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There is no...

There are three kinds of people in the world.

Those who make it happen.

Those who watch it happen.

And those who spend their lives asking, what happened?

But I understand you arrived in only this morning.

Yes, sir.

Well, then let me assure you, you will never get used to the heat and the sand.

There really is no escaping it at all.

Ghastly stuff, as you can see.

Although, around 5 p .m. it does start to cool this time of year. You can feel

it. It's like clockwork.

One must simply learn to live with it, unfortunately.

Nonetheless, here we are.

Where did you study?

At Oxford.

Ah, yes, Oxford.

What I dare say is it's a trifle greener than Cairo.

Not as many goats.

I do apologise for not trying your theory at such short notice.

This situation came about rather suddenly. The timing of your arrival is

fortunate indeed.

I appreciate it.

This will not be pleasant for you, my dear.

However, it will get you out of the ward for a few days.

And good experience in the field never goes astray.

You will find his medical records in the pile.

He's German.

I thought we were looking for one of our own.

We are, my dear.

Captain Joseph von Zimmermann of the elite German uber -cannon has been

for us for quite some time.

You'll note, he does not speak any English.

It's right for looking, sir. Don't be alarmed.

Fortunately,

he's one of us now.

One of our pilots spotted a downed aircraft in the desert about 100 miles

east this morning.

He is carrying sensitive information smuggled out of Germany.

It is the highest priority that we find and bring him in.

Do we know if he's alive?

We are not even certain. It is our man.

There's quite a record, I dare say.

Dreadfully, he's been responsible for shooting down a number of our men.

Making him one of Germany's finest.

Not such as war.

We tend to send out our grounded pilot for any sorts of rescue operations.

People multiply until they get back in the air. The captain, whom you will be

accompanying, has been briefed. He is a rather unorthodox man.

What'll be grounded for?

I'm sure you'll have plenty of time to ask mad yourself, my dear.

That him?

Yes, my dear.

Don't be alarmed.

Captain. Captain Jackson Coe.

I would like you to meet Eleanor Morgan. She will be accompanying you on your

mission.

I thought I was going alone.

Yes, well, we received orders and questions that someone with medical

would accompany you.

If our man is out there alive...

Eleanor here will be more than capable of tending to his medical needs.

Great.

Eleanor is fluent in German, so she will be acting as your interpreter.

Yeah. You were very lucky that she was available.

So be a nice chap and take good care of her.

You drive?

Yes, sir.

Captain?

Eleanor? Grab those, will you?

Surely you're not serious?

Captain?

Stopping You

know

anything about navigating No, not much not much or nothing at

all

All right, look here.

See this?

Mm -hmm.

That's where we are. See this?

Mm -hmm. Okay, that's where they think he is.

We're going to drive in a straight line, 114 miles that way, north by northeast.

You see this compass?

That's north by northeast, okay?

And we also need to keep track of our speed, and we need to watch our hours.

So it's 1900 right now, and we're here, okay, at 2000.

We work out distance equals speed over time. You understand that?

Yes, sir. Okay, that's how we calculate our position.

And that's how we find them.

And that's navigating.

All right, we watch our compass, we keep track of our speed, and we watch our

time. We won't get lost.

If we get lost, we run out of water.

We run out of water, we die.

This thing does 25 miles an hour. Is that fast? Yeah, it's pretty fast.

Is a mile longer or shorter than a kilometer?

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Jesus Christ.

I should try and get some sleep, all right?

Stop just before it's done.

Yes, sir.

Oh, my God. Hope.

That may be a little.

I thought we were under attack. I thought you were shot.

What is wrong with you? Come on.

You're bringing the life out of me.

This little desert traps you.

Oh, that's just bloody wonderful.

That's just great.

No wonder they wouldn't let you fly.

Hey, my flying.

It's got nothing to do with my drinking.

Give me that before you kill somebody.

Be careful, it's loaded.

Oh, thank you very much, Captain, for pointing out the blooming obvious.

I'm driving.

It doesn't count if you're sober.

That was a nice shot.

I'm good.

I'm good.

Shouldn't take yourself so seriously, Oxford.

Desert.

Captain? Uh,

Captain?

Oh, Captain, my Captain.

Hey, Eleanor.

You alright?

What is it? It's a scotch bomb.

It did detonate.

Will he come back?

I doubt it.

It's probably just a leftover.

What's a leftover?

Yeah, you always keep one.

Just in case he's a duck you can pick off on the way back.

Will it explode?

They usually do.

God, well, we can't just leave it. No,

and the slightest vibration's going to trigger it.

We are going to...

If you use it.

And that is a two -man job.

Well, I'm not a bum expert.

Please tell me you know what you're doing.

I've seen a bomb like this once before.

Once? Once was enough.

Got a defuse in it.

Ended up legless.

Oh, my God.

Don't worry.

Supposedly, there's instructions on the inside that tell us how to disarm it.

Can we not use the term disarm, please?

We're gonna need to crack it open.

Give me the pliers.

Probably just like operating on a patient, right?

You know, the only difference here is you make a mistake, the patient doesn't

die. You do.

I'm going to need you to hold the base of this.

Go on. Hold it right at the bottom. Just grab it. Get in here. Get a good grip

on it.

Nice and tight.

Yeah.

Firm. Just like that.

Here we go.

Mm -hmm.

You can let go now.

Read these.

One. Remove liquid container.

Two.

Release the cap.

Three. Drain liquid.

What the hell is wrong with you? Have you been out here so bloody long you've

got sand between your ears?

God, there's a man lying out there somewhere, possibly dying,

and you're buggerizing around thinking about only yourself and your addiction.

God, you are nothing but a washed -up drunk.

I just hope we're not two minutes too late to save him.

Because it's you who's going to be looking back at this time that you've

that could have been better spent saving a life rather than drinking it away.

You know whose life it is we're out here supposedly saving?

Yes. Do you?

Yes. Do you?

Yes! Do you really?

Joseph Von Zimmerman?

Captain! Joseph...

Von Zimmerman, the Spadale, Germany's top ace. You heard of him?

Well? Well, did you hear that Captain Joseph Von Zimmerman has single

shot down 27 Allied planes and has 23 confirmed kills? And did you hear that

one of those 23 confirmed kills was my brother?

Yeah? Well, how many have you killed?

Yeah.

So I'm sorry. I'm not in any rush to find him.

I didn't know.

I know you didn't know.

How long's it been?

Six months.

Older brother?

Younger.

He shouldn't have been out here.

Ace?

I'll boast.

Were you close?

As close as brothers are.

You know, it's because Von Zimmerman's switch hitting bat for both

sides doesn't change anything.

He doesn't deserve to live.

You're not thinking about... You're not thinking you're going to... Kill him?

I've seen so many men die in hospitals.

I guess we're just simply taught to care.

But I don't see anyone as good or bad.

I just see them as men.

Brothers.

Children.

Families.

We just do our best to aid them.

Is this why you were grounded?

I crashed too many planes.

What?

I crashed too many planes. What do you mean you crashed too many planes? I

pilots crash all the time. Yeah.

Not when they're drunk.

All right, well, how many are we talking?

Enough to get me grounded.

Why do you do it?

What, drink?

Fly.

I don't know.

I guess it's that...

Thing Da Vinci said, you know, once you've tasted flight, you'll forever

the earth with your eyes skyward, because there you've been, there you

always long return.

That's beautiful.

I've never heard anything like that.

Ah, come on, Oxford.

Thought you were educated.

I am, thank you very much. I know who Da Vinci is. That's good.

What about you?

Educated? No.

No.

Nope. I left school when I was 13.

Injury ended my baseball career, so military was all that was left, really.

If it wasn't for flying, I don't know what I'd do.

Do you think it has a future?

Pilots don't think much about their future.

Yeah, I guess.

Not many of us do these days. Do you?

Me? Oh, I don't know.

I just like helping people.

At least what you do is exciting.

Yeah, well, the girls love it. Oh.

Oh, come on.

You think we just fly up there, risking our lives every day for fun, huh?

Oh.

No, 99 % of us are just pilots to get the girls.

Oh, yeah, and you're in the 99%, are you? Maybe. Uh -huh. Maybe I am.

Maybe I'm a one -percenter.

Oh, wow.

If you figure that out, perhaps you'll let me know.

Go!

Scotch bombs.

After a mission, whoever of us was left would drop one down at the boys in the

trench. It became kind of a tradition, you know, sort of a good luck thing, let

those boys know we were thinking about them.

We'd fly back to base every night, get drunk, sleep in a bed if we wanted.

Those boys down there, they didn't have that.

In those sewers, fighting day in and day out.

Those scotch bombs came away for us pilots to recognize that, you know, and

away some of the guilt, I guess.

They would love it.

You could hear the cheers sometimes after we drop.

Certainly help keep the spirits up.

Is that an American attempt at humor?

What? I don't know what you're talking about.

Keeping their spirits up?

Oh, come on. Even you got to admit that was kind of funny.

It was kind of funny.

There you go.

That could be funny.

All right.

You know, I've never seen a woman handle a pistol as good as you.

Where the hell did you learn to shoot?

My father.

He was a gun maker.

Are you still around?

Dad.

That's why I hate guns.

Yours? Ah, he's dead too.

He was a drunk.

That's 114 miles, according to your calculations.

Mark it.

Here.

Ah, still too hot.

We're gonna have to wait till the heat haze clears.

you

We didn't come all this way for nothing.

We'll find him.

Captain, I think I sight something.

That

could

be it.

Let's go.

what do you think let's get a little closer

Anything?

There's something out there.

It's too hard to make out.

Get out of the way.

Sure doesn't look like much of an aircraft down there, if it is.

Doesn't look like anybody could have survived.

You sure?

I've crashed enough airplanes to know.

I want to get down there and find out it's nothing.

We have to look.

Yeah, we do.

I'll get your gear ready while we've still got light.

I'll be damned.

Watch yourself.

Yes, sir.

Stay behind me.

Just stay behind me.

Yes, sir.

Can you see anything?

Not yet.

That's him. Wait a minute!

You dead?

I don't know.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Wait, wait! Drop it! Drop the gun!

All right!

What's he saying?

Your pistol.

We have to stop.

Shut up.

We absolutely have to stop.

You should shut up.

We won't make it.

I'll get my things.

You stay in the car.

No movement.

Don't touch my whiskey!

Come on, get over here!

Go!

Open your mouth.

Open your mouth.

Drink

slowly.

Here.

Your German is pretty good.

Who are you?

It's

enough!

Can you move me ear and cup, Van Schouwen?

My cup is in order.

Your friend probably doesn't have any.

Who was he?

A pilot.

He was waiting for Jackson Cove, the other guy.

My first shot on the ground.

It's a shame that I didn't get a woman so far, but... He was there for a point.

Every shot counts.

Was he wet?

I think so.

I didn't talk about it. And his brother... What happened?

They shot him.

Anything else you remember?

Take care of my leg.

I hate Egypt.

What's wrong with your leg?

It hurts.

No sound. I don't want to hear any sound anymore.

You look better.

Stay in the car.

Good.

37.

Joseph!

Let him in.

Get rid of the key.

Where do you know my name?

Where do you know my name?

Where do you know my name?

I don't even know you.

I don't even know my name.

Where do you know my name?

I know who you are.

You have to trust me.

We'll help you.

That's enough.

You're a British spy.

That's enough!

You work for the English.

You transport information that you stole from Berlin.

You were on your way to Cairo and were reported missing.

We must find the information.

Sie sind Hauptmann Jose von Zimmermann.

Warum wurde eine Frau geschenkt?

Ich bin Krankenschwester. Ich bin hier, um mich und Sie zu kümmern. Was Sie

verletzt sind.

Ich glaube, Sie haben einen Teil Ihrer Erinnerung verloren.

Nein, ich bin kein Spion.

Ich bin deutscher Offizier.

Nicht! Warten Sie!

Warten Sie, bitte!

Do you have a cigar with you?

The information is in a cigar.

I swear it.

I swear it.

The information should be in a cigar.

So wie die hier.

Ich bin kein Verräter.

Sie wissen nicht, wer Sie sind.

Aufmachen!

Und jetzt soll ich diese schöne Zigarre opfern.

Open up.

Open up!

If you're wrong, I'll beat you up.

I won't.

She's looking into her eyes Breathing sighs,

telling lies I

wonder

if she ever tells him

Hell of a storm, huh, little man?

All right.

Make yourself comfortable.

I think we're gonna be here a while.

You goddamn bitch!

I'll kill you!

Don't get thirsty.

We're not doing too well here, are we little man?

We're going to be lucky to make it to tomorrow.

Nine crashes.

This ain't really the heroic end I had in mind.

I always imagined I'd be shot out of the sky,

splattered all over the ground.

May have been on your list, though, man.

Coming to Sunday roast.

Certainly wasn't on my list of good ways to die.

You will never get used to the heat and sand.

There really is no escaping it at all.

Gust stuff, as you can see.

Although, around 5 p .m. it does start to cool.

It's time for you.

Luke said we needed wings to fly, huh little man?

we have been and there we long to return.

We're not dying in this dust bowl, little man.

No way.

I don't know about you little man, but I feel better.

All right.

Throttle.

Stick. Good.

Fuel. Pressure.

Good.

And a broken compass.

I've checked everything.

What have I missed?

What have I missed in here, huh?

German engineering, huh, little man?

Who knows?

Come on now!

Here we go!

Yeah! Yeah!

Shane Harden never fucked a fair maiden!

No!

at you!

Two birds, one dove.

Oh,

don't worry.

I feel all right at home.

We'll see about that.

Can you free yourself?

I need time!

Elnor! Elnor!

Elnor! Say hello to your brother in Hull.

Switching sides.

Oh, come on.

Nine.

Nine!

Ugh!

Sie sind zu spät.

Es ist vorbei.

Erst wenn ich sage, es ist vorbei, dann ist es vorbei.

I ain't got it.

You should know that.

Wait, no, you didn't do it on your guilt.

You stay with me, Eleanor. Stay with me now.

Who'd he signal for?

Nor, who was the flare for?

He wants

you close.

Do as he says.

It's over.

They're coming. Who?

The Germans.

Tell them it's not too late. Tell them we can still get them to Cairo. I

we were on the same team, for God's sake. Tell them. I have.

Tell them again.

It's

not

too late. Come on.

He says he'll never betray his country which one

DR -1 single seater.

Looks like he's not planning on taking back any passengers.

Where is the information?

You will die in the desert, as it was decided.

Traitors of the fatherland!

Come on.

Oh, come on, Eleanor. You gotta help me get up. Get up.

Big can in my ass.

That worked.

There are three kinds of people in this world.

Those that make it happen.

Those that watch it happen.

And those that go, what happened?

Captain.

Sir.

Oh, don't get up.

I wasn't planning on it.

I gather you're recovering well.

Yeah, I'm doing okay.

That bunker you destroyed was destroyed. strategic installation being prepared

for aerial assaults on Cairo. The fueling station they constructed put

aircraft within easy reach of our forces here.

More importantly, the information you discovered was of extreme value.

Or was it not?

In fact, it was. It was a detailed list identifying all German operatives

working across Europe. I understand you may have actually known one of them.

Eleanor Morgan.

Oxford. Born Margrethe Alma Yeager in Germany in 1889.

She had been sent to Cairo specifically to intercept and substitute the

information that Captain von Zimmerman was carrying, most likely when he came

for medical treatment.

Quite a clever plan, when you think about it.

Of course.

It all changed when we sent you out there.

Your efforts have been noted in my reports.

I have made commendations for you.

Excuse me, sir.

Yes, yes, of course, sir. Carry on.

Is that more comfortable, Captain?

Yeah, thanks.

I trust our fine medical staff are looking after you well?

We need you in tip -top condition as soon as possible.

Headquarters have reinstated you to active flying duty.

Recover well, Captain.

Yes, sir.

Very good.

I know, I know, little man.

Batter up.

You don't speak any German, do you?

No, sir.