A Foreign Affair
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:04:01
- No Erika.
- No Erika.

:04:03
Told you so. Gone to Nürnberg.
Gone to Nürnberg.

:04:06
I'll take you back to your billet.
:04:10
Erika von Schlütow.
:04:12
- Yes?
- It's under von.

:04:13
Oh, no.
:04:15
Like O'Brien. You wouldn't
look under B, you'd look under O.

:04:18
- All right, let's look under O.
- Under V.

:04:24
- V as in vindictive.
- What was that, Captain?

:04:27
I pity anybody who has you on his trail.
:04:29
You pity a man who's consorting
with a notorious Nazi?

:04:32
Von Resnicek, von Reudesheim...
:04:34
Did it occur to you there might be
extenuating circumstances?

:04:37
I expect any man in his country's uniform...
:04:40
Oh, that one.
You expect him to be an ambassador.

:04:43
A salesman of goodwill. You want him
to stand on the blackened rubble

:04:47
of what used to be the corner of a street
:04:49
with a sample case of assorted freedoms,
:04:51
waving the flag and the Bill of Rights.
:04:53
That's not the way it works.
:04:56
Suppose you stop and ask yourself
how come he skidded of the road?

:04:59
- I'll tell you how. No moral brakes.
- That's it, going too fast.

:05:03
During the war, he couldn't go fast enough.
:05:06
"Get on that beachhead, through the
tank traps, across the Rhine. Step on it."

:05:10
Faster, 100 miles an hour,
24 hours a day through burning towns.

:05:16
Then one day the war is over.
:05:18
You expect him to jam on those brakes
and stop like that.

:05:21
Everybody can't stop like that!
:05:23
Sometimes you skid, sometimes you go
into a spin and smash into a tree

:05:27
and bash your fenders and scrape those
fine ideals you brought from home.

:05:32
It's time such wrecks
were hauled into a garage.

:05:34
- Anyone who forgets he's American...
- Don't forget he's also human.

:05:38
What would you know about that?
:05:42
Von Schlegel, von Schlittenheim...
:05:44
The loneliness is stored up right down
to his boots and it's driving him crazy.

:05:48
One day a pair of
open-toed shoes come along.

:05:51
You want him to ask questions?
Party affiliation? Social Security number?

:05:55
Yes, I want him to make sure
he's not doing something subversive.

:05:58
Are you qualified to call the pitch on this?
What's your life, anyway?


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