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This is the town of Bonnaire.

To the east of it is a pass.

Intelligence reports a possible enemy attack through the pass and into the town.

Our job is to evacuate the town.

Huh, that's no sweat.

And if intelligence is correct, blow up the pass.

That's a sweat.

Yeah.

Any questions?

How do you say the name of that town again?

Bonnaire, you know. Bonne, good.

Air, aire, Bonnaire.

Huh. That's what I figured.

Well, that, that piece of paper. That's all we got between us and Bonnaire?

That, and road signs.

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Aired Dec 22, 1964

Vite, vite, vite, vite.

Arret.

Il y'a. Il y'a.

Aller. Vite, vite.

Something wrong, Lieutenant?

Yeah.

My map says Bonnaire is that way.

The road sign says it's that way.

Our guys just must have gotten the road mixed up.

Look, if they're gonna get mixed up, why don't they send us to Paris or somethin'.

Well, it's a pretty stupid mistake to make.

I don't see how Intelligence could be that far off.

Ah.

Let me see the map.

(Frenchman whistling nonchalantly)

Hey, hey. Lookit there.

(still whistling)

Hey.

Caje. Ask him to come over here.

Hey monsieur. Venez ici, et nous pouvons parler.

Oui?

Ask him if this is the right road to Bonnaire.

Et monsieur, est-ce la bonne route pour Bonnaire?

No no no monsieur. This is not the road to Bonnaire.

You see. I speak English.

-You live around here? -Not far. Not far.

Uh, um.

The map says this is the road to Bonnaire.

Ah, but monsieur. Maps are so undependable.

One time in the last war,

we were on our way to Ville D'or when

we found ourselves in Flaurie, a considerable distance away.

But this is indeed, the road to Bonnaire.

Thanks.

We could use your help as a guide, in case we run into any more hangups.

Hangups?

Yeah, like that sign.

We'd be very appreciative if you'd come along with us.

Oh no no no monsieur. You see I am a poor farmer and there's so much work to be done.

Just.

Hey monsieur.

Caje?

For my country, oui.

Paul Legeune, at your service.

For my country. William Z. Kirby, at your service.

Merci bien.

This is Bonnaire?

Ah oui monsieur. This is Bonnaire.

I heard that it was destroyed by an air attack some time ago.

But, you didn't mention that?

You didn't ask.

You'd figure Intelligence would've known.

Ah, but the war moves fast mes amie.

Well, who we supposed to evacuate anyway, the mice?

I'm sorry you had to come here for nothing monsieur.

Let's check it out.

Lieutenant?

Something's wrong.

See this plaque?

It says "To the memory of Antoine Maxim. Our Beloved mayor.

1892 to 1938

Affectionately, the citizens of Grion.

Well why would the citizens of Bonnaire want to erect a statue to the mayor of Grion?

Because this is Grion, not Bonnaire.

Oh, Grion's miles from here, Lieutenant.

Hmm, or it's supposed to be.

Well, all the signs that said Bonnaire pointed right to this place.

Yeah, well, let's ask that French...

Hey, where's that Frenchman?

Hey Littlejohn. Do you see the Frenchman?

Well, he didn't come up here.

Alright. Spread out and find him.

-Lieutenant, I... -Shaddup.

Now just who are you?

I told you before. I'm just a poor farmer.

I know what you told me. Now I want the truth.

The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Why did you take us on this paperchase.

Paperchase?

Phony ride. Joyride.

Now just where is Bonnaire?

But I do not know monsieur.

I've not lived around here very long. I follow the signs just as you do.

Well somebody changed the signs and I think you know who it is.

Monsieur.

In the glorious past, any talk like this would have meant enduring his tools.

Monsieur, in the glorious present you're about to get your throat cut.

Now, is Bonnaire in the opposite direction?

It's possible.

Ohhh, ohhh.

Ooh, what.

Merci. Merci.

Oh, oh. No.

Hey, hey. Les Americans.

Allez. Tu pas.

I am here recently from the province where I did a lot of English speaking.

-Caje. -Yes sir.

Bring him over. I want to talk to him.

Hey, rue avoir.

Moi?

Venez et nous parler.

Oui, monsieur?

Ask him the name of this town.

Quel est le nom de cette ville?

Ah, Grion. Quoi. Grion, c'est Grion.

Grion, monsieur. C'est Grion. Grion, Grion.

Alright.

Yah. Tell him we'll give him two Grion's for one Bonnaire.

Tell him I want to talk to the mayor.

Allons a parle le Mayor. Qui est la?

Ahh, monsieur le Mayor.

Il n'est pas dans le village mais va revenir. Il n'a pas dit quand.

Lieutenant, the mayor's out of town for a few days.

Grion. C'est Grion.

No sir. I think probably we will never find Bonnaire.

Please I'll go to my wife.

She is very worried.

Please, you got to.

My wife is very loyal and she... She gets very upset when I'm late.

Go on. Go on.

Oh merci, Lieutenant. Sir.

Thank you, a bien tôt.

Au revoir.

Au revoir.

Monsieur Mayor a voulez vous est tare constrain en Bonnaire balance sil vous plait.

Hey Lieutenant. The kid just called him Mister Mayor.

(Bang, bang)

Mister Mayor.

Come 'ere.

Oui monsieur?

Alright Paul. Or whatever your name is.

Now I want the truth. The whole truth.

And nothing but the truth. So help you.

Well, it is true.

This is Bonnaire, and I am the Mayor.

Then why the run-around?

Monsieur. Have you ever heard of the society for the care of the Safe Way Harrow Hedge.

-Now... -Wait. Few people have.

But it is a Legional Order which our village have been dedicated to things...

Anyone can remember.

I don't see any church.

Ah, you mean the abbey.

Don't see any abbey either.

Oh well it is just a few streets down. Not far.

-I'd like to see it. -Oh, but of course, oui.

-Apres vous. -Non. Apres vous.

A pouvoir. Attention.

Les maman arrive.

Changez le signe.

Les Mayor. Il sont vite, vite.

Vite, vite.

Hey, mes amis.

Mes amis,

Vick est arrive, Ils arrive. Vite, vite, vite.

Peux tu changer, ne pas argent

Vite. Vite, vite, vite.

Que arrive. ou devant. Vite, vite, vite.

Ils arrivent.

(French)Bon, rapide. Très vite.

(French)

(The organ is playing loudly)

The Abbey, Lieutenant.

He's one of the monks of the order that I was referring to.

The Society for the Care of the Sacred Heritage.

We have survived plagues, floods and wars until now.

Wait a minute. I don't get it.

What was all that trick or treating business with the road signs back there?

Ah, mon amis, we were hoping that

You would think that our little village had been destroyed and so leave us undisturbed. Idiot.

But you must not blame the dear brothers of the abbey for this.

No, no, the blame is mine completely.

It was my decision.

And you really thought you'd get away with it?

Aye monsieur when one is desperate one will try anything.

Our fondest hope is that you will take your men and leave us in peace.

I'm sorry, I got orders to evacuate this place.

Monsieur. You cannot be serious about it.

Well, headquarters is. You got 2 hours to get your people outta here.

Two hours!

Oh, I do have to abandon everything in two hours. We cannot carry...

Carry what?

Uh, hmm. The Boots.

The Boots of the Sacred Heritage.

We'll help ya.

Oh no monsieur. It is not permitted

No no no, merci bien,

No, No, Aye..You are very generous and we will never forget that.

And I'll, I will report this too.

You're the first, Oui.

Bonjour. Avoir.

Psst.

Psst. Psst. Psst. They are gone.

We got work to do.

Like what, Lieutenant?

Like checking a pass for enemy activity.

Like evacuating a town.

Now Caje, I'll take you and Littlejohn out to the pass.

And the rest of you come back here and check out the town.

(The organ plays on)

Vite!

Eloise.

Oui Papa?

Marie.

Oui Papa?

Yvette.

Oui Papa.

Les américain soldats... Vite. vite, vite.

-Oui. -Oui. -Oui, Papa.

Thanks all, with no one else to do the help.

Vite, vite.

You must get all.

Vite. Vite.

Prez nous. Vite.

-C'est la rouge. -Oui, oui.

A jouer.

-Help. -His cover?

Quel sune all.

-Find anything? -Nope.

I don't think there's ever been a German in this town. Matter of fact,

I haven't seen anybody for the past 15 minutes.

Well, that's nice.

-Find anything, Kirby? -No sir.

Yes sir.

Bonjour, monsieur.

I am Annice Legeune.

A daughter of Paul Lejeune, the Mayor.

This is my sister Marie.

Bonjouer.

My sister Yvette.

Bonjour.

Oh, uh, well. Bonjour mademoiselles.

See,I'm private Kirby, the son of James Kirby of Iowa.

That's in the midwest, you know,. I uh...

Easy Kirby.

Oh! Uh.This is Lieutenant Hanley, our CO and then

-this is my friend Doc here. -Hi.

We will be uh, honored if you will share our

modest home and uh, hospitality

during the evacuation.

Ha ho. Oh, that's very friendly of you Miss.

It's not often that lonely soldiers overseas encounter

Well, thank you very much Miss, but I'm afraid we can't accept your invitation.

Lieutenant, we gotta have at least one drink with them, you know that.

Yeah. Well it might be protocol Lieutenant. I mean, the house of the Mayor?

Come on Lieutenant, please. Come on.

Alright, but a courtesy call only.

Ha ha, yes sir. Ha ha.

-What about Caje and Littlejohn? -Oh, forget 'em. Whoopee.

Somebody's gonna be back here to meet them in 10 minutes.

And I'm a non-combatant.

You.

Ha. The evacuation is underway, Lieutenant.

(Organ is heard playing loudly)

Ah. Umm.

Oh!

C'est bonne, soldat?

Tres bone, tres bone. Umm.

Umm.

(laughter)

Umm.

Oh. Mercy. Mercy.

Un peu de vin, monsieur?

Oh, yes yes. Right up to the very brim.

Umm. Bone. Bone.

One glass each please.

I don't want anybody falling asleep.

Remember what they said in Basic, Lieutenant. Now we're not supposed to offend the natives.

Two thousand more.

Please.

Knock knock knock knock knock.

Knock knock knock knock knock.

(single hard knock)

-Poppa Lejeune. -That him?

Stay s'il vous plait.

You sure about that?

Huh Bro's, how are you?

-Hey. -Kirby, how are you.

Hmm hmm hmm.

When Doc told me about this, I didn't believe him.

How long has this been going on?

Your report.

Well, Lieutenant, I don't think you'll have to use these explosives.

We got close enough to the pass I used the binoculars. There's nothing moving out there.

Except those monks carrying their books from the abbey. The evacuation's already started.

Oh my, what a word, lookit that.

Is it, okay?

Oh yeah, Sure. Join the party.

Want the music on?

But before you get lost, remember there's a war out there someplace.

Really?

Umm, hmm. Let my friends have some drinks.

No wonder we couldn't find this town.

This isn't Bonnaire, it's Shangri-La.

(laughter)

Is your father around?

Um, non monsieur.

He's telling everyone in town that they must leave rapidement.

At least tell me something about this uh, Sacred Heritage Order.

Do they have many books?

Oh, many. Very many.

Well, they haven't got much time.

Oh please, monsieur. You cannot.

Do be patient.

They must have time to save all the books.

You better tell your father I'd like to talk to him.

Hey Caje. Let your lips chomp on that.

We have so much to go.

Papa.

Vite.

Annice.

The Americaner jumped right here against the wall.

Were you too on the American.

Oui, oui, oui. Il a dite. No time to put it off.

(window smashing)

Ahhhh.

I need help.

Right, you were'nt... (passes out)

Checkmate King six, This is Checkmate King Two, Over.

Checkmate King six, This is Checkmate King Two, Over.

This is King 6, King 2, Over.

Arrived objective, 1700 hours. No signs of enemy activity.

Expect to evacuate town at 1900 hours.

Over, I hope.

Contact this station again at 1900 hours, King 2.

-Over. -Roger, out.

Any sign of Kirby yet sir?

Nope. Nor the french girl.

Well I shouldn't worry about Kirby, he knows.

Somehow he always managed to come back on time.

Boy, that sure is a lot of books.

Hope they're not overdue at the library.

(Caje laughs)

Who, who hit me?

Where'd he go?

You fell mon ami. I'm sorry.

What'd I fall in? A rope rectory?

What are you trying to pull here?

Ah, and you said you were trying to protect the books.

You're trying to save the wine, right?

Oui monsieur, cognac. The finest cognac in all France.

Bonnaire is famous for it's exquisite cognac.

And now that I leave the village, it may become a military town.

We have begun to move it to the secret caves where it will be safe.

50 million pints of cognac.

Hmph, huh.

Yeah, And all those monks are all carrying it.

The Society for the Sacred Heritage's just a bunch of baloney, huh?

You just trying to gett lot of stuff out right under our noses, that's what.

Papa is a very clever man, no?

He is, too.

It was necessary to tie you up so that your Lieutenant

must not know until the cognac, all the cognac, is moved.

Well, it won't work. I can tell you that.

The Lieutenant will tear this whole town apart looking for me if I don't show up.

I think.

Ah well. By that time I will get all the cognac will be moved to a safe place.

Where's that?

Ahh, that's for me to know and for you to find out.

But in the meantime, Annice will stay here with you

until the cognac is safe.

Au revoir.

Au revoir.

Oh, yes. Thank you.

Wellington?

No, no merci. J'ai merci.

Qu'est-ce que voulez fais?

Dis number can't ascend though.

French?

Yes, it tells the history of this province.

Together. Uh hum, Tanya.

I hear you are looking for me Lieutenant.

I'm also looking for private Kirby.

Oh.

Two hours is up. The people are gonna have to evacuate this town.

No no no no, Lieutenant. Please...

Hey, Lieutenant.

Did you know this town was famous for it's cognac?

-It's what? -Yeah. It says here in the book.

The Bonnaire Winery. The only industry in town.

Makes priceless cognac.

I didn't see any winery.

Oh that, that was before the, the winery burnt down.

Oh me, it was a terrible fire.

Big blaze. The rooms came tumbling down.

There was much confusion.

The women were running up and down. They were carrying water to put the fire out.

And they was circle too. The little children,

They were, they were running around and they were screaming..

-Take a look at this picture. -A screaming, duh. Oh.

You told me that was an abbey.

Keep an eye on him Caje.

Alright. Hold it.

Tell him to lift the robe.

Tell him!

Enleve ton ami.

Chikago.

Oh...There's no place like it in the whole world.

You got the right girl with ya.

-Ya know what I mean. -Hmm, ah.

Oh, it would be wonderful, monsieur Kirby.

Oh, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?

Come on. Come here.

Don't you think we ought to get to know each other a little better alone.

Untie this will ya?

Oh, I...I do not think I better.

What you got to worry about. I'm not gonna try to escape.

That's not what I'm worried about, cheri.

Ah hah. You little rascal, you. He he.

(Kirby giggles)

Uh oh.

Look at those eyes.

Oui.

They're the color of the autumn leaves.

And those lips.

Oui.

Umm, and they're like rare priceless rubies.

Oh.

These ropes.

Oui.

They're so tight.

Huh. Oh!

You got ten minutes to get these people out of town.

-Evacuate? -Evacuate.

Lieutenant. Captain Jampal on the horn.

Alright, move out Kirby.

Well, thanks for saving me, Lieutenant.

I think.

King six. This is King two, over.

Air recon reports Panzer units, north of pass near your target.

Destroy pass immediately.

Acknowlege, over.

Wilco out.

Enemy activity north of the town. We got to blow the pass. Let's go.

Please, blow the pass? You mean, destroy it?

-Boom? -That's right.

No monsieur. You cannot do that.

It is the only way into Bonnaire from the north.

That's right.

That's what keeps the German tanks from coming into town. You can open the pass one day.

But the cognac?

What's the cognac got to do with the pass?

The caves we took the cognac to is in the pass.

Well...

That's too bad.

Oh but, monsieur. You cannot do this.

Krauts may survive the war.

But if we lose our precious cognac, Bonnaire will surely perish.

I'm sorry, Mister mayor.

Very well, blow up the pass.

But where will you get the explosive?

We have none to give you.

We brought our own.

Kirby?

-Yes sir. -Well, let's go.

Lieutenant, I left it right here on the table.

Well, who would take our explosives?

That Mayor.

Must have called one of his daughters.

Not a soul in sight, Lieutenant.

Nothing sir.

Nobody around Lieutenant.

They must be all hiding out sir.

Mister mayor.

People of Bonnaire.

You have a book.

The history of your province.

You're proud of it.

Well today you've written a new chapter in to that book.

One that your children and your grandchildren will be proud to read.

We are patriots.

But we are trying to protect our children's future.

We need only 4 hours to get the cognac from the caves.

That's too much time.

I need those explosives now.

No.

Without the cognac our little town will die.

Alright, Mister Mayor.

You win.

Before I go I want you to hear something.

I've been to other towns and seen other Frenchmen.

Their homes were burnt out. Their families were dead. They had no place to go back to.

Nothing to fight for.

And yet they fought.

And died.

For freedom.

Today I see selfish Frenchmen.

More interested in miserable cognac

than they are in fighting for freedom.

And honor.

(bottle smashes)

You see cognac.

I see French blood.

Come on.

Get in the jeep.

Let's go.

You can't.

Kirby.

If you need help to blow up the pass,

we will all help you.

You'll lose everything, Mister Mayor.

Except our honor.

I need picks and shovels.

Le pail, pour the Americans.

Checkmate King two. This is Checkmate King six, Over.

King two. This is Kiing six, Over.

This is Checkmate King two, Over.

Have you destroyed target?

Over.

Negative. There's been a delay.

We'll be at target and complete mission in 30 minutes. Over.

Your mission cancelled. Repeat. Cancelled.

Air recon reports enemy armor moving east towards new objective.

Your mission has changed.

Return to your unit.

Do you acknowledge, Over.

Roger, out.

There.

Kirby, Does that mean...

That did. Means we don't have to blow up the pass.

Mes amis. Le laissez-passer ne sera pas détruit.

(cheering)

Listen up.

Before...we entertained you in deceit.

But now let us entertain you in strength and honor right?

I'm sorry Mister Mayor but we have to get back to base.

There's always another time. Just one little hour.

Well I...

I guess the war can wait for

one short hour.

(cheering)

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