49th Parallel Page #3

- A flying missionary.

- I mind him.

You remember that time his airplane was lost

and all the people pray for his safety?

- He was a good missionary.

- He was one grand fellow.

And an even better mapmaker.

Oh, so that was it. The spyin' blackguard.

I would never have believed it,

a man of his cloth.

Oh, and good.

Good priest like Malotte too.

And a good German.

[Radio:
Beeping, Frequencies Tuning]

[Radio:
Man] In a report from the far north,

Cape Ross reports heavy slop ice from ...

[Man]

Come in, C-Y-7-B.

C-Y-7-B. That's our call signal.

Who is it?

Oh, just a friend of mine.

An American from Grand Rapids, Michigan.

- He plays chess with me.

- Chess?

- Sure, chess

- Why?

To pass the time! Ma foi!

He don't often get such pleasant company here.

Board's over there on the table by the radio.

We play three nights a week.

- [Hirth] But not tonight

- [Beeping Continues]

The first night we've missed in nearly two years.

[Radio:
Man] 9-A-U-E calling C-Y-7-B.

C-Q-ing C-Y-7-B.

Hope everything's all right.

Say, what's the matter, Mac?

Why don't you answer? This is Russell speaking.

Try again in 15 minutes.

If still missing, will report to Winnipeg.

If still missing, will report to Winnipeg.

Standing by.

- What is he going to report?

- That an accident might have happened to me.

- He's got to do something about it.

- Why Winnipeg?

- It's the head office of our company.

- What company?

[Albert] The Hudson's Bay Company

Hirth.

[Whistles]

Tell me, uh ...

... do you really march around in Berlin

doing this?

- Yes.

- Oh.

Why?

- I tell you, I know what I'm talking about.

- [Hirth] You always do, don't you?

[Kuhnecke] We're not in the ship now.

The whole position's entirely different.

You seem to forget that I'm a high party member,

one of the first million in 1930.

You didn't even join till 1936.

One of the first 70 million that's you.

And I'm a practical man too.

I'm not a dreamer, an idealist, like you.

It's all a question of experience.

I'm an engineer. I understand ships,

I understand radio, I understand planes ...

... and I understand human nature.

I tell you, I'm right, Hirth.

They must play chess!

Our position is too dangerous to allow

one of these men a free hand with the radio.

- Free hand? With my gun at the back of his head?

- That makes no difference.

Do you want that noisy American butting in

and causing trouble? He's going to notify Winnipeg.

They'll have heard about our submarine being

bombed, and they'll put two and two together.

I'm right, Hirth.

They must play chess.

- [Radio:
Beeping]

- [Radio:
Russell] My move.

Pawn H-2 takes G-3

Pawn H-2 takes G-3. Standing by.

- [Albert] I told you not to make that move.

- [Kuhnecke] I know what I'm doing. Watch me.

[Albert] Why should I watch you, may I ask?

The game's lost.

I haven't lost a game in two years.

You haven't lost this one yet, have you?

- Are you ready?

- Aye, I'm ready.

[Switch Clicks]

- Pawn B-7 to B-5.

- [Switch Clicks]

- [Switch Clicks]

- [Russell Laughing] Say ...

Why did my wife have to go to a double feature

the one night I had you on the run?

But you come to the wrong man.

I won't guide you to the railroad, me.

- You never make it anyhow.

- Why not?

This is one big country.

But very few people.

Everyone know everybody.

You can't make a goose step through it

without the police find out.

- But no one has seen us.

- [Dogs Barking, Whining]

Penses tu? coute

If one husky dog have the smell of you ...

... his boss know from the way he howl...

... that there is stranger in district.

[Barking, Whining Continue]

One Eskimo might find your track.

Maybe have.

Most likely that Eskimo is on his way

to Mounted Police right now.

Perhaps, perhaps.

But you must help us.

After all, it's your own interest,

now that your country has surrendered.

My country? Surrender?

At 12:
30 on the 17th of June, 1940 ...

... France laid down her arms.

France? Ah! I'm Canadian!

Certainly.

You are a French-Canadian.

But you must know that after the war,

the Fhrer intends to liberate ...

... your people from the British tyranny.

Comment? How?

French Canada will be free.

You will be free.

[French]

I am free!

Or, I was plenty free till you guys got in.

I mean the freedom of your people,

an oppressed minority.

The freedom to speak their own language,

to have their own schools and churches ...

... to govern their own affairs.

Here you will find it written

in the Fhrer's own words.

Perhaps you've read it.

Uh, I have no room in my pack for any book.

I know my Bible.

That's enough for me.

This is the Bible. You must get a copy.

It will explain everything to you as it has to me.

You better look up

how to get out of Canada, then.

Maybe she don't tell you that, huh?

Ah! Quelle criture funny.

Maybe, uh, your Fhrer

ain't so smart as he think.

Don't he know that we French Canadians

have always our own school?

And church. And the right to speak as we want.

And run our own affair, by golly.

No doubt you have certain privileges,

but I don't feel ...

Let me ask you one question.

Well?

How about them, uh ...

Poles?

How 'bout the French?

Do you let them run their own affair?

That is different.

The whole new order in Europe ...

[Laughs] Okay, okay. You said enough.

Hello! Hello! Russell speaking.

Say, my wife's just brought in an Extra.

The whole front page is covered with news about

that submarine your flyers knocked off up there.

- [Woman] Tell him the headline reads "Nazi U-boat ..."

- [Russell] Oh, Maude ...

[Russell] ... quit yelling in my ear and

give me the paper I want to read it to them.

[Maude] Homer Russell, you'll do no such thing.

It's my story, and I stick to it.

[Russell] Oh, Maude, don't be a heel

Mac'll wanna hear about it.

Then take a back seat honey, and I'll read it.

Hello! Hello! Is that you, Mac?

This is Maude speaking.

It says the submarine was sunk

right in your backyard I'll read it to you.

"Nazi U-boat sunk in Hudson Bay."

That's the headline.

"A German submarine believed to be the U-37

was destroyed in Hudson Bay ...

"... near Wolstenholme by Canadian

Coastal Command patrol planes ...

"According to an official report ...

"... the Squadron Leader claimed

that several direct hits by medium bombs ...

"... were scored

before the Nazis could submerge.

He circled the spot

and found no signs of any survivors."

There's a whole lot more to it,

but that's the gist of it

- How come you didn't know about it?

- [Russell] Why didn't you tell us?

- [Shouts]

- [Gunshot]

- Get your rifles.

- Come out.

- [Clattering]

- [Wheezing] [Coughs]

You can't leave him there like that.

Dirty lot of murderers.

[Hirth] Vogel, see if they've heard anything outside.

- [Waves Cresting]

- [Dogs Barking]

[Albert] Killers That's all you are.

Killers

- All quiet, Herr Leutnant

- Good.

- Can't have heard the shot.

- [Johnnie Coughing, Groaning]

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