:06:01
What I mean is, they look
like they've been pierced for earrings.
:06:05
Do they really?
By Jove, they probably do.
:06:09
Well, well.
:06:11
- I was wondering if you'd
mind talking about it.
- Not at all. Not at all.
:06:15
Then why has it been
top secret for so long?
:06:18
For the very simple reason
that nobody's ever asked me.
:06:20
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
:06:24
Let's go back a bit.
:06:25
How did you know
that I was thinking about your ears?
:06:29
- How did you know?
- Well, that's part of my story.
:06:34
There's a woman in it, of course.
:06:35
A woman of such extraordinary
accomplishments that I-
:06:39
well, it all started
shortly before war broke out.
:06:42
I was in Germany. A prisoner.
:06:45
Before the war? A prisoner?
:06:47
Yes, I was a lieutenant colonel then.
:06:49
And together with a youngster
named Byrd was on a special mission.
:06:53
Very hush-hush, you know.
:06:55
Not at all in my line, exactly...
:06:57
except that I spoke
German like a native.
:07:00
We were trying to nail
a poison gas formula.
:07:03
Something new. An appalling
by-product of Nazi frightfulness.
:07:07
Anyway, I don't think
I was very good...
:07:09
because the blighters knocked us off
like a couple of sitting pheasants.
:07:14
And we were being held
for questioning, Byrd and I...
:07:17
in a farmhouse
not very far from Weimar.
:07:20
One way and another,
we were in a pretty tight spot.
:07:23
Our guards, an S.S. First lieutenant
and a couple of troopers...
:07:26
were as pretty a crew
of cutthroats as ever you saw.
:07:30
There was also an official
of the Geheime Staatspolizei.
:07:33
A dreadful fellow named Hoff.
Oh, he was a horror!
:07:37
He'd questioned us
more than once and we knew.
:07:40
Young Byrd called him
"Jack the Ripper."
:07:43
J felt particularly sorry for young Byrd.
Nicest chap imaginable.
:07:48
His affection for me was positively
touching. A sort of hero worship.
:07:52
Used to embarrass
the devil out of me.
:07:55
Though why he liked me
J'll never know.
:07:57
Looking back, J must have been
a pretty offensive sort of fellow.