:17:01
Monday is always a slow night.
:17:05
Just between us, would you have even
a vague idea what they're doing in there?
:17:09
I have a very definite idea.
They're making love.
:17:12
- That's illegal.
- Shows you the kind of world we live in.
:17:15
Love is illegal, but not hate.
:17:18
That you can do anywhere,
anytime, to anybody.
:17:20
But if you want a little warmth, a shoulder
to cry on, a smile to cuddle up with...
:17:25
...you have to hide in dark corners
like a criminal. Pfui!
:17:28
- I wouldn't call that love.
- Spoken like a petit bourgeois.
:17:33
It's flagrant vice
and must be stamped out.
:17:36
My dear boy, your thinking is not
only fuzzy, it's economically unsound.
:17:40
And I know what I'm talking about.
:17:42
I used to be professor
of economics at the Sorbonne.
:17:45
- A professor?
- For six years, but that's another story.
:17:48
Then you should agree decent citizens
have a right to be protected from this.
:17:52
Let's take one, married for 20 years,
works hard all day selling baby carriages.
:17:56
In the evening he wants
a little fun, companionship.
:17:59
So he comes to Rue Casanova. He meets
a girl, she gives him companionship...
:18:03
...he gives her money.
She gives it to her boyfriend...
:18:06
...the boyfriend spends it on drinks,
on cuff links, at the racetrack.
:18:10
Sometimes he even pays
a little money to a policeman.
:18:14
- Bribe a policeman?
- That's the beauty of it.
:18:17
The policeman takes it and buys
a baby carriage from the decent citizen.
:18:20
Thusly, money is kept in circulation.
:18:23
Everybody's prosperous,
everybody's happy.
:18:25
- I don't believe it.
- It's elementary.
:18:27
I don't believe there are
policemen who take money.
:18:30
Oh, not all policemen take money.
:18:32
Some of the higher-ups have a more
intimate arrangement with the girls.
:18:37
Well, there's one policeman
around here who isn't corrupt.
:18:49
You wouldn't know the number
of the police station, would you?
:18:53
Central 5288. But I wouldn't be
so impetuous if I were you.
:18:57
Have your Vichy.