02x14 - Thunder from the Hill

[bunniefuu]

Think taking the high ground is the best way, Massine?

Men, they are like moles. They do not look at the sun.

We shall reach the road at eight.

Sir?

This, Capt. Boulange he's taking us to meet, is he in the French army?

Free French.

Well, what are you going to do? Just talk to him?

Yeah. We got to make sure he understands our plans for coordination

of his forces with ours when Division hits this sector.

[speaking French]

Massine thinks that this Frenchman is bringing this stuff to the Germans.

Why?

What makes you think he was taking this stuff to the Germans?

This road leads to them.

This road leads a hundred places!

I could not take that risk.

Shall we continue?

Some leader we've got.

Yeah, he plays rough, don't he?

You k*ll a guy just because you think he's guilty.

It's another Frenchman, at that!

What about that, Lieutenant?

No comment.

[whistles]

My little army, Lieutenant.

This is Diebold.

He is a Spaniard and I am told a better lover than any Frenchman.

Ah, oui! Lover!

He has never kissed a woman in his life.

Except his mother.

And this is our scholar, Jean.

He is scolding me.

Jean is a man of precision.

He is not yet accustomed to our way of living.

Andre and Pierre Genay

Their parents published a little newspaper in the village.

They were not kind to the Germans so they were ex*cuted.

None in my little band speak in English,

but you will see their dedication.

Where's Captain Boulange?

Capitaine Boulange, he is at my headquarters.

Then why did we stop here?

My friends, they are coming with us.

All right, let's go.

Patience, Lieutenant.

We will go soon enough bearing gifts.

What kind of gifts?

expl*sives. High expl*sives.

What are you talking about?

Captain Boulange has need of high expl*sives for a sortie he is planning.

Captain Boulange is going to have to get his own high expl*sives.

I just didn't happen to bring any with me.

We are not asking you to furnish the expl*sives, Lieutenant.

You and your men need only help me appropriate them.

From where?

About three miles from here there is a German supply depot.

Massine, you're under orders.

Whose orders, Lieutenant?

Allied Commander of this sector.

You have the cart before the horse, Lieutenant.

I am but a local leader.

Captain Boulange is in command of all the Free French in this sector.

Until you meet with him, until he agrees to obey the orders of your superiors,

I obey his orders only.

All right, take me to him and let him settle it.

My Captain is desperately in need of expl*sives, Lieutenant.

I would not wish to meet him empty-handed.

Since you are asking his cooperation, I do not think you can afford to meet him with empty hands either.

Are you refusing to take me?

The supply is but poorly guarded.

When we add the strength of your men, we could take it with ease.

Besides, it is on the way to my Captain.

Okay.

As long as it's on the way.

Bon.

Now when do we leave?

Tonight.

But first,

Supper.

Well, what do you think, Kirby?

What do I think?

I think we ought to allez vous right out of here and forget this whole thing!

No matter what Messine says, if you pilch expl*sives from the Krauts, you got a fight on your hands!

Yeah.

These guys fight their own w*r, you know that.

Maybe if we go their way tonight, they'll go our way tomorrow.

There it is.

All right, what's your plan?

We drive up to the buildings. I get out, I tell the sentry I am lost.

While I am talking to the sentry, the rest of you circle around.

I signal, we will attack the sentries.

You drive up to those buildings, they'll cut you down before you open your mouth!

I am willing to listen to suggestions.

All right.

Drive halfway up to the buildings.

You get out, lift the hood.

Curse at the engine for awhile.

Then walk up to the sentry, tell him you're lost and need help.

You stay in the truck.

- Tell him to stay in the truck.
- Oui.

Wait five minutes.

That will give us time to circle the place.

Then have him drive the rest of the way up to the buildings.

The engine starting again will be our signal to jump the sentries.

Cest bonne, bonne.

I have picked a good man.

Diebold and I will go inside first, be sure and pick the proper expl*sive.

Okay.

We'll come in and help you as soon as we get everything secure outside.

- You got it? - Oui

All right, I'll tell the others.

[muttering in French]

Machine...

Kaput.

Ah, machine kaput, verstache.

All right, help these guys, get them out of here!

Come on, Little John, inside!

Hurry up!

All right, back in the truck, one trip! Go!

- Where's Jean?
- I don't know!

One of the sentries got away.

He's going to have half the Krauts in the area down on us!

All right, what happened to you?

Leave him be, Lieutenant.

He ran out! He could have gotten us all k*lled!

Bear in mind, Lieutenant, we have need of him.

No water?

No engine.

She's had it.

Well, we just ran out of truck, big man. You haven't got another one, have you?

All right, your truck is gone, the Germans are looking for us and two of your men are dead.

All for nothing!

Not for nothing, Lieutenant.

For a plan, a dream.

We are now all a part of it, all of us!

[speaking French]

What are you talking about?

We are going to move a mountain, Lieutenant.

Do you know how to move a mountain?

Jean knows how.

He is a geologist. He has studied this mountain carefully.

He will show Diebold where to place the charges.

Diebold will show me how to detonate the fuse.

Together we will bury Germans, many Germans.

Now, wait a minute!

Time? This afteroon.

Place? The road on the other side of this mountain.

Objective? A German column.

Our weapons?

Leadership, genius,

and a million tons of dirt and rock!

But, since our truck is now useless.

I shall have to call upon you and your men to help us carry the expl*sives.

What are you talking about? This mountain is going to be crawling with Krauts in an hour!

I did not plan it this way. We will have to move fast.

Well, you'll have to move alone.

I do not think that I can finish this alone, Lieutenant.

All right, then forget it and take me to Captain Boulange!

But still I must try.

And you must help us.

If the Germans catch up with us and if they k*ll us, I cannot then lead you to my Captain.

I am asking only that you ensure the success of your own mission, Lieutenant.

You help me to help you.

[car approaching]

Perhaps a decision has been made for you.

- Krauts on the lower road coming this way.
- Ah, speak of the devil!

How many?

- Plenty.
- We gotta get out of here, Lieutenant!

Without one of us to lead you, you will not get far.

Okay, Messine.

You win, for now.

All right, get the stuff out of the truck.

Move!

You better let me take a look at that arm.

Massine.

Massine.

Jean, Jean!

How much farther to your place?

Up there, half a kilometer, no more.

Massine!

It's the end of the wire.

Mark it, let's go!

Stay here, keep your eyes open.

Bonjour, Massine.

[conversing in French]

Captain Boulange.

[speaking French]

Your arrival has proved [indistinct]

It needn't have. If we followed the original plan, nobody would have gotten k*lled.

I don't speak French.

Before I left with the Lieutenant.

You recall the plan I had not planned?

I have now put it in operation.

You helped him in this?

He wouldn't have brought me here if I hadn't.

We raided a German depot.

They're outside looking for us now.

You jeopardized this meeting to blow up a mountain?

To lose more of your men?

They were all aware of the risk.

There were too few many this sector to begin with!

Every mission you have given me, I have accomplished.

And how many other senseless ones have you tried?

How many good men have died for them?

They followed me, Boulange. Me, Massine!

Gladly, proudly!

We have k*lled more men then you would ever seen in your dark rooms

with your pencils and your secrets.

When I gave you this sector, I saw courage in you.

I didn't realize it was the coward of a selfish fool!

All right.

A shot will do nothing but bring the Germans.

You are relieved of your command, Massine.

Even before the w*r, I felt such a repugnance for organization.

I will do what I must without the benefit of your approval.

From now on you are alone, Massine.

You can do what you like!

But I send you no more men to butcher.

Shall we get on with your business, Lieutenant?

Go ahead.

Give your empty promises to the Lieutenant.

Send him all with your backbone in his pocket.

Follow the orders of a stranger in your own country!

Now, Lieutenant, we get to work.

That does it.

Oui.

I'll get the radio.

Caje!

Let me have the radio.

How's it going in there, Lieutenant?

Fine.

I'll check in now.

The warm wind blows tonight.

The warm wind blows tonight.

[over radio] The good gray goose is dead.

[over radio] The good gray goose is dead.

That does it, Captain.

We're in business.

I better get back to my headquarters.

Me too.

We're finished, Massine.

Our mission is complete.

So?

You want me to take you back through the Germans, is that it?

It would improve the odds if you were along with us.

A messenger boy.

You take it any way you want.

It's a small job and a big w*r.

A small job?

All my life I have been asked to do the small job.

It's the same for all of us. I can get k*lled doing my small job too.

But life is important to you, Lieutenant.

But to me, my life is wasted already.

I was married once.

I had a son.

My wife sent me away because she could not live with my excesses.

I deserted from the regular Army

because I could not justify my misbegotten existence in some great way.

And now you are asking me to give up my big chance.

My resurrection!

For our big chance.

How long must a man carry himself?

How much must he endure before he knows his real worth?

Lieutenant? Krauts.

It's Jean! He's leading them up here.

Kirby, Little John. Stay here.

Captain, this is where we say goodbye.

- Is there anything else I can do to help?
- Nothing, thank you.

- Bonne chance.
- Good luck.

You still fighting your own w*r, Massine?

I will lead you down the mountain, Lieutenant, as far as I can.

Hold up, hold it!

If we knock them off the mountain, we can get out of here.

Caje, we'll cover you.

Take some grenades, go up there and blow them off this mountain.

That's two you owe me.

Make them count.

All right, cover me!

That ought to hold them for awhile. Let's get out of here.

Wait!

A German column!

Hey, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant, wait!

All right, stay covered!

Ah, I don't know.

Blow it up! There is no time! Blow it!

Go back!

Blow it! Before it is too late!

No! Roll to me!

Let's go home.