Time Limit

I'm sorry to bother you again.

I must be slow. I got a quarter after.

No, Lieutenant. 4:15. Right on the nose.

You got a cigarette? I'm all out.

Oh, here. Right there. Help yourself.

Lieutenant, you want something to read?

I got a nice Esquire, right in the bottom drawer there.

You sure?

You looking for Camp Gee Gee, Lieutenant?

Looking for Camp Gee Gee?

Why, is it on here? Oh, sure.

We got all the Red prison camps marked with pins. Now, let's see.

Gee Gee. Gee Gee.

Here we are. Forty-one degrees.

That ought to put it somewhere around... Let's see...

Forty... Here we are. Saman. No, no. Gee Gee.

There you are. Gee Gee.

Yeah.

Well, I guess you don't need a map to remember that dump?

Guess not.

The Colonel will be along in a couple of minutes, Lieutenant.

That's what you said 20 minutes ago.

Lieutenant, this is just a routine investigation.

There's nothing to be nervous about. I'm not nervous.

I just wanna know the story on all this business.

I got a leave coming up.

Are we all gonna have to hang around here and testify at this court-martial?

Well, sir, there might not even be a court-martial.

What does that mean?

Well, you see, sir, the Colonel is the investigating officer.

Now, he just gets the facts together and makes a recommendation to the General.

Now, it's up to the General to decide whether there's gonna be

a court-martial or not. Yeah, but in a case like Cargill's,

there can't be any doubt, can there?

Well, I wouldn't think so. You through with my cigarettes?

Thank you. I just wish they'd get on with it.

Lieutenant, don't worry.

Colonel Edwards will give you every break he can, believe me.

Now, you mustn't get the wrong idea about him, just because he's a staff officer.

He wasn't always in the chair-borne infantry.

You know, we were in the Bulge together, him and me.

A college man.

She's got looks, brains, personality, everything.

Just got one blind spot, can't go for sergeants.

Colonel Edwards, it's a good thing you're back.

Yeah. I'm sorry I kept Miller waiting.

Oh, it's not that, sir. The General called.

Twice.

Oh.

Yes?

You sent for me, sir?

Oh, yes, Bill. Come in, come in. I've been waiting for you.

I'm sorry, sir. I had to interview some people on the Cargill case.

Oft the post? Yes, sir.

That was the best way to see them. Civilians.

Well, Bill, you've been taking a lot more time than usual on this case.

You've been on it for several months.

Yes, I know.

We got a lot of cases ahead of us.

They're after me to get things moving.

I understand, sir.

Can't hold them up much longer.

Not fair to the people involved.

That's why I was hoping you'd wind this one up as soon as possible?

Well, I'll do my best, sir. I've got my last witness waiting for me now.

Last one? Yes, sir.

Good. That's what I want to hear.

All right, sir.

Boy, that's some gadget you got there, Lieutenant.

Let's see, May 15, 1954.

Oh, full moon.

How do you tell time with these things?

That must have set you back plenty.

I won it in a crap... Baker.

Yeah? Take this over to CIC, will you?

Yes, sir.

Sit down, Lieutenant. Sorry to keep you waiting.

I didn't realize I'd be gone so long. That's all right, sir.

This won't take too much longer, just a few routine questions.

Let's see, where were we yesterday?

Question, "Had you known Major Cargill before"

"you were prisoners together in Camp Gee Gee?"

Answer, "No, sir, none of us did."

Thank you. All right.

Now, how long were you at this camp before Cargill was put into your shack?

About four months, sir.

And that means you all lived together for nine months before it happened?

Yes, sir, that's right.

Well, tell me, Lieutenant, how did it happen?

Well, sir, it happened very suddenly. It took us all by surprise.

Yes, but just how?

Sir, you must know that. You must have it in there.

I've got the testimony of 14 different witnesses in here, Lieutenant.

But I still need your own version of it. Yes, sir.

Now let's hear it just the way you remember it.

Yes, sir, just the way I remember it.

Well, I remember it was real cold that day. It was cold.

Man, you don't know what cold is till you've been cold in North Korea.

Like every day, they got us up at dawn.

Made us get out into the compound for one of those lectures.

Just like any other day, except for one thing.

Colonel Kim was late.

Here comes old baldy.

Yeah, the Honorable Colonel Kim.

Wonder what he's done to Cargill this time.

What he always does. He's got him in the hole.

Yeah, but I'll bet you first he tied old Kim up in knots again.

Don't worry about Cargill.

You want to worry about somebody, you worry about Kim.

Sit down, gentlemen.

Sit down.

Today we will review the lecture of yesterday.

The history of all previous societies

has been the history of class struggles.

Struggles between the oppressors and oppressed.

Now, repeat after me. "Communism is Peace." Ready?

Communism is...

Well, comrades.

Since you don't choose to listen to me, perhaps...

Comrade Cargill, the class is yours.

I know this will come as a surprise to you, but...

But I hope you will cooperate with me.

For our first session,

we'll approach the subject from a historical point of view.

The...

As Colonel Kim has said, the history of all

previous existing societies has been

the history of the class struggle.

The bourgeoisie, which owns and controls the means

and instruments of production, has

exploited the working class which depends upon it.

But thereby

the bourgeoisie has also forged the weapons of its own destruction. It...

It... You're doing very well, Major.

He doesn't need me here. Continue.

Oh, yes, a word of warning.

Any harm to this comrade will bring reprisals on everyone.

Thereby the bourgeoisie has also forged the weapons of its own destruction.

It has created the men who are to wield the...

Okay, he's gone.

It has created the men who are to wield those weapons.

These are the proletarians, the standard-bearers of the new civilization...

He's gone.

The new utopia.

It is a cause to which all men of goodwill everywhere...

can dedicate their energies, their talents and their lives.

In Communism there is only one class and it works for peace.

Communism is peace.

Wait... Look... Wait, listen to me.

Don't be such heroes.

This man means business now. He's got to show results.

Miller, you understand?

Miller! You do understand!

I don't understand.

Not even to this day, sir. I just don't understand.

And that was the first indication that Cargill had gone over?

Yes, sir, that's the first indication we had.

After that one time, did he continue these activities?

Yes, sir. Right up till the time we left Gee Gee to be exchanged.

I see.

Well, Miller...

What else did he do that you'd consider collaboration?

Well, sir, we heard he made radio broadcasts for them saying

the United States had used germ warfare.

Of course, we only heard about that.

I know he signed one of those germ warfare confessions,

'cause I saw one of them.

Like this?

Yes, sir, that's it.

Did he also make newsreels for the enemy?

Newsreels? Yes.

No, sir. No, he couldn't have.

Miller, can you think of any reason why he went over?

Well, sir, I've been thinking.

Is it possible maybe he was a plant?

You know, he was one of them all the time?

You testified yesterday that nobody ever suspected him.

Now do you want to change your testimony?

No, sir. Now that I think about it,

I guess he could have been, could he?

Well, I mean, I no more expected Harry to go over than I would my own brother.

Were you and Cargill close friends?

Cargill and me? No, sir.

Well, the way you talk, I thought you might be close buddies.

No, sir, we weren't any more friends than anybody else.

Did he have any special friend in the compound?

No, sir.

Why?

Well, in the 48 hours before Cargill broke, two men died.

Captain Connors and Lieutenant... Harvey, sir?

Yeah, that's right. Lieutenant Harvey.

Incidentally, how did Harvey die?

Oh, I thought you knew that, sir. No.

Lieutenant Harvey died following an acute case of dysentery.

And Captain Connors? Same thing, sir.

That dysentery must have been pretty rough?

Yes, sir, it was a real killer.

In fact, sir, eight of the nine men that died in our shack died of dysentery.

You see, sir, in cases of bacillary dysentery,

the incidence of death is pretty high.