All language subtitles for The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) EN

You have to kill
in cold rage,

without feeling,
without hesitation.

(MACHINE GUN FIRING)

ll remember the first time.

I wondered
if you'd remember.

Don't move, Colonel. There's
a .45 leveled at your head.

What are you doing?
Taking off my clothes.

1 didn't think
you'd noticed.

(PIANO PLAYING)

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

Mr. David.
Hello, Warren.

What a pleasure.

Does your father know
you're in Venice?

Not yet. I just flew in
from the States.

He'll be delighted.

If I may say so, sir,
you're looking splendid.

Well, thank you.
IRENE: Not to me.

Dissolute, dissipated
and flagitious.

"Flagitious"?

You think you know
everything. Look it up.

Oh, David.

What brings you here?

Well, my team's playing
in England this Sunday.

How many goals now?

Six.

Hmm. Four more to go and
you'll have achieved the pinnacle.

Nothing will be left.

Better go slow.

How is he?

Marvelous as always.

The most charming man I'll
ever work for or meet or worship.

You haven't given me
a chance.

Really?

Well, I mean a real chance.

You're too frivolous.

He makes wonderful music.
What do you do?

You provide six ponies
with hay.

(DAVID LAUGHS)

Well, I can't speak for the
ponies, but as far as I'm concerned,

I'll give it all up for you.

Go on in. He'll be
angry if I keep you.

Don't go away.

ALEX: David!

How wonderful.

You all know my son, David.

Excuse me,
I see him so seldom.

Tell me,
how are you, my boy?

How do you happen to be in
Europe? How long are you staying?

Well, I'm fine.
I came over for a polo game

and I just thought
I'd stay for a few days.

Perhaps longer.
Now, this should tempt you.

Julius has arranged for a concert
for me in Warsaw in September.

Between then and now,
Prince Ruspoli has invited me

for a rest,
hunting, fishing, enjoy,

at his estate near Cracow.
Come along.

You remember
the Ruspoli estate, don't you?

Of course you do.

Princess Sophie used to
dangle you on her knee.

That was quite a while ago.

I'm afraid so.

Tell me, have you seen Irene?

For a moment, yes.

Now, there's a nice woman.

Oh, she's better
than nice. Interesting.

I was at your concert tonight.

You were? And?

You were stupendous.

Tell me,
how is your work?

Well, I have
a glimmer of a job,

but there's not much call for
construction engineers these days.

Depression, remember?

So much talent everywhere,
wasted.

Yours won't be wasted,
though.

You have ability,
charm...

Well, that's a father talking.

And why not?

But if you can't work,
you play.

And you couldn't do that in
Poland as well as the States.

Now, what about it?

Sophie will be delighted,
Irene will be ecstatic,

and you'll be making one
old piano player very happy.

I'm tempted.

You think it over.
All right.

Now I must
see to my guests.

You'll be staying tonight? Your
room was always ready here.

And in London
or Santa Barbara.

Oh, Irene,
look after him.

Will you come see me later?

I give up. On your terms.

I need you.

For one evening, perhaps.
Well...

Your father needs me
all the time.

That's why I won't leave him
for anything or anybody,

especially now
with a war coming.

There's not going to be
awar.

That's what Munich
was all about.

The moment I met you
and you were so good-looking,

I said to myself,
"He must be dumb.”

Munich will make a war,
not stop it.

That's why you should come
to Poland now.

All right. If don't get the
job I'm after in New York,

I promise I'll come back.

It may be too late.

It seems I'm always too late.

You don't have to be.

Oh?

Then tell me the secret.

It's no secret.

All you have to do
is commit yourself,

as he's done with music.

You just consider me
committed,

to you.

I am talking to you seriously,
and what are you doing?

Taking off my clothes.

1 didn't think
you'd noticed.

Do you mind?

At least close the door.

(DOOR CLOSES)

(BELL RINGING)

(BELL RINGING)

Spaulding?
David Spaulding?

Yeah.

I'm Colonel Edmund Pace, G2.

G2?

Army intelligence.

I'd appreciate
a few words with you.

Well, unless it's a very few,

we'd better wait
till the end of the match.

Well, that'll be fine. Why don't
you make yourself at home?

(BELL RINGING)

It's true
I could use a job,

but what you're suggesting
is hardly what I had in mind.

You sure
you won't join me?

Thanks, I had breakfast this
morning before I left New York.

You got up early.

I really think you ought
to consider our offer.

What you're asking for
is way out of my line.

I mean, I really don't have
the qualifications.

Oh, I don't agree.

You've lived a great portion
of your life in foreign cities,

you're familiar
with the people,

fluent in Spanish and German.

And, in addition,

you have professional
experience in structural engineering.

I'm also the kid who used to
get beat up all the time at school

'cause I couldn't fight my way
out of a paper bag.

There must be others with similar
experience and much more belligerent.

You're a game player.

Intelligence is a game.

Deadly serious,
but still a game.

It's not my game.

It's a lot more exciting
than the Corps of Engineers.

Certainly a lot more
comfortable than getting drafted.

There's no war.

You haven't read the papers
this morning?

No.

Maybe this will
change your mind.

OPERATOR: I have your call
to London, Mr. Spaulding.

Hello? Hello,
this is David Spaulding.

Is there any word from Warsaw?
Anything about my father?

MARK: David, we've been
trying to reach you.

We were sure
you'd already been contacted.

Contacted about what?

I'm sorry, David,
but they were all killed.

Your father, Irene and almost
a hundred others in the hotel.

We tried to phone, but
we couldn't get aline out.

David?

You're finished.

He couldn't risk the shot.

He doesn't know
if any of my men are around.

25M is right.

Rule number one: you
will seldom use a firearm.

Therefore, the element of surprise
must be yours and not the enemy's.

You will have to kill
silently and quickly.

51C, what's your choice
as to preferred methods?

Knife and garrote.

Right. And chain, needle,
rope, fingers and elbows.

This course is modestly titled
"Seizures, Holds and Releases."

One push with my hand
and his neck is broken.

Go! Go! Come on!

Pick it up.
Let's go! Come on!

25M, you're slow
to the kill again.

In that moment where
you hesitate, you're dead.

Get rid of those sportsmanlike
feelings. We're not on the polo field.

He's a friend of mine.

It'll be different
under combat conditions.

Don't count on it.
Take him.

(SCOFFS)

Friend of yours.

Lieutenant, I want you to
kick the Fauntleroy out of 25M.

Sir, one-to-one,
he usually comes out on top.

Then put two or three-to-one
on him.

Those bars look pretty good
on you.

They make me feel
uncomfortable.

You might make it yet.

I'm not sure what I've made.

I suppose
if there were degrees

in advanced
criminal activities,

I'd probably qualify.

We manufactured you on
a high-speed assembly line.

We wanted a machine
that would be cold and hard.

I hope we've succeeded.

You're not sure?

No.

The proof will be
in the field.

Look, if you're not sure,
let me quit.

Drink up.

The real Colonel Pace would
know drinking is forbidden.

The real Colonel Pace taught you
that anyone can be an enemy agent.

Now he's telling you
to drink up.

Well, as long as it's
a direct order.

Well, 25M,

on the fifth day
of the second month,

you go to Madrid
as planned.

You've been given your cover?

Yeah, I'm to be one of the
military attachés at the embassy.

How much time am I gonna spend
at that?

Very little.

You'll be in the field,
establishing your network of agents

and operating as the head
of the underground in Spain.

You've learned
what your duties are.

Endless.

And for the record,
you ran as fast as you could

when there was a chance

that your pretty neck might
get caught in the Army vise.

Well, that sounds logical.

Why shouldn't it?

It's very close
to what you were.

Well, if it doesn't work out,
I may end up that way.

If it doesn't work out,
you'll be dead.

Morning.

Morning.

Breakfast, old chap.

I say,
there's a girl down there.

Yes, there is.

Not bad.

What's she doing out here
all by herself?

She chops down trees.
For what?

She has to eat.
What, trees?

And all by herself?

Her husband
fought for the Loyalists.

When Franco won, they shipped
him off to the Spanish Foreign Legion.

You seem to know
a great deal about her.

That's Anna.

Oh, so that's Anna.

Well, my compliments,
old chap.

But don't you think, in
view of my advancing years

and seniority in the field,

in all fairness, she should
be presented to me?

No.

Can't stand
the competition, eh?

How did you manage it?

Well, it took a great deal
of charm and persuasion.

You know, I get up here
about twice a year.

A couple years went by,

we exchanged a few words,

a lot of glances,

and last fall, one cold,
rainy night, she invited me in.

So that's how
you Yanks do it.

Find a woman who hasn't seen
a man in at least three years.

Amazing.

I'm off.

I've got less than two hours
to make a rendezvous.

Rendezvous?

What rendezvous?

I don't care
what anybody says,

least of all the so-called
German Underground.

You shouldn't make
that kind of contact alone.

I know you don't approve.

"Don't approve"? That's the
understatement of the year.

It's plain bloody stupid.

We've already agreed
it's probably a trap.

According to the Underground,
the two men we're taking out

are probably
the best chemical engineers

in the world,
and we need them.

The risk is too great. You could all
finish up in the hands of the Gestapo.

Those few Germans
who fight Hitler

take the same risks
we do, more.

Seems to me we've got
to respect their wishes.

You'll get
your bloody throat cut.

There's always that.

All right,
but I still don't like it.

I'll have to keep my rendezvous
at Altzibar as promised.

I'll get back
as soon as possible.

Same place, same signals.
Watches.

0540.
Good.

On your own head, be it.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Are you Madrid?

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

We have come, sir,
to put our science

at the disposal
of your people.

Thank you. I realize how
difficult this has been for you.

I'll take over now.
You get back to Base Four.

That's not
my understanding, Madrid.

I'm to stay with you.
My instructions.

From whom?

Those in San Sebastian.

I wasn't told.

(RUNNER SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Contact?

Yeah, the scouts can relax
if they know where we are.

It's a trap.

He says we're to stay close
but out of sight.

We go down for the
scientists tomorrow night.

Usual signals.

Get word to Madrid
he's staying in the hills.

He's a brave one.

He's a lunatic, if you
ask me, but never mind.

(OWL CALL)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

The runner
is Gestapo.

I'll stay with him
as long as I have to.

Maybe he'll lead me
to his friends.

Right. They'll take care of
the scientists. We'll keep close.

Heil Hitler.

Anna's. Get me to Anna's.

Bring him inside.

Well, you Yanks certainly know
how to fight a war.

In bed, serviced by your own
private and very attractive nurse.

I gotta get out of here.

(GASPS IN PAIN)

They're waiting for me
in Ortegal.

You should have thought of that
before you got yourself wounded.

Are you telling me
it was my fault?

Look, every time any of us get
ourselves hurt, it's our own fault.

No margin for error in this
work. I've told you that before.

You weren't there, Geoffrey.

How can you be so sure?

I have a pretty good idea.

I've watched you,
watched you closely.

You're good.
You're very good.

But you're still a bloody
gentleman. War and gentlemen...

You have to kill
in cold rage,

without feeling,
without hesitation.

Well,

I'll see you when I can.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

I shouldn't have let them
bring me here.

The Gestapo could...

Anna.

(SHUSHING)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Your hands.

Very gentle.

It's hard to believe
you also chop down trees.

My husband has the
strongest hands I ever saw,

and his are very gentle.

You haven't heard from him
since I saw you last?

No word about
when he'll be back?

I don't know
if he'll ever come back.

What'll you do?

Stay here and wait.

What else can I do?

Might be less lonely
for you in the city.

This is my home.
I like it here.

I like the forest,
the freedom.

Besides, how would
Paolo know where I was?

You could write.

I don't know how to write.

I'll just wait here.

Do you have a woman
waiting for you?

I missed the chance.

The chance will come again.

She's dead.

Oh, I'm sorry.

You know,

this is the first time we
ever talked about ourselves.

I know.

But you have always known
how I feel.

I must go to work.

Will you be all right?

You're a very kind man,

and very gentle also.

(MOTORCYCLE APPROACHING)

She's not in the house.

Maybe she's
in the woods working.

Quiet.

(AX CHOPPING)

I hear an ax.

But where's Madrid?

So, maybe she can
tell us that. Let's go.

Hurry.

I have seen no one.

Where is the man?
We know he's here.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

ANNA: No!

(SLAPPING)

(MACHINE GUN FIRING)

Gentlemen, as you know,

we have been working on a highly secret
weapon totally new to modern warfare

about which
our enemy knows nothing.

Now, these rockets offer us
an opportunity to win the war.

We have placed millions
into it.

However,

production is grinding
to a halt

because we lack
industrial diamonds.

Now, we want solutions,
not promises.

Herr Altmiiller, my company,
Dietrich Fabriken AG,

is at this very moment
involved in graphite experiments.

We've been working around
the clock for over one month.

We can now actually produce
carbon particles.

Have these particles been subjected
to the pressures of operational tooling?

(SCOFFS)

Of course not.

Thank you, Herr Dietrich.

I appreciate your efforts.

But we don't need efforts.

We need diamonds,
industrial diamonds.

General Leeb,

what are the possibilities of obtaining
the needed carbonado diamonds?

I have taken the liberty

of recommending preliminary
studies to the general staff.

It involves
an expeditionary force

of less than four battalions.
Africa.

ALTMULLER: I question the
logistics of moving battalions

halfway around the world.

Our lines are stretched
too thin already.

Gentlemen,
the situation is desperate.

You will have to find
a non-military solution.

If there were one, we
would already have found it.

But one of you will find it.

You will find
industrial diamonds,

or the Third Reich will make each
one of you personally responsible.

(BOMBS EXPLODING)

Pilots! Pilots,
scramble altitudes.

Bombardiers unload!
Get rid of the damn weight!

Let's reach
maximum height.

PATRICK: Pilot to navigator.
How much further to the hase?

NAVIGATOR: { don't know.
The compass is going haywire.

Aircraft three,
where are we?

PILOT: I don't know, Pat. Our
instruments are on the blink, too.

Lakenheath, number nine
calling. Can you fix us?

MAN: Lakenheath to nine.

Near as we can determine, you're
approaching the Dunbar section.

That's the Scottish border,
Colonel.

Now, what the blazes
are you doing there?

{ don't know.
Are there any fields?

Not for your aircraft,
certainly not for a formation.

{ don't want to hear that.

Give me
emergency instructions.

We're really
quite unprepared.

Listen, I have what's left of
a very chopped-up squadron.

Our instruments
aren't working

and we're almost
out of fuel. Now give!

Put your aircraft down at
sea. We'll do our best, lads.

We're 11 bombers, Lakenheath,
not ducks!

There isn't time,
squadron leader.

After all,
we didn't lead you there.

We'll do our best.

Twelve hours ago, three survivors
were rescued off the Scottish coast.

Three men out of a squadron
of planes. Three.

Those men told us their
guidance systems went crazy.

Now, your bids specified
the gyroscopes worked!

The Meridian Company's
guidance system is operational.

It is not functional,

not at the altitudes called
for in the specifications.

Do you realize that, as
assistant chief of staff for logistics,

I am also responsible?

Now, if you've done
what I think you've done,

it falls under the heading
of treasonable acts,

and we are at war.

Gentlemen,
I'll be in touch.

You heard me.

And General Swanson can
substantiate these charges.

And don't kid yourselves. These
are charges, not complaints.

What charges?

Don't play games with me.

Save that for
the congressional committee,

unless I can come up
with something.

That's going
a little too far.

It's not going
far enough.

You got the Fortress contract because
your projections said you could do the job.

Just a minute. We...

And don't give me
any legal bull.

My firm, Walter Kendall
and Company, me,

I squared those projections.
I know what they implied.

You left the other companies
at the gate.

They wouldn't say
what you said.

You were hungry and you got
the meat. Now you're not delivering.

Only because the new
gyroscopes couldn't be developed.

And also because it saved you
a couple of hundred million.

You should have
primed the pumps.

Instead,
you cut off the water.

We don't pay you for that
kind of judgment, Walter.

You better have
something else.

I do.

You need company.

It will cost you, but you
don't have any choice.

You gotta make deals,
ring in everybody.

Get a hold of Sperry Rand,
GM, Chrysler, Lockheed, Douglas,

Rolls Royce,
if you have to.

Make it a patriotic
crash program.

Cross-reference all your data
and open up everything.

That's crazy.

We'll be giving away fortunes

for something that can't be
bought because it doesn't exist.

But you said it did.

You sold your great
industrial know-how,

and when you couldn't deliver,
you covered up.

Maybe Swanson was right.

You're a menace
to the war effort.

Maybe you should be shot.

We in intelligence,
Herr Altmiiller,

can find no ideological
defectors on the horizon,

certainly none with access
to industrial diamonds,

nor can we bribe or buy
any of them in the world,

since Zurich thinks
we are going to lose the war.

I know all this,
but I fail to see the point.

You will.

You see,
we at Nachrichtendienst

have discovered a panic
as great as yours.

The enemy's panic.

Each side possesses
the other's solutions.

Peenemiinde has developed a
high-altitude regional direction system.

There are business interests
in the United States

who face insurmountable,
insurmountable problems

which can only be solved by
acquisition of high-altitude gyroscopes.

These same interests also have
access to industrial diamonds.

Are you suggesting...

Nachrichtendienst
does not suggest.

We say what is.

This is your information,
General.

It was flown in by courier.

As you can see, General, Nachrichtendienst
reports that the Nazis in Peenemiinde

have obviously developed
a gyroscope

that operates effectively
at high altitudes.

We could make contact
through Zurich.

Zurich?

At the conduit. Unofficial,
of course. Neutral channel.

What's this Nachrichtendienst?

Intelligence unit. Small,
specialized, rarefied.

Often works
outside the government.

It's never been wrong.
Never misleading.

I see.

Well, there's your gyroscope,
General. In Peenemiinde.

All you have to do
is send a man to Zurich.

Somebody wants to sell it.

Well, I have to return to
Berlin and you to New York,

so I suggest
we complete our business.

To review,

the exchange will take place
in Buenos Aires, a neutral city.

The agreed-upon intermediary
will be Erich Rhinemann,

a war profiteer who does business
with both Germany and the US.

A radar blackout
for the harbor of Buenos Aires

will be called for
by the Allied Command

so that the Rhinemann ship carrying
the diamonds can leave the harbor

and meet a German sub at sea.

Now, what we
have to work out...

(DOOR OPENS)

DIETRICH: Ah, Hans.

May I introduce Hans Biintich,
Herr Kendall.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(DIETRICH SPEAKING
IN GERMAN)

Hans is doing some shopping.
Do you need anything?

Nothing I can think of.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Fine boy.

Yeah.

I was talking
about the timing.

When will we get
the diamonds?

Four to six weeks.

...to six weeks? That's impossible.
We need them immediately.

I don't need to remind you,
do I,

that no matter
how much they know,

our respective governments
want no connection

with this operation
traced back to them.

We get no cooperation.

It will take you a few days to
report back to your principals.

Can I expect every
possible effort to be made

to have delivery
within four weeks?

The sooner
we deliver the diamonds,

the sooner we get the
designs for the gyroscope.

We're as interested in as
rapid a transfer as you are.

Yes.

Now a delicate question,
Mr. Kendall, which I must ask.

What guarantee do we have that the
Americans will deliver the diamonds

after they have received
the design?

Because then you would reveal which
Americans were involved in the exchange.

The operable word is treason.

I see.

None of us want to die,
Dietrich. That's your guarantee.

ED: Specifications. A man with a
working knowledge of aircraft engineering,

metallurgical dynamics
and navigation systems.

Capable of sustaining a cover
on the embassy level.

Finally, he must have
experience in swift dispatch.

General, may I know
who is to be killed?

The less you know,
the better.

I wish I didn't know
what I do know.

You disapprove?

Yes.

I find the exchange
disgusting, unpardonable.

I regret
being any part of it.

So do I, Colonel, but I'm being
called on the carpet by my superior.

He's holding me
responsible,

and I'm to cure the situation
any way I can.

This does not have the approval
of the Secretary or the Joint Chiefs?

I don't know. What I do know
is we need the gyroscopes.

Whatever the Nazis need
the industrial diamonds for

may never be operational,
anyway.

Let's hope not.

Is this agent
in turn to be killed?

No.

I have a man
who meets these requirements,

but before I give you his
name, I must ask you a question,

one that'll be asked of me.

Well, I hope
I can give you an answer.

The subject is valuable
where he is, General.

No, that's not strong enough.
He's invaluable, essential.

By removing him, we jeopardize
a very sensitive operation.

So the question
is simply this.

Does this assignment
justify his transfer?

Well, let me put it to you
this way, Colonel.

This assignment
has no priority equal,

with the possible exception
of the Manhattan Project.

Here's your man.

He's one of the best we've
got. Our man in Madrid.

Spaulding. David Spaulding.

If we tell him we're giving the
Germans industrial diamonds

for the gyroscopes,
he won't do it.

Then don't tell him, Colonel.

What code name
do I give this project, sir?

Tortugas.

You should be very proud
of me. I didn't feel a thing.

Well, you may not be such a
nice chap, but you'll live longer.

Nothing,
absolutely nothing.

Don't worry. It'll catch
up on you in due course.

I killed the Nazis
because it's my job.

Now, look, laddie.

I've been in this work
a lot longer than you have.

India, the Middle East, the Far
East, all over the bloody shop.

One day, probably when
you least expect it, you'll...

I don't know.

Sad, unaccountably even.

Tears, perhaps,
something of that nature.

You'll wonder why.

And then you'll remember.

You speaking
from experience?

Did you see Solérzano?

Yes.

But you have new orders. You're to
return to Madrid. You're being transferred.

Why?

No idea, but there's a motorcyclist
waiting to take you to Viscaya.

So this is goodbye. Look, I
don't want to sound maudlin,

but there's something
I've been wanting to tell you,

I've been wanting to tell you
for a very long time,

and that is that you're
clumsy, incompetent, careless.

In fact, of all the chaps I've ever
worked with, you're the bloody worst.

Thanks.

That's why I'll miss you.

Right, on your way.

Okay.

In New York I'm supposed
to say I'm a ruptured duck,

separated from the military
for an indefinite period.

Right.

You couldn't make that real,
could you?

I said your cover would
be simple, not authentic.

Is it counterespionage?

We don't know.
We weren't given any data

except the two men in New York
you're to report to.

Their names
are in the envelope?

No. They're verbal
and to be committed.

Sounds like Ed Pace.
He loves this nonsense.

No, it's above Ed Pace.

I didn't think anyone was.

What are the two names?

The first is Eugene Lyons.
He's an aerophysicist.

Now, we're to tell you he's
a bit strange, but a genius.

Great. The other?

His name is Kendall,
Walter Kendall.

Nothing on him.
He's just a name.

Excuse me, Captain Spaulding. I don't
want to interrupt your social activities,

but we have
a long lap to fly.

Sorry, Major.

Well, you don't have to be. You've
been made lieutenant colonel.

Why don't you tell the Major
here to get his uniform pressed?

Major, go get
your uniform pressed.

Yes, sir.

Well, it seems
I jumped one.

No, not really.

You got your majority
a year ago.

Apparently you don't have
much use for titles.

Sometimes
they come in handy.

Good luck.

Thanks.

I'm telling you, General,
it was a miracle.

Pilot dead,
copilot, crewmen, all dead.

Is he mobile?

Minor sutures, bruises, so
forth. Nothing really important.

Well, I want him out.

He'll be here tomorrow.

I don't want him here. We'll keep
him in New York for a few days.

Now, if he needs rest,
have him check into a hotel.

Someone's gonna
have to see him, sir.

Why?

All the papers we prepared
went up with the plane.

Yes, of course.

And it's possible you might
want to change your mind.

About what?

Sir, the aircraft
was sabotaged.

You told me, Colonel.

Now, we both know that
happens to planes all the time.

Still, you might want to
think about a replacement.

No, you don't have
anybody else as qualified.

You're still gonna have to
consider a replacement, sir.

Next time
he could be taken out.

"Taken out." Why can't
you fellas just say killed?

General Swanson, in my
opinion, he should be replaced now.

Tell me, Colonel,
is he a friend of yours?

He is.

Well, if he's as good
as you say,

he'll be able to take care
of himself, now, won't he?

I'm convinced the sabotage had
nothing to do with you or the new project.

Nevertheless,
if ll were you,

I'd throw a look over my
shoulder every now and then.

And of course I'll set up a
contact for you in Buenos Aires.

Why is it I can't believe this
proposition is as simple as you say?

Why would the Nazis
want to sell us gyroscopes

which will make it possible
for us to wipe out their cities?

No, can't blame this one
on the German government.

We think it's mostly Rhinemann with
an assist from a section of the military

and German industry.

Why would they want to give
us any military advantage?

They're afraid they're losing, want
to fatten up their bank accounts.

You mean for them it's
still business as usual?

You honestly believe
this assignment

is important enough
to take me off my network?

Spaulding, I've been persuaded that
Operation Overlord depends on your success.

Without gyroscopes,
daylight bombing is impossible.

General Eisenhower believes
that without daylight bombing,

the invasion of Europe
is impossible.

I have duplicates here of the
instructions that went up with the plane.

Now, they're detailed. I want
you to study them carefully.

General Swanson is gonna be
your official superior,

but if anything unusual
happens, anything suspicious,

I want you
to contact me directly.

Not Swanson?

I prefer
for you to report to me.

Is there something else
I should know?

Nothing I can tell you.

I hope I don't hear from you,
Spaulding.

You look rotten.

I suggest a little R and R.

Yes, sir.

And, David,

good luck.

When will the suits
be ready?

We'll send them out Tuesday
for you, Mr. Spaulding.

David! David.

(LESLIE LAUGHS)

Leslie! Leslie Jenner,
look at you. Oh, God, David.

What luck to run into
you. You look terrific.

Well, now... It's been five
years. It has. It's been five years.

What have you
been doing?

Well, I've been around and
about. And what have you been...

Listen, can we go have a drink? Wait a
minute, wait a minute. Let's have dinner.

Yes, please.
I'd like that very much.

I'd like that, too.

Well, I'm just about
finished here.

No rush. I don't have anything
to do until 9:00 tomorrow morning.

All right.

Now, tell me, where have you
been and what have you been doing?

Well, I was in Italy. Fifth Army,
34th Division, 112th Battalion.

And you got married.

Well, I guess
you couldn't know.

Roger was shot down over
France sixteen months ago.

I'm sorry.

C'est la guerre, which seems
to have left you rather unscathed.

And I'm very glad.

Come on.

What will we do?

Where are we going?

I'm sharing an apartment
with my aunt.

But I have the keys to Peggy
Webster's apartment in the Village.

She's in California.

Let's go to Peggy Webster's
apartment in the Village.

I hear she's in California.

Taxi!

You want a brandy?

Yeah.

Oh, let's have a fire. There's some
kindling over there in the corner.

Okay.

Hey, you know, we've talked so
much about the old days tonight,

I don't even know
why you're in town.

I was wounded in Italy.

Fooled by
your handsome mug again.

I'm sorry.

No, you're right.

Nothing too serious.

They're separating me,

as long as I get back
into an essential industry.

There seems to be quite
a few of those these days.

How long did you say you
were going to be in town for?

I'm not sure.

A few days at least.

Tomorrow is New Year's. Let's
make this our New Year's Eve.

We had a couple of
pretty good ones.

We sure did.

Maybe we can have
some more.

(GLASSES CLINKING)

Mmm.

Give me that.

Hey, David.

(GASPS IN PAIN)

Forgive me.

I remember the first time.

The boathouse, the floor.

I wondered
if you'd remember.

MAN: I spotted a hotel
detective in the lobby.

This better be
Spaulding's room.

Don't worry, it is.

LESLIE: I missed you.

I probably never stopped
missing you.

DAVID: I don't believe you
for a minute.

I don't mean that I missed
you every day for five years,

or even once a month.

Or even every year.

I just mean I didn't realize
how much I missed you,

how good we were together.

Can I see you tomorrow?

Where shall we meet?

Here.

I can get some groceries.

We can spend New Year's Eve
and New Year's night together.

That's not thinking
too far ahead, is it?

Yeah, that's probably
safe enough.

I learned in the last few
years not to make plans.

I always live
in the present now.

It's funny, because I used to
love dreaming about the future.

Now I don't have
any dreams.

Or maybe I'm afraid
to take a risk.

Must be late.
I'm getting very confessional.

No, it's early.
It's twelve of 1:00.

I do hate a man who
makes love with his watch on.

I'll remember in the future.

There's that word again.

It almost seems possible now,
doesn't it?

Come on, get dressed.
I'll take you home.

No, I wanna stay here,

do some dreaming.

Hey, I have an idea. Instead of
your cooking dinner tomorrow,

(SHUSHING)
why don't we get up and...

I can cook. I'm a good cook.
I learned how.

I'm not the flighty heiress
you used to know, you know.

The family fortune
went bye-bye.

Does make a difference.

I even got a job.

I don't believe it.
Mmm-hmm.

Fortunately I speak and read
excellent Spanish,

good enough Italian and a lot of
French, so I'm very much in demand.

I'll bet you are.

Your mind's in a rut.
Keep it there.

What kind of work?

Government.

Everybody needs an
interpreter. I even travel.

You know,
I was in Italy last month.

Lord, I wish I had known
you were there.

Well, I'm here now, and I
want to take you out to dinner.

It's a waste of our precious
time, but okay. Where?

The old place.

Lafayette Hotel?

8:00.

That's a good idea.

That's a good idea, too.

I have an even better one.

David, your watch.

Where were you
and with whom?

DAVID: I was at dinner
at the Gallery restaurant,

then an apartment in the
Village with Leslie Jenner.

Yeah, who's he?

She.

Oh.

I assume she's attractive. What
else should I know about her?

Light hair, green eyes,
about 5'8", late 20s.

She was married to an Air
Force major, Hawkewood.

He was killed last year.
But I don't think she had...

No, I don't think so either. Just
the same, give me her background.

Well, she's an old friend. I
haven't seen her for a long time.

Ran into her at Rogers Peet.

She's society,
used to be kind of a playgirl.

Does she work?

Yeah, she said
she had to get a job,

that her family lost
all its money.

Some government work.

You know her family?

Fairly well.

What about them?

Anything suspicious? National?
Political? Give me their background.

They lived for a long time
in South America.

Well, that is a coincidence,
isn't it?

It's a big continent, Ed.

She was and is
the most unpolitical girl.

How long
since you've seen her?

Five years.

People change. You have.

I never knew Leslie to keep

two consecutive ideas in
her head at the same time.

Well, you don't have to be a
genius to believe in a cause.

You think she could've
kept you out of here

while it was being searched?

I doubt it. But maybe I'm
not too objective about her.

All right,
I'm gonna check her out.

I'll be back at Fairfax
tomorrow morning.

Till you hear from me,
you be careful of her.

WOMAN: Please. KENDALL:
Oh, come on, baby, come here.

Here, let me help you.

Please.
Come here!

Damn it, come here! Come
on! This isn't very professional.

Stand up!
Leave me...

No!
Come here.

KENDALL: Who the hell is it?

David Spaulding.

Oh. Come in.

Didn't expect you today. It's New
Year's Eve. We closed at 1:00.

I was instructed
to report this morning.

That girl made a mistake
in the bookkeeping.

Didn't want me
to fire her.

Is either Mr. Lyons
or Mr. Kendall here?

I'm Kendall. Lyons won't
be here till January 2.

Shall we skip the small talk?

I'd prefer it.

Fine. Sit down.

As long as you're here, I
may as well fill you in on Lyons.

He's a drunk. Served four
years in jail, in a penitentiary.

He doesn't talk. His throat
got burned out with raw alcohol.

He's also the smartest
oddball in aerophysics.

Can he function?
He's the best.

That doesn't answer
my question.

All he has to do
in Buenos Aires

is go over the blueprints
for the gyroscope

we're getting
from the Germans,

tell you they're okay.

He doesn't have to entertain
a duchess.

It's not that simple.

You're a soldier.
You take orders.

I give them, too.

Okay.

Eugene Lyons wrote the book
on physical aerodynamics.

He was also the youngest
full professor at the university.

Maybe too young.

Bad marriage, lot of debts,
lot of drinking.

The debts did it.
They usually do.

Did what?

He went out of his skull.
A week's bender.

When he woke up
in a south-side Boston hotel,

he had beaten a girl
to death.

Well, nobody was really
too concerned.

She wasn't exactly what
you'd call an upstanding citizen.

But still, he did it.

University got him
a good lawyer.

Unpremeditated murder.

Four years in jail. When he
got out, nobody would hire him.

Wouldn't touch him. He gave
up, joined the skid row bums.

He's all right now?

Well, not really. Like all
drunks, he goes back and forth.

Lockheed's got him in a
garden apartment in California

with male nurses
around the clock.

What happens
when he's on his own?

Well, he doesn't go where there
are people, if you know what I mean.

No, I don't.

I told you, he doesn't talk.

How does he communicate?

Pad and pencil.
Numbers, equations, diagrams.

That's his entire language.

His entire language?

That's right.

So if you were thinking of holding
a conversation with him, forget it.

He hasn't had a conversation
with anybody for 10 years.

(PHONE RINGING)

Yeah.

We have something
on the Jenner girl.

You're not gonna like it.

What is it?

She plays around. Discreet,
but busy. I don't offend you?

You don't offend me.
Is there a G2 pattern?

Negative. No classified
personnel in her bed,

so your instincts about her
were right.

What about the rest of her
story? Work, family, money?

As she told you,
she's assigned to State.

No word as yet
on her next posting.

Her father lost their money
four years ago.

Killed himself.

She didn't say anything
about that.

Apparently
they were very close.

Mother remarried a Goldsmith
in California.

There seems to be
a pattern there.

Mother was wild
in the '20s.

That's it?

That's it.

Well, thanks, Ed.

Oh, think nothing of it.

All you've had is the nerve
center of Allied intelligence

solving the problems
of your sex life.

I promise to reenlist
when this is all over.

Good.

One more thing. I hope you're
dating that same girl tonight.

{ really don't want to go
through this all over again.

You won't have to.

Good.

Happy New Year, Dave.

Happy New Year,
Colonel Spaulding.

What did you say?

I wished you a happy New
Year to welcome you home.

Thank you.

Now, if you don't mind,
I'm already late.

I do mind. Just stand here
talking to me like we're old friends.

There's a .45
leveled at your head.

What is it?

I've heard that the primary
agent in Madrid is very controlled.

I see that my information
is correct.

I'm delivering a message,
that's all.

The bombing of the plane,
unfortunate, regrettable,

the work of zealots.

We can't always control
deep angers. You know that.

Fairfax should know it.

Fairfax will know it, perhaps
by now. Pay attention, Colonel.

There are to be no
negotiations with Franz Altmiiller.

They are finished.

I don't know
what you're talking about.

I don't know any Altmiiller.

Finished!

Montgomery Hotel.

Did you page the dining
room? MAN: Yes, sir.

And you're certain there's no
Mrs. Hawkewood or Leslie Jenner?

Well, perhaps she was there
and left. Very striking, green eyes?

Sorry, sir. There's been
no one here of that...

OPERATOR: I'm sorry to interrupt,
but I have your call to Fairfax.

Put it through.

MAN: Fairfax.

Colonel Edmund Pace, please.

Who's calling Colonel Pace?

Spaulding, Lieutenant Colonel
David Spaulding.

Can I give the Colonel a
message, sir? He's in conference.

No, you may not. You may
and can give me the Colonel.

I'm sorry, sir. If you could
give me your phone number...

Look, soldier, my name is
Spaulding, my clearance is 4-0,

and this is
a 4-0 priority call.

Now, if those numbers
don't mean anything to you,

just ask the knothead
who's on your phone tap.

Now, it's an emergency. Put
me through to Colonel Pace.

This is Colonel Barden,
Colonel Spaulding.

I am also a 4-0, and any 4-0s will
be cleared through this knothead.

Now, I'm in no mood for any rank
horseplay, so what do you want?

I like your directness,
Colonel.

Put me through to Ed. It's
really priority. It concerns Fairfax.

I can't put you through,
Colonel. Ed Pace is dead.

He was shot through the
head about an hour ago.

Some louse killed him
right here in the compound.

One hell of a New Year,
isn't it?

Do you wanna go over
what happened to you?

I don't see the point. I was
stopped. I told you what was said.

Did you get the information on
Geoffrey Moore, the British agent?

1 did.

He was killed somewhere
outside a little town called Valderos

in the Basque Province.
It was an ambush.

I saw him in New York
just a few hours ago.

Well, look-alikes do exist.

I lived with this man
for almost three years.

What do you want,
the body?

This may surprise you, Barden,

but a hand or a finger isn't out of
the question. That's identification.

What the devil's eating you?
This is confirmed.

Check Ed's 4-0 file,

everything connected
to my transfer.

I've already done that, and it
states simply, "Transferred to DW."

No names, just a word.
A single word, "Tortugas.”

What about the papers
you prepared,

the medical record,
the discharge?

Those papers aren't
manufactured without a Fairfax file.

This is the first
I've heard of them,

and there's nothing about them
in Ed Pace's vaults.

There's nothing about
a contact in Buenos Aires?

No, sir.

What happened to the so-called
Fairfax efficiency?

You tell me.

And while you're at it,
what the hell is Tortugas?

If it killed Ed Pace,
I want to know about it.

Come in, Spaulding.

The ambassador in Buenos
Aires, Henderson Granville,

expects you.

Now, as to Rhinemann.

For reasons
that I can't go into,

it's necessary for you to dispose
of Rhinemann. Do you understand?

You want Rhinemann killed?

Yes, once the designs
have been verified.

Before or after
the money's been paid?

After all the arrangements
have been completed.

I'm sorry, General.

I volunteered to fight the Nazis,
and I kill, but I'm not an assassin.

Colonel,

you understand the
importance of this project?

I do, but I don't know why
Rhinemann should be killed.

It's a direct order,
that's why.

Not good enough, General.
Colonel Spaulding...

Are you gonna charge me
with insubordination, General?

Because I'd welcome
a court-martial.

Rhinemann is a despicable
man, untrustworthy.

What he knows is dangerous
to our national security.

Same with Kendall.
Do I kill him?

Kendall poses no threat.
Rhinemann does.

Besides, Colonel, you may find that
killing Rhinemann will be in self-defense.

You'll still be fighting
the enemy, believe me.

Yes, sir.

Now, what does that mean?

It means
I understand your orders.

Understand and obey?

Yes, sir.

Then that's it.

You're on your own, Colonel.
Good luck.

Six, please.

(BELL BUZZES)

This isn't my floor.
My floor's...

You've been to Fairfax. Did
you have a pleasant journey?

(BELL CONTINUES BUZZING)
What do you want?

Does Tortugas mean
the islands off the coast?

I don't know
what you're talking about.

I prefer not to have
to shoot you, but I will.

If it is not the islands,
what is it?

WOMAN: I think it's stuck or something.
Maybe we should call the manager.

Now, you tell me.
What is Tortugas?

What is Tortugas?

Altmiiller.

That pig, Altmiiller.

Tortugas? Where did you
hear that word, Colonel?

Once in Fairfax and twice
from total strangers in New York.

That's the code name
given this operation.

Only a handful of us knew it.

Not anymore, which is the main reason
I'm leaving for Buenos Aires tonight.

If I'm a sitting duck, I'd just
as soon get out of range.

General, who is Altmiiller?

Altmiiller? I don't know. Colonel, I
don't think you should leave tonight.

I might get some answers
in Buenos Aires.

I'm certainly not
getting them here.

And, look, I don't want
Fairfax to know I've gone.

Well, you don't think...
I don't think. I know.

There's a leak
in Fairfax, General.

That's not possible, Colonel.

Tell that to Ed Pace's widow.

I imagine Washington
has outlined my purpose here.

Yes. To discuss
postwar financing.

I can't say I approve.

Not of you.
You have your instructions.

But dealing at all
with Erich Rhinemann...

Unquestionably, he's the
least honorable man I ever met.

I think it's criminal

that his resources make him
acceptable to London and New York.

Well, perhaps "necessary" is
a better word than "acceptable.”

Perhaps.

You must forgive an old man's
obsolete morality.

Now, what can we do for you?
Very little, I understand.

Just have me listed
on the embassy index.

And I'd like to meet
your cryptographer.

I'll have codes to send.

That has an ominous ring.

Routine, sir.
Simple yeses and nos.

Our head cryptographer is
named Ballard. Nice fellow.

You'll meet him directly.
Ask Mr. Ballard to come in.

What else?

Well, I'd like an apartment.

Yes, we know.

My assistant, Mrs. Cameron,
scouted one. She thinks you'll approve.

Bobby Ballard,
David Spaulding.

How do you do?
How do you do?

And I must change and get
along to the Brazilian embassy.

Look in tomorrow if you have any
problems, or speak to Mrs. Cameron.

Thank you, Mr. Ambassador.

Ah.

You are the new financial
wizard, they tell me.

Now, I happen to have about
$500 in my bank account...

Keep it there.

But I was going to buy
some Bulgarian war bonds.

Well, in that case...

Oh, no, no.

No, you are right.
I'm sure you are right.

Now, whatever can I do to
possibly repay you for your advice?

You can tell me
about Mrs. Cameron.

Oh.

War widow.
Grieves all day.

Merry widow by night.

She can be very attractive.

How close to Granville?

Distantly related. That's
how she got the job.

Do you have a copy
of the embassy index?

There you are.
That's our little group.

There are some new arrivals.
They're written on the bottom.

Where's 28?

It's Sunday.

I am really very impressed.

You went after the most
beautiful woman in the embassy

like a pig for truffles.

Excuse the example.

We're old friends.

Oh, pity.

Well, I was hoping to make
a big impression on her.

Have you tried?

Oh, several times.

And?

No soap.

Are you going to have
codes to send?

Yes.

Come along,
I'll show you the radio room.

Drop the rifle. Now.

You are in error.

There have been /adrones
en el barrio.

Thieves
in the neighborhood.

You're not
very convincing.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

You're not
from Buenos Aires.

There are a great many people
in this neighborhood

who are as we,
displaced, sefior.

This is a community
of not native-born.

You weren't watching me?

It was coincidental,
I assure you.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Two habitaciones have been
broken into during the past week.

The police do not help us.

We are extranjeros,
foreigners.

We must protect ourselves.

I'm with
the American embassy.

I must ask you
for identification.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Papers. Your names.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Only a registro, sefior.

We must all have them.
In my cartera. Please.

That's the most extraordinary
thing I've ever heard.

It's disgraceful.

You know, they could've
finished him off.

They could've
thrown him off the roof

instead of throwing him
down the stairs.

They didn't want to kill me.
They had the opportunity.

Question is, what do they
want and who are they?

Yes, Ambassador.

You both can go in now.

Mrs. Hawkewood is here
at my request.

I talked to the doctor.

It's nothing serious, sir.

Mrs. Hawkewood knows
Buenos Aires very well.

Having lived here many years,

she's familiar with the habits
and mores of the people.

And finally, she tells me
that you two are acquainted.

We've known each other
a long time.

Excellent.
She'll be a big help.

Consider her assigned to
you for as long as you need.

Thank you, sir.

You told Ballard here that
the two men who attacked you

were not native to Argentina.

Well, their speech pattern was
definitely not Argentinean.

Oh, you're an expert?

In these matters, yes, I am. I'd
say one is from the south of Spain,

Seville, perhaps,

and the other's from Germany,
somewhere in Bavaria.

German?

Do you ascribe the attack to
embassy concerns, or Allied concerns?

I don't think so.

Who knew about my apartment?

Let me call Mrs. Cameron in.
She's very discreet.

GRANVILLE: Mrs. Cameron,
Mr. Spaulding has a few questions to ask.

Certainly.

In whose name
did you rent my apartment?

Oh, I gave no name.

I implied that one of the
young men at the embassy

wanted a place of his own
for privacy.

Buenos Aires understands
that sort of thing.

The Paris of South America,
you know.

The real estate agent,
is he...

Oh, I assure you, he is
sympathetic to the United States.

Who else knew the address
besides you?

I looked at
three or four places.

Mr. Ballard, Mrs. Hawkewood
and the Ambassador knew.

Thank you, Mrs. Cameron.

I think we should report
the incident to the police,

not that they're going to do
anything about it.

Will it be in the newspapers?

LESLIE: Probably not.

The Colonels don't favor
that kind of publicity.

If we don't report it,
it'll seem as though

we believed it was something
besides a robbery.

Why don't you write it up?

As the full staff isn't here,
I'm sure Mrs. Hawkewood

will be happy
to translate for you.

That's not necessary. I can
write it myself in Spanish.

If you'd like me to take the
dictation, we can get it over with now.

Yeah, I'd like
to get it over with now.

What is it?

I was just thinking
how little I know you.

In what way?

I just never would have imagined
you sitting down, transcribing dictation.

Wait till you read it. You may
not recognize what you said.

There's a comma missing
on line seven after "/adrones.”

You like commas, huh?

Now, there's something
I didn't know about you.

David, can I drive you home?

Yeah.

Good luck, David Spaulding.

The same to you, Leslie Jenner
Hawkewood, whoever you are.

I'm sorry
about New Year's Eve.

Apparently my letter
wasn't very adequate.

What letter?

The note I put in your box
at the hotel.

I didn't get it.

Okay.

Well, then you have the right
to be miffed. You're furious.

Yeah, why shouldn't I be? My
room at the hotel was searched

while you were telling me
how much you loved me.

And you believe that I...
Yeah, I do.

Why? Why me?

Why, indeed.

That letter you left me,

what did it say?

When Roger died,
I promised myself

I wasn't gonna let my life
get blasted away again.

I haven't.

I've known a lot of men
since then

and I've dealt with sex
the way most of them have,

with no thoughts of nesting.

You had me
talking about the future

seven minutes
after we made love.

I don't want that.

I was afraid
that if I saw you,

you'd talk me out of it, so...

I would've tried.

So I wrote you a letter.

And I called State,

and I asked them
to send me as far away

from New York or Washington
or Europe as possible.

I was delighted
when they posted me here.

And then I showed up.

1 didn't think a job in the defense
industry would involve Buenos Aires.

Neither did ll.

I was just trying
to avoid pain.

I can't afford it.

Leslie.

I talk too much.

Oh, you have changed.

What happened to the old
gay, carefree Leslie Jenner?

Gone the way
of Lucky Strike Green.

Will she come back
after the war?

Why? Do you miss her?

Yeah.

I think I'd better go.

Don't.

You didn't listen
to a word I said.

(PHONE RINGING)

Hello?

This is Granville.
I hope I didn't wake you.

Oh, no, sir.
I was just getting up.

Sorry I overslept.

Your friend
was in contact with us.

Friend?

Mr. Walter Kendall.

He wants to see you.
He says it's urgent.

He was on the phone
at 2:30 this morning,

shouting, demanding
to know where you were.

Naturally, we don't
give out that information.

Well, I'm grateful, sir.
Where's he staying?

The Hotel Alvear Palace.

Okay, I'll take care of it
right away. Thank you.

LESLIE: You were sleeping so soundly
I didn't have the heart to wake you.

(LESLIE READING LETTER)

Now, you listen to me.

This is no military operation. You
take orders, you don't give them.

I think
you're misreading me.

Misread you, baloney.

You told Swanson there
was some trouble in New York.

Well, that's your problem,
not ours.

You can't be sure of that.
I am sure.

This is a business proposition.
The deal's been made.

Nobody's trying to stop us.

Hostilities don't cease
because a deal's been made.

The German command
got wind of this,

they'd blow up Buenos Aires.

That's not possible.
You know that?

We know it.

And don't go confusing
that stupid jerk Swanson.

This is strictly
a money-line negotiation.

Now, we could have done it
without you, but Swanson insisted,

so here you are.

I told you about the
two men on the roof.

You told me
they could have been thieves.

They were thieves.

Look, I'm sorry
to disappoint you,

but there's no cloak
and dagger stuff here.

Just get that straight.

When I leave here, I guarantee
someone's gonna follow me.

Jeez, I got a paranoid
on my hands.

Even if what you say is true,
it has nothing to do with this.

Why wouldn't it?
I know something about you.

You spent four years
in Spain.

You think you made
nothing but friends there?

Okay, you've got a point.

A return to sanity.
Thank the Lord.

Okay.

Now, meanwhile,
everything's set.

You've seen Rhinemann?

Yesterday, all day.

And what about
your drunken scientist, Lyons?

Swanson's packing him off at the
end of the week with his nursemaids.

Rhinemann figures the designs
will be in Sunday or Monday.

Then we've moved up.

You estimated three weeks.

Rhinemann's got good control.

I'm impressed with his
methods. Very precise.

Then let's get to the codes.
I've struck up a friendship of sorts

with the embassy
cryptographer.

The what?
The head cryptographer.

He'll send the codes
out to Washington,

the ones we'll use to authorize
the Rhinemann payment.

Yeah, that.

We've decided
to use a scrambler

together with
an original cipher

with code switches
every 12 hours.

Naturally, the prime
keyword will be Tortugas.

Yeah, all right.

I thought if we used
the operational code word

either vertically or
horizontally as a keyword...

What are you talking about?

Tortugas.

Doesn't it
have to be Tortugas?

Why? What's Tortugas?

I thought it was to be part
of the authorization code.

Oh, man. You and Swanson.

All you military geniuses.

If it doesn't sound like Dan Dunn,
secret agent, it's not the real McCoy, huh?

Look, it's simple.

As soon as Lyons tells you
that everything is all right,

you send the coded message
to Washington,

they send the money
to Rhinemann,

and you can take off
for New York.

Now, you got that?

Yeah, I got that.

Good.

(HORNS HONKING)

A Luger, and new.

You're about the most inept
recruit Himmler's turned out.

You must have relatives.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

I don't have the information you
want. I just take orders, that's all.

Start telling me.

What is Tortugas?
Who's Altmiiller?

How did you get hold
of Geoffrey?

You've got five seconds.

Please.

Armaments. Armaments.

Peenemiinde. Altmiiller.

What about Peenemiinde?

They're tooling...

Tortugas.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

Leave Buenos Aires.
Would that solve my problem?

My God, I'm here because
I don't want you killed.

Everything will be
as we planned.

Radio Berlin immediately. I want
Altmiiller to telephone me himself!

They'll call you, or I will.
I'll be here for a while.

...so is the Gestapo.
What?

You figured wrong, Kendall.
Someone is trying to stop you.

I am Erich Rhinemann.

When I'm in bed with you
! feel warm and safe,

I feel like I want to spend
the rest of my life with you.

I mean, what if something
should go wrong, someone's...

There's nothing
to go wrong.

This is Stephen Collins.

Here are some scenes from the first
episode of The Rhinemann Exchange.

Anything about my father?

MARK: I'm sorry, Mr. Spalding,
they were all killed.

NARRATOR: David Spalding becomes an
intelligence agent with a stunning assignment.

Here's your man and he
won't do it if he knows the truth.

Spaulding is ordered
to Buenos Aires,

to obtain plans
for a German gyroscope

vital to an American victory
in World War Il.

He is not told
that, in return,

we will supply the Germans
industrial diamonds

to develop the V2 rocket.

You have to kill
in cold rage,

without feeling,
without hesitation.

The sooner
we deliver the diamonds,

the sooner we get the
designs for the gyroscope.

We're as interested in as
rapid a transfer as you are.

Leslie Jenner,
look at you.

What luck to run into
you. You look terrific.

It's been five years.
It has. It's been five years.

What have you been doing? Well, I've
been around and about. What have you...

Listen, can we go
have a drink?

Wait a minute, wait a
minute. Let's have dinner.

What kind of work?

I'm very much in demand.

I'll bet you are.

Without gyroscopes,
daylight bombing is impossible.

General Eisenhower believes
that without daylight bombing

the invasion of Europe
is impossible.

Where are we going?

I'm sharing an apartment
with my aunt,

but I have the keys to Peggy
Webster's apartment in the Village.

I remember
the first time.

I wondered
if you'd remember.

Yeah.

We have something on the
Jenner girl. You're not gonna like it.

My room at the hotel
was searched

while you were telling me
how much you loved me.

You don't believe
that ll... Yeah, I do.

Why? Why me? Why
would I... Why, indeed?

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

I just take orders,
that's all.

What is Tortugas?

KENDALL: That's right, Lyons will
be here in four days with his nurses.

I got him a place
in the San Telmo district.

A quiet house, quiet apartment.
I wired Swanson the address.

He'll give it to Lyons' keepers
and they'll get him set up,

and they'll get in touch with you.
I thought I was to get him settled.

I figured you'd only
complicate matters.

You and your paranoia.

But no sweat lost.

They'll call you, or I will.
I'll be here for a while.

I'm glad,
because so is the Gestapo.

What?
{ said, so is the Gestapo.

You figured wrong, Kendall.
Someone is trying to stop you.

You're out of your mind.
No, sir. I have proof.

What proof?
Two men followed me.

I caught one of them. I saw
his I.D. card. It was Gestapo.

His friend knocked me out.

Well, it can't be.

Luger, ration cards,
the whole works.

Okay. Okay.
Not over the phone.

I'm in a pay phone.

All right. All right. Tell me
more about it when we meet.

The address for Lyons.
23 Terraza Verdi.

When do I meet Rhinemann?

Someone will contact you.
When?

We'll be in touch!

Kendall?

Kendall!

I tell you, something
weird's going on down here.

Are you sure you haven't
screwed up on the arrangements?

Everything's on schedule.

The diamonds will be in Buenos
Aires the day after tomorrow.

Well, something's gone wrong.

You don't think
Spaulding knows?

He still believes the cover story,
but I don't know for how long.

If he finds out, he'll blow the
whistle on us. I'm sure of it.

There's no way
he can find out.

Now check with me
again tomorrow.

I'll be seeing you tomorrow.
I'm not hanging around here.

It's getting monotonous,
isn't it?

You could at least get
a better brand of booze.

You all right?
Yeah.

I'll get some ice.

Hey, while you're at it,
fix me a drink.

You've had enough.

What happened?

I was robbed.

Granville's gonna insist that
you move into the Embassy.

You know that.

I can't.

You can't keep getting
beaten up every night, either.

And don't tell me again
it was thieves!

Leslie, I was robbed
of everything I had.

They must've poured a
bottle of whiskey over me.

Don't! If you won't tell me
what happened, then don't lie.

Look, a guy doesn't throw
away his wallet and his watch

in order to impress a girl
with the validity of a lie.

Come on, Leslie.

(GROANING)

David, you're in trouble. And
you're going to have to tell somebody.

There's nothing
to tell!

Then why are you getting
beaten up all the time?

Leslie. If I had anything
to tell, I'd tell you.

Now make me a drink.

Don't patronize me.
Can we drop it?

David...
l said drop it!

Sure.

I'm sorry.

Hey, there's a party
tomorrow night.

I was going to say no,

but I think maybe
it's what we need.

Yeah, great idea.

Will you be
up to it?

(CHUCKLES) Sure.

How are the parties
here?

Awful. But it's a lot better
than getting beaten up again.

(CHUCKLES) All right.

If that's my choice,
I'll go.

I almost forgot.

You got a phone call.

Heinrich Stolz.

Stolz?

I don't know him.

You ought to. He's the
Undersecretary at the German Embassy.

I never heard of him.
Must be a mistake.

Yeah.

It's a mistake, all right.
I think you're making it.

What are you
talking about?

Better get a dark suit.

For the party?

To be buried in.

(TANGO MUSIC PLAYING)

Your partner is here, lamb.
Not over there.

I just can't believe
that's Mrs. Cameron.

She only mourns her husband
in the daytime.

Still, a remarkable
metamorphosis.

Only temporary,
I assure you.

At dawn she turns back
into the same mousy little twit.

That's something
I admire about you, Leslie.

Your subtlety.

Why, thank you.
You're welcome.

Mrs. Hawkewood.
Mr. Spaulding. This is Mr. Uribe.

How do you do?

Nice meeting you.
It's a pleasure.

With your permission,
sefior,

may I have the honor,
sefiorita?

Might I have the honor?

Well, considering
your fragile condition,

perhaps you'd like
to sit this one out.

Oh, nothing vital
is damaged.

I can still get around,
sort of.

Shall we?

Does he belong to you?
Does it look that way?

Try me.

You will find I am devoted,
faithful, and obedient.

I already have
a cooker spaniel.

Thank you.
Thank you.

I'm going to
make myself beautiful.

Would you please get me
a glass of champagne?

A pleasure.

Champagne.

Herr Spaulding?

Heinrich Stolz.

I called you the other
evening, but you were out.

I understand you're with
the German Embassy.

I don't have to tell you I find your
contacting me rather distasteful.

You mean, of course,
that the Man from Madrid

would rather kill Germans
than talk to them?

I really don't know
what you're talking about.

That's very strange.

People tell me I speak
English extremely well.

Come, come.

I know the story you
want people to believe

and I also know what you are
really doing in Buenos Aires.

Tell me.
I'd like to know.

I am acquainted
with Herr Kendall.

War makes strange
bedfellows, no?

Sometimes.

Only for moral men.

Every man must decide finally
for himself what is important.

Look, you can skip
the philosophy.

If you want to talk, just
give me a time and a place.

Friends should
exchange ideas.

And we can
become friends.

I don't think so.

On the railroad, about
six kilometers out of town,

you will see a sign,
"Tigre, 16 kilometers."

Take the left-hand road.

After 20 minutes, you
will come to a ruin on a hill.

Time?

Tomorrow, 2:30.

You see? Already our
friendship has begun.

What time is it?

It's quarter to it.

(CHUCKLES)

Ooh! Good for us!

I have to tell you I sure
like being in bed with you.

But not lately.

Then I won't say
you won't turn into a fathead.

You know, for a couple
of hours there,

I think I completely
forgot there was a war.

I'm glad to hear that.

You seem so committed, I
was afraid you'd never forget.

You know,
before the war,

a girl told me to commit
myself to something or someone.

She didn't think
I ever would.

1 didn't know then
what she was talking about.

Who was she?

Irene.

Your father's Irene?

Yeah. She was...

She was killed
when he was...

(GROANS
IN SYMPATHY)

Did you love her?

As much as I was able, I guess.

How about you?
Did you...

Love Roger?
Yeah.

As much as I was able.

This is different.

I'm not the same person
I was then.

What changed you?

Maybe I'm growing up.

How about you?

The war.

Of all the men
who started with me,

only one Englishman
and I survived.

Once, just
before I left,

he said to me,

"Laddie, by all rights
you should be dead.

"You get that straight and you won't
be frightened and you'll never be bored.

"Only people who take
life for granted are bored.

"Whatever happens to you
from now on

"is a gift."

It is.

But you're part
of it.

For the duration
plus six months?

For the duration.

What do you mean, Kendall
checked out? Are you sure?

CLERK: Si, senor. At
10:30, according to the card.

Well, did he leave any other address or
telephone number here in Buenos Aires?

No, senor. { believe he's
gone back to the United States.

There's a flight at midnight.

Midnight.

Thanks.

Excuse me.

Please don't
take offense.

I assure you
I am not armed.

Good.

I am.

You are too cautious.

The colonels don't appreciate belligerents
carrying weapons in their neutral city.

Yeah, I understand
they arrest Americans

a lot faster than
they do you fellows.

And why not?
After all, we trained them.

All you do
is buy their beef.

I bring you a welcome
to Buenos Aires

from Erich Rhinemann.

You?

Yes. I am your contact.

You're an official
of the German Reich.

So some of us
are hedging our bets.

If Dietrich and the other
industrialists can think about the future,

well, so can
Heinrich Stolz.

I am a realist,
Herr Spaulding.

What you mean is that you
have no objection to selling out.

Herr Rhinemann
has a great concern.

Precisely why is the Man from
Madrid here in Buenos Aires?

You told me you knew
precisely why I'm here.

I know
you have the codes.

But why did they
choose you?

To remove you from Madrid
is costly.

I speak both as an enemy
and an objective neutral.

Is there some side issue
of which we are not aware?

If there is, I'm not
aware of it, either.

I want to get
the designs okayed,

send the codes for the
money, and get out of here.

I have an engineering
background,

I suppose Washington believes I'm
the best man to see we're not cheated.

Why are you Americans always
worried about being cheated?

I want the meeting with
Rhinemann immediately.

I won't organize a code
schedule with Washington

until I'm satisfied.

There is no
schedule yet?

Not until
I see Rhinemann.

You will see Rhinemann
after dark,

at his residence.

There will be
one transfer of vehicles.

He must be sure that
you are not seen together.

Do these precautions
disturb you?

Not a bit.

Good.

Stolz.

Why is the Gestapo here
in Buenos Aires?

They're not.

Oh.

Well, there's one man.
He's a clerk.

He is what you Amerikaner say,
a jackass. There is no one else.

Are you sure?

I would be the first one to know,
even before the Ambassador.

I assure you.

You will be contacted.

(BIDDING FAREWELL
IN GERMAN)

(STOLZ INQUIRING
IN GERMAN)

Yeah.

(LIVELY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

(INQUIRING
IN SPANISH)

(RESPONDS
IN SPANISH)

Where did you go
this afternoon?

This afternoon? Oh, a
couple of banker's conferences.

Very dull.

This is quite a place.

Reminds me a little
of Madrid.

Hamburg.

It's like Hamburg,
before Hitler.

What's the matter?

Nothing!
Nothing at all.

Okay.

Some Argentine fascists beat
up a Jewish bookseller last night.

I knew him.

He used to sell me books
when I was a little girl.

Last night...

You remember last night?
In bed?

Yeah, I remember.

It wasn't real.

Yes, it was.

No.

The bookseller
is real.

The war is real.

And Heinrich Stolz
is real.

Stolz?

I saw you talking to him
last night at the party.

You were chatting away like
a couple of fraternity brothers.

I tried to put it out of my
mind for a while, and I did.

I guess I should
have said something.

Stolz was selling
fleet information,

which, of course,
I'm in no position to buy.

I told him to get in touch
with Naval Intelligence.

Strange he should
come to you.

Even Nazis
make mistakes, Leslie.

You're very glib.

What does that mean?

Just that.

Quick, facile.

You must be very good
at your work.

Well, you're in an awful mood.
Does an excess of bourbon bring it on?

Think I'm drunk?

You're not exactly sober.

Well, sometimes
when I need courage,

I drink.

What are you afraid of?

You're not here to talk
to bankers, are you?

I know
you can't tell me.

And in a few weeks
you'll be gone.

If you're still alive.

Leslie, slow down. You're
starting to imagine things.

Am 1? Imagining?
Okay, fine.

Let's pretend that
I'm imagining things.

Why don't you just go
along with it? Indulge me.

Okay.

Let's imagine that
there's this other David

and he's not State
Department. He's an agent.

And as an agent he's called
"High-Risk" something or other,

because the rules count
even less than usual.

Now do you follow me?

Yeah, I follow,
but what's the point?

The point is,

my mythical David

could get killed, or
crippled, or his face shot off.

I imagine that possibility has occurred
to several hundred thousand men by now.

No. No,
it's different.

They have uniforms, and
armies, and some sort of rules.

Even in a plane...

Am I going to have
to lose you, too?

Stop it, Leslie.

Okay, tell me
I talk too much.

You talk too much.

I've thought about it
over and over.

Now, this other David,

if he's an agent,
he's working alone

or with just a few
other people.

He's in a strange country.
He's working alone.

Now do you get
my meaning?

Not really.

Okay.

If that David is in
a strange country,

he can tell the people
he works for anything,

and they have to
believe him.

If I follow you,

then this make-believe man

can send word back to his
superiors that he's having difficulties

and stay in Buenos Aires
for as long as he wants.

He can go home.

Why would you
want that?

To keep you alive.

Maybe I could hide
under your bed.

Don't make fun of me!

David, have you
thought it over?

Is it worth it,
what you're doing?

I mean, what if something
should go wrong?

Someone's gonna have to...
There's nothing to go wrong.

Sefior Spaulding?
Phone call for you.

Yeah, this is David Spaulding.

Heinrich Stolz here.

I've been expecting
your call.

The arrangements have
been made. In 20 minutes,

a silver Rolls-Royce will be
in front of the Villa Rosa.

You know, I'd really
appreciate more notice.

Rhinemann has his precautions.
I want mine.

Unfortunately,
there can be no delays.

20 minutes. Rolls Royce.

Do you have to leave?

Yeah, in a few minutes.

To see Erich Rhinemann?

Was that Stolz?

Hmm?

Oh, I know
you can't tell me.

"A slip of the lip
will sink a ship."

"Keep mum
or you're dumb."

But what precautions
have you taken?

If you don't come back from
Rhinemann's, what do I tell Granville?

Granville knows
I'm seeing Rhinemann.

Oh, yes, on official
business. Right.

And that's why you
have Stolz as a contact,

and why I'm not supposed to
listen to you on the telephone.

And that...
Would you shut up?

Okay. I'll shut up.

But I'm making sense,
and you know it.

I'm in Buenos Aires
to buy designs

for a high-level gyroscope
from some Germans.

And these gyroscope designs, are
they important for us to win the war?

It's very important.

What do the Germans
get in return?

Money.
Money?

The Nazis are willing
to lose the war for money?

Not the Nazis.

Some German industrialists who
think they're gonna lose the war

are covering their bets. I
know it sounds incredible, it's...

It is incredible!

You pretend
to trust me,

then you tell me
half the story.

It is the whole story.

When I'm in bed
with you,

I feel warm and safe.

And God's in his heaven.

I feel like I want to spend
the rest of my life with you.

Then there's
this other side.

And I don't expect that David
to love and trust me.

But I do expect you to know
that I love you.

Or don't you believe that
anymore?

I believe it.

And I've just told you
the truth.

All right, David.

Goodbye.

I'll get you a taxi.
No.

If I never see you again, I want to
remember you as cold and hateful.

Not cold, hateful,
and courteous!

They haven't told him
the truth. I'm sure of it.

He thinks it's for money.

See, he's a decent man,
that's his problem.

No, I'm too close to him
not to be able to read him.

I told you,
he doesn't know!

We'll exchange cars now,
Herr Spaulding.

You wait here,
please.

What's going on?

Come. Herr Rhinemann must not be
kept longer than the precautions require.

Go to the door,
you'll be admitted.

(BIDS FAREWELL
IN GERMAN)

Welcome to Habichtsnest,
Herr Spaulding.

"The Hawk's Lair."

Appropriately if theatrically
named, nicht wahr?

It has been in Herr Rhinemann's
family for over 100 years ago.

Would you come
with me please?

Colonel Spaulding.

I am Erich Rhinemann.

(COMPLIMENTING IN GERMAN)

You are very kind,

but there is no reason why
we should not speak in English.

Yes, it is old and beautiful.

These walls were built
more than 300 years ago,

by the Spanish, of
course. Pizarro's son.

You have an empire too,
I understand.

Nothing lasts forever, lieber
Herr Spaulding. Not even ruins.

50 years is all I ask
for the Rhinemann Empire.

May I offer you a drink?

Thank you, no. I'd like to conclude
our business, get back to Buenos Aires.

Is that necessary? We have many
diversions here at Habichtsnest...

I've had enough diversions
for one evening.

He was being
followed.

If I was followed, you know
who was doing the following.

I have told you,
that is impossible.

This is most disturbing. Who
would want to have you followed?

Can we talk, privately?

There's nothing in our arrangements
that excludes the Botschaftssekretar.

He is one of my most valued
associates in South America.

Nothing must be withheld.

I'm sorry. You won't be informed
unless we can speak alone.

Our American colonel
is perhaps embarrassed.

The Man from Madrid has been
placed under American surveillance.

But you forget that your
industrialist friends in Germany

have stolen the designs.

That would scarcely
infuriate the Americans.

All our arrangements have
been made in complete secrecy.

They have been
totally successful.

I don't like repeating myself.

Especially when I'm buying.

Leave us, Heinrich.

So, we are alone.

Stolz isn't being given straight
information at his Embassy.

That's preposterous! On what
do you base such an opinion?

The Gestapo. The...

Stolz claims there's no active
Gestapo in Buenos Aires.

He's wrong. It's here.

And it's trying
to stop the exchange.

Please clarify.
I want questions answered.

You want...

Forgive me, I'm not
accustomed to conditions.

Please.

I assume the designs
are on their way?

They will be here
tonight.

That's early. Our man won't
be here till day after tomorrow.

Now it is you who are
receiving erroneous information.

The American scientist, Lyons,
will be here tomorrow.

I need 18 hours to get
my codes to Washington.

They have to go by courier
under chemical seal.

Yes, Stolz told me. You were foolish.
The codes should have been sent.

They will be,
upon my safe return.

And the coded message authorizing
payment will be sent when?

Only after Lyons
verifies the designs.

It must be sent immediately upon
your receipt of the final designs.

Lyons will get the
first set tomorrow night.

The rest within 24 hours.

Good. We have a schedule.

Now, let us get back
to this Gestapo business, ja?

That idiot Altmiiller!

In his insane attempts to
absolve his precious Ministry,

to disassociate the High
Command from Buenos Aires,

he's been caught
by his own Gestapo.

There is no Gestapo in
Buenos Aires, Herr Rhinemann.

The Man from Madrid
lies.

I know when a man is lying, Herr
Stolz. Madrid is telling the truth.

He has no reason
to do otherwise.

Altmiiller is either caught
or he's betraying me.

He has no intention of going
through with the exchange.

He will somehow
get the diamonds

and manage to thwart
the Americans.

The diamonds will be authenticated
within the next two days.

The designs will be brought by
courier before the end of this night.

Everything will be
as we planned.

Radio Berlin immediately. I want
Altmiiller to telephone me himself!

Before noon tomorrow!

You say you wish to be driven
to the American Embassy, sefior?

I'm afraid I cannot oblige.

Herr Rhinemann's orders are
to take you to your apartment.

We must not deviate
from instructions.

Hope you never do.

We win wars that way.

The insult is misdirected. I'm completely
indifferent to the outcome of the war.

Sefiores.

How long?

Too long for doubt.

Head up into
the Colinas Rojas.

Take the next turn
to the right.

There are the lights!
They still follow!

There are many side roads. We
can hide in one until they pass.

No, let them close in.

Don't use that! You
don't know who they are.

I know my
responsibilities.

Suppose it's American
surveillance covering me?

It's not.
You don't know that.

Sefiores, hold on.

Touch that gun and I'll
splatter you all over the car.

(DRIVER EXCLAIMING
IN SPANISH) You'll kill us!

You behave stupidly.
They're after you, not us!

I can't be sure
of that.

I don't kill people
on speculation.

Would you kill us, then?
For what purpose?

I don't want anyone killed!
Now take your hand off that gun.

Colonel. If you won't fight,
at least let's get off the road!

Flick your lights
off and on, twice.

Now!

(MACHINE GUN FIRING)

There's your reply!
Use it!

(EXPLOSION)

Had a fight
with my girl.

(REPEATS IN SPANISH)

Yeah, this is
Colonel Spaulding.

Please ring Mrs. Hawkewood.

MAN: Mrs. Hawkewood
left a forwarding number, sir.

Azul one-four-two-six-nine.

What district is that?

It is out of town I believe,
sir, in the Lujan section.

Thank you.

(ADDRESSING OPERATOR
IN SPANISH)

This is David Spaulding.

Let me have Mrs. Hawkewood.

David.

I want to apologize
for last night.

I behaved
very badly.

When I was in the hills
in northern Spain,

I knew a woman,
a peasant woman.

Anna.

Her husband was away with
the Spanish Foreign Legion.

He'd been sent there because
he was on the losing side

in the Civil War.

She'd been alone
for months.

She hardly ever saw
another person.

In the infrequent periods when
I was there, I lived with her.

Anna was killed by the
Gestapo for protecting me.

I was with her
when she died.

And I felt nothing.

Not anger,

SOITow...

Nothing.

That Englishman I worked
with, Geoffrey Moore.

You know him?

Should 1?

He told me that one day,
when I didn't expect it,

that I would deal
with it, feel again.

Perhaps even
weep for her.

I didn't believe him,

but it did happen.

Our first night together
in Buenos Aires,

you gave me back
what I thought I'd lost.

David...

I knew then
that I loved you.

Last night, I was coming
back from Rhinemann's,

a car followed us.

They fired,
and we fired back.

Altogether there were
six men besides me.

I'm the only survivor.

They tried to kill you?
They sure did.

Leave Buenos Aires.
Would that solve my problem?

You take these facts, my mythical
Leslie, and see how they add up.

I went out with you
in New York

and someone went
through my hotel room.

The next night we had a
date at the Lafayette Hotel,

someone intercepted me
about two blocks away.

Someone who knew
where I was going.

Coincidence?
No, you just listen.

I come to Buenos Aires,
and by another coincidence,

who shows up almost
6,000 miles from New York?

Leslie Jenner Hawkewood.

Now, in Buenos Aires only four
people know where my apartment is.

The Ambassador, Mrs.
Cameron, Ballard, and you.

There are men
waiting there for me.

And finally, you're the only one who
knows I got a phone call last night.

My, God, I'm here because
I don't want you killed...

How did you become a Nazi?
I'm not.

Answer me!

You're wrong, David,
you're wrong.

You're wrong.

Tell me about it.

Come on,
Leslie, talk!

Get in the car,
Mrs. Hawkewood.

Don't do it, Colonel, take it out
by the handle with two fingers.

Drop it in the fountain.

(SPLASHING)

All right, kill him.

LESLIE: No!

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(CRASHING)

"Defection to the enemy
while on assignment.

"Order for
the on-site execution

"of Colonel David Spaulding.”

You're one of them!

I haven't changed
sides, David. You have.

(EXPLOSIONS)

STOLZ: Get the dogs!

Leslie, what are you doing?

Stopping you.

I'm going to have
to kill you.

She's on her way
to see you.

STOLZ: Should you decide
not to come,

you will never see
Mrs. Hawkewood again.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

SWANSON: Twelve hours ago, three survivors
were rescued off the Scottish Coast.

Three men out of
a squadron of planes.

Ten thousand B-17 Bombers

are coming off production
lines across the country,

and without high altitude
radio beam gyroscopes

they might as well
stay on the ground.

Gentlemen,
I'll be in touch.

STEPHEN COLLINS:
This is Stephen Collins.

Here are some scenes from previous
episodes of The Rhinemann Exchange.

The exchange will take place
in Buenos Aires, a neutral city.

The agreed-upon intermediary
will be Erich Rhinemann,

a war profiteer who does business
with both Germany and the US.

Can I expect every
possible effort to be made

to have delivery
within four weeks?

The sooner we receive
the diamonds,

the sooner we get the
designs for the gyroscope.

This is David Spaulding.

Is there any word from Warsaw?
Anything about my father?

MARK: I'm sorry, David,
but they were all killed.

NARRATOR: Seeking release
for his private rage,

David Spaulding becomes an intelligence
agent with a stunning assignment.

Here's your man.

And he won't do it
if he knows the truth.

NARRATOR: Spaulding is
ordered to Buenos Aires

to obtain plans
for a German gyroscope

vital to an American victory
in World War Il.

He is not told that in return
we will supply the Germans

industrial diamonds
to develop the V2 rocket.

Leslie Jenner,
look at you!

What luck to run into
you. You look terrific.

Well, now...
It's been five years.

What kind of work?

I'm very much in demand.

DAVID: I'll bet you are.

We have something
on the Jenner girl.

You're not gonna like it.

What is it?

I was just thinking
how little I know you.

As long as you're here, I
may as well fill you in on Lyons.

He doesn't talk. His throat
got burnt out with raw alcohol.

He's also the smartest
oddball in aero physics.

How does he communicate?

Pad and pencil.

He hasn't carried on a conversation
with anybody for 10 years.

As soon as Lyons tells you
that everything is all right,

you send the coded message
to Washington,

they send the money
to Rhinemann.

You don't think
Spaulding knows?

He still believes the cover story,
but I don't know for how long.

I'm in Buenos Aires
to buy designs

for a high-level gyroscope
from some Germans.

The Nazis are willing
to lose the war for money?

Not the Nazis.

Some German industrialists who
think they're gonna lose the war

are covering their bets. I
know it sounds incredible. It's...

It is incredible!

You pretend
to trust me

then you tell me
half the story.

DAVID: It's the whole story.

I am Erich Rhinemann.

Stolz claims there's no active
Gestapo in Buenos Aires.

He's wrong. It's here.

And it's trying
to stop the exchange.

I told you,
he doesn't know!

DAVID: Last night I was
coming back from Rhinemann's,

a car followed us.

They fired,
and we fired back.

Altogether there were
six men besides me.

I'm the only survivor.

You take these facts, my mythical
Leslie, and see how they add up.

I went out with you
in New York

and someone went
through my hotel room.

The next night we had a
date at the Lafayette Hotel,

someone intercepted me
about two blocks away.

Someone who knew
where I was going.

Coincidence?
No, you just listen.

I come to Buenos Aires,
and by another coincidence,

who shows up almost
6,000 miles from New York?

Leslie Jenner Hawkewood.

Now in Buenos Aires, only four
people know where my apartment is.

The Ambassador, Mrs.
Cameron, Ballard, and you.

There were men
waiting there for me.

And finally you're the only one who
knows I got a phone call last night.

My, God, I'm here because
I don't want you killed...

How did you become a Nazi?
I'm not.

Answer me!

You're wrong, David,
you're wrong.

You're wrong.

Tell me about it.

Come on,
Leslie, talk!

MAN: Get in the car,
Mrs. Hawkewood.

Don't do it, Colonel, take it out
by the handle with two fingers.

Drop it in the fountain.

(SPLASHING)

MAN: Kill him.

LESLIE: No!

After 14 months
of working with you,

ll think I deserve
some answers.

With respect, old chap,
I'd say she's right.

Who are you?

My name is Moore,
Geoffrey Moore.

You were his friend.

That's right.

I don't murder
my friends.

It's necessary in
this case. It is not!

I told you.
He doesn't know.

We kept him alive because we were
sure that he knew about the diamonds

and where and how
they would be delivered.

When you told us
he doesn't know...

Yes, obviously then he
can't lead you to them.

Well, I still
don't understand...

If there is no Spaulding

his people will have
to send a replacement.

It will take time.

It's the only way we can
slow down the delivery.

It's not the only way. I
could talk to him. You could.

Once he understands,
he'll do the right thing.

I know.
He's a decent man.

He's a disciplined man.
He'll do the job.

What makes you so sure?

By looking at your face.

Apparently he's in love with
you, but that didn't stop him.

If he believes you're
the enemy, he'll kill you,

just as we'd do.

He may regret it till the
day he dies, but he'll do it.

He thought I betrayed him,
and I did. If I hadn't told you...

It was your job
to tell us.

I volunteered
to save lives.

If Peenemiinde
becomes operational

their rockets will kill
thousands of my countrymen.

Now David's life
simply isn't worth it!

I believe in your cause.
I think I've proved that.

But I'm... There are no buts
in our work, Mrs. Hawkewood.

No buts at all.

Is the Ambassador in?

He's with the colonels.
Back after lunch.

May I help?

The duty officer tells me Mrs.
Hawkewood hasn't returned yet.

When she does, I want her
placed under house arrest.

You have the authority?

Yes. Please use
the utmost discretion.

Only the Ambassador
should know.

Fascinating. I don't think
we've ever done that before.

For your information,

incoming passenger manifest
from Aeroparque.

If Mrs. Hawkewood is
hors de combat, as it were,

perhaps you'd care
to join me this evening.

I have a few friends
coming over.

Well, thanks
but not tonight.

Well, I don't
blame you.

You look as if you could
use a little nursing.

I could call off this evening
and take care of you.

An intriguing suggestion.

I'll be in touch.

What's the key?

It's a bilateral
substitution cipher

with a sample
plaintext worked out.

Is it all right?

I could combine
substitution with transposition.

No, there's no need.

This will be broken, but
not soon enough to matter,

and certainly not
if you send it scrambled.

The matrix has
just enough blanks

and the final nulls will
really confuse things.

Yeah, I like it.

Well, thank you.

You seem to know
a lot about cryptography.

I've always been fascinated
by codes and ciphers.

I made up my own
in prep school.

Cheating in exams, huh?

Writing fervent letters
to a professor's wife.

That's better.

Really, is this
all so classified

that you can't use
an existing code?

Yes.

All right.

I appreciate you telling me
about Rhinemann at all.

Did you want a copy of
this to go to Washington?

Yeah, get it out by
patch right away.

Let them have
one of the key words.

August, but keep Snowfall just
between us for the time being.

Here's the message
I'll be sending later.

Keep it safe. I'll let you
know when to send it.

It does help to know
exactly what I'm doing.

I wish I did.

Dr. Lyons.

We didn't expect you,
Spaulding.

We were told to get the
professor set up ourselves.

We have it all written down
here. Addresses, everything.

You're not here because
you're expecting trouble, are you?

Would it bother you
if ll were?

Maybe.

See, our job is to watch
out for the professor.

See, we're almost
male nurses.

The only difference is
we pack .38s.

And if anything was to happen
to Doc here, we wouldn't like it.

Doc here, has a job
to do in Buenos Aires.

Kendall told you that.

JOHNNY: I don't care
what Kendall says.

That bum can go
take a jump.

He's been giving us nothing
but flak from the beginning.

Twenty-four hours?

That's impossible.

He knows why he's here. You
tell him how important this is.

You tell him. He ain't
deaf. He just don't talk.

You stay till
the job's done.

I'm glad
you survived last night.

Do you have any idea
who did it?

Do we have to
go through that again?

{ have your instructions.

Go to the east side
of the park.

I assume your men will tail
me as soon as I leave here?

Discreetly. To see
if you are being followed.

A car will be waiting.

The same car
you were in last night.

I take the designs
straight to Lyons?

If everything is clear, yes.

I'll leave in five minutes.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(POLICE WHISTLES BLOWING)

Can you reach
Rhinemann on that?

We are in constant contact. Why?

Get him.
Your man was just killed.

Our man?

The one following me. He
was killed in a phone booth.

He wasn't our man,
Colonel. And we shot him.

What?

The man was known to us.
He was a hired killer.

Killer? Out of Rio.
You were his target.

He was a Corsican deported
from Marseilles before the war.

We couldn't take a chance

on the American possessing
the codes. You agree?

I agree the Gestapo
is in Buenos Aires.

Impossible! The Gestapo
could not possibly be involved.

We've learned that from
the highest levels.

Who else could it be?

It's one of your
own countrymen?

My countrymen? How
did you arrive at that?

The purchase of the designs are
being made by one aircraft company.

There are five, siX major
companies in competition

for your
government contracts.

Whoever possesses
the gyroscope designs

will have
a powerful lever.

All other guidance systems
will be obsolete.

It's logical
and typically German.

Ridiculous.

There is no other
possible answer.

The ones trying to stop us
are Americans.

(HONKING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Dr. Lyons,
welcome to Buenos Aires.

The designs
are in sequence.

We have prepared
bilingual keys

attached to each
of the schematics.

It's unnecessary,
the doctor reads German.

Good. Wherever
processes are described,

they have been
translated verbatim

using international counterpart
formulae or symbols or both.

What if he has questions?

There is an aeronautical
physicist from Peenemiinde.

We can contact him
over the car radio.

And of course,
you understand,

no photographs
can be taken.

Are these complete
and how long does he have?

As much time
as our doctor needs.

There is one
last container.

It will be delivered
later when...

Within 24 hours.
We insist on that.

After we receive
confirmation

that the codes have
arrived in Washington.

The codes are in transit.

If you say it,
I believe it.

It would be
pointless to lie.

Naturally you won't
leave Argentina

until we have received word
from Switzerland.

Naturally.

(EXHALES)

(SIGHS)

These are authentic.

He has no questions.

Good.

Colonel,

please explain
to the doctor's companions

that they must be
relieved of their guns.

What'd you say?

They will be returned later.

DAVID: It's all right.
Put them on the table.

Oh, yeah.
Who says it's all right?

DAVID: I do.

Are you nuts?
This guy's a Nazi...

He's a German.
Not a Nazi.

That's baloney. I don't
trust... DAVID: Look!

A lot of people have risked
their lives to bring this thing off.

For different reasons.

You may not like them
any more than I do,

but we can't
louse it up now.

Do as he says.

What do you say, Doc?

Okay.

Okay, I just hope you
know what you're doing.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Now, Doctor,
you've had a rough day.

You need to lie down
and relax.

My guards will see to that
you are not disturbed.

And, Doctor,

it's been a great privilege

meeting such a distinguished
man of science.

We'll put all the notes
and designs in one box.

And lock it.

And give the key to me.

Now that our business
is temporarily concluded

perhaps you will
join me for dinner.

No thanks, Stolz.
I have another engagement.

With the lovely Mrs.
Hawkewood, no doubt.

I defer.

There's a cafe
in the next block.

Stop there,
I'll call the Embassy.

You seem anxious, Colonel.
It can wait. I believe you.

You want me
to spell it out?

Okay.

I don't like you, Stolz.
I don't like Rhinemann.

I'm buying from you but I
don't want to associate with you

or even ride in your car
once our business is over.

Is that clear enough?

Yes. You were clear.

Though somewhat uncivilized.

Just drop me off.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Wait here.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

RECEPTIONIST:
American Embassy.

Connect me with Mr. Ballard
in Communications, please.

(RINGING)

Ballard speaking.

Did you get word
from DC?

All wrapped.
Your codes are cleared.

How's the erector set?

Well, the instructions, three quarters
of them, anyway, are in the box.

But there's something strange
going on around here.

Shall I send you
some help?

I think I'd prefer it.

Maybe a Fleet Marine car to
Lyons' place, 23 Terraza Verde.

But tell them to cruise.
No parades, please.

Okay.

You've got your confirmation,
Washington has the codes.

Deliver the rest of your
goods, I'll send the message,

and you can
enjoy your money.

We will call you
by noon.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(CAR ENGINE ROARING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(MACHINE GUN FIRING)

(TIRES SQUEALING)

LESLIE: David!

Talk!
You're breaking my leg!

I'm gonna break
more than a leg

if you don't start telling me
what you're doing here.

How many others are there? I
saw one of them. How many more?

Did you think
we couldn't find him?

Find who?

Your scientist, Lyons.

Leslie, what are you doing?

Stopping you.

You, Altmiiller, Rhinemann.

The scum in Washington,
the others in Peenemiinde.

It's all over.
Your Tortugas is finished.

What's ha I
\oat ppening?

Leslie. Say it.

Say it!

I'm going to have to
kill you if you don't.

I don't have a choice.
Now don't.

Don't force me.

(GASPING)

Inside.

They're going inside.

Kill the scientist.

Kill Rhinemann's men...

MAN: I warned you, Dr. Lyons.
I'm losing patience with you.

I'll tell you
one more time.

You're dead unless
you give us the designs.

Don't reach for guns.

You, pick up
that chair.

Drop it
and I'll kill you.

Dr. Lyons,
take their guns.

Quickly, please.

You're one of them.

One of who?

I haven't changed
sides, David. You have.

All right, Geoffrey.

I figure we have about 15
minutes till all hell breaks loose.

I have a few questions. You're
going to give me the answers.

Shall I tell him
or will you?

Very well.
These are the facts.

In return for the
gyroscopic designs,

your country is giving
the Nazi government

the industrial diamonds they require
to make their rockets operational.

DAVID: That's insane!

It's the truth.

Who are you?

This is Asher Feld,

Commander of the
Provisional Wing of the Haganah

operating in
the United States.

I told you once how we British trained the
Jewish Brigade in Palestine before the war.

The Haganah is
everywhere, Colonel,

including the outer offices
of the Armaments Ministry.

And in the Luftwaffe.

And at Fairfax.

Therefore
we know the basics.

We know the general
location and the materials.

We don't know the
specific point of exchange.

And that's what we expected
you to tell us.

Leslie?

In New York I explained about
the sabotage in the Azores.

The fact that the Man
from Madrid could turn

and become part
of this obscene exchange

was too much for those
hot-tempered Spanish Jews.

Believe me,

no one was more relieved than we of
the Provisional Wing when you escaped.

Truly.

Well, then quite abruptly
there was no more time.

The diamonds were here
in Buenos Aires.

We had to take
the necessary measures.

Including an attempt
to kill you.

The rest you know.

You're lying.

You're lying!

I'm in Buenos Aires
to buy gyroscopic designs,

to have them authenticated so that pig,
Rhinemann, can be paid in Switzerland.

That's all.

Nothing else.
Nothing else at all.

Not this.

Yes.

This.

I don't believe you.

I think you do.

Leslie Hawkewood told us
you didn't know.

That was a judgment we
found very difficult to accept.

I accept it now.

How is she involved?

Harold Goldsmith
is her uncle.

By marriage, of course.
She's not Jewish.

Goldsmith?

The name probably doesn't
mean anything to you.

Now it does
to thousands of Jews.

He's done more to get our people
out of camps than any man in America.

He created a hurricane.

His niece got
swept up in it.

To the extent
of joining you?

She met dozens,
hundreds perhaps,

of those that
Goldsmith got out.

She heard the stories,
saw the photographs.

That was enough.

She's overly
dramatic perhaps,

but committed, effective.

I can't reject the premise that
Rhinemann bought the designs.

Who from?

Don't be
ridiculous, David.

You must remember
from our days in Madrid

how many times our agents,
even the very best of them,

failed to penetrate
Peenemiinde,

how even the German
Underground have given up trying.

Then it was your men
who were following me?

With Gestapo IDs?

Did you see the number
tattooed on Lev Meyer's arm?

That number and little triangle
tells that he was in Auschwitz.

Of course he's carrying
Gestapo papers.

The Gestapo is
our best cover.

Would the Gestapo have let
you live as long as we have?

Hmm?

With what you know,

and what you believe,

is either side worth it?

(SCOFFS)

On our side are millions of dead
from Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau.

Those are our priorities.

You have the advantage.

It's your choice.
Shoot us if you wish.

You're not Jewish.

Church of England, old bean.

I just don't fancy thousands of
rockets raining down on London.

Germans, they would prolong
the war, negotiated peace perhaps.

Get out of here.

Take a room at the Alvear
under the name of Pace.

E. Pace.
I'll be in touch.

Our weapons?
I'll keep them.

You can afford others.
Don't wait for us outside.

There's an FMF car
cruising for me.

What about Tortugas?

What about the Rhinemann
docks at La Boca?

I don't know. What about the
Rhinemann docks at La Boca?

I'll be in touch.
Now get out of here.

Pick up Leslie.

She's around the corner
in a Jaguar.

Here are the keys.

Take her
to the Embassy.

Yes. You'll
be in touch?

Get out of here.

You and I, we must
deal in priorities.

The Man from Madrid is
an extraordinary man.

But you're gonna
need help.

And when you do,
I have certain allies here.

The designs,
where are they?

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

Come on.

Get in and get us
out of here.

Take it easy, Colonel.

Why don't you paint
bull's eyes all over this car?

You wouldn't be any more
of a target than you are now.

What's going on?
Who are you?

Colonel Daniel Meehan, Fleet
Marine Force, Naval Intelligence.

Well, you have no control over
this exercise. Get us to the Embassy.

Do you have any idea what's
going on in our section of town?

And I wouldn't be here except
your name was mentioned

by that smart-nosed
cryptographer.

Plus a 4-0 intercept
from Fairfax.

What's going on in
your section of town?

Your friend cleared?
He is now.

All right, five hours ago
we got a blue alert.

Prepare for
a radio-radar blackout.

All sea and aircraft
to hold, too. No movement.

We've got three cruisers,
a couple of destroyers

and a carrier
sitting out there.

They've immobilized
all planes and ships.

Now what's coming in here?
The whole general staff?

Roosevelt? Churchill?

And who are we?
The enemy?

It's not what's
coming in, Colonel.

It's what's going out.

What's the time
of the activation?

Anytime within the next
48 hours.

How's that
for a tight schedule?

Oh.

Here's your scrambler
from Fairfax.

MAN ON RADIO: Redbird.

Redbird acknowledge.

The Spaulding intercept.

Orders changed.

Pick him up
and bring him in.

Four-zero orders
from Fairfax.

Right.

No Embassy tonight, Colonel.

I'm afraid I can't accept
those orders, Colonel Meehan.

What the hell
do you think you're...

Tell your man
to drive where I say.

I don't want to kill you,
Colonel, but I will.

It's a matter of priorities.

You're a double agent.
That's what Fairfax was onto.

I wish it were that simple.

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

You're a dead man,
Spaulding.

You got a firing squad
on your duty sheet.

Plus you're stupid.

Your friends, the Nazis,
aren't going to win this war.

If you like, you can start
inching your way west.

Your driver's a mile
or so down the road.

I'm sorry you have to
go through all this.

I'll get you back to the
Embassy. You'll be safe there.

I stay with you.

Together.

All right.

God knows I need
all the help I can get.

I seem to be caught between
Berlin and Washington.

DAVID: I don't want
any interruptions, Stolz.

There's a mess
in the Terraza Verde,

if you don't
know it by now.

Your men are dead
and so are mine.

Now I've got
the designs and Lyons.

Your non-existent Gestapo are
carrying out a number of executions.

Impossible!

Why don't you go
take a look for yourself?

And while you
clear up that mess

I want the rest
of the designs.

Wait for my call.

They've been calling.

Good. They're anxious.
They'll listen hard.

Redbird to base.
Redbird to base.

MAN: Redbird, we've been trying
to raise you for almost two hours.

Where are you?

Redbird. Didn't you get
our last transmission?

Transmission? Man, I
can hardly hear this one.

Hold on.
Let me get the CO.

No. Forget it. No sweat.

You're fading here again.

Look, we're on Spaulding.

We're following him,
he's in a vehicle

27, 28 miles north of...

Redbird. Redbird.

Oh, brother,
this frequency's puke!

Twenty-eight miles
north where?

I'm not reading you.

Redbird, acknowledge!

Bird acknowledge.
Repeat. No problems.

Will return to base
in approximately...

(STARTING ENGINE)

Colonel Spaulding
wishes to enter.

He asks that the
Ambassador be alerted,

also Chief Cryptographer,
Ballard.

Also Mrs. Leslie Hawkewood.

Yes, sir.

You can go.

Spaulding!

I'd like Dr. Lyons
to join us.

I'm afraid not.

I told Mrs. Cameron
to ask you

to place Mrs. Hawkewood
under house arrest.

I made a mistake.

After carefully rechecking, I am positive
Mrs. Hawkewood is completely reliable.

Well, I'm happy
to hear that.

But I assume
you didn't come here

at 3:00 in the morning
to clear Mrs. Hawkewood.

No, sir.

Would it be possible
for you to arrange

for the Argentine police to meet
me at the Rhinemann yacht harbor?

I can promise them
a valuable contraband cargo.

Contraband in BA is about
as unique as the daily mail.

This cargo's
a little different.

I don't like to involve the
Embassy in this type of enterprise.

Are you absolutely certain
it's essential?

Yes, sir.

(INTERCOM BUZZES)

Mrs. Cameron is here.

Give her the details.

(DOOR OPENING)

Mr. Spaulding has some
business that requires our help.

Take care of it
for him.

Certainly, Ambassador.
Good night.

Good night.
Good night, sir.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Mrs. Hawkewood and
Mr. Ballard are waiting to see you.

In a moment.

I need some police or special
service to examine a Rhinemann ship.

Would you ask them to meet me at the
entrance to the Rhinemann yacht harbor?

Yacht harbor?

I don't think I have a night
number for Captain Hernandez.

I think
he's our best bet.

But I'm sure
ll can rouse him.

Would you?

David?

You look very tired.

Thanks, I'll be all right.

It's useless to say
I'm sorry.

No apology would be adequate.

I misunderstood completely.

And I underestimated you.

We're on the same side now.

I'm glad.

Leslie, I need your help.
I really need it.

If I were back
in the Spanish hills,

I'd find a cave
so I could rest,

clear out my head and continue
to function in some kind of safety.

I need a place like that now.

Who's after you?

US Marines

and Rhinemann.

Not the Haganah.

If not for me,
do it for our mutual interest.

I'll find something.

Ballard's waiting.

Don't go.

Come in, Bob.

Are you all right?
Yeah.

The FMF car was too late.

I kept phoning,
they kept avoiding.

I think their car's lost.

Not really,
I've got it.

What? Look, I don't
have time to explain.

There's an intercept order
out for me from Fairfax.

The Embassy's not
supposed to know.

It's a setup. I can't let them
take me. Not for a while.

We cannot mess
with Fairfax.

You can this time.
Leslie knows.

David's telling the truth.

I just need time. For God's
sake, Bobby, trust me.

(EXHALES)

I don't know.

Maybe it is because I
am tired of twisting dials.

Maybe it's because I want some
excitement before this war is over.

Like getting put
in jail for treason.

I scarcely know you,
Spaulding,

but I like you.

And as for you,
Mrs. Hawkewood,

you're the very first beautiful
woman I have ever trusted.

(SIGHS) I hope I am not
going to regret this.

Thank you, both.

David.

Be careful.

Wish me luck.

If we can find the
shipment for Peenemiinde,

our friend Asher Feld
will take it from there.

(FOG HORNS BLOWING)

Sefior Spaulding?

Lieutenant Fuentes.
I am at your disposal.

Where are your men?

No need to
bring an army.

I'm not going to invade
this yacht basin.

Have you got
a search warrant?

You are attached
to the American Embassy.

Other than that,
you are unknown.

Herr Rhinemann,
on the other hand,

is a prominent member
of our community.

I must be sure
before I move.

I see.

You're going to ask politely
if there is contraband.

When they answer politely,
"No," what happens then?

No need to be uncivil.

Why is a trawler loading at a yacht basin?
Rhinemann has his own commercial docks.

Perhaps they were filled up.

I'm going on that ship
with or without you.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

It's a gash,
not a puncture.

The sulfa will hold
until we get to a doctor.

We're still on,
we need help.

Yeah.

DAVID: Leslie.
I found a place.

Good, I can really use it now.

Tell me, is Mrs. Cameron
around?

She's still in bed.
I'll go get her.

No, don't. She works for Rhinemann
or the Nazis. Maybe the Junta.

Will you tell Granville?

Certainly, but will
he believe me?

My credibility isn't
too high around here

since I was placed
under house arrest.

Tell him the Argentine police
I requested from Mrs. Cameron

turned out to be
Rhinemann's men.

But why would Mrs.
Cameron... { don't know.

Either she's been bought or
she's in sympathy with the enemy.

David, you sound strange.
Are you hurt?

Yeah. How do I get out
to this place you found us?

Okay, listen carefully.

Drive due west on Rivadavia
to the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

You'll find a road bearing to the
right, with a statue of the Madonna.

This road leads to an
estancia of Alfonso Quessarro.

He will not be at home but
his staff will be expecting you.

What are your plans?

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Feel sharp enough
so I can think.

Get the rest of the
designs from Rhinemann,

and stop the transfer
of the diamonds.

How?

That's why I have
to be able to think.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

He was warning us. He says
the telephones have operators

and sometimes they listen.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GROANS)

You've slept for
nearly eight hours.

That is the best prescription
one could give you.

I'm not going to suture the
wound, the tape will be sufficient.

There'll be a degree
of discomfort,

but with the tape
you should be quite mobile.

You shouldn't have
called a doctor!

He didn't, sefior. Leslie
Hawkewood asked me to come.

She is a very
special person.

And when she asks,
that is sufficient.

I left word that I was on a
maternity case at a distant ranch.

Now, one minute and
I will be finished.

There.

Do you think you
will be questioned?

No. Not actually.

I'm afraid I can't pay.

You already have,
Colonel. I'm a Jew.

Thank you for coming.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(CLEARS THROAT)

Will you call Rhinemann?

DAVID: Rhinemann?

The remaining blueprints.

I don't know.

I've just been thinking.

Pace, Swanson,
Kendall, all of them,

they hung me out to dry.

Well, I'm out and
I'm gonna stay out.

LYONS: No, no, you can't.

The hell, I can't. The
deal's rotten and you know it!

The pilots...
You'll be killing them!

What?

The Americans,
they're not responsible.

And what if the Germans
get the diamonds?

You said you'd stop
them! I can't stop them.

You can! Try!
You must try!

David?

You know,

I liked you better
when you couldn't talk.

(PHONE RINGING)

Hello?

Yes, this is
Mrs. Hawkewood.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Mrs. Hawkewood?

The doctor's nurse.
David wants me.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(PHONE RINGING)

Yes?

Ballard.

What is it, Bobby?

I hope you're clean.

I am going on the assumption
that a reasonable guy does not

court-martial himself
for a couple of bucks.

A reasonable assumption.

David,

Washington is preparing
a top-level directive,

but it has nothing
to do with you.

Are you talking about the
radio and radar blackout?

It's a German high
command defection.

Allied central project direct
from the War Department.

I'll bet it's from the War Department
and I can tell you what office.

There's a U-Boat bringing in a
couple of very important Berliners.

You are out of order,
it is not your action.

Horse...

You ask any network
agent in Europe.

You couldn't get a brief
marker out of any German port.

Certainly not
a U-Boat with defectors.

That sub's coming in
for the diamonds.

Leslie said you were hurt.

It's all right.
How's Leslie?

Well... Fine.

Scared, nervous, I guess.
You'll see.

Tell her not to worry.

Tell her yourself.

Isn't she there with you?

No, she's on her way
to see you.

What?

The nurse.

The doctor's nurse. She called
about an hour ago. She said...

What is going on,
Spaulding?

David?

David?

(BOTH SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(PHONE RINGING)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

OPERATOR: I have your call
to Buenos Aires, sir.

STOLZ: Heinrich Stoiz here.

Hello, Stolz?

Surely, you expected
countermeasures.

Where is she?

She will be the guest
of Herr Rhinemann.

Call the moves.

I'm glad we understand
each other.

You and your aerophysicist
will go to Habichtsnest at once.

The remaining plans for
the gyroscope will be there.

Two conditions. One, I see Mrs.
Hawkewood the minute I get there.

Two, I don't send the codes,
if they're to be sent,

until she's back
at the Embassy with Lyons.

We will discuss
these points later.

However, should you
decide not to come,

you will never see
Mrs. Hawkewood again.

An accident.

You understand?

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

He says it's beginning to look
like any of the cars on the pampas.

(RATTLING)

(DOGS BARKING)

Herr Rhinemann will
want to see that.

Looks like I've put you
behind the eight ball.

Not to blame yourself, Mrs.
Hawkewood, for being a woman.

Permitting your emotions
to carry you away.

Thank you, Herr Stolz, for
making me feel so much better.

But also, give us some
credit, Mrs. Hawkewood.

The Third Reich has
extraordinarily thorough surveillance.

We knew you were friendly
with the Jewish doctor

and that the Colonel
was wounded.

So, we put
one and one together.

Let's get on
with the work.

By all means.
Doctor.

She's lovely.
You're lucky.

I have a telephone
call to make.

I expected you would.

We have no stomach for an
Embassy kidnapping. It serves no one.

It got me here.

Your conversation will
be amplified, of course.

Of course.

RECEPTIONIST:
American Embassy.

Radio room, please.

(PHONE RINGING)

Radio room.

(VOICE AMPLIFIED) This is Lieutenant
Colonel Spaulding, military attaché.

Yes, sir, Colonel Spaulding?

I issued a directive of inquiry prior
to my conference this afternoon.

You may void it now.

BALLARD: Yes, sir.
Very well, sir.

DAVID: Let me speak to Mr. Ballard,
the head cryptographer, please.

This is Ballard, sir.

Oh, 1 didn't recognize
your voice.

Am I on a loudspeaker, sir?

Yes, you are.

I want you to be ready
to encipher the message

which is in an envelop
I've placed in your safe.

One moment, sir.

I have it, sir.

When [ give the order,
{f want the message enciphered

and translated immediately
on a Black Drape priority.

Yes, sir.

What, sir?

My authorization is Black
Drape, Ballard. It's in the lex.

So clear all
scrambler channels.

You'll get no flak
with that priority.

I'll call you back.

Very well, sir.

Black Drape.

What the hell is that?

BALLARD: "The Black Drape
is an entrapment device.

"It is hazardous because
it cannot be repeated.

"It is a signal to
proceed with a code,

"activating a given set of
arrangements with intent to terminate,

“canceling said
arrangements.

"“The termination factor is expressed
in minutes specifically numbered.

"Example, 90, allow peace mission to
proceed through our emplacements. Ninety.

"Black Drape means that 90 minutes
later the peace mission will be destroyed,

“after they have been
allowed to proceed.

"As a practice, the Black
Drape was abandoned in 1917."

Where are you going?

For a walk.

We prefer you stay close.

Mrs. Cameron
was arrested

according to
your instructions.

Granville didn't lift
a finger to help her.

Good.

You still trust me.

Stolz.

For some reason Herr Spaulding
continues to frighten you, yeah?

He is a principled man.

I have found
such men dangerous.

I'm tired of talking and
worrying about Herr Spaulding.

Something pleasant
for a change.

Mrs. Hawkewood...

She's beautiful, yeah?

Yes, beautiful.

But silent.

She knows she's not
going to see him again, ever.

What can she say?

Goodbye?

Correct.

Yes, she is attractive.

She reminds me of a mistress
I once had in Ceylon.

Were you ever married,
Herr Rhinemann?

Long ago, when I was
an ordinary man.

(LAUGHS) Herr Rhinemann,
you were never ordinary.

Well, let us say
that I'm satisfied.

Stolz, let me ask you
a hypothetical question.

I want you to answer as a man
and not as a diplomat.

Assuming that Mrs. Hawkewood
had to choose one of us,

which one would it be?

You are younger,
better looking.

Yeah, yeah.

She would still
choose me.

Ninety women out of a
hundred would choose me.

Do you know why?

You are Erich Rhinemann.

Correct. I have power. I can
destroy the lives of men and women.

But power implies
cruelty also,

so I am tender with women.

This gives them the belief that I
have a special feeling for them.

Wonderful.

But how can you be sure?

Of what?

That they love you
for yourself.

And not for my money
and my power? Yeah.

Could Valentino be sure that
women didn't love him for his looks?

Valentino was a beautiful man and
women loved him. That was enough.

I have power...

And women love you.

(CHUCKLING)

Right. But they want
something more,

they look for
something more.

They look for charm,
warmth, affection.

And they find all of these things in
me, not only because I have them,

but when a woman meets an Erich
Rhinemann she is dazzled and she responds.

Yes, Stolz,
she responds genuinely.

She becomes passionate
of the very idea

of loving and being loved by
a person with so much power.

You see, she takes in
that power, she absorbs it,

she gains some of it
for herself.

And will you approach
Mrs. Hawkewood afterwards?

I asked you
a hypothetical question.

With Mrs. Hawkewood,
that is impossible.

After I kill her lover, she cannot
come running into my arms.

Some women would.

Mrs. Hawkewood is
not one of them.

I think we better
talk about the future.

All right.

Is there one?

I'm not sure.

I wasn't sure either,
when you almost killed me.

Then I realized the old
David couldn't have done it.

Or any of this.

It's nothing.
It'll go away.

And so will this
war someday.

(SIGHS)

You know the boy from the boat
house, poor, doesn't exist anymore.

You're worth 10 of him.

I'm glad you think so.

Me, too.

Makes me think maybe
we'll get out of this.

Your friend, Asher Feld,
do you know where he is?

Yeah, 309 Alvear.

I'm gonna get you
out of here.

When you get back, tell Feld I'm
here and tell him the circumstances.

If he's going to move,
this is the time.

He's got to do it in precisely
two and a half hours

from the minute you
telephone me from the Embassy,

and I mean the minute, Leslie.

I'll be depending on him.

I'll tell him.

Finished?

As soon as you contact the
cryptographer and send your signal,

Mrs. Hawkewood and the
scientist are free to leave.

Hold it.

Our agreement was that I
don't send that code message

until they're back
at the Embassy.

That's the way
it has to be.

Surely you don't think I would
permit anything to happen.

DAVID: No, I don't.

But I'm not sure what you
can control outside these gates.

Very well, we'll proceed.
It will soon be dark.

We can complete everything
by early morning. No more delay.

Madam.

Bon voyage.
Stolz.

You'll be going back now.

I'm sure you'll be safe. I won't
send the message until you are.

What about you?

I'll be all right.

They plan maybe
to kill you.

I would like
to see you again.

LESLIE: I'll call David
at precisely 9:15.

You have exactly two
and a half hours from then.

I understand all his
instructions completely.

11:45 is zero hour.

Whatever I say is
going to be amplified.

Rhinemann and Stolz
will hear it, too.

How will I tell David
I've seen you?

Say something that has my
initials in it like, "After four or five."

Anything like that,
as long as it makes sense.

I see.

Will you admit now that I was
right about David Spaulding?

The Man from Madrid
is quite a man.

Keep him alive for me.

We'll do everything
we can.

Leslie, goodbye. I have
a great deal to prepare.

Thank you for myself
and all landsmen.

(RINGING)

Hello?

Leslie Hawkewood here, let
me speak to David Spaulding.

Yes, this is Spaulding.

We're here, David.

(VOICE AMPLIFIED)
Fine. No problems then?

Not really.

After five miles or so I thought
Dr. Lyons was going to be sick.

They drove so fast.

But he's all right now.

He's resting. But it's going to take
some time before he's himself again.

All right.
Tell him to relax.

His job is all finished.

That's enough. You got your
proof, now the signal code.

Leslie?
Yes?

You're in the radio room?
Yes.

Let me speak to Ballard.

Here he is.

Ballad here, sir.

Have you cleared all
scrambler channels?

Yes, sir. Along with your priority.
The Black Drape's confirmed, sir.

Very good.

Subsequent scrambles
at 120 megacycles.

Frequency,

megacycle of 120

for all

subsequent

scrambles.

Yeah. I have that, sir.

The key word is "snowfall."

Be certain you encipher
correctly the message I left.

It will begin. As an

able sail.

Able sail.

Able negate.

George option.

George love unit.

Negate unit.

Negate.

Repeat twice then.
George option.

Did you get that?

Yes, I got that, sir.

Very well, continue
on your own immediately.

Message exactly
as in the envelope.

Frequency at 120 megacycles.

That's all, Ballard.
Thank you.

That frequency at 120
megacycles? Meaningless gibberish.

Except for the 120.

Minutes.

That means that now I send the
message to activate the blackout.

Cable Tortugas and then
in exactly two hours,

I send a message
to lift the blackout.

If that's what David
really intends us to do.

All we must wait for now is the
news that the blackout is in effect.

Just one more detail.

What is it now?

Since there are four hours more or
less before our business will be concluded,

and I may be out of
sight of the designs,

I would like all the designs
placed in one locked metal case

and chained to any
permanent structure,

the chains held by a padlock,
the keys given to me.

Why? What for?

Can you fault it
professionally?

I find it objectionable.

Your precautions are
obsessive. I should ignore you.

The codes have
been sent.

Then humor me.

I'm a Fairfax 4-0.

We might work
together again.

That's always the way,
isn't it?

So be it.

I have it.

The Black Drape message
he wants to transmit next.

The letters just now
spell "abort."

"Abort Tortugas.”

And you send it in
exactly 114 minutes.

That's right.

So many things
can go wrong.

For the sake of my nerves,
I'll pretend you didn't say that.

Come, gentlemen,

let us go to the bar and drink
a brandy to the exchange.

Our operators confirm
radio silence, sir.

Thank you. Stand by
on all frequencies.

You run a tight ship.

That is how one survives,
Mr. Spaulding.

Everything progresses,
we have merely to wait.

I'll order a buffet.

Very hospitable.

I wonder if I might
impose further?

God knows when these
were last washed, or me.

I'd appreciate a shower,

and if you've got one,
a new shirt or sweater?

I'm sure your army personnel
can accommodate you.

I'm not going anywhere.
Except to a shower.

The designs are in there. If you
think I'm leaving without those,

you're dumber
than I thought.

The Colonel has had some
difficult days. His request is minor.

You're right about the last few days. I
feel like I've been run over by a truck.

Is the bed soft?
I'll grab a nap.

With a battalion of
armed guards at the door,

if it'll ease your concerns,
Mein Herr.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Oh, shut up, Stolz.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(BOTH SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

DAVID: Yeah.

Colonel Spaulding.

These are your size.

What are you
doing here?

Who are you?

I'm a friend of
Herr Rhinemann.

A kind of
criollo hostess.

Criollos don't speak
English like you do.

Some of us are
very smart.

As when I saved
your life, yes?

Why did you?

I work for Ed Pace.

When was the last time
you talked to Pace?

Christmas day.

You work for Fairfax?

No, for Ed Pace only.

There are no records
of me at Fairfax.

I am paid from
another account.

Ed Pace is dead.

Come on.

I want you to get out of this
place right away. Can you?

What about you?
I'll be all right.

Rhinemann intends
to kill you.

Ed Pace didn't want that.
I don't want that.

Thanks. You can't help
anymore, so just get out of here.

And I mean now.

And, look, ask one of the guards to
come back and wake me in an hour.

At 11:30.

Hey.

Thanks.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

MAN: Sefior.

Sefior?

Sedior, it's time.

It's 11:40...

Sefior...

(GAGGING)

FELD: Time to move out.

(DOGS BARKING)

(GUNS FIRING)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(EXPLOSIONS)

(MACHINE GUNS FIRING)

Stay there or
you'll have it!

You bloody fool.

Running upright?
Don't you ever learn?

With all the chaps
I've ever worked with,

you're still
the most incompetent.

How you'll survive without me,
God only knows.

Now get out of here, you
idiot, before it's too late.

Go.

(GUNS FIRING)

Get the dogs!

(DOGS BARKING)

Stolz.

(DOG SNARLING)

(DOGS BARKING)

(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)

(CODING MACHINE RATTLING)

Scrambler from
the War Department.

What does it say?

Give me a chance
to decode it.

BALLARD: It would take me a
couple of minutes to figure it out.

(SIRENS BLARING)

Hey, there's a second
transmission that isn't coded.

(RADAR BEEPING)

That Black Drape
business worked.

It's confirmation they've
lifted the radar blackout.

(SNICKERS) I think there are some Nazis out
there that are in for a very big surprise.

(EXPLOSIONS)

Code.

Treason.

"Defection to the enemy
while on assignment.

"Order for
the on-site execution

"of Colonel David Spaulding.”

Oh, my God.

I am going to question this.

And if it is repeated, I am
going to refuse to authenticate it.

I'm going to find him.

Leslie, be careful.

(GROANING)

Easy, Colonel.

All your questions
will be answered.

Let the doctor
take care of you.

There will be only minor
pain. You're localized.

What?

Simple Novocain. And
your arm is full of antibiotics.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

We're on our way to Mendaro.
There's a plane waiting.

The designs?

You'll be taking them back
with you to Washington.

Leslie?

She'll be flown out of
Buenos Aires this morning.

Rhinemann and Stolz are dead.

So is Geoffrey.

I know.

He was a good man.

We're all good men.

Some of us are just
luckier than others.

You said you had someone
in Fairfax. Was it Barton?

He killed Pace.

No, he didn't kill Pace.

Someone else got to Pace
before Barton could.

An important man,
someone Pace knew,

who did not go through
the normal checks.

DAVID: Swanson.

Pace must have discovered
Swanson was proceeding on his own

without higher authority.

Barton will be with your
chief of staff in the morning,

and I'd be surprised if General
Swanson doesn't face the firing squad.

Swanson.

(PLANE APPROACHING)

FELD: You got company.

David!

David, you can't go.
Washington wants you killed.

Not Washington.
Swanson.

I don't understand.

I'll tell you
on the plane.

She's coming with me.

I figured she would.

Go on, get out of here.

Hey! What about Lyons?

He told me to
give you this note.

He says if I don't invite him to our
wedding, he'll never talk to me again.