Wonder Woman (1976) s02e02 Episode Script

Anschluss '77

- Diana, have you seen this? - Yes, as a matter of fact, I have.
I picked up a fresh copy off the newsstand just last night.
It seems to me that the tone of this article is a little sceptical.
I'm not surprised.
You should've seen the reporters' faces when they asked me about her age.
I told them she was about 27: She doesn't look a day over 2,526.
She'll be glad to hear that.
I must admit, though it's as much of a mystery to me as it was to my father years ago.
She looks the same.
I was standing as close to Wonder Woman as I am to you right now.
And she looked as young and beautiful and fascinating- He was a major then, wasn't he? Yeah, the old Army Air Corps.
And I was wrapped in a cloak and carrying a dagger for the OSS.
Seems like yesterday.
- Did you see this? - Yes, thank you, Diana.
Actually, I'm not sure they believe every word you've told them, Steve.
I don't care what they believe.
As far as I'm concerned, Wonder Woman's back, and - Steve Trevor's got her? - Don't I wish.
- Let's go.
- Yup.
- How was your daughter's birthday, Joe? - Fine, thanks, Diana.
She flew in from Los Angeles and we had two dozen teenagers over.
Nice of you to remember.
- Bet you had a lot of fun.
- Yes, we did.
Good morning, Diana, Steve, Joe.
- Good morning.
- Good morning, sir.
What you are seeing is, of course, Hitler's takeover of Austria in 1938 justified by the Nazis as an Anschluss or political reunion of the Fatherland.
Followed by Munich, followed by World War II.
This is a former high-ranking intelligence officer, Fritz Gerlich Who worked from within to undermine Austria's resistance.
Today, Gerlich is alive and active in South America specifically in the province of Cordova.
Cordova? Surprising.
We know of large cells of neo-Nazis in Rio, Buenos Aires.
But San Rafael, the capital of Cordova is a dusty, isolated, little community.
Exactly, Joe.
Steve, you and Diana are to fly to San Rafael to determine why Gerlich picked a dusty, isolated capital as a base for what the Nazis are now calling "Anschluss 77.
" How did we find out about Anschluss 77, sir? A high-level CIA intercept of a message to Gerlich just gave us the code name last night.
Anschluss.
A term out of the past, a face out of the past.
What do they mean now? How dangerous are they? That's what you will find out.
FLYING TO SOUTH AMERICA SAN RAFAEL THE CAPITAL OF CORDOVA I thought Capt.
Gaitan was going to meet us here.
He probably thought the plane we were on wasn't going to make it.
I had my doubts about that too, and the bus.
Why don't you relax here a second? - Keep an eye on the luggage.
- All right.
I'll see if I can find us a reception committee.
Okay.
Wait a minute.
Wonder Woman, what are you doing in South America? I think my reasons for being here are pretty much the same as yours.
- Are you all right? - Yeah, except for my whole body.
- I've pulled a muscle in my shoulder.
- Here.
Sit down.
Better? It's perfect.
How'd you do that? Well, it's a principle that's similar to acupuncture.
Pressure applied to the nerve endings.
I learned it centuries ago from an old Chinese doctor.
Centuries ago? He taught you well.
Who were those men? Probably a couple of thugs working for a former Gestapo agent, Fritz Gerlich.
Who, by the way, isn't supposed to know I'm even here.
I'd better go see about Diana.
I ask for the man, and you bring me his credentials.
Then you ask me to believe that your men were defeated and driven off by a young woman wearing what are obviously the colors of the American flag.
Sorry, sir, but I do.
She has an amazing, almost superhuman strength.
Oddly enough, your description sounds somehow familiar.
There was such an American intelligence agent used against us.
But it's been 40 years.
I beg your pardon, sir.
Never mind.
In any case it's now more essential than ever that I obtain complete information.
The woman he works with obviously has his trust and is an important American agent.
Do you think you can take her without suffering further injury? Certainly, sir.
SAN RAFAEL POLICE HEADQUARTERS And I assure you, Mr.
Trevor, that no one absolutely no one except the Ministry of the Interior and myself were aware of your arrival.
Perhaps these men were bandits out to rob you.
I doubt it.
But never mind that now.
I'm sorry to mention it, Captain, but there is another possibility.
A leak? In the Ministry itself? Well, I'll check into it.
Have you ever seen this man? It depends upon when the photo was taken.
He'd be older.
That photo was taken before World War II.
Then it is an old picture of a man I have seen.
The scar is the same.
I don't know his name but I have seen him rather frequently in the last few months.
It's very important that we find him as soon as possible.
He drives a white van.
And on two occasions, I've seen it parked outside Dr.
Stern's house.
- Dr.
Stern? - Yes, he lives just outside of town but he's had a clinic here in San Rafael for over 20 years that I know.
Since sometime after the war? Yes.
Amazing how popular certain of our countries became after the war.
LATER Looks like no one's here.
- We may be too late.
- Let's check around the back.
- After you.
- Get in.
It's ice-cold.
Dr.
Stern.
It's strange.
It seems like someone knew we were coming to this house.
But how? Diana, you read a little German, don't you? - Yes.
- What do you make of this? This is a German medical treatise.
Something about cellular mutation.
Mutation? I may have mistranslated the words to mean "repetition.
" Cellular repetition.
Steve, I think we should find out more about Dr.
Stern.
Like what exactly? Like how much or how little experimenting he's done on cellular repetition.
Which is another word for cloning.
You mean the creating of an identical new cell from a living cell? Yes.
Like a lizard being able to grow a new tail.
I think we should find out whether this lizard lost his tail or grew it back.
Let's see what else we can find out.
They also knew we were coming to San Rafael.
Diana? Now you get Herr Gerlich.
Fritz Gerlich, I imagine? We ask the questions.
You are the one who's handcuffed.
Get back to town.
And remember, at 2:00 you must be at the airport to pick up HerrStrasser and Herr Rogel.
Yes, sir.
Now, we shall wait for Herr Gerlich.
So, Miss Prince you and I both know that the value of our work lies in acquiring information.
And acquiring it while it is still useful.
My leg.
Quite sound, now.
Quite remarkable.
What you would call a miracle.
Well, precisely what is the purpose of your mission here in San Rafael? Who led you to Dr.
Stern? I've heard a remarkable story about a young woman who seems to be able to toss grown men about like toys.
Just what is her function in American intelligence? As I indicated, I have very little time.
Hans.
Tie her to the beam.
This is a two-minute fuse.
If you decide to cooperate, call out.
We shall return and extinguish the fuse.
If you do not, auf Wiedersehen.
Pretty girl.
She realized that if she told me what I wanted to know I would still have to dispose of her.
Good agent.
He claims to know very little about his employers.
Where was he going now? He was only told to go to the airport.
He would be met there.
- He's lying.
- Yes, certainly.
He knows where they took Diana.
Ask him.
He says, "What girl?" Apparently, he doesn't realize yet how important it is to me to find this girl.
We may have to refresh his memory.
Don't worry.
I'm sorry, I'm deeply sorry.
To be all alone like that, sealed off.
Maybe she's trapped.
We need some men.
We've got to try and find her.
You're all right.
You're alive.
She's okay.
I don't want to talk in front of Gaitan.
Here, please sit down.
How did you manage to get out of that cave? - I got out just before the blast went off.
- Thank God.
- Was it Gerlich? - Yes.
I was near the mouth of the cave when it happened.
And I followed Gerlich and the others to a helicopter.
It took me a while to get back, but I guess I was lucky.
You were lucky for the both of us.
Did you get any idea of where they were going? Yes, a place called Campo Grande.
They weren't careful in what they said because they didn't think - I'd be around to repeat it.
- Of course not.
Steve, in the old newsreels we saw, Gerlich had just one leg, right? - Right.
- Well, now he has two.
Two perfectly good legs to stand on.
- Carl Strasser? - That is correct.
- Born? -16 March, '47, at Stuttgart.
Your father's SS file number? - Johann Rogel? - That's right.
Your father was SS Gruppenführer Heinz Rogel No, sir.
file 213994? Right? No, sir.
My father was SS Sturmbahnführer Dr.
Albert Rogel Waffen SS Medical Experimentation Division.
Welcome to Cordova.
Dr.
von Klemper.
Herr Doctor.
The sons of my old comrades.
Karl.
Johann.
I understood there had been a delay? The van that we planned to bring them here in was taken.
But another way was found.
However, gentlemen I must stress the fact that we must move swiftly.
Yes, Fritz, but we have waited this long.
You have endured so much.
We will not be diverted now.
Come, gentlemen.
This is the day the 39th anniversary of Der Führer's Austrian Anschluss.
Der Tag! And you have come in time to share the glory.
Do you remember the project I was working on with your fathers in 1945? Yes, of course.
The acceleration of the healing process through cellular re-genesis.
Yes.
The more quickly to return our wounded to the front.
Yes, since that primitive time I have achieved the ultimate.
The infinite duplication of a single living cell.
The process called cloning, of course.
But, Doctor, last year, research scientists in America and Europe succeeded in doing the very same thing.
But they are light-years behind what I have accomplished.
When Fritz first came to me, he had but one leg.
But this is the greatest scientific breakthrough of the century.
No, just a prelude to the greatest, which you are about to witness.
Comrades, just before you arrived I prepared for cloning living cells from the sacred body of Der Führer preserved all these years for this very day.
Comrades, come here.
This great moment shall live forever in our history.
Heil Hitler! Steve, Gerlich seemed to have no idea why we're here or exactly how we learned about Dr.
Stern.
Yep.
Could be Gaitan is not our man.
Could be.
To the right.
Concrete bunkers.
A tank.
And an armored car, too.
A firing range with Brown Shirts? That accounts for the rifle shots.
Well, Steve, now I know for sure what they meant by Anschluss 77.
Diana, you take the jeep.
Find the nearest telephone and call Gaitan.
Tell him what's going on.
Tell him to get some men and equipment here as soon as possible.
All right.
Be careful, Steve.
As soon as I call Gaitan, I'll be back.
I'll be here.
National Police.
Captain Gaitan.
This is Diana Prince.
Yes, Miss Prince.
Steve and I have just verified the existence of a large Nazi installation near Campo Grande.
You'll need a heavy weapons force.
They have about 50 men assembled with tank and helicopter capability.
I'll get authorization from the Provincial Governor's office.
Steve and I will maintain surveillance until then.
One last thing, Miss Prince.
I was wrong about someone in the Ministry of the Interior.
I ordered a search of the apartment of my most loyal officer.
The leak has been stopped.
What are you doing in here? I took the wrong off-ramp.
EN CAMINO A LA BASE SECRETA NAZI Captain Hauptmann.
All personnel report to the main staging area.
Achtung! - Heil Hitler! - Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler? More than 47 years ago I stood in a small Munich beer hall and spoke to a small band of loyal followers.
I was scorned as a powerless nobody but my small band of Brown Shirts grew into thousands and the thousands into millions and we conquered a third of the world! Sieg Heil! I again speak to a small band of loyal followers brought here from all over the world.
Again, we shall grow into millions.
History shall repeat itself.
A new Anschluss has begun! When you men leave this location you will return to the cells which you will head in Latin America, Europe, Africa.
Those who remain will launch the first assaults wherein that flag will be carried into battle.
A police post tomorrow, a provincial capital next week and within days, weeks, we shall see a world at war! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Steve.
Wonder Woman.
You're not going to believe what just happened.
I know.
I was there.
I heard.
But that was Adolf Hitler in the flesh.
- Yes, I know.
- No, you don't understand.
It was a cloned version of him, just like he was back in the 1930s.
You see, earlier, Diana Prince and I found some papers of a Dr.
Stern who has been working on cellular regenesis.
Cloning.
But he'd be crazy to think that he could conquer He was mad the first time around.
And from what I just heard it's going to cost a few million lives to prove him wrong again.
Then this Dr.
Stern would have to be here, right? Right.
I'm Capt.
Hauptmann.
I'm relieving you.
Report to your corporal.
Dr.
Stern, I presume.
Or are you? You cannot lie.
Who are you? I'm Dr.
Heinrich von Klemper.
And you made the clone of Adolf Hitler? Yes.
Is the cloning process finished? No.
He must have additional treatments for complete stabilization of the cellular structure.
And when will that happen? The Führer is on his way here accompanied by his bodyguard.
You will be arrested and shot.
What are you doing? The good doctor has just hired a new lab assistant.
Heil Hitler! Führer, this is my lab assistant.
This way please, my Führer.
Activate the reversal process.
Never.
Hold it.
Lower your weapons.
Sidearms, too.
Keep your hands on your heads.
Back against the wall.
Tell me how to activate the reversal process.
You cannot lie.
Which dial? Answer me.
Dials 4 Now what? Dial 11.
- SeñorTrevor.
- It's Gaitan.
Believe me, Doctor, we did the right thing.
Would you take him out, Steve? Open the door.
Steve, it is finished.
Not quite.
So he was cloned and then uncloned.
That's it.
And Wonder Woman helped you to find the secret Nazi base? She was even there for the uncloning but by then, she had changed into a medical technician.
And subsequently destroyed the lab.
Well, it's your report, not mine.
At least we have concrete evidence that Anschluss 77 has been smashed.
Beyond repair.
Yes, that should please him.
It's too bad you weren't there to witness this magical transformation, Diana.
But Wonder Woman was.
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