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(INMATES CHATTERING)

(UNDER BREATH) 1 6, 1 7...

...1 6, 1 7, turning.

And now!

(THUDS)

(MOCK CRYING OUT IN PAIN)

(SHOUTING IN GERMAN)

(ORDERING IN GERMAN)

(WHISPERING) We got away with it.

Fancy Downing doing Henry Irving.

He should get an Academy Award, right?

Come on.

(CLOCK TICKING LOUDLY)

God! We got to go through that?

Just don't think about it.

George, you'll have to tidy this up when we finish.

Now, that should do it, if anybody looks up.

If anybody looks up, we've had it anyway.

Give me time to make the ventilator, then come as quickly as you can.

Let Phil and I get into the bushes on the far side before you make your move.

Now, you may be able to see us or you may not.

So you must rely on that music cue.

Don't forget that sentry is just around the corner. So nice and easy.

(BAND PLAYING DIXIELAND JAZZ)

Right, page 6, letter D. You know what to do.

(MUSIC STARTS)

(PACING FOOTSTEPS BELOW)

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

(MUSIC STOPS)

(ULMANN SPEAKING GERMAN)

(MUSIC STARTS)

(CONVERSING IN GERMAN)

JAMES: Keep going!

MUIR: What's happening?

PLAYER: Can't see a bloody thing. Something must have gone wrong.

They haven't gone yet.

Five minutes to lock-up.

I don't think I'm going to get back.

(MUSIC STOPS)

Ulmann?

It could be.

Captain James, why is your orchestra rehearsing in Colonel Preston's rooms?

Well...

It was offered.

Herr Hauptmann. I think I can explain.

-What now? -We wait.

...and as my quarters are away from the others,

I offered Captain James the facility of practising here sometimes.

Is something wrong?

Possibly not. We shall see.

Will you all go back to your own quarters?

It is one minute before curfew.

Okay, Jimmy. Thank you.

(DOOR CLOSES)

(CAT MEOWING)

(CLATTERING)

Well, that's it.

Can't get back tonight.

What are you going to do?

I'll get some kip in one of those big cauldrons.

In the morning I should be able to tag on to the orderlies

without too much difficulty.

Anyway, that's my problem.

-Anything happening? -Not a damn thing!

What are they doing?

Looks like our turn.

(CHUCKLES) Send you a postcard.

(GRUNTS)

(CAT YOWLING)

(SIGHING)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(THUDDING)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(CARRINGTON SIGHS)

A completely different time.

The one thing Simon couldn't tell us.

Well, that does it.

You realise we can't get back from here.

Back when you were up there,

I had a look down there.

And I think

there's a cellar that goes through underneath the Kommandantur.

-I'm not sure, but I think so. -All right, come on.

-(GRUNTING) -GRANT: You all right?

(CARRINGTON COUGHING)

Light a match. For God's sake, light a match!

(COUGHING CONTINUES)

-Give us the box. -Here.

(ALL COUGHING)

It's a dead end.

A lousy dead end.

The air's fresh in here.

-Apart from Dick. -Easy.

The flame is blowing in one direction.

There must be an opening down here somewhere.

I got it. I got it!

-What is it? -Strike another match.

No, we don't know what's there.

What is it?

CARRINGTON: Feels like some kind of a coal chute.

GRANT: How big is it?

CARRINGTON: One second.

1 0 by 1 8 inches.

-We can't get through there. -We'll have to try.

We might without some of these clothes on.

-Dick, you're slimmest. Get cracking. -Right.

Right. Get in position, right.

(GRUNTING)

(SOLDIERS SPEAKING GERMAN)

(DIG WHIMPERING)

(SOLDIER LAUGHING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(CRIES OUT)

(WHISPERS) There's a guard up there with a bloody dog!

Did he get a scent?

And it comes out at ground level on the moat path.

-Is there a way through? -It's pretty tight, even for me.

Okay, let's go!

(WIND HOWLING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

Next stage.

(ACCORDION PLAYING)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

(DOGS WHINING)

(DOGS BARKING)

Good luck.

And you.

See you in Switzerland.

Right.

(BIRDS CAWING)

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

They should be on that by now.

That means there's an hour before morning Appel.

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(BIRD CAWING)

There's our way out.

(SIGHS)

So far so good.

Listen.

(FOOTSTEPS CLANGING)

It's a guard.

There can't be a guard on every damn bridge.

We could swim it.

Yes, we could.

But it would take two days for the clothes to dry.

There's another bridge three miles downstream.

There he is.

Let's go.

How much further do you think it is to the railroad?

It's about a mile, assuming we haven't gone wrong.

Keeping by the roads has its advantages.

(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

Ja.

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(TICKET OFFICER SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(PASSENGERS CHATTERING)

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

Keep still. Stay asleep. Gestapo.

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

Flemish?

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

(PASSENGERS MURMURING)

Hey! Hello!

Hello!

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

What's he saying?

Something about tickets.

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

BOTH: Danke.

What was all of that about?

I bought return tickets.

You're kidding.

No.

We've got 25 or 30 miles from here.

Yeah, we'll do the bulk of that when it's dark.

(AEROPLANE DRONING OVERHEAD)

(GERMAN PATRIOTIC SONG PLAYING)

I left my case in there.

We'll have to let it go.

You can share my stuff.

(CHURCH BELLS TOLLING)

Salute him.

CARRINGTON: They won't have any trouble spotting us out there.

We'd better wait until it gets dark.

We need daylight to find that road.

There's a fork here somewhere.

One road goes to Switzerland.

The other one goes past an army training camp.

That'll take us back to Rottweil.

We're a mile from the border

and this place is going to be loaded with sentries.

We've got to chance that.

We must find that road in daylight.

Then we can lie low.

MAN: Hey!

Leave it to me.

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

-I'm not too keen on that. -That makes two of us.

Let's see what he does.

(PANTING)

Hey! Hey! Hey!

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

CARRINGTON: Which way do we go? GRANT: Left.

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

(CALLING ORDERS IN GERMAN)

Is the river the border?

No.

It's some distance on the other side.

(SHOUTING IN GERMAN)

(PANTING)

(GRUNTS)

Are we... Are we in Switzerland?

You have been in Switzerland for the last two miles.