The Hessen Conspiracy Page #2

Princess Sophie's jewels!

Not just hers. The Kaisarin regalia.

The what?

The crown jewels of Germany.

Those emeralds were a gift from the Kaiser.

And this, this necklace

was a birthday present from the tsar.

And this... the White Star of Africa.

The biggest diamond the world

has ever seen.

Jesus Christ.

Alright, listen to me.

You two are in deep sh*t

unless you do exactly as I say.

Well, what about you, sir?

Me?

I came down here

and I discovered you looting with a Kraut.

How do think that's gonna play?

Well, I'll give 'em my side of the story.

You do that and none of us

will see this stuff ever again.

Play it my way and you'll be rich.

Now, get this trunk up

to the lieutenant's room.

Don't let an yone see you.

You. Help him.

You breathe so much as a word of this,

I'll have you before a firing squad,

goddamn Nazi.

I never was a Nazi.

Shut up! Now, get going.

Come on.

Clear up when you've finished.

Maybe I underestimated you.

Maybe you did.

Oh, you should have seen them, Mike.

Like pirate treasure I read about as a kid,

only this time it was real,

right there in front of me, In front of us.

Come on.

Goddamn.

A penny for your thoughts.

I figure this time

I can afford the going rate now.

You married?

No. You?

He died at Guam,

a week after the ceremony.

You're lying. I read your file.

You moved from Belgium to Dayton

when you were eighteen,

with your mother.

- She had a job...

- You got some nerve...

I didn't get this far

without doing my homework.

The war changed everything, didn't it?

It sure broke the monotony.

What's this?

That's a piece of shrapnel I stole

from the Germans at Omaha Beach.

What'd he do, walk out on you?

Nobody f***ing walks out on me.

You gotta hell of a mouth on you,

you know that?

Try it sometime.

Sir, we have a situation.

Dave, did you ever find out about that thing

I asked you to check on for me,

about Eva Braun's jewels?

Who?

Hitler's girlfriend.

You mean who her jewels would belong to.

Yeah. If somebody found them.

Well, from what I can gather,

the army is confiscating an ything

that has to do with the Nazi war machine

and leaving the rest.

- We do have a situation.

- What... what do you man?

What does that mean?

The jewels belong to her.

Eva Braun could wear them

to her execution.

Have you found something sir?

Me? No.

What about Lieutenant Snatch, huh?

What about her?

Has she found something?

Like what? What are you talking about?

You know how they say she can

suck a bowling ball through a straw.

You're the one that rolled that strike,

Colonel.

Congratulations.

You wanted to ask me something Lieutenant.

What was it?

A German civvy

drowned in the moat last night.

Jesus, what happened?

Drunk, fell in, I guess.

What with the band playing, no one heard.

They identify him?

Funny name. Weiss?

Imagine that Colonel, a name like 'vice'.

Where is he?

MPs fished him out and sent him

to the Army coroner in Frankfurt.

Nothing was disturbed if he fell,

he fell clean.

What do you mean, 'if'?

Figure of speech.

How do they know he was drunk?

More alcohol than blood in his veins.

Just another dead Kraut.

Who's gonna care, right?

- Right...

- Right.

Exactly.

- One thing though, sir.

- Yeah.

They found a rock in his pocket.

A rock?

A diamond. Big as walnut.

Someone sure as hell found something,

didn't they?

We were at Omaha together sir,

we've been together a long time.

I don't mind telling you

I do not have a problem with this.

All right.

Guess I better go see the coroner

about this, huh?

- Colonel.

- I'm going go and deal with this thing.

And after we're going to

have a little talk, alright?

We'll talk about everything, Dave.

Everything.

What in God's name were you...

Get her out of here!

No need.

She don't speak English.

You say sir when you address me.

This is still the goddamn army.

Sir.

Are you out of your mind?

How do you know no one saw you?

You know I'm going to say

I don't know what you mean, sir.

What's next?

You going to throw her off a cliff?

You don't get it, do you?

I did you a favour.

Me?

All of us.

You said it yourself

the man was a goddamn Nazi.

Were you gonna share with a Nazi?

We are going to be sharing,

aren't we... sir?

You are going to get what's coming to you

when I say so

and not one f***ing second before.

I am a goddamn colonel.

You are a piece of sh*t.

All right, now...

Listen, Sergeant.

I need you to just hold on a little bit,

and I guarantee

you will get what is coming to you.

Yeah, says who, sir? You?

Roy, isten to me.

We are in this thing together.

Like it or not,

for better for worse, for richer for poorer.

You think I'm gonna cheat you?

How the hell am I gonna cheat you?

I finger you, you finger me.

What we got here is a Mexican standoff.

She thinks you're cute.

Says she'll do you for free... sir.

Suddenly it wasn't a game.

Nash, Pallard, Tarlton,

everyone wanted their slice of the pie

and I had to slice it for them.

Spoils of war.

The first thing I had to figure

was how to get rid of Tarlton.

I couldn't push him off a cliff, God knows,

but there had to be some way

I could level the playing field.

...that someone was with him at the moat.

- Does the name Tarlton ring any bells?

- What's the matter with you?

The carp were eating him.

Alright,

let me ask you another question, doc,

completely unrelated alright?

Have you ever been to Paris?

Ever been stationed in Paris?

You ever been laid in Paris?

Who do they belong to?

We're confiscating

the Nazi war machine, Dave.

You're not confiscating an ything.

You're crazy.

The pair of you, you are crazy.

'Don't cut me out, Colonel.

I was with you at Omaha Beach.'

Your words, Dave.

But the goddamn crown jewels

of an entire country?

I mean you probably can't even add up

what this is worth. They're...

How're you gonna move a million dollars?

It's tens of millions, right doll?

'If you wanna cut through Army red tape

Dave Pallard's your man.'

Also your words.

Listen, we need you.

We can't hold onto this stuff any longer.

We're likely to get caught.

You got that right.

We're gonna have to get rid of them

in the States.

And how do you propose

that we are going

to get rid of them stateside?

Yeah, that's risky too.

Well, we're boosting

the crown jewels of Germany.

We're gonna wind up risking something.

And if we get caught with so much

as a Cracker Jack,

we're all gonna end up in Alcatraz.

Let me get working on it.

And what are we going to do

about Sergeant Tarlton?

I think we've found out

what to do about Tarlton.

Colonel, you pushed this through.

I wouldn't harp on that word 'push' Roy.

Sergeant,

what's it been about twenty years,

you've been in the service?

Through the whole war, Christ!

Don't you think it was time

you took a vacation,

go home,

show some of those decorations?

I told you. You've gotta be patient, Roy.

Like hell.

You better let me in

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