Exodus Page #11

But she wouldn't tell.

So they sent her back to Yad El

in a sack tied to the back of a mule.

They cut off her hands and her feet,

and they gouged out her eyes.

But she wouldn't tell them anything.

- She was very young.

- Seventeen.

She and Ari Ben Canaan were in love.

They grew up together.

They were sweethearts all their lives.

That's why Ari never got married.

They named the village after her.

And there's something else, too.

Dr. Lieberman knows my father.

I mean, he's read my father's books.

He knows who my father is.

That's wonderful.

- We have to go to supper now.

- I'm sorry, I couldn't eat a thing.

- I had too much at Yad El.

- Then I'll come back afterwards.

You're just going to love it here, Kitty.

What's the matter? You act like a stranger.

I feel like one.

I guess I'd feel the same way, too,

if I suddenly found myself in Indiana.

You just don't understand us yet.

Stop saying that.

I can understand just as well as you can.

I didn't come here to fight with you.

I have to get to Jerusalem.

I came to say goodbye.

Ari.

What?

I had an accident on the road today.

It wasn't your fault...

...but I'm going to drive more carefully

from now on.

- You don't really mean that.

- I do.

You were right.

We are different.

I've been feeling the difference all afternoon.

I feel...

...outside.

The way your mother and father...

They were perfectly charming,

I don't mean that, but...

...the way they looked at me,

the way your sister talks to me...

It doesn't make any sense to discuss it,

no sense at all.

If it doesn't make any sense to discuss it,

we'll just forget it.

If I get any word on the girl's father,

I'll let you know. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

- Hello.

- Hello. How have you been?

- Fine, thank you.

- Hello.

Karen, you do understand

that it's been a long time since you've seen him.

He may have changed so much,

you won't recognize him.

- I'll recognize him.

- Good.

- Doctor?

- Yes?

- Dr. Engel, Mrs. Fremont.

- Good day.

- And Karen.

- How do you do?

- The young lady understands, does she not?

- Yes, we told her everything.

That's good. I'll just be a moment.

He's tired.

The King David Hotel.

Able Baker 2. Message. Over.

Able Baker 5.

Code word, "Nelson. " Out.

The whole of the south wing...

...of the King David Hotel

has been completely destroyed.

Eighty-three bodies have been recovered so far,

and the search continues.

A 9:
00 curfew has been ordered for all Jews.

Stand by for further...

You have done a good job.

They were given three warnings,

and they laughed.

If they want their own people slaughtered,

we will oblige them.

Let's get you some food.

First I must wash up.

The fire is now under control.

The number of dead has risen to 91.

Hands up! You're under arrest!

Get up.

Sergeant, you take on the door.

You and you search the grounds.

You round the back.

You come with me.

You look in the cupboards.

You stay here.

We'll find him.

He can't have left the compound.

The Military Court of Jerusalem

has found Akiva Ben Canaan...

...Benno Bronstein and Ludwig Zimmer...

...guilty according to Section 58

of the emergency regulations of 1946.

They will be transported forthwith

to the military prison of Acre.

There, two weeks from date of sentence,

they shall be hanged by the neck until dead.

May God have mercy on your souls.

Get him ready, sir?

Akiva Ben Canaan. Visitor.

Communication centre.

You have? I'll take it down. Hold on.

Barak Ben Canaan.

God, don't let my brother die...

...at the end of a British rope.

- Shalom.

- Shalom.

I thought you were on Cyprus, David Ben Ami.

I've been called back.

You shouldn't have brought them here, Yaov.

You not only risk our lives,

the Druze here in this village trust us.

There's danger not only from the British,

the Arabs will slaughter the village.

He insisted on talking to you, and I have orders...

...from Akiva that Ari Ben Canaan

may see us any time he wants to.

Well, you're here. What do you want?

The UN may vote on Partition

by the end of the month.

We listen to the radio also.

Half the leadership of Irgun

and 40 members of Haganah...

- ... are rotting down there in Acre prison.

- Including Akiva, your uncle. So?

If Partition is voted,

we'll need every man to fight the Arabs.

Irgun, Haganah, what difference does it make?

I spent 14 months in that prison.

I know every inch. I can show you-

That town is surrounded

by 10,000 British soldiers.

for Jerusalem.

Acre isn't a prison, it's a fortress.

It hasn't been successfully attacked

since the Crusades.

He picks a place in the middle of an Arab city,

surrounded by the British Army...

...and says to us, "Go fight. "

Napoleon bombarded it for 61 days.

Napoleon didn't have 93 men inside. You have.

- What about the 400 Arabs in that prison?

- We waste Irgun blood to free Arabs?

If you turn 400 Arabs loose, they are going

to run in 400 different directions.

Each'll have a detachment

of British soldiers on his tail.

I will not listen.

I do not trust anybody from the Haganah.

If we can't trust each other,

there'll be no Israel, even if Partition is voted.

Akiva is Ben Canaan's own blood.

This is no trap.

How many Irgun does your plan call for?

Twenty-six, divided into four attack groups...

- ... and Dov Landau.

- What do you want with Dov Landau?

Akiva's execution is six days away.

We need a man inside Acre prison

by tomorrow night.

- Landau must surrender now.

- He'll be sentenced to death.

Akiva is your uncle. Why don't you surrender?

Because Landau will be sentenced

within a few hours...

...and sent to Acre.

It'd take weeks for me or anyone else.

It must be Landau.

If we can agree on a plan,

and if Dov is necessary...

...and if we can find him,

I will give him the choice.

But I will not order him to do it.

Please, tell us what you have in mind.

Stars are British command posts.

Numbers are outside detachments.

Letters are inside groups.

There is a Turkish bath house

that adjoins the south prison wall.

Hammam al-Pasha, I know it.

I'll take a man to the first detachment.

You occupy the baths, move to the roof...

...and dynamite the prison wall here.

Inside groups will move against the yard

and the cell gates.

- With what?

- Anything we can smuggle in.

Dynamite, gunpowder, grenades.

Now, we move into action simultaneously

from the outside and from the inside.

Hey, Moshe!

Peretz Dresner.

Mrs. Peretz Dresner?

- Is everything in order?

- Okay, Chief.

Coberg.

Cohen.

Morris.

- Feuerstein.

- Here.

- Misra.

- Yes.

Bach.

Sorry. Bedtime.

All right, Bill.

Good boy. On time.

Stand back!

Everybody down. Flat.

Someone placed a fuse. Come on, in here.

Come on, start climbing.

...the present moment stands at 15 dead...

...with 251 prisoners still at large,

including all of the condemned terrorists.

A network of roadblocks

has been set up throughout Palestine...

...while a house-to-house search

Rate this script:5.0 / 1 vote