- Alfred: [trying to hypnotize the pastor] Sleep. Sleep deep. You get tired, very tired.
- [tries to remember his lines, looks up in a hypnose manual, continues]
- Alfred: Let yourself falling and dream. Dream of the bishop. He comes to you and says:
- [with deep voice]
- Alfred: . Where is the money? Where is the money?
- [with normal voice]
- Alfred: And he asks you the third time: Where is the money? And you say?
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: [with closed eyes] Shut up!
- [stands up in his pastor clothes]
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: I knew that, therefore I was still dressed. You as a bishop. A death man will notice that.
- Michael Springer: Tell me that this is a beautiful day.
- Barbara Jansen: It is a beautiful day.
- Michael Springer: Tell me that it was a great idea to come here.
- Barbara Jansen: We'll gonna see about it once your brother finds out.
- Michael Springer: My brother, my brother! Can't you talk about anything else? Right now I'm sick and tired of my brother.
- Barbara Jansen: But you have to admit that if it would be his way, you would be here with this stupid Mathilde.
- Michael Springer: That's rubbish. You know what I think about her.
- Barbara Jansen: Then tell me that she has jutting ears.
- Michael Springer: That she has what?
- Barbara Jansen: That she has jutting ears.
- Michael Springer: Good, she has jutting ears.
- Barbara Jansen: Tell me that she has crooked legs.
- Michael Springer: She has crooked legs. She has six fingers on each hand and feet so big that she could thread out wildfires.
- Barbara Jansen: Tell me you will never see her again.
- Michael Springer: I will never, ever see her again.
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: Alfred! Alfred!
- Alfred: Yes, boss?
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: I can't believe my ears.
- Alfred: What's up, chief?
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: You're not going to learn it. That's enough to drive one to despair.
- Alfred: All right, all right, father.
- Michael Springer: When do I see you again?
- Barbara Jansen: Tomorrow in the office.
- Michael Springer: That's not a seing.
- Barbara Jansen: Let's stop. I can hear the colleagues gossip.
- Michael Springer: Let's give them a reason for it then.
- Thomas Springer: [after drinking homemade wine] Michael, I'm poisoning myself for the company and you enjoy yourself.
- Michael Springer: That's the purpose of a company party, isn't it?
- Thomas Springer: Yes, for the others. For us it's duty. Mathilde hasn't danced once.
- Michael Springer: Well, that's where even the power of a city manager ends.
- Thomas Springer: Go on and dance with her. As a junior chef you have your duty too.
- Michael Springer: I heard that today already.
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: [with a smile, to the bishop] Esteemed Mr. Bishop, nice, that you drop by again.
- [seriously, later angry to the audience]
- Pfarrer Himmelreich: Dear congregation, today I'm going to talk about the usurers. And about the rotten businessmen! And how they were kicked out of the temple.