Mission Impossible (1966) s04e08 Episode Script

Good morning, Mr.
Phelps.
You are looking at Kruger Schtelman, who is due to be released in three days from a prison in the East European Republic after serving a 25-year sentence for war crimes.
Schtelman is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the funds stolen by the SS from the countries occupied by the Nazis in World War II.
This enormous sum is intended to finance a neo-Nazi coup in Europe, which is set to trigger as soon as they get the money.
Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to learn where this vast hoard of cash is hidden before the neo-Nazis do.
As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.
Good luck, Jim.
The East European Republic has put their most brilliant man to work on Schtelman, Colonel Jaroslav Sardner.
Every night, he has Schtelman brought from state prison here for interrogation to police headquarters here.
At dawn, he's driven back to prison.
Radio linked police cars front and rear? Yes, Tracey.
They're not taking any chances on a Western attempt to kidnap Schtelman.
If they can't have the information, they don't want us to have it.
Now, each time the cars take a different route, but on the return trip, as they get near the prison, there's one street that they have to take, which means that we centre our entire operation here.
Sardner throws a cordon out.
And as it tightens The last place they reach is dead centre.
But we're only gonna have a few hours.
Jim, you're sure there's no chance that Sardner can break Schtelman.
No, and I think they both know it, Paris.
Schtelman has survived for 25 years on pride, pride that he hasn't broken.
Well, let me put it this way, if Schtelman isn't as proud as I think he is, our plan won't work.
It is, of course, your death warrant, Herr Schtelman.
And I thought it was the order for my release you were signing.
It is the same thing, Herr Schtelman.
We are bound to release you now that your sentence is up.
But we cannot allow you to live to contact your friends in the SS.
I have no information.
I wonder.
How many times have you used that sentence, Herr Schtelman? In the last 25 years? More times than I can remember, colonel.
To you, to your predecessor, his predecessor.
In rat-infested cell blocks, in palatial offices, in seamy hotel interrogation rooms.
Every conceivable setting for my one simple performance line.
I have no information to give you.
We still have two days.
After 25 years, colonel, what difference will two days make? You are not old, Schtelman.
You do not have to die.
Give me the information.
In exchange, I'll guarantee you safe conduct upon your release.
Long ago, colonel, I swore an oath to the SS.
For 25 years I have kept to it.
Life and a big enough share of the SS funds to keep you in luxury.
So after all the beatings, interrogations, tortures, this is your final offer, a life pension.
If my people remember me at all, colonel, they will say: "Kruger Schtelman, a soldier, he could not be broken.
" So go ahead.
Sign my death warrant.
The interrogation is concluded for tonight.
All set at the rear? Ready to move, captain.
Hold it, captain.
Get ready for trouble.
There's a monk here.
He's run a truck full of cheese across the road.
It says "Heernen Brothers" on the side.
Back up.
I see him.
We're just on the other side of the truck, around the corner from you.
Hurry him up.
Come on, Brother, hurry it up.
- Sergeant.
- Yes, captain.
- Is the prisoner secure? - I don't know.
I can't see the car from here.
What are you talking about? He's right in front of you.
No, no, sir.
He's on your side.
No, he is not.
Get that truck out of here.
Well, man, where is it? Where is the car with the prisoner? - I don't know.
- You blundering idiot.
You, you.
There was a green government car came through here, - which way did it go? - The idiot hit me.
Look at this.
Which way did it go? He went left down there.
Who's gonna pay for this? Well, what are you waiting for, sergeant? Who's gonna pay for this? What? No sign of them.
Corporal, get an all-stations alert out for that car.
Captain, return immediately to Bruner Platza.
I'll join you there.
Naturally, you accepted the truck driver's word when he said that the car went left.
Circumstances seemed to fit, colonel.
Of course they fit.
The plan was meticulous.
Two innocent monks, identical trucks.
The operation had to be timed to the second.
And while you were talking with the truck driver, Schtelman and his car were only yards away from you.
In the truck.
They tricked you very cleverly once, so you never considered the possibility of still a second trick.
They simply drove his car out after you left.
There's nothing on the all-stations alert? No, sir.
They could have taken any of four different directions.
Given an open road, travelling 55, 60 miles an hour for 12 minutes Throw a cordon 15 miles out from where we stand.
This will be the centre of our noose.
And it must be pulled tight with all possible speed.
Colonel, there seem to be two possibilities.
Either he was rescued by his SS friends or he was abducted by Western agents.
Either way it makes no difference, Raskov.
If Schtelman leaves this country with his information, there will be no mercy, captain, for either of us.
Three.
Three, two, seven.
Reliability uncertain.
Who are you? What? What is this place? General Skorzinski, yes.
Generals Hasker and Capelman, unreliable, yes.
Hasker? Capelman? Please, colonel, I have told you everything I know.
No.
No, start Start from the beginning.
- Start again.
- Oh, Colonel Sardner, please.
Oh, please.
Oh, ple Oh, please.
Please.
- All ahead, one-third.
- All ahead, one-third.
Course, 330.
Course, 330.
Steady as she goes.
Steady as she goes.
Herr Schtelman.
Captain Hartmann, welcome aboard.
Yeah, but wait a minute.
How did I get here? Where are you taking me? Look, I want some answers now.
Herr Schtelman, I am in command of this boat.
Either restrain yourself or I confine you to quarters for the duration of the voyage.
A simple choice.
Voyage? What voyage? I'm going to take a look at the other passenger.
Take the periscope.
That girl in there, who is she? What happened to her? No smoking.
Passenger movements restricted to quarters and the control room.
You know how it is, Schtelman.
Give a person like that a little authority and You are requested not to converse with the passengers, Herr Rednitz.
Why not let him roast a little? Let him know what's in store for him at SS headquarters.
Herr Rednitz.
SS headquarters? So that is our destination.
What should I be worried about? Return to your quarters, Herr Schtelman.
We are entering a patrolled area.
An emergency dive may be necessary at any time.
Herr Schtelman.
It's Lieutenant Vanski, colonel.
Road Block 13 is all clear to the city limits.
No sign of the car.
Start moving your search back towards town.
Locate your post two miles back towards point centre.
Out.
Start tightening the perimeter towards point centre, Raskov.
I want the search parties to go through every garage, barn, shack, haystack.
Any place that a car might be hidden.
I give them a maximum of two hours.
Can you understand? Fräulein, we can help each other.
no support until successful change of government is confirmed.
Repeat, unreliable.
Try to concentrate, fräulein.
Who are you? Fräulein, what are you doing here? No, Sardner, please, no.
I have told you all I know.
Listen, I am not Sardner.
Did she check out? Yes.
How much did you tell them? How much? Anything you want to know, anything.
Kurtz unreliable.
No, no, no, about us.
How much did you tell them about us? She is dying.
Can't you see that? So first she tells us how much she told them about our plans.
I am beginning to understand.
Our people sent her into Eastern Europe to check which army units would give support.
Yes, and she did it very badly.
Captured in her first month.
Rednitz, tell me.
Something you said out there I do not understand.
About when I get to SS headquarters.
You will find out soon enough.
Think.
Think.
How much do they know? How much do they know? Leave her.
I will tell you for the last time, Herr Rednitz, the fräulein will be tried at SS headquarters.
Not aboard my boat.
She won't last the night.
We must know how much she told them.
As a matter of fact, she is dead.
Prepare number 1 torpedo tube.
She is still alive.
And I say she is dead.
Herr Schtelman, we get rid of her now.
I'm sure you can appreciate if there is trouble we do not want a corpse aboard.
Secure the hatch.
Number 1 ready, sir.
Fire 1.
Number 3, 4 and 8 report clear.
Now what will that get you, Schtelman? Information, Herr Rednitz.
I have no taste for being kept in the dark.
First, this submarine.
This is a leftover, Schtelman, from the old war.
U-613.
The captain here has nursed it like a baby for the day SS headquarters needs it.
All right.
If you are SS, you have one of these: Now you.
Down periscope.
I am not SS.
Who is he? He is like the rest of the crew, regular navy.
From the old school.
It's stamped all over him.
Yes, well, it will be the honour and the courage of "the old school" as you put it that will guarantee the victory this time, Herr Rednitz.
Not your storm troopers.
Face it, Hartmann, you'd get nowhere without us.
As you can see, he doesn't like working with us, but he concedes that we have our uses.
That is why he has agreed to take you and the girl to Scandinavia.
Good.
Things are becoming clearer.
Now the girl, she broke under pressure? They have a specialist, a Colonel Sardner.
True, a specialist.
I spent some time with him myself.
They can't think that.
At SS headquarters, they can't think I broke.
The girl and me? They think Sardner succeeded with both of us? As I said, he is a specialist.
Oh, no.
It's all right.
I can prove I did not crack.
The funds are still there.
In a numbered Swiss account.
I have nothing to fear.
Signal full speed ahead, captain.
The day I check in at SS headquarters, I am in the clear.
Burganz Prospekt reports clear, moving on now to Renssler Platza.
Destroyer, bearing 121.
One-two-one.
Prepare to dive.
What is it? Hey! Hey! Tracey.
Kill it.
Not within a mile.
Did you think Sardner would let you get away without a fight? Hurry it up down there.
Thirty metres.
Thirty-five metres.
Level off.
Levelling off, sir.
All stop.
All stop, sir.
Put her on the bottom.
All right, gentlemen, we wait.
Depth charges, Herr Schtelman.
The click you heard was a detonator.
Just pray you do not hear it too well.
Number 9 checkpoint reporting university area all clear.
We aren't going to make it, Hartmann.
Get a grip on yourself, Rednitz.
Destroyers work on sonar location.
Flooding aft, sir, power out forward.
We've a fracture in the pump room, captain.
We're taking on water down here.
See if you can help them.
Give me your hand.
It is going away.
No.
He's manoeuvring for another pass.
We are lying on the coastal shelf at 50 metres.
They must have a positive location.
So they go on depth charging until they break us apart.
Not if we can convince him that he has already done just that.
We will discharge fuel oil.
Now gather up anything you can that will float.
Charts, papers, anything.
Put them in the escape hatch.
Here, break this up.
No.
No, no, no, you can't.
No, no, no, please.
No, no, no, please.
Hartmann, shut off the water.
Hartmann, please, shut off the water! Hartmann! Schtelman, make him shut off the water, Schtelman.
In the end, there is only one form of evidence a destroyer commander will accept.
I regret the necessity.
If we ever get out of this, I will commend your work to SS headquarters.
In our time, we have all killed.
I do not need help from you, Herr Schtelman.
Your wartime activities were well-documented at your trial.
Innocent hostages, whole villages, I believe.
Be grateful, my arrogant captain friend.
My turn will come again.
You'll be happy to have a friend in high places.
All units are within a half mile of point centre, colonel.
And still no sign of Schtelman or the car? No, sir.
Then perhaps our assumptions have been incorrect, Raskov.
We are dealing with intelligence, which suggests that all our moves to recapture Schtelman may be based on solely what they wanted us to believe.
And not on what they actually did.
The furniture truck, the ramp prompted the obvious conclusions.
But supposing they never drove Schtelman into the truck at all.
What is this building, Raskov? There is a warehouse there, colonel.
She has been damaged too much.
We will never get her off the bottom.
Buoyancy jacket, it will bring you to the surface in 80 seconds.
You will need the mask, it is longer than you think.
And how long in the pressure tube? Ten, perhaps 20 seconds.
I want to ask you, captain what are my chances? At your age? Not very good.
Do not misunderstand me, captain.
I'm not trying to save my skin.
I'm thinking about something Rednitz said.
Herr Rednitz said many things, most of them eminently forgettable.
Not this.
He said I would die a traitor.
Schtelman, you yourself know whether or not you disclosed the information.
That should be enough.
No, captain, it is not enough.
Not for me.
You are a younger, fitter man.
Your chance of survival is much greater than mine.
Take the account number, prove to them I never cracked.
No, thank you, Herr Schtelman.
I am a seaman, not a politician.
Captain.
Captain, take it, the number.
I am not interested, Schtelman.
My old SS number, 77326.
Do you hear, captain? Zurich National Bank, 77326.
Do you hear, captain? The account number.
Zurich National Bank, 77326.
Seven-seven-three-two-six.
Captain.
Captain, the account number.
Seven-seven-three-two-six.
Seven-seven-three-two-six.
Seven-seven, captain, three-two-six.
Alert, all units, converge on Denker Warehouse, Bruner Platza immediately.
I must get this man to a hospital.
Go on, take him.
Congratulations, Sardner.
After 25 years, you finally got the information out of me.