Encounter at Brandenburg Gate: A Tale of Deception and Survival

CHARACTERS:   Hiro Adachi: Main character, is a Japanese student, studying in England with a study abroad program.

Akiko: Hiro's ex  The Shark / Erik Bjornson: the grandfather Hiro meets on the train to Koln Berlin Karl Meier: A German man in Berlin   Franz Schubert: A bodyguard

-His girlfriend Akiko, broke up with him for having a picture of his dog as a wallpaper. -

-Hiro is from Japan but he is studying in England with a study abroad program and now on his summer holidays he has used an InterRail ticket (ticket to travel anywhere in Europe).

-Hiro met Akiko in the same course in England, they were going to make a trip to the South of Spain and some friends but when he got angry for wanting to take the dog on a trip, everything took a turn and Akiko went with her friends and Hiro to Berlin.

-A man with gray hair and a gray raincoat got on the train with a wide smile and very sharp teeth that reminded him of a shark, Hiro did not give the man a good feeling.

-The train stopped abruptly and caused the shark's phone to fall into Hiro's pocket. It turned out that they had the same mobile a Nokia and inadvertently interchanged it. A message arrived in which he said: ENCOUNTER OF BRANDENBURG GATE 1PM TOMORROW. PICK UP THE EQUIPMENT AND HALF THE FEE.

-Se paró el tren y el Tiburón  acompaño a hiro a la estación. Al llegar Hiro presentió que el Tiburón lo iba a empujar a las vías del tren y reaccionó rápido--> The train stopped and the Shark accompanied Hiro to the station, when Hiro arrived he sensed that the Shark was going to push him to the train tracks and he reacted quickly.

-Hiro imagined that the shark had tried to kill him.

-Hiro arrived at his hotel and the next morning he wanted to go to Prague, Warsaw or Amsterdam.

-Hiro asked Herr Albert where the nearest police station was.

-Hiro spoke to police officers but they didn't believe him.

-Hiro went to the Blandenburg Gate where the shark had been, but it didn't appear.

-Suddenly a black BMW pulled up next to him and they told him they wanted to talk to him.

-He started to think and came to the conclusion that these men were friends of the shark and posing as policemen wanted to know what Hiro had told the police so he would try to escape from there.
-Hiro opened the bathroom door and managed to escape

-Hiro decided to go to the Hotel Adlon

-Hiro spoke to the hotel manager and told him about the murder.

-When Hiro left the hotel, suddenly an old man with a small suitcase entered, it was the Shark

-Hiro entered the hotel from the kitchen side and put on a white jacket

-Hiro pressed button 3 that would take him to the floor where room 319 was located.

- Hiro se encontró con un hombre, que resultaba ser guardaespaldas del señor Schmidt --> Hiro ran into a man, who happened to be Mr. Schmidt's bodyguard

-He told the bodyguard everything and gave Hiro his number

-Apareció el tiburon en la habitación, sujetando un arma--> The shark appeared in the room, holding a gun

-Hiro llamo al guardaspaldas des de su telefono que lo tenia en el bolsillo--> Hiro called the bodyguard from his phone that he had in his pocket

-Mientras Hiro hacía tiempo y le dijo que antes de morirse le enviara un mensaje a su novia, Akiko --> While Hiro did a long time and told him that before he died to send a message to his girlfriend, Akiko

-El tiburon hablo con el guardaespaldas por el telefono de Hiro y le pidió un taxi si no le mataria. --> The shark spoke to the bodyguard on Hiro's phone and asked him for a taxi if he wouldn't kill him.

-De repente hubo una explosión terrible, la luz quedó a ocsuras y una nuve de humo llenó la habitción, era el guardaspaldas. --> Suddenly there was a terrible explosion, the light was dark and a cloud of smoke filled the room, it was the bodyguard.

-Tiburon died 

-El señor schmidt le escribió una carta a Hiro. Shmit le agradeció todo lo que había hecho por él y le dió 10 billetes de 500 euros --> Mr. Schmidt wrote a letter to Hiro. Shmit thanked him for everything he had done for him and gave him ten five hundred euro notes.