Tea?
What country you from?
Anton,
Vera.
Sylvain Ellenstein.
Vera Chupak, director research and development at IP,
and Anton Leonidov, security manager.
Do you want coffee or tea?
Do you have Coca zero?
Is this your favorite beverage?
Yes, I'm addicted to it.
Are you addicted to something else?
To Papers, Please.
Please have a seat.
When you think of Elon Musk and his anxiety about AI,
you really wonder what game is he playing, right?
Are you scared of AI, Sylvain?
No I'm not.
What are you scared of?
Wasting my time.
I hope you don't think that your wasting your time right now.
Does my profile interest you?
Very much, Sylvain. Very much.
Are you going to have me take some tests?
Yes I am.
Right now?
Before that, we have security protocols.
Sure. Which ones?
A lie detector.
Sorry.
You come with me, Paul. I have some interesting things to show you.
Sure.
Your name's Sylvain Ellenstein?
Yes.
Birth date?
February 12, 1993.
Place of birth?
Lannion.
Have you grown up there?
Yes, I have.
You are lying, Sylvain.
Yes, I am.
We can't accept that.
Would you like to hire a moron?
Excuse me?
Do you really want to hire a moron who doesn't care about his employer's security?
Since when have you been working for the DGSE?
Since 2014.
Do you work for the Technical Department?
Yes I do.
Did you work at the bureau clandestine before?
Yes, I did.
Did you make up Paul Lefebvre's legend?
I won't say anything about my work.
Do you know Intellekt Povedencheskiy?
I do.
Do you have data on us?
It's top secret.
Who do you have data on?
Top secret.
You are here to spy on us?
No.
I'm not.
- I'm sorry. - It's okay.
I have a few questions, if you don't mind.
Sure.
Paul Lefebvre, left handed or right handed?
Right handed.
Right...
I usually ride my bike to go there.
Recently, I've used a gyrowheel.
Do you smoke?
Claustrophobia and vertigo.
What about false teeth?
His left upper premolar tooth is crowned.
What's his hand writing like?
His hand writing,
what does it look like?
Like shit.
As if he was suffering from Parkinsons.
Which side does he dress on?
Right or left?
Seriously?
Seriously.
You can't be serious.
Do you want this job?
We know each other.
Let me judge it.
Okay then, I'm not in.
And that will because I don't know on which side Paul puts his balls?
I am really sorry for the outcome,
I'm sure you understand that we're working at takeing the slightest risk
is considered the professional misconduct.
May I have my phone back?
Sure.
This was a very interesting meeting, Sylvain.
And I'm really looking forward to seeing you again talk about topics
that these guys...
don't have the least idea of.
Last question, Sylvain.
Promise.
Could you play the piano
for us?
I played the piano when I was a kid.
Now, I just wouldn't be able to play anything.
Really?
I like music too much to inflict this on you.
Are you testing me again?
We were told that you could talk about music for hours so...
"Talk", that's the point.
And not play?
No, not played.
If I ever said I could, I lied.
Shostakovich.
Symphony No. 7.
Could you play it?
I only know to read and write the music.
This true?
I don't know.
We were told that you had been talking about this symphony
for more than 5 hours
with a man who studied oboe for 15 years
at Tchaikovsky School of Music.
And he hadn't enough of it.
Maybe you could...
sing it?
It's the way it goes, isn't it?
What about some...
champagne?
Do you speak English?
Yep.
May I borrow your phone please? I need to call someone.
What's wrong with your phone?
Well, what's wrong, is that you are trying to hack it.
How long will it take for your program to break my security?
It depends on how powerful it is.
But it usually takes no more than 55 minutes
to break the best defenses.
Well that's great, because the defense program I designed for my phone
usually takes less than 45 minutes to counter attack
and fuck the device where shit comes from.
I'm Igor.
I'm Sylvain.
I think we're going to have fun together.
I don't have much time.
I wanted to tell you that I fixed the issue. They won't bother you anymore.
How did you do that?
I made a deal.
With FSB?
Yeah.
How freightening.
Who are you to deal with the FSB?
A gangster?
No, um...
I'm a former agent of the DGSE, the French FSB.
Now you're working with FSB?
Well...
It's a long story.
Now I'm listening.
I've been with a woman, her name was Nadia.
- Russian? - No, Syrian.
I was placed by the DGSE in Damascus.
For 6 years.
When the Syrians discovered what I was doing there.
It became dangerous for her, she got arrested.
Now what happened to her?
I got here out.
But, to do that,
I had to betray my country.
That was the only way.
I can't go back to France without paying for what I did.
That's why I stay here.
You betrayed your country out of love? How cute!
It sounds like a fairy tale.
But fairy tales,
are only for kids or fools.
I must be a fool.
Why Moscow?
It's a good place to hide when you're French.
But the FSB found you.
Yep.
And, what did they want?
They want to know what I know.
You are their prisoner?
Not anymore.
In the world I live in,
intelligence is a asset we exchange intelligence.
I know the game, that's all.
Why are you telling me all this?
I don't want to lie anymore.
- But you lied to her... - Yep.
She didn't know who I really was, and that was the beginning of all the troubles.
Do you still thinking about her?
Not the way you're thinking of.
It's more of a wound.
I'm not a nurse.
I'm not sick.
Well...
if all you're tell me is true...
you have a fun life.
I know.
Paul Lefebvre, is your real name?
No it's not.
So what's your real name?
I can't tell you.
I don't know you well, it's my daughter's last name.
But I can't go on call you by the name that's not yours.
Well, let's say it's um... kind of a nickname.
Paul Lefebvre is not a nickname.
Pasha, yes.
I could call you Pasha.
It's the Russian diminutive of Paul.
I could be Pasha.