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Speaker 1: here is the episode Windfall.
Speaker 2: Willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind enemy lines, knowing
Speaker 2: that you may never return alive. What you have just
Speaker 2: heard is the question asked during the War of agents
Speaker 2: of the OSS. Ordinary citizens to this question answered yes.
Speaker 2: This is Cloak and Dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue.
Speaker 2: These are the weapons of the OSS. In today's adventure, Windfall,
Speaker 2: the part of McAllister is played by Lestra may Jan
Speaker 2: Minor plays Jen and Mike Slade is played by Bill Quinn.
Speaker 2: The story is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the
Speaker 2: Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story
Speaker 2: that can now be told. We had three new guests
Speaker 2: at the lodge at Noirmont that day, and the first
Speaker 2: one blew in just after lunch, and I recognize him
Speaker 2: right away, at least I thought I did. I didn't
Speaker 2: know who he was, you understand, but I thought I
Speaker 2: knew what he was. A fellow American, for one thing,
Speaker 2: and probably a member of the diplomatic mission at Baron.
Speaker 2: I wish now that that was all he had been.
Speaker 3: You have a reservation for me the name Monsieur Heywood,
Speaker 3: Frederick Heywood.
Speaker 4: At one moment, Monsieur, I.
Speaker 2: Made a mental note of that name as I shuffled
Speaker 2: my cards and dealt myself another hand of solitaire. I
Speaker 2: was sitting in the lobby close to the desk, and
Speaker 2: not by accident, either, I made my business to catch
Speaker 2: the names of new arrivals.
Speaker 3: If you know a.
Speaker 2: Man's name, he's usually more willing to sit down at
Speaker 2: the car table with you. And if the guests at
Speaker 2: Noirmont didn't play cards with me, how could I eat well?
Speaker 3: Clerk, do you have the reservation or not. Yes, hit
Speaker 3: is monsieur.
Speaker 4: It was fund in yesterday from ber Your room is
Speaker 4: being prepared.
Speaker 3: Nowson, let me know what it's ready. I'll be in
Speaker 3: the bar. I went to work.
Speaker 2: Then I followed him into the bar. I was sure
Speaker 2: by then that i'd size him upright. A secretary or
Speaker 2: a file clerk could come to the lodge to ski
Speaker 2: and relax. He was right for picking, I figured. I
Speaker 2: found him at a table by the window, looking out
Speaker 2: over the mountains of snow and ice and down into
Speaker 2: the green Valley where Switzerland became France. Not see occupied France.
Speaker 2: Welcome to normal, mister Heywood. Eh, who are you name?
Speaker 3: Slade?
Speaker 2: Mike Slade? I heard you ask for your reservation. I
Speaker 2: couldn't help overhearing your name. You're an American, that's right.
Speaker 2: You mind if I said, now, thanks up here to
Speaker 2: do a little skiing. I suppose perhaps planning to stay long?
Speaker 3: That depends. Oh what a number of things, none of
Speaker 3: which are your business.
Speaker 2: Relax, mister Heywood. You don't have to be afraid to
Speaker 2: talk to me. I'm not on the enemy's side. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'm not on anybody's side. I'm just a plain ordinary
Speaker 2: private citizen.
Speaker 3: Oh and what are you doing in Switzerland, he.
Speaker 2: Asked, So I told him the whole sad story. How
Speaker 2: I shipped out of San Francisco when I was fifteen,
Speaker 2: how I jumped ship in Shanghai, How I'd spent the
Speaker 2: next twenty five years gambling my way around the world
Speaker 2: till I hit it big, knocking over a roulette wheel
Speaker 2: in Paris for a million francs.
Speaker 3: So you're up here blowing your million francs.
Speaker 2: I slid, No, not exactly, didn't last long enough to blow.
Speaker 2: A week after I won it, the Germans marched into Paris,
Speaker 2: and my money wasn't worth a thin diet. I got
Speaker 2: away and landed up here at Walmart. And I'm waiting
Speaker 2: ever since, waiting for what why, for someone to win
Speaker 2: this war?
Speaker 3: Of course, someone anyone, you mean.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not too particular, mister hay Wooden, Like I say,
Speaker 2: I don't play sides. I'm what they call a neutral,
Speaker 2: I guess, a neutral American. Well, it's been a long
Speaker 2: time since I was in America. I just want them
Speaker 2: to get the war over with somehow, so Jen and
Speaker 2: I can get out of here. Jen my girl wins
Speaker 2: to hey, which she's one of the skiing instructors here
Speaker 2: at the lodge, and when I go, she's promised to
Speaker 2: go with me.
Speaker 3: I see, I'll go see if I rule ready? Oh
Speaker 3: wait a minute, how about another drink?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 2: Well, look, if you're not doing anything tonight and you're
Speaker 2: like a little game of stud as got away as
Speaker 2: any to pass the evening up here. Maybe, But I'm
Speaker 2: rather particular about the kind of men I gamble with, Slade,
Speaker 2: especially the kind of Americans. Oh well, I figured some
Speaker 2: guys couldn't help being patriots. Me I had other things
Speaker 2: to worry about, not enough money in my gene to
Speaker 2: pay for my room at the end of the week,
Speaker 2: and no stud game in sight.
Speaker 3: Hello, Mike, Jen, how are your babies?
Speaker 5: Mike came into the bar a few minutes ago, but
Speaker 5: you were talking to somebody here who was.
Speaker 3: A guy named Heywood, an American just checked in from.
Speaker 5: Bern from Bay with Mike. He couldn't have what do
Speaker 5: you mean you left that heavy snow last night? He
Speaker 5: couldn't have come by automobile. And you know perfectly well
Speaker 5: the train from Beern doesn't arrive for another three hours.
Speaker 3: Hey, I forgot about that, And how the devil did
Speaker 3: he get here?
Speaker 6: There's only one way. You must have.
Speaker 3: Walk walked all away from Bern.
Speaker 5: He walked from down there in the valley, he came
Speaker 5: across the French border.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're forgetting there's a war on There aren't any
Speaker 2: Americans touring France these days.
Speaker 5: No, but there are some fighting for France, fighting with
Speaker 5: the French Marquis.
Speaker 6: I don't know what cha an intelligence agents.
Speaker 2: Mike, Hey, wait a minute, Maybe you've got something there
Speaker 2: that would explain why Heywood brush me off that way.
Speaker 2: He must be one of those OSS guys we heard about.
Speaker 2: It was the only answer. I didn't think much of it.
Speaker 2: I figured an OSS agent just out of occupied France
Speaker 2: wouldn't have enough money to finance a game of stud
Speaker 2: So I went looking for someone who would.
Speaker 7: There's two ones, clerk, one for Dot, one for myself.
Speaker 2: Crowds were crowds, and you didn't have to be a
Speaker 2: patriot like Hey would not to like them. But I
Speaker 2: figured that these two guys at the desk were a
Speaker 2: couple of jokers on a holiday.
Speaker 3: They'd be well.
Speaker 2: Healedous, ridiculous, welcome to no gentlemen.
Speaker 3: The clerk, what about those ones? I don't believe I
Speaker 3: quite caught your names. Gentlemen, if you'll please my friend
Speaker 3: dear trying to get accommodation, I am sorry.
Speaker 4: All I can give you and here you and here Vierstadt.
Speaker 3: Is a double room. There are no single ones, No, sir.
Speaker 4: The American who arrived today took the last one.
Speaker 3: Oh an America and the life.
Speaker 2: I'm an American too, slaves. My name Mike Slade. But
Speaker 2: it does not you who just cave.
Speaker 3: No, no, I've been around for nearly three years.
Speaker 2: The new guest is mister Heywood, mister Haywood, eh and
Speaker 2: his room eighteen, Room eighteen.
Speaker 3: I'm in twenty seven myself.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, if you'd be interested in a friendly game of
Speaker 2: stud poker the saving I'm afraid we are going to
Speaker 2: be busy this evening.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we are going to be a valley busy.
Speaker 2: So that took care of my last chance to put
Speaker 2: some meat on my thin bank roll. Jen and I
Speaker 2: had dinner at the lodge that night. Then I walked
Speaker 2: her back to a cottage above the hotel. The moon
Speaker 2: was bright, dry, snow squeaked under our feet. It was
Speaker 2: the same as any other night at Guamon, seemed the
Speaker 2: same anyway, Even the things we talked about were the same.
Speaker 6: We must be patient, Mike. We will leave Maamo.
Speaker 2: Someday, but when and how We'll never get out until
Speaker 2: I lay my hands on some dough, big dough, I mean,
Speaker 2: not the kind I can win from a bunch of
Speaker 2: yoguls who don't know two pair from a straight.
Speaker 6: Your government would send your home, maybe.
Speaker 2: Mike, Yeah, sure, sure, and shut me in the army.
Speaker 2: Only they don't have any use for a guy in
Speaker 2: my age, and that makes him mutual. Besides, they wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Let you go with me, but I would wait.
Speaker 6: And when the war is.
Speaker 2: No dice, kid, when I go, you go. So the
Speaker 2: answer is still money. It sounds like somebody's been hurt.
Speaker 2: Come on, Honey, done down this way, Mike.
Speaker 6: There's something lying this moose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that must be him.
Speaker 6: Mike, Mike, it's the American, mister Heywood.
Speaker 2: It was Hayward, all right, but it didn't look much
Speaker 2: like him anymore. His nose was broken and the rest
Speaker 2: of his face was pushed out of shape. Lord knows
Speaker 2: what else they've done to him.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You all right, take take an easy fellaw. We'll get
Speaker 2: the doctor at the large nose.
Speaker 3: Shure, slave, shure. You want to stand him jam.
Speaker 6: It sounds as if you're saying shore sure, he left
Speaker 6: shure the heel of his left shore back.
Speaker 3: Alice, What what was that? McAllister Joe, he's dead.
Speaker 6: I'll get doctor gon to Mike.
Speaker 2: Never mind doctor Gant the jam. He's dead.
Speaker 5: No, how could it have happened? Do you think you
Speaker 5: very found a rock up there?
Speaker 2: No, baby, he didn't fall of any rock. He fell
Speaker 2: under the hands of a couple of Germans.
Speaker 3: It was all clear by that Heywood had.
Speaker 2: Been an OSS agent, and the only winter sports the
Speaker 2: crowds had come to Noirmar for was torturing and beating him.
Speaker 2: It was tough, plenty tough. But then I still had
Speaker 2: problems too. I unlaced Heywood's left boot and slipped it
Speaker 2: off his foot.
Speaker 6: What are you doing, Mike?
Speaker 3: Finding out what hitlers happened as boys were after.
Speaker 6: Look, the heel slips right off the shoe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's something incited.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, it's a little ceylander.
Speaker 3: It looks like a bullet.
Speaker 2: That's no bullet, baby, it's a cylinder of microfilm microfi chers.
Speaker 2: I don't know whatever it is, it's important, whatever's importance
Speaker 2: is valuable.
Speaker 3: What you think, uh me, I'm thinking about you and me, sweetheart.
Speaker 3: Never mind.
Speaker 2: Now, look, you take this film and get back to
Speaker 2: your cottage and hide it. As far as anybody's concerned.
Speaker 2: You weren't with me when I found Heyward's body.
Speaker 6: I don't understand.
Speaker 3: You will get gone, baby, But what are you going
Speaker 3: to do?
Speaker 2: Not a thing, Just sit around and cool my heels
Speaker 2: and wait for a guy named McAllister. Of course I
Speaker 2: had to report Heywood's death. I reported it to doctor Gunther,
Speaker 2: the house physician at the lodge. Oh, this is terrible,
Speaker 2: such a tragic excident. I didn't say it was an accident, doctor,
Speaker 2: but it was, of course. No wait a minute, he said, so.
Speaker 3: I am the doctor.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but you can't here. Heywoods slipped in terre for
Speaker 8: the lock. We will all do our best to see
Speaker 8: that there's no another such tragedy. Really not sleep. It
Speaker 8: gives the lotch a bad reputation.
Speaker 2: So gun Through had already been briefed by his fellow crowds,
Speaker 2: and Heywood's death was an accident. Well, I was all
Speaker 2: right with me. It didn't hurt my angle a bit.
Speaker 2: The next morning, Guntha got all the guests together in
Speaker 2: the lobby and broke the sad new.
Speaker 9: My friends, that you can all want to pay your
Speaker 9: last respects the victim of this unfortunate accident. Services for
Speaker 9: her Heywood will be heard in the chapel. At three
Speaker 9: o'clock this afternoon turned away and I fell little sick.
Speaker 2: Sometimes these Nazis made it hard for a guy to
Speaker 2: stay strictly neutral, I was thinking. Then a hand clapped
Speaker 2: me on the shoulder.
Speaker 7: Good morning, al Slid, Hello, Kitle, this is well, it said,
Speaker 7: this news about your fellow countryman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're all broken up about it, aren't you.
Speaker 7: Doctor guns informs me it was you who found the body.
Speaker 2: In You and doctor Gunha keep each other pretty well informed.
Speaker 3: I was wondering how Slid.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was wondering if, by any chance, you also
Speaker 7: found something else?
Speaker 3: Whe are you when you keep right on wondering her title?
Speaker 2: At most that day, playing solitaire at my favorite table
Speaker 2: near the desk, I wasn't listening for the names of
Speaker 2: poker prospects anymore. I was listening for another name, McAllister,
Speaker 2: but I didn't hear it. At three o'clock I went
Speaker 2: down to the chapel, I figured ioto pay my last
Speaker 2: respects to Heywood too. Was the least I could do,
Speaker 2: considering how much I was going to own. So cheap
Speaker 2: the accidental death of a passing stranger may seem like
Speaker 2: a trivial thing.
Speaker 3: Believe me, my friend, it.
Speaker 2: Was almost over when a big blonde guy sat down
Speaker 2: next to the You're Mike Slayton.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. You found Heyward's body last night. What
Speaker 3: was left of him with us? He was still alive, wasn't.
Speaker 2: He his spirit?
Speaker 3: Slightly?
Speaker 1: Lightly?
Speaker 2: Did he say anything? Not much mentioned the name McAllister.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm McAllister.
Speaker 3: Oh he has gone okay and we are left here alone.
Speaker 3: He gave you something for me? Yeah? Good? When can
Speaker 3: I get it? When can you pay for it? Pay
Speaker 3: for it? That's what I said. I went twenty five
Speaker 3: franks dollars full filthy double.
Speaker 2: I'll watch it. Is that a way to act at
Speaker 2: your buddy's funeral?
Speaker 3: And now, dear friends, let it's all bow our heads
Speaker 3: in prayer.
Speaker 2: The minister's sermon wasn't the only one I've heard that day.
Speaker 2: On the way back to the lodge, McAllister preached one too,
Speaker 2: And you call your flag. MacAllister, You've got my proposition,
Speaker 2: take it or leave it.
Speaker 3: You know what's on that microfilm. You realize, what, what
Speaker 3: do you think I could get that kind of money.
Speaker 2: You might try the embassy at Vain and if they
Speaker 2: won't buy it, then maybe Berlin will Berlin, you would
Speaker 2: actually shall let film to the Nazis sell out your
Speaker 2: own country. I haven't had a country for a long time.
Speaker 2: You were born on Amerture, but I've lived in Switzerland
Speaker 2: for quite a while.
Speaker 3: Some of its neutrality is rubbed off on me.
Speaker 2: I stayed away from Jen all that day because I
Speaker 2: didn't want to attract any attention to her. But as
Speaker 2: soon as it was dark, I started out for her cottage.
Speaker 2: I didn't get very far.
Speaker 3: Good evening house led.
Speaker 7: If Yes, stud and Ivish to talk.
Speaker 2: The you guys picked funny places for conversation. On the contrary,
Speaker 2: this fits our needs admirably. Three of us are low and.
Speaker 7: We had another conversation last night in a similar pace.
Speaker 3: It would regret to have this one end in the
Speaker 3: same way that Indeed, Okay, what do you after the
Speaker 3: micro film? Of course, just give it to us. I
Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7: And I suppose we will have to stop the field.
Speaker 7: There's arms ver ver stut pinned my arms behind me?
Speaker 3: Kinda let me have it square in the face with
Speaker 3: a fist is hard. There's a sledgehammer. Where's the microfilm? Straight?
Speaker 3: You'll never get it this way? Say not?
Speaker 2: You didn't get it away from Hey with this way,
Speaker 2: did you? Why don't you meet heads? Get smart? Kill
Speaker 2: me and you'll never lay hands on that film. And
Speaker 2: if we don't carry you and you might have a chance.
Speaker 2: How much would the chance cost a slid? I'm catching
Speaker 2: on how much? Well I would have let you have
Speaker 2: a cheap before you started to push me around. The
Speaker 2: price is gone up. I want fifty fifty thousand marks dollars.
Speaker 2: Think it over, boys. They must have seen some logic
Speaker 2: in it, because they stopped slugging me and went away
Speaker 2: to talk it over. I didn't go to Jen's cottage
Speaker 2: after all. I didn't want them following me, So I
Speaker 2: went back up to my room. And when I got there,
Speaker 2: my door unlocked. The room was a shambles. Somebody had
Speaker 2: gone through it like a cyclone. U oss, boys, now,
Speaker 2: how to take a room apart, don't you McAllister? When
Speaker 2: we have to Did you have to do this?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I came up to do it, but those get Stoppa
Speaker 2: agents save me the trouble. It was already done. I
Speaker 2: was afraid they might have found what they were looking for.
Speaker 2: How do you know they didn't? By the condition of
Speaker 2: your face. They've been working you over, haven't we?
Speaker 3: What have it? They wouldn't have bothered if they'd found
Speaker 3: the film. You're quite a brain, aren't you. Mccallis.
Speaker 2: You're not slaved. If you were, you wouldn't be playing
Speaker 2: this game. You're gonna wind up just where Heywood is.
Speaker 2: I'll take my chances. You don't know what the doe
Speaker 2: means to me. You'd understand you don't know what these
Speaker 2: films mean to the Allies, Or maybe you'd understand. Those
Speaker 2: are pictures of German maps, Slaid maps, showing the location
Speaker 2: of every Nazib two rocket launching site on the French coast.
Speaker 2: They could mean the saving of thousands of lives. They
Speaker 2: could even mean winning the war or losing it. Does
Speaker 2: that make any impression on you? My price is still
Speaker 2: the same, all right, Jen, Let me tell you what Heywood.
Speaker 3: Went through to get those films. You'll be wasting your time.
Speaker 3: My price is still the same.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're the guy who has to look in the
Speaker 2: mirror at yourself in your shave. I'll be around if you. Oh,
Speaker 2: I forgot about this. What this picture was on the floor.
Speaker 2: I accidentally stepped on it and broke the frame.
Speaker 3: How me have that? I noticed the inscription to Mike
Speaker 3: with all my love Jen. Okay, okay, let's have it.
Speaker 3: She's the skiing instructor, isn't she beautiful? Girl? Be a
Speaker 3: shame if anything happened to that face? Is that a threat?
Speaker 2: Mccallosy No, oh, the osays doesn't go in for torturing women.
Speaker 2: Maybe we're too sentimental. Why would anybody want to touch
Speaker 2: her because she's helping you play your little angle? What
Speaker 2: makes you think?
Speaker 3: So? Just a guess. And if I can guess, it's
Speaker 3: so can Kitle and Erstadt. And they're not a bit sentimental.
Speaker 2: It took me a while to fall asleep after that,
Speaker 2: but I managed it finally. Couldn't have been much later
Speaker 2: when the phone beside my bed woke me up. Yeah, Mike, Jen, Baby,
Speaker 2: what's the matter.
Speaker 3: I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Mike, come to the cottage right away. I was scared
Speaker 2: then all the way over, Machallous's words kept ringing in
Speaker 2: my ears, and I was scared to.
Speaker 3: Look at her face.
Speaker 2: But there was nothing the matter with it. When I
Speaker 2: got there, the only mark center with the marks of
Speaker 2: worry and a guilty conscience.
Speaker 6: I couldn't sleep, Mike. I had to call you. I've
Speaker 6: been thinking about it.
Speaker 3: All night, about my new business enterprise.
Speaker 5: I suppose you mean, yes, trying to make money out
Speaker 5: of those microfilms.
Speaker 6: It's wrong, Darling. We can't go through with it.
Speaker 2: Too bad, says McAllister. Was here, Yes, yes, he was
Speaker 2: waving a flag all over the place.
Speaker 6: What he said, madsense, He told me what was on
Speaker 6: the film. He made me say how Hayward had suffered.
Speaker 3: To get it. I'm surprised you didn't turn it over
Speaker 3: THEE I wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Do that, you know it. But I want you to
Speaker 6: turn it over to him.
Speaker 3: I will for twenty five grand, Mike, for nothing.
Speaker 6: Because they belonged to him rightfully, and because they'll help
Speaker 6: the Allies win the world.
Speaker 5: No dice, baby, Mike, do you want those vile metal
Speaker 5: s Natzi's too win?
Speaker 3: All I want is my twenty five Jeeves, and then
Speaker 3: you and I can get out of here.
Speaker 6: Not you and I.
Speaker 3: Mike what.
Speaker 6: I won't go with you under those conditions.
Speaker 3: You don't mean that I do. I do.
Speaker 6: I love you, Mike, but I couldn't go on loving
Speaker 6: you if you did a thing like this. I come
Speaker 6: to hate you.
Speaker 3: Jen.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Darling, It's true.
Speaker 2: Well, Mike, I've waited twenty five years for break like this.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to let it run down the drain,
Speaker 2: not even for you. If you don't want to go okay,
Speaker 2: I'll be traveling along.
Speaker 7: I don't think you'll be traveling anywhere just yet a slide.
Speaker 2: It was titled and just behind it was Verstadt, and
Speaker 2: both of them carried Lucas. Before I could move, Verstat
Speaker 2: had used his the butter had clipped me on the head.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I remember hearing Jen scream and feeling myself crumbling toward
Speaker 2: the floor. When I came to, I couldn't move my
Speaker 2: arms on my legs. It took me a minute.
Speaker 3: To figure out why I was tied with a chair.
Speaker 2: Slowly the room came back and focused, and I saw
Speaker 2: the two Guestapo agents.
Speaker 3: Then I saw Jen. What they've been doing get your
Speaker 3: hands off of your filthy rights. Don't touch her.
Speaker 7: Again, being I need to touch a her sleeve if
Speaker 7: you will corporate with us better than cheers been doing.
Speaker 2: Where is the microfilm hair sleeves? You still think you're
Speaker 2: gonna find out for free?
Speaker 3: Huh yeah, me think so? Where is the microfilm hairsleeve? Along?
Speaker 3: You tell us where it is? All right, all right,
Speaker 3: stop it. I'll tell you to stop it.
Speaker 7: We have stopped her slid my Please tell us, okay
Speaker 7: a microfilm is?
Speaker 10: It?
Speaker 2: Came from outside through the window that revolve a shot
Speaker 2: fierce that let out a groan and dropped the floor.
Speaker 2: Titdle dropped the floor too, but he hadn't been hit.
Speaker 2: He flicked the light switches, he went down.
Speaker 3: The room went black.
Speaker 2: The advantage was all his now he was in the
Speaker 2: pitch black room. Whoever was outside was moving around on
Speaker 2: the bright moonlight, made even brighter by the snow. I
Speaker 2: saw a title's gun spit the gun outside, answered. I
Speaker 2: was still tied hand and foot to the chair. There
Speaker 2: wasn't anything I could do, or was there. I remember
Speaker 2: that the light switch was just over my head. I
Speaker 2: worked until I got my chair turned around, so I
Speaker 2: was facing the wall. I started butting up with at
Speaker 2: the switch.
Speaker 3: With my head.
Speaker 2: Three times I missed it. Fourth time it clicked. The
Speaker 2: room was flooded with light. Kidle was outlined at the
Speaker 2: window like a sitting duck. It wasn't any great surprise
Speaker 2: when a tall blonde guy walked in a minute later.
Speaker 3: He started one timing. Looks as if you had to
Speaker 3: choose signs after all, Slaine, Yeah.
Speaker 10: It looks as if maybe I did ms. You are right, Jen,
Speaker 10: I'll be fine, sure, baby, Yes, Mike, thank you, mister McAllister.
Speaker 3: I should have said that to McAllister. Thanks.
Speaker 6: That's okay, Mike, And I don't you see now, don't
Speaker 6: you understand.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 6: You do? You must the difference between here and those
Speaker 6: horrible roots. It's the whole point, Mike. That's why you
Speaker 6: can't hold onto that microfilm.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, the microfilm. I've been thinking about that.
Speaker 2: You've decided to give it to me. No, I haven't, McCallister.
Speaker 2: I'm a gambler, and gamblers don't give things away. All
Speaker 2: they do give is a sporting chance. What do you mean,
Speaker 2: I'll cut cards with you for the microfilm double enough.
Speaker 2: If I get the high card, you will give me
Speaker 2: the film, right, and if I get high card, you
Speaker 2: pay me fifty thousand.
Speaker 3: It's the deal.
Speaker 2: Slate Okay, yeah, shovel McCallister, you cut first, one card doesn't.
Speaker 3: Well? Six not so good, fellow, go on, slate, cut
Speaker 3: well four, I win. There, you win, get them the film?
Speaker 2: Jen, all right, Mike, Now, both sides in this war
Speaker 2: have cost me money.
Speaker 6: There it is mister Mcanithton, and good luck to you.
Speaker 3: With his luck, he'll win the worst single handed.
Speaker 2: These microfilms will help. Good Bye, Jen, he's see yeah, he's.
Speaker 3: Seeing mcal's.
Speaker 6: Mike, why did you do it?
Speaker 5: Do what?
Speaker 6: Here's your card? The one new cut. He wasn't a fool,
Speaker 6: it was a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I know you had him beaten. He would have paid
Speaker 6: the fiftieth thousand.
Speaker 3: That's right, Mark, Why did you do it? I don't know, baby.
Speaker 3: I guess some guys just can't helping suckers.
Speaker 5: I guess some guys just can't helping patriots.
Speaker 3: So we were stuck in Switzerland for a couple of
Speaker 3: more years, Jane and I.
Speaker 2: There were times when I could have kicked myself for
Speaker 2: being a sentimental chump lots of times until a day
Speaker 2: came after the war when I ran into McAllister again.
Speaker 3: I felt better about it then. I guess you know.
Speaker 2: What the Alliant Air Forces did to those Nazi rocket
Speaker 2: launching sites along the French coast couldn't have been done
Speaker 2: without the microfilm Slave, so you can take some credit
Speaker 2: for it. You were the toughest lie the US has
Speaker 2: ever had, brother, but you did the job. And once
Speaker 2: again the report of another OSS agent closes with.
Speaker 3: The words mission accomplished.
Speaker 2: Today's story was based on actual incidents recorded in the
Speaker 2: Washington files of the USS.
Speaker 3: And was brought to you on Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 11: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventures, McAllister was Less Tremaine,
Speaker 11: Mike Slaide, Bill Quinn, Jan Jan Minor. Others were Grant Richards,
Speaker 11: Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, Charles Irving, Steffan Schnabel, Boris Applin,
Speaker 11: Paul Arnold, and Jerry Jarrett. The script was written by
Speaker 11: Field and the music was under the direction of John Guard.
Speaker 11: Sound effects by Jerry McGee, engineering by Joe Silva. Today's
Speaker 11: OSS Adventure was based on the book Clokndagger by Corey
Speaker 11: Fard and Alistair McBain. This program was produced by Lewis G.
Speaker 11: Collen and Alfred Hollander and under the direction and supervision
Speaker 11: of Sherman Marx.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. In some ways, this episode clse to mind
Speaker 1: the film Cossablanca, with an expat trying to maintain neutrality
Speaker 1: in a neutral place. Although Mike lacks the heroic backstory
Speaker 1: of Rick Wayne, I think Mike is wrong to make
Speaker 1: his decision by two things. First of all, in the
Speaker 1: Nazis really didn't do much to make friends in the
Speaker 1: course of this operation, as was could be said of
Speaker 1: most of the war, and through their brutality, particularly towards Jen,
Speaker 1: pushed him towards his own country. But I think more
Speaker 1: importantly was the service and the approach of OSS men,
Speaker 1: in particular McAllister. And this is another key similarity with
Speaker 1: Casablanca of the cynic being inspired by the courage of
Speaker 1: a dedicated patriot, with McAllister instead of Victor Loslow and
Speaker 1: his action obviously more direct and seventy five years later,
Speaker 1: I think that inspiration still continues through the stories we've
Speaker 1: heard on Cloak and Dagger. The type of people we've
Speaker 1: heard about in this series are not the superspies of
Speaker 1: James Bond or I Spy, or the men from Uncle
Speaker 1: who would become such icons of popular culture. These were
Speaker 1: not professional spies, but citizens who took on a dangerous task,
Speaker 1: all responding yes to the offer that we heard at
Speaker 1: the start of each episode, and at least some of
Speaker 1: the people profiled paid with their lives. Some made colossal mistakes,
Speaker 1: others were either the victim or the beneficiary of luck.
Speaker 1: All took graversk to save the world from a darkness
Speaker 1: that threatened it and paid a cost to save it.
Speaker 1: Logan Dagger honors these brave men and women and holds
Speaker 1: up wonderfully as an exciting adventure series, great drama, and
Speaker 1: also a magnificent tribute to the sacrifices of the men
Speaker 1: and women of the OSS. I hope you've enjoyed this series.
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of great feedback from so many
Speaker 1: of you who have enjoyed this series and really been
Speaker 1: surprised by it. It's a great gem that a lot
Speaker 1: of people haven't listened to, and for our first adult series,
Speaker 1: it really sets a high bar and it's been such
Speaker 1: a delight to bring it to you. And now it's
Speaker 1: time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
Speaker 1: I want to thank Ian, Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: currently supporting the podcast at the secret Agent level of
Speaker 1: four dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: your support.
Speaker 3: Ian.
Speaker 1: And in terms of our series, next Saturday we begin
Speaker 1: our holiday break and we'll have an encore presentation for
Speaker 1: one of our other podcasts that still fits very well
Speaker 1: into the Great Adventurers theme and also fits within the
Speaker 1: sort of crime adventure that people would expect for being
Speaker 1: cross posted on Great Detectives. However, the Great Adventurers podcast
Speaker 1: will be back on Tuesday for one last episode, this
Speaker 1: one of Adventure Ahead and the Great Detectives podcast. We
Speaker 1: have our Sunday encore coming up tomorrow and then on
Speaker 1: Monday our regular lineup with Danger with Granger. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off