Speaker 1: Escape Escape Tonight Too Occupied France and the Underground.
Speaker 2: A Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape,
Speaker 2: a new series of programs, of which this the second
Speaker 2: is Operation Flori de Lys, written and directed by William N.
Speaker 2: Robeson today, the fourteenth of July, the people of a
Speaker 2: free France celebrate the anniversary of their escape from the
Speaker 2: tyranny of the Kings of Versailles. One hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: eight years ago. Today, the people of Paris stormed the
Speaker 2: Bastille and leftloose the French Revolution. The torch of liberty
Speaker 2: set a fire that day never burned more fiercely than
Speaker 2: during the years when France was occupied by the Nazis.
Speaker 2: Tonight Too occupied France from which three years ago there
Speaker 2: was no escape.
Speaker 3: You can call me Duke, but don't use my right name.
Speaker 4: I might want to go back to France someday, And
Speaker 4: there are a lot of people in the world that
Speaker 4: wouldn't understand that what I did was justified in the war. No,
Speaker 4: I don't have any regrets, moral ones. That is, it
Speaker 4: isn't what I did to Renee that keeps me awake
Speaker 4: at nights. It's just a memory of her there isn't
Speaker 4: much a body in my official report on Operation Flirtily,
Speaker 4: but then it isn't customary to include descriptions of slim,
Speaker 4: sunburned legs and wide, deep brown eyes and a military document.
Speaker 4: And anyway, she was only an incident in the operation,
Speaker 4: even if she became somewhat more important to me. Operation
Speaker 4: Florida Lee began like all the others in the grubby,
Speaker 4: undistinguished house in London, which was the headquarters of the OSS,
Speaker 4: the Office of Strategic Services, otherwise nonliest parts of the
Speaker 4: world as screwballs, cutthroats, spies, cloak and dagger boys and
Speaker 4: American underground agents gentlemen.
Speaker 5: Operation flirt de Les has planned to assist the advance
Speaker 5: of our forces once they've secured a beachhead of Normandy.
Speaker 5: Is that where we're going in major That is one
Speaker 5: of the possibilities, Lieutenant, Yes, sir, you will jump over
Speaker 5: Grandma in northern France.
Speaker 6: Here on the map.
Speaker 5: You are to set up roadblocks on these three state highways, here, here,
Speaker 5: and here.
Speaker 7: There is an underground contact near Grandma's.
Speaker 5: Yes, Al Sine Dutton, he's leader of the local my
Speaker 5: quys expecting you. In addition, you are to block these
Speaker 5: railroad lines entering and leaving Graandmont. These operations are to
Speaker 5: coincide with the advance of our ground.
Speaker 3: Forces if they land in Normandy.
Speaker 5: If they land in Normany, you will then plain tonight
Speaker 5: at twenty one hundred hours and will drop over your
Speaker 5: objectivet I should think approximately twenty two hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: Any questions.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think so, sir.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, sir, I have a question, Yes, lieutenant, how
Speaker 3: many of us are going on this mission? Just the
Speaker 3: two of you?
Speaker 4: Just the two of us, And all we had to
Speaker 4: do was organize an underground army, disrupt the supply lines
Speaker 4: of a half a dozen Nazi divisions, and give support
Speaker 4: to the entire light invasion.
Speaker 3: Just the two of us. But that's the way the
Speaker 3: USS works, and nobody ordered Hill and me into it.
Speaker 3: We'd volunteered. I don't know why.
Speaker 4: Maybe for moments like this one, when you get a
Speaker 4: BE twenty four assigned to you as a personal taxi
Speaker 4: and there's lots of room to sprawl around after the bombings.
Speaker 7: How do you feel fine? Scared?
Speaker 3: Of course I'm scared, aren't you me?
Speaker 1: Nah, there's a walk you forget how tough it was
Speaker 1: when we were at Paratroops school at Bennick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was real rugged.
Speaker 1: If the wind wasn't right, you might land in the
Speaker 1: chatdooochie and get all wet.
Speaker 3: And it was always the chances you'd sprain your ankle
Speaker 3: coming down too.
Speaker 1: Hot and the sun was so bright on some of
Speaker 1: those daylight jumps.
Speaker 3: Whereas we got none of those things to worry about.
Speaker 4: Here, a nice pitch black night over France, no sun
Speaker 4: to blind us, no Chatahoochee river to.
Speaker 2: Fall into, yer Tenant.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sergeant Paper wants to talk to you on the intercom. Thanks, here,
Speaker 3: use my cans thik you do here.
Speaker 7: Lieutenant, And when we're objective.
Speaker 3: Any signal from the ground.
Speaker 1: Yes, the one arranged.
Speaker 8: Four duds, two dashes green, Very well, you're Lieutenant Hill.
Speaker 8: Move into the bombay cut open bombay doors in thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Roger, good luck. Thanks, Sergeant stand by to dump those
Speaker 3: supplies as soon as we're clear. Yes, sir, come on it.
Speaker 3: This is someone has said, is it?
Speaker 1: So assume just as I was settling down a good book,
Speaker 1: Bombay dodge are opening, sir.
Speaker 3: Okay, sergeant all right, ed, Let's check your hardness.
Speaker 7: It's a frightful mess. I just can't seem to do
Speaker 7: a thing with it.
Speaker 3: I know, but this is the last party you'll have
Speaker 3: to wear it on. Okay, am I well, don't look now,
Speaker 3: but your shoot showing. Check it in. Let's get out
Speaker 3: on that catwalk.
Speaker 8: Wow, freshing breeze and all up France at our feet.
Speaker 5: You see the signal.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm looking.
Speaker 8: For there it is over to the left.
Speaker 3: You got it, got it? Let's go, your kid, Sure,
Speaker 3: your kid? It helps? What for those ten seconds while
Speaker 3: you fall free?
Speaker 2: Nothing helps.
Speaker 3: You hang onto the rip cord and you count off
Speaker 3: the seconds, so you're trying not to count too fast.
Speaker 4: Your hand on that rip cord is the only certain
Speaker 4: thing in the world is your tumble hit over teacups
Speaker 4: with a wind tearing sound from your ears. And there's
Speaker 4: only one thought, always the same thought, whether it's your
Speaker 4: first or your fiftieth jump.
Speaker 3: We'll the shoot open.
Speaker 4: It does yanking at your armpits, knocking the breath out
Speaker 4: of you, slowing you down, and you swing there like
Speaker 4: a rag doll, trying to get your bearings. First, you
Speaker 4: make out the horizon. That's where the black becomes darker black,
Speaker 4: where the stars stop, and you wonder about ed, but
Speaker 4: you can't risk calling out. And now that you're located
Speaker 4: with the stars a right, you look for the signal
Speaker 4: light and there it is slightly to the left, so
Speaker 4: you tug at your shroud lines, spelling a little air
Speaker 4: that guides you toward it, and it's coming towards you
Speaker 4: awfully fast, and you hope this particular French patriot has
Speaker 4: picked out a field free of trees and church steepens.
Speaker 4: And then you try to remember all the things they
Speaker 4: taught you about hitting the ground and rolling with the
Speaker 4: wind and collapsing your shot, because it's always like this,
Speaker 4: You always feel like you've.
Speaker 3: Never hit the silk before. And then you're down and
Speaker 3: you roll just right and you collapse your shoot and
Speaker 3: it's second nature to you after all.
Speaker 4: And then you hear footsteps running towards you, and you
Speaker 4: remember another important instruction, your whip on. You're automatic, and
Speaker 4: you hope your frien's is good enough to get you.
Speaker 8: Buy kivah, Who is it Elseine?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 7: Where?
Speaker 3: Okay? Elsceine? Come on less?
Speaker 5: You have arrived, Lieutenant, So it seems you have no
Speaker 5: idea how long we wish for this morning.
Speaker 3: That's my partner. Come on he yeah, ed o the hair, Duke, Okay,
Speaker 3: my hump and oh it's just slightly damage otherwise, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is al scene, our content, el seine, Lieutenant hill
Speaker 3: h el.
Speaker 6: Scene, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5: It is a great pleasure to make your acquaintance and
Speaker 5: on behalf of my country.
Speaker 4: Now let's get these shoots buried and blow this place.
Speaker 4: Where's your transportation, el scene.
Speaker 5: We haven't any wh where's this safe house? You might
Speaker 5: be able to stay at my hands? I don't think
Speaker 5: she'd talk.
Speaker 7: I don't think. Aren't you sure?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, I'm supremely confident that.
Speaker 3: There are the Germans.
Speaker 5: They're everywhere, and that is why I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 5: Now we can fight again. With your help, we will
Speaker 5: kill many bush.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, how many are there than you're a
Speaker 3: marquis myself, than two others? Just three of you?
Speaker 7: Oh, my aching bag.
Speaker 6: But now that the Americans are here, we can do anything.
Speaker 4: Oh why don't they get these things straight in London?
Speaker 4: How can we block roads with a three man my key?
Speaker 7: Three men in an ant who perhaps will not talk.
Speaker 3: Well, let's get cracking, Duke.
Speaker 1: You're not going through with this mad adventure are you
Speaker 1: what would you suggest? Well, as for me, I'm all
Speaker 1: for taking the next plane back to London.
Speaker 3: Another lieutenant, No, thank you man.
Speaker 9: This bone chicken is delicious.
Speaker 6: How do you call it?
Speaker 3: Ky rastion supreme?
Speaker 9: We've had nothing like it since the Bosh came.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well you get used to it.
Speaker 5: And cigarettes, Tom Mally cigarettes made of real tobacco. Ah,
Speaker 5: you Americans have everything, madam.
Speaker 3: I'll scene.
Speaker 4: You're kind, You're hospitable, but the comforts of k ration
Speaker 4: will not block roads.
Speaker 3: We need men. We must form a my key.
Speaker 7: But we have a makeys my al scene. There are
Speaker 7: three of you and two of us.
Speaker 1: Sure, we've got guns, and we've got ammunition and supply
Speaker 1: shoots somewhere out in that field where we landed.
Speaker 7: We've got arms for fifty men.
Speaker 1: But if we had those men, we still couldn't go
Speaker 1: to war against the German division.
Speaker 3: And you said to yourself, is at least a division garrison?
Speaker 3: And Grandma, what must we do? First? We must organize
Speaker 3: a my key. We need men, can you get them?
Speaker 6: I can go into the village and talk to my friends.
Speaker 7: It's done that a long time ago.
Speaker 10: Four scene.
Speaker 9: That would be most unwise. Why didn't you know Arcine
Speaker 9: is a patriot, he's a deserter from the VIC army,
Speaker 9: so he's wanted by the Gestapo.
Speaker 1: Oh great, and there's a Gestapo headquarters in grandmar Of course, of.
Speaker 9: Course Arcine is not run to run from danger.
Speaker 7: Quite the countrary.
Speaker 6: I can get Renee to help.
Speaker 3: Who's Renee?
Speaker 9: I's seen sweetheart, a lovely girl from Paris. Fo I
Speaker 9: think she had to come down to the country because
Speaker 9: her house was bummed out.
Speaker 6: Leave her out of this, but Lieutenant, she would be
Speaker 6: most happy to help.
Speaker 3: Alcine.
Speaker 4: You've got a lot to learn about guerrilla warfare. You
Speaker 4: might as well study your first lesson right now. It's
Speaker 4: shortened to the point. No, dames. Well, the next day
Speaker 4: we collected the supplies which had been dropped with us,
Speaker 4: and we set up a camp deep in the woods.
Speaker 4: Hill and I were loaded with French money, so we
Speaker 4: were able to buy food from the friendly farmers. Maybe
Speaker 4: it was the food as much as patriots, and that
Speaker 4: brought us recruits. Anyway, after a week we had nearly
Speaker 4: thirty men. Our marquis wasn't big enough for the job
Speaker 4: we had to do, but it was growing in the
Speaker 4: right direction. And then one night, as I was winding up.
Speaker 3: A report to London, Well what they saying? What do
Speaker 3: they ever say? Message acknowledged? Carry on?
Speaker 1: What about new batteries for the radio? What about extra
Speaker 1: ammunition for the buck Rogers guns? What are they going
Speaker 1: to get another drop to us?
Speaker 3: Why didn't you ask him?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They do the best they can.
Speaker 4: I guess, after all, we're not the only boy scouts
Speaker 4: in this chambourine.
Speaker 7: Hey you do?
Speaker 3: Yeah? There goes out seen again, off toward the road. Yes,
Speaker 3: come on a minute, Yes, lieutenant, where are you going?
Speaker 6: I was just taking a stroll.
Speaker 3: You're on night guard, not tonight. You weren't on night
Speaker 3: guard last night, were you, no, Lieutenant? Or the night before?
Speaker 10: No, sir.
Speaker 3: But you weren't in camp all night? Were you?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 4: What's the matter? Don't you like the camp rather sleep
Speaker 4: at your ants? It's a two rugged out here.
Speaker 3: For you, No, sir? Then where were you in the village?
Speaker 3: You know the orders no one is to go into
Speaker 3: the village.
Speaker 6: Yes, lieutenant, but I only go in at night.
Speaker 3: It makes no difference, but it does, you see, Lieutenant.
Speaker 6: I'm so in love.
Speaker 7: Oh great?
Speaker 3: The girl from Paris.
Speaker 5: Yes, you should see her, Lieutenant. She's the most beautiful,
Speaker 5: the most charming, the most.
Speaker 3: You know you're endangering the whole my key by disobeying
Speaker 3: my orders.
Speaker 5: Oh no, sir, there's no danger with Rhyney. She hates
Speaker 5: the bush. Why she wants to join us.
Speaker 3: You've told her about us?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, sir?
Speaker 3: Are you out of your mind? How do you know?
Speaker 3: She's all right?
Speaker 6: I just know, that's all.
Speaker 3: She's the most wonderful person in the world.
Speaker 6: She's a real patriot.
Speaker 3: I told you. Rule number one is no dames.
Speaker 6: Yes, but Rene is different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you better marry her before you bring around here.
Speaker 1: You'll have to share with the rest of these wolves. Lieutenant,
Speaker 1: Do I understand you got.
Speaker 3: A el scene? It's just an American figures speech.
Speaker 6: May I tell Rene she can join us?
Speaker 3: Well, not quite yet, later maybe.
Speaker 6: Yes, lieutenant? Is that all?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That's all. If you gotta take it al scene,
Speaker 3: take it easy.
Speaker 6: I do not understand.
Speaker 3: Just another American idiom el scene.
Speaker 6: Good night, good night, sir.
Speaker 7: Hey duke, you're gonna let him get away with that?
Speaker 3: What are we going to do?
Speaker 7: Slap them another guarden house for thirty days only?
Speaker 3: This isn't the American Army and we haven't any guardhouse.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Stinks from a security standpoint.
Speaker 4: I know, we try to keep these boys from sneaking
Speaker 4: off home every now and then.
Speaker 3: We're not going to have any monkey. He's French, an
Speaker 3: immoral race. I don't know about that. Remember Phoenix City, Alabama? Yeah, oh, yes,
Speaker 3: what you mean. There wasn't anything we could do. If
Speaker 3: we'd ordered out scene to stay in camp, he'd just
Speaker 3: sneaked off anyway. He had that dreamy, far away.
Speaker 4: Look that's baffled parents, teachers, and first lieutenant since the
Speaker 4: beginning of time. I didn't worry too much about it
Speaker 4: because our my key was growing and d Hill and
Speaker 4: I were breaking our backs pushing those French kids through
Speaker 4: an airsot's basic in three weeks. Headquarters in London didn't
Speaker 4: tell us much, but we did know from the BBC
Speaker 4: that the boys had landed at Omaha Beach and it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be long before they'd be needing our roadblocks. And
Speaker 4: then one morning, about d plus four I think it was,
Speaker 4: I was out in the woods running a squad through concealment.
Speaker 3: Brill Oh no, no, hit the dirt. Don't waiter your
Speaker 3: tad when you see the signal hit the dirt right now?
Speaker 3: Huh oh, I'll see. Have you been all that as
Speaker 3: though I didn't know, Lieutenant. I've got to talk to you, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll be through here in a half hour, so on.
Speaker 4: Got to talk to you now, all right, Elsing, Okay, boys,
Speaker 4: take five, come along, Elsin.
Speaker 5: What's on your mind, Lieutenant? My family has been killed?
Speaker 5: Oh no, yes, by the Gestapo. He set fire to
Speaker 5: the house. My mother and my father and my two sisters.
Speaker 5: They ran out, the Gestapo shot them.
Speaker 3: He was sure of this.
Speaker 6: Yes, I heard it this morning from the neighborhood. Saw
Speaker 6: it happen.
Speaker 3: Poor kid.
Speaker 5: When can we attack, lieutenant? When can we stop this?
Speaker 5: Endalyst training and fight the Bush?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: I want only to kill and killed and killed until
Speaker 5: I paid them back for my father, my mother, my
Speaker 5: two sisters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you'll get your chance on el Sing,
Speaker 3: but not yet. We gotta wait. We're not ready yet.
Speaker 5: I'm ready before I wanted to fight the Bush for
Speaker 5: my country. Now I want to kill him again and again.
Speaker 3: For the I know, but you gotta be patient.
Speaker 5: Sh happened to me now? Only last night Renne said
Speaker 5: she'd marry me. Come to live here with me in
Speaker 5: the camp. I was so happy, And this morning I
Speaker 5: learned this news.
Speaker 3: Why did you hear from your mother last?
Speaker 5: Not for a month since we began to work, But
Speaker 5: I've written her every week.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Who mailed the letters?
Speaker 5: And they mailed them for me. She's so kind and thoughtful.
Speaker 5: She offered to mail letters home for the other boys too.
Speaker 3: It was nice of it. Did they take advantage of
Speaker 3: her offer? A couple of them, who Paul of them?
Speaker 7: Sean?
Speaker 6: I told them about and they wrote.
Speaker 3: Their families and Renee mailed the letters.
Speaker 6: She's a wonderful person. Lieutenant. You're going to love her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I am.
Speaker 6: She's all I've gotten the world now.
Speaker 4: Two and two make four and occupied France just the
Speaker 4: same as anywhere else, And sometimes it's just as hard
Speaker 4: to prove. But one thing was sure now. I wanted
Speaker 4: to meet Renee in the worst way. But I had
Speaker 4: to postpone the pleasure because early that afternoon one of
Speaker 4: the outposts broken the camp out of bread.
Speaker 8: Yes, Paul, they're coming down the road through the forest.
Speaker 8: How many I did not stop to count them, several
Speaker 8: truck clothes.
Speaker 4: To be sure, pass the words, Lieutenant Hill ask him
Speaker 4: to bring his detail in the camp on the double. Yes,
Speaker 4: lieutenant als, Yes, take two men and go down to
Speaker 4: the road and see what the ruck through. Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: just reconnoiter. Don't fire at.
Speaker 6: Them, but this is my chance for event.
Speaker 3: Listen to me. Don't fire at them, that's a command. Yes,
Speaker 3: they may not be after us at all.
Speaker 7: I get coined immediately, Lieutenant. What's the order of the day, dude,
Speaker 7: plans Graham. It looks like all your men here, President
Speaker 7: of the counted for all.
Speaker 4: Right, boys, now gather around, will you and get this
Speaker 4: as a convoy of Germans coming down the forest road.
Speaker 4: I'll wait a minute. We're not going to fight him.
Speaker 4: You know what our job is roadblocks. We got tanks,
Speaker 4: artillery and airplanes. It will be along soon to do
Speaker 4: the killing a lock. Our security has been pretty good
Speaker 4: and those crowds may be on a routine patrol.
Speaker 3: Chances are they don't even know we're here. They do
Speaker 3: now listen, Yeah, well that doesn't all right? Your men
Speaker 3: got your weapons good, and you know the procedure.
Speaker 4: Get lost before you leave the forest, bury your weapons, ammunition,
Speaker 4: and equipment. Rendezvous at the home of Alcene's at at
Speaker 4: twenty two hundred hours tonight, good luck, Come on, ed,
Speaker 4: let's stram.
Speaker 7: Well. He who doesn't fight and runs away lives to
Speaker 7: fight another day.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 7: Who tipped them off?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but I got a pretty good idea.
Speaker 7: Who's down there at the road al Scene.
Speaker 4: He's fighting a private war, the poor jerk. The basic
Speaker 4: rule of three in guerrilla warfare is surprise, kill vanish.
Speaker 3: However, one ye're surprised, the only rule is vanish than
Speaker 3: we did.
Speaker 4: There were about fifty Germans and a half a dozen
Speaker 4: dogs to track our scent. They spent the day thrashing
Speaker 4: through the woods, firing into the underbrush and finding nothing.
Speaker 4: It was a classic withdrawal and Hell and I were
Speaker 4: proud of our little army, with the exception of al Scene,
Speaker 4: It's self appointed hero. When we arrived at his aunt's
Speaker 4: house that night for the rendezvous, a half a dozen
Speaker 4: of the boys were already there.
Speaker 9: Who is it, Julie, our lieutenant. Come in, good evening, Madam,
Speaker 9: I've seen he's already here.
Speaker 5: I'm so proud of him, Oh, lieutenant. I was just
Speaker 5: telling tom Elly and the boys it was magnificent. I
Speaker 5: got two of them. I killed two bush.
Speaker 4: Your orders were not to shoot, But Lieutenant, what would
Speaker 4: you What happened to the other boys that were with you?
Speaker 6: Jean was wounded and captured. Antoine became frightened and ran away.
Speaker 7: It blows the Marquis.
Speaker 4: They'll get the full particulars from Jean if they haven't
Speaker 4: got him already.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Lieutenant, but quiet, answer it, madame?
Speaker 10: Who is it?
Speaker 3: Julie opening, Good evening, madame? Come in, boys, run in
Speaker 3: any trouble boys, as you see, we are here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, not for long, Lieutenant, Yes, Paul, and I wish
Speaker 8: to withdraw.
Speaker 3: Up in the Marquis. Quiet. Why the risk is too great?
Speaker 3: You're afraid for myself? No, but after what happened to John,
Speaker 3: he was wounded and captured, Well we all take that risk.
Speaker 8: Yes, But last night the Gestapo got Jean's family like
Speaker 8: they did all scenes, stood them up in front of
Speaker 8: their house and shot them.
Speaker 3: Who knows will be next?
Speaker 8: My mother, Raul, sister Alcine's ant I wish.
Speaker 3: To withdraw right, I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 4: I don't blame you for being worried about your families,
Speaker 4: but whose families do you think the British and American
Speaker 4: armies up in Normandy are fighting to liberate their own
Speaker 4: no yours. Now, this thing isn't as bad as it looks.
Speaker 4: There's been a leak in our security. Somebody's been putting
Speaker 4: a finger on us, so we lay low until the
Speaker 4: leak's plugged.
Speaker 8: But the Germans are everywhere. Spies, perhaps two, are everywhere.
Speaker 4: I think I know who's responsible for these murders. I'll
Speaker 4: make a deal with you. Give me a couple of
Speaker 4: days to work it on. We less you boys some money,
Speaker 4: and all you've got to do is to get lost
Speaker 4: until Saturday night and then meet me back here. If
Speaker 4: I haven't patched up our security by then, you can
Speaker 4: all quit the marquis and become collaborator.
Speaker 8: No one wishes to collaborate, but one must think of
Speaker 8: one's family.
Speaker 4: Okay, yea, yeah, dude, give the boys a thousand francs apiece.
Speaker 7: Right, come, I get a boy, a Lieutenant.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have a little time on my hands for
Speaker 4: the next couple of days. Do you think you could
Speaker 4: he ins to introduce me to your girlfriend.
Speaker 6: Oh but of course, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4: Maybe if she's okay like you say, we can let
Speaker 4: her sign up.
Speaker 6: I am desolated with happiness.
Speaker 4: Lieutenant one thing, none of that lieutenant business around her,
Speaker 4: and until I make sure she's all right, very well,
Speaker 4: you think, my friends, she's good enough to pass.
Speaker 3: As a native.
Speaker 6: But of course, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3: All right, then pass me off as a friend of yours.
Speaker 3: Let's see. I'll need a name. Let's call me Jacques
Speaker 3: deu Fran.
Speaker 6: Jacques Dufrane.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 6: I will make the arrangements immediately.
Speaker 3: I thought you'd like an excuse to get into town Ton.
Speaker 4: The next afternoon, il Seon brought the girl out to
Speaker 4: the woods near his aunt's house. I stood behind a
Speaker 4: tree to watch and make sure they weren't being followed.
Speaker 3: She was all right, tall, long.
Speaker 4: Sunburned legs, her hair caught in a blue ribbon like
Speaker 4: a little girl's. I let them walk by, and then
Speaker 4: I stepped from behind my tree.
Speaker 3: Oh hey you, Jacques, Hello, Elsie Rennie.
Speaker 6: This is my good friend, Jacques du Fran. He's from Paris, too, Jack.
Speaker 6: This is an adency boy.
Speaker 3: Glad to meet you, ma'mselle, and.
Speaker 10: I'm honored to meet you, monsieur. Where do you live?
Speaker 10: In Paris?
Speaker 3: Near the Porto de la la But my home is
Speaker 3: no longer there. It was bombed.
Speaker 10: Out a lash, so smile.
Speaker 4: My family remain with friends, but I've come out into
Speaker 4: the country to fight with the resistance.
Speaker 6: Jacques has much influence with the commander of our marquis.
Speaker 10: I hope you will be able to persuade him to
Speaker 10: let me join you. Monsieur.
Speaker 3: I shall do what I can.
Speaker 10: It would be a privilege and an honor to work
Speaker 10: with a patriot like you.
Speaker 6: See Jacques, I told you Rene was all right.
Speaker 3: He didn't tell me they have of him.
Speaker 4: Mademoiselle, you understand that we must be cautious. There are
Speaker 4: questions I must ask of a confidential nature.
Speaker 10: Why don't we meet again alone? Why not say tonight,
Speaker 10: I have a little car. We might take a drive.
Speaker 7: Fine, But Rene, you promised me that.
Speaker 10: See you some other time. I share Remember France comes first.
Speaker 3: We just drove that night.
Speaker 4: She was wearing a white ribbon in her hair and
Speaker 4: a loose white dress and no stockings. We just drove
Speaker 4: around in her little citron Ron with the top down
Speaker 4: and the wind blowing her hair like a girl in
Speaker 4: a magazine had.
Speaker 3: Then we came back about midnight and parked with the bridge,
Speaker 3: and I felt like I was back in high school
Speaker 3: in Illinois.
Speaker 10: Look at those stars, Shack. Yeah, so many of them,
Speaker 10: so close you can almost reach out and touch them. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I had them all once, Shack. I reached out and
Speaker 10: gathered them all in my arm swamps. Yeah, I want
Speaker 10: you to know all about me, Shack, I want to.
Speaker 10: Don't think it's wrong of me, but I've been in love.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong in being in love.
Speaker 10: He was a soldier.
Speaker 3: Most everybody is these days, a German soldier.
Speaker 10: Oh don't you think that love is bigger than war
Speaker 10: or hate or anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10: He's dead.
Speaker 4: Now, that's good. I'm sorry. I mean, I didn't mean
Speaker 4: to hurt you. I'm not sorry he's dead, Shack.
Speaker 10: I'm so confused. I want to understand things. I want
Speaker 10: to be intelligent about things, but everything gets so mixed up,
Speaker 10: like now, like now, Yes, Shack, I've never been so happy.
Speaker 3: As I am tonight, not even with a German.
Speaker 10: Not even with him. Why does it have to end?
Speaker 10: Why do those blessed stars have to go out one
Speaker 10: by one to make way for another day of war?
Speaker 10: Why can't we stop time, you and I and gather
Speaker 10: all the stars together just for us.
Speaker 11: I don't know, baby, it's never been done before. Awake
Speaker 11: and try.
Speaker 10: Shut my shell shell shut?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: Same time, same place, forever if you say the word sure,
Speaker 4: why not? Who knows how long forever is in this
Speaker 4: crazy world? Why not have it together? Why not get married?
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 3: My most see you tomorrow night.
Speaker 10: I'll only be half alive until then, Sherry. If you
Speaker 10: want to write your family in Paris, give me the
Speaker 10: letter tomorrow night and I'll mail.
Speaker 3: It for you.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: I drop that rock and grab a sock, rise and
Speaker 1: shine a love a boy. I brought your cup of chocolate.
Speaker 1: Figured you want breakfast in bed this morning? How'd you
Speaker 1: make out last night? Okay, details, let's have the details.
Speaker 3: Nothing much to report. We drove and then we parked
Speaker 3: for a while and talked.
Speaker 7: Did you give anything away?
Speaker 4: No information. She's a funny kid. Her dialogues as corny
Speaker 4: as a Bobby socks. She knows she's pretty, so she
Speaker 4: wants to be admired for her mind. But I'm sure
Speaker 4: he's Armada Hari.
Speaker 7: I'll come.
Speaker 4: She offered a mail a letter to my family. Hm,
Speaker 4: it's consistent. I asked her to marry me. What she
Speaker 4: didn't believe me, but she pretended like she did. I
Speaker 4: don't know why she's doing what she's doing. Thrills maybe
Speaker 4: French juvenile de lake one. Maybe tonight's the night the
Speaker 4: night you get married, now the night we get her.
Speaker 4: The boys are meeting us here at midnight. You know
Speaker 4: what's the plan. Well, I'll take another ride with her,
Speaker 4: and about midnight we'll be back in park with the
Speaker 4: bridge and you'll be there out of sight. I'll have
Speaker 4: some brandy along and i'll slug her drink with a
Speaker 4: capture pill. When she's passed out, i'll give you the
Speaker 4: come on and you join me.
Speaker 3: Here, Baby, have another vent.
Speaker 10: I shouldn't shout. Brandy always makes me sleep.
Speaker 3: Well, what of it? This is a celebration of our engagement.
Speaker 10: Kiss me shut again and again? Sure shuck the stars
Speaker 10: and nearer nearer than they've.
Speaker 3: Ever been, nearer than you think. Maybe I love you?
Speaker 10: Shall I do love you? Kiss me? You can't do
Speaker 10: it a care?
Speaker 4: I can't, really, baby, I guess sleep. Your collaboration is
Speaker 4: pig can't hear me?
Speaker 3: Okay? And alight like a red lightning that rat And
Speaker 3: here's her purse. I start throw it while I untangle
Speaker 3: myself with you.
Speaker 7: I'll take a look at this. What is it?
Speaker 1: I let her from Gustoppo headquarters, confirming receipt of three addresses.
Speaker 3: Let me see that. Well, I'll had one's Elsin's family,
Speaker 3: and that one's genre. And here's a good STOPO identification card.
Speaker 3: Play sure, light over there. Look at her? What a
Speaker 3: dish Look at that kisser.
Speaker 4: And she's responsible for the death of six people who's
Speaker 4: only crime was being born French. She'd erecked our marquis
Speaker 4: snapp food, our mission and turned me over to the Gestapo,
Speaker 4: her lipstick still in my collar.
Speaker 3: That gorgeous hunk a double cross. Well, we got the proof.
Speaker 3: Let's get on with it.
Speaker 7: I don't Cary, I guess you'd rather.
Speaker 3: I know, this is my job.
Speaker 7: Geesh, she's gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so long, honey, thanks she it's so gorgeous. Now
Speaker 3: at least that handbrake got it. Come on, shove.
Speaker 4: Not yet, keep that steering real straight. The river's deepest,
Speaker 4: right at the center of the bridge. Yeah, now, high
Speaker 4: right on the wheel.
Speaker 3: You know, something had I think she finally did gather
Speaker 3: that armful of stars. Sure the operation was successful. When
Speaker 3: the time came our roadblocks tied up three German divisions
Speaker 3: while patent rolled on to the east. But I still
Speaker 3: lie awake at night thinking I should have married that dame. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the operation was successful, but the patient died.
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