Episode 7 – English

 

translated by chocofresh, hephylax, carrie and edited by ami. Thanks,Team,you rock!!!

[Previously on Hand aufs Herz]

 

 

[Home of the Vogels, dining area]

 

Bea: I confessed everything to Ms. Krawcyk today.

Miriam: And?

Bea: She was drunk.

Miriam: You're kidding me.

Bea: It’s not a joke. She offered me a deal: If I'll keep my mouth shut she will do the same.

Miriam: That’s blackmail,actually.

Bea: That’s the piece of information Götting needs in order to get rid of her.

 

 

[Home of the Beschenkos, dining area]

 

Karin: Do you think it’s fair that only we are asked to pay up?

Luzi: No, but everything’s better than me looking like a traitor.(And somewhere, a Luzi Beschenko Goth angel cries..)

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Götting’s office]

 

Luzi: I’m here to give you the names.

Julian: Have you thought this through all the way? Traitors are not known to have a very good standing within groups.

Luzi: That’s right.

Julian: They are going to destroy you. (No more Arnold Schwarzenegger movies after dinner for you,Mr.Götting!)

 

 

INTRO

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Götting’s office]

 

Luzi: The idea came from …

Julian: Not necessary. I’m not interested in hearing details about this unpleasant evening.

Luzi: But all this time you wanted to know who was involved in this.

Julian: I only wanted to prevent the school administration from being left with the expenses. And since the bill has been paid I’m not interested in pursuing this matter any further.

Luzi: The bill has been paid?

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Krawzcyk’s office]

 

(Gabriele is taking one of Sophie’s drug pills from episode 207 or hang on, I mean a totally harmless little pastille for fresh breath, hahaha greetings to the prop department. … There’s a knock on the door.)

Gabriele: Come in.

Bea: Am I interrupting? Regarding the party in the swimming baths, colleague Heisig and I, we had the idea to set up a donation account to help the Beschenkos financially.

Gabriele: That topic is no longer on the agenda. The money has been transferred.

Bea: Oh. May I ask by whom?

Gabriele: Your best bet is to ask Mr Götting; I can’t take care of everything.

(Bea glances at Gabriele’s blue Thermos flask aka vodka bottle, in disguise.)

Gabriele: Anything else?

Bea: Do you need support?

Gabriele: It's just the usual chaos after the holidays. In two, three weeks everything will be back to normal.

Bea: I’m not talking about work.

(rawr!)

 

[Pestalozzi, Götting’s office]

 

Julian: How about “Thank you, Mr Götting”?

Luzi: You???

Julian: Most certainly not.(Ha,ha,ha..I love this show for the disbelief in Luzi's voice and Götting's shocked outrage)

Luzi: Who is paying my debts then?

Julia: Like I said, the only thing that matters to me is that they’ve been paid, I’m not interested in anything else. You can go now. I’m busy.

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Krawzcyk’s office]

 

Bea: Mrs. Krawzcyk, you know that I’ve always admired you. You are the reason I’m a teacher now. But since I've been back at the Pestalozzi, you're keeping out of everything. You don't make any decisions and the thing about Luzi Beschenko ... you were drunk in the middle of the day.

Gabriele: I told you that was an exception.

Bea: I think you have a problem. An alcohol problem.(No kidding, dramatic pause and zoom in,gasp!)

Gabriele: You experienced me in a weak moment. I don't regard you as a nymphomaniac just because you had a one-night-stand with a student. (No Bea, you're really no nymphomaniac, you just suffer from Ben-caused inconsequence/ :-) SCORE Krawczyk!Ha! I 'm wondering if she'd change her opinion of Bea, if she'd know of her extracurricular activities in the attic in later eps?)

Bea: You got me to return to this school to support you. That's what I have hereby done.

 

 

[Pestalozzi, kiosk]

 

Luzi: Ben? We will never be friends in this lifetime, but that was really cool. (Oh Luzi, if you knew.)

Ben: What was cool?

Luzi: The bill for the party, I think you did pay it.

Ben: I'm sorry.

Luzi: Okay, you didn't transfer the 2500 € and in spite of that my debts are paid?

Ben: Maybe …

Luzi: What?

Ben: My father?

Luzi: Why should your father pay my debts? He has no clue that you messed this up.

Ben: He knows. We'll meet at the volleyball field, okay? Bye.

(Ben follows Bea from the stairs to the entrance.)

Ben: Hey. How are you?

Bea: The Beschenkos won't have to pay, that's the main thing. Thank you, you didn't leave Luzi hanging.

Ben: Other than that, everything's fine?

Bea: Yes.

Ben: I don't believe you. What's the matter? (Oh, he's a psychic Lesbian with girlfriend vibes!Let's process!)

Bea: I have to go to class.

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Krawzcyk's office]

 

(Gabriele's vodka … ähh Thermos bottle is empty, she takes another bottle of the high percentage supply out of the cupboard.There's a knock at the door. Quickly Gabriele hides the bottle behind her desk chair . Alexandra enters the room.)

Alexandra: You'll remember the appointment this afternoon?

Gabriele: Ähh …

Alexandra: The „Kölsche Blatt“ (Cologne newspaper) is going to report on the sponsoring of the new shirts and the ...

Gabriele: Yes, of course.

Alexandra: Well I know, that you have a lot on your plate with that swimming pool affair,already....

Gabriele: To tell the truth it really doesn't fit my schedule at the moment.

Alexandra: Mr Götting and me, we could represent you of course.

Gabriele: Please convey my thanks to Mr Bergmann.

Alexandra: I just saw Bea Vogel coming out of your office. She seemed agitated,somehow. I hope there weren't any problems?

Gabriele: Everything's just fine in between Ms.Vogel and I. Maybe you should rather work on a better relationship to her yourself- (Very good idea, Gabriele! An idea strikes us how this relationship could look like./Yeah, one or two ideas;-)

Alexandra: You don't think that's too much to ask for?

Gabriele: Just pull yourself together.

Alexandra: Believe me, that's what I'm already doing.

Gabriele: Then you're going to have to try even harder. There's no place for mobbing at my school, neither among colleagues nor among students.

Alexandra: Then just stop playing us against each other.

(Ah, this whole conversation was just Dyke Drama gold..what were they really talking about? Oh yes, Bea's and Ms.Krawczyk's professional relationship, and the issue with the maybe murder of Alexandra's sister..honestly, I think the dyke drama scenario is a bit more realistic..anyways, on we go..)

 

 

[Pestalozzi, hallway]

 

(Accidentally Michael runs into Alexandra.)

Alexandra: Can't you pay attention?

Michael: Ms Lohmann, I thought this was a good day. New shirts, lots of press, attention.

Alexandra: We worked hard for that.

Michael: Who would doubt it?

Alexandra: Several.

(Alexandra's glance goes sideways to a showcase, in which, among other things,is an old picture of an appearance of Bea with the „Singing Lunettes“.)

 

[flashback]

(The band performs „Push It“ in in the auditorium)

Herr Lohmann (stands up, points at Bea and shouts): Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!

 

 

Michael: You appear kind of uptight, if I may say so.

Alexandra: You know, you may not say that, cause I don't want to hear any negatives.

Michael: It wasn't meant as a negative in any way.

Alexandra: Nor am I in the mood for small-talk.

(and she storms off..you gotta love Alexandra's attitude sometimes:-)

 

 

[Pestalozzi, kiosk]

 

Caro: And how do I look? There are even going to be photographers at the show!

Sophie: Oh shit, I have totally forgotten about that. Is this going to work?

Caro: I've gotten sweat proof makeup.

Sophie: Hey, just wait, we...

(Caro sees Luzi standing at a bar table and runs over to her)

Caro: Hey, I've got something for you.

Luzi: What?

Caro: Well,this 100 Euro-note right here, I actually meant to invest it into a new designer purse, but you are in more desperate need for it.

Sophie: True, but your purse isn't working it anymore.

Caro: Okay, but look at that backpack with which Luzi is zipping around. And in addition to that, the debts of the party. Take the money, you don't need to have a bad conscience. I always have been into Charity. Do you think my mother can claim tax liability? Aid funds for students below the poverty level?

(Luzi is going away unnerved , shooting a hurt look in Timo's direction, who's heard all of this,and did nothing to intervene.)

Caro: That means I can go ahead and buy the purse now?

(Caro and Sophie grin at each other, Timo has observed the scene from another bar table and is visibly disgusted)

 

 

[Beschenko's appartement, Luzi's room]

 

(Luzi launches herself upon her bed, the phone rings)

Luzi: Beschenko? No, it's the daughter. A credit of 2500 Euros? Are you sure? Already disbursed? That must be a mistake. Yes, sure, I will tell my mother. Bye.

 

 

[Villa Bergmann, hallway]

 

(Stefan stands in front of a mirror, tying his tie,while Karin comes along with a jacket in her hand.)

Stefan: And? Will it do?

Karin: If you are going to tell me what for? (They're so flirting!Aww, I miss that second season..)

Stefan: A press appointment at the Pestalozzi. A handover of shirts I sponsored for the beach volleyball team

Karin: In that case, it will do.

Stefan: Did everything work out ?

Karin: Yes, I transferred the money directly to the school.

Stefan: Your daughter was glad?

Karin: Yes

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Beachvolleyball field]

 

Julian: And now let us all celebrate the man, the Pestalozzi school is very much indebted to: Stefan Bergmann, chief executive director of the Harani-Bank.

(Applause.)

 

Stefan: Thank you. I know, ähh,that the banks at the moment aren't regarded very highly, and the bankers even less.The more I feel the necessity to prove that we financial sharks show social engagement wherever bad comes to worse. I think, that it's not possible to always call for state support. We all of us are asked to stand up. Everyone where he can and for those who need it. But I don't want to bore you. Today we are here to celebrate our great beach volleyball team with its extremely charming coach.

(Applause. The shirts are distributed, which is a good thing, as the beach volleyball team is half naked..who sponsors SHIRTS for a BEACH volleyball Team anyways?)

Luzi: Is this a kind of competition in your family for who's the greater ass-hole?(Oh, and she hasn't even met Ronnie yet!)

Ben: What?

Luzi: How could I just believe for a second that you or your father have a spark of decency?

Ben: What's the matter again?

Luzi: Giving a charming smile and acting the great benefactor in front of the camera, but round the back ask those people to pay up for whom you pretend to have so much empathy.

Ben: Would you please tell me what this is all about?

Luzi: Stop playing the fool! Your father granted a big credit to my mother, for which she will have to pay the next ten years! With him earning interest.

Ben: Honestly Luzi, I didn't have a clue that …

Luzi: I kept my mouth shut. For someone like you. That was plain dumb.

Stefan: (to a reporter)Thank you for being here today. And tell the colleagues in commerce they shouldn't be that strict with us banks. We all of us, are only trying our best.

(Stefan goes to his car)

Julian: You,of course, realize that Mr Bergmann is short of time. If there are still questions I'm completely at your disposal.

(At the car)

Ben: Is that true? You granted Mrs Beschenko a credit for paying a damage which I inflicted?

Stefan: All of you messed up. Mrs Beschenko was very grateful, you should be as well.

Ben: Why didn't you just give her the money?

Stefan: I'm a businessman. We don't have anything to donate. You'll learn that.

Ben: Everything I could learn from you, is how to stop at absolutely nothing.

Stefan: Be careful what you are saying, Ben

Ben: You know what? I'd rather end up in the gutter than become like you..

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Krawzcyk's office]

 

Julian: I can just only hope, that this is really important. Outside there is a journalist waiting for me who wouldn't appreciate it that the persons mainly responsible for this event are notably absent.

Ben: It was me.

Gabriele: What?

Ben:The party! It was my idea. I did persuade the guys, I did pick the lock of the swimming-pool and I am responsible for the resulting damage.

 

Julian: And why are you coming along now, that everything is resolved?

Ben: Mrs Beschenko has raised a credit to pay my debts.

Gabriele: As commendable as it is that you are taking on the responsibility, but this is going to have consequences.

Ben: I know.

Julian: I dare to doubt that you are aware of the dimension of your confession . You have already been expelled by four schools. With this back story we can hardly avoid an expulsion from school. And actually we'd have to report this to the police.

Ben: That would mean that I will be kicked out from school again.

Gabriele: That will be the decision of a staff meeting. But if we are considering such a step for a student like Ms Beschenko, then all the more for you. Until further notice you’re suspended from all of your classes!

(Ben is nodding and is leaving the room.)

Julian: An surprisingly harsh verdict by your standards.

Gabriele: We have a confession, he has a copious back story and this is the logical consequence. But that must be in your interest. Don't you wish to return to your appointment?

 

 

[Pestalozzi, teachers’ lounge]

 

Bea: What’s up?

Michael: Ben Bergmann just took on the sole responsibility for the swimming pool party.

Bea: What?!

Michael: Yes. And that’s why Ms. Krawczyk called an extraordinary staff meeting for tomorrow afternoon, at which all of us are supposed to decide which consequences he will have to face.

Bea: But we should be able to find a solution.

Michael: Well, if I’m reciting this correctly from memory then… he was kicked out of the first school because he drunkenly broke into the teachers’ lounge at night, stole the final exams and burned them(Hee!); from the second one because he all out refused to talk to the teachers; from the third because…

Bea: Okay, I understand.

Michael: To hang on to a student like Bergmann after such an incident is very implausible.

Bea: Does that mean chances are he is going to get expelled?

Michael: That would be my guess.

 

 

[Pestalozzi, school yard]

 

Frau Krawcyk is juggling papers, her bags and her coffee cup. Something like this never ends well even when you are sober and so the papers land on the floor.

Frau Krawcyk: Oh damn!

Michael comes to the rescue.

Michael: Well, it seems I’m just in the right place at the right time (to help you).

Frau Krawcyk: Thanks but that’s not necessary. I can manage.

Michael: Well, when else do I have the opportunity to be playing the gentleman?

Gabriele has her Vodka bottle upright in her open bag, by the way. Michael really is a mole and thus blind.

Michael: I was really surprised that Bergmann turned himself in. I mean, the whole thing was pretty much over and done with already. Do you already know which solution you are going to suggest at the meeting tomorrow? It IS his last chance here at this school.

Frau Krawcyk: Well, I’m going to let the staff make this decision. If you think an expulsion is appropriate I of course will support that decision. Thanks again. But I really have to go. Till tomorrow.

Michael: Yes, have a nice evening.

(Oh, she is..I'm just wondering for a moment, why American TV Alcoholics usually drink whisky, and Germans, vodka?What do the TV Alcoholics of your country drink?)

 

[Pestalozzi, at the lockers]

 

Ben tries to get his things out off his locker but that’s not so easy. Everything falls down.

Ben: Fuck!

He picks up his cell phone and stares at the picture he made of himself and a sleeping Bea. (God, that’s creepy// You know, this is how the trouble started with the carpenter at L Word..just saying..).

And because we haven’t had our requisite Bean flashback yet, now’s the time. Hach, I was already getting all jittery.

 

[Flashback]

Their first meeting, first kiss, first sex. (from now on known as FMFKFS to save us all some time)

Bea, sitting in the auditorium, joins in the flashback but goes straight to the sex while holding the memo for the teachers’ conference.//I seriously don't see any nympho tendencies here..nope,none at all..)

[/Flashback]

 

 

[Pestalozzi, Aula]

 

(Bea is reading a circular)

 

MEMO

 

Reference: Staff meeting

To: all teachers

from: Gabriele Krawczyk

 

 

Dear Colleagues/colleaguettes,

 

I hereby invite you to the staff meeting on Wednesday, the 13^th of Oktober 2010 at 12:30p.m. .

 

Location: Teachers Lounge

 

Planned agenda: Vote about the expulsion from school of Ben Bergmann.

 

Protocol: Ingrid Jäger (Yay!)

 

Gabriele Krawczyk

(What is the correct spelling for Gabriele’s name, anyway? At the beginning, I thought probably Polish roots so cz for sure for the tsch sound. That still left a possible w or v and y,e or i, so I looked it up. And the HaHe homepage said Krawcyk. OK, probably not Polish then. I’ve been using that ever since. But now on the memo what do I see? Krawczyk with cz! So now, what do I do?// Whoopsie! I've been editing the z into the Krawczyk for the past five pages!I'll go with that, even so, the Krawcyk would probably be the more correct English spelling..by the way, anybody ever read “Crime and Punishment”? Raskolnikov, Raskolnikow, Rascolnicov, Ras...and his five hundred nicknames..I like the z! We could of course hold a democratic vote on the expulsion of the z...)

 

 

[The Beschenko apartment]

 

Luzi: Hi.

Karin: Hello, my darling. Is the big volleyball jersey party already over?

Luzi: I wasn’t there for long.

Karin: Why not?

Luzi: Get this, the swimming pool matter has finally been settled and Ben Bergmann took sole responsibility for it and of course took over the costs.

Karin: Ben Bergmann?

Luzi: His father gave you a loan so you could pay the bill.

Karin: How do you know about that?

Luzi: Earlier, an employee of the Harani bank called and wanted to have some more questions answered. Why didn’t you tell me about this?

Karin: Because it was my decision.

Luzi: You get yourself into a hopeless situation because I messed up…and it is supposed to be your decision?

Karin: What else was I supposed to do, Luzi? They would have made your life hell.

Luzi: Oh Mama…

Karin: You’re already fighting hard enough.

They hug.

Luzi: I’ve learned that from you.

(If my Mama wasn’t just as awesome, I would want Karin to adopt me./I think Karin would kick Caro's ass way over that volleyball net..)

 

 

[Pestalozzi, school yard]

 

Bea is sitting on the Jemma Coming Out Monument waiting for Ben to show up. Which he does!

Bea: Ben.

Ben: Hey.

Bea: You are suspended from class?

Ben: For now. Tomorrow, I’ll get the ultimate red card. There will be a teachers’ conference but that’s probably just cosmetics. Krawczyk (I’ve decided the memo knows best)doesn’t really have any other choice but to kick me out.

Bea: If she says the entire staff will decide then she’s going to stick to it.

Ben: Not many of the teachers are part of my fan club.

Bea: Why did you turn yourself in?

Ben: I simply wanted to do the right thing for once.

Bea: And what about Australia?

Ben: For that, I’m going to have to find another solution now. - I…I can’t imagine not seeing you every day.

Bea: Ben…

He takes her hand and pulls her into the “Pssst..pssst” Jemma corner.

Ben: You feel the same way, right?

Bea: Maybe it would be better like that.

Ben: Then I won’t be your student any more. Everything would be like it was that evening in the club. I’m the guy at the bar and you are the woman on the dance floor.

(Le sigh..ok, ok, I do root for them, when they're not getting on my last nerve, or having their fortunes told, or flashbacking or whatever it is that they do..)

 

 

[The Beschenko apartment]

 

Timo: Hi…

Luzi: Hi.

Timo: How are you?

Silence.

Timo: I’m really glad that the matter with the swimming pool party is over.

Luzi: Yes. Me too. But it’s funny that someone like Ben sticks his neck out while you go into hiding.

Timo: Yes, I know… that was shitty but I just didn’t know what to do.

Luzisarcastic: You are a true friend, then.

Karin: Is that Timo?

Luzi: Yes, Mom.

Karin: Why isn’t he coming in?

Luzi: He’s in a hurry.

Timo: Now, come on.

Luzi: Hey, you really left me high and dry. I need some time to digest that. And you might want to do some thinking as well.(Word!)

 

 

[Pestalozzi, the “Pssst..pssst” Jemma corner]

 

Ben: This thing between us, it’s something special. I know that and you know it too.

Bea: That’s rubbish, Ben. We slept together once and … yes it was nice (meant in a good way)but…it doesn’t mean anything.

Ben: Are you trying to convince me…or yourself? (I wanna slap that arrogant look off his face/I like that smile!)This thing with us is much more than just a cheap one-night-stand. At least, it is for me. (Oo, someone finally checked that there are two people involved here. Is that the first sign of his growing maturity?/I seriously don't want to think about Ben's growing maturity..but yeah, probably.. )

He caresses her face.

Ben: I love you. (Ah, that would be no.)