Are you a diplomat, Mr. Schwarz?

Are you a diplomat, Mr. Schwarz?

You know as well as I do that only citizens with diplomatic passports are allowed to travel abroad.

Uh... No.

Then what's the point of asking?

We have this Greatest Travel Reform to thank for that!

Thank Rückert, the miserable bureaucrat!

That is, if I had a diplomatic passport, then I could leave the country?

No. You could not, Mr. Schwarz.

But you just said that people with diplomatic passports could leave.

You're a ministry official, Schwarz.

Every border post has our data. So we don't get "lost".

If the foreign countries get their hands on a Ministry employee... unthinkable!

But why are you asking such suspicious questions, Schwarz?

Do you want to run away? Now?

No, no, no. Of course I don't want to run away. What are you thinking?

That's why your friend Bullhauser was caught.

Fleeing the Republic is a serious offense. People do life in prison for that.

Don't screw up, Schwarz. I was just starting to like you a bit.

That's nice, Mrs. Grundig...

A diplomatic passport won't help.

It is so completely misguided!

You're making such a good career for yourself.

It's more of a general interest.