:06:01
There is no need.
:06:02
For heaven's sake,
don't you realize you're going to be shot?
:06:06
You don't understand.
:06:08
No French soldier is going to raise
his rifle against me.
:06:18
Fire!
:06:20
Here is the 8:00 news for today,
March 11, 1963.
:06:24
An hour ago, in the courtyard
of the Fort d'Ivry, outside Paris...
:06:28
...Lieutenant Colonel Bastien-Thiry
was executed by firing squad...
:06:32
...for leading the attempt on the life
of General De Gaulle last August.
:06:36
The OAS now seems
completely demoralized...
:06:38
...by the splendid performance
of our national security forces.
:06:42
Already it is known that
the new chief of operations of the OAS...
:06:45
...Colonel Mark Rodin, a former
paratroop commanderin Algeria...
:06:48
...is on the run
and hiding somewhere in Austria.
:06:52
Today's execution must surely mean
that the OAS is finished...
:06:55
...once and for all.
:07:05
What are the finances like, René?
:07:09
No wonder our people are giving up.
They've lost faith.
:07:12
We've failed them every single time.
:07:14
We won't fail again!
:07:15
What can we do? We're paralyzed.
:07:17
Every cop in France knows us.
informants are all around us.
:07:21
We must find an outsider. A foreigner.
:07:24
-A foreigner? Why?
-A contract killer.
:07:28
One that hasn't worked in France,
so he won't have a police record.
:07:31
-He can come and go as he pleases.
-That sort of person costs money.
:07:35
Yes.
:07:38
I'll find the right man.
:07:41
We'd better meet again
in three months, in Vienna.
:07:44
In the pension you both know:
Pension Kleist. June 15.
:07:49
It's a limited market.
:07:51
I've compiled 11 dossiers
over three months.
:07:53
Only those four men
seemed anywhere near right.
:07:56
Now that you've read the files,
what do you think?
:07:59
-One Englishman did all these jobs?
-I don't believe it.