The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission Page #6

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and it can't be helped.

You know, Clark, you're a hell

of a good officer...

but you are a bastard.

Now, what's the last moment

they can go in from Alexandria?

0900 hours, sir. We'll wait.

General, any delay now...

I said, we'll wait.

At 0900 hours,

if we haven't heard from him...

Major Wright and his command

will be considered lost in action.

And we'll go

to an alternative solution.

Sergeant Holt seemed surprised

that you changed the plans again.

Yes, something different from

what the men expected, right?

From the first moment

you came to my apartment,

I knew that something

was wrong.

My men are dying too.

Isn't it time that

you tell me more?

It's time I told you that all the

information I give to my men

is transmitted

right to the Germans,

probably by a high-powered

mini-transmitter.

Well, then you have to find

the traitor and kill him.

No, I gotta be very careful.

If I shake up the men too much now,

they could turn on each other blindly.

No, he'll make a wrong move

and I'll nail him.

God help us.

Your papers?

You've never seen

a bridge before, huh?

Oh, sorry, sir. He almost

never leaves the farm.

You have any papers, dummy?

He was giving you a bad time?

Well, you could say that.

Move it!

Good morning, gentlemen.

As you know, we are within a

few hours of the Turkish border

and within the confines of our

esteemed Axis ally, Bulgaria.

Will you be joining us

for the rest of the trip, general?

I regret I have one

last mission to attend to.

But I shall see you all

in Istanbul tonight.

Let me impress upon you

the need for continued security.

But I assure you,

the fhrer's commands

will be fulfilled.

Speaking of the fhrer's

commands, General Richter,

I have here a letter

delivered to me in Munich,

signed by Adolf Hitler in Berlin

three days ago.

The reason I have not

mentioned it before

is because I felt we were

still in grave danger.

Security is essential.

Gentlemen,

the Thousand-Year Reich

is in our hands...

in train car 2420.

"I send my heartfelt good wishes

to all those involved"

in this great

and needed enterprise.

I salute those who will spread

the seeds of greater Germany

throughout the world.

Whatever happens to me,

our final victory

remains inevitable.

Accordingly, I now designate

as my successor

and as the leader

of the Fourth Reich...

Major General of the Waffen S. S...

"Karl Richter."

Signed...

Adolf Hitler.

What the hell is going on?

Peter!

We're coming through, sergeant.

We have met the enemy, sir.

They are gone.

Good job.

Damn good job.

All right, let's see what we got.

Must be almost a full

dozen of them there.

What do you think?

You know the mission.

Don't shoot! We surrender.

Hold it. We're taking prisoners.

We may need them later.

Those are the bastards

who started all this.

That's an order, Stern.

Throw out your weapons.

You can do it, major.

Don't let us down.

Most of the hotshot high-ranking

Nazis are back there, Dravko.

Could be our ticket home.

I don't understand.

Where can we go?

Lieutenant Campbell and I,

we found a spur line on the map

right down to the Aegean.

Cutting through the tip of Greece.

Yelena will contact

the British sub in the area.

Who knows? A hundred miles

ahead, and we might make it.

Hey, Demchuk.

Where's the major?

He's checking out that car.

I better cover him.

Decide to go to the other side

for good, D'Agostino?

What can I say, major?

How did you guess?

Nothing to say and nothing to do.

But I'm curious.

When Wilson decided to escape

you pretended

to side with him. Why?

He was talking about Ireland.

I was already talking

to the German consulate there.

So you would've killed the three

of them, brought me their heads.

If it got to be necessary.

I had to deliver the whole group.

Only Collins saved me the trouble.

So the high drama about you being

afraid to jump out of the airplane,

it was just to cover up the fact that

you sliced Hoffman's chute, right?

Major, I grew up hanging out

the window of a 15-floor tenement.

Now, don't tell me you're

a native-born fascist, Carmine.

You did it for the money, right?

Hey, major.

Money.

Lots of money.

That's what makes

the world go round.

See you in hell.

See you in hell.

Right.

- Come on.

- Get your back into it!

Move it!

Come on!

That's right.

Stop! Hold on, hold it up.

Hold it up!

Bring it back.

We might need that tankful of gas.

You mean, leave

it in front of us?

Couple it on and we'll push it

all the way to Greece.

All right. All right!

Let's go! Come on, move it!

Begin immediate overflights

of the train as it moves south.

But surely they cannot take the

train to the Turkish border, sir.

Let's find the train

first, captain.

Then we shall decide

exactly where it's going.

Make sure that none of the planes

fire on the train at this moment.

But how else

can they stop them?

I'll stop them.

We don't know how many

of our people are still alive.

They have tremendous value to

this Major Wright, as hostages.

He will be aware of that.

Eagle Four to Lion One.

Come in, please.

Eagle Four to Lion One.

Come in, please.

We may be too far away. I don't know

if they can pick us up anymore.

Eagle Four to Lion One.

Come in, please.

- Lion One to Eagle Four.

- Are you there?

Yes, we are here. 7-187-9.

Give them these coordinates first.

Tell them I want a rendezvous on the

second set of coordinates at 1030.

We are proceeding south

passing at 4123-2179.

Can you arrange a rendezvous

with us at 4128-2185?

It will take some doing, but we'll

try to have one of our subs there.

What is your ETA?

1030 hours.

Very good. Cheerio.

Good job, Yelena.

You know, with any luck, I'll be able

to buy you a drink in London next week.

It would be nice

to have a drink in London.

I haven't been there

since my honeymoon.

Seems like a thousand years ago.

How long ago was it?

Seven years. And your husband?

Killed by the Germans

in the first week of the war.

Well, how about

the rest of your family?

Some of them are dead.

Some I don't know

if they're living or dead.

My brother, well...

You know what must have

happened to my brother.

Yes, I know.

Well, look,

why don't you come with us.

I mean, they got a Yugoslav

government-in-exile in London.

You know, they'll

put you to work.

And then you can

come back here after the war.

When you say it, major, I believe lt.

You better believe it.

Hey, major, most of these guys

speak better English than I do.

Yeah? Don't worry.

Look what happened to them.

Echevarria? Major.

And how you doing, Joe?

If I had my choice between

touring the Balkans with you, major,

or running a nightclub in Paris,

call me "Mr. Show Biz."

Hmm. You'll be all right.

All right, contact the commanding

officer of the 12th at Alexandria.

Tell him to execute an immediate

attack on that train.

Tell him to take it out completely.

Kill anything in sight.

Very good, sir.

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