doubt wish to count it.

But you will find each bundle

contains a thousand pounds.

I trust your board

will be quite satisfied.

- Good evening, gentlemen.

- Good evening.

- Popescu, good job in Zagreb.

- Thank you.

Gentlemen.

General von Pinck. Military life

certainly keeps you fit, sir.

Lucoville, welcome to London.

You too, my dear Weiss.

Cesare, you're putting on weight.

Food is the greatest

pleasure in my life.

Greatest? They tell me your wife

is the most beautiful woman in Venice.

She is also the best cook.

And now, gentlemen,

to business, please.

It is fortunate that you're all

in London for this meeting.

Something has come up

which has... How shall I put it?

Crystallized thoughts I've had

for some time past.

Look at the great deeds recorded

on these walls, gentlemen,

each one performed in the course

of bettering the world,

purging it of evil,

striking down tyranny.

In those days, you were all ruled by

my father's principle that our bureau

would never kill anyone without

a sound moral reason for doing so.

He was a saintly man.

Do you still adhere to his principles?

Consider a moment. Be honest.

Haven't we, in the pursuit of profit,

fallen short of the high morals

upon which our bureau was founded?

It's always possible to find a good

moral reason for killing anybody.

Everybody, from some point

of view, deserves death.

Man is born to die.

No operation that

consistently shows a profit

can do so without answering

a legitimate demand.

You say that we are justified

by the prosperity

our operations have brought us all.

You, Lucoville,

with your string of hotels.

You, general, with your

estates and castles.

You, Weiss, with your

Swiss banking syndicates,

and you Spado, with your

fake antiques. And you...

Oh, dear, we seem to have started our

meeting without our vice chairman.

Does anybody know...?

Lord Bostwick, my apologies.

We started without you.

Forgive me. A fallen horse in Piccadilly

caused a terrible congestion.

How the traffic will flow

when it is all motorized.

Please, proceed, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, my lord. I wish to put

a commission before you.

It is an assignment I welcome

and have accepted on your behalf.

To the commission of

Miss Sonya Winter for 20,000 pounds,

the assassination of lvan Dragomiloff,

your chairman.

Miss Winter has put into my hands

the very weapon I need.

With all respect, I no longer

see in you the idealism

without which we are no more

than murderers.

Murderers! We are assassins!

I aim to put you to the test.

I believe Miss Winter has shown us

the way to rekindle the torch

we once held so high.

We won't stand for it.

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