B Babe
Look, I'm sorry I stole your book.
Elsa What?
B Babe
I took your book and put it underneath mine. I, I didn't know how to talk to you, I was embarrassed, so I took your book.
Elsa Aren't you embarrassed now?
B Babe
Yeah. I'm, I'm humiliated.
Elsa So, why do you pursue people who sit at your library table?
B Babe
I don't. It's just that... you're pretty.
Elsa Ohh!
B Babe
[She smiles and turns to walk away from him]
Well, I can't talk about how smart you are; I don't even know you. Anyway, I'm done lying with you.
Elsa Are you always so incompetent with women?
B Babe
Oh, yes. Today's way above average for me.
Elsa Congratulations.
Elsa [She is still smiling as she unlocks her door to leave him]
Good night.
B Babe
That's too bad. I could make you so happy. I'm smart as a whip; you won't meet another thief like me in the library again. Come on; why don't you say you'll see me, huh?
Elsa All right. I'll see you again. But it won't come to anything.
Elsa [wistfully]
Yes, I can.
[She shuts her door in his face]
[Szell comes into the room. He pats Babe on the shoulder and walks to the sink]
The gun had blanks, the knife, a retractable blade. Hardly original, but effective enough, I think you'll agree. I'm told you are a graduate student. Brilliant, yes? You're a historian, and I am part of history. I should have thought you would have found me interesting. Frankly, I am disappointed in your silence.
B Babe
Why do you have so little accent?
I had alexia as a child. Alexia is a disease that-
B Babe
I know. It's where you can't understand written speech.
Highest marks. At any event, my writing is childish still, but I am a fanatic about spoken language. I envy you your school days. Enjoy them fully. It's the last time of your life no expects anything of you.
Is it safe? [pause] Is it safe?
B Babe
You're talking to me?
B Babe
I don't know what you mean. I can't tell you something's safe or not, unless I know specifically what you're talking about.
B Babe
Tell me what the "it" refers to.
B Babe
Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.
B Babe
No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful. [laughs but in a scared manner]
[Szell takes his dental explorer and mouth mirror and approaches Babe]
Hm. Relax, relax, relax. Come on. Open. Uh-huh. Okay, okay. [Babe opens his mouth] Come on.
B Babe
[Szell explores Babe's mouth with a dental instrument]
Huh! Ugh!
I know. I should think it would. You should take better care of your teeth. You have a...[hits the cavity again]
...a cav...quite a cavity here. Is it safe?
B Babe
Look, I told you I can't... [Szell stabs the probe into the nerve] AAH! AAAH! Aah!
Karl [holds Babe's head again]
You thinks he knows?
Erhard Of course he knows! He's being very stubborn.
B Babe
[Szell then opens a small bottle of oil of cloves]
Oh, oh please. Please! Please don't. No.
[Szell applies the bottle of oil of cloves to kill the pain]
Is it not remarkable? Simple oil of cloves, and how amazing the results. Life can be that simple: [holds up the oil] Relief... [and the probe tool] Discomfort. Now which of these I next apply? That decision is in your hands. So... take your time... and tell me... is it safe?
B Babe
Aah. [says in a hushed tone] Please stop. Please, stop.
Note: the line, "Is it safe?" is ranked #70 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
[In the car with Babe]
All right, things are starting to come together. Keep your head down before you get it blown off. Those two guys I just wasted work for a man named Christian Szell. Does that name mean anything to you?
He ran the experimental camp in Auchswitz, where they called him "The White Angel", the Weiße Engel, because he has this incredible head of white hair. He's probably the wealthiest and most wanted Nazi left alive. And he's hiding out somewhere in Uruguay. In 1945, Szell let it be known around Auchswitz that he could provide escape for any Jew who was willing to pay the price. He started with gold naturally, but very quickly worked his way up to diamonds. Have you heard any of this before?
Szell saw the end early. And he snuck his brother into America with his diamonds. They're right here in New York in a safe deposit box. Szell's brother had the key. The only other key was kept by Szell in Uruguay. And now, if he has to come out of hiding to use it, he's gonna expose himself to incredible risk. Well, everything worked out fine until his brother got killed in a head-on collision with an oil truck.
B Babe
Why did you say "naturally" when you said he'd started with gold?
Because he knocked it out of the Jews' teeth before he burned them. Szell was a dentist.
B Babe
He's not coming to America, Mr. Janeway. He's here.
He can't be here. We'd already know of it.
B Babe
He's here. He was the dentist that almost killed me. He kept saying, "Is it safe?, is it safe?" over and over.
Did he have white hair? Keep your head down! Did he have white hair?
Bald? The son of a bitch has shaved his head! He's here! And he's panicked!
B Babe
Listen, I want you to rob my apartment.
B Babe
There are some guys out there after me, I got a gun in my desk drawer, and I want you to get me some clothes.
M Melendez
What's in there for me, man?
B Babe
I got a TV set, I got a hi-fi, you can take it all. Do it.
M Melendez
What's the catch?
B Babe
The catch is it's dangerous. Please do it.
M Melendez
That ain't the catch. It's the fun.
I was in a state of hysteria, you know. [referring to the open suitcase filled with diamonds] Don't you want to take a closer look than that?
You see, uh, in a sense, one becomes more emotional with age. First, after a lifetime of being taken by friends and enemies alike, and then just when you think you have your possessions sure, your health begins to go. [laughs] That is, of course, the ultimate theft!
Well, what are you going to do now, shoot me?
B Babe
No, I don't think so.
Then you're going to take these from me? [gestures to the diamonds] If I could say a word about that...
B Babe
No, you can keep them. You can keep as many as you can swallow.
