WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:10.839 Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from 2 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:15.759 Boy Sadah. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, 3 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:20.239 we're going to bring you this week's episode of Cloak 4 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.960 and Dagger. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:27.399 If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:32.159 your favorite podcast software. 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Well now, from October sixth, nineteen fifty 13 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.159 here is Delay en Route. 14 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.400 Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the 15 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.000 enemy lines knowing that you may never return alive. 16 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.519 What you have just heard is the question asked during 17 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:24.239 the War of agents of the OS s ordinary citizens. 18 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:31.280 So to this question answered yes, This is Cloak and Dagger, 19 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.519 black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of 20 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:58.359 the OSS. Today's adventure Delay Our Route the story of 21 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.879 an American OSS agent who found himself between two fires 22 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:06.079 and fascists held Italy is suggested by actual incidents recorded 23 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.080 in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, 24 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.000 a story that can now be told. 25 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.800 That was a big night in Sturtzer. We liberated the 26 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.960 town that morning, and everybody was drunk, but not on Veno. 27 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.960 Those Italian partisans were drunk on something they hadn't tasted 28 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:34.000 since Mussolini's Blackshirts marched on Roman freedom. There were only 29 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.240 three fascist officials left in town, and all of them 30 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:41.000 were down on the village square, hanging from a scaffold. 31 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.800 I should have been celebrating too, after all, that was 32 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.960 why the OSS had sent me into Italy to help 33 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:59.479 Guido Gordoni and his partisans wipe out fascists. But sitting 34 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.439 there in the turned that night with Rosa widow's sister, 35 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.319 my mind was several thousand miles away. 36 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.879 So Robert, you're going to leave us tomorrow? 37 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:11.319 Huh? 38 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:16.719 Oh, what rosa boat comes for you tomorrow night, No, the. 39 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.879 Night after tomorrow night, Rosa, just forty eight hours, it's 40 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:22.680 going to pick me up below Savona. 41 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.280 And you are glad? 42 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.000 Was there ever a guy who wasn't glad to go. 43 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:34.360 Home home to America. You mean, how can that be? 44 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:35.479 The war is not over. 45 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.120 I've got a furlough coming up, a delay en route 46 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:39.759 to my next oss assignment. 47 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:41.919 I see. 48 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.520 It is nice in America, Arovert. 49 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.759 Yeah, yeah, it's nice, Rosa. It'll be audun when I 50 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.240 get back to Vermont. The trees will just be turning. 51 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.680 I would like to see Vermont. 52 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.919 Maybe you will some day, you know what I. 53 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.280 Mean, Roberto, I would like to see it with you. 54 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:13.000 Oh sorry, Rosa. 55 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:24.959 Here's your brother, Guilo Wino over here, Roberto Morvillo, Wake well, 56 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:30.360 wait on looking for a fat fascist pig, Alberto Pelitzo. 57 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:33.519 Palitzo, the big shipyard owner. Why would he be in Sturcher. 58 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:36.040 He's got a summer village just above the town though 59 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.279 he might be hiding out there. I took some of 60 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:39.759 the boys up at the press was empty. 61 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:44.800 I gotta find him tonight. Why tonight, Roberto? 62 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:48.480 Didn't you notice there's still room for one more on 63 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:53.319 the scaffold in the square. Oh that's right, I forgot. 64 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.879 You haven't been to the square, have you, Roberto? No, 65 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.439 I haven't. You don't like execute. 66 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.040 Executions are all right at clinchings. I don't like those 67 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.240 men were civilians, widow, they were FASCISTI. Nevertheless, they were 68 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:12.600 entitled to a trial, a trial. If they had caught you, Roberto, 69 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.000 would they have given you a trial? 70 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.199 That was the difference between Guido Gordoni and me. He 71 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.079 and his partisans caught fire with fire. They'd never heard 72 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:31.279 of the democratic process, but I had, and I believed 73 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:31.600 in it. 74 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.000 That was why Guido and I could fight side by 75 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:39.079 side and respect each other as soldiers, and yet never 76 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:39.920 become friends. 77 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.439 You've not lived under the FASCISTI, Roberto. You've not had 78 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.279 a wife and child murdered as I have. With the 79 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:48.959 men you hung in the square responsible for that. Every 80 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:52.920 black shirt is responsible, the men in the square. Alberto 81 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.639 pilats all of them. When Guido gordon He finds them, 82 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.120 they pay for their crime. 83 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:02.279 They should pay, of course. But but but but what what? 84 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:02.360 What? 85 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.279 Roberto? I don't like men who say yes, but I 86 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:08.839 don't think they can be trusted. 87 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:11.439 You have no right to say that to Roberto. 88 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.920 Forget it, Rosin, I'm leaving all of you. Soon. 89 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:17.079 You won't have. 90 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:23.879 To trust me much longer. I got up then and 91 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.079 pushed my way through the crowd to the door of 92 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:37.560 the tavern. I stepped outside. The night was beautiful, but 93 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:40.439 not as beautiful I thought as an autumn night in 94 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:46.120 a month h She touched my arm as she said it. 95 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.560 She'd been standing very close to me in the shadows 96 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.160 of the tavern wall. I've never seen her before, but 97 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:55.519 she was lovely. 98 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:57.360 You are, Senor Mercer. 99 00:06:58.240 --> 00:06:59.120 Yes I am. 100 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.800 I wish to talk to you. Signor will you be 101 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.319 kind enough to come with me? 102 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.839 I didn't say no. It would have been hard to 103 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:17.079 say no under any circumstances. Besides, her quick, frightened eyes 104 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.120 told me it was something important. Still, I kept my hand. 105 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.040 Closed around my revolver as she let me down several dark, 106 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:25.199 deserted streets. 107 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.120 This is the house, signor you will please go down 108 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:31.160 the steps to the basement. 109 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.639 Oh, you go first. 110 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.600 There is someone inside, but please come in. Do not 111 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:41.720 be alarmed. 112 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:51.439 I'm not alarmed. Go ahead what I say, Senor. The 113 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:54.759 man who rose to greet me wasn't armed, and he 114 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.319 looked old and too tired to be dangerous. 115 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:02.839 Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Alberto Pilizo. 116 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.480 Belisso young. Lady who brought you here is my daughter Maria. 117 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:10.560 It was good of you to come with her. Signor, 118 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.879 But it wasn't very wise. I've heard to bring me 119 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.120 Why because you might turn us over to the partisan 120 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:19.160 Because I will turn you over to the Partisans, I. 121 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.639 Think not, Signor. No. 122 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.240 On the contrary, you will be careful to protect us 123 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.519 from the Partisans. It will take us out of Italy alive. 124 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.560 You will see it. With that we arrive safe and 125 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:32.000 sound in America. 126 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:33.519 What makes you think so? 127 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:38.399 Is your government informs sing your mercer of our recent 128 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.600 experiments with radio guided aerial torpedoes. I don't know I 129 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.440 could inform them. These experiments are being conducted in my 130 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.440 own laboratories. I know more about them than any other 131 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.639 man in Italy. I see also a new type of 132 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.360 submarine capable of great underwater speed. All right, Also the 133 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.799 long sought electromagnetic pistol for torpedoes. 134 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.799 All right, all right, I get the point, Poalizzo, I 135 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:07.360 thought you would. You'll turn over this information to Allied 136 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.879 intelligence if I get you safely out of Italy precisely. 137 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.840 Who well, Signor, I'll have to think about it, or 138 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:20.120 to think too long, Signor, and don't discuss it with 139 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.519 your parties and comrades. I'm quite sure that bloodthirsty Guido 140 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.440 Gordoni would not let my usefulness to the Allies prevent 141 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:30.120 him from hanging me. 142 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.200 He was right about that, Not that Guido Gordoni was 143 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.679 blood thirsty. He was simply an angry and bitter man. 144 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:46.720 Nothing in the world would prevent him from hanging Alberto Poalizoh. 145 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:49.159 I was pretty better myself as I headed back to 146 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.879 my room above the tavern. I didn't like keeping secrets 147 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:57.399 from Guido, and I didn't like helping fascists. But I 148 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.240 knew already what I had to do. I knew that 149 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.919 when I went aboard that pet boat in forty eight hours, 150 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.919 Palizzo and his daughter would be with me. The OSS 151 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.759 would want it that way. 152 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.000 Hello, Roberto Rosa, you were gone a long time, Roberto? 153 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.919 What are you doing in my room waiting for you? I? Uh, 154 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:22.000 I went for a walk. 155 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.600 Yes, I know, I saw you. 156 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:27.799 What do you mean you saw me? 157 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:30.600 I was watching from the window when you walked away 158 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.320 from the tavern? 159 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:32.759 Boy? 160 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:33.559 Is she Roberto? 161 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.679 That's none of your business? 162 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.720 Was I will make it my business? Is she the 163 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.159 one who is going with you to America? Is that 164 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.360 why you cannot take me? Is it with her that 165 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.840 you will spend the autumn nights in Vermont. 166 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:47.799 Rosa, you're a fool. 167 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:52.279 No, you are a fool, Roberto. You cannot conceal her 168 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:54.639 from me. I will find her before tomorrow night. 169 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:59.039 And when I do, yes, when you do. 170 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.120 Life is very cheap in Stuartza these days, Roberto. 171 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.960 She meant it, She didn't make idle threats. She was 172 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.080 like her brother that way. It took me a long 173 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.200 time to fall asleep after she was gone. Getting Alberto 174 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.039 Polizzo and his daughter safely out of Italy was beginning 175 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:29.840 to look complicated. The next morning, it looked even more complicated. 176 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:34.720 Rosa told me what you did last night, Roberto, And 177 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.759 it was very stupid to go along with this strange woman. 178 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:40.679 But she was a beautiful woman, Guido. 179 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.279 She might have led you into a trap. You know 180 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.919 there is still FASCISTI in Stuzza. 181 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.639 No important ones. I'm sure the mayor, the magistrate and 182 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.919 the prefect of police are all hanging in the square. 183 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.960 Who else could there be? Alberto Pilito? What makes you 184 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.000 think you said his villow was empty? 185 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:03.440 It was, but I don't believe he had time to escape. 186 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.159 I think he's hiding out somewhere in town. And I'm 187 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:11.240 going to search every house, room by room until I 188 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:12.000 find him. 189 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.480 And then you'll string him up to oh oh, with leisure. 190 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.320 He might make a valuable prisoner of war. He's a 191 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.159 big wheel in the munitions and shipping industries. He'd have 192 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.759 a lot of information that would be useful to the Allies. 193 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.720 And who would trust the information of a fascist? Not you, 194 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:31.799 apparently you're right, not me. His information will not save him. 195 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:39.480 If if I find him, Roberto, I'll kill him. 196 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.120 And that settled that. There was no question from then 197 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.240 on of letting Guido in on my plans, not if 198 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.440 I hope to save Palizzo's neck and I had to 199 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.840 save it now. The information that Guido scoffed at could 200 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:59.000 shorten the war by weeks, months, even years. Ten minutes 201 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.399 later I was knocking the cellar door. It was opened immediately, 202 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:07.360 but not by Palizzo or his daughter. See signor, who 203 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.200 are you, Dominique? 204 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.600 Signor the owner of this building? 205 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.039 There was a man and his door here last night. 206 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:21.399 They are still here, covin signor, Oh, good morning, signor. 207 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.759 We have been waiting for you. 208 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.440 We expected you somewhat earlier than this. Oh so sorry, 209 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.879 I'll try not to disappoint you after this, you already 210 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:32.960 I presume to take us out of Italy. I'd much 211 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:34.679 prefer to turn you over to my friends. 212 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:40.120 Oh of course, But unfortunately your preference is not what matters. 213 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.480 Unfortunately, when do we leave, signor you live? 214 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:43.759 Sir? 215 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.240 Such a night Italy tomorrow night, Signor. 216 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.159 We are grateful. We knew you would not fail. 217 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:53.159 I'm not doing this for you, naturally, we understand that. 218 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:53.879 Don't be mariar. 219 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.399 Yes, father, still, we will rewards in your No, you 220 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:02.080 in your way and I mine. 221 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.240 Let's cut the talk, shall we. You've got to get. 222 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:07.399 Out of here, Get out now, you mean, but you 223 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:07.799 said to No. 224 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.639 You can't stay in this cellar till then you'll have 225 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:12.240 to find a new place to hide. Why, because the 226 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.000 partisans are looking for you. They're covering stirts a house 227 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:15.399 by house. 228 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:17.080 No, they do not know where we are. 229 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.919 They think you might be. They're not taking any chances 230 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.519 on letting you escape. They want to string you up 231 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:23.159 where you belong. 232 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.440 Well, can we go, signor how can we hide? 233 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:25.919 I don't know yet? 234 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:32.519 I thought, maybe right, we are trapped in here unless 235 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:33.320 there's another way out. 236 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:35.480 There is no other ways in your. 237 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:37.480 Shut up. 238 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.320 Don't let me shut up, Dominic. What's that iron trapped 239 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.519 door on the wall? The shoot? You open? It looks 240 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:48.720 just big enough. What does it lead to the rear 241 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:50.679 of the house? All right, all right, let's get going. 242 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:51.120 You first. 243 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:53.799 You want me to climb and field the court? Shoot? 244 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:55.000 What about my clothes? 245 00:14:55.879 --> 00:15:01.320 What about your neck? Scramble up the chute and POLICEO 246 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:06.679 followed her. I went last. I didn't see what happened 247 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.559 to Dominic the landlord, and I didn't much care where mouse. 248 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.519 You've got to lie low, someplace where they won't find 249 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.320 you before tonight. That is not such places. Villa Villa. 250 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.120 They've already looked there. They won't go back. 251 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.960 Those deeps and murders and sacked down beauty perl Villa. 252 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.440 Neither thieves nor murderers. They're loyal patriots. We have our 253 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:28.360 name for them your you have yours, and while we're 254 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:38.240 together when he was mine, now beat it. I arranged 255 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.840 to meet them at the villa at dusk. I watched 256 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:44.600 them trudge off, smeared with coal from the chute, looking 257 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:48.759 like the peasants they despised. At least there wasn't much 258 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.879 chance they'd be recognized. But I wasn't exactly recognizable either, 259 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.159 So I washed off in a little stream at the 260 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:59.000 edge of town. Then I went back to my room. 261 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:05.399 Where you been, Roberto? It was widow. He was sitting 262 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.039 at the table in the center of the room, and 263 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:13.440 lying in front of him was his revolver. Where have 264 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:14.840 you been, Roberto? 265 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.279 Out out where? 266 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:24.039 Just out o? Just art? Huh? All right, Rico, what 267 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.360 do you mean? Inside you? 268 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.559 Here's a friend, Roberto. 269 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.720 He appeared in the doorway, prodded by Rico's carbine. He 270 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.279 was no friend, only an acquaintance of very recent acquaintance. 271 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.159 He was the landlord, dominic You. 272 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.080 Were hiding a man in the center of your house, Dominique. 273 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.120 Who was he? Who was he? 274 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:55.360 Alberto Pelitzoto Bilitza And he had a call it this morning? 275 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:57.120 See who was the caller? 276 00:16:58.039 --> 00:16:58.600 That man? 277 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:11.720 Singorl take out the old metoryco Oh, Roberto, Well. 278 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:18.240 I want Belitzo. You can't have him. Where is he? 279 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.640 I won't tell you. You are protecting a fascist thing. 280 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.680 I'm doing more than protecting him. I'm taking him out 281 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.400 of Italy to America. 282 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:32.000 Why why so he can have a pay it time? 283 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.079 No, so he can turn over information, information yes, you've 284 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.400 seen this information is not on paper, it's in his head. 285 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:39.440 And you believe him, yes, and you believe he's going 286 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:40.960 to give it up once he's got to America. 287 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.440 It's worth the chance. How much? 288 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:45.559 What? 289 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.079 How much is it worth? Roberto? Do you the whole? 290 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.160 Fifty thousand dollars? Fifty thousand dollars? How much he's got 291 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.359 sold in the landing of his overcoat. 292 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:54.319 His landlord told I. 293 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.759 Didn't know it, lying. 294 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:02.319 Belit, So he's paying you will, and I shall have 295 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.400 to deal with you as I would with any other traitor. 296 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:12.680 I give you one more chance, Roberto, where is that fascist? 297 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:15.920 His hand moved for his revolver on the table, but 298 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.000 my hand moved too. My fingers caught the edge of 299 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:22.200 the table and it out, sprawling back in his chair. 300 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.240 The gun clattered to the floor, and I kicked it 301 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:30.039 out of his request. My fist caught him on the 302 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.880 point of the chin. His head snapped back and he 303 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:41.920 slumped to the floor out. I didn't like to do that, Quido. Sorry, 304 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.039 you should be sorry, Roberto, Rosa. 305 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.200 Maybe you will tell me where the fascist is. 306 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.400 Roberto, I'm not telling anyone, Rosa. 307 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:51.920 Then I will do what my brother did not have 308 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:52.799 the chance to do. 309 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:54.599 I don't think you will. 310 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:59.039 Don't come near me, Roberto, if you try to get 311 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:00.880 this gun. I saw ware antinue. 312 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.839 But you won't, you know, because you don't believe I'm 313 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:06.519 a trader. You are and I were. You wouldn't shoot 314 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:10.000 me because you love me, not anymore I hate And 315 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:20.160 why don't you pull the trigger? Give me the gun, Rosa. 316 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:23.359 They didn't go. 317 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:32.440 I went down to the street. The car that Guido 318 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:34.480 had come and did for his use and stood so 319 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:37.599 was parked in front of the tavern. I went over 320 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.599 to the driver, Antonio, we don't want you. He is 321 00:19:41.680 --> 00:20:02.599 upstairsing your mer Yes in my room, hurry, it's I 322 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.599 was at Pulico's villa. Twenty minutes later. Maria met me 323 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:09.680 at the door. The way she was dressed, you'd have 324 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.599 thought she was sailing for America and the Queen Mary Senior. 325 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:14.839 Mer How nice that you have come early. 326 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:16.759 Where's your father in the library? 327 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:21.160 This way? We will not expecting you on until tonight. 328 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:22.839 My plans have changed. 329 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:28.440 Palitzo, Ah, your mercy, you have arrived just in time, 330 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.400 in time for what Maria and I have opened one 331 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:33.359 last bottle of wine from Marcella. 332 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:35.519 We shall be happy to have you share it with 333 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:38.839 No thanks, Marie, another guy, I said, no thanks. 334 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:43.880 Now, my dear fellow, we will drink to use in 335 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:47.039 your our benefactory and then we will drink to the 336 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:51.119 new world where we are going, a world where these 337 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:55.720 differences between us can be forgotten, a world where we 338 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:56.839 can be friends. 339 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:03.000 There's no such world, Politzo. There is your glassy or 340 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:09.000 I don't drink with fascists. 341 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:16.240 You have consorted with rabble to long mercer your manners, reflected, My. 342 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:18.160 Manners are likely to get worse if I can sort 343 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:20.880 with your kind much longer. So let's get going. You 344 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:22.039 said we will leave tonight. 345 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:23.839 There's been a change of plants. 346 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:26.160 Father, that's right. We're starting for the coast right away. 347 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.759 Get your things very well, and palzzo. Yes, we'll be 348 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.480 driving through fascist held territory most of the way. You 349 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.960 might be tempted to make a break for it. If 350 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.640 you do, I promise I'll bring you back and personally 351 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:50.440 hang you from that scaffold. We left. Then I drove 352 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:54.160 the car Pulzzo Satin back, but not Maria. She was 353 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:58.119 beside me, very close beside me. Her perfume was heavy and. 354 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:02.640 Sweet thoughts are so far away in your very far. 355 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:09.440 You do not like me, do you? You do not 356 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:10.519 think I am. 357 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.640 Beautiful, not nearly as beautiful as my thoughts. 358 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:16.920 They are of another woman? 359 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:31.200 No? What then a place called Vermont. It was night 360 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:34.720 when we reached the main highway to Savona. Guido's partisans 361 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:36.599 were far behind us. By them, and I thought it 362 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:40.559 would be clear sailing. I was wrong. What is the matter? 363 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:44.880 Why do you slow down? Look up ahead? Road block? Partisan? No, 364 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.880 not partisans, this time it's your friends, Remember Polizzo. I'm 365 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.960 waiting for you to say just one wrong word. 366 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:57.279 Let me see your papers. You're in the back seat. 367 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.400 Force here they are. You will find them quite order. 368 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:07.839 I will be the judge of that. Alberto Pelitzoy. So 369 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:11.119 you are, Alberto Pelitzo? 370 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:13.680 Are you yes? I am all right? 371 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:16.480 Proma with me, all three of you. 372 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.920 What's why? What is the better? 373 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.279 This man is lying? Alberto Pelitzo is dead. 374 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:30.559 They let us to a small house down the road. 375 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:32.279 The one with the rifle stayed with us, while the 376 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:35.000 other one disappeared into a back room. I was still 377 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:37.720 watching Palizzo. I was still waiting for him to say 378 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:38.519 that word. 379 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.319 Here is the man Major, A man who calls himself 380 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:46.720 Alberto Plito. 381 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:53.480 Let me see him, so why should they not call 382 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:55.480 himself Alberto Pelitzo. 383 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.920 You recognized me that Major, but of course Signor, and 384 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.960 I am delighted to say our information was that you 385 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:05.200 had been captured by partsans. 386 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:07.720 I deeply apologize for the inconvenience. 387 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:11.079 We may, of course, no, no, no apologies are necessary, Major, 388 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:14.119 And now may my daughter and I proceed to save. 389 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:17.880 On certainly, Senor. And this man who is with. 390 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:23.400 You, Oh, this man see you wish him to accompany you? 391 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:23.799 Senor? 392 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:36.079 Well, yes, of course this man is my chauffer. I 393 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:39.400 didn't get it. I didn't understand why he done it, 394 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:42.759 not until it started toward the car. The Major who 395 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:46.319 has called us walk ahead with Maria. I turned back 396 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:52.200 to have a little private talk with Berlitza. You could 397 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.920 have turned me over to them, but you didn't. It 398 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:56.960 was not of the kindness of your heart. I'm sure 399 00:24:57.119 --> 00:24:59.839 why else, Mercer, you have been kind to us. We 400 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.720 you no fascist was ever kind for a reason like that. 401 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:08.960