Episode 8 of Hand aufs Herz.
Translated by Carrie edited by yours truly, ami
(Previously on Hand aufs Herz)
[Pestalozzi, principal’s office]
Ben:It was me.
Mrs. Krawczyk: 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.
Mrs. Krawczyk: Until further notice you’re suspended from all of your classes!
Bea: I think you have a problem! An alcohol problem!
Mrs. Krawczyk hides vodka bottles in her office
[Pestalozzi, school yard]
Ben:Between you and me, this is much more than just a cheap one-night-stand. At least for me. I love you!
(How often are we going to hear these words spoken by Ben with a Bea in this particular “It’s not possible-mode”?/I'm gonna start counting! #1!)
Once again dramatic crescendo…and then…
James Blunt and the
[Intro]
[Pestalozzi, school yard]
(The scene that will accompany us through the episodes – to say it in terms of music - Variation on a Theme- or maybe you might feel like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBa9nVQxcc0
Ben: You feel the same!
Bea: No! You don’t know me at all!
Ben: Really?
Bea: Ben! We spent one night together. We met at school a few times. That’s it! And there will be no more than this. Whether you’re my student or not.
Ben:You may deceive yourself but not me! (walks away)
(And from the background, the other guy that struggles for Bea's affection, comes forward)
Michael: You talked about his expulsion from school?
Bea:Oh, yes. He wanted to explain his point of view to me.
Michael: Ah. And?
Bea:What?
Michael: What is his point of view?
Bea:Oh, yes. He seems to be accepting it.
Michael: Okay. What about talking our proceedings at the staff meeting over? You’ve already had dinner?
Bea:My sister-in-law is cooking for me and I have tons of tests to correct.(Another recurring theme :-D
Michael: I understand. (No Michael, you don’t and it will take some episodes until you definitely will understand…)Bad timing.
Bea:I’m sorry.
Michael: Maybe at another time?
Bea:Maybe.
(And to think, that all of this time, he has a book full of his Exes' phone numbers..)
[Pestalozzi – Götting's Office]
Alexandra: The issue was already over and done with.. Little Beschenko takes the consequences and Bergmann is off the hook. Instead he marches to Mrs.Krawczyk and crucifies himself (sends himself to his doom). Can you explain to me why?
Julian: Yes, hard luck!
Alexandra: Hard luck? Do you know what it means to us if Ben Bergmann gets expelled from school?
Julian: Yes, for sure. If we loose Ben, we are going to loose his father.
Alexandra: What we lose above all is the sponsoring for a new beach volleyball field, the training camp at Mallorca and we are probably going to lose our reputation to this stupid Sing and Dance group in the end.
Julian: It won’t get this far.
Alexandra: Fine! And how are you going to avoid that? You didn’t even manage to push this boozehound off her position,yet.
Julian: Just have some confidence. Everything Ben will get is a disciplinary warning. And you will get your beach volleyball field. And I…I will get you.
The Devil’s Kiss
(I feel so,so sorry for him all the time..all I see is him speeding in his Alfa Romeo towards his death and screaming an “Alexandra,I love you!” into his phone..le sigh..)
Song: Eminem feat. Kobe “Talking to Myself”
[The Bergmann Villa]
Stefan:Mrs. Beschenko! Did you forget something?
Karin: Sorry to bother you that late, but it has got something to do with the credit your bank granted me.
Stefan:There’s something wrong with it?
Karin:No, no, everything’s fine. Thank you again for helping me that quickly.
Well, now that I don’t need it anymore, I would like to pay it back immediately. Now that your son is making up for the damage, the school retransferred me the money.
Stefan: Wait! Why does my son make up for the damage?
Karin:He was so honest to admit that he was the one responsible for the break-in.
(Ben comes upstairs)Hey Ben.
Should I rather transfer the money or how would you like me to repay the credit?
Stefan:The best would be to make an appointment with the bank, and I will make sure that the credit is cancelled. Thank you.
Karin: Thank you. Good night.
[The Vogel home]
Bea corrects tests.
Bea: x²…
On a test there is a heart drawn, with the words “Rational functions are overestimated” – the test of Ben Bergmann(Surprise..)
And theflashback!
Ben:That thing with us – it's something special. I know and so do you.
Bea: That’s nonsenseBen! We spent one night together. We met at school,occasionally.
Ben:Between you and me this is much more than just a cheap one-night-stand.
Bea: That’s all!
Ben:At least for me.
Bea: And it's not going be any more. Whether you’re my student or not.
Ben:I love you!
3 points, grade 5
(do flashbacks count? Anyways #2)
[The Bergmann Villa]
Ben watches TV
Stefan: Did you loose your mind?
Can you please tell me what all of this is about?
Ben is still not answering. Stefan is angrily switching off the TV.
Ben: What was the question again?
Stefan:Do you realize that you can be expelled from school for that?
Ben: Yes. Next question!
Stefan:Okay. Tomorrow I am going to call this Götting and solve the problem.
Ben:Of course. But what I don’t quite understand: you always want me to assume responsibility. And now that I do, you just keep going after me.
Stefan:That’s something completely different. Besides, everything was arranged already.
Ben: Because you granted Luzi’s mother a credit. You could have donated the money to her. She’s our household help. You know exactly what she’s earning.
Stefan:Oh please, don’t give me that “social justice” speech. And if you didn’t mess up in the first place, everything wouldn’t have been necessary. But I'm going to tell you one thing: you will see, my friend!
Ben: Well, I’m curious! You've already cashed the money of the cheque.I can also forget about the surf-shop. So what else? Maybe the cabrio? You're going to block my account? You're going to kick me out! Yes, kick me out!
Stefan:You think you don’t need all of this. Yes? I’d like to see that! You without all of these privileges here! You’re going to finish school. I’ve promised it to your mother.
[The Vogel home]
Miriam:He fell in love with you?
Bea:At least that's what he’s saying!
Miriam:And now?
Bea:No “and now?”
Miriam: Well, if he’s expelled from school he’s not your student anymore!
(and that would mean more than 200 episodes without all that flip-flopping!/ No flashbacks?Ah, no...)
Bea:He’s still a lot younger than I am! Miri, we spent one night together, we talked sometimes… you can’t talk about love! That’s a crank of his!
Miriam:But if you don’t feel anything for him, why are you that upset that he is?
Bea:Because he became obsessed over it.(Which teaches you not to hook up with people calling themselves stalkers in clubs..)
Miriam:And it’s not possible that you also have a crush on him and you’re just afraid of getting hurt?
Piet:She’s afraid of what?
Miriam: Nothing!
Bea: I'll be going out for dinner with a colleague.
Piet:Why do you always have to have such complicated relationships? You know a colleague, that’s a surefire recipe for disaster!
Miriam: Well I don’t think a colleague is that bad?
Piet:Well, she never had a knack for men!
(:-D Hahaha...sorry...I'm going to be over here, editing:-D
Kate Perry “California girls”
[Chulos]
Ben: Hello?
(Sebastian comes in)Hey!
Sebastian: Hey we’re still closed.
Ben: I know. I just wanted to ask if you'd have a job for me?(Oh, didn't see that coming!)
Sebastian: A job?
Ben: Yes, behind the bar or I can wait tables, I don’t mind.
Sebastian: You still go to school, don’t you? The Pestalozzi, right?
Ben: No, no longer! I dropped out!
Sebastian: Dropped out? My brother is a teacher there. Should I talk to him?
Ben: They kicked me out! I organized a small party at the swimming pool. No big deal, but this afternoon the staff meeting about my expulsion will take place..
Sebastian: Instead of graduating you want to serve your friends drinks and clean the tables. Sounds like a real alternative.
Ben:You have a job for me, yes or no?
(Ah, Ben, try to be alittle less bossy with your wanna be future boss,will you?)
[Saal 1]
The Devil’s banker
Stefan: Thank you.
You may imagine that I didn’t send my son to your school to be expelled after only one week.
Götting: To be honest I was quite surprised that he admitted to the deed.
Stefan:I require that Ben will stay at this school and takes his high-school-diploma exams.
Götting: Believe me, it’s definitely not in my interest to lose a student such as Ben.
Stefan:We both know what kind of student Ben is.
One with a rich father, maybe?
So what exactly do you need to prevent his expulsion?
Götting: Unfortunately that’s not my sole decision; the staff meeting will vote on it…
Stefan:How much?
Götting: You know we have a real engaged volleyball-team, but the training conditions are rather suboptimal. In brief there will be a training camp on Mallorca with the coach of team USA. If we could claim the championship this year again, that would be…
Stefan:Okay. Just make sure that Ben will stay at your school!
[Pestalozzi, principal’s office]
Groundskeeper: How did you do this?
Mrs. Krawcyk: Can you open the lock or not?
Groundskeeper: Yes. Well…
Mrs. Krawcyk: Thank you, that'll be all.
Groundskeeper: Okay, we‘ll change the lock later.
Mrs.Krawcyk: Bea, can you please come over here for a moment?
Bea is coming into the office.
Mrs.Krawcyk: It is about Ben Bergmann. I will take a stand this afternoon for expelling him from the school.
Bea: You? Why?
Mrs.Krawcyk: I thought that might be a good solution for you too.
Bea: What makes you think that?
Mrs.Krawcyk: You forgot? You informed me that you’ve had an affair with Ben Bergmann?
Bea: It wasn’t an affair. It was a lapse.
Frau Krawcyk: Bea, just a moment.
Bea: I’m sorry; I should have talked to you much sooner.
Frau Krawcyk: Gosh! Bea, just forget about your good intentions and think about what would be the best for you! And for me! Yesterday you expressed so fervently that you mean to support me.
Bea: Yes, but if you're going to expel Ben Bergmann…
Frau Krawcyk: It’s quite easy! He is known as a problem student and I’m not able to afford such a student as long as Götting is undermining my position so severely! It would help both of us fundamentally..
Bea: That’s it?
(Ms. Krawczyk, are you jealous?)
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
Luzi is singing “Kiss from a Rose” by herself in the auditorium. Bea comes in.
Bea: That was beautiful.
Luzi: Yes, sure.
Bea: And, where are the others?
Luzi: They have a reputation to lose.
Bea: Why? But you are here!
Luzi: Me, I have nothing to lose. You heard about the trophic pyramid?
Did you? Anyone wants to extend her/his knowledge?
http://www.britannica.com/bps/media-view/16/1/0/0
On the top there are the predatory fish. These are Caro and her troop. And at the bottom is the plankton. And that’s me! If you don’t want to be eaten you better don’t move around too much!
Bea: Okay, that’s enough! If you think you have nothing to lose, you’re mistaken! In fact immensely!
You have a unique voice, you have talent and you have this (Showing the piano)
What do you think why people like Caro make other people’s life a living hell? Hm? Because they are afraid! Because they guess that these few years at school may be the only chance they have to be someone! They only define themselves by the way they are perceived from the outside, but not by what they are made of! Maybe they are the predatory fish at the moment, but only as long the plankton is stupid enough to allow them to eat them.
Luzi: Plankton is not thinking.
Bea: But you do, right?
Luzi: Maybe you could address that speech also to the others?
Bea: I’m sure you can do that as well!
( I am the plankton, I am the revolutionary plankton, I am..ahem..where was I?)
[Pestalozzi]
Sophie:You got me a ten-spot for the kiosk?
Caro:Hey! You see this bag? It wasn’t for free! I haven’t any money!
(talking to Lucy)You surely can lend us some money?
Luzi:Why should I?
Caro:Hey, as Ben is paying for your debts, you should be flush with cash.
Luzi:Ben doesn’t account for me. He’s just taking over responsibility contrary to all the others.
Sophie:Pretty dumb.
Luzi:Yes? You think so?
Caro:Indeed!
Luzi:You just can stand there and always talk big! But you have no clue what it is really all about! You’re nothing more than pretty but empty packings. What’s up? Do you dash off and think about another bitchiness? So far it didn’t go quite well! First you couldn’t frame me for this Swimming bath action, and now the STAG will take place again. It’s not really your week! Oops!
Yeah Luzi –leaving back a stunned Caro!
Pink “So what”
[The Vogel home]
Piet:You know how many hours overtime we have accumulated over the last weeks? But he then says “Meat is a product to handle quickly.” And me “No it doesn’t work!” And he said we could work through the lunch break. I did say “Dude! You really don’t dig it?” Really!(same problems everywhere, even in the unforgiving meat industry..)
Miriam: You know, now as Lara is out of the thick of things, I thought about getting my apprenticeship?
Piet:Just be glad that you don’t have to work!
Miriam: But it just would be nice to see something besides our kitchen and the washing machine. I’d like to socialize a bit more.
Piet:Then go shopping!
Sorry! But seriously! Why do you want to do that? Was it Bea’s idea?
Miriam: No! It was my idea! Just imagine!
Piet:Since Bea has been back everybody wants to reinvent the wheel! I don’t understand it! I’m not sure if it is a good thing,that she came back! And on top of that to the same school! The people are talking again!
Miriam: What people?
Piet:Simply the people!
And? Is she together with her colleague? (Alexandra??:-D
Miriam: Search me! And besides it’s her affair!
Piet:Ah, right! It’s her affair! As back then! I just hope that the guy didn’t also have another girl!
[Pestalozzi, teacher’s room]
Michael: Well, if Mrs. Schneider will be continueto be ill, I would stay here longer!
Mrs. Jaeger:Mrs. Lorenz from grade 10 was also saying that she should take a trip tp the spa again!
Michael: Then I will stay even longer.Mrs. Krawczyk does no longer take over any substitutions?
Mrs. Jaeger: She doesn't have any time for that! She’s up to her ears with work!
Michael: Are you going to tell me that she’s sometimes working from home? Well, it happens that she’s not here,one day or another!
Mrs. Jaeger:She’s keeping appointments out of school at these times!
Bea: Mr. Heisig? You have a minute?
Mrs. Jaeger:I need to go now!
Michael: Yes! Yes, of course! What’s it about? About Ben?
Bea: What? No! It’s about my AG! The music group. I need your advice. You have time eventually?
Michael: Yes, sure! Here and now? Or yet again at a little dinner! Not that I’m insisting on it. I know you’re hardly available and rather avoid private dates but…
Bea: Well, it’s really not the right place to talk in peace here.
Michael: So we are going to meet for dinner!
Bea: This evening?
Michael: Mrs. Vogel? You’re really sure?
Bea: Yes!
(Desperate much, Heisig? And Why? Ms. Vogel, WHY? Now I'm having personal flashbacks to a million and one “sexy” Michael/Bea scenes..Blergh..those were really disturbing..)
[Pestalozzi, class room]
Eventuallywe see a checkered shirt – and there she is!!!
Emma:I think it’s totally cool, that they are not holding you responsible for the pool-incident.
Hotte:Yah, and what’s more: you gave away nobody.
Luzi:Yes. And now that that’s over, I thought we could continue.
Emma:Continue? With what?
Luzi:With the AG. I already talked to Ms. Vogel and…
Hotte:Wait a second. Did you forget what happened?
Luzi:‘course not!
Hotte:Since Caro showed that video to everybody, all I do is trying to limit the damage!
Emma: Hotte is right. To join the AG again now is social suicide!
Luzi:Do you want Caro to bully you for the rest of the term?
Hotte:Precisely not!
Luzi:But we’re really good! We can’t give up now and let the others win.
Heisig:Luzi, are you enrolled in this English course?
Luzi:So, for the rest of your lives, you want to hide from people like Caro? They’ll bully you anyway. You can’t be that invisible.
Heisig:So, can we start now?
[Pestalozzi, principal’s office]
Julian: Have you forgotten who the father of Ben Bergmann is?!
Mrs. Krawczyk:Of course not!
Julian: Then I don’t understand why you want to snub him in such a manner!
Mrs. Krawczyk: I’m not purchaseable! Ben Bergmann did offend the school regulations.
Actually, actually we need to file with the police. No matter who is the father of whom! You are not going to experience me accepting a bribe! I have work to do now! Go! Please!
[Pestalozzi, in front of the principal’s office]
Julian: This woman is out of control. She doesn’t know what she’s doing!
Alexandra: Did you tell her how important Bergmann’s money is for our school?
Julian: Yes, of course. But she’s not purchaseable!
Alexandra: Except if the currency would be vodka!
(we see Mrs. Krawczyk drinking vodka)
[Pestalozzi – teachers’ room]
Julian: He was honest! And has taken the complete responsibility for the damage! Which is by the way already remedied and paid? Besides he is willing to express his regrets over the matter publicly and to apologize.
Teacher: If you think so.
Mrs. Krawczyk: As I see we are complete. So let us begin.
[Chulos]
Caro: And that’s why you work here? So that you can buy a surf-shop in Australia?
Ben: You have a better idea?
Caro: Well, my mother would never allow for me to do such a job. She would rather ask my father to give me some money.
Ben: I can forget about that! My old man only gives me the bucks if I fulfil his expectations! That means graduation!
Caro: And why don’t you just do that?
Ben: Cause I’m suspended and am as good as expelled?
Caro: Ah, right! But I don’t understand why you confessed everything.
Ben: Because otherwise Luzi would have had to pay everything on her own!
Caro: Sorry, but Luzi is a loser. Because of her I wouldn’t make my life needlessly difficult. And to be honest, maybe you should talk to your father and arrange with him. This here has no perspective.
[Pestalozzi – teachers’ room]
Mrs. Krawczyk: Let’s come to the vote. Who votes for the request to expel Ben Bergmann from school?
1-2-3; these are three pro.
Who’s against it? 1-2-3. That’s a tie.
Mrs. Vogel, what about you? Do you abstain from voting? To come to a result in this question my vote will possibly count twice.