Mother of God... flying pigs!
Have you found out who Starling is yet?
Of course I have. Why?
Because I'm hoping it's not him.
It isn't. I want him buried right away.
Brandt, bring two men.
Herr Reichsführer,
I have the honor to announce...
the Eagle has landed.
I am very pleased to hear it.
I return to Alderney within the hour.
I would be honored if you would tell our Führer.
I will tell the Führer nothing.
For a variety of reasons, I'd prefer this to come, er...
How shall I put it? I'd prefer it to come as a surprise to him.
- How much of a surprise could it be? - You have the letter?
These are difficult times, Herr Oberst.
The destiny of Germany rests on his shoulders.
It is essential we avail ourselves of this opportunity to please him.
We are all in Oberst Steiner's hands now.
Laker, I do wish you would stop popping in and out of that tunnel.
It was built as an escape route.
It's still the quickest way from the vicarage where I've been waiting.
- When is Mrs. Heyward's burial? - Tomorrow at four o'clock.
Darn.
Hello to you, Grandfather.
- Foreigners? - Polish.
Kapral Kunicki.
Kunicki. Well, that's not your fault, son, is it?
Oh, please, don't stop.
My apologies, Father.
I am Corporal Andrzej Jankowski, sent by my Colonel to find you.
However, I could not help myself.
I don't blame you. You know, Bach needs to be played well.
It's a fact I remember with frustration every time I take that seat.
I'm sorry, Father, but my Colonel...
Yes.
- Father Verecker, is it? - Yes.
Colonel Miller, commanding the Independent Polish Parachute Unit.
- What can I do for you? - We're on exercise presently.
A handful of my men are here, the rest are all over Norfolk.
There is a rendezvous tomorrow
but I'd like to take these chaps
on some harmless maneuvers through the village.
If that wouldn't be too much of a burden for you?
On the contrary, we could do with some excitement here.
I'm sure everyone in the village will help.
I shall be counting...
Counting on that, Father.
Phillip, Captain Harry Clark of the American Rangers.
- How do you do, Father? - My sister's told me about you.
Pamela, this is Colonel Miller. Colonel, my sister, Pamela.
- How do you do? - How do you do?
And Captain Clark.
- Colonel. - Captain.
I hope you'll stay for tea.
No, I'm sorry. I'm needed back at headquarters.
- We had no idea you were in the area. - Yes, you're a surprise to us as well.
- Free Polish Paratroopers, huh? - That's right, Captain.
We've got some Poles in our outfit. Maybe your men could meet them?
Yes, if it's not too far.
- Where are you staying, Captain? - Eight miles away in Meltham House.
What sort of strength would you have there?
- We're just a company now. - Meltham House, I'll remember that.
Miss Verecker.
- Father, thank you. - Not at all.
- Captain. - Colonel.
Have the men hang on by the truck.
Let's look at the upper part of the village.
Don't drive too slowly...
And on the left-hand side of the road.
Foreigners... Poles.
- And Yanks too. - And Irish.
Get in your hole, you're getting invaded.
What've you been doing in that uniform, Captain?
You didn't get three rockers by asking stupid questions.
What is it now? The new outfit arriving?
No, sir. He wants to see you.
Sir.
Eight years.
Eight years in the National Guard every other weekend.
Two weeks a year, up to my ass in Louisiana swamps!
I can feel those mosquitoes now!
But I made it, I got my rank.
You were at Benning when I got my command.
Best goddamn outfit a man could ever hope to have.
11 weeks' training for this mission.
The rest of the outfit's coming in two days to hit the beach -
my last chance to get my feet wet in action before the war's over
- and now this! - You won't be leading us in?
Lead you in? The bastards are sending me home!
Here, read this! Top line - Pitts, Clarence E. 016838621.
Post re-assignment - Fort Benning, Georgia.
Air Transportation, priority two.
Hell, they're not even in a hurry to get me home.
- Gosh, is there anything you can do? - Do? Look at those signatures!
Not one of those men has ever had a combat command - not one!
What do you want? What are you doing here?
Sir.
Fort Benning... You know how hot it is in Fort Benning, Georgia?
I could've been here on the finish - wait till my daddy hears about this!
Keep up this foolishness for 20 more minutes, Hans,
then gradually establish the roadblocks.
Slowly, mind you. Two men at a time.
- That's coming along nicely, Wjinski. - Thank you, sir.
- Very impressive, Colonel. - Thank you.
My new orders call for me to head to the marshes soon.
I don't suppose you'd know of anyone?
You're in the presence of the marsh warden himself.
- Liam Devlin, at your service. - What a bit of good luck!
- Colonel, I'm Mrs. Grey. - How do you do?
As Mr. Devlin's been in my employ for under two days,
I suggest a third person would insure against losing you both forever?
- I don't suppose I can impose? - Not at all. I'd be delighted.
- Why don't we, er... - Yes, please do.
I'll get in the back, it's a little awkward for us both in there.
Any further news of Churchill?
Yes. The party's left King's Lynn.
In the house, is there an alternate escape route?
There's an entrance at the rear and another one opposite the church.
Yes. Well, let's hope it won't be necessary.
What a lovely day for fantasies.
The colonel's - that he'll actually be able to pull this thing off.
Mine? A cup of tea and a little country girl.
And Mrs. Grey's? That even after all of this is over
she's still going to be asked to be Lady Willoughby.
Sir Henry's a pleasant enough dullard.
He and my late husband were partners in a South African venture.
South African. That's what I can hear in your voice.
A trace of Afrikaans.
My mother, since you noticed.
She died there, along with my sister, in a British concentration camp.
Or did you think the Nazis invented them?
Revenge.
- The classic motive. I congratulate you. - What about you, Mr. Devlin?
- Do you have a motive? - Regrettably no.
In other words, if someone else had asked you to abduct Adolf Hitler,
you would be in Berlin right now.
If all this lunacy doesn't work out, Colonel, that's not a bad idea.
Not a bad idea at all.
Thank you, Colonel.
- Can I buy you a drink? - No, thanks.
- Mrs. Grey? - Not for me.
I'll be off then, I hope I've been of help.
I don't know how we'd have managed without you.
Perhaps we'll meet later, somewhere in the marsh?
It's a very large marsh, Colonel.
Good luck with your maneuvers - success.
Ma'am.
- Stop the wheel! - Susan... Susan!
Get his body off the wheel.
Father, look at that uniform!
It's a German!
It's the Ger...
- My God, you're a German! - More bloody foreigners.
- Altmann, the switchboard. - Jawohl.
Take the staff at the manor and these people into the church.
Bring those along as well.
Colonel, I know what you're doing and I know who you want.
It's monstrous, you won't stand a chance!
If you don't mind, Father, I insist on trying.
Hans, don't let anyone out of the village.
And once anyone comes in, they stay in.
Jawohl.
Molly, what is it?
I must see Father.
- I have to talk to him. - Yes, of course you can.
- Something terrible's happened. - Oh, it's all right.
S-Stay here. I'll... I'll get Phillip now.
Molly. Come with me, quickly. Come on.
Mr. And Mrs. Wilde, will you take a seat, please?
Laker, can you sit over there?
- This door is locked, why? - It is the sacristy, Colonel Miller,
where I keep the church records, my vestments and such.
The key is at my house. I will go and fetch it if you like.
- No, that won't be necessary. - So...
you intend to assassinate Mr. Churchill as he passes through here today.
What an astonishing notion.
Give it up, man - there's no surprise left in it.
Perhaps just one surprise left, Father...
your good Lord willing.
God, they're Germans.
I must tell... I must tell Harry.
Oh, Phillip's probably got the keys to his car.
Mrs. Grey has got one... and Liam's got his bike.
Good. Right, Molly, go to Liam, then go to Meltham House
and tell Captain Clark everything that's happened.
- Liam must be... - Molly!
I'll try and find him.
All right, now come on!
At times like these, there's very little left but prayer
and it frequently helps.
What do you think our chances are?
The E-boat is off the coast, Hans, Churchill is on schedule.
Anything is possible.
Joanna!
Joanna! Joanna!
I'm coming, I'm coming!
Oh, Joanna...
Calm down and tell me what's happened.
Colonel Miller... and his men... they're Germans.
- They plan to kidnap Churchill. - What?
They've got the villagers in the church. We must get the Rangers from Meltham.
Does anybody else know? I'll get my car keys.
What kept you?
- I killed Arthur. - If they find him, they'll think it was me.
- Did you tell anybody? - He said you were a traitor, are you?
I never betrayed anything I believed in.
Your Germans have locked everyone up in the church.
They're going to try and kill Churchill. You're a bloody traitor!
You don't stand a chance - Pamela's gone for the Rangers.
- Jesus Christ! - Don't try and run.
That'd be the sensible thing to do, wouldn't it?
Don't you know me better than that?
You think I could leave them in the lurch?
I wrote you a letter, it's not much,
but here it is, for what it's worth.
It's on the table, if you're interested.
'Eagle, this is Albatross.
'Eagle, this is Albatross.'
She... Pamela knows everything. She's gone for the Rangers.
I shot at her, I'm sure I hit her.
No matter what the reason...
no matter how deeply felt the cause,
you lived with us, Joanna.
You accepted our admiration,
our kindness and our trust.
May God grant you time to relive this moment in shame!
Are you able to communicate with the E-boat?
Tell them to go to position one immediately.
This really is quite a beautiful spot, you know.
Yes.
I understand, Mrs. Grey.
No matter how you feel about the British,
I imagine that part of you must hate to leave here.
That's just it, Colonel.
Until this moment, standing here - in spite of all that I've set in motion -
I never actually believed I'd have to go.
- What the hell's goin' on, Haley? - I don't know. Colonel said wait.
Your girl's OK, Clark. She's in hospital.
Took a bullet from some bitch named Grey. Enemy agent.
Those Poles you ran into are Krauts, come to kill Churchill.
Now, listen up.
- Churchill's left King's Lynn. I want... - Have you notified the War Office?
And spend hours on that phone trying to convince them?
No, I'll nail those Krauts myself. I got the men to do it.
"Action this day." That's Churchill's motto.
- I still think... - I want you to head off Churchill...
If you don't notify the War Office, I will... sir.
Moss, get hold of the War Office, top priority.
If anything happens to Churchill because you're late,
this country's gonna swing you from Big Ben by your balls.
Cancel that call, Moss.
- Put the windshield down on that Jeep. - Yes, sir.
- Give me a handful of those grenades. - Yes, sir.
- How are you doing? - Fine, sir.
- Where are you from, son? - Omaha, sir.
This time next year, pigeons are gonna be crapping on statues of you
- across the whole state of Nebraska. - Yes, sir.
OK!
- Spot anything, sir? - No.
Hang on to this, Lieutenant.
I think I can take this place without firing one single round!
- Yes, sir. - Get out of there.
This looks like it.
This is Colonel Clarence E Pitts, United States Army.
You're surrounded.
Send out your commanding officer.
- You speak English? - Yes.
I'm gonna give you five minutes to lay down your arms
and surrender your hostages.
- You understand what I'm saying? - Yes.
- Where's your commanding officer? - Yes.
Are you making fun of me, soldier?
Goddamn!
If they think they're gonna kick me around, they got another think coming.
I'm gonna blow their asses right out of that church.
This is Delta Two to Mallory.
'Where are you, Mallory? Mallory, where are you? '
This is Mallory. We're all set.
- Stand by. Beck, are you there? - Yeah, Colonel, we're in position.
It's about time. Stand by. We're gonna move in.
Come on, we're moving out! We're moving out!
Don't you think we ought to send a reconnaissance team in first?
And have my men shot to find out something I already know?
We could be ambushed, sir. Plus that church is full of civilians.
If you question my orders, I'll bust you down to private.
- Now get in that Jeep! - Yes, sir.
Go, Beck! Go, Mallory!
Get out. Come on, get out! Get down!
Son of a bitch!
Get a missile for the bazooka.
- Beck, goddamnit, come in Beck. - 'Beck here.'
We're getting fire from the church belfry,
the mill house, the pub, one Jeep went in the pond,
- there's four dead. We're pinned down. - Four dead?!
This is Frazier, Colonel. Three dead and there's fire from three sides.
Well, pull yourselves together, regroup. Goddamnit, do something.
Regroup?! That dumb son of a bitch!
This is Mallory. We've been clobbered. I got that truck with the bazooka.
What do they want for Christ's sake, a silver star?
Jake!
Frazier radioed this in, sir.
Aw, holy Jesus.
Put me through to Arrow, please.
- Could you get the Colonel? - No, sir.
Let me have Crossbow, please.
I've got the whole outfit ready to move.
Colonel Pitts is a man of, um...
limited combat experience.
- Apparently no longer. - Nope.
Major Corcoran here. We have an incident involving Empire.
I'll go upstairs, see if I can find out where we are.
Gimme those binoculars.
Fix that flat tire.
God! This is where that bitch Grey lives.
Get up here, Haley. Bring that gun.
Mrs. Grey?
Sir?
Mrs. Grey?
Holy shit!
I now have a suggestion, Herr Oberst.
Yes, Brandt?
- We should leave immediately. - Yes, Brandt.
Get back to the church.
Cover!
I'll let you know...
when I need you, Father.
Get to your positions.
I think we're about to take up permanent residence here.
Another white flag has arrived, Hans.
Unfortunately, this officer seems to know his business.
Colonel, my one consolation is that, thanks to my sister, your plot has failed.
Really? I thought the plot failed
because one of my men died saving the little girl.
Father, you had better join your flock.
Captain Clark, what can I do for you?
Surrender.
Surrender?
Mr. Churchill is safe and under guard. Your associate Mrs. Grey is dead
and the radio has been confiscated.
It's all over, Colonel.
I have hostages.
I can't see you bringing them out, women and children in front of you.
No.
- Let the villagers go, Altmann. - Father, your people, please.
Colonel, I understand none of this and I don't wish you well
but I'm grateful for the life of my child.
So am I.
Don't forget, Father... the last shall be first.
You bastard!
Let me go!
Father!
I've got to get you out of here.
Pamela's all right. She's in the hospital.
- Father! - Yes.
- Goodbye, Captain Clark. - Colonel.
There's no such thing as death with honor, just death.
I have no intention of dying now,
but if I'm going to, allow me to choose where and how.
And what do you think you are doing?
Getting the keys to his car.
How did you get in here?
There's a tunnel. An ancient escape route under the graveyard,
past the manor house and up to the vicarage.
The car is parked at the end of it.
Mr. Devlin, you are an extraordinary man.
Colonel Steiner, you are an extraordinary judge of character.
There is a way out now.
It is still possible for us to capture Churchill.
Not us, Herr Oberst. You.
If we all attempt to leave, we will fail.
Very probably.
Do you have a suggestion, Brandt?
You go and we stay, and we hold this place as long as possible.
Shall we say covering fire in about 30 seconds, Herr Oberst?
Yes.
Hans, you come with me.
It has been a privilege to serve with you.
Go!
Two, three, go!
We can stay one step ahead if the radio is still inside.
If the E-boat is still outside.
It's out there.
I love you.
That doesn't mean I like what you've done,
or what I've done, or even understand it.
I only know I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd let you die.
Did you read my letter?
Yes.
Well done, Captain. My congratulations.
We didn't get everybody, sir. There's three survivors -
Steiner the Colonel, Devlin the Irishman,
and one German officer who was badly wounded.
With permission, I'll go pick 'em up.
I can't stay for long, Herr Oberst. The tide.
- Get on board, Mr. Devlin. - I'm not leavin'.
- I beg your pardon? - I'm after staying here.
Hans...
Take Herr Hauptmann aboard.
Herr Hauptmann.
- I will not leave without you. - Get on board, Hans.
I will not do it. I'm coming with you.
How long have we known each other?
Since the day you kicked me out of the plane at Narvik.
Three years.
Hauptmann von Neustadt.
In all that time, you have never once disobeyed an order of mine.
And I have no intention of letting you start now.
Herr Oberst.
Take the boat offshore and stay there as long as possible.
- He'll be heavily guarded. - Yes.
- You don't know where he is. - That's right.
You're still going after him?
The time has come, Mr. Devlin,
when I no longer control events.
They control me.
Goodbye, Mr. Devlin.
You're a lovely fellow, Colonel.
I hope you find what you're looking for.
I already have, Colonel.
I hope I haven't lost it in the finding.
Herr Oberst.
A message from Albatross. It's, er...
- Read it! - It's very garbled, sir.
- We could have misunderstood. - Please.
"One wounded fledgling left. Return nest." Then it's unintelligible.
"No tide at present for..." Then it's unintelligible again.
"God save..."
That's all they could understand, sir.
Get out of here, Karl, back to Berlin.
By plane, car... Anything you can commandeer with my authorization.
You have a wife and children, huh?
I was measured for my casket months ago.
- Understand me, Karl? - Ja, I think so, sir.
You were following my orders, you had no choice.
The Admiral's a decent man, he'll understand.
Bye, Karl.
Go!
Go.
'Delta Two, come in.'
'We checked the beach road and saw nothing.'
'You're weak. Say again.' 'We checked the beach road.'
'... check for turn-offs.'
'Understood.' 'Come in, Wilson.'
'Still working the dogs west through the woods. Results negative.'
'Work back towards coordinates five-four.'
'Out.' 'Frazier, this is Delta Two.'
Frazier here, sir. Still at intersection A-4. Negative on anything.
'OK, Frazier. Round-up from Delta Two.
'The convoy is being moved to original destination.
'Stay off the air until I call from there.'
Frazier out.
'Frazier, this is Delta Two.'
'Come in, Frazier.
'Frazier, this is Delta Two.
'Frazier, this is Delta Two.'
- Frazier. - 'Ah, move your position, Frazier.
'Cover the mouth of Estuary One.'
- Will do. - 'Delta Two out.'
This looks like the place.
There's somebody in there.
- Let's take it. - No way.
Door's open. I'm not charging in there like Custer.
Let the dogs do it.
I told you those dogs are no damn good.
Your pardon, Herr Reichsführer. Message received from Albatross.
It's fragmentary.
Get me Hauptsturmführer Fleischer in Cherbourg.
Jawohl.
Herr Oberst Radl.
In the name of the Führer, you are under arrest.
May I be permitted to know the charge?
Exceeding your orders to the point of treason to the State.
Ja.
Moss, two men on the perimeter. Right, sir.
You there, cover that gate.
- You others, patrol the river. - Yes, sir.
Check back here in five minutes.
OK, let's move out.
- Whisky? - No, I won't, thanks.
Well, he seems to be comfortably settled with his cigars and brandy.
There's some question as to the identity
of an American officer who led the convoy in, sir.
None of my men led the convoy.
One moment, please.
Captain Clark?
Captain Clark speaking.
You're what?
What do you mean, he's unconscious?
His Jeep is missing?
Jesus God, he's here.
Get other men on the gate.
Cover the front of the building. The terrace!
Prime Minister!
Poor sod.
No one will ever know what he did.
Never know?! Are you crazy? That's Winston Churchill lying there.
No, Captain.
That is one George Fowler lying there.
He is a variety artiste... of a sort.
And a very brave man.
Incredible. He knew this sort of thing could happen.
He didn't even call out.
Played it straight through to the end.
Where is Mr. Churchill?
I suppose you'll read about it in the papers tomorrow.
At the moment he's in Persia,
in conference with President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin.
Tehran, Captain, that's where the reality is.
This...
This never happened.
It did not occur, Major.
Right.
'Molly, my love, as a great man once said...
"'I have suffered a sea change
"'and nothing can ever be the same again."
'I came here to Norfolk to do a job... not to fall in love.
'By now, you'll know the worst of me.
'Try not to think it.
'To leave you is punishment enough.
'But it will not end here.
'For as they say in Ireland,
"'We have known the days." Liam.'