Cloak and Dagger

I thought you'd never show up.

We're crowding call time.

Get the piano going. This will be a short one. I'll put it in code.

Anything sensational?

No. Some are pitchblende. Forty carloads.

Heading North? Yeah. For Germany.

Highball. He didn't even get the chance to sign off.

Pitchblende from Czechoslovakia. Pitchblende from Spain.

Two hundred and fifty carloads out of Germany in the past 30 days.

And British intelligence says they've taken the whole output of monazite from Norway.

Our trouble is we haven't enough people who can analyze scientific data.

Pitchblende and monazite.

I'll be out of town till tomorrow. I've got to talk to somebody who can analyze it.

Who's there?

An old fraternity brother.

Why, Clem. How are you?

Don't know how I am. I've been wandering through cellars...

and breaking down doors trying to get to you.

- Are you hiding something from me? - No.

But what are you hiding from me? I thought you were in the army.

To put you in your place, I'm a colonel.

Then why the civilian clothes? I'm in O.S.S.

Never heard of it. That's fine. We're not supposed to get any publicity.

It's the office of strategic services.

Around Washington we're called the Cloak-and-Dagger boys.

Sounds romantic. Sure. Very.

We do a lot of things, Alvah. Intelligence work. Morale stuff.

Operations behind the enemy lines.

Why are you telling me all this if it's so hush-hush?

How's work in nuclear physics these days?

So-so. Don't close up on me.

Well, it's hush-hush too, Clem- government work.

I know. You're working on the Manhattan project.

That's why I'm here.

What does this mean to you?

Pitchblende's for Uranium. Monazite's for Thorium.

We're not working with Thorium anymore. 235 has a more convenient atomic structure.

Any chance the Germans have learned something about Thorium we don't know?

The Germans?

I wouldn't think so. But... quantities like these aren't for the laboratory.

They're for large-scale operations.

Do you think they might be working on an atomic bomb too?

We've all wondered. They got the brains.

They know as much about nuclear fission as we do.

Well, Alvah, they are working on an atom bomb.

Mm-hmm. Clem,

this is the first time I was ever sorry I'm a scientist.

Why?

Look,

in a few years, we'll be able to break up the atomic structure of this apple.

When we do that, it will become a bomb.

The energy in this one, little apple could pulverize this university, this whole town,

its fine hospitals, its libraries,

its wonderful medical schools, to say nothing of all the people in it.

But...

we still wouldn't be able to make one, little apple.

We're running ahead of ourselves. Society isn't ready for atomic energy.

I'm scared stiff.

For the first time, thousands of allied scientists are working together to make what?

A bomb! But who was willing to finance science before the war to wipe out tuberculosis?

And when are we gonna be given a Billion Dollars to wipe out cancer?

I tell you, we could do it in one year.

But if anybody's going to develop the Atom bomb, you want it to be us,

not the Nazis.

Not much choice in that.

Alvah, we need more trained men on this.

We've got to know how far the Germans have gone.

Where they're working. How we can stop them.

Most of our agents aren't equipped.

They don't know what to look for.

They're missing clues, I know. This is a race.

It's the Germans or us.

We've got to get more scientists into our outfit.

How about what I'm doing here?

I'm already authorized to take you off. You know the problem.

You're single. You can speak a little German. But you've got to volunteer.

There was a time when I thought I'd like to become some sort of a secret agent.

I gave it up at the age of eight.

Okay, brother, you're now a spy.

I've got two plane tickets back to Washington

Can I even have time to wind things up here?

Ordinarily we'd give you a few weeks. I want you to take a look at this.

Know her?

Dr. Katerin Lodor, one of the great ones.

Used to be my scientific pinup girl before Hungary sold out to the Nazis

I suppose now she's right in the center of German atomic work.

She's in Switzerland. Since when?

About six weeks. She came over the alps... alone.

She's been in a hospital in Zurich with pneumonia.

A few days ago she got in touch with the American consulate.

Said she wanted to see one of our scientists.

You don't know how happy that makes me feel.

Say, if she's just out of Germany she can tell us - this is a terrific break.

If you'd stop feeling so happy about it and go home and pack a bag,

you could see her in a couple of days. Okay.

I hope you find your room satisfactory.

Danke schoen.

Very sorry, sir. Quite all right.

Here you go. Danke sehr.

Don't turn around.

The lady you want to see is at the Angelo hospital.

Room 1-6-8. she's there under the name of Mrs. Hickerty.

You may come in.

Not too long, please, Mr. Wilson.

What is your real name, Mr. Wilson?

Alvah Jesper. I know your work.

Thank god you've come. You don't know how indebted I am to you.

To me?

When people find out what you've done,

they'll know you're not only a great physicist, but a great woman.

Maybe. The story isn't ended yet.

What will people think? What will you think...

if I were to go back to Germany? Go back?

Oh, but that isn't why you crossed the alps or got in touch with us.

No. But you see, I thought I'd be safe here.

I'm not. The Germans have found me here.

Yesterday I got a letter postmarked Zurich

I'm to go to Italy to work.

I've been collaborating there with Polda.

Giovanni Polda? Yes.

If I don't return, beginning Sunday,

ten anti-nazi Hungarians are to be taken out of concentration camps...

and shot each day.

Each day, they promise me a letter with names.

With photographs of the dead people.

So the Germans are working on atomic weapons?

Italians too. They are coordinated.

Then what would happen if you went back and your work helped them to succeed?

What happens if I stay here?

I can't live day by day knowing that innocent people are being shot because of me.

I'll go back.

I'll take poison. I can't decide any other way.

Suppose you went back to work with Dr. Polda?

But you met difficulties in your work? Obstacles.

Understand? Yes.

That's possible. That's possible.

And if you felt strong enough for it, you could help us, too, with information.

There are ways of communicating? I think so.

I'll have to discuss it. Arrangements will have to be made, and-

believe me, I would be strong enough for that.

But you have to hurry. They've given me only until Sunday

Before I go back, we have to talk.

I'll need every bit of information you have.

If you only knew how the British set them back...

when they bombed that heavy water plant in Norway

It meant a delay of months for them.

But what if you can't arrange this?

Don't worry. It can be arranged. I will-

oh, I forgot. They keep worrying over my lungs. I'm due for an X-ray.

I'll be glad to wait. No. Come back tomorrow morning.

I'll have more strength then. We can talk all day.

Don't worry about anything.

Tonight I'll sleep.

Such good feeling to know you can sleep.

Are there any calls for me? No, sir.

I'm expecting a call. Will you please have me paged at the bar?

Glad to, sir.

Oh, excuse me. Lassie, what's the matter with you?

I'm terribly sorry. She's always getting caught under people's feet.

That's a dog's privilege.

Martini. Yes, sir.

Very dry, please.

Yah. This must be an American

By your clothes, the drink you ordered - surely an American

And by the fact that you are new in this hotel.

Perhaps you are just over. Huh?

Prosit!

Tell me- oh, oh. Pardon me.

It's all right.

Tell me, friend. Are we going to win?

Our cause, I mean. Naturally, I'm anti-nazi.

The big question is American industry.

If steel production, for instance,

can go to 95 million tons, then we will win.

So now tell me, how are things in America, huh?

Excuse me.

Pardon me.

Would you mind terribly if I sat down?

Oh, I see.

Our Gestapo friend has been pumping you. He does that to everyone new around here.

Thank you.

My name is Andrew Wilson. Mine's Ann Dawson.

You talk like an American. I am.

You know, Fritz over there, he's not very dangerous, but he's a frightful bore.

You better stay away from him. Mr. Wilson?

Call for you, Mr. Wilson.

Thank you. May I? Certainly.

- Wilson speaking. - Listen carefully.

Don't say anything over this phone you don't have to.

- Yes? - Something must have got snafued.

You've run into a double play. Why did-

that tootsie you're sitting with is one of the slickest operators on the other side.

Knock down that brau, but not too fast, and fade. Wait for me at home plate.

- Trouble? - Nothing I can't handle.

We're in a jam. They found out about you.

Somewhere along the line you tipped them off. You made a mistake.

- I followed instructions to the letter. - How did they kidnap Dr. Lodor?

What are you talking about? I saw her this morning.

Between the time you saw her and now, she disappeared.

She didn't walk out. She was kidnapped.