Episode 22
translated by hephylax, edited by amidola
Previously on Hand aufs Herz
Sophie: Well, how was I? (To fall in love with. Oh sorry, wrong scene, wrong person. It’s a reflex.)
Luzi: Pretty good for a beginner.(What exactly were we talking about again?)
Timo: What?! Is there something wrong with your ears? That was totally awesome!
Sophie: So, can I join?
Luzi: No objections from me.
Sophie: Really??
(Oh my, only reading the text while copying it on the page here - ...#Hahe
you're way too dirty. ;D )
Miriam: Piet, we have been together for 17 years and married for 15.. Things don’t just run by themselves anymore. You have to make an effort, every day anew.
Piet: If you’ll remember back when you got pregnant and we both thought: “what the fuck”, did I split or did I stay? I stayed. I could have had such a nice life.
Miriam: You’re acting as if I foisted Lara on you. Is it my fault that I became pregnant?
Piet: Well, you could have used better contraceptives. (Really, Piet? Really???)I mean, you and I, we both didn’t want a child!
Intro
[The Vogel home]
Lara is still listening from the doorway.
Piet: It was a shock to me ´,when you told me that you were pregnant,.
Miriam: Oh, so you were the victim of an immaculate conception. You need two people to get pregnant.
Piet: And did I complain back then? No, I didn’t. I took on responsibility, as much as that sucked for me.
Miriam: For both of us, Piet. And I’m not feeling any better right now.
Lara closes the door again and starts crying in the hallway.
[Pestalozzi, hallway]
Götting: Of course, you are going to win the game later. Hm? With that coach…Besides, you said that this little…what’s her name? ...Lara did pretty well.
Alexandra: Sophie was better by far. Plus, Caro is starting to get on my nerves with the overestimation of her own capabilities.
Götting: But you can handle that.
Caro: The bus is here. We can leave now.
Alexandra: Caro, just one second. Are you sure that we can accomplish this with Lara? Otherwise, I’d rather nominate another team.
Caro: I could play the Händel-School into the ground with a chimpanzee as a partner.
Alexandra: Their line-up consists of teams that are well attuned to each other. Don’t underestimate that. That’s exactly the quality that distinguished you and Sophie.
Caro: Everyone is replaceable. I’m not shedding a tear over Sophie. She can sing, I’m going to win.
Götting: Did I just hear right? Sophie is in Bea Vogel’s music AG now?
Alexandra: I have no idea how she managed that.
Götting: Well, all you have to do is be able to sing a little. (LOL, he gets so obtuse in the presence of Alexandra, sometimes. Must be connected with the flow of blood to his…brain/Some people call it love....)
Alexandra: I was talking about Bea. But she’ll regret luring away my girls.
(Ah, this could be such an awesome line for a completely different kind of movie..)
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
The STAG is just sitting around doing nothing when Bea walks in.
Hotte: Wow, a miracle healing.
Ben: I thought you were ill?
Bea: Well, not that ill. Frau Jäger called me and told me about the band festival of the city of Cologne.
Ben: So what’s wrong with you?(Pretty awkward to be found out by your own students,playing sick..)
Bea: That’s none of your business. I’m better already. And? Have you already chosen a song with which you would like to take part?
Timo: When a man loves a woman!
Hotte: Sexy bitch.(Heph..”Sexy back” JT??)
Emma: A little more lipstick!(I will forego commenting on that:-D
Bea: One after the other.
Sophie: Well, I haven’t been here long but from what I have heard, I liked “Genie in a bottle” the best.
Bea: That’s a great idea. We’ve already rehearsed the arrangement, which means we don’t have to start from scratch. And with this song, everyone could show what they’ve got.
Luzi: Well, then we can get started already.
Bea: Sophie, would you hand everyone the sheet music?
Sophie: Sure.
Bea: And welcome to the AG.
Sophie: Thanks.
Bea: How about it? Would you like to try out the song as a duet with Timo?
Sophie: Sure. I’d love to.
Bea: Great, I’m curious.
(So am I!)
[STAG - Genie in a bottle] (Dancing Emma, yay!)
[Pestalozzi, school yard]
Caro is standing outside. Lara comes running up, still wiping away tears.
Caro: About time!
Lara: Yes, I had forgotten something at home. I’m really sorry.
Caro: Forget it. And now I want to see the smile of a winner. What’s wrong?
Lara: It’s just my… Ah fuck my parents!
Caro: Trouble. You can talk to me. We are a team.
Lara: I’ve just…I’ve just learnt that I’m an accident that nobody wants.
Caro: Unreal! That’s really heavy stuff. Well, I’d say, forget about it and let’s get to the match. (Nobody comforts you like Caro does)Hey, you are on the A-team now. You’re on my team. We are your family now… your sisters so to speak. And we are going to celebrate your debut with a big victory. Okay?(There is a big old medley running through my head now, that starts off with the intro to “The A-Team” and runs through the greatest gay disco songs of all time, ending with “We are family” and the Xena version of “Sisters are doing it..” damn, you Volleyball and Caro, why do you keep doing that to me? )
Lara: Yes.
Caro: Well, then…
[Vogel home]
Piet: Hey… I’m sorry. I know that it wasn’t easy for you back then. And I’m really so grateful that you shouldered all of this…for Lara and for me.
Miriam: It would have helped if I had gotten the feeling now and again that you're not taking all of it for granted.
Piet: I know, I… I should have said thank you more often. But with taking on this big responsibility…I mean, both of us were simply glad that we managed at all, somehow.
Miriam: Yes, you are probably right. Still, I’m glad that we made this choice back then.
Piet: I know. And even though I didn’t show it…having Lara was the best thing that ever happened to me. In addition to you.
They hug.
(Sweetness!)
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
Timo: Luzi, you coming?
Luzi: Äh, go ahead, I’ll be there soon.
Timo: Okay.
Luzi: That went rather well. Thanks again for your effort and stuff.
Bea: You’re welcome.
Luzi: Without you, we probably wouldn’t even have been able to agree on a song.(*hums*”Without you”)
Bea: I’m sure you would have managed.
Luzi: Do you think that we have a real chance at the festival?
Bea: Sure. That was just the beginning. I’m sure you’ll celebrate lots of successes in the future.
Luzi: Okay. See you tomorrow.
Ben: Frau Vogel? Do you have a moment? What the heck? Why are you avoiding me? (Normally it’s because someone doesn’t want to see you)Because we got so close yesterday?(And my deodorant stopped working??)
Bea: I’m not avoiding you.
Ben: Huh. Are you now telling me that: “It shouldn’t have happened”again? But it did happen. And it will happen again (That sounded almost like a threat), you know that. Good God, Bea. Stop waffling about and start telling me what’s going on here. I don’t understand you anymore! (What a hurtful thing to say after such a long and deep relationship.)What is wrong?! (Silence from Bea)It would be nice if you called me.(*hums* Gaga's “Telephone”. Buy a clue Ben)
[Pestalozzi, principal’s office]
Frau Krawczyk: Why don’t you have a seat. We can talk about everything.
Bea: No. I’ve made my decision. I quit.(Whut?When did that happen?)
Frau Krawczyk: Is it because of this Bergmann? I thought we were finally finished with that subject. Yes, you made a mistake in sleeping with him. But you didn’t know back then that he was your student. It was a one time thing.
Bea: It wasn’t. I’m sorry. But you can imagine that under these circumstances there is no way that I can keep on teaching here.
Frau Krawczyk: But… no one knows about this except us.
Bea: But that’s not the point.
Frau Krawczyk: Bea, you are a wonderful teacher. I need you at this school. Your students need you.
Bea: I can’t pretend that nothing happened.
Frau Krawczyk: Don’t start with your damn integrity. What good does it do anybody? Do you really want to leave the field to Julian Götting? And what about your music AG? You got the students’ hopes up and now you are abandoning them?(Like Bea ever cared for the STAG over her personal drama..)
Bea: I’ll find a solution for that. But it doesn’t change my decision. I’m leaving.
(And Krwaczyk starts off into “No,no, don't leeeave me this waaay..”Ok,ok,she doesn't..but I kind of decided to make this into a seventies disco musical episode to keep things a bit more entertaining..)
[Music: Eminem – Love the way you lie]
[Pestalozzi, foyer]
Ben: Bea? I don’t want to pressure you (snort…)but… I love you. And that is possible. Even here at this school.(The realm off darkness, where love and light are not possibilities..in the fight against the dark Mistress of the giant cleavage..)
Frau Jäger walks by.
Bea: Like right now?(Like, right there?O_O)
Ben: You know what I mean.
Bea: Ben, it won’t work.
Ben: Then we’ll find a way.
Bea: There is only one solution. Frau Jäger, could you look up Frau Noack’s number for me? I need it for the STAG.
Frau Jäger: Okay. If you would accompany me to the office…
[Pestalozzi, outside the school]
The volleyball team gets out of the bus.
Alexandra: I haven’t experienced such a disgrace in years.
Caro: I did what I could. But I’m powerless without a partner.
Alexandra: I only put you up because you swore you could beat the Händel girls together with Lara.
Caro: Well, what am I supposed to do if she quits right in the middle of it?
Alexandra: And why did it work this morning during practice? That’s where you should have continued from. What happened in the meantime?
Caro: Who knows. Some sort of family trouble. It seems her own parents realized that their daughter was a complete loser.
Lara was standing in the back the whole time and heard everything.
(Here,Honey, have a cookie..)
[Pestalozzi, on the big stairs]
Frau Jäger pulls down flyers about the volleyball team and puts up a newspaper article about “New talents of the Pestalozzi Comprehensive School look forward to the band festival of the city of Cologne”, photo inclusive. (Hi Emma!)
Götting: And what’s this?
Frau Jäger: I’m updating the bulletin board. You yourself told me to take care of it.
Götting: But you weren’t supposed to take down notices that are important to the prestige of the school and replace them with stuff like this!
Alexandra: Can I ask what this is all about?
Frau Jäger: I’m only doing my job. If you don’t like it, you’ll have to take it up with the principal.
Who is just coming down the stairs.
Alexandra: Good idea.
[Bergmann villa]
Karin and Ben are moving furniture.(I'm trying to find a deeper meaning in this..)
Karin: Thanks. I usually can’t reach that far with the vacuum cleaner. Good day, Herr Bergmann.
Stefan walks in and stumbles over a pair of shoes that are lying around.He shoots them an exasperated look. Karin starts to pick them up but…
Ben: Thanks, I’ll do it. (He picks up the shoes and throws them into his room.)Is that better?
Stefan walks into his office without a word.
Karin: He probably just had a stressful day.
Ben: Sure. Because he can’t take his anger out on my mother anymore, since his numerous affairs were responsible for her death.
Karin: If the two of you would just talk to each other for once, then…
Ben: That’s all I need. I have enough problems of my own.
Karin: Is there trouble in school again?
Ben: It’s almost unbelievable but everything is going smoothly in that area.
Karin: Then it’s girl trouble. – I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to pry.
Ben: No problem. – Say, have you ever had a younger boyfriend? (About your daughter’s age?Hmm, Ben,I'm sure Ms.Beschenko will clean up your room,if you're not hitting on her,too..)
[Pestalozzi, big stairs]
Alexandra: I’m not overreacting. I’m just expecting the respect that I’m due.
Götting: Frau Lohmann’s volleyball team is still the flagship of this school.
Frau Krawczyk: Nobody’s denying that.
Alexandra: Then why does my commitment get spurned, while every fart that comes out of the music AG is made public with bells and whistles?(Now, there's an image...)
Frau Krawczyk: Let’s stick to the facts, shall we? The band festival of the city of Cologne is no small matter.
Alexandra: Since when is the mere wish for something worth a newsflash?(No idea, ask Ben Bergmann..)
Frau Krawczyk: Well, if results are that important to you, I’ll make sure that today’s performance by your team gets posted in a prominent place.
Alexandra: This is about something completely different.
Frau Krawczyk: And that would be…?
Alexandra: You brought Bea Vogel to this school and now you are trying to justify this questionable decision in any way possible.
Frau Krawczyk: Frau Lohmann, please allow me to give you one piece of advice; no, two. First of all, you should really accustom yourself to using a different tone with me. And second, finally get a hold of your ego-problem.
Götting: Let’s all calm down now, okay?
Alexandra: I’m supposed to calm down? Then see to it that Krawczyk gets lost. And Bea Vogel with her.
(Smooth move,there,criminal, spilling your devious plans in front of your objects of dejection..)
[Bergmann villa]
Karin: If I have understood this correctly, this woman is considerably older than you are.
Ben: A couple of years but…that’s not really the problem.
Karin: What is the problem?
Ben: Let’s just say that she’s… working at an important firm where a relationship with a student would not be accepted.
Karin: And that’s why you are meeting her in secret.
Ben: Not really. She has a problem with that. She’s basically avoiding me the whole time. There is something there, something besides this firm-student problem. Something. (Maybe she’s just not that into you.)
Karin: Maybe she just let herself get carried away and now she isn’t interested anymore. (Thank you, Super-Mom!)
Ben: I’m sure that she has feelings for me. (As you can be sure that I have feelings for you…feelings of utter contempt and loathing. For now. I do like Jemma-friend Ben.)
Karin: I didn’t mean to imply otherwise but… maybe you just have to give her a little time. What’s her opinion on this, anyway?
Ben: That’s exactly the problem. Every time I want to talk to her about it she gets evasive.
Karin: Well, you have to resolve this or else the two of you will be unhappy.
Ben: You’re right, I…I’m going to talk to her again.
(I love Karin’s smile. Well…I generally love Karin./Me,too..!!)
[The Vogel home]
Miriam: Piet? Could you get the water out of the car?
He’s in the kitchen, wearing an apron.
Piet: Be right there.
Miriam: What’s up with you?
Piet: I’ve cleaned the bathroom, I’ve vacuumed… Can’t you see?
Miriam: Well, yes.
Piet: Oh, and I’ve borrowed this from you. I didn’t want to spill anything while cooking.
Miriam: You’re cooking?
Piet: Yes. Surprised you, didn’t I? – Oh, I have to decant the roast.
Miriam: Roast?
Piet: Yes, roast. But that’s all you’ll get out of me for now. Now sit down and put down your load. Dinner will be ready soon and you won’t have to take care of anything at all today.
[Pestalozzi, parking lot]
Alexandra is putting stuff into her car. A volleyball is lying on the ground. Bea comes by, picks it up and hands it to Alexandra who takes it without immediately realizing who is helping her.
Alexandra: Thanks.
Bea: I’ve heard that it didn’t go so well for your team, today. Honestly. Your girls are really good. They would have deserved to win.
Alexandra: Cut out the hypocrisy. It’s your fault that we lost.
Bea: Excuse me?
Alexandra: It’s just like before. Back then you lured Franziska into the choir as well.
Bea: I didn’t lure her. She surely didn’t join the choir because of me. Besides, what does your sister have to do with the volleyball team?
Alexandra: Sophie Klein? Hasn’t she joined the STAG all of a sudden? Strange, isn’t it? She who is my best setter?
Bea: You can’t imply that I did this intentionally. Sophie Klein joined the AG after she was thrown out of your team. Besides, you don’t have to worry about this anymore. You are rid of me. Once and for all. I quit.
(Now, Alexandra we can stop meeting in secret,finally!)
[The Vogel home]
Piet and Miriam are sitting at the dining table when Lara comes in.
Piet: Hey. You are just on time. We’re having Sauerbraten (Marinated pot roast/WTH,Piet,did you buy that whole??)).
Lara: I’m not hungry.
Miriam: Papa made it especially for us.
Piet: Now, try it. Someone who does as much sports as you should eat from time to time.
Miriam: How did it go, anyway?
Lara: It’s not as if you'd care.
Piet: You’ve wiped the court with the other team didn’t you?
Lara: No.
Miriam: Don’t tell me you lost?
Lara: Of course we did.
Piet: Taste okay?
Miriam: For a bought sauerbraten…, rather good. – No, it’s really good.(I knew it!)
Piet: Did I tell you that you look simply…divine in that dress?
Miriam: Piet, don’t exaggerate.
They chuckle.
Lara: I really can’t stand your hypocrisy anymore.
She gets up from the table and walks out.
Miriam: I’ll talk to her again later.
(Won't help unless you have a degree in Psychology, I'm afraid...)
[Pestalozzi, parking lot]
Bea: Alexandra, just stop rehashing ancient history.
Alexandra: You think you can just get away with this? But I am going to make sure that the truth is going to come out.
Ben walks by and notices the argument. He comes closerand listens.
Bea: What truth?
Alexandra: Have you already forgotten? You know exactly what I’m talking about. What you did to Franziska. Yes, keep on denying it. But I won’t forget what I know. You have her on your conscience, you damn murderer!