All language subtitles for The+Fourth+Arm,+Episodes+4+5+6.+BBC+Television+series,+1983

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so

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ah

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enemy right macau

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come on

who's gone jan

mindset major

watch how you load it next time

a jam magazine in a skirmish could be

fatal i know

that's all for this morning ladies and

gentlemen

close on the truck this way

all right major

region gallagher sir

sorry

look

it's blood this [ __ ] not with blanks for

god's sake

who loaded the ammo i put three boxes on

the truck away did you think it was

blank grieve

get the jeep

quick

i'll try and stop the beating

all that too

all let you

it's very cold

feel his pulse

we can put him on the front seat

just a minute

thought so

tomato juice oh god

quite right evil

what we call the crisis reaction test

has to be done we've got to find out how

you'd stand up to a nasty situation

right everybody back in the truck quick

or we'll be late for the seo's lecture

check your guns and mags

cheer up

nobody's dead

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i can't bear to see blood

sorry

but you better get used to it

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right

hey james

sergeant

german army intelligence fighter ab

thailand

he's badge ordinary vermont not to be

confused with sd or zika heights dentist

officer in the alga miner ss

black uniform highly trained mostly

fanatical

their badge the gruesome toten cop

fought death's head not inappropriate

for these traps

now this

is not a german at all i'm showing him

to you as a reminder that not all

frenchmen are on our side

he is a member

of the milies french paramilitary

organization loyal to the former vichy

government they are still about

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now look at this

this is a classified advertisement in

the paris war in fact it's a coded

message

placed by one of our agents to inform a

local resistance circuit of the time and

place of a night aircraft landing very

clever you might think well it was

spotted and decoded by a watchful

collaborator we lost half a dozen highly

trained men and women

another warning that not all frenchmen

are to be trusted

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come on lying down again come on

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are you trying to kill me you've got to

be quicker grabbing my legs

don't let the other bloke get that lock

on your arm

see okay

no i'm not okay

you've wounded my shoulder i have to get

used to that mom

right

next customer

come on let's have you

i don't fancy all this laughing about

without knowing what's at the end of it

for us giving them a blank check on our

services that's what we're doing then

why did you volunteer

i didn't

i was sprung from the jug

and here i am punching about on a

country house learning a wrestling talk

froggy i mean what is this place a kid's

skull watering of black friars

i like it with a spot of leave i've been

cooped up here for weeks

it's not healthy there's not going to be

any leave corbo and that's that i got us

on tomorrow then

cross country run at 6 30.

half an hour for breakfast out in the

firing range by 8 30 i'm matt reading

morse tree climbing and french

well that's up to lunch

while cutting on explosive charges all

afternoon then a night exercise followed

by a debriefing i'm told

i dreamt last night that i was lying

beside the river with rita hayworth

had a dry martini in one hand and a

tasty leg of chicken in the other

which river was that then

good night

oh do you want the lighter

lights evil

all hmm

um

do you uh

do you always smoke in bed

only when i'm nervous squire

well

what are you nervous about

i don't want to go back to the neck

it is nice to belong to something

i mean

come

colonel ah hugh

today's report it's a bit later so i

brought it up myself oh that's right i

understand double the number of training

periods

how do you think they're standing up to

the pressure pretty well

mccall is the most promising customer

from what i've seen so far

he's got initiative and plenty of dash

especially with the ladies i understand

i'm sorry my french girl cracked a bit

today i had high hopes of manziel raw

not if she gets upset at the side of

blood well it isn't all that long since

she lost her fiance

she'll settle down

and rossignol i'm so fortales

she's much more stable

yeah

fine physical specimen

stare

last the distance

no doubt sir

um

i usually arrange a modest bet with my

group leaders on who constitute the

final selection now i think we're far

enough

into the course to judge the form

how about a fiver you're on colonel good

i have my list here

sealed of course

i've exempted love or he's essential i

see from your report that he was the

first to spot the deception this

afternoon yes he was

let's hope he doesn't get too [ __ ]

and pack it in sir

that is the one thing i dislike about

modern warfare

we are all at the mercy of these boffins

i do not warm to specialists

possibly a fault in me there it is i

hadn't suspected that you admitted to

false

i only said possibly

i think we should cut down on the

curriculum

oh

harlem

by living off the land for instance

laying out flare parts field craft

it isn't as if they're going in for long

i think we should concentrate on what

they need for the job itself let them

pick up the rest if they decide to stay

on in special duties

i'll consider it

i still intend to get them ready for the

tenth

is that number out of a hat are you

privy to information denied your

superior just call it intuition

look here hugh let me make one thing

very clear

as far as i am concerned these people

will leave here as highly trained agents

not bloody cannon fodder

come in

excuse me yes corporal what is it all

right to close up the nest now sir

all gone up to bed are they

how do you think they're shaping up

corporal

flaked out most of them sir yes corporal

but apart from that ah

i do have one or two observations sorry

for me

yes miss rossignol sir she kicks a bit

apart

she has a tendency to be secretive

anything else

yes sir mr corbeau's been at it again

he's been telling about life in the

north atlantic convoys in a mess tonight

they're still unaware that you speak

french yes sir

very well if that's all you can close up

and go to bed as well good night

sir nightmare

hugh

if our lords and masters are getting

twitchy they can find someone else to

train their task force for them all

right colonel

we'll stick to the original date we must

it's tight enough as it is for god's

sake let's be sure they're fit to go

i'm going to get lit up when the lights

go up in london

i'm going to get lit up

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oh

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now i know it's a lot to expect of you

fluent wt signaling in morse after only

one week but the other subjects had to

come first how fluent is fluent 14 words

a minute by monday week right and then

we start on n and decoding now it can be

done

once you can crack that morse alphabet

after that it'll all come easy i promise

now look try and think of a word for

each letter that has the same rhythm as

the morse so for instance

hey that's dot dash isn't it

da da

alone b

daddy d

basically

c uh dash dot dash dot dot daddy so

how about um

charlie chester about charlie chester

sir how do you say the word cab sugar

have a try

okay

c-a-b

send it out on your key

yeah let shuker do it

now relax the arm that's it

charlie

chester

uh alone

b

basically how's that that's it you're on

your way just keep practicing it'll soon

come on do sos yes well everybody can do

sos i can do semaphore you know with

flags can you see us plodding through

frauds waving flags hello jerry's here

we are

now just go through the alphabet would

you at your own speed

right i told you lot from some

experience of this well let's just see

how fast shall we

shut down ray prepare a message and the

others turn your switches to receive

not more than a dozen words

ready very well send not too fast

darling give us a chance

hand over mouth and nose knife right

around to cover the three main points

one vane windpipe otherwise

right

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break dog freedom

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when somebody

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under

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we'll all be lit up as the strand was

only more much more

you look healthy enough i must say it's

a trifle fatigue fatigue rather enough

feet honestly sir you'll have to forgive

me if i fall asleep in the middle of

dinner well i shan't because you're

sitting next to me tonight

here's to a happy and successful

conclusion to the course did you say

conclusions

sir

very well come along

those bags

now i gather he asked for an early

discharge from the hospital wanted to

get on with the training for what's left

of it good for him let's hope his legs

up to it

mel you can't sit here by me i haven't

had the pleasure lately iron delta

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there's a place over here

foreign

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and there's

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and a lot of sweet

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come on

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we'll have a barrel of fun

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bring out

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foreign

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northbound road leading to village here

skirts inlet used by jerry service corps

mostly qm and ammo

local resistance reserve reports german

truck unloads 2100 hours

two germans make the crossing one

century deployed now

from twenty hundred hours one resistant

will be in position on this side to

report progress that's you ferdi

you'll contact your oppo iran dell on 34

meters frequency 687 and ciphered

the assault team will be deployed on the

far side of the wood awaiting directive

from ferdi objective

seizure of german truck using minimum

force and with utmost dispatch

right suggestions

grief

a century will have to be disposed of

and we should have covered

but you could move in ahead and cover us

from there as soon as you're in position

i'll run in and grab the truck and the

century

well i could deal with him as soon as i

got the engine started irondale breaks

cover and boards a truck and grieve as

well on the move if necessary the

exercise must be carried out at the

utmost speed

from the time you receive ferdi's

message for the whole operation i'm only

going to allow you five minutes

and if the timing goes wrong or the

germans try to intercept well that's

your problem at worst wound and impede

pursuit

now let me make myself clear grief

this is an undercover operation not a

free-for-all sure

leader for the assault team tonight

corbo

sir as you were grieve

anything else

is there a weather report measure good

met office reports a light southwesterly

breeze southwest

and we better keep downwind of them

although i'll hear us trampling through

the undergrowth may be better approached

by this road here

less sound huh

agreed

sir good

that all

right equipment and weapons will be

issued at 1800 hours

you're quite clear on your frequency and

coding i think so sir well don't think

so iran they'll be sure

we're talking about life and death

you've got precious little time to get

these things right all of you

good luck

um

um

uh

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all right freddy says the trucks arrived

they're loading the ammo and there's one

sentry

grief off you go

there's not much time is that hello

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i can make

it him time to clear and follow me

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bye

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go

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colleen

no

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don't go with these

foreign

all right that'll do that's enough

let it go

sorry about that cobo seem to have cut

your lip

it's all right it assumes i'm bleeding

when i die

gobble you'll get worse than a cut lip

if you go and do anything so amazingly

stupid in the field as you did on

exercise tonight i can tell you that

stupid

what going back for a female colleague

in trouble

male or female corbeau the object of the

operation was to grab a german

ammunition truck the only object and you

failed once you've got it started you

should have carried on regardless of

your wt operator

agents who fall and twist their ankles

have to look after themselves

there's no time for chivalry in this

game

well i come a decency i call it calling

would you like in this job we don't go

back to lame ducks is that clear

sir

the job is the only thing that matters

that's what makes it a special job

a half-dead comrade is no substitute for

vital information or the operation

carried out

you are killing thousands to keep your

conscience cozy don't

do it

all right you can turn in now

and you two grieve

you did all right all right revise at

six for pt so you won't get much sleep i

don't want to sleep for what's left of

tonight great

in this job you get all the sleep you

can get any time anywhere got it

sure

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all right off you go then

oh and you better watch that ankle if

it's swollen in the morning you better

miss pt

in the morning it's swollen now

all right no pt then

you can catch up on your signaling you

messed up your procedures a bit tonight

didn't you

i'm sorry

i'll try to do better really i will

are you alright

morning love good morning what happened

to you

twisted the old ankle poor lucky girl

you missed a grueling pt session

all good has made us do 100 press ups

without a rest i'm so hungry i could eat

six plates of bacon and eggs why don't

you ask them you know please sir can i

have some more i might put on weight

i'll lose my irresistible charm

of course

you will play

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so

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rub

come on

what are you doing on that seashore

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what is it sir

taylor 28 last case i'm afraid pretty

good full of portal oh yes i am now

that's something the walls taught me

fairly soaked up the stuff in our

battalion mess and uh one had to keep

one's end up you always drink four

glasses after dinner then good god have

i really there's no harm in that so long

as he's misspelled and his liver can

stand not slowing my words am i saying

we're not in the slightest oh thank god

for that

a bit tired tonight so i better watch it

i think we all are i'll tell you one

thing mesons you'll leave this place

fitter than you've ever been in your

life and tougher whatever else happens

yeah i can believe that

girls are standing up to it well of

course they are

they've got to share that they're a

match for

in the field as well as the boudoir

i suggest you run along and entertain

them you can't leave it all to a young

corbeau and for god's sake tell him to

play something a bit more cheerful right

you are sir

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the colonel order me went to take the

ladies so uh man i entertain you

i can't blame him she's the prettiest

thing we've had through here for some

time

what better way to perfect your french

what

i'm up to good night

i'll see you in the morning good night

good night

uh would you ask ferdi to join us

if you want to

does he scare you

yes he does a bit he seems so sort of

i don't know moody i suppose so would

you be if your country had been overrun

by the germans it's an excuse for being

look shall i ask him to join us yes or

no well i do

excuse me

i'll go to bed

mr ferdi

would you care to join us

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good evening this year

good evening we've just been talking

about this tune the one that kobo is

playing

do you like it

are you as tired as we are

no

no i'm not tired it's just that

my leg gives a little pain

i am sorry

yes i heard you've been in hospital are

you still receiving treatment for it

doctor's coming tomorrow to see to it

thank you

for making the inquiry oh

not at all

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i know that uh we are not supposed to

talk about our private lives but uh

well i i should like to say that i feel

for you

having friends and relations left behind

in france

thank you

and

well

i'm sure that you will all be

soon together again

there is no one

yes well i think i'll be getting off to

bed i'm very tired so if you'll excuse

me good night

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i'm not keeping you am i

oh do go to bed if you want to

no i'd be happy to talk with you

if i may

of course

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you play bizet charmingly

well you do everything charmingly

you fire your sten gun with charm

you wrestle

throw grenades

read a map

and play cards all charmingly

please message

do not try to flirt with me

let us be friends and comrades

comrades in arms

i do not joke

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please do not try to make love to me

i don't want this

i'll try

but i can't promise

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myth

oh

doesn't matter

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gavrin i cap you not tonight thank you

colonel

good night

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you're rather good on the old ivories

aren't you thank you sir

where did you learn to play the piano

like that

dolly jacket sir i was in the school

dance band

oh yes

whatever became of manfred

your best friend at dallas mr wilson

german boy from dresden

also in the school band

how did you know sir

did you ever see him after leaving

school

yes i did i went to stay with his family

in the black forest

summer before the war

we fell out he was full of nazi ideas

things i couldn't possibly agree with

we had quite a row

he's probably in the ss now

how did you know about map regardless oh

i seem to remember reading something

about it in your file

we do check up on our new intake

school friendships can sometimes be

stronger than love of country you know

so i've seen what the birds can do if we

had the slightest doubt about your

allegiances you wouldn't be here

enjoyed our little jen

night gobbo

do you mind if i join you oh no please

do

where's the colonel being nice or not

nice

oh yeah it's very friendly

yes i admire him

well i can imagine him taking part in

the trooping of the color but uh

no somehow i just can't see him in a

battle i wheedled it out of myth the

other night

the old boy got an emcee at dunkirk

he swam his entire company out of the

ships got them all on board under heavy

dive bombing

he got a bit of shrapnel in his back in

greece and 41. got his men out again

and a dso

it's not bad for a guardi is it

how's your leg

oh

much better thank you

we've all been told not to ask you how

you injured it

i can only guess

you were working for the resistance

if so

may i offer you my warmest admiration

thank you

that seemed to be a gentle hint from

corporal moffatt yes i think it's time

we all went to bed

thank you

thank you

thank you for being nice to him i do

wish the others would be oh they will be

in time

they'll have to be

he's an important part of what we're

doing haven't you guessed

yes

yes sir

not likely

all right bill

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okay

for what is it can you spare a minute

sir

oh

case of kiss me good night sergeant

major is that it massage oh my god

my song

how's your work

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i say massage

you really are rather a chump aren't you

so

we'll discuss this in the morning

oh oh my long for bed is this exercise

nearly over all right ladies you can go

back to your bed now it's all over

thank you

what was it myth

it's with the massage man he's had a

slight mishap

oh

is he all right he'll survive

i do not propose to labour this business

message i will say only this

you were not on your guard and you

panicked

if you had perpetrated this charade

before your training here it might have

been vaguely excusable to have done so

after being with us at the hall for four

weeks

is an absolute disgrace

had this been for real in enemy

territory miss orange would probably

have been deprived of those parts he was

hoping to use

you must apply everything you are

learning here to everything you do

everything

all right sit down as soon as try and

benefit from the experience

so major kidney will now carry on with

the somewhat more relevant subject of

sabotage with special reference to

laying of explosive charges sir major

i'm sorry

it just goes to show

they are not ready for it i do not like

short courses here

it has to get into their bones become a

way of life

you haven't forgotten our little wager

have you no sir

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any fancied horses as yet

no

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what a shower hey

letting in all sorts these days i don't

know

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the story continues at 5 past 12 next

monday annex tonight edge of darkness

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so

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foreign

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so

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so you're behind enemy lines you're cut

off you've lost all contact for the

moment with the rest of your unit

you're trapped inside this building and

the only way out is through this door

which is locked

meanwhile

outside in the street

the balloon's gone up

and jerry is conducting a house to house

to find you

all of which means that if you don't get

out of here pretty damn quick you're

finished

i'm gonna be a p.o.w

you're in civvies

and the gestapo will make a meal of you

so

any suggestions knock the doors down

with your shoulder side

sir

yes corporal message from colonel's

choir sir glad to see you back at the

hall right away tell him i'm on my way

sir

i told you the street outside is

swarming with jerry's

i doubt if you'll get away without

making some noise

but a pistol shot is distinctive it'll

pinpoint you above any background noise

nothing right

i'll make it easier for you

just so happen to have with you

half an ounce of plastic

and one detonator

so

you use the plastic to blow the lock and

the noise

sorry you would be mom

yes sir

kudos sergeant major

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so uh what we have here is half an ounce

that are necessary

and one detonator and as the sergeant

major quite rightly pointed out not a

bright idea making a big bang if you

want to get into somewhere without

disturbing the neighbors or in this case

out of somewhere so if i could just give

you your explosive back sergeant major

a boot lace gets a boot lace

i will

which leaves us

with one detonator

which is remember an explosive device in

its own right

and some matches

bootlace

matches

matches bootlegs get on with it

first

you take your boot lace

which now becomes

defuse

and you fit it

in the detonator

with a match head

and what have we got

we got a key and we just going to open

this door for us

and what about the noise sir still going

to make a noise

a jacket a blanket anything made of soft

material

you've got your detonator

in your lock

right

which you cover

with your blanket

thank you most kind

you can use a chair anything like that

making quite sure

that your fuse is dangling down nicely

where you can get at it

you light it

then you get the yellow out of the way

ah

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right if we've quite finished sukha

why don't we all get over to the assault

course

i'll let him tell you about it

all right

sir

hi gallagher good to see you something

up

i don't know possibly

no we just had a report from de grushi

the last 48 hours that dump has been

swarming with german shepherds well

they're widening their mind for you

but that minefield's been laid for some

time not why exactly

so

what's happened to suddenly make him

nervous but couldn't it simply be that

someone's taken a look at the place and

decided that the defense is inadequate

yes in fact that's by far the most

obvious reason but i have to say again

why the rush well what are you

suggesting sir

that there aren't to us

i'm not sure

the feedback we've been getting from one

of our spies in the high command

indicates that the germans are well

aware of several squads like hiro

being lined up for special sabotage

missions in europe with france as the

priority target for obvious reasons

of course it could mean that they've

simply cracked a couple of codes but

on the other hand

it could mean that they've got one of

their own people inside our setup

so

all group commanders being asked to look

at their teams again just keep your eyes

open for anything remotely suspicious if

there is the slightest suspicion that

there's a traitor wouldn't the sensible

thing be to abort all the teams and

start again with entirely new people yes

tim indeed it would

but there simply isn't time

look what i'm going to tell you now is

uh it's not to be repeated

we believe this dump you're after

there's only one or possibly three or

four in france

so by blowing it up or you're not

solving the problem you are merely

buying us a few more weeks

and a few more weeks which could be

vital to the whole course of the war

see the yanks have been doing their

homework on this

and allowing for their customer

exaggeration

well they reckon that if the germans

have saved 50 of these missile launching

ramps

then they can put 14 000 of these

rockets onto london

per day 14 000 per day

well the target's got to be hit

gentlemen whatever the cast

if we have to go into this with a

traitor in our midst

that's just too bad

but we'll do our damnedest to winkle him

out her hmm

or her

yes sir lovely so

thank you all right that was a pretty

neat trick today with the detonator yeah

well just a little something i've picked

up in the course of my misspent you and

now you owe me one bootles yeah sorry

about it

it weren't for the blackout i'd knit by

bond street get you a nice pair of shoes

who would have thought the blackout

would have been a distinct advantage

any thoughts

i've been through them until i'm blue in

the face

as far as i'm concerned they're all as

clean as choir boys

yes

so we'd expect them to be wouldn't win

i mean if one of them is a spy that

jerry has planted on us he make damn

certainly his cupboard was perfect

wouldn't he

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have you ever done me parachute jumping

before me i get vertigo on tall

pavements

should be terrified oh you know what to

do just shut your eyes and think of

england or in your case france

don't you ever wonder what this

mysterious job is we're being trained

for oh best not to careless thoughts

cost lives especially if you're talking

it has to be a big one and urgent the

way they're working us

well between you and me there is this

channel of tash hangs about in this

place called berta's garden and epm has

decided that you'd like a few shopkins

sometimes i think we must be men

volunteering for an assignment we don't

even know anything about

why did you volunteer

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i hate the thought of them occupying my

country

i keep thinking of my mother

so if there's anything i can do to get

them out of france i'll do it really

anything

yes

why did you volunteer for special duties

well

the way i see it if you're gonna have a

war you might as well get some fun out

of it

and it certainly wasn't much fun being

stuck behind a desk moving paper clips

around so that's all we're in it for

then fun

no

there is quite a bit more

actually

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but you seem to revel in all of this so

much i mean doesn't any of it frighten

you thought of what we might be getting

into lots of things frighten me

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especially beautiful french girls

i can see that

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shut honorary her boyfriend was flying

spitfires for the raf she escaped from

france to be with him when he was killed

she immediately joined the free french

and volunteer for special duties

presumably to have a go back at them

unlikely very

grieve

duncan cameron boy soldier and commando

well you're hardly likely to join the

commandos if you're a german spy it's

far too dangerous i agree

mal

ellen robinson

well her husband bought it at dunkirk

which is why she's with us most unlikely

macklin thief and joe bird no sir i

cannot see it he's a professional

criminal when the war's over that is

what he'll go back to he's only in this

for one thing for money and his free

pardon of course the germans would be

ready to pay him handsomely if you're a

german spy you do not make a living on

the side cracking safes you might just

get caught and spend the rest of the war

in prison which sort of defeats the

object of planting you in the first

place

yes uh

unless of course he's made contact with

him since how

with the limited opportunities he's had

how would he make contact

yeah i didn't

lambor he alerted us to the dump in the

first place

sally burkitt irandell

lived in germany till she was 16

absolutely no cover far too likely sir

yes i agree

corbo jeff wilson ex-merchant seaman

fished out of the water twice ferrying

supplies across the atlantic

on the second occasion the u-boat

surfaced and he held them off

practically single-handed with a machine

gun until they shot the ship from under

him i cannot see it sir

lovell

well professor evans vouched for lovell

and colonel guillemer's known professor

evans for years

now which

leaves which leaves captain mccauley

and

simon portales

no we're going around in

circles oh what do you think i don't

think sir there is nothing to go on

tomorrow they're due to go on a

parachute course yes

it gives us an excellent opportunity to

go through their things

30.

oh sorry i'm disturbing you no no my

eyes were getting tired anyway hmm what

are you reading

it's by voltaire

do you know it

you're not a bookworm then eh oh i'm

pretty strong on bulldog drummond

what was it like

your bookshop in france

do you know about that

oh small ugly

full of dark corners and dust

sounds nice

had a certain charm i suppose

before the books were taken there was a

distinctive smell of wood

leather

and french cigarettes

and old books of course

did you know that you can never get rid

of the book smell

when you were in there all the time

you'd hardly notice it

but when you came back from the holiday

greeted you like an old dog

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what did you mean

before the books were taken

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one day

the door of my shop was kicked open

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gestapo came in

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they started destroying the books

when i objected

i was kicked in the groin

they took everything

every book

some of them were quite irreplaceable

they piled them

out in the street

and set fire to them

why

why did they do that

was it because they knew that you were

working for the resistance

no i wasn't working for the resistance

up until that time the war had not been

quite that personal then i i don't

understand

what was the point

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if you are trying to hold down a hostile

civilian population

in those circumstances a book

is more deadly than a hand grenade

ideas freely expressed

ten thousand times more explosive than

dynamite

you see from their point of view

it wasn't just a book shop

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it was an arsenal

and it had to be destroyed

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what a terrible experience for you

you have the gift of listening

that is very rare

well it's probably because i don't have

very much to say for myself

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i can hardly believe that

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this course you're going on

you're going to be away for two or three

days right

apparently yes

i look forward to our next meeting

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oh no joker in the pack no sir

well what do they do at nestwood they

ought to arrive there around tea time

well it's just the entire team has kept

hunters to stick to surveillance the

entire time they're there just in case

that is already laid on yes and for my

part i've already arranged to have the

entire team checked out thoroughly all

over again

oh come on you why if none of us was

ever deceived there'd been any for smart

there's no consolation somehow sir if

you're the one who invited them in

every single member of that team was

checked out by all consent so let's have

no more of that now anything else i can

do for you if i go yes there is actually

sir if the germans have enlarged the

minefield then we would have some

detailed idea of the extent of it

i suppose you'd like some vertical 36

inch land stop of the area yes sir

well it's already laid off right here

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foreign

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come

ferdie would like to see you sir

very well show him in sir

thank you oh

how's the leg oh it's much improved

thank you good

it's going to be very quiet here for the

next few days huh

with the team over at nestfood yes give

you an excellent opportunity to rest the

leg

oh isn't that what you meant

i would like to join them well don't see

the point you can't jump 30.

i'm sure my time wouldn't be wasted

there

besides i'm going to get very bored here

on my own

yeah so the bus is already left

i'm sure some alternative arrangements

can be made

major gala is driving over there

tomorrow

see if he'll give you a lift

thank you culinaire

give me colonel grilling

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this way please

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it's always to come is it

can't wait

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so

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mom

thank you

it's very quiet around here yes ma'am

thank you

nesford is a village nearby isn't it

that's right mom about five minutes walk

down the road

not but you might call the throbbing

heart of civilization

four houses post office in the pub

andy what is the beer

doesn't everybody these days do you mind

hey

just for the hell of it

let's put our heads together and work

out what we're doing getting around it

what's so special about us

i've been talking to some of the others

you know the mammals and the fishes now

their courses are identical to each

other they're not the same as ours yes

they do seem to think we're rather

special

exactly i don't know what you're talking

about mate

look if you compare our course with the

others now what do we do that they don't

get bruises nothing serious ebook

well

what is demolition isn't it

we train with an emphasis on demolition

what are you trying to say corbin hang

on he's got a point here look all i'm

trying to say is if we think about it we

might be able to work out what it is

that we're being trained for well could

it have anything to do with the fact

that we speak french in the mess and

tomorrow we're going to learn

parachuting so we're going to be dropped

into france for a short term job right

right right involving a safe cracker

and a scientist

to get something out of a safe or a bank

something scientific well that's what i

think now ebu

what exactly is it that we're looking

for don't look at me i'm a conscript

slave labor

carried off in my prime oh yes

come on even

don't be so secretive now we've got a

pretty shrewd idea what most of us do

we're not playing soldiers

so what is this all about you really

want to know yes we do

well

i haven't the faintest

idea i reckon he's working for the crowd

to myself he keeps reading these dirty

great books in german you know talk

about doing it the artwork look most

scientists read german i mean they have

to if they want to keep up with things

look

don't underestimate the germans they're

very clever people

anyway

careless talk costs lives

oh what up here's robert the bruce where

you been they've just been thinking oh

no you i reckon they might just be going

to drop us into france

you look nice in a kilt and it's not all

aggies between the year old

yeah over here

we've got it all worked out

they're gonna drop us into the casino at

monte carlo right yeah now listen listen

well i'm doing a bank ebu is going to be

fixing the tables mathematical like the

girls will they're keeping the officials

at me then we run and leave massage to

chat his way into the palace yeah

raise the charges and blows the whole

caboodle off the face of the earth oh

and what do i do what do you do you get

the drinks in

yes anything no no no me

oh did i tell you

ferdie wants to get in this food

ah well

well maybe it's just balzer or missing

somebody

well from what i've seen he and merle

have been getting pretty cozy lately

i see

why wasn't i telling about this

quiet please

sit down thank you

thank you sergeant

anywhere doesn't matter

thank you

my name is preston and it's my unhappy

task to push you lot through a course in

three days that normally takes three

weeks

basically what i'm gonna teach you is

how to jump out of an aeroplane at five

thousand feet and get yourselves down

without breaking your ruddy necks

and i do intend to do that

if i have to break it running next to do

it

it is not going to be easy

now while you're here at nesford you

will of course have full and free access

to the officer's mess and all the other

usual facilities but the same simple

rules apply here as at your own place

stay inside the perimeter wire at all

times no telephone calls allowed and all

outgoing mail will be censored

apart from that any kind of direct

contact with the outside world is

strictly of a boat and is that

understood

right then

let's get over to the parachute store

get kitted out

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hello misa

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hurry up sir how's that comfy

thank you

anytime sir

mom

good

that shows we've got it on right

now then

gather round ladies and gentlemen

pay attention please

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you've now been introduced to your

parachute for the first time

treated like it was your mother

with reverence and respect

get to know it

it's in your interest because when you

jump from that decoder in two days time

it's going to be the only thing between

you and the

grave literally

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where can i find squadron leader preston

we'll be in the training hangar this

time a day sir thank you

i'll drop you off at the officer's mess

you can put yourself away all right

elbows in chin down and go go go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

go

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remove the steps

carry on

lock up and down

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good to see you how they're shaping well

good enough

they're better than average in the main

they'll do

security

don't worry nobody's giving away any of

your precious secrets

it's pretty tight without making it

obvious

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well um

oh it's nothing really

one of the girls was

probing about the local layout which one

the one you call rossignol

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just asking about uh night life and so

on

oh huge she's a pretty girl

anything else no

oh uh a lieutenant colonel guilham rang

said he'd like to see you right away

said it was urgent right

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oh

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what is it

well it is it's a ventilation jar from

the 1917 excavation

when were these taken

further reconnaissance got them for us

yesterday

we have to have the original plans of

the complex

can we possibly find out if they still

exist we'll do our best i got this man

here they're being brought down for

questioning this afternoon will you be

free

i will sir good

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you realize it's our way in

it's all coming together hugh

i think we might just pull this off

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right thank you sergeant

nelson remember the three things legs

together

knees bent and relaxed and you roll to

the side

if you don't you can break your leg or

your back or what's much worse spend the

rest of your life with a high-pitched

voice it'll either make a mess or a miss

out of you

right go

good

next man sergeant king right go

go

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next together lad

you all right

yes thank you sir

this had been for real you might want to

broken that leg yes sir

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right next man

go

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go

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go

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it's your ankle right oh yes i think so

i just mistimed it a bit that's all

that's a ventilation shaft isn't it

these are the latest photos we have of

the site monsieur their scale is larger

than the earlier ones that is a

ventilation shaft isn't it

should we go flying again don't think it

wouldn't be a pleasure that is a

ventilation shaft isn't it

yes tell us about it

there were ventilation shafts

they've been blocked up for years can

access be gained from any of the old

charge

no i've told you they've been blocked up

for years and this one

i suppose it is possible suppose you

know don't you

hm yes or no

yes it could be i don't know i haven't

examined it so

where does this one lead to inside i

don't know

but if you're enlarging existing

excavations maybe the french government

in 1917 and you were using their plans

then you must know where it leads to

i can't remember so you were using their

plans

where are they namaste those plans

where are they kept

in the war department

cartography section

don't believe you that's where you got

them from

but where are they now

in the war department cartography

section

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where are they

now

there are copies

in the district surveyor's office in the

town hall in summers

thank you

when i was here

joined a more receptive mood

perhaps we can talk about other things

like alarm systems mine fields

garrisons and so on

oh you take your time

i perhaps you'd like a cup of tea

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birdie

oh it's a nice surprise really yes good

how's it been going there oh i ache all

over you've missed nothing believe me

what on earth made you come oh i was

bored

and i missed you

somebody

where's the other girl

not seen as his dinner sir should i get

one of the wasps to check out the

women's quarters yes why don't you do

that

all the others present and correct

except for the one they call massage

you've been out about five minutes or so

can i get you a drink sir

yes

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inspecting the pitch before the match

tomorrow

something like that sir

we'll bat i think

there's a bit of an experience coming

out the old balloon for the first time

i'm sure

it's a lot worse than coming out of a

plane i always think

oh where's your ankle now oh it's

feeling much better thank you sir no ill

effects no sir

good show

well good night

good night sir

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now then

you're gonna go up there four at a time

to about 700 feet

your shoot will be released by static

line

so all you have to do is to jump when

you're told to

when the shoot opens

look up to check your canopy

hands on lift webs there may be

oscillation

look down to check your landing area

legs together relaxed

nothing to it

piece okay

and just to prove that

we've rigged up a sandbag up there with

its very own parachute

and as the sandbag comes down

what i want you all to do is to imagine

that that sandbag is you

all right

right corporal harrison

ready whenever you are

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oh there

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sorry about that

right

let's have the first four shall we

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sergeant king

we are not amused sergeant can't think

how it could have happened sir

it will never happen again sergeant yes

sir

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so

right sergeant i'll go out with the last

two i haven't had my weekly jump yet sir

hello what's the matter oh nothing sir

what is the matter oh it's my ankle sir

the one i hurt yesterday when i woke up

this morning i found it swollen up

during the night

why didn't you say so i thought it'd be

all right sir

you can't go parachute jumping man with

a swollen ankle on off you go report to

the mo let him take a look at it

yes sir

how long was rossignol missing

about half an hour from what we can

gather have you said anything to her no

good don't

i think i'll stay the night yes of

course

there's

something else

well it may be something maybe nothing

oh

come and meet jock saunders he's our mo

come on

a jock this is major gallagher who's in

charge of the new intake

you um

tell him about massage's ankle

well there's nothing to tell

nothing wrong with that

very x-rated

certainly nothing broken in there

what about uh

so what you're trying to tell us chuck

is that he is simply malingering no it's

not for me to say that

i mean you can never be 100 sure in

these cases

but if you want my professional opinion

about the ankle

i'd say there was nothing wrong with it

all right thanks john

thank you i want to see the final

performance now

all right go on brian what do you think

well

you wouldn't be the first one to have

second thoughts about coming out of that

balloon i need to know definitely brian

one way or the other

it is vital then and he makes a jump for

the show

absolutely

so what do you want us to

take him up this afternoon what about

the ankle strap it up what else

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700 feet one man stop

number two

number one

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up 700 feet one man jumping up 700 feet

what about jumping

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700 feet

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hello

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brian you were up there with him what do

you think

i think he was terrified

anything quite obviously there's a thing

about heights it's not that uncommon

still he jumped

if a man jibs once he's liable to do it

again but it really matters you know

that

happy landings i'll drink to that

so now what

we carry on of course

for the moment anyway

what about his girlfriend

you were telling me about your love life

i was not is there one

perhaps

anyone i know

we're not supposed to talk about our

private life oh i see

would you like another drink

what time is it 10 o'clock oh 2200 to us

no i think i'll go to bed i'm sure we're

going to have another hard day tomorrow

i'll see you home it's only down the

corridor a lot of things can happen to a

girl down the corridor especially in the

blackout come on

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absolutely fine

thank you for walking me home oh it's

the least i could do i mean a poor

defenseless expert in unarmed combat

like you

you're very sweet i know it's true

and you're very beautiful

you're not at all what you pretend to be

i do realize that

good night

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so long baby

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wow

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um

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so

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there's more drama from the fourth arm

tomorrow night at five past twelve and

stay with us because coming next it's

the penultimate episode of edge of

darkness

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ah

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so

so

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we're running up now

dispatcher team into position and hook

up

all right

ankle's still holding up all right hi

now sir you sure definitely

all right

dispatcher to pilot teams hooked up

they're ready to jump roger

approaching dz

red light on

green light

jump go

go

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and the clue she confirms that verde is

correct

the plans of the complex are in the town

hall at sauri in the surveyor's office

how does he know sir he has a man in the

drafting section

no the uh problem is getting them out

she has ever decreased he refuses to use

his group for this kind of operation

i must say for once i'm inclined to

agree with him i know if they messed it

up or well simply drew attention to a

suddenly missing set of prayers and the

germans have put two and two together

they must know that anything has

happened at all

no the uh the ball is well and truly in

our court

so what do you have in mind

i want um

you to go in and get them

how soon can you lay on a lysander well

julia

no no no no

no i don't think that'd do at all

there is no particular guard on the

premises oh why should there be but

there is a german troop presence in the

tire

and without the grocery you must have

backup colonel i don't want to back up

it's too risky accidents can happen

it has to be a quick salty buy a small

team

and where is this small team coming from

you will select three or four from your

luck presently training they're not

ready sir they're not properly trained

they haven't completed the course

nevertheless that's what we're going to

do

now you make your own selection

i'll be in touch as soon as i have jazzy

approval and can arrange the necessary

facilities for the drop

set

or hill there is one other matter

that french girl has been making outside

calls what's her name simon portals

like you to consider her for the team

oh she knows the time she knows the area

if she's clean that could be an

advantage

if she's not

let's hope we find out before too much

damage is done

and in that case

you get rid of her

and that's an order

sir

will you keep me involved

sir

put me through to joint intelligence

please

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right

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ladies and gentlemen we now come to the

final event at this afternoon's code the

grind

as you can see the field for this year's

race is a bit thinner than usual i'll

put it all down myself to the amount of

all sweet getting into the shop just

lightly

but you know as you can see they're a

very nice looking couple of phillies and

they're only doing the riding

here look any more bets we've already

cleared a book not quite the playing

field

yes but are you going to place a bet oh

uh two and six on the scottish one very

well

you've lost that darling

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ladies and gentlemen

what you see before you

is a very interesting contrast in styles

reflecting the typical national

characteristics of the aussies taking

part now with black beauty here black

beauty yeah we have those

unique unique qualities of style

elegance endurance you wouldn't make any

chance to be biased would you yeah i

would yeah i'm with a flying scotchman

here you have those typical scotch

characteristics of darwiness

yeah

yeah determination not to mention brute

strength and ignorance

will you get out with it and get the

crap in my knees

set

go

all right come on brian what's the

verdict

well as i've said before i could have

used another year at least

but uh given a calm night and a clear dz

i'd say they should just about get

themselves down without breaking any

boons

thank you brian

ever the optimist

and our boy

oh he's wetting himself there's no doubt

about it but he still jumped he could

hardly do anything else could he

not without totally losing face that is

not true

i've given him every opportunity to cry

off because of that ankle he's sound

look hugh

all right i don't know what's involved

but why don't you just talk to him

and put it to him straight that you know

there was never anything wrong with that

ankle in the first place

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it just might have to be a steward

inquiry

no i'm not too sure my songs weren't in

the field without that final thing

i never touched him you get out now i'll

find the interference you just give me

the pound you owe me and then you can

buy me a drink have a good time

well what are you going to have to drink

please

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in my office

what shall we talk about

if this horse doesn't get a drink soon

you'll get your head kicked in

come on

that's better you see what the little

garlic chard

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coming

good evening sir massage have a seat

thank you very much

enjoying your end of turn party oh very

much indeed it's absolutely right down

there cigarette uh no thank you sir

well massage

how bad is it

oh oh not too rough so the swelling's

gone down thank you very much hmm

no i'm not talking about your ankle

massage

i need to know how much it bothers you

jumping out of an aeroplane with only a

parachute for company oh it bothers

everybody a bit doesn't it sir yes but

you more than others

all right

i admit it

but it didn't stop me jumping

oh yes it did

yesterday you invented an injury to get

you out of making that jump

right

yes sir and sooner or later you knew you

were gonna have to make that jump

and things being what they are you might

have been making it on an actual

operation

now suppose you had refused again

i did jump sir yes

eventually

what are you telling me that i'm out

you know the way things work

because if you are i think you're being

bloody unfair oh do you all right i was

scared but i still jumped

i am still scared and it's not going to

beat me again why did you volunteer for

special duties in the first place i

could ask you the same question but i'm

asking you little boy i didn't join the

army i must have had on a service corps

i have just spent three years in

aldershot elgin tavistock i'm a damn

good officer i knew it and my colonel

knew it the only way i was going to get

a transfer was by making life hell for

them somebody to get rid of and now i'm

here i don't intend to leave quietly

massage get out

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any damage

only to my decisions

i'll chance him

your head old man

yes it is

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[Music]

oh

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morning everybody feeling a bit under

the weather are we you could say that

but say it quiet

you know whenever i used to do that all

this stuff ended up on the floor that's

because you're a scotch bird

no offense just can't help it no i mean

i learned quite a bit detained at his

majesty's pleasure mind you you do need

skillful fingers you know what i mean

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where are you always a

crook runs in the family as you might

say like a wooden leg

handed down

you know what i mean

here my old man you know he'd die

laughing if he knew i was working the

old line to get the bleeding army out of

trouble morning love feeling bright

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right everyone the bus leaves in two

minutes

isn't here yet sir never mind on your

feet

don't move

seems to have been a bit of a blitz here

last night brian

yeah we're used to that no it's not here

it's outside

yes sir two minutes here ondel sorry sir

that's it then brian thank you for your

help my pleasure didn't my lot do that

it certainly did oh i'm sorry

well let me know if anyone pinched the

silver

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no more sitting about

don't want to see you in this office sir

thank you sergeant major get this a lot

back to work as soon as they've had

lunch colonel gollum's there too sir

thank you sergeant major

right ladies and gentlemen

now you've done your birdman bit let's

get back to our spot of real work shall

we still you get in your quarters report

back in 15 minutes

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there oh i think there is something that

we all ought to discuss do you want to

take a pill yes

i am informed

that you have agreed to sortie using

some of the team that we're training it

seems to be necessary sir we've been

over this already tim i ordered carrick

to set it up and i wouldn't have given

that order unless i thought it was

absolutely necessary yes that is as it

may be i'm not qualified to comment but

i damn well am about the people you are

proposing to drag in they're not

properly trained the fact remains that a

team goes in

it's been approved by joint intelligence

i like the idea of sending in an untried

team as much as you do tim but there is

nobody else we can use at such short

ledges

very well

but i protest and i want it understood

that i shall record that yes of course

that will be very proper

ah if you consider who you're taking

macklin has to go sir for obvious

reasons you can't be serious if he so

much as opens his mouth he'll be picked

up straight away his french is atrocious

and he'll have to keep his mouth shut

it's about available options isn't it

sir when we hit that place we need

someone who can open doors

if it comes to a scrap cameron's the

handiest one to have around and i'd like

macaulay along for the same reasons what

about this parachute problem i do read

the reports you sent me if it becomes

necessary i'll kick him out of the plane

myself who's your best wt operator

solange i'd say by mile she's also

french of course

is that it

yes sir

and you're taking portals

as a courier yes sir correct me if i'm

wrong but my distinct impression

is that she was under some suspicion

either she is completely innocent or let

us suppose that she is what we suspect

in which case she's going to be sitting

around doing a knitting

now how much does she know how much has

she passed on already i need to know

that as soon as possible oh with respect

sir how the hell is sending her on this

mission going to help us establish that

one way or another

or if she's a plant

she'll be obliged to make every effort

to contact her friends

imagine yourself

catapulted into france at a time when

the invasion is expected to search out

and steal some plans that want it

urgently and what would you do in her

pledge

plus you would have to make a break to

try for contact yeah and if she does

that she jeopardizes the entire sortie

it's a justifiable risk yeah i disagree

sir it is irresponsible major gallagher

is very well placed to finish her on the

spot

i agree with kennel

we need to know

good

i'll be in touch with you staff i'll let

you know as soon as possible

nobody is to know about this operation

until it is too late to pass it off yes

sir

and you keep an eye on that lady

if you'll excuse me gentlemen

well

i hope you realize that if this thing

blows up you will be charged with full

responsibility

and the colonel the colonel will

suddenly be called to the outer hebrides

to train dolphins you are carrying the

can

make no mistake about it

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you noticed so it was us two who do this

quiet study bit you mean it's always us

two that are never quite up there with

the others

you think it's just not us

i don't know

i reckon i've been out in front because

i speak good french

and we're going to have three french

people put in the team

i took the wind out of my sails a bit

well i didn't know if i'd be up to any

of it but i wanted to have a go

i thought it'd be a bit

glam you know

but the others seem to do everything

naturally

there's more to it than that

well look at shuka he can only just cope

they need him

because he is what he is

it's the same with ibu

it doesn't seem to matter they can't

encode

we'll run a four minute mile

oh dear oh here are there the swaps are

at it

it's all right to you

what do you mean all right for me i'm

bored out of my mind

you're a phony evil you enjoy what we do

oh really well that's news to me i don't

understand any of this stupid nonsense

thank you

major gallagher is tied up for a couple

of hours so i'm standing in

these are copies of wt messages

they are encoded and were sent by agents

in the field there could be some

mistakes in the signal some in the

original encoding

some in the sending

some in the taking down

it's up to you to sort it all out but i

expect a simple signal in the kings

english in a clear unmistakable hand by

1500

get cracking

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come in

thank you sergeant

shut honorary briefly

i have to send a small team into france

i've chosen you to go in first and

report back

you intend to drop me into occupied fast

on my own

i haven't even finished my training i

know

i want you to go in tomorrow night

what do you want me to do

come over here

you will be landed by lysander into the

songi area here

you'll be met by a man called de grushi

he's the head of the local resistance

and he'll give you all the help you need

short of getting his own people involved

in direct action

the main unit will follow from here the

next day

we need to know if there have been any

important changes

if there are any troop movements

if there have been any changes to the

curfew anything that is new now the

grocery will help you with all of that

you may report back at any of your

scheduled times but

report back only once otherwise stay off

the air

when you send

your identification and coded message

nothing else unless of course there is

something that we need to know

is this understood

yes sir

you think you can code

any questions

not until my briefing

i don't think

i will be briefed

yes

yes you'll be briefed as for any

operation getting out will be 1700 hours

tomorrow

documents and identity briefing 2200

this evening this office clear

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so

important branding

what a treat always good for a headache

i think

i said to myself that miss chardonnay

looks a night under the weather

time to make up a drop of moffett's

mixture

thank you

just a headache

why didn't you go upstairs and lie down

much better for you miff's bought me a

clandestine drink

i think he's lovely he is

brandy and uh

you have it yeah

wait for me

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may i make a suggestion

only if it's decent

try

bringing your gun up first

and then down

like this yes

that's much better i think it is

thank you

my pleasure

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do you have a girlfriend i thought we

weren't supposed to discuss our private

lives

resting at the moment between

engagements you were engaged

yes actually

but not now no we broke it off why

the usual reason this war

we met at university

very intelligent girl

very committed politically communist yes

that way inclined

is that why you finished oh good lord no

no she had a right to her opinions even

if i didn't happen to agree with them

but then

war broke out

and oh she didn't agree with that either

especially to my being a part of it

so she didn't think you had a right to

your opinions then

do they ever

were you in love with her

oh yes

still

she's married now

oh

um

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rossignol

all we know about her is in that file

and it is thin

i'm asking you to go to paris

and to try and fill in some of the gaps

if i do

you'll be leaving by lysander tomorrow

night

they'll put you down at some poise

there's a train from shanti to paris the

following morning at 08 26

when you get to paris go to this address

see a man called philippe venay

he's expecting you

get him to check her out

find out anything he can about her

who she worked with

who she slept with

anything

i'm afraid you have less than a day to

come up with the information

rendezvous at the groceries farm on the

20th at 0 9 30.

i'll be there by then

i'm taking in a small team to do a

burglary job

i take it you agree to go

do i really have a choice

well let's say it saves us a lot of

embarrassment that you've volunteered

the file's not to leave this room

name jermaine elmer 26 unmarried

what are you doing in shanti i have come

to look for my cousin denise gipper

she's all i have left

my family and my home have all gone in

the british bombing where was your home

this week

i assume they checked out that address

they assured me that they did and the

date that it was bombed

i have learnt it major i know my cover

do you

good

now

there are three code words that i want

you to memorize

may west

greybull

hayworth

maywest means that the town hall is

heavily guarded and impregnable to the

sort of small squad that we will be

sending in sir

grey bull means that it is likely

patrolled and within our capability

right hey worth means that it is

entirely unpatrolled

may west greybull hayworth

correct

do i leave as planned

tomorrow night as planned

i'm sending you in a lot earlier than i

wanted

i'm afraid wars just don't wait

now

let's go through it again and then

buy your drink

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now today ladies and gentlemen we're

splitting into two groups for reasons

which will become increasingly clear as

we proceed

crossing your shukha grieve message

remain seated for briefing by major

galaga the rest of you come with me if

you please

come on hurry up

that's it man down there right

hang on

right gather around

right

now i want you for for a simulated

attack on a small market town

in general terms it's strictly a

hit-and-run affair and i shall be coming

with you

we will be parachuted into a dropping

zone five miles away from our objective

and at night

we will make our way across country we

will lie up during the following day we

will carry out the assault at night

again and we'll make our way back to the

assembly point before dawn

now

this is a layout of the town center and

our objective will be breaking into this

building here

the local town hall

now our best bet for easy access should

be at the rear of the building and it'll

be your job shuka to get us in it's like

old time let's hope you have more luck

than you did with your last job what are

we after in the town hall a set of plans

were they kept

we're told they're in the surveyors

department but we can't be sure of that

now we have to rely on our people on the

ground for that sort of information

the local resistance will be meeting us

at the dropping zone more fancy dress no

expense spared massage

you see the purpose of this exercise is

to test your ability to assimilate new

information and to act on it with speed

and efficiency right right sir right

now

the plans themselves will almost

certainly be under lock and key

possibly in a safe who knows the

important thing is that we let ourselves

in and out without leaving any calling

cards not a trace right whatever you say

guff sir

whatever you say gov sir

will the town hall regarded to serve no

that's one of the things we have to find

out as we go

right now you familiarize yourselves

with the layout of the town

you will not discuss this exercise with

anyone outside of this room and the

others will have the same directive so

don't you go pumping them

like to remind you that it's dark

so if we get separated you won't have

the chance to ask a policeman they'll

all be in bed

get on with it

their visit is cool

well i suppose i should say i wish i

would go with you but

you'll be traveling together

part of the way

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thanks very much have you seen fergie

probably trying to get an early night i

should think he has an early start

tomorrow appointment of guys

guys

nothing's happened what no

no nothing at all

they just want to have another look at

that leg before they discharge him

finally and he shouldn't jump to

conclusions you know

well yes i suppose he is really

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you lost ferdi

yes it rather looks that way

i do wish it took me he was going to

guys

i wanted to wash my hair and do you have

any shampoo i could use i've got some

soup that would be fine thank you

i tried to follow uh something from

chardonnay but she seems to have

disappeared too

well i hardly think they've gone off

together

no i didn't mean that it's just that

well we've

all worked so closely as a team you know

and suddenly some of us are asked to do

one thing and the others are oh come on

we've just been split up for an exercise

we probably end up fighting each other

i suppose you're right

would you like another drink uh no

thanks i think i'll go another bath i

shall forget your soap

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cigarette

this is your first time right

on an operation

are you scared

who isn't

still

it would be nice to see france again

yes

it will

all right

met office says the weather's cleared

over there

good luck aren't you going to kiss me

goodbye

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maybe a large one well mine's just a

beer

what would you like rossignol yeah

nothing thank you

you're getting off light cherish the

moment come on wee-man i'll give you a

hand with them it's not often that i get

the chance

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been much quieter since the parachute

i mean there's something odd about this

exercise

why shouldn't we be able to talk to the

others about it search me love

all part of the course

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i suppose you're right

where are the others

myth do you know

i can't say that i do say no

if i thought you knew everything

everything that i need to know

what the devil do you think you're

playing at sir

don't don't play the innocent with me

gary

i understood that you were sending in

one wt operator in advance of this team

now they tell me you sent someone else

as well

that is correct sir i sent ferdie in

with her well without informing me

that the fact is

but the plan i submitted to the joint

intelligence committee has been amended

without my consultation may i speak

freely sir yes you get it off your chest

with respect

you wish to sort it for me and my team

before i thought they were ready to cope

with it i went along with that and go

along with it because i see the

reasoning

then you insist i take one member of

personnel who is not above suspicion

whose loyalties are not wholly

established if you expect me to risk my

people in this way then you have to

allow me to take any precautions i need

to safeguard my squad come to the point

i sent fedi to paris to sound out our

contacts and find out anything he can

about miss portals before i have to make

an on-the-spot decision

colonel i may have to dispose of her

over there i think sir i have to be

certain i think the major active

prudence uh i support his decision but

did you know about it yeah no colonel

squires was not aware that i did not

have your permission sir he thought it

was part of the plan

may i ask how you found out sir

oh you've got the nerve of the

devil but you take notice of this

i found out that there were two people

in that bystander

when i tried to call this operation off

off

winston gave it his blessing this kind

of operation is extremely close to his

heart

but everything goes through supreme

allied headquarters these days

they've got other things to think about

and they said no

but fortunately

ted's memo came too late to cancel the

prime minister's

agreement if you'll excuse me sir i have

a briefing to give

oh don't be too hard on him so he acted

for the best he's up to his neck in it

i can't afford independent thinking tim

not on my side of the business

it's too involved

it's too devious

well we should be hearing from that girl

in france soon would you care to join me

yeah yeah certain

how did you run that check on lambda

form yes completely clean genuine

goalist good

because mr drew she's ftp

i think we might have to balance that

out i bet the reds have it all their own

way can we oh

all right now you're making your way to

town from the west how many roads left

and right before you reach the square in

which the target is situated grieve

forward sir

describe the main features of that

square shooker

theater on the right as you approach

city walls to the left target on the

corner opposite trees in the square

itself

anything else no sir what seems to be

the best route from the square to the

rear of the town hall rossignol

down the road by the side of the theater

and then turn first left

um what's at the rear of the town hall

creep just that same road sir it carries

on right past the back of the building

and it's too massage the main street of

the town running north south

all right turn around have a look

well now

now anyone know what that is

i do

anyone else i can hazard a guess

suicide pill

i'm gonna give you one of these for the

exercise

break it in your mouth you've got 10

seconds to live charming that is do they

come in assorted flavors major

you decide on your own place to keep it

most people tape it under their arm

somewhere on their body not in your

clothes

if they capture you and find one on you

they will certainly talk to you

because the very fact that you have one

is a giveaway

so

use it

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i wouldn't give for one of those pigs

before the mother-in-law man who is

suicide pills

on an exercise

don't you find it peculiar not really

they try and make it just like the real

thing seems sensible to me

and the pills

probably just

peppermints

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spend it

sergeant would you find major gala here

for me tell him i expect him in my

office almost immediately

that was chardonnay sending wasn't it

sir i never touch yes

she's in france

yes

i must ask you not to divulge that to

anyone

wouldn't it be better to use one of the

regular operators uh we had to be sure

that it was our girl's ending so it had

to be somebody who knew her touch

excuse me sir we seem to have our wires

crosstalk major

rubs your mouth major you'll catch your

death a cold like that you will

smith just what the hell is going on

i can't find any of my lot

it's not good enough

the colonel likes things smooth as

clockwork

it's pandemonium where is everybody

that's no good asking me something major

it don't come under my aegis

ages

yes sir

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yes i can assure you of the management i

do okay

yes indeed

thank you

i have approval from shafe

it's on for tonight

go as planned

anything you want me to do while you're

away yes sir keep the others at it

what about ferdie

no official i'm justified on political

grant

it's a much safer bet than mere military

expedience

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so

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so

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so

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right

let me have your attention

up to now you've been led to believe

that this was an exercise

it isn't

that was a deception for the purposes of

security

tonight you will be dropping into france

to a location identical in every detail

to the one that you've been working on

everything you've been told is correct

the rendezvous

the german troop presence in the town

the target

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we can't afford any of us to be taken

alive

you know your answer

if you're taken

use it

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so

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so

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so

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you