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step has to be Italy

Thirty seconds.

It seems your Italian friends are right on

time, lieutenant. Good. Let's shove off, Al.

Thank you, captain.

Good luck.

Haul her in.

Aye-aye, sir.

Hop in, Al

I suppose you rent

this truck from Mussolini.

Sort of. The driver works for

him by day and for us at night.

All right to smoke?

Sure.

Thanks. Grazie.

Oh. Meet Gina.

Gina, meet Herr doctor Wilhelm of the

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin

We call him Al

Hello, Al

Hello.

No, tre.

Kill the cigarettes.

I don't talk Italian

Not even any?

Oh, I know

one verse from Dante.

What kind of a mission

do you make this time?

You're not even dressed right

for a German doctor.

Oh, don't worry. I'll be

a German doctor all right.

Does Polda know

he's coming?

We're going to surprise him.

That's crazy. This is a

very important mission, Gina

Very. All of us

have one job to do.

That's to take Al safely in to see

Dr. Polda, and then take him out again.

All right.

Now Polda always comes home from

his laboratory for noon dinner.

After that, he sleeps for one

hour. Then he works in his study.

Does he have visitors

in the afternoon?

Well, in the ten days I watched the house

and get reports, only three visitors came.

Who's in the house? A housekeeper.

Old woman, nice, stupid.

A cook- good cook.

Fascist.

And four secret police

- ovra men. Two for day. Two for night.

And the chief of them is

Luigi. Is it all checked?

Checked from the cook

when I got him drunk one night.

Checked from Dr. Romoli, dentist

of Polda who is with us.

Checked by Marsoli and his ways

and checked by my eyes every day.

Now you know what

a first-rate courier can do.

You're so good at this, I'll get

you a job at it after the war.

I don't like you to talk

like that. I was only joking.

I don't like your joking.

I'm sorry.

- What do you know about that ovra man, Luigi?

- A smart man. Well trained.

That's comforting.

How do I get

to the house itself?

To get to the house has been

arranged. But to get inside-

Dr. Nalheim from Kaiser Wilhelm

Institute in Berlin.

Dr. Nalheim from Kaiser Wilhelm

Institute in Berlin.

Passaporto.

Sprechen Sie deutsch.

Dr. Nalheim.

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.

Danke.

I'm not doctor Nalheim.

I'm an American physicist

and my name is-

I don't care

what your name is.

You're an American

Dr. Polda, listen.

I don't want to listen!

You're insane to come here. How

dare you put me in such danger.

A few years ago,

you wrote me a letter.

At the end of it you said, "only

a free science in the service...

of all humanity

can be a good science."

Who are you?

Alvah Jesper

Grazie.

Thank you.

All right. I can't betray

a fellow scientist.

But you must be insane to come

here. We have nothing to talk over.

Nothing.

Please go.

Dr. Polda, you're working on

nuclear fission. Be sensible. Go.

You're working for

the Nazis I know that.

But I can't believe

you're doing it willingly.

Oh, willingly, unwillingly.

What does it matter?

You have no right to

jeopardize me by coming here.

I have the right.

Katerin Lodor gave me the right.

You saw Katerin? I spoke with her

just before the Nazis killed her.

Katerin dead.

Katerin, dead.

Murdered.

She died because she wouldn't

let criminals use her science.

But you're letting them use

you, Polda So what do you want?

That they should

murder me too?

No. But I want information.

And I want my life.

Is this the Giovanni Polda who

resigned from the royal academy...

rather than shake hands

with Mussolini?

All right. I've become

a weakling. Despise me.

I don't care about people.

I care about myself-

only myself.

You're lying. That's not

the great Polda talking.

What are you afraid of?

What hold do they have on you?

Hold? No hold.

I'm free as air.

All they have is the only person

in the world I care about,

my daughter maria.

They have her.

His masters and mine.

I keep his portrait here so

others will think I'm patriotic...

and so I can have

something to hate.

Not since the beginning

of time...

has there been a man

who has a hatred like me.

- Then fight them.

They have my daughter.

They let her send me

a postcard once a week.

And I let them pick my brains.

Once a week, I cry.

The other nights I drink.

Now they threaten

to take her into Germany

I said something they didn't

like. Only a little thing.

I forgot myself.

Don't you know they can

take you into Germany too?

They're being pushed back here. You

think they'll leave you if they retreat?

No. They won't leave me.

Not till I'm squeezed dry.

- But still you'll serve them?

- They have maria.

For her I'll serve anyone.

Suppose she were safe

in another country?

What? It can be done. Where is she?

She's permitted to leave under

guard in a hotel in Perugia.

The Albergo excelsior.

Oh, let her be in England. America Give

me one letter in her handwriting and I-

we can do better than that.

We can take you out too.

You are not playing

with an old, sick man?

No. It will be dangerous

for her, won't it.

It can be arranged...

safely.

You can trust me.

Trust you?

I've lived too long under

fascism. I trust no one.

But a business bargain I make.

If you help me, I'll help you.

Until then, don't think I'm

a fool. I'll tell you nothing.

If those are

your conditions, Dr. Polda.

Yes.

Do it, and maybe I'll become

the old Polda again.

"A free science

in the service of humanity-"

"can be

the only good science."

Come now. I've got to

take you past my watchdogs.

Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Professor.

Auf Wiedersehen, Dr. Nalheim.

Auf Wiedersehen.

Auf Wiedersehen.

Getting polda's daughter

won't be any cinch.

How do we

go about it?

He and I will

go about it. You stay put.

I might be able

- you might be able to land us in the soup. That's all.

How long can you wander around Italy

without running into the Gestapo?

Or the ovra?

You think they won't

check your papers with Berlin?

No, sir. You stay put

or the deal is off.

Okay. Where can I stay?

Do you have any food stamps?

Yes.

Then this is the best place.

Just keep out of sight

and wait.

If- if we get

Poldas daughter...

I'll put a notice in the papers

announcing the death in action...

of lieutenant-

lieutenant Rinaldo Amadi.

Amadi? Mm-hmm.

A- m-a-d-I. Amadi.

When you see it, go to

Romolis, Poldas dentist.

He'll have the professor

there for you.

There are partisan airfields in

the north. We'll go out by plane.

You know the vineyard, Pinaros? Yes.

Take Polda there.

How long are you likely

to be? As long as it takes.

A week maybe. What if

you don't get maria?

What if we don't

hear from you at all?

The fortunes of war, Al

You'll be on your own then.

Here's your coat.

Thank you. Grazie.

It's just like new.

Marsoli. Andiamo.

Good luck. Gina, will

you look outside, please?

It's all right.

Gina-

arrivederci.

Arrivederci.

I'll be seeing you.

Well, make yourself

at home.

Thanks.

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