Brandt Nice boy, your Pierre. You must be proud of him.

Guillaume Light of my life.

Brandt So different for them. Peace. Freedom.

Guillaume Fathers.

Brandt Who should we have turned out to be, if things had been different? You might have been standing here. I might have been standing there.

Guillaume Freedom, though. That's what's so relaxing about this place, Chief. You can leave all the doors unlocked and let the kids run wild.

Brandt You know why that is, Günter?

Guillaume Because the whole area's been sealed off by the local police.

Brandt Our own little police state to make you feel at home.

Guillaume - Time to think, time to talk. A little work, of course, at our respective jobs. Outgoing messages . . .

Brandt Negotiating points for Egon Bahr. Bit of a dog's breakfast. You'd better type them out before you send them.

Guillaume — Incoming telexes. Two copies of each. One for the Chief . . . — Personal message from Richard Nixon. — The other one for me. But we also spend hours out in the woods, like the boys, rambling around with Uli Bauhaus looking for mushrooms. (With Bauhaus and Brandt.) Makes a change to see you enjoying your work, Uli.

Bauhaus Makes a change to end up with some tangible results.

Brandt That's what I like about mushrooms, Uli. You pick them, you pickle them, you eat them; they stay picked, they stay pickled, they never try to eat you back. Spread them out on the table, then, and let's see what we've got. You're sloping off, are you, Günter? Not an initiate into the mycological mysteries?

Guillaume Too frightened of getting a wrong 'un.

Brandt We can always spot a wrong 'un, can't we, Uli.

Guillaume - So while the Chief and Uli sort their trophies I sort mine.

Bauhaus Some real beauties.

Guillaume - One or two quite attractive specimens.

Brandt Sparassis. Rather uncommon.

Guillaume - The British privately encouraging us to be nasty to the Americans.

Brandt Wonderful sweet fragrance.

Guillaume - Charmingly indiscreet tone.

Bauhaus Look at this whopper!

Guillaume - Oh, and a real corker here!

Brandt Parasol. Lepiota procera.

Guillaume - The French Foreign Minister in person, being even nastier about the Americans.

Brandt Ask Rut to fry it in butter with a little chopped onion and chervil.

Guillaume - Mischa should be able to cook up something rather tasty with this . . . I even get on well with Uli. In fact I get on well with the entire security team. Christel and I give a little drinks party for them, and Pierre takes snaps of them all. Then in the evening we stroll across and have drinks on the verandah with Willy and Rut.

Brandt Fetch us out another couple of bottles, Uli. Then we shan't have to trouble you again.