Wilke Thank you, Herr Guillaume. We do have secretaries.

Guillaume Extra pair of hands always available if you need them. No job too big or too small.

Wilke I'm sure you have plenty to do upstairs.

Guillaume — He's a little resistant to my charms. I'm not a prof or a doctor of anything, like all the others. -Just popping down to Party Headquarters. Anything you want me to take? Files? Papers?

Wilke We have messengers, Herr Guillaume.

Guillaume - I'll wear him down in the end.

Kretschmann - Take your time. Don't rush it. We've waited thirteen years. We can wait a few more weeks.

Wilke (with Ehmke) This Herr Guillaume of yours.

Ehmke Good man. Just the type we need.

Wilke Everyone in the office finds him a most surprising appointment.

Ehmke Reinhard, we need to broaden our horizons in here. You're a lawyer, I'm a professor. We've all got dust in our hearts!

Wilke But this wretched man has no professional training or experience of any sort whatsoever!

Ehmke He's a trained photographer.

Wilke So if we should need a souvenir of the staff outing . . .

Ehmke He's also got practical experience of management.

Wilke Management? Of what?

Ehmke Of a photocopying shop.

Wilke Horst, can we be serious for a moment?

Ehmke Times have changed, Reinhard. We have to embrace the whole of society. Photographers. Managers of copy-shops. Women! We have to find some women, Reinhard, and embrace theml

Wilke There's no shortage of secretarial staff. And as I understand it, Horst, they have been embraced by every government since the foundation of the Federal Republic.

Guillaume - And now - the big day!

Kretschmann — You met Willy?

Guillaume - I'd just come downstairs and put my helpful smiling face round the door . . . — Would you like me to slip out for a sandwich, Reinhard? Oh, hello, Horst. How are things on your side of the corridor? Sandwich for you?

Wilke Herr Guillaume, we must come to some understanding about access to this office . . .

Guillaume - And suddenly, before he could push me out again . . .

Brandt Capitalism stands on the brink of the abyss!

Wilke Herr Chancellor . . .

Ehmke Willy . . .

Brandt And what's it doing there? Looking down on the Communists. And this is . . . ?

Ehmke Herr Guillaume. Our contact with the unions.

Brandt Oh yes. The owner of the footsteps.

Guillaume - He knew who I was!

Kretschmann - He knows who everyone is. Politician's trick.

Brandt Another member of the Berlin Mafia, I believe. We Berliners have to stick together. They don't like us here in Bonn, Herr Guillaume.

Guillaume No. When the Wall went up in sixty-one no one in Bonn lifted a finger. The only one who fought for us was you. We're never going to forget that. Particularly those of us who come from the other side. Those of us who know what it's like over there. - Sorry. Live with the wolves howl with the wolves.