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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.