The Good Shepherd Page #5

They're from Switzerland.

I had them sent, with a pouch, to Berlin.

They're a weakness of mine.

When I was a child, my mother would

always reward me with a chocolate.

It's a dreadful habit.

The chocolates or seeking approval?

Both.

He was an officer it the Abwehr,

German military intelligence.

He says he knows the location of certain

Nazi V-2 rocket scientist in hiding.

Ask him where he wants to go.

He wants to go to Chicago.

He has relatives there.

Tell him if he provides us

with the names and locations

of the scientists I'll

arrange an exit visa for him.

As soon as he serves his purpose,

turn him over to the Nazi catchers.

The next ????? is a group commander

would like to speak with you about asylum.

It's very ugly, isn't it?

It isn't meant to be jewelry.

I lost the sound in one ear, altogether.

I can hear with the help of the apparatus

out of this ear, but they

say in one year or so....

You hardly notice it's there.

The Russians are interested

in making a prisoner swap.

We're prepare to offer you some

Jewish scientists liberated in the east

for some Nazi scientists

living here in Berlin.

These are the names

we're willing to discuss.

I understand your

cryptonym for me is Ulysses.

Isn't that from the James

Joyce book or the Greek myth.

Do you what our code name is for you?

Mother.

A took the first hot bath

yesterday I've taken in three years.

Since the siege of Stalingrad.

I sat for hours...

looking out the window,

soaking.

When I was a soldier

my fingers we're frost bitten.

Since then, when I get cold

there is a pain.

Maybe you shouldn't live in Russia.

We all have our weaknesses.

What is yours?

I had heard you were silent.

Made of stone, they said.

What is the expression?

The silence is deafening.

You're going to be a formidable

adversary, Mother.

I look forward to our association.

I hope it lasts for a long time.

I love you.

People who really love each

other don't have secrets.

You are safe here with me.

We were able to make

out the brand of the fan.

It's called a ?????. It's Belgian.

The object on the night stand

we're still trying to find out what this is.

We just can't get any

more definition out of it.

Who is this?

Who is this?

Hello father.

You have a birthday coming up.

I'm going to be five soon.

Well you're a big boy.

?????

Is your mother there?

What? I can't hear you.

Is your mother there?

She's getting dressed

to go out with her friend.

He has a new car.

He lets me drive with him.

Hello Mr. Wilson, this is Edna.

Mrs. Wilson is upstairs.

She's getting ready for dinner.

I'll tell her you are on the phone.

I'll call back.

door knocking

Pardon me.

Do you need me for anything else?

No. Thank you.

Guten Nacht.

Guten Nacht.

Do you ever eat Mr. Wilson.

I like to cook.

Would you like a home cooked meal?

Have you ever read Ovid's

Metamorphosis in the original Latin?

It's quite beautiful.

I grabbed the pile of dust

and holding it up

foolishly ask for as many

birthdays as the grains of dust.

I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Bravo

I should be going.

Would you like to stay?

Would you like me to.

I would like you to very much.

Maybe we can go somewhere together?

The lakes in Bavaria are so beautiful.

There was an inn there before the war.

where they served

breakfast in bed all day.

Yena ?????

I hope you never go home.

Bavaria is a really beautiful place.

I was born there.

My grandmother

lived there.

I really miss her.

Why don't we go.

I let a stranger into our house.

door knocking

Dies da?

Danka.

Mother. Father is here.

Mother.

Hello Edward.

Hello Clover.

I ah.

I like to be called Margaret now.

It's very nice to see you.

It's good to see you too.

I made something or you.

You see?

It's a ship.

But it's got

the flag of England.

And then I put a pirate flag there.

And if you like

you can count

how many sails are there.

You want to try that?

Fifteen.

Thats right.

Fifteen.

No. No. It's yours.

I made it for you.

If it's alright with you I thought

maybe we could sleep in

separate beds for a while.

Just until we can get

to know each other again.

I made up the spare room.

All right.

What do you hear from your brother John.

I thought you knew he was killed in Burma.

In 1944.

You never mentioned it

in any of your letters.

There wasn't very much to say.

Six year is a long time.

I was lonely.

And I was with a man, once.

He wasn't very interesting.

Were you with anyone?

It was a mistake.

Thank you for the

ship you made. For me.

Your welcome.

I'm glad you like it.

Mother said you were at the war.

Did you fight? Did you kill anybody?

No.

Good night.

Good night.

Hello Father. Hello Edward. Hello

Hello dear.

There is somebody waiting

for you in the den.

General!

Edward.

I'm sorry to barge in on you like this.

You wife kindly helped me to a drink.

My feet!

I keep cutting off pieces of them.

It's not dignified for a man

to have to die from the feet up.

Well, while everybody has been

feeling good about themselves

the Soviets, without firing a shot

have taken over half the World.

They're breathing down our necks.

They'll be in our back

yard before you know it.

So I've been telling the President

about our need to create a

foreign intelligence service

one that will do in peace time what

it was asked to do during the war.

Phillip Allen will be heading the agency

Richard Hayes will be his exec

and you'll be taking division C.

Special operations that

report only to the director.

It will be limited to overseas, obviously.

Subversive operations,

intelligence gathering and analysis.

And I'd be interested in

your thoughts about this.

Particularly, in your area of

expertise. Counter intelligence.

I'd be glad to help in any way I can.

That's all right.

Edward. Go outside.

Excuse me sir.

Margaret.

Thank you.

I have to tell you, I have some

real problems with this whole thing.

Despite how much we need it.

I'm concerned that too much power

will end up in the hands of too few.

It's always in someone's best interest

to promote enemies, real or imagined.

I see this as America's eyes and ears.

I don't want it to become

it's heart and soul.

So I told the President,

for this to work

theyre going to have to be some

kind of civilian oversight.

Oversight?

How can you have a covert organization

if you have people

looking over your shoulder?

You know who gave Hitler his power?

The clerks and the book keepers.

The civil servants.

I have this one weakness.

I believe in a just God.

I always seem to err on

the side of democracy.

This must be a nice

place to raise a family.

I never had the time.

I'll be dead in less than a year.

I love this country.

We all do sir. We all do.

No matter what anyone tells you,

there'll be no one you can really trust.

I'm afraid when it's all said and

done we're all just clerks too.

I was under the impression that

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