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Dussander lives off some stocks that he bought just after the war. The man who helped him with the investments was [Andy Dufresne]?. |
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Since Dussander now has power over Todd, just like Todd has power over him, he sees a way to avoid having to recount old stories about the concentration camps (he has been getting his old nightmares back as well). He now forces Todd to spend time as his house studying instead of listening to stories. Todd has earlier claimed to have given a letter with facts about Dussander to a friend if anything should happen to him. Dussander now claims that he has written down what has happend and put in a bank deposit box, so that it will be found upon his death. Soon after this, Todd goes out and stabs a wino to death. He finds that this somehow pushes his nightmares away. His schoolwork is picking up again, and although he has to kill a few more winos, he manages to get back into the top of his classes again. Dussander has also taken to killing winos, but he invites them home, fills them with booze, kills them and buries them in his basement. They are not aware of each others' exploits, however. Todd's visits to Dussander has become much less frequent. His school performance is good enough to win him both prizes and a scholarship, but at the same time he also taken to aiming at people on the highway with his rifle. One night when Dussander is digging a grave for his latest kill, he has a heart attack. He manages to get to the phone to call Todd who comes over and cleans up the mess of blood that the wino has left all over the place, and finishes up the burial in the basement before finally calling an ambulance. At the hospital, Dussander shares a room with Morris Heisel, an old Jew with a broken back. Heisel thinks that he recognizes Dussander (known as Denker at the hospital, of course), but it takes a few days before he realizes that he is Dussander, the commander from the Patin camp that he managed to survive, but where his wife was killed. Soon after Heisel has left the hospital, a Jewish war criminal-hunter called Weiskopf turns up at Dussander's hospital bed telling him that he has been found out. After he has left, Dussander steals some drugs and commits suicide. In the morning, Todd's parents find pictures of Mr. Denker along with a picture of Dussander as commander of Patin in their morning paper with a large heading screaming "War criminal". Todd gets them to believe that he didn't know. After a while a police inspector comes and talks to Todd, and he isn't as convinced of Todd's story. Meanwhile, Ed French has paid a visit to Todd's real grandfather since he happened to be where he lived and had nothing to do. He mentioned their previous meeting and was of course greeted with incomprehension. Naturally, he gets suspicious and starts investigating Todd's old report cards and finds out that they have been tampered with. Now convinced that something is wrong, Ed goes to visit Todd who is just finishing cleaning his rifle. After Ed has told Todd what he knows, Todd shoots him. He then takes his rifle and goes to the highway where he has been aiming at drivers previously, but this time he brings all the ammunition he has got. |
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Apt Pupil has been filmed as Apt Pupil (1998), directed by [Bryan Singer]?. |
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Apt Pupil has been filmed as [Apt Pupil]? (1998), directed by [Bryan Singer]?. |
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