All language subtitles for The Fourth Arm, Episodes 1+2+3. BBC Television series, 1983

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ah

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so

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so

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attack

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oh

oh

fight

foreign

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oh

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ah

the old quarries

i want to have a look

what do you know about the place

only what i see

which isn't much

the germans are using it for some sort

of depot why not

strong

sheltered a depo for what

now my business

it is your business

you are the leader in this area

is it safe to go out there no

i shall go anywhere

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are there sudden interest

is it because of what they did to your

bookshop

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um

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i'll not risk my comrades

then i should go by myself

or what here

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there's a minefield

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ah

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ah

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uh

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can't you read

half the bosch minefields are just a

bluff

we both know that

would you think those are

pin cushions

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ugh

come on not much

are you all right

i live

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i think we can congratulate ourselves on

that one elite

of course they already have to display

the job

fella any uh report from resistance

sources is here not as of 900 this

morning sir i gather from jack grant

that there's a skate from the brittany

area at 1600 might have something by

then

yeah

and missy grant would like to see us

uh when does he want he's in the office

there it seems to be urgent

hello morning jack good morning hi

coming good

i'll

i have received this report from one of

our people in the shanty area it may be

the missing piece we've been waiting for

a drink monsieur thank you a small one

oh thank you alex

uh huh

oh now this man libra is he reliable oh

yes completely

well it all ties up then doesn't he

those ramps we've seen on the part of

canada and the belgian coastline the

peanut mundo business

jack

what is your view

i agree there are too many coincidences

for it to be a coincidence no this is

the new weapon mr why there

i shaun t it's a very long way from the

part of keller it's also a long way from

the commando raids from off-coast

shelling

besides the pad cali is largely chalk

and soft earth oh no you think this is

what some sort of dump possibly possibly

more than that

it is reasonable to assume that the

components for whatever it is are

fabricated in several places they have

to be assembled as well as stockpiled we

agree the coast is too vulnerable why

not picardy

it is logical

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there's also the report we had from the

resistance

convoys of heavy vehicles coming through

the road heavily guarded

the report implied small aircraft or

rockets

as you say it all fits together

jack keep me informed

i'll bring it up with joint intelligence

the next week good but quickly i think

colonel there may not be much time

you think that's the same thing miami

and reso was talking about well there's

not very much doubt about it

and when is the next jrc meeting

tomorrow morning sir good

i think jack may be right

now there may not be very much time

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here

hold him

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here

sorry for the pain i've caused you miss

here

i have a few drugs and no possibility of

an anesthetic here

here

tightly

you have not been here doctor

can he be moved

it's absolutely necessary

there's danger of gangrene he should

have hospital attention

he could die

so

we're asking for a strike purely high

level precision job i have jrc approval

i'll let you have the uh paperwork in

due course very well sir i'll make the

request for a raid and get back on to

you you do realize hq bomber command has

an established list of priorities yes it

is of course but there's a matter of

some urgency on this one

yes mr graham to see you sir ah good

having come in will you

no you will learn your masters at high

wickham tell them there's a memo from

winston in the pipeline

good sir

oh jack you know we're feeling i think

i'm so sorry i did not mean to interrupt

i was just leaving sir sir oh forgive me

uh fielding you dropped a single

obamacare for the appropriate attack on

that type of target and uh i'd like to

go through the drop and they say in

about 10 minutes

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ah usual oh thank you

it's comforting to know we may command

our own private bombing raids colonel oh

and frightening

yes we uh we have a call on bomber

command for special demolition jobs and

on the special duty squadron for our

type of work

well

now what did they say

yes there's no problem

but about the site we have almost no

information except to say we know it

exists

but can't you get your resistance people

to drum up something i'm afraid not

colonel so you intend to send in bombers

yes we try that first oh jack

if this raid is successful it might do

the trick for the moment

what times and villages they're miles

away from the target area no danger to

french civilians apart from the people

who work in the complex well if they're

working for jerry they got to scan

sympathy from me i don't always do it

willingly colonel

but i agree it is necessary

right

now i want to fly your man lambo back

from france because we need to talk to

him agreed of course

but there is a problem you may not be

aware of

lomboi was wounded in the leg it is not

possible to have him treated openly the

germans regard bullet wounds as

confirmation of treachery which it is of

course

he needs hospital treatment

it's all the more reason to prime back

and so

the only cloud in the target area will

be cirrus

at around twenty thousand feet

not enough for a three-quarter moon

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gentlemen

command attach the utmost importance to

this attack

and put a master bomber in to do the

marking

precision is the ticket

i do not want any bombs outside cp plus

250.

gentlemen all i can add

is this could be your most vital target

possibly the most vital you have tackled

colonel

thank you

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we don't know

how effective this bombing is going to

be against this underground complex

it's possible your armor-piercing bombs

will get through into storage areas

set off a chain reaction amongst fuel

and explosives

but

we believe

this is a new

frightening

secret weapon

gentlemen

we need to destroy it

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of the bombing but nunem are quite

unable to give an evaluation of the

result

i see

what about these steel doors they seem

intact to us the photographs seem to

indicate business as usual

well thank you very much sir

i don't think we're gonna bomb a

microphone

brother looks that way sir

what about resistance

no not in this case neither our region

oh thank you very much it's my baby now

i want to speak to major gary complete

sap

sorry

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the real question is

do we do this one ourselves

or do we make it a joint operation with

the free french that depends on who

you're sending in

garriga

gallagher well since he knows the area

and it's his sort of job

no no i think we keep this one to

ourselves the fewer people who know

about it the better you better grade it

top secret from now on copies for the

french no not for the moment

yes

mage gala sir oh thank you spooner cindy

willie yes

major don't worry gaga oh you know

wicker i think i know

i'm sending you into france

somewhere between sean t and seoul east

i want you to take a look at something

that the germans are building

i'll make your assessment with the

viewers taking a team of experts and

getting rid of it

i try to bomb that and it doesn't work

my information is it's been used as a a

stone quarry

apparently there is a a workable seam of

stone which is sandwiched between

limestone

apparently it was used to uh repair amir

cathedral back in 1905

oh we must assume that jerry has

enlarged the original developed

underground storage areas for well

whatever it is that he stopped piling

now we want to know what that is

the best way of destroying it

and quite quickly

there's one other thing

i went to out in france in

1940 yes

i was seconded as liaison officer to

general vacheron

then special duties sent me out there

again 18 months ago is there anyone like

you to recognize

not south of piketty proper good

hey eli ferrari have tuned tonight

now there's a brief appraisal for you

well wicked can fit you out in the way

to the station

while you're here some photo wrecking

prince i'd like you to look at

right sir

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so

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up

my code name is github

you've been told i was coming mr

she

i'm here for two reasons

first i've come to see this underground

complex the germans are using

london knows i do not activate my

resource until the invasion is

established

i do not change that for any reason you

may now get no help from you

from me

perhaps

from the resort

nothing

right

second reason i'm here is to see mr paul

lomboi

they tell me he has a smashed up leg

i am lomboa

my message was for the goal not the

british

why haven't they sent our frenchman

because they sent me lorraine you want

to continue the hundred years war that's

fine for me just let's finish this one

first all you do is send the raf to bomb

the caves you might as well spit on a

forest fire i'm not arguing that's why

i'm here now i'm gonna look at the place

myself and decide how it's to be

destroyed

then i'm taking you back to london

can we go and look at the place now

mara

put two bikes against the back wall

and disappear until i call for you

you got some of that burnt acorn stuff

they call coffee these days i haven't

had any breakfast

now

if you please miss your lomboi

tell me what you saw and exactly what

happened

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does the minefields go right round as

far as we know yes

all right no

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i need to know for certain

i'll go and find out for myself

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bye uh

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there has to be a way

without information without a plan we're

fighting in the dark and getting nowhere

i need to know what that place looks

like inside not what it was 20 years ago

now

there's no way we can get it there has

to be a way

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no never

who or what is viado

louis

viado

a constructional engineer of genius my

friend

the germans asked him to work for them

the organization taught

in the construction of their assembly

plant underground now he made it work

for them all so i'm told

he is i regret to say a frenchman does

he still work for them

yes

then he lives around here he does

and the opero house outside the village

we pass it on the way to the quarries

the one with the yellow shutters i

remember it

does he live alone yes

will he tell us anything

no

he's a vishyite

if he'd been a local man

we would have killed him

i think i want to talk to him i won't

tell you anything

i think he will

major

i'll come with you

you'd be noticed on your own this is a

small place no i'll go by myself safer

for you and for your reserve what time

does he come off duty you'll be home

about now good get on to london and tell

them there'll be two passengers for the

pickup not one unless of course they can

organize a submarine

if necessary are your people able to

take a prisoner as far as the coast

a man with a bullet wound and someone

else tied up

you don't make life easier major it

isn't easy for anyone can you do it

mara there's half an hour before curfew

go to lefeve tell him i need to send a

message he must come himself now

right

see you later

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yes yes yes

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the doors open

you are earlier than i expected

i just finished the last of them

you seem to be already packed

how convenient

you are mr beardo

you are from the organization took oh

not exactly

you might say the opposition

we're both in the same business monsieur

you put them up

i knock them down

i hope i got the right one

yes it's the right one

mara

take him to the back room and tie him up

saddle

did you make contact with london

yes

i'll be picked up by the icelander

tomorrow night

you were to make your own way back

i said you know how yeah

i have somewhere else i need to go

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you will stay

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as long as possible

i don't want to know why or when you're

going

now why no when

i can't tell you what i'm doing

what the hell are we going to talk about

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i can't go on waiting and waiting

you could take over the farm

you speak french perfectly no one would

ask questions

we could make love every day

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say you will

you know i can't do that

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you when you were living in amir

it was all simple it was all going to

happen

we were in love and our life was mapped

out for us

i felt warm and not frightened

frightened

why are you frightened

i'm frightened of becoming like mother

after the war you could go back to emir

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you have no relatives in england you

said so

why go back because i have my job to do

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what you expect i expect you to be here

with me i don't want to be alone

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i'll soon be 30 wasting

and the war will go on for years and

years and years and i'll end up like a

dried-up old woman just like mother

she stayed at home and abate her father

until she was nearly 40. that choice was

hers no one chained her to him it was

her obligation

and then she married father and had one

and a half years of love and life with

him until he was killed at verdan she

used to go to his grave every week when

i was a child she was still married to

him to a block of stone well i won't

i won't i've seen what's happened to her

you can see for yourself

darling please don't go back

please stay with me

please

come back with me to england chloe

look

i can fix it

i can't leave her she's an invalid

there's no way i can that's my

obligation

there's nothing really the matter with

her

if there's no one to look after her

she'll have to look after herself won't

she i can't she needs me here then

there's no answer is there

we're both caught in a trap

so

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you

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thank you sister

my name is ambra how are you feeling

today

this is professor evans at cardiff

university you know something about this

rocky thing you mentioned he wants to

ask you some questions

i'm sorry to trouble you but uh we'd

like to know if we're talking about the

same thing

now uh

this rocket thing you saw i did not see

any rocket thing

i saw only dismantled paths for what i

thought were dismantled yes of course

now the tubes

the ram jets you described were they

like this

yes

did they have any wings attached to the

bodywork anything like that

i couldn't see the tubes they were

crated the wings they weren't attached

to anything

now if you made a guess

just a guess mind you what sort of size

would you imagine

the whole thing would add up to

if i don't know what it's supposed to

look like how can i make that guess well

let me help you would the thing be 20

meters long or 200 what would you say

make a guess

20 couldn't have been 200 or anything

like that why not well the proportions

are all wrong it was an average-sized

truck there was no trailer you see my

boy you know more about the thing than

you think

most people make a mental picture of

what they see however incomplete at

least men do

women have any idea about engineering

it's a deplorable lacuna

lloyd george said much the same thing

about their political understanding this

is quite proficient

now this rather fairs out what we

suspected from the peter mundo report

it's not the big one thank god

it also confirms what we suspected about

this underground complex being a storage

or assembly area and not a firing pad

if it's what we think then it's a supply

base for these long launching

constructions we photographed

well i don't think we need trouble mr

lamb any further today thank you my boy

there is one more thing

some of the test firings have gone wrong

we had a report from a resistance unit

near the coast

this

thing

landed in the village of saint

galdestood

nothing was left standing

nothing

it may not be your big one colonel

but it's big enough

mr lambert your compatriot mr verde now

he's not uh cooperating as we'd hoped

he seems to have some very odd views

has it ever occurred to you colonel

that europe does not always see you as

sin george in your shining armor

some neither like nor trust you

you haven't given us as much reason to

as you imagine

oh from myself

so it's an extraordinary thing to say i

i really don't understand you people

you people

but you british you are so insular

if the germans had wanted to make him

talk they would just take him out and

hand them over to their gestapo

why be so squeamish

isn't that what this war is about amber

a professor

or at least

that's what the peculiar insulin british

thinking would be

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where does this man galactic due back it

was two years today i haven't turned up

yet but we had a signal and requested to

pick him up sarah should be back today

god man this is urgent why couldn't he

come back with the other two well

because for one thing it's not possible

to get a third person i'm so sorry

it's not possible to get a third

passenger into a nice handler until he

asked permission to make a detour for uh

reason

permission but there's no time

david is going to take several weeks to

mount this operation i assure you the

extra day makes no difference and it

couldn't make a deal of difference to

the man who's reading the share then

when can we do something i don't like

this business at all we haven't won this

war yet you know not by a long time i'm

not very much mistaken the

joint intelligence committee will give

me the go ahead tomorrow's meeting oh

it's always tomorrow but we'll never win

this war until it is today oh come on

the j i see you've got more important

things on their feeling tomorrow tonight

second front

peter

if we don't stop this

there may not be a second front

ever

don't you think lombard might know more

than he thinks

i mean couldn't we jog his memory

well the reggie man hasn't been near the

place no he can't know anything

then we're no better off

where did the signal say that garrick

was reporting it he was landed a

portrait early this morning said he

wanted a couple of hours sleep before

reporting so i suppose he's earned there

yes

oh god

no no no send him up straight away

like garrick is at the front desk

he might be able to make weirdo talk

alex have the frenchman in where what's

up all right

under guard so we take no chances right

yes

thank you spider man yes sir

uh good morning garga i want a detailed

report from you later but for the moment

now can we stick to immediate problems

now this man feared your centers or he's

on his way up and he's not talking then

we might have to make him oh no nonsense

carriga

i understand sir

i come in vietnam

now we're asking again for your

cooperation

because we need to know more about this

underground installation where you were

oh surely man i use a loyal frenchman yo

you're willing to support the allies to

thwart the common enemy

that rather depends on your viewpoint

doesn't it

why should i regard the germans as my

enemy

there are many of us who believe they

are the only ones who can save france

from communism

anyone can see how corrupt and worthless

the old regime had become

i will tell you nothing

well then there's no point in keeping

you here any longer

i shall take you back to france and drop

you by british parachute from a british

plane right into the compound that

you're trying to protect

i doubt if your german friends will

believe that you haven't told us

anything they may accept your story they

may not in any case we need detain you

here no longer

may i take mr viedo back to the airfield

now colonel yes isn't he

because i see no reason to detain him

from his friends any longer

my apologies for sure alex will you get

mr verde ready for the return journey

right sir mr

now then what the hell are you proposing

exactly what i said once he realizes we

mean it he'll cooperate

it's on your head hugh

oh by the way we have jrc approval so

it's up to

us hi caesar

all right let's be clear about this

now we have a limited amount of time

available

in which to get together a team capable

of blowing this place to kingdom come

obviously you will lead

training

squad he's the best trainer of agents

we've got although he'll insist on the

full training period now you better let

me talk to him

because i want you to get your team

together uh how long three four days i

shall need about a dozen people probably

half of them will fall by the wayside

but i shall need four or five to do the

final job you realize don't you you get

virtually no help from the french

resistance i degree she is adamant that

he will not waste his research until the

time so he has already told me colonel

do i have a free hand

you get your team together

but here

they'll need to be good

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yes

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so

just crossed over the fridge coaster ega

targetary about 11 minutes

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one minute ten seconds to drop sir

i hope your friends believe your story

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now

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i'll take care of that

major

would you really have pushed him

of course

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i assume we agreed to cooperate he did

so

can we trust him

well we have to don't we

i think he understands we mean business

would you have dropped him oh yes

he was no use to a silent

he might have alerted the germans

whatever his story i don't think he

would have told them anything

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all right drive on

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and the wartime drama continues at five

past midnight tomorrow

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so

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foreign

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so

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what makes you so sure he knows yeah we

got our free french friends to check him

out

verde was the principal construction

engineer for the conversion of this

underground missile storage area

in fact he was over with most things

the organization tote

trusted him completely what's that worth

man organization tote

they employ many thousands of workers

from all over europe well it's mainly

slave labor of course but there are many

willing workers other than germans who

perform at a very high level

they may surprise you to know david

there are plenty of people who are not

vehemently opposed to hitler and the

nazis i wasn't born yesterday colonel i

just don't think we should trust

everything he says that's all now what's

gallagher doing it is urgent i keep

telling gallagher is at this moment

getting together his sabotage team to go

into france and he needs time

he wants very special people with very

special talents are you leaving to him

he's very good at his job oh he needs to

be my friend we can all consider the

implications of a german occupation now

how soon can they be got into france no

they have to be trained

normally that would take about 12 weeks

12 weeks

good god man most of london could be

flattened in that time

an untrained in german occupied france

they wouldn't last 12 hours

surely even a celebrated physicist can

see there

oh come on baby

germans still haven't got this guidance

mechanism right yet we still have a

little tie

not 12 weeks colonel

i don't think anyone properly realizes

what these damn things could do we can't

stop them you see

and once they have that guidance

mechanism they'll fall like rain

come

come here mr vader

and i thank you starting right outside

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please sit down

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these are the last of them sir

they all volunteered for special duties

during the last 18 months they're all

french speaking oh as to the man are

born

how aren't we all

do you think you could round up some

coffee for me every two hours i think i

may be here all night and before you go

check that projector's operational will

you please oh it is sir i checked it

before you arrived can you manage to

turn it on yourself sir

i'll struggle with it sergeant

messi manziel you'll never promise you

and that doesn't tell us a damn thing

monsieur

we need to know everything about this

underground complex not just vague

statistics

look this site is divided into storage

areas you said connected by tunnels

a rough map please just to talk through

we can proceed to details when we've got

the general picture i've already told

you there are nine main storage areas

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it's just turned 5 o'clock sir

thank you sir

have you got all you wanted i mean are

you all fixed up sir why are too short

switch the light on will you sergeant

i shall just have to keep looking

it's not your run-of-the-mill volunteer

i'm after

i see

well will you want me anymore sir i'm

due to go off duty as soon as my relief

turns up if that's all right yes thank

you sergeant

you've been a great help

why not

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separate parts are stored here and

assembled here

these

two larger areas are merely open

stockpiling of the complete article now

just a minute

what is that complete article

well that's not my field but they refer

to it as the

76

it's a rocket missile driven by a

pulsating duck flow motor and it has an

explosive warhead

it carries 150 gallons of fuel and at

the last test firing we were told about

it clocked up a speed of 350 kilometers

an hour that's conservative i imagine

when you consider that it has a range of

about 100 miles

and that you can't electronically jam or

interfere with the mechanism once the

guidance is preset

it's formidable

indeed it is

now you tell us where the factories are

and where the components are made

my job was to reconstruct certain areas

and reinforce old parts of the site

tote workers even trusted ones were not

given such information

there was no means of finding out

nor had i any reason to try

we've been here all night

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i'm tired is this the way you treat your

collaborators

i demand to be allowed to sleep sleep

you're now that you're here in england

you'll see the damage

the death these wretched things can

cause if we don't stop them

you'll be on the receiving end

yeah

you just think about that

thank you brooks

good morning could i speak with miss

portales please

oh i see

well would you give her a message when

she comes in

could you ask her to attend an interview

at four cunningham place tomorrow

morning at 9 30.

she is to ask for a major gallagher

thank you

brooks

sir let records know i'm hanging on to

these files will you right sir

and put them somewhere safe brooks

i'll be with the colonel

it's going to be no picnic by any

standards colonel the last thing i want

is a civilian buffing

respect to the professor i can't see him

jumping out of an aircraft over occupied

for us i won't be doing it the man i

wanted to take is young and as far as i

know perfectly fit as a matter of fact

he was quite an athlete at his college i

seem to remember oh i see

even so calm down major

sir

send in mr lovell please

i understand your reservations let's

just keep an open mind until we've seen

the chat we've had to change our

thinking

yes i

see

hi come here mr lovell

i'm very good of you to spare the time i

very much appreciate it professor evans

steven hello

i'll be as brief as i can

and do sit down mr lovell

now we are sending a a commando raid

into occupied europe now it's a raiding

party for demolition purposes but the

main objective is scientific

science always seems to get uh twisted

into destructive purposes

opposite of what it's about of course no

issues it's all very regrettable

unfortunately we're in a war which we

have to win

so

i would like you to be part of that team

you want me

to to play commandos in the middle of

germany it's france actually

i do have work you know of

vital importance i didn't realize we

were so short of tin soldiers

i'd rather form the impression that this

island was just about ready to sink

under their combined weight just a

minute lad there's something i have to

explain we're not short of soldiers

we are short of engineer scientists who

understand what they're looking at

we need someone who can go through their

papers and select what is relevant that

means someone who knows as much about it

as they do

they must have specifications locked

away somewhere and you know how badly we

need them

isn't anyone else stephen

i'm too old

then i have no alternative where's your

hair

we can't command you to go

you have the right of every british

civilian to refuse

but that right is what this war is all

about i think

yes

all right

oh thank you very much indeed mr lonely

right

can i get back to my lab now i assume

you will

let me know when you want me

we want you tomorrow mr lovell

there is a little bit of training that

you'll have to go through first you'll

be under the guidance and command of

rhyme so sorry mr lovell major gallagher

how do you do

so that man is going to be a pain in the

backside i don't want him uh david he's

overworked and overtired but i can

assure you he's the best man for the job

what makes him so special professor

because he's put together all the

information we have on the fzg76 nobody

understands it better

i know he's difficult but

he doesn't like war you see

who does professor

these papers

specifications whatever they are

they really are that essential

i can't stress how essential major

believe me

i have another word with weirdo

there's far more to this than just

blowing up a dump hue

yes i see

so we have to consider the means of

breaking into high security areas

right

well excuse me gentlemen

come

brooks get the new scotland yard on the

line with you

chief inspector stern

thank you brooke

jack hugh gallagher

jack i need your help

who is the best safe man in the business

yes safe cracking but he has to be young

and reasonably fit

sounds ideal where can i find it

well if it's inside it can't be all that

good

oh i see hmm

nice friends

i want to see him today can you organize

it

oh yes very top clearance

fine

jack thank you

buy you a drink

thank you

magical

the governor has given permission for

you to be unsupervised thank you i'll

knock when i'm ready to leave here's

that

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oh sister

how the hell are you name's gallagher oh

sonia nobody sent me

i wanted to see you

i've got a job for you

i need you out and doing here mate you

drop the suggestion box

and that's just stuff with bulk paper

come off it job's on the outside

i can get you out to do it macklin but

there are conditions

don't you want to know what they are

if you want me bad enough to come in

here and talk about springing me

you want me bad mister

so when we start talking about

conditions

that's what with you shall we

i've got a few of my own i don't need

any medals i'm not offering you medals

macklin i'm offering you freedom

and a sizeable cash bonus at the end of

the job

how big is sizable

i want to see how good you are before i

make any offers

i cigarettes get where i am by being

stupid if you're inside macklin that's

stupid enough for me

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what do i have to do you join a team of

specialists and train for the job

then you go into german occupied

territory and do it

you do your [ __ ] you get what i said

freedom and a bonus

full pardon

clean slate

oh yes

you're wrong

though other boys may smile and kiss my

cheek when you're away there's only you

you know it's true

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they hold my hand and whisper in my ear

but still i say

there's only you

my love is true

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so if you get a letter

from that gossip jenny brown

to say that she has seen me going

dancing in the town

remember that a uniform reminds me dear

of you you know it's true

that i love you

one day last week a sailor

said he'd love me to the end

but i quite firmly told him

he could only be my

friend reminds me

that i

love

so

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wants you to report to his office 9 30

in the morning

thought you wouldn't like that he

sounded military

yeah you haven't been called up or

nothing have you we're that short on

feminine artists it's a fraud we've been

down to button chairs in tights before

long you see if i'm not right you don't

really call me up on the telephone do

you oh don't know about that

yeah

you haven't got customers on the side

have you at 9 30 in the morning

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right

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hugh comey sir i don't think you'll make

colonel squires how do you do sir

hello carl's agreed to take on your

training program and i want you both to

get out of the hall talk the whole thing

through i've filled him in from my angle

and i want you to be totally frank about

your side of the project but with no one

else yes listen to her

you finalized your list yet not

completely it seems to me now we need

five or six for the final assault

allowing for the usual wastage i'm

reckoning on a group of about a dozen

for training that's about right

so i've brought someone with me that i'd

like you to meet he's outside

oh yeah this all right we do it

come in will you

you can take the cuffs off

this is mr george macklin sir

i'm told he's the best safe cracker in

the business and i think he might be

rather useful to us

thank you

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whose recommendation are we taking chief

inspector stern new scotland yard mr

mercury

this cupboard door is locked

inside the cupboard is my safe that is

also locked

i'd be very much obliged if you don't

and i've already stopped

yes yes certainly

come out of it empty-handed

uh

ain't seen one of these in a few years

weigh over a ton these two you know

hope your floor's up to it

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49.

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twelve

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so

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82

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49

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normally have a toolbox wouldn't

i still

see what we can do

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i speak with the home office thank you

very much indeed mr mercy

thank you

i'll erase the necessary release

instructions have you got anybody else

out there no sir

good

now once you get your list together

against my girl out there we can process

parents and then you two can get on with

it tim will you uh arrange the postings

in the usual one yes of course never let

anyone else do it old man keeps it tidy

now

when can you come down to the hall we

have rather a lot to talk about i'd like

to be down there by tomorrow sir good

before we go down let's meet in your

office tomorrow morning i want you to

see someone i have in mind for your team

young officer serving with the free

french right sir

well i see you then colonel

we may as well go too i can't give you

lunchtime my dear chap the only reason i

come to london is to see how your club

is coping with rationing of course

oh just a minute

no security that's kind of grilling

these safe in my office is unreliable i

want it changed now

it's the next door on the left

doctor you've been a great help a

pleasure goodbye

i'm sorry

i thought you might like a taste of home

haven't your three friends lot sent you

any fruit yet

pity i'm feeling peckish

no one gets grapes nowadays

there's a war on

yes i'd heard

they also tell me the danger of gangrene

has passed and now it's just a matter of

reasonable rest

and then i go back to france well soon

you wouldn't stand a chance over there

if a german found you with a recent

bullet wound in your leg

listen

in a few weeks time i'm going back in

there with a team

i'm going to blow that place sky high

now i could use a man who knows the area

tell me major why can't the french do

this

because we have the strike and

coordinating abilities and your lot

haven't

because we can do it and the free french

can't

if things were the other way around we'd

be stuck that's just the way it is do

not try and patronize my country major

defeat even temporary defeat is not easy

to live with nor is your top brass

now what's your answer

what about the leg i've seen your plates

and read the reports there's no reason

why not

yes

good

what's special about you we normally let

him out on it

king and country mate been called up

i'll see you then

oh no you

once is enough

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right let's go over that bit again no

no i'm tired i was with your colonel and

the welsh professor all night and most

of the day it is enough this is not but

i agree yes it is and you know it you

also know that time is running out like

it or not mr weirdo your existence and

future are key to an allied victory now

you get used to that now

the german garrison are housed in this

area here right

garrison vehicles are kept here the

rocket transports here

the tote workers have their quarters

here the guard houses are obvious from

our own photo wrecker pictures

here vehicles in vehicles out now these

steel doors

who operates them and where

as a rule

they are operated from the block houses

here

and here but obviously there must be

some interior control i don't know where

it is checkpoints every 300 meters in

the tunnel complex as i told you

how many guards

i don't know military terms

the company how many 100 200 about 200 i

think maybe more

the minefield does it go right round the

complex a complete circle

is there any point in one that does not

frequently

i think it is complete

i don't understand how they could build

such a place without someone knowing

about it

something this size takes years to

complete not weeks

they only had to enlarge it it existed

already as a quarry

it hasn't been used as a quarry since

the first world war when it was made

into an underground ammunition dump so

the storage areas and the tunnels

existed already

the germans had only to modify and

enlarge them

you didn't tell us that bit

you didn't ask

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yeah yay

sorry to wake you sir

what time is it almost 9 30 sir and your

party's arrived shall i send her in oh

god yes you might as well

did you have a good kip sir

your insubordination showing sergeant

yes sir sorry sir

it's me sir sergeant burkitt

oh

what can i do for you sir i'm sorry to

trouble you sir but it's my section

officer she thinks i suck my file in

front of your face or something what i

mean is she doesn't believe that you

made a genuine request for transfer and

you did didn't you sir of course i did

sergeant

we both know that you didn't influence

my decision in any way what's your

section officer's name uh section

officer name sir extension 282

right

did you get your posting no sir it went

to section officer neymar that's why i

see

very well sergeant you get back to your

billet and start packing i'll clarify

the matter with your section officer

thanks

for

coming portales to see you sir right

sure in sergeant

ah good morning

i wasn't sure you were gonna turn up

why not major

well you work late at night and rise

late in the mornings i've even missed my

breakfast to be here well if it's any

comfort you haven't have mine either

miss portales we may be seeing rather a

lot of each other we might as well start

amicably would you like to sit down

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you have my file i presume was there

something special wish to have confirmed

yes

you are a successful singer you're a

civilian without military experience or

training

yet you volunteered for special duties

why

i love my country yes you lived in

france in the area around shanti and

solis yes with my family i lived there

for 15 years

why

for the moment i think i should ask the

question

what is it there's a brew up on the next

floor sir do you want a cup no thank you

you have been here all night you get out

sergeant i'm trying to win the war

now where was i

trying to win the war major

i'm sorry i really have been here all

night you know

ms portales

there's a rather nice little coffee shop

in the strand if you'd allow me to buy

you breakfast i think it might be easier

for both of us

that would be delightful

good

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normally a good soldier sir one of the

best

i know but he'll have to be charged

it'll mean sending him back to his unit

petty

there may be a way out

this signal arrived this morning i i

think you better read it

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special duties what the devil does that

mean i hardly think it matters sir

it solves our problem let them sort him

out

all right let's have him in

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sergeant cameron

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cameron

you must be well aware of the

seriousness of the implications of your

conduct last night you are incapable of

self-control you're a danger to yourself

and a menace to this unit i could not

accept the insulting remarks that had

been thrown at me sir that's enough

you put me in a very embarrassing

position

you know i should charge you and with

that you'd be reduced to the ranks and

return to your unit

luckily for you i've been forestalled

you have been posted

to special duties

in the nick of time i think we can say

god

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i'm not going to take any action over

this but you have let me down cameron

and the commander

just remember you're being let off the

hook

now get out sir

thank you sir

it's on paper it looks possible

second lift in a drawer to see your size

oh good

good morning

ma'am so law

thank you for coming in such short

notice you don't actually know me my

name is lieutenant colonel squires

gallagher

how do you do hello

now i was one of the adjudicating

officers who graded you during your

initial training program for the free

french

and i've kept your file under

observation from time to time because i

thought you might potentially be of

useless should the occasion arise

has now listened major

thank you

mr all

you were working in paris when war broke

out

you were training as a wireless operator

and cipher clerk when france fell

you came to england and joined the three

french forces why

why not

my country is overrun by the bosch i

want to fight back

perhaps you don't understand major the

shame of capitulation

yes of course what i was really asking

was

why did you choose to come here

not stay behind and fight with the

resistance where it is actually

happening

it was personal

my fiancee decided to leave and fly with

the raf i was very much in love i came

too

no mystery or heroics just a very young

woman with only herself in mind

jacques was killed and i grew up a

little i volunteered to work for general

de gaulle

you see i will do anything to help fast

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about you bobby

awesome you are cut again

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i thought you was inside

not anymore love you haven't bust out

rolling your own now alice

you know you smoked

size

10

nice shine

i'm living with someone now george

well he was inside

eight years

i'm not getting any younger georgie it's

all right love

i didn't expect you to wait any more

than i would

eight years

bleeding lifetime

why the hell should you

who is it alice

bobby print the ghost

there's a thing there

are you brendagast

is he working

not a lot

can't get a job you see him being a

deserter in that

that'll be him now

bobby

you never go suzier it's georgie macklin

oh

hello mr macklin

bobby

look i am sorry about you getting

burdened

we didn't expect you out

did we alice

i mean

did i say anything

or did i

i know harry is in our line rules at a

game son

forget it

just wanted to see our alice was

thought you've been called up

yeah well i only did

14 months

i scarfed

it means i've got to keep my head down

you know i'm sure i'm sure not

they send you anywhere

overseas

no

i spent my time trudging all over

salisbury plane

it's always pretty plain

well ain't that interesting

come over here bobby take a gander at

this

know that place

sorry mr macklin i

can't help you never mind

thanks anyway

bobby

who grasped on me

i better be off now girl

you take good care of yourself alice

i'm ever so sorry georgie

so

where does he think he is

coming back here

he may be the best peter man in the

business but you know i'm going to get a

shock when he gets to saw's replay

thank you miss raw

brooks

thank you

she seems to be ideal sir would you be

able to get out the necessary you say

you want her she'll have a posting and

travel warrant my special messenger

before the end of the day once i've

cleared it with her superiors

good

well according to your list we seem to

be nearing completion

but who the hell is this chapter in the

rasc

mccauley

what in hell is this about

i applied for special duties sir without

consulting your commanding officer

you have no right to do such a thing

there are channels mccauley there wasn't

time sir

time what do you mean there wasn't time

i applied for special duties before you

became oc sir don't give me that bull he

knew i wouldn't recommend a transfer so

you tried the back door

i know you don't think much of it here

macaulay good offices are hard to come

by

even difficult ones

major o'rock will take over your company

pro tem

i see there's a travel warrant attached

to your posting make sure you properly

clear this unit

that's all

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jenny where do we keep the one-inch maps

over there captain where they always are

next draw down

mystery whispery

now where is wesley

salisbury plain sheet 167 just left of

the center fold and below the strawberry

jam

how come you're so efficient do you know

every wretched map not really it's one

we have to consult regularly wd training

site artillery ranges

artillery ranges

i should have known

jenny you have great talents you should

know

oh i can't make it tonight love being

posted

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this is

scotland yard

inspector stern please

set me up woody

inspector stern

george macklin

no they let me out

look gav i just wanted to say tsar for

getting me out

no

straight up i mean it and i'll do you a

favor bit of quid pro quo you know what

i mean

you remember bobby prendergast

you wanted him for knocking over the old

man at a benson place

that's right

well he's a deserter

not very patriotic is he

and you can find him at 76

on dermon street

that's right

you're welcome

i'll see you around

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oh

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so the first one is sergeant duncan

cameron commando he's a highlander he's

got all the right qualifications he's

seen service on every junket the marines

have mounted with any luck he'll be my

backbone sir

sally burkitt sergeant ats

intelligent organized independent

thinker and a nice sense of humor

anything else going for it yes sir she

was brought up and educated to the age

of 16 in dusseldorf she has near perfect

german i might just need that screen

next

simon portales singer french born in

shanti so she has a specialized

knowledge of the area she also speaks

good german and i might find a use for

her very obvious charms

nigel mccauley

first class officer highly unorthodox

but a good all-rounder he's wasted where

he is

he's constantly on the carpet for going

against the book

well i checked all that he does go

against the book but generally rightly

sir when he does i hope we're not going

to argue about that one i'm a book man i

wrote quite a bit of it

next

this one's merchant navy jeffrey wilson

born in marseille grew up there when his

father deserted his mother

he's been on the atlantic convoys mostly

but he decided to volunteer for special

duties he's another german speaker and

french of course is a second language to

him

ellen robinson mrs

wt trained an expert in ciphers she

encodes quicker than anyone in the

ministry

her husband was killed at dunkirkster

mrs robinson's a little older than i

would have liked now why aren't we using

already trained people it's immediate

thought of that initially of course sir

but i decided against it

there's no one really suitable that we

can trust

you're taking that girl i offered you

solange raw second lieutenant three

french forces

rather a lot of women

yes i know

but if you add to that macklin the

safecracker the frenchman lomboi and

this damned scientist fellow we've had

wished upon us and we have a balanced

team

all right

well you've done a good job gallagher

thank you very much tim you happy oh yes

hi when do we start the team arrives at

the hall tomorrow training begins the

following morning

you will do it with them

well i shall keep an eye on them of

course sir but it's not necessary for me

to go through the whole thing

well i think you'll find your orders

clearly states that i am in charge of

training after which you'll take over

until that happens or under my command

you will train with the rest of them

will you lay on transport to pick them

up from the station sir or shall i see

to it

oh they'll be transported from the

station to the edge of the plane where

they'd be dropped off one by one

their joining instructions simply tell

them to rendezvous precisely on time at

a map reference

well there's a marked course i don't

deny but it just happens that the

markers end in the middle of an

artillery range which happens to be

where a combined ops exercise is in

progress

so i'm afraid they have to cross a mock

battlefield

in the middle of a mock battle

now that could be difficult even

dangerous if you see what i mean

you're a bit of a bastard aren't you sir

then already oh man

good luck gentlemen

sir

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and the fourth arm continues next monday

night at 10 past 12.

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so

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right should we make a start

it'll take us an hour and a half to

drive down to swordsby plane

we could stop and have coffee at the red

line at larkill on the way what are you

saying

as you've told me already you're in

charge of this part of the job

i'm ready good i'm delighted we

understand one another it saves all

those wasteful arguments that i have to

win

sergeant

sir there are only eight people drilling

on the lawn why there should be nine

young lady reported sick after ablution

sir

thank you

for your people should be arriving at

westbrook at about ten that gives us

plenty of time

damn it

steve

i'm supposed to be at the station at 7

15 you can't possibly make uh

then i'll get the next one we can wait

i don't think the military worked quite

like that don't give a damn how they

work if they want me you'll have to take

me as i am

now you'll have to lean on hayman robert

he's getting behind in his work there's

somewhere

somewhere

oh

here all the time now this file here is

for kitchen

um i've taken it as far as i possibly

can but everything will need

confirmation in the laboratory under

stringent testing now you'll have to

insist on it robert otherwise the

ministry given half a chart will pick it

up as it is and go into production

without adequate tests like they did

with absalom yeah now it's too dangerous

robert it must be tested and tested and

tested

do you know where you're going i mean

can we get in touch if we need to oh i

doubt it you know top secret and all

that

stupid

um

well if it's urgent

try evans in cardiff i mean

seems to be in on it all

bye

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with green travel ones this way as

quickly as you can please if you would

just wait a moment please thank you

ladies and gentlemen will you please

show your green treble warrants as

quickly as possible please no civilians

that way sir thank you just the green

trouble once not those sir green treble

ones only please this way

thank you

thank you

right

you're gonna start with a simple test

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you will rendezvous on time at the place

given on your maps

on your way there

you will follow the instructions to the

letter

the course is clearly marked

and has been labeled with the code name

dickens oh god

the course is under observation

and has been devised for many purposes

i must warn you however

that outside of the marked areas

you can step into areas that are live

mind or a part of the artillery ranges

and as they say

you cannot come a cropper

all right follow me if you will

transport is waiting in station four

court right

hurry it up please as quick as you can

right the last part of your course the

artillery ranges that is

what we might call a bit of a

free-for-all

you will find no markers you will be

crossing

over open terrain in which you combine

operations exercise will be in progress

and relying upon your own initiative

any questions this exercise sergeant is

the ammunition live too some is

something um

oh you've got nothing to worry about

we usually do this at night right follow

me on the bus

pull that bloody cigarette out driver

not on that deck laddie pick it up pick

it up right come on on the bus quick as

you can

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so

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driver

all right ladies and gentlemen this is

where we drop you off

one at a time

you must make your own way from here

i have to remind you that should you

meet up on the way

you are not to disclose your true

identity

but must use the nicknames you have been

issued

right says

you first and sergeant leave your kid on

the bus

hurry along please

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right driver

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die where the hell have you been

what's this well the staff car broke

down what was i supposed to get oh yes

all right did you get it yes it's in the

back

well done

what's up drive

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now user if you please

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how do i look

just like the real thing darling really

well a shorter haircut might help but i

suppose staff can get away with anything

tally ho

i've never been one to deny myself a few

creature comforts whatever the

circumstances

lord knows we get few enough of them

ah nah

i seem to remember that your name was

charles yes sir good coffee for two

please charles and i'd like some of

those little scones that your chef keeps

for favorite customers should we say

harvard doesn't certainly

didn't go away i'd like that filled up

with the best whiskey you can find in

the bar there's a little filler thank

you

the coffee here is no better than what

i'm permits but i really come here for

the buns they're awfully good

i can't think how they manage you these

days tastes like butter whatever it is

oh you're very quiet this morning hardly

said a word all the way down is

everything all right yes no problem

just wondering if i made the right

choices for my team

what exactly did you get this team

together for

to train them to be adequate sabotage

agents to destroy a particular enemy

target that cannot be destroyed any

other way

and are you sure that you know all that

is possible to know by that target all

that's possible

yes

and i take it that you hand-picked these

people yourself

yes

what my car think what are you worrying

about

i suppose this exercise is necessary

in my estimation yes

if your chosen few cannot overcome a few

trivial obstacles then they are not the

people for us and i have gotten no time

to waste on training them

nothing has changed you it's still the

best way

ah here's our bun feast

good man charles

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right

i mention that'll cover it

thank you chef

you've made your decision hugh

stick to it

now stop communicating

and tuck in

ah now there was something i wanted to

tell you

now i can't remember what it was

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right sir

if you don't mind

now look sergeant

i've been ordered to report to a special

unit for special reasons not to play

stupid little games now just take me to

the entrance

i'm very sorry sir

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but i have my orders

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right

you ladies will be dropped off last

gives the fair sex a bit of an edge you

might say

one of ours wilson

i'm dropping you off in about three

minutes that's what i wanted to tell you

this is an exercise to test and observe

major i think you should observe your

own team yourself and you

i'd assume there will be the usual

battery of observers reporting progress

to central control yourself i imagine or

is that not the way things are done

anymore

quite accurate oh boy but i think you

should be with them they're your team

you

right

stop driver

that's as far as we go man

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why was i last sergeant

concession to age

something like that ma'am

i don't make the rules

honey go driver

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uh

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i'm sorry sir but this is an exercise

area i'm aware of that corporal i'm gso

planning southern district i'm on my way

to exercise rv but sir i've ordered so

that no one threw well then corporal

someone has forgotten to tell you about

me

i have my instructions from general

roberts

here is my identity card now drive on

we're getting late

jeans take it easy die no sudden moves

you know nigel

we could both end up on a very nasty

charge

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so

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texas

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so

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rt operations

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received

over and out

right corporal hutchinson bring around

and let the observers then alert the

artillery fellows yes sir

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so

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uh

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but i was told to report here

oh and sing this from the military

look uh can you read at all uh it says

here at 11 30 hours and the map

reference is within this perimeter what

was i supposed to do you know nothing

about this any special notification

corporate

i shall have to take this out with my

superior officer hold this man under

arrest

corporal

get me captain gardner what are you

doing

even when you're tired you've got to

watch out for the unexpected

keep your eyes open

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i didn't quite catch what you said sir

i see

thank you

nobody seems to know anything about you

i can't see that you have any business

to be here this is wd property is this

or is this not the area shown on this

map it may quite possibly be so so does

not explain or excuse your presence on

war department property do you have a

civilian id card i have a travel warrant

i have an order to report to this

map reference which which i understand

is here i mean

what the hell is wrong with you people

there's nothing wrong with us sir

the fact that you're trespassing in a

restricted area during a war with highly

dubious documents in your possession

rather suggest there might well be

something wrong with you with me i guess

of course i mean i have been consigned

to some tin pot outfit pretending to as

special duties whatever that may mean

lifted out of my pathetic half-equipped

laboratory but at least i was achieving

something to come and play

cowboys and indians with a bunch of

lunatics and some bonehead in a peaked

cap handcuffs me to a tent pole

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it's rather like something out of kafka

don't you think

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well done top marks for that one

no hesitation

but i fancy you may have done this

course before

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oh we could have a problem here

it's corbeau

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take a deep breath

okay

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oh

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slight problem with number four

the front runners will be approaching

the exercise area in approximately three

minutes out

control to wentworth exercise dickens

standby for barrage control to sterling

exercise dickens combined exercise to

commence in

two minutes from now standby

uh

so

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oh

i'm terribly sorry i didn't realize

there was anyone in the tunnel oh come

on keep moving well i can't get past

we i can't get past either this is

stupid one of us will have to back out

i'm not moving backwards what neither am

i three

two

one

fire

it's already bombardment

look

one of us is gonna have to move or we'll

be here for the rest of the war

i'm caught up in the barbed wire so i

think it's gonna have to be you

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yay

ah

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what the hell's going on

what devil are you sir my name's macklin

i was told to report here he's on the

listener nickname shook her mr macklin

you weren't supposed to arrive here

until 11 30 precisely i've come up last

night

kip's out there for us monkey it wasn't

all why did you come up last night dodge

all this caber i knew there was

something not kosher what made you think

it wasn't straightforward he knows

squire never let us down yet

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you're quite sure it's safe here i

guarantee you mr macklin how about the

artillery ain't accurate

they're all artillery

accurate

is that it 18b 27f

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i think we have our first arrival apart

from mr macklin that is

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reporting as orders

well done

take a breather i shouldn't have longed

to wait huh

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reporting for duty sir

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six still to come

someone said

god

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i fully understand or concern for a

colleague who appears to be wounded very

commendable in his way but a test course

is not the place for chivalry

this officer cadet is under test

conditions as you are

she's now not completed the course under

her own steam

by your actions you could have

jeopardized her chances of acceptance

and ruined your own

i just didn't think of that

i'm sorry lesson

i make the further point

but as from this moment

none of you

whoever turn back for a stricken comrade

the job must take precedence

now if any of you consider that you

cannot accept this inhumane attitude

i urge you

back away from us here and now is that

understood

sorry yes sir yes sir

sir

top brass

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splendid day for a shindig lieutenant

where is uh exercise harvey excuse me

sir can you clarify no nonsense

lieutenant i'm from command just uh

looking in on your games

can you tell the range to stop now it's

all over beside no tell the range to

stop i haven't got all day

all right drive on

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you never said anything about driving

through a bombardment oh come on die

it's better

just than rev

a real rogue nigel i tell you if we get

out of this alive i'll have you thrown

out of the tennis club tennis club

what's up windsor seven alert i say

again alert over

seven this is control go ahead

control windsor seven

you have a fiery brigadier from command

on his way to you and he doesn't look

too happy

out to you

wins the seventy wentworth ceasefire

immediately

cease fire immediately

over and out

almost time

our captain garden has got our buffing

so one departure

not so bad

it has stopped

it worked

it worked

they've stopped i don't understand

there's still a minute ago

colonel sir there's some staff brass on

their way staff brass yes sir

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reporting as ordered sir

well done

may i dismiss my driver so i don't want

her to get into any trouble

you and she should have thought of that

before practicing as schoolboy japes

she's honored now let's take her chances

yes sir

you might add

that where i see i would circle round

widely to the left

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i wish i thought of that one clever

glitter is all we need the bus will be

leaving at 1300. major would you like to

come with me in my car

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well done all of you

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so

new arrivals report at the desk on the

left inside the main hall no discussion

if you please no smoking if you please

no one to leave the entrance hole you'll

be shown to your quarters after

registration formalities you

smarten yourself up

move it move it

this way ladies and gentlemen please

put your luggage down here it'll be

taken up when your rooms are allocated

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and uh would you please fill in these

cars for me

no smoking in the old before five sir

colonel doesn't like it

and remove your rats please

where do i get a drink then t is served

at five sir in the mess

all right here sir as you prefer

and for every single contact until

further notice you will use only the

nickname is that understood sir

i shall now require you to sign the

official secrets act i've already signed

it sir at mincing hampton sir yes so

your report indicates but i like to keep

my own records just in case things get

lost don't do any harm sign again

then give your nickname to the desk

sergeant he will issue you with a billet

number and the

corporal will show you your quarters

tears at five

sure

he impressed me this afternoon

next

mrs robinson yes or rather in need of a

washing rusher this is major gallagher

who is your group leader and who

selected you originally

my name is colonel squires i'm oc this

training establishment

thank you you will henceforth be known

only by your nickname mel your true

identity shall remain unknown outside

this room is understood yes that's quite

understood sir

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now what

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all right i'm walking i'm walking

mr lovell your arrival at the rendezvous

point left something to be desired

now i appreciate that you are a civilian

and that we can't expect the same

natural reaction from you as from people

half trained in the world would you mind

if i sat down

the major is your group leader level

quite apart from military rank and

discipline i should have thought it

elementary courtesy to remain standing

while he does i had a highly technical

job to complete before i reported for

this shindig i haven't been to bed since

tuesday i'm very tired yes even so if

you're to take part in this exercise and

we need your technical expertise then

you will have to become as physically

tough and self-sufficient as the rest of

the team

you can sleep tonight

and every night for the next few weeks

but for the rest of the time you will

work as hard as the others i'm sorry mr

lovell but that is the way that it has

to be oh may one know what it is that

you have in mind

i can't think i'm indispensable in the

kidnapping of hitler so that's one

possibility ruled out

now for obvious reasons you will not

learn of our objective until immediately

prior to leaving

in any case the training is basic and

general ah more wide games for overgrown

boy scouts perhaps we think it can save

thousands of lives even boy scouts take

a certain pride in that

i understand you gave this to our driver

to post

i'm afraid i can't allow you to do that

sort of thing if you write letters they

will reach my adjutant for censoring we

have to be security conscious level

surely he was subject to that even at

the laboratory it's got nothing to do

with this place i haven't been here long

enough to learn anything look

it's just

instructions for the poor devil who's

taking over my job well i'm stuck here

i'm aware of that i've already read it i

was going to post it for you but not in

this vicinity

mr lovell

if we doubted your loyalty you would not

be here

censorship merely ties to a null what we

all inadvertently let's slip

i'll take you to the desk

i i can manage myself

last one

i think we may have a problem with mr

lovell he was wished on the colonel the

boffin said he was the best man for the

job and i have to accept it

he has no military background no but he

will adapt

yeah

shall we push the boat out over an hour

to go before dinner

no i wasn't really speaking about his

non-military aspect

unless i miss my guess

our technical expert has a chip on his

shoulder

red brick rather than oxbridge and

that's a tricky one to get over and a

device socialist i'm sure there's no

cure for that apart from decades of

reality cynic

realist oh boy

pity we have to keep the blighter we

need his expertise

say he decides to chuck it

well there's not much we can do about

that is there

it's the door on the right side

there we are

and there'll be the two of you

it's not too bad

hello again

oh i suppose there's no reason not to

get acquainted i'm mess songs who are

you um

or what nickname have they given you oh

yeah uh ebu yeah gather we're all birds

or something stupid

and you all sport

shuka

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oh no no i'd rather think they're

summoning us to dinner how quaint oh

this place has to be some sort of an

asylum nonsense old boy absolutely on

form john let's see if we get damas

napkins and victorian silver oh do we

get the headmaster's address before or

after hall hmm suit yourself

shall we go and see what's on offer

oh yeah

okay

kindergarten's gone sir i know i know

oh

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now i hope everyone has a drink to hand

because i shall bore you for at least

five minutes

i have a jolly little course planned for

you which we will complete in crash time

i'm afraid not my idea simple necessity

classes will be conducted in english but

all meals which we take together will be

french speaking from tomorrow breakfast

you will have no leave

nor will you leave the grounds without

special permission

now your course it divides into roughly

three sections

one

a general training program to bring you

up to an acceptable standard this will

include physical training

unarmed combat weapon training ours and

theirs use of wireless and rt

combat survival living off the land

and um some specialized items which

you'll discover in due course

two

practical field exercises including

parachuting

most of these will be under simulated

live conditions all ammunition used will

be in the main live

three

how to resist interrogation and

psychological stress

i said my piece major would you like to

add in these just two things sir firstly

i'd like to stress the security aspect

of your training while you're here

you'll be under constant observation

secondly watch out for booby traps

initially harmless but gradually

increasing in effect

they're there to persuade you to be

constantly and permanently alert

well

tonight you relax and become acquainted

tomorrow and thereafter be on your guard

that's awesome

well this is your mess corporal moffat

dispenses drinks thank you for your

attention

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aren't you staying with your people not

tonight let them get to know each other

first

mr macklin

i have tolerated

your early arrival at the rendezvous

this morning

and i accept the fact that you feel

somewhat out of your element at the

moment it is rather different from his

majesty's prisons

but if you want to return to yourselves

i can arrange it very promptly and

ensure that you sit out the full term

without remission for whatever reason

now if you take my advice you'll

go to the mess join the other members of

your team and let them tell you the

upshot of the lecture it does affect you

you may be sure

doing your prep

call it revision

i have to assume that viedo has been

telling us the truth and that his plans

are accurate

if they're not we've had it well i don't

see why you should lie about it oh boy

after all he's here now if he likes it

or not he must know that he's on ice and

he'll prove true

if this thing goes [ __ ] i shall

personally slit his throat

wherever they take him

some jolly little internment camp isle

of man i gather not my favorite stamping

ground

ever been

look shove it away for tonight come and

have a walk around the grounds

you've got six and a half weeks to sort

out the details

and then there's always the chance of a

windfall

this your key or mine yours oh boy never

part with mine not even to trustees

yes i have an urgent signal for major

gallagher sir he's not in his room

thank you

i think you better hear this

in the event of launching sites

multiplying in the immediate future it

is likely that southern britain will

have to face a barrage of more than one

thousand missiles per day

stockpiling is estimated to have reached

over twenty thousand missiles

photorecord stills of suspected

launching sites

you can see the burn marks from trial

launchings

fertorecki and ground intelligence have

uncovered nine launching sites

it will be reasonable to assume that

this represents something like one-third

of the true figure

intelligence reports the guidance

mechanism on the fzg76 is now perfected

and the first batch is expected from the

factories once tooling is complete

estimated time 28 days can we advance

well can we

not by one more day major

not if you want to achieve what we

intend

not if you want your team to survive

answer is no

will you send the refusal signal or

shall i

and the fourth arm continues tomorrow

night at five past twelve coming next

edge of darkness

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so

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so

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you