Kidnap - Bo's Most Exciting Holiday Ever (2015) Synopsis

Middle-aged Fred visits Leo, who is in prison serving time for robbery. Leo says he will be released soon, but don't say anything to Olga (his girlfriend, who passes by Fred as he enters) as he wishes to surprise her. He then asks Fred if the cash he left with him is safe. Fred replies uneasily that it is, making Leo anxious. The scene changes, showing a lavish international boarding school in Austria on the shore of an alpine lake, looking like a palace [Ferienhort on the St Wolfgangsee]. Inside, 9-year-old Bo [12-year-old Teun Stokkel] is waiting patiently in his own room, smartly dressed in the school uniform, sitting on the bed with his suitcase on the floor. As a bell rings, Bo stands up and leaves the room with the suitcase and descends a large curved staircase with other boys. The clock on the wall points to 1 o'clock. At the exit, the principal wishes them all a happy weekend. When the students come out, minibuses are waiting for them and Bo climbs into one. Here, the scene changes back to Fred. In his apartment, he flips over the carpet on the floor, removes screws from the floorboards with an electric drill and from a cavity removes Leo's bag. Inside only EUR5,000 in a bundle of EUR50 notes remains, together with Leo's credit card. As will be seen later, Leo stole EUR100,000 in his last robbery, which he deposited with Fred for safe-keeping, who has lost most of it in gambling. Fred is already upset about what to do when Olga storms in, demanding to know if Leo left his money in Fred's keeping. Despite his denial she searches the flat. When Bo is in KLM's business class, a stewardess comes along to tell him the plane is landing. Olga, in a red uniform, is waiting to escort Bo to the family chauffeur. She inquires, "Bo van Mecklenburg?," apparently meeting him for the first time. As they ride on the moving walkway together, Olga asks, "How do you feel about flying alone?" He tells her he does it every week as he attends an international boarding school. As he goes to the car she looks thoughtful. The chauffeur of the Rolls-Royce Phantom is unfriendly, smokes cigarettes, frequently coughs and, in addition, spits out of the car window, to Bo's disgust. The car arrives at the Van Mecklenburg's palatial mansion on a large estate with lake and swimming pool. Bo runs to greet his father and tries to tell him about school and asks if they can play golf together, but his father is interrupted by a phone call and then rushes off, saying he will be back in an hour. His mother appears when Bo is swimming in the pool and they have a light snack on the patio. She sees Bo looking at the unappetising glass of green juice and says, "Wheatgrass, drink it up." His father returns and says, "You're about to be10 years old. It's an important milestone in your life." "My birthday is next week." He hands Bo a gift-wrapped box; inside is a Breitling Super Ocean [costing over £3,000]. "Wow, it's a diving watch!" "You'll need it right away when you learn to dive in the Caribbean for two weeks." Bo is very pleased. Mr Van M's mobile phone rings again. When Bo asks his mother about the trip, she says, "Mom and dad can't go." Bo cannot suppress a look of disappointment. "My book is being published and dad has a business merger." Bo tries to look happy and looks through a brochure, but when he tries to talk to her, she is on her mobile phone. In the background the chauffeur is also on his mobile. This scene shows Bo's loneliness surrounded by luxury. In a Chinese gambling den Fred bets the last EUR5,000 of Leo's money hoping to be able to repay Leo. However, the opponent is a professional scammer and Fred loses the last of Leo's cash. As he leaves Olga is waiting for him. She accuses him of gambling away Leo's money, but says she has a plan to make all of them rich. At the international boarding school one week later, the students rush to the front door, where the principal says, "Enjoy summer vacation." When Bo arrives at the airport in Salzburg and passes through immigration, Olga is there, driving an electric luggage-cart and she greets him, offering to give him a lift to the boarding gate. Bo happily accepts, but when the cart enters a restricted area Bo begins to be suspicious. The cart stops suddenly and a side door opens, where Fred pushes a cloth covered with chloroform against Bo's face. Next, Bo's father gets a phone call from Olga. "Your son has been kidnapped. Follow the instructions. If you inform the police, the picture you will receive shortly will be the last you see of your son." When Bo regains consciousness, he is seated on a wooden chair inside a small log cabin. Tape covers his mouth and his hands are tied together behind him. Fred is on his mobile phone outside the hut, receiving instructions from Olga as she is arriving at Schiphol Airport. "When he wakes up, take a picture right away, but don't let him see your face. Have you destroyed his phone yet?" "No." "Do it now." When Fred enters the hut, Bo plays unconscious as he searches the boy's pockets for the phone, but examining it Fred says, "That would be a waste" and puts in his own pocket. He then puts on a woollen ski cap and goggles, raises Bo's head and peels off the tape, gently slapping his cheek to wake him up. Fred then puts a Dutch newspaper (De Telegraaf) against Bo's chest and takes a picture with his own mobile phone. Fred tries to go to the table with the newspaper but stumbles over a chair. He puts a hemp bag over Bo's head before removing the goggles that caused him poor visibility. Fred now sits at a table and opens a drink can, but as he goes to drink, Bo, who can see him dimly through the hemp bag, says, "Sir, I'm thirsty." Fred removes the hemp bag and thrusts the can towards the boy. "My hands are tied." Fred tilts Bo's head, holds up the can and slowly pours the contents into his mouth. Then he goes to put the hemp bag on again. Bo asks, "Please stop, I've already seen your face." Stupidly Fred gave him the drink without hiding his own face. Fred realizes his stupidity and curses, but he can't help it now. Twice he instructs Bo to look straight ahead, not at him. All the time Bo has been extremely polite and respectful. Meanwhile, Bo's father says to his wife, "No matter how much it costs, we will get him back," rejecting her plea to tell the police. She complains that he could have attended a local school, not a very expensive boarding-school, but Mr Van M. retorts that she wanted more time for her yoga and "wheatgrass". Then he receives on his phone a photo of Bo tied up in the hut and his wife collapses. In the hut Bo tells Fred he needs to urinate, but Fred is busy with a crossword puzzle. "Full-bloodied (Vol bloed), coming from the Middle East. Seven letters . . . 'terrorist'." However, "terrorist" has 9 characters (in both Dutch and English). Bo suggests "Arabian (Arabier)?. . . It's a thoroughbred horse (volbloed) ." This fits. The next clue is "een paling met puisten" (literally an eel with acne) with 8 letters." Fred has no idea. Bo helps again, "Puberaal? . . . Puber-aal" (Puber translates as "adolescentl" and another word for "paling" is "aal".) Again, it fits perfectly. [The English sub-titles do not attempt to translate the Dutch for the second clue, but have: "sleep-overs with pillows", to which Bo suggests "pyjama parties."] Bo says he really needs to pee, so Fred takes him out of the hut, and says "Hurry up". "But my hands are tied." Fred unties the rope. At that time, Fred's phone receives a phone call from Olga. A minute or two later, seeing Fred occupied and looking the other way, Bo flees up the hill though the alpine meadow as fast as he can go. Fred quickly gives chase, soon overtaking him and drags him back to the hut. "Little jerk" (etterbak). That night, Bo's father receives Olga's demand for a ransom. The price is EUR4 million (about £3.5 million), with 48 hours grace. In the hut, Bo is laid down on a mattress, the rope around his hands is untied and Fred covers him with a duvet. "Comfortable? Go to sleep." Fred sits in a chair, but when Bo asks, "Are you a kidnapper?" Fred doesn't answer as his conscience troubles him. "Do my father and mother know that I am here?" No reply. "I am Bo." "Yes, I'm . . . Heino. Rest." (Taking the name from the baritone singer whose photo is pinned to the wall.) Fred looks more and more uncomfortable. The next morning, when Bo wakes up, Fred is outside on a call to Olga. "Will he pay?" "4 million!" "What?" "4 million, 2 each. You are going to be a millionaire." "When?" "Everyone can't get that big money right away." At that moment, the door of Olga's apartment opens and someone enters. Olga thinking it might be a burglar (or perhaps the police), lifts up a tall vase, hiding until she sees it is Leo. "I was released early for good behaviour. I'm free now." He goes to kiss Olga but she turns away, less than pleased at this interruption to her plans. When Fred loses contact, he hears the sound of a helicopter flying over the mountains. As he enters the hut in a hurry, Bo says, "I think they've found us." "It's impossible." "My phone has GPS." Fred takes Bo's phone from his pocket and throws it into a wood stove, cursing himself, as he did not do what Olga said. Grabbing Bo, he leaves the hut and gets into his (i.e., Leo's) car. Olga tells Leo that she has a great plan to get rich. Leo however is not interested; he says he is going straight from now on and wants to open a fish restaurant with Olga serving customers. This has no appeal to Olga. Leo says he must call Fred right away. Olga is worried by these words. Leo tries to get in touch on his mobile phone, but there is no reply. Olga suggests he may have gone fishing. Leo looks out the window and sees Fred's red van parked there. "Well, why is his van there?" "You told him he could use your car." Olga desperately tries to allay his suspicions, saying "Why didn't you give me the money?" Leo opens the door of a wardrobe revealing masses of shoes and cosmetics, filling every shelf. They use Fred's van to go to Fred's apartment and as Leo forces his way in, Olga speaks on her phone to Fred, telling him Leo is out of prison and presently at his door with a crowbar. He does not know about the kidnapping and Olga tells Fred they will send the boy's finger to the parents if they do not pay up. Fred is distracted by the conversation, nearly hitting a truck on the road. "We agreed not to harm him." Bo looks worried. Olga hears the truck's horn blaring and asks, "Where are you? What's that sound?" "I'm driving." "Why are you driving? You were supposed to stay in the hut." "Then you should have answered the phone. I thought. . ." "You shouldn't think. Just follow my instructions. I'm at risk. I'm a stewardess, so I'm the first to be suspected." "That's your problem." "I intend leaving the country in two days." Leo comes out of the apartment with an empty bag and throws it on the ground. "Everything is gone. Even the credit card. I'll kill him." Olga is exasperated at the turn of events. Fred parks in front of a café along the alpine country road and suggests to Bo they eat. Then he pretends he has a concealed gun under his leather jacket, warning Bo not to try any tricks. As Bo is starting to eat a burger he hears his father's name on a wall-mounted TV. Looking up he sees a report on his father's new business merger. Fred is at slot machine and noticing Bo's serious face looking at the TV, turns to watch as the picture shows Bo swinging a golf club. Fred is now totally panicking and hurries out of the café pulling Bo along behind him. Seeing a police officer checking Leo's car, which is parked in front of a no-parking sign, and thinking it is part of a police investigation into the kidnapping, he abandons the vehicle, taking Bo to a sportswear store. There Bo is transformed from a smart schoolboy into a typical casually dressed youth. When they leave the store, Fred steals a black paint spray can, which he uses to change Bo's hair from blond to black. "Now your mother wouldn't recognise you." This is too much for Bo, who tries in vain to hold back tears and look cheerful. Fred, who looks concerned, takes a dirty handkerchief out of his pocket and wipes off the black dye on Bo's face, before patting him on the arm. They walk to a small rural railway station, go to the ticket window and Fred asks for tickets to Schiphol. The station clerk asks in German if he wants return tickets, which Fred does not understand, so Bo translates for him. The fare for two singles is EUR186. Because he has no cash left, Fred pays with Leo's credit card. As the next train departs 43 minutes later, Fred takes Bo to a café table in front of the station to wait. Then, taking out a pack of playing cards, he shows off a trick by bending the pack and firing them all at once into Bo's serious face. Bo is delighted with this. Meanwhile, in Olga's apartment, Leo calls the card company to report the loss of his card, only to be told that it was used to buy two tickets from Germany for Schiphol. "He is making off with my money!" The train runs through an alpine landscape. Bo and Fred sit on wooden bench seats facing each other with a large table in between. Fred immediately starts a simple card game betting with sweets. Soon Bo has all the confectionery. "You are very smart for a small boy." Bo is in a good mood. "I'm 10 years old tomorrow," and tells him of the planned diving holiday. When Fred suggests his parents can postpone it, Bo agrees, saying he was going to a camp alone anyway. Fred says that's awful. "What - diving?" "No. Diving is great but going by yourself is awful. Bo grimaces and agrees: "Yeah." Fred's phone rings and Olga calls, telling him he was stupid to use Leo's card? "And why did you get on a train?" Fred reports that he saw Bo on TV. Olga tells him it was only because of his father's merger, adding that Leo knows the train he is on. At that moment the conductor bangs the door as he enters the coach checking tickets, making both Bo and Fred jump. Now Leo is seen driving Fred's red van at high speed to the next stop on the line: Maldegem, in Belgium, near the Dutch border. As the train approaches the station Fred spies Leo waiting on the platform. Leo looks through the windows as the train pulls in, then works his way through the carriages as Fred and Bo also run through unwittingly towards him. Fred and Bo are forced to turn around and flee to the end of the train, going into the last carriage - the luggage compartment. "You bastard." "Leo, I can explain everything." "Who is that?" - pointing at Bo, who is looking at Fred in alarm. "Robbie. My son. With Suus. Suus let him spend the weekend with me." Leo demands his money right away, but Fred says he had to move it because of burglaries. Leo grabs Bo and tries to take him away, saying, "Robbie is collateral." Then Fred jumps at Leo and the two begin to fight, ending up with Leo sitting on the prostrate Fred as Bo becomes more and more alarmed. Bo could have escaped, but by then he had become more sympathetic towards Fred, so he pulls a club from a nearby golf bag and swings it, striking the side of Leo's face, leaving him stunned. Just as the train starts moving, Bo helps Fred up. They open the luggage compartment's sliding door and jump off, Bo taking Fred's hand as he counts "1, 2, 3, jump!" As they walk off, Bo pats Fred on the back. Unseen, Fred has dropped his phone and does not hear Olga trying to call him. Fred finds his red van which Leo parked in front of the station and the two get in. With a grin Bo says, "Fred?" (because he now knows that is his name). "Yes". "Your name isn't Heino!" "Yes it is." "You don't have a handgun, either?" Rumbled, Fred gives up and confesses. "If you have that kind of thing, you'll only get into trouble." After running for a while the van breaks down in a country lane with cows grazing in the adjacent fields. The two sit down by the roadside. Bo questions Fred, who is jealous of the cows' easy lives. "Do you have a son?" "No." "Did you steal Leo's money?" Fred denies it, but soon confesses. "Leo left the money of the last robbery with me and I ended up gambling it away. Leo came out of prison early and I was stuck. So Olga planned to abduct you for a ransom." "Is it a lot of money?" "What?" "Leo's money." "100,000." Bo thinks this a trivial sum and Fred says try raising it honestly. Bo criticizes him: "Why then, did you take the money, dumb ass [sukkel]." Fred decides to fix the van, helped by Bo. After a while Fred is satisfied and gets Bo to start the engine. As they drive off, a yellow connecting cable is left on the road. As a result, after a while, the van breaks down completely. Fred pushes a crowbar into a cloth bag and gets out. Bo asks "What are we going to do." "Walk. Come on." The two leave the van and start walking along a grassy path. After discovering the van missing, Leo chases the pair by taxi, discovers the abandoned van, tells the taxi driver he cannot pay the full fare and gets a repair truck to come out. The repair man points out the missing yellow lead as the reason for the failure. Leo compels him to repair the van on the spot with threatening gestures, even though he cannot pay. As Bo and Fred walk along in the rain, an isolated farmhouse comes into view, with no sign of anyone about. Fred manages to open a door which has a loose lock. Fred enters followed by Bo and says, "Look for food in a refrigerator." Watching Bo go into another room, Fred calls Olga from a landline. Bo finds a small storage room, but only a few tins of vegetables. Hearing Fred talking, Bo draws nearer and hears part of his conversation with Olga, saying he would tie up Bow and put tape on his mouth. After ending the call, Fred asks, "Did you find something to eat?" Bo shows him the tin. "Is that all?" "Yup." "Paupers." At that moment, hearing chickens clucking outside, Fred goes out and enters the chicken coop, leaving the door open so they all escape. Fred chases after them, falling over several times, as Bo laughs at his antics. In response to encouraging chants of "Fred, Fred," he somehow secures one bird. Bo rejoices, but as Fred twists the chicken's neck killing it Bo is shocked. In a twilit woodland Fred has roasted the chicken over a bonfire and is eating it alone. When he asks Bo, "Are you going to eat?" he replies, "You're a killer". "What? You don't eat the meat of dead animals?" Fred throws him the tin that he found in the farmhouse saying "Be a vegetarian, with your fat face." Bo relents and decides to eat some chicken. (Meanwhile Leo is driving around looking for Fred in the repaired van.) The surroundings are now completely dark. Fred pokes the campfire saying, "If you do it this way, the air gets in and it burns well" "Do you often camp?" "Oh, since I was a kid. My father died, my mother drank and wanted to put me with foster parents." "Then?" "I ran away." "Does Robbie exist?" "Yes." "Where?" "With his mother." "Suus?" "That's right." He tells Bo that by the time Robbie was one year old, he had lost all his savings in gambling and had lost his dream of having a home and giving his son a delightful childhood. "Suus is a great wife, but she never wants to see me again. Robbie is now eleven." Fred talks about the gifts he wanted to give Robbie. A climbing wall, paint-balling, rafting, etc. However, he has never been able to do more than imagine it. He begins to say "This year . . ." but stops and says, "Go to sleep now." Bo lies on the ground under a vinyl sheet instead of a tent. In the night it rains but Bo snuggles up to Fred, who is sleeping next to him. In the morning Bo awakes to find Fred is nowhere to be seen. Panicking, he runs to and fro calling for him. Fred appears with a drink for him and gives the birthday boy a present - his large folding knife. Bo says "Wow!" When the two come out to the road, a construction material company's light truck has stopped just over the shoulder, and the driver is standing facing the hedge, singing while urinating. They climb unseen into the back of the vehicle. The truck stops at a small village petrol station and the driver gets out to make a purchase. Fred opens the canvas sheet at the back to check the location and sees Leo filling up the tank of Fred's van. Fred's exclamation and Bo saying "Leo?!" attracts Leo's puzzled attention and he walks towards the lorry. Meanwhile, the truck driver comes back with his snack and starts the engine, just as Leo opens the rear covering. "Freddie???" Then the vehicle pulls away, leaving the cover in Leo's hand. Leo returns to the van, starts it and accelerates away, pulling the petrol line with him. For a moment Bo and Fred are pleased to have escaped, until they see the van coming fast towards them. Loaded on the lorry are several 25 kg cement bags. Fred heaves some into the road to try and stop Leo, but he skilfully avoids them. The next time Fred tries to drop one, Bo stops him and taking out the knife Fred gave him, pierces the bag several times so that a cloud of cement dust wafts out reducing visibility. Leo tries the windscreen washer fluid, causing the cement and water to mix and the windshield to become muddy. The lorry drives into a yard but Leo, unable to see clearly, misses it and ploughs into a field full of crops. Bo and Fred laugh uproariously as they successfully escape. The two walk along a wooded path, singing happily. Fred takes Bo to a place like a big factory, which is quite deserted and overgrown. "Where are we going?" "No questions; keep walking." The two climb the metal stairs of a large tank, where, at the top there is a wire-mesh door with a padlock. Fred pulls out a crowbar from his bag and forces the lock. The inside is completely dark when the door is closed. "What's here?" Fred says "Take off your shirt and trousers." Fred switches on the lights to show that they are both now wearing diving kit and standing in front of a huge tank full of water. Holding hands they jump into the water together. Bo is able to practice his first dive without going to the Caribbean. Bo's face, rising from the water, shines with joy. When Fred dries him with a towel and wipes his hair, the dye comes off and he turns back to blond. Bo tells Fred "It was awesome!" Fred feels guilty while looking at the blackened towel. "It's my best birthday ever." But when Bo finishes dressing and looks around, Fred is nowhere to be found. Worried, Bo grabs his jacket and leaves the building, anxiously looking around, but Fred is nowhere in sight. He runs along walkways looking for Fred, climbing to the highest point and shouts desperately, "Fred!!" but there is no sign of him from the top. Disappointed, Bo walks down the stairs quite dejectedly. Returning to the road he spies Fred in the distance. As he does not stop when Bo calls to him, Bo runs at full speed towards him crying. Fred gives up, turns around spreading his arms in welcome. Bo though violently pushes Fred away. Then he hits him shouting. "You are a cowardly prick. What the hell are you doing! First you abandoned Robbie and now you do exactly the same to me. You are just a dick!" He hits and kicks Fred. Fred embraces him and Bo cries in his arms. You can see how much they really like each other - like a father and son. Fred & Bo are seated in a taxi. Bo is worried about Fred and grabs his arm saying: "It's going to be fine. Really." Their position has been totally reversed; Bo is now in charge. The taxi stops in front of a house in a residential street and the driver tells them the fare is EUR187. Fred tells the driver that he has no money, so Bo hands over his new diving watch to the driver saying, "It's worth at least 500 euros." The driver, who knows that its value is actually very much higher, says "Deal!" Bo goes alone to the door of the house and rings the bell. Fred is hiding behind a caravan parked in front of the house. A middle-aged woman opens the door. "Are you Suus?" "That's right." "Is Robbie in? We've come to visit." "We?" Bo turns around and calls insistently, "Fred." He slowly appears from behind the caravan. "I'm sorry Suus." She looks perplexed. From inside, a voice says, "Mum, who's there?", and a ginger-haired boy (Robbie) appears. Bo looks at Robbie's tablet and says, "It's an old one." "It's not that old." "What games are you playing?" The two boys go into the house, Bo beckoning Fred to follow. Inside the house, Suus tells Fred he cannot just suddenly turn up after ten years. "What should I say to Robbie?" Fred looks at the two boys happily playing together. Indicating Bo, Suus asks Fred "Is he your child?" "Of course not." Suus approaches the boys with drinks in both hands. Robbie asks his mother if she wants to play cards, but she says cards only bring trouble, so Fred suggests, "Why not build a House of Cards?" As Robbie places the final card, Fred hugs his happy son. Seeing this, Suus is filled with emotion and rushes into the garden, Bo indicating to Fred that he should follow her. "Why did you come?" "Can I borrow your car? - I have to take Bo home." Suus is stunned. "You show up after ten years to borrow my car!?" In the next scene, Fred and Bo are in Suus's car, laughing together as friends, as they proceed along a dual-carriageway. Then the car arrives at the main gate of Bo's luxurious mansion home. Fred is amazed and exclaims: "Wow! Good luck! Go on." Bo asks,"Are you not coming?" "Hello madam! Hello sir! I kidnapped your son. How are you?" Bo says emphatically, "No! Wait," and getting out of the car, runs to the gate and presses the button on the intercom. To Fred: "Wait, wait!" A man's voice can be heard from the intercom. "Who is there?" "Papa!" "Bo??" Bo jumps back into the car and urges Fred on, "Go on, I'll do the talking." Fred tells him to fasten his seat belt. When the car arrives, Bo's father and mother rush out. Bo embraces them. He immediately points to Fred, saying "He saved me." Fred has to go inside with them to a room by the garden terrace. Mother: "How can I thank you, sir?" Bo: "Fred is a real hero." Father: "Absolutely". This is too much for Fred's conscience. "I'm sorry Bo. I'm not a hero. I didn't save your son. I'm one of Bo's kidnappers". Mr Van M. takes out his mobile phone at once. Bo sees it and asks, "What are you doing, papa?" "Calling the police." "Don't do it." "This man kidnapped you, Bo." His mother also starts saying, "He's a criminal; he demanded 4 million euros." Bo argues strongly. "He didn't. Listen to me for once." "He is dangerous." As his father speaks into the phone saying "This is Van Mecklenburg" Bo shouts: "It's always the same! You never listen to me! You put me in a boarding school to get rid of me!" and runs out of the room onto the lawn. Fred follows, calling "Bo!" who stops halfway down the lawn. Fred stands in front of Bo and points to his parents, kneeling in a pleading manner. Bo embraces Fred to the bewilderment of his parents. Bo and Fred sit side by side, one angry, one nervous, opposite the Van Mecklenburgs. Then, a phone call from Olga rings on the father's mobile phone. "Schipol - No. 3 hangar, bring me money in an hour. I'll tell you where your son is. No police, otherwise you'll never see him alive again." Mr Van M. is about to say that Bo is safe when Bo says in a whisper, "That is Olga, the stewardess." Bo wants her punished, but his father says if she is arrested, Fred will be too. He has his hand over the microphone. Here, Fred says, "I don't want to interfere, but I have an idea." Mr Van M. tells Olga, "Okay. I'll be there an hour." Fred: "Okay, do you have two identical bags and a long raincoat? Bo, will you lend me your hat?" Here, the scene changes to the airport, and the driver takes two identical bags from the car bringing them to the father. Next to him is Fred with a raincoat and a Bo's cap. Fred and Mr Van M. each take one bag. In the next scene, the door of the hangar opens and Olga appears, where Mr Van M., waiting inside, asks, "Where is my son?" Olga says, "Where is my money?" "First, I want to see my son." "First, I want to see the money. Bring the bag to the middle." Mr Van M. takes the bag halfway and places it on the floor. "Go back; don't look around." Olga checks the contents and is satisfied and takes the bag to the exit. My father asks, "Where is my son?" "You will receive a text within 2 minutes." The next scene is in the monitoring room inside the airport. Bo and his mother are anxiously watching monitor images from various parts of the airport. Then, Olga with a bag appears at the baggage inspection area. Then Mr Van M. comes in. "Look, papa." They stare at the monitors until they see Olga putting the bag on the belt for checking at the metal detector. At the same time, Fred appears and going to the front puts his bag right beside Olga's, covers them both with the raincoat and switches the bags. He signals to the camera that it is done and the three people who were watching the monitor rejoice. Outside again the three Van M's welcome Fred coming out of the building, Bo leaping into his arms. Fred hands a bag to Mr Van M., who checks the contents and says, "Fantastic. Thank you very much." Bo takes his father aside. "Fred has to return money to Leo. Can you lend it to him?" "What, lend?" "Yes, let him become our driver to repay the money." "But we have Hennie." At that moment, as usual, the driver coughs and spits. "Look at him." Mrs Van M. intervenes, saying he is rude and unpleasant. This settles the matter. Next, she suggests, "Let's all go to the Caribbean." Bo responds, "I have a better idea." Bo's proposal is to snorkel in the lake in the vast grounds of their mansion. Bo and his father are swimming in harmony. Then, as they climb out of the water, they hear a car horn and the Rolls Royce limousine, driven by Fred, pulls Suus's camping trailer alongside the lake. Looking at it, the Van M. family greet him as Fred says, "I've brought some guests," and introduces Suus and Robbie. The six have a great time sitting around a campfire, listening to a story from Fred about fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Later they all play cards together happily in the caravan. Two families reconciled. As the credits roll, Olga's and Leo's "afterwards" are introduced on a small screen. In the case of Olga, enjoying a luxurious holiday in Ibiza, when presented with a bill she opens the "money" bag only to find it filled with playing cards. She rushes along the beach as Leo calls her mobile to tell her that Fred had repaid him in full and with interest, so he could buy his fish shop, and she shrieks "Noooo!!" The last scene shows him outside his new shop.

Middle-aged Fred visits Leo, who is in prison serving time for robbery. Leo says he will be released soon, but don't say anything to Olga (his girlfriend, who passes by Fred as he enters) as he wishes to surprise her. He then asks Fred if the cash he left with him is safe. Fred replies uneasily that it is, making Leo anxious. The scene changes, showing a lavish international boarding school in Austria on the shore of an alpine lake, looking like a palace [Ferienhort on the St Wolfgangsee]. Inside, 9-year-old Bo [12-year-old Teun Stokkel] is waiting patiently in his own room, smartly dressed in the school uniform, sitting on the bed with his suitcase on the floor. As a bell rings, Bo stands up and leaves the room with the suitcase and descends a large curved staircase with other boys. The clock on the wall points to 1 o'clock. At the exit, the principal wishes them all a happy weekend. When the students come out, minibuses are waiting for them and Bo climbs into one. Here, the scene changes back to Fred. In his apartment, he flips over the carpet on the floor, removes screws from the floorboards with an electric drill and from a cavity removes Leo's bag. Inside only EUR5,000 in a bundle of EUR50 notes remains, together with Leo's credit card. As will be seen later, Leo stole EUR100,000 in his last robbery, which he deposited with Fred for safe-keeping, who has lost most of it in gambling. Fred is already upset about what to do when Olga storms in, demanding to know if Leo left his money in Fred's keeping. Despite his denial she searches the flat. When Bo is in KLM's business class, a stewardess comes along to tell him the plane is landing. Olga, in a red uniform, is waiting to escort Bo to the family chauffeur. She inquires, "Bo van Mecklenburg?," apparently meeting him for the first time. As they ride on the moving walkway together, Olga asks, "How do you feel about flying alone?" He tells her he does it every week as he attends an international boarding school. As he goes to the car she looks thoughtful. The chauffeur of the Rolls-Royce Phantom is unfriendly, smokes cigarettes, frequently coughs and, in addition, spits out of the car window, to Bo's disgust. The car arrives at the Van Mecklenburg's palatial mansion on a large estate with lake and swimming pool. Bo runs to greet his father and tries to tell him about school and asks if they can play golf together, but his father is interrupted by a phone call and then rushes off, saying he will be back in an hour. His mother appears when Bo is swimming in the pool and they have a light snack on the patio. She sees Bo looking at the unappetising glass of green juice and says, "Wheatgrass, drink it up." His father returns and says, "You're about to be10 years old. It's an important milestone in your life." "My birthday is next week." He hands Bo a gift-wrapped box; inside is a Breitling Super Ocean [costing over £3,000]. "Wow, it's a diving watch!" "You'll need it right away when you learn to dive in the Caribbean for two weeks." Bo is very pleased. Mr Van M's mobile phone rings again. When Bo asks his mother about the trip, she says, "Mom and dad can't go." Bo cannot suppress a look of disappointment. "My book is being published and dad has a business merger." Bo tries to look happy and looks through a brochure, but when he tries to talk to her, she is on her mobile phone. In the background the chauffeur is also on his mobile. This scene shows Bo's loneliness surrounded by luxury. In a Chinese gambling den Fred bets the last EUR5,000 of Leo's money hoping to be able to repay Leo. However, the opponent is a professional scammer and Fred loses the last of Leo's cash. As he leaves Olga is waiting for him. She accuses him of gambling away Leo's money, but says she has a plan to make all of them rich. At the international boarding school one week later, the students rush to the front door, where the principal says, "Enjoy summer vacation." When Bo arrives at the airport in Salzburg and passes through immigration, Olga is there, driving an electric luggage-cart and she greets him, offering to give him a lift to the boarding gate. Bo happily accepts, but when the cart enters a restricted area Bo begins to be suspicious. The cart stops suddenly and a side door opens, where Fred pushes a cloth covered with chloroform against Bo's face. Next, Bo's father gets a phone call from Olga. "Your son has been kidnapped. Follow the instructions. If you inform the police, the picture you will receive shortly will be the last you see of your son." When Bo regains consciousness, he is seated on a wooden chair inside a small log cabin. Tape covers his mouth and his hands are tied together behind him. Fred is on his mobile phone outside the hut, receiving instructions from Olga as she is arriving at Schiphol Airport. "When he wakes up, take a picture right away, but don't let him see your face. Have you destroyed his phone yet?" "No." "Do it now." When Fred enters the hut, Bo plays unconscious as he searches the boy's pockets for the phone, but examining it Fred says, "That would be a waste" and puts in his own pocket. He then puts on a woollen ski cap and goggles, raises Bo's head and peels off the tape, gently slapping his cheek to wake him up. Fred then puts a Dutch newspaper (De Telegraaf) against Bo's chest and takes a picture with his own mobile phone. Fred tries to go to the table with the newspaper but stumbles over a chair. He puts a hemp bag over Bo's head before removing the goggles that caused him poor visibility. Fred now sits at a table and opens a drink can, but as he goes to drink, Bo, who can see him dimly through the hemp bag, says, "Sir, I'm thirsty." Fred removes the hemp bag and thrusts the can towards the boy. "My hands are tied." Fred tilts Bo's head, holds up the can and slowly pours the contents into his mouth. Then he goes to put the hemp bag on again. Bo asks, "Please stop, I've already seen your face." Stupidly Fred gave him the drink without hiding his own face. Fred realizes his stupidity and curses, but he can't help it now. Twice he instructs Bo to look straight ahead, not at him. All the time Bo has been extremely polite and respectful. Meanwhile, Bo's father says to his wife, "No matter how much it costs, we will get him back," rejecting her plea to tell the police. She complains that he could have attended a local school, not a very expensive boarding-school, but Mr Van M. retorts that she wanted more time for her yoga and "wheatgrass". Then he receives on his phone a photo of Bo tied up in the hut and his wife collapses. In the hut Bo tells Fred he needs to urinate, but Fred is busy with a crossword puzzle. "Full-bloodied (Vol bloed), coming from the Middle East. Seven letters . . . 'terrorist'." However, "terrorist" has 9 characters (in both Dutch and English). Bo suggests "Arabian (Arabier)?. . . It's a thoroughbred horse (volbloed) ." This fits. The next clue is "een paling met puisten" (literally an eel with acne) with 8 letters." Fred has no idea. Bo helps again, "Puberaal? . . . Puber-aal" (Puber translates as "adolescentl" and another word for "paling" is "aal".) Again, it fits perfectly. [The English sub-titles do not attempt to translate the Dutch for the second clue, but have: "sleep-overs with pillows", to which Bo suggests "pyjama parties."] Bo says he really needs to pee, so Fred takes him out of the hut, and says "Hurry up". "But my hands are tied." Fred unties the rope. At that time, Fred's phone receives a phone call from Olga. A minute or two later, seeing Fred occupied and looking the other way, Bo flees up the hill though the alpine meadow as fast as he can go. Fred quickly gives chase, soon overtaking him and drags him back to the hut. "Little jerk" (etterbak). That night, Bo's father receives Olga's demand for a ransom. The price is EUR4 million (about £3.5 million), with 48 hours grace. In the hut, Bo is laid down on a mattress, the rope around his hands is untied and Fred covers him with a duvet. "Comfortable? Go to sleep." Fred sits in a chair, but when Bo asks, "Are you a kidnapper?" Fred doesn't answer as his conscience troubles him. "Do my father and mother know that I am here?" No reply. "I am Bo." "Yes, I'm . . . Heino. Rest." (Taking the name from the baritone singer whose photo is pinned to the wall.) Fred looks more and more uncomfortable. The next morning, when Bo wakes up, Fred is outside on a call to Olga. "Will he pay?" "4 million!" "What?" "4 million, 2 each. You are going to be a millionaire." "When?" "Everyone can't get that big money right away." At that moment, the door of Olga's apartment opens and someone enters. Olga thinking it might be a burglar (or perhaps the police), lifts up a tall vase, hiding until she sees it is Leo. "I was released early for good behaviour. I'm free now." He goes to kiss Olga but she turns away, less than pleased at this interruption to her plans. When Fred loses contact, he hears the sound of a helicopter flying over the mountains. As he enters the hut in a hurry, Bo says, "I think they've found us." "It's impossible." "My phone has GPS." Fred takes Bo's phone from his pocket and throws it into a wood stove, cursing himself, as he did not do what Olga said. Grabbing Bo, he leaves the hut and gets into his (i.e., Leo's) car. Olga tells Leo that she has a great plan to get rich. Leo however is not interested; he says he is going straight from now on and wants to open a fish restaurant with Olga serving customers. This has no appeal to Olga. Leo says he must call Fred right away. Olga is worried by these words. Leo tries to get in touch on his mobile phone, but there is no reply. Olga suggests he may have gone fishing. Leo looks out the window and sees Fred's red van parked there. "Well, why is his van there?" "You told him he could use your car." Olga desperately tries to allay his suspicions, saying "Why didn't you give me the money?" Leo opens the door of a wardrobe revealing masses of shoes and cosmetics, filling every shelf. They use Fred's van to go to Fred's apartment and as Leo forces his way in, Olga speaks on her phone to Fred, telling him Leo is out of prison and presently at his door with a crowbar. He does not know about the kidnapping and Olga tells Fred they will send the boy's finger to the parents if they do not pay up. Fred is distracted by the conversation, nearly hitting a truck on the road. "We agreed not to harm him." Bo looks worried. Olga hears the truck's horn blaring and asks, "Where are you? What's that sound?" "I'm driving." "Why are you driving? You were supposed to stay in the hut." "Then you should have answered the phone. I thought. . ." "You shouldn't think. Just follow my instructions. I'm at risk. I'm a stewardess, so I'm the first to be suspected." "That's your problem." "I intend leaving the country in two days." Leo comes out of the apartment with an empty bag and throws it on the ground. "Everything is gone. Even the credit card. I'll kill him." Olga is exasperated at the turn of events. Fred parks in front of a café along the alpine country road and suggests to Bo they eat. Then he pretends he has a concealed gun under his leather jacket, warning Bo not to try any tricks. As Bo is starting to eat a burger he hears his father's name on a wall-mounted TV. Looking up he sees a report on his father's new business merger. Fred is at slot machine and noticing Bo's serious face looking at the TV, turns to watch as the picture shows Bo swinging a golf club. Fred is now totally panicking and hurries out of the café pulling Bo along behind him. Seeing a police officer checking Leo's car, which is parked in front of a no-parking sign, and thinking it is part of a police investigation into the kidnapping, he abandons the vehicle, taking Bo to a sportswear store. There Bo is transformed from a smart schoolboy into a typical casually dressed youth. When they leave the store, Fred steals a black paint spray can, which he uses to change Bo's hair from blond to black. "Now your mother wouldn't recognise you." This is too much for Bo, who tries in vain to hold back tears and look cheerful. Fred, who looks concerned, takes a dirty handkerchief out of his pocket and wipes off the black dye on Bo's face, before patting him on the arm. They walk to a small rural railway station, go to the ticket window and Fred asks for tickets to Schiphol. The station clerk asks in German if he wants return tickets, which Fred does not understand, so Bo translates for him. The fare for two singles is EUR186. Because he has no cash left, Fred pays with Leo's credit card. As the next train departs 43 minutes later, Fred takes Bo to a café table in front of the station to wait. Then, taking out a pack of playing cards, he shows off a trick by bending the pack and firing them all at once into Bo's serious face. Bo is delighted with this. Meanwhile, in Olga's apartment, Leo calls the card company to report the loss of his card, only to be told that it was used to buy two tickets from Germany for Schiphol. "He is making off with my money!" The train runs through an alpine landscape. Bo and Fred sit on wooden bench seats facing each other with a large table in between. Fred immediately starts a simple card game betting with sweets. Soon Bo has all the confectionery. "You are very smart for a small boy." Bo is in a good mood. "I'm 10 years old tomorrow," and tells him of the planned diving holiday. When Fred suggests his parents can postpone it, Bo agrees, saying he was going to a camp alone anyway. Fred says that's awful. "What - diving?" "No. Diving is great but going by yourself is awful. Bo grimaces and agrees: "Yeah." Fred's phone rings and Olga calls, telling him he was stupid to use Leo's card? "And why did you get on a train?" Fred reports that he saw Bo on TV. Olga tells him it was only because of his father's merger, adding that Leo knows the train he is on. At that moment the conductor bangs the door as he enters the coach checking tickets, making both Bo and Fred jump. Now Leo is seen driving Fred's red van at high speed to the next stop on the line: Maldegem, in Belgium, near the Dutch border. As the train approaches the station Fred spies Leo waiting on the platform. Leo looks through the windows as the train pulls in, then works his way through the carriages as Fred and Bo also run through unwittingly towards him. Fred and Bo are forced to turn around and flee to the end of the train, going into the last carriage - the luggage compartment. "You bastard." "Leo, I can explain everything." "Who is that?" - pointing at Bo, who is looking at Fred in alarm. "Robbie. My son. With Suus. Suus let him spend the weekend with me." Leo demands his money right away, but Fred says he had to move it because of burglaries. Leo grabs Bo and tries to take him away, saying, "Robbie is collateral." Then Fred jumps at Leo and the two begin to fight, ending up with Leo sitting on the prostrate Fred as Bo becomes more and more alarmed. Bo could have escaped, but by then he had become more sympathetic towards Fred, so he pulls a club from a nearby golf bag and swings it, striking the side of Leo's face, leaving him stunned. Just as the train starts moving, Bo helps Fred up. They open the luggage compartment's sliding door and jump off, Bo taking Fred's hand as he counts "1, 2, 3, jump!" As they walk off, Bo pats Fred on the back. Unseen, Fred has dropped his phone and does not hear Olga trying to call him. Fred finds his red van which Leo parked in front of the station and the two get in. With a grin Bo says, "Fred?" (because he now knows that is his name). "Yes". "Your name isn't Heino!" "Yes it is." "You don't have a handgun, either?" Rumbled, Fred gives up and confesses. "If you have that kind of thing, you'll only get into trouble." After running for a while the van breaks down in a country lane with cows grazing in the adjacent fields. The two sit down by the roadside. Bo questions Fred, who is jealous of the cows' easy lives. "Do you have a son?" "No." "Did you steal Leo's money?" Fred denies it, but soon confesses. "Leo left the money of the last robbery with me and I ended up gambling it away. Leo came out of prison early and I was stuck. So Olga planned to abduct you for a ransom." "Is it a lot of money?" "What?" "Leo's money." "100,000." Bo thinks this a trivial sum and Fred says try raising it honestly. Bo criticizes him: "Why then, did you take the money, dumb ass [sukkel]." Fred decides to fix the van, helped by Bo. After a while Fred is satisfied and gets Bo to start the engine. As they drive off, a yellow connecting cable is left on the road. As a result, after a while, the van breaks down completely. Fred pushes a crowbar into a cloth bag and gets out. Bo asks "What are we going to do." "Walk. Come on." The two leave the van and start walking along a grassy path. After discovering the van missing, Leo chases the pair by taxi, discovers the abandoned van, tells the taxi driver he cannot pay the full fare and gets a repair truck to come out. The repair man points out the missing yellow lead as the reason for the failure. Leo compels him to repair the van on the spot with threatening gestures, even though he cannot pay. As Bo and Fred walk along in the rain, an isolated farmhouse comes into view, with no sign of anyone about. Fred manages to open a door which has a loose lock. Fred enters followed by Bo and says, "Look for food in a refrigerator." Watching Bo go into another room, Fred calls Olga from a landline. Bo finds a small storage room, but only a few tins of vegetables. Hearing Fred talking, Bo draws nearer and hears part of his conversation with Olga, saying he would tie up Bow and put tape on his mouth. After ending the call, Fred asks, "Did you find something to eat?" Bo shows him the tin. "Is that all?" "Yup." "Paupers." At that moment, hearing chickens clucking outside, Fred goes out and enters the chicken coop, leaving the door open so they all escape. Fred chases after them, falling over several times, as Bo laughs at his antics. In response to encouraging chants of "Fred, Fred," he somehow secures one bird. Bo rejoices, but as Fred twists the chicken's neck killing it Bo is shocked. In a twilit woodland Fred has roasted the chicken over a bonfire and is eating it alone. When he asks Bo, "Are you going to eat?" he replies, "You're a killer". "What? You don't eat the meat of dead animals?" Fred throws him the tin that he found in the farmhouse saying "Be a vegetarian, with your fat face." Bo relents and decides to eat some chicken. (Meanwhile Leo is driving around looking for Fred in the repaired van.) The surroundings are now completely dark. Fred pokes the campfire saying, "If you do it this way, the air gets in and it burns well" "Do you often camp?" "Oh, since I was a kid. My father died, my mother drank and wanted to put me with foster parents." "Then?" "I ran away." "Does Robbie exist?" "Yes." "Where?" "With his mother." "Suus?" "That's right." He tells Bo that by the time Robbie was one year old, he had lost all his savings in gambling and had lost his dream of having a home and giving his son a delightful childhood. "Suus is a great wife, but she never wants to see me again. Robbie is now eleven." Fred talks about the gifts he wanted to give Robbie. A climbing wall, paint-balling, rafting, etc. However, he has never been able to do more than imagine it. He begins to say "This year . . ." but stops and says, "Go to sleep now." Bo lies on the ground under a vinyl sheet instead of a tent. In the night it rains but Bo snuggles up to Fred, who is sleeping next to him. In the morning Bo awakes to find Fred is nowhere to be seen. Panicking, he runs to and fro calling for him. Fred appears with a drink for him and gives the birthday boy a present - his large folding knife. Bo says "Wow!" When the two come out to the road, a construction material company's light truck has stopped just over the shoulder, and the driver is standing facing the hedge, singing while urinating. They climb unseen into the back of the vehicle. The truck stops at a small village petrol station and the driver gets out to make a purchase. Fred opens the canvas sheet at the back to check the location and sees Leo filling up the tank of Fred's van. Fred's exclamation and Bo saying "Leo?!" attracts Leo's puzzled attention and he walks towards the lorry. Meanwhile, the truck driver comes back with his snack and starts the engine, just as Leo opens the rear covering. "Freddie???" Then the vehicle pulls away, leaving the cover in Leo's hand. Leo returns to the van, starts it and accelerates away, pulling the petrol line with him. For a moment Bo and Fred are pleased to have escaped, until they see the van coming fast towards them. Loaded on the lorry are several 25 kg cement bags. Fred heaves some into the road to try and stop Leo, but he skilfully avoids them. The next time Fred tries to drop one, Bo stops him and taking out the knife Fred gave him, pierces the bag several times so that a cloud of cement dust wafts out reducing visibility. Leo tries the windscreen washer fluid, causing the cement and water to mix and the windshield to become muddy. The lorry drives into a yard but Leo, unable to see clearly, misses it and ploughs into a field full of crops. Bo and Fred laugh uproariously as they successfully escape. The two walk along a wooded path, singing happily. Fred takes Bo to a place like a big factory, which is quite deserted and overgrown. "Where are we going?" "No questions; keep walking." The two climb the metal stairs of a large tank, where, at the top there is a wire-mesh door with a padlock. Fred pulls out a crowbar from his bag and forces the lock. The inside is completely dark when the door is closed. "What's here?" Fred says "Take off your shirt and trousers." Fred switches on the lights to show that they are both now wearing diving kit and standing in front of a huge tank full of water. Holding hands they jump into the water together. Bo is able to practice his first dive without going to the Caribbean. Bo's face, rising from the water, shines with joy. When Fred dries him with a towel and wipes his hair, the dye comes off and he turns back to blond. Bo tells Fred "It was awesome!" Fred feels guilty while looking at the blackened towel. "It's my best birthday ever." But when Bo finishes dressing and looks around, Fred is nowhere to be found. Worried, Bo grabs his jacket and leaves the building, anxiously looking around, but Fred is nowhere in sight. He runs along walkways looking for Fred, climbing to the highest point and shouts desperately, "Fred!!" but there is no sign of him from the top. Disappointed, Bo walks down the stairs quite dejectedly. Returning to the road he spies Fred in the distance. As he does not stop when Bo calls to him, Bo runs at full speed towards him crying. Fred gives up, turns around spreading his arms in welcome. Bo though violently pushes Fred away. Then he hits him shouting. "You are a cowardly prick. What the hell are you doing! First you abandoned Robbie and now you do exactly the same to me. You are just a dick!" He hits and kicks Fred. Fred embraces him and Bo cries in his arms. You can see how much they really like each other - like a father and son. Fred & Bo are seated in a taxi. Bo is worried about Fred and grabs his arm saying: "It's going to be fine. Really." Their position has been totally reversed; Bo is now in charge. The taxi stops in front of a house in a residential street and the driver tells them the fare is EUR187. Fred tells the driver that he has no money, so Bo hands over his new diving watch to the driver saying, "It's worth at least 500 euros." The driver, who knows that its value is actually very much higher, says "Deal!" Bo goes alone to the door of the house and rings the bell. Fred is hiding behind a caravan parked in front of the house. A middle-aged woman opens the door. "Are you Suus?" "That's right." "Is Robbie in? We've come to visit." "We?" Bo turns around and calls insistently, "Fred." He slowly appears from behind the caravan. "I'm sorry Suus." She looks perplexed. From inside, a voice says, "Mum, who's there?", and a ginger-haired boy (Robbie) appears. Bo looks at Robbie's tablet and says, "It's an old one." "It's not that old." "What games are you playing?" The two boys go into the house, Bo beckoning Fred to follow. Inside the house, Suus tells Fred he cannot just suddenly turn up after ten years. "What should I say to Robbie?" Fred looks at the two boys happily playing together. Indicating Bo, Suus asks Fred "Is he your child?" "Of course not." Suus approaches the boys with drinks in both hands. Robbie asks his mother if she wants to play cards, but she says cards only bring trouble, so Fred suggests, "Why not build a House of Cards?" As Robbie places the final card, Fred hugs his happy son. Seeing this, Suus is filled with emotion and rushes into the garden, Bo indicating to Fred that he should follow her. "Why did you come?" "Can I borrow your car? - I have to take Bo home." Suus is stunned. "You show up after ten years to borrow my car!?" In the next scene, Fred and Bo are in Suus's car, laughing together as friends, as they proceed along a dual-carriageway. Then the car arrives at the main gate of Bo's luxurious mansion home. Fred is amazed and exclaims: "Wow! Good luck! Go on." Bo asks,"Are you not coming?" "Hello madam! Hello sir! I kidnapped your son. How are you?" Bo says emphatically, "No! Wait," and getting out of the car, runs to the gate and presses the button on the intercom. To Fred: "Wait, wait!" A man's voice can be heard from the intercom. "Who is there?" "Papa!" "Bo??" Bo jumps back into the car and urges Fred on, "Go on, I'll do the talking." Fred tells him to fasten his seat belt. When the car arrives, Bo's father and mother rush out. Bo embraces them. He immediately points to Fred, saying "He saved me." Fred has to go inside with them to a room by the garden terrace. Mother: "How can I thank you, sir?" Bo: "Fred is a real hero." Father: "Absolutely". This is too much for Fred's conscience. "I'm sorry Bo. I'm not a hero. I didn't save your son. I'm one of Bo's kidnappers". Mr Van M. takes out his mobile phone at once. Bo sees it and asks, "What are you doing, papa?" "Calling the police." "Don't do it." "This man kidnapped you, Bo." His mother also starts saying, "He's a criminal; he demanded 4 million euros." Bo argues strongly. "He didn't. Listen to me for once." "He is dangerous." As his father speaks into the phone saying "This is Van Mecklenburg" Bo shouts: "It's always the same! You never listen to me! You put me in a boarding school to get rid of me!" and runs out of the room onto the lawn. Fred follows, calling "Bo!" who stops halfway down the lawn. Fred stands in front of Bo and points to his parents, kneeling in a pleading manner. Bo embraces Fred to the bewilderment of his parents. Bo and Fred sit side by side, one angry, one nervous, opposite the Van Mecklenburgs. Then, a phone call from Olga rings on the father's mobile phone. "Schipol - No. 3 hangar, bring me money in an hour. I'll tell you where your son is. No police, otherwise you'll never see him alive again." Mr Van M. is about to say that Bo is safe when Bo says in a whisper, "That is Olga, the stewardess." Bo wants her punished, but his father says if she is arrested, Fred will be too. He has his hand over the microphone. Here, Fred says, "I don't want to interfere, but I have an idea." Mr Van M. tells Olga, "Okay. I'll be there an hour." Fred: "Okay, do you have two identical bags and a long raincoat? Bo, will you lend me your hat?" Here, the scene changes to the airport, and the driver takes two identical bags from the car bringing them to the father. Next to him is Fred with a raincoat and a Bo's cap. Fred and Mr Van M. each take one bag. In the next scene, the door of the hangar opens and Olga appears, where Mr Van M., waiting inside, asks, "Where is my son?" Olga says, "Where is my money?" "First, I want to see my son." "First, I want to see the money. Bring the bag to the middle." Mr Van M. takes the bag halfway and places it on the floor. "Go back; don't look around." Olga checks the contents and is satisfied and takes the bag to the exit. My father asks, "Where is my son?" "You will receive a text within 2 minutes." The next scene is in the monitoring room inside the airport. Bo and his mother are anxiously watching monitor images from various parts of the airport. Then, Olga with a bag appears at the baggage inspection area. Then Mr Van M. comes in. "Look, papa." They stare at the monitors until they see Olga putting the bag on the belt for checking at the metal detector. At the same time, Fred appears and going to the front puts his bag right beside Olga's, covers them both with the raincoat and switches the bags. He signals to the camera that it is done and the three people who were watching the monitor rejoice. Outside again the three Van M's welcome Fred coming out of the building, Bo leaping into his arms. Fred hands a bag to Mr Van M., who checks the contents and says, "Fantastic. Thank you very much." Bo takes his father aside. "Fred has to return money to Leo. Can you lend it to him?" "What, lend?" "Yes, let him become our driver to repay the money." "But we have Hennie." At that moment, as usual, the driver coughs and spits. "Look at him." Mrs Van M. intervenes, saying he is rude and unpleasant. This settles the matter. Next, she suggests, "Let's all go to the Caribbean." Bo responds, "I have a better idea." Bo's proposal is to snorkel in the lake in the vast grounds of their mansion. Bo and his father are swimming in harmony. Then, as they climb out of the water, they hear a car horn and the Rolls Royce limousine, driven by Fred, pulls Suus's camping trailer alongside the lake. Looking at it, the Van M. family greet him as Fred says, "I've brought some guests," and introduces Suus and Robbie. The six have a great time sitting around a campfire, listening to a story from Fred about fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Later they all play cards together happily in the caravan. Two families reconciled. As the credits roll, Olga's and Leo's "afterwards" are introduced on a small screen. In the case of Olga, enjoying a luxurious holiday in Ibiza, when presented with a bill she opens the "money" bag only to find it filled with playing cards. She rushes along the beach as Leo calls her mobile to tell her that Fred had repaid him in full and with interest, so he could buy his fish shop, and she shrieks "Noooo!!" The last scene shows him outside his new shop.

Published Time: 2022-12-05 19:53:50