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But the bullies, their ranks augmented by Conny's older brother Jimmy, have other plans for Oskar. Martin, pretending to have switched over to Oskar's side, tells Oskar that the gym teacher wants Oskar to join him for a swim in a bath house. Oskar goes to the bath house and starts doing an aerobics exercise: dancing in the shallow end of the pool to music that the teacher is playing on his cassette player. Jimmy, accompanied by Conny and Andreas, starts a diversionary fire just outside the bath house, while Martin enters the pool area and tells the gym teacher about the fire. The gym teacher rushes out of the pool area to call the fire department; then Martin takes over from the gym teacher as aerobics instructor to keep Oskar in the pool. When Jimmy sees the teacher run by him, he enters the pool area with Conny and Andreas and orders everyone else out. Then he pulls a knife on Oskar. As Conny kicks the cassette player into the pool, Jimmy says: "We're going to hold a contest. If you can stay under the water for three minutes, I'll just nick you. Otherwise I'll poke one of your eyes out."