1 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:35,516 Your passes, please. 2 00:02:37,924 --> 00:02:39,392 Thank you. 3 00:02:52,973 --> 00:02:55,909 - All right. You may proceed. - Thank you. 4 00:02:56,076 --> 00:02:57,203 One moment, please. 5 00:02:58,845 --> 00:03:00,473 Will you step from the car, please? 6 00:03:06,286 --> 00:03:10,451 - Ah, yes, Gerta Pommer. - Yes. 7 00:03:11,124 --> 00:03:13,116 The young man with you? 8 00:03:13,293 --> 00:03:17,458 Uh, my nephew, Thomas Pommer, as you can see from other passport. 9 00:03:17,631 --> 00:03:18,758 Yes, I see. 10 00:03:18,932 --> 00:03:20,628 Well, Hoffer, could it be you are mistaken? 11 00:03:20,801 --> 00:03:23,737 Mistaken, Herr Stromm? 12 00:03:24,738 --> 00:03:26,673 For what you have attempted, fräulein, 13 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,775 people have spent years in prison. 14 00:03:44,458 --> 00:03:47,724 Understand, Mr. Mason, 15 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:51,228 I know you have come here as a kindness, 16 00:03:51,398 --> 00:03:55,733 as so many have shown me kindness in this country. 17 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:58,872 But you cannot change my mind. 18 00:03:59,039 --> 00:04:01,235 I will do as they ask. 19 00:04:01,408 --> 00:04:04,572 I will go back to East Germany. 20 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:07,806 You risked your life escaping from the Russians after the war. 21 00:04:07,981 --> 00:04:09,847 You now trust them to keep their word? 22 00:04:10,016 --> 00:04:11,746 You believe that once you're in their hands 23 00:04:11,918 --> 00:04:13,250 they'll free your granddaughter? 24 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:16,652 Yes. They want me. 25 00:04:16,823 --> 00:04:19,054 They do not need a 6-year-old child. 26 00:04:19,226 --> 00:04:22,492 Six? Then you've never seen her. 27 00:04:22,662 --> 00:04:26,064 We would not even have known that she existed. 28 00:04:26,233 --> 00:04:28,896 Our letters to our daughter went unanswered. 29 00:04:29,069 --> 00:04:32,904 Then two months ago, we heard of our daughter's death 30 00:04:33,073 --> 00:04:37,636 and of her child in an orphanage in East Berlin. 31 00:04:37,811 --> 00:04:40,679 How did you receive this information? 32 00:04:43,483 --> 00:04:46,043 Could you come in, please, Gerta? 33 00:04:46,219 --> 00:04:48,381 Through my assistant. 34 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:52,050 Miss Pommer, Mr. Mason. 35 00:04:52,225 --> 00:04:54,490 - How do you do, sir? - How do you do, Miss Pommer. 36 00:04:54,661 --> 00:04:57,995 I want to show Mr. Mason the photograph of my grandchild. 37 00:04:58,165 --> 00:04:59,997 Yes. 38 00:05:09,509 --> 00:05:11,944 Are you certain this is your daughter's child? 39 00:05:12,112 --> 00:05:13,910 Gerta has seen her. 40 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,482 And the picture of my grandchild is identical 41 00:05:17,651 --> 00:05:22,089 with the picture of my little mouse, my daughter, when she was a child. 42 00:05:22,255 --> 00:05:24,417 We all went to West Berlin. 43 00:05:24,591 --> 00:05:27,026 And then Gerta, she should be blessed, 44 00:05:27,194 --> 00:05:31,529 she went across beyond the wall to bring Elke back to us. 45 00:05:31,698 --> 00:05:35,328 Miss Pommer, weren't you arrested at the border? 46 00:05:35,502 --> 00:05:37,903 - Yes. - Who negotiated your release? 47 00:05:38,071 --> 00:05:43,408 The East German government questioned her and threatened her 48 00:05:43,577 --> 00:05:47,241 and then allowed her to return with a proposal. 49 00:05:47,414 --> 00:05:49,178 I was to take word to Herr Professor Ritter 50 00:05:49,349 --> 00:05:52,478 that if he would return to East Germany to do his work, 51 00:05:52,652 --> 00:05:56,487 Elke would be released to join her grandmother in the West. 52 00:05:56,656 --> 00:05:59,251 At least they're offering a solution. 53 00:05:59,426 --> 00:06:01,122 Not a solution, Doctor. 54 00:06:01,628 --> 00:06:03,290 Blackmail. 55 00:06:03,964 --> 00:06:05,455 Well, it is clear what I must do. 56 00:06:05,932 --> 00:06:07,332 Oh, but it isn't clear. 57 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,469 You have no positive identification of the child 58 00:06:09,636 --> 00:06:10,968 they claim is your granddaughter. 59 00:06:11,137 --> 00:06:13,817 You've no guarantee they'll keep their agreement should you go over. 60 00:06:13,974 --> 00:06:17,069 An American citizen has no right to negotiate with a foreign power. 61 00:06:17,244 --> 00:06:19,645 I love this country, Mr. Mason. 62 00:06:19,813 --> 00:06:22,078 I would do nothing to hurt it. 63 00:06:22,249 --> 00:06:24,775 But you exaggerate my importance. 64 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:29,412 The trade is simple. My life is nearly over. 65 00:06:29,589 --> 00:06:34,084 But the child's life stretches out beyond this century. 66 00:06:34,261 --> 00:06:37,925 By trading my few years for her many, 67 00:06:38,098 --> 00:06:43,935 I can assure her a good life, a meaningful and free life. 68 00:06:44,104 --> 00:06:46,369 Tell him, Mr. Mason. 69 00:06:46,539 --> 00:06:48,030 Make him realize 70 00:06:48,208 --> 00:06:51,804 that he cannot trade himself as animals are traded. 71 00:06:51,978 --> 00:06:55,642 - But there is no alternative. - There is. 72 00:06:55,815 --> 00:07:00,378 Mr. Mason can go to East Berlin and negotiate for you. 73 00:07:00,553 --> 00:07:02,112 Negotiate what, Mrs. Ritter? 74 00:07:02,289 --> 00:07:06,852 Elke's release in return for the Fermi Prize money, 75 00:07:07,027 --> 00:07:11,055 $50,000 that we never touched. 76 00:07:11,231 --> 00:07:14,099 The law makes this a matter for the State Department, 77 00:07:14,267 --> 00:07:15,565 but Professor Ritter thinks 78 00:07:15,735 --> 00:07:18,569 that the department's first move would be to rescind his passport. 79 00:07:18,738 --> 00:07:21,537 I see. To keep him from going back, no matter what. 80 00:07:21,708 --> 00:07:24,007 Well, can't you alert the department on the QT? 81 00:07:24,678 --> 00:07:27,580 That would entail betraying the confidence of a client. 82 00:07:27,747 --> 00:07:30,342 However, I did plant a seed that may bring in the department. 83 00:07:30,884 --> 00:07:32,876 Why do the communists want the professor? 84 00:07:33,053 --> 00:07:34,253 Think what it would have meant 85 00:07:34,421 --> 00:07:38,256 if Einstein had decided he preferred the East to the West. 86 00:07:38,425 --> 00:07:41,224 And in scientific circles, Paul, 87 00:07:41,394 --> 00:07:43,226 Professor Ritter has the respect of the world. 88 00:07:44,764 --> 00:07:46,596 Perry Mason's office. 89 00:07:46,766 --> 00:07:50,134 I think it's the call you're waiting for. Washington D.C. 90 00:07:51,705 --> 00:07:53,833 Perry Mason speaking. 91 00:07:54,774 --> 00:07:57,141 Oh, yes, of course I remember. 92 00:07:57,310 --> 00:08:01,771 At the reception following your address before the American Bar Association. 93 00:08:02,515 --> 00:08:05,314 I had hoped Mrs. Ritter would call you. 94 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:09,452 Only the reason that I gave her. 95 00:08:09,622 --> 00:08:12,182 I have no right to negotiate. 96 00:08:15,061 --> 00:08:18,725 In that case, sir, I'd be more than happy to proceed. 97 00:08:18,898 --> 00:08:20,628 Goodbye. 98 00:08:21,601 --> 00:08:25,094 Della, call Professor Ritter's home, would you please? 99 00:08:25,271 --> 00:08:27,399 Who was that? 100 00:08:27,574 --> 00:08:31,409 That, Paul, you'll learn from my memoirs. 101 00:08:32,545 --> 00:08:36,983 Hello, this is Mr. Mason's office. Is Dr. Ritter there? 102 00:08:38,218 --> 00:08:41,245 Yes, of course, Mrs. Ritter. Perry? 103 00:08:43,390 --> 00:08:45,018 Hello? 104 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:47,452 He's what? 105 00:08:47,627 --> 00:08:51,428 He is on his way to East Germany, Mr. Mason. 106 00:08:51,598 --> 00:08:55,626 I found a note he left for me on his desk. 107 00:08:55,802 --> 00:08:58,863 Yeah. Bitte. 108 00:09:00,206 --> 00:09:04,302 He says that when he reaches East Berlin 109 00:09:04,477 --> 00:09:08,278 he will have Elke sent to the American zone. 110 00:09:08,448 --> 00:09:11,418 I am to wait for her there. 111 00:09:11,584 --> 00:09:16,147 - So we are too late. - I'll be in touch with you, Mrs. Ritter. 112 00:09:16,322 --> 00:09:18,587 Paul, check the overseas airlines and travel agencies. 113 00:09:18,758 --> 00:09:19,782 And then? 114 00:09:19,959 --> 00:09:22,451 Professor Ritter is on his way to East Berlin. 115 00:09:22,629 --> 00:09:25,394 Chances are, he'll take an indirect route to disguise his destination. 116 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:28,125 You want me to catch up with him and keep him from crossing over. 117 00:09:28,268 --> 00:09:31,136 That's right. Della, I'll need my passport. 118 00:09:57,897 --> 00:10:00,992 Mr. Mason, over here. 119 00:10:01,167 --> 00:10:03,500 The name's Carleton. Sam Carleton. 120 00:10:03,670 --> 00:10:06,697 Uh, porter, just put those bags in the car. 121 00:10:06,873 --> 00:10:09,274 I'm sorry, Mr. Carleton, I don't believe we've met. 122 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:12,310 Oh, of course. I recognized you immediately, so I figured... 123 00:10:12,479 --> 00:10:14,710 Well, I'm Carleton Tours, Mr. Mason. 124 00:10:14,881 --> 00:10:17,715 Your travel agent in Los Angeles told me to take good care of you 125 00:10:17,884 --> 00:10:20,319 - while you're in Berlin. - Oh, this is indeed rare service. 126 00:10:20,487 --> 00:10:22,285 It's only the beginning. 127 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:24,515 Uh, Mrs. Ritter, Miss Pommer. Mr. Carleton. 128 00:10:24,691 --> 00:10:28,253 Ladies. Well, since we're going to be seeing a lot of one another, 129 00:10:28,428 --> 00:10:31,057 I want you to start by calling me Sam, okay? 130 00:10:31,231 --> 00:10:35,862 Right. Now the first order of business is to get you to your hotel. 131 00:10:40,106 --> 00:10:44,703 I am sorry, fräulein. I should watch where I am going. 132 00:10:48,181 --> 00:10:51,276 - Coming, Miss Pommer? - Yes, I'm coming. 133 00:11:10,069 --> 00:11:12,664 - But, Frau Zimmer, please. - No. 134 00:11:12,839 --> 00:11:17,709 - Uh, I promise. - No, Herr Hoffer, no more promises. 135 00:11:25,285 --> 00:11:28,449 - You are late. - I had trouble getting away. 136 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:30,647 Is that the matron from the orphanage? 137 00:11:30,823 --> 00:11:34,658 Frau Zimmer, an old and valued friend. 138 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:39,891 And the elderly woman at the train station is Frau Ritter, of course, 139 00:11:40,066 --> 00:11:43,662 - but where is the professor? - He will he here soon. 140 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:48,539 - And the American, who is he? - Perry Mason, an attorney. 141 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:51,906 - He will represent the Ritters. - Represent. 142 00:11:52,078 --> 00:11:54,047 What is there to represent? 143 00:11:54,214 --> 00:11:57,446 The professor defects or he does not. It is as simple as that. 144 00:11:57,617 --> 00:12:00,519 - There are complications. - Such as what? 145 00:12:00,687 --> 00:12:02,315 - Beer, fräulein? - Yeah, danke. 146 00:12:03,957 --> 00:12:05,755 Nein, nein, nein. 147 00:12:05,925 --> 00:12:09,191 These, uh, complications... 148 00:12:09,729 --> 00:12:12,028 I would prefer Mr. Mason told you about it. 149 00:12:12,432 --> 00:12:15,163 You will tell me and now. 150 00:12:15,335 --> 00:12:17,600 You forget, Hoffer, this is West, not East, Berlin, 151 00:12:17,770 --> 00:12:19,602 and here I do what I please. 152 00:12:19,772 --> 00:12:24,904 Ah, I concede defeat, fräulein. 153 00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:27,877 But just what is it you please to do? 154 00:12:28,047 --> 00:12:31,984 First, I give you instructions concerning the child Elke, 155 00:12:32,151 --> 00:12:35,815 and, uh, your valued friend over there. 156 00:13:00,546 --> 00:13:02,538 Elka, come with me. 157 00:13:08,488 --> 00:13:10,354 - You are Mr. Mason? - Yes. 158 00:13:10,523 --> 00:13:13,755 This is Elke. She speaks quite good English. 159 00:13:13,926 --> 00:13:17,021 - Good morning, Elke. - Hello, sir. 160 00:13:17,196 --> 00:13:20,166 If you don't mind, I'd like to speak with her alone. 161 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:22,825 I was not instructed to allow that. 162 00:13:23,002 --> 00:13:25,995 You are being so instructed now. 163 00:13:30,443 --> 00:13:32,605 Sit down, Elke. 164 00:13:33,246 --> 00:13:36,341 - Could I ask you some questions? - Yeah. 165 00:13:36,516 --> 00:13:39,008 When was it they took you away from your mother? 166 00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:43,546 It has been almost one year. 167 00:13:43,723 --> 00:13:47,387 They say she is too ill to take care of me. 168 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,120 They take her to the Krankenhaus. 169 00:13:50,496 --> 00:13:51,520 The hospital? 170 00:13:57,070 --> 00:13:59,505 Did your mother ever tell you what her mother called her 171 00:13:59,672 --> 00:14:00,970 when she was a little girl? 172 00:14:02,442 --> 00:14:08,541 A funny name, Klein Maus, because she was so quiet. 173 00:14:08,715 --> 00:14:11,708 That's right, Little Mouse. 174 00:14:12,352 --> 00:14:16,119 If you know, how come you ask me? 175 00:14:16,689 --> 00:14:19,818 To make sure you're the Elke your grandparents are looking for. 176 00:14:20,493 --> 00:14:23,588 Oh, I am. I am Elke. 177 00:14:30,703 --> 00:14:34,868 Here is someone your grandmother sent to you so you won't be alone. 178 00:14:35,508 --> 00:14:38,034 Wunderbar! 179 00:14:38,678 --> 00:14:41,944 Such things are not permitted to children, Mr. Mason. 180 00:14:42,115 --> 00:14:44,346 Elke, join the others at once. 181 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:08,264 One think we're certain of now, 182 00:15:08,441 --> 00:15:12,742 Elke is really your granddaughter and not some child being used as bait 183 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:15,609 to lure your husband into East Germany. 184 00:15:15,782 --> 00:15:18,775 I've never doubted that she was my granddaughter. 185 00:15:18,951 --> 00:15:22,046 You must admit there was some cause for doubt. 186 00:15:22,221 --> 00:15:25,714 I thought the child might be an invention, a part of their plan. 187 00:15:25,892 --> 00:15:29,124 Don't underestimate the East German Peoples' Republic. 188 00:15:29,295 --> 00:15:31,127 I'm not underestimating them. 189 00:15:31,297 --> 00:15:33,732 I'm giving them credit for all the deviousness 190 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:35,994 they've proved themselves capable of. 191 00:15:37,069 --> 00:15:39,197 Oh, I'm sorry to overhear, 192 00:15:39,372 --> 00:15:41,341 but I came in through the bedroom door. 193 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:44,003 You are probably wondering 194 00:15:44,177 --> 00:15:47,909 why I would try such a thing, so impossible a task. 195 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,073 - Here, liebchen. - Danke. 196 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:55,153 I question not the act itself, but the wisdom of it. 197 00:15:55,321 --> 00:15:57,313 What made you believe you could manage it? 198 00:15:57,490 --> 00:15:59,550 Oh, I have friends, Mr. Mason, 199 00:15:59,725 --> 00:16:03,321 friends who help many people to escape from behind the wall. 200 00:16:03,496 --> 00:16:06,625 And they help me. They have found Franz Hoffer for me. 201 00:16:07,567 --> 00:16:10,230 You know Franz Hoffer? 202 00:16:10,403 --> 00:16:14,966 I never saw or heard of him until Elke and I were stopped at the border. 203 00:16:15,141 --> 00:16:18,669 And I didn't see him again until, uh, yesterday 204 00:16:18,845 --> 00:16:21,280 when he gave me the note at the train station. 205 00:16:21,447 --> 00:16:23,939 I wonder how he knew we were arriving. 206 00:16:24,116 --> 00:16:25,846 I have no idea. 207 00:16:26,018 --> 00:16:29,477 Uh, I only know that when the East Germans released me 208 00:16:29,655 --> 00:16:31,681 to take the offer to Professor Ritter, 209 00:16:31,858 --> 00:16:34,885 uh, I was told that Hoffer is to be my contact. 210 00:16:35,061 --> 00:16:36,290 Do you know him, Mr. Carleton? 211 00:16:37,530 --> 00:16:39,863 Now, you promised to call me Sam. 212 00:16:40,733 --> 00:16:44,295 - Do you know him, Sam? - No. 213 00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:46,336 But I know of him. 214 00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:49,533 I mean, I've never actually run into him going back and forth, 215 00:16:49,709 --> 00:16:51,371 but I know his name. 216 00:16:51,544 --> 00:16:54,378 If you want to deal in the black market, 217 00:16:54,780 --> 00:16:57,477 get a forged passport, you see Franz Hoffer. 218 00:16:57,650 --> 00:17:01,212 Somehow, he is at home on both sides of the wall. 219 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:03,549 That doesn't surprise me about Hoffer. 220 00:17:03,723 --> 00:17:06,386 He seems a very cold and cruel man. 221 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:07,959 You've seen him again this morning? 222 00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:11,962 Yes, and he's agreed to take you to a highly placed official in East Berlin 223 00:17:12,131 --> 00:17:14,123 with whom you can discuss your offer for Elke. 224 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:16,735 Who is this highly placed official? 225 00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:19,096 Hoffer wouldn't tell me. 226 00:17:21,107 --> 00:17:22,700 My advice to you, Mr. Mason, 227 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:27,506 is not to go until this highly placed contact is revealed. 228 00:17:27,914 --> 00:17:30,247 But that's exactly why I'm here. 229 00:17:42,028 --> 00:17:46,227 It's another long-distance call from Mr. Drake. 230 00:17:48,167 --> 00:17:51,365 Hello? You're where? 231 00:17:52,805 --> 00:17:54,433 Well, that was quick. 232 00:17:54,607 --> 00:17:56,735 Then you'd better get moving. 233 00:17:56,909 --> 00:18:01,313 Is Hans still in New York where Mr. Drake found him? 234 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,315 No, Mrs. Ritter, your husband's at the London Airport, 235 00:18:05,484 --> 00:18:08,113 about to board a non-stop plane to Frankfurt. 236 00:18:08,287 --> 00:18:09,550 Frankfurt? 237 00:18:09,722 --> 00:18:13,887 - Then he'll be here this afternoon. - Unfortunately, yes. 238 00:18:14,060 --> 00:18:17,087 And the appointment for tonight... 239 00:18:17,663 --> 00:18:19,029 It will be too late. 240 00:18:38,184 --> 00:18:39,208 Professor Ritter. 241 00:18:41,354 --> 00:18:46,588 Mr. Mason, what are you doing here, and how did you find me? 242 00:18:46,759 --> 00:18:49,695 - Your wife will explain. - Emma? 243 00:18:49,862 --> 00:18:51,262 She is here too? 244 00:18:51,430 --> 00:18:52,591 Yeah, Hans, 245 00:18:52,765 --> 00:18:56,202 - I am here. I am here. - Emma. Emma. 246 00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:01,665 Please, Emma, I have made up my mind. 247 00:19:01,841 --> 00:19:03,366 I am going there now. 248 00:19:04,010 --> 00:19:07,845 Professor, go back to the hotel with Emma. 249 00:19:08,014 --> 00:19:10,813 I'm meeting the East Germans tonight to negotiate. 250 00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:13,919 If we're successful there'll be no need for you to cross that border. 251 00:19:14,086 --> 00:19:18,786 Forgive me, Mr. Mason, but I do not believe what you tell me. 252 00:19:18,958 --> 00:19:23,259 If I go with Emma, for my own good, you will say, 253 00:19:23,429 --> 00:19:25,091 you will not allow me to cross. 254 00:19:25,598 --> 00:19:28,432 Professor Ritter, your wife has been terrified 255 00:19:28,601 --> 00:19:31,298 that you'd manage to cross over before we could stop you. 256 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:33,905 Gerta has risked her life to prevent it. 257 00:19:34,073 --> 00:19:36,133 Mr. Drake has followed you for 6,000 miles 258 00:19:36,308 --> 00:19:37,742 to be certain of your safety. 259 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:42,610 I apologize, Mr. Mason, but a man must do what he must do. 260 00:19:42,782 --> 00:19:44,944 I don't want your apologies. 261 00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:47,643 I want your promise that you will wait one more day. 262 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:49,880 Hans, please. 263 00:19:50,056 --> 00:19:53,549 Perry, I hate to do this, but should I just put him in the car? 264 00:19:53,726 --> 00:19:58,289 No, Paul, if Professor Ritter is so intent on martyrdom, 265 00:19:58,464 --> 00:20:01,593 so naive he's willing to turn himself over before the child is freed, 266 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:04,430 so arrogant as to believe that he and only he 267 00:20:04,603 --> 00:20:07,004 has a solution to this dilemma, then he should go. 268 00:20:40,172 --> 00:20:42,767 One more day I will wait. 269 00:20:43,843 --> 00:20:45,778 That was close. 270 00:20:46,312 --> 00:20:48,281 Too close. 271 00:20:48,848 --> 00:20:51,579 And if we fail tonight, we won't have another chance. 272 00:21:25,251 --> 00:21:28,653 In the middle of the next block, there is a very small hotel. 273 00:21:28,821 --> 00:21:31,416 The Middlestadt. He will wait in the lobby. 274 00:21:51,076 --> 00:21:56,276 Mr. Mason, I am Franz Hoffer, and, uh, who is this? 275 00:21:56,448 --> 00:22:00,044 - A friend, Mr. Paul Drake. - Wait here. 276 00:22:31,550 --> 00:22:33,212 There will be passes for both of you 277 00:22:33,385 --> 00:22:35,513 waiting at the point where we will cross. 278 00:22:35,688 --> 00:22:38,658 - We're going into East Germany? - Yes, but not far, Mr. Drake. 279 00:22:38,824 --> 00:22:43,262 Only to a small chalet a few hundred yards from the border. 280 00:23:02,147 --> 00:23:06,949 Franz Hoffer, with the two men for whom you are to provide passes. 281 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,554 You are doing a good business tonight, eh, Hoffer? 282 00:23:09,722 --> 00:23:13,159 This is government business. The passes, please. 283 00:23:16,362 --> 00:23:19,855 Perry Mason. And Paul Drake. 284 00:23:20,032 --> 00:23:22,194 Good until morning. 285 00:23:22,368 --> 00:23:29,298 I will now show you what is known in the Eastern Sector as a safe house. 286 00:23:43,722 --> 00:23:48,126 May I present Mr. Mason and Mr. Drake. 287 00:23:48,294 --> 00:23:51,458 This is Herr Wolfgang Stromm. 288 00:23:52,064 --> 00:23:54,192 Be seated, gentlemen. 289 00:23:55,367 --> 00:23:57,359 I would offer you some vodka, 290 00:23:57,536 --> 00:24:02,099 but since it is Russian, I assume you would not care for it. 291 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:06,234 - You may leave us now, Hoffer. - As you say, Herr Stromm. 292 00:24:12,818 --> 00:24:15,481 I've here a small dossier on you, Herr Mason. 293 00:24:16,956 --> 00:24:19,926 It seems you are a most important man in your own country. 294 00:24:20,092 --> 00:24:22,652 Relatively unimportant. 295 00:24:22,828 --> 00:24:25,423 No, I say it merely to point out that you're not important here. 296 00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:26,690 Thanks. 297 00:24:26,865 --> 00:24:31,860 As for you, Herr Drake, it appears you arrived in West Berlin 298 00:24:32,037 --> 00:24:35,599 a few hours ago on the same plane that brought Professor Ritter here. 299 00:24:35,774 --> 00:24:36,833 That's right. 300 00:24:37,009 --> 00:24:40,878 Shortly after your arrival, you and Herr Mason and Frau Ritter 301 00:24:41,046 --> 00:24:45,074 prevented the professor from crossing into East Berlin. 302 00:24:46,885 --> 00:24:48,353 Why did you do that? 303 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,989 To give us time to present a counter-proposal, 304 00:24:51,156 --> 00:24:53,284 an offer of something other than the professor 305 00:24:53,459 --> 00:24:55,325 for Elke Dietrich's release. 306 00:24:55,494 --> 00:24:58,862 Knowing the capitalist mentality, I am sure that something is money. 307 00:24:59,031 --> 00:25:01,899 - Am I not correct, Herr Mason? - Why, yes. 308 00:25:02,768 --> 00:25:06,535 - How much money, Herr Mason. - Fifty thousand dollars. 309 00:25:06,705 --> 00:25:08,537 Do you have the money with you, Herr Mason? 310 00:25:08,707 --> 00:25:10,707 - Hardly. - I will listen to no more promises. 311 00:25:10,876 --> 00:25:14,210 I want what was agreed upon now, not later. 312 00:25:14,380 --> 00:25:17,544 And you actually believe that the East German Peoples' Republic 313 00:25:17,716 --> 00:25:20,550 would so demean itself as to accept such a sum? 314 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,313 Hasn't the Peoples' Republic already demeaned itself, 315 00:25:24,490 --> 00:25:27,892 using a child to blackmail a scientist into defecting? 316 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:30,222 Merely a move in a chess game. 317 00:25:30,396 --> 00:25:34,800 And besides, my country is not involved, officially. 318 00:25:35,334 --> 00:25:37,132 That's what I was given to understand. 319 00:25:37,302 --> 00:25:40,170 Herr Mason, you are offering me a bribe? 320 00:25:41,407 --> 00:25:44,775 Well, no matter. It is not acceptable. 321 00:25:44,943 --> 00:25:47,037 Professor Ritter 322 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:50,140 or nothing. 323 00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:02,284 Mr. Mason. 324 00:26:02,461 --> 00:26:04,657 But where are Emma and Elke? 325 00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:06,696 Emma and Elke? 326 00:26:06,865 --> 00:26:10,029 - You did not send for Emma? - No. 327 00:26:10,202 --> 00:26:11,363 About a half hour ago, 328 00:26:11,537 --> 00:26:14,006 Franz Hoffer telephoned for Mrs. Ritter. 329 00:26:14,173 --> 00:26:16,142 He said the offer for the child had been accepted. 330 00:26:16,308 --> 00:26:17,401 What else did he tell her? 331 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:22,378 Oh, he did not speak directly to her. Emma was downstairs. 332 00:26:22,548 --> 00:26:24,278 Mr. Carleton took the message. 333 00:26:25,818 --> 00:26:30,051 Yes, well, uh, Hoffer said, 334 00:26:30,222 --> 00:26:32,123 you wanted Mrs. Ritter to bring the money 335 00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:34,726 to where you and Elke were waiting. 336 00:26:34,893 --> 00:26:37,226 He said there'd be a car outside the hotel. 337 00:26:37,396 --> 00:26:39,456 How did she know where to go? 338 00:26:39,932 --> 00:26:42,731 Hoffer said, uh, you were in the Eastern Sector, 339 00:26:42,901 --> 00:26:46,235 at somewhere called a safe house. 340 00:26:46,805 --> 00:26:49,331 Gerta said she knew where that was. 341 00:26:50,742 --> 00:26:52,267 Good luck. 342 00:27:12,598 --> 00:27:17,059 Mr. Mason, I saw you crossing the bridge ahead of me. 343 00:27:17,236 --> 00:27:20,365 - Have you heard what happened? - Yes. 344 00:27:20,539 --> 00:27:24,943 I tried to stop her at the border, but I had trouble finding a taxi. 345 00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:26,942 What do you plan to do now? 346 00:27:27,112 --> 00:27:30,139 Make certain that Hoffer delivers Elke. 347 00:27:32,384 --> 00:27:36,549 Mr. Mason, I was told you were going to meet us at the border. 348 00:27:36,722 --> 00:27:37,883 Where is Hoffer? 349 00:27:38,056 --> 00:27:41,618 He's in the next room making arrangements for us to cross. 350 00:27:41,793 --> 00:27:43,728 Is something wrong? 351 00:27:43,896 --> 00:27:46,263 You shouldn't have come here alone, Mrs. Ritter. 352 00:27:46,431 --> 00:27:48,696 But he told me if I did not come at once, 353 00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:51,166 we would never get Elke. 354 00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:53,931 This was our plan, was it not? 355 00:27:54,106 --> 00:27:56,075 No, Emma, it was not our plan. 356 00:27:56,241 --> 00:27:57,800 But I gave him the check. 357 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,109 Hoffer. 358 00:28:14,126 --> 00:28:15,355 Dead? 359 00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:17,792 Yes, Paul. Very dead. 360 00:28:24,736 --> 00:28:26,034 Well, 361 00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:30,506 I seem to have arrived at a most inopportune time, Herr Mason. 362 00:28:30,676 --> 00:28:33,510 I have listened to you for the last time. 363 00:28:33,679 --> 00:28:37,514 If it weren't for you, all of this would not have happened. 364 00:28:37,683 --> 00:28:41,347 Negotiate. Offer the money, you said. 365 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,615 "You are naive, arrogant," you told me. 366 00:28:44,790 --> 00:28:49,819 No, Mr. Mason, it is you who are naive and arrogant. 367 00:28:49,995 --> 00:28:52,692 The American authorities have been alerted. 368 00:28:52,864 --> 00:28:55,493 Emma will have every protection her citizenship affords. 369 00:28:55,667 --> 00:28:59,160 And that is no protection. They hold her for murder. 370 00:28:59,972 --> 00:29:03,340 But she's not guilty. She'll be acquitted. The State Department will act on it. 371 00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:07,141 They will do nothing because there is nothing to be done. 372 00:29:10,816 --> 00:29:13,149 I wish to have your forgiveness, Mr. Mason, 373 00:29:13,318 --> 00:29:15,480 because I have spoken to you in such a way. 374 00:29:15,654 --> 00:29:19,648 I know whatever you did, it was with an open heart. 375 00:29:19,825 --> 00:29:24,559 You just don't understand that you're fighting on the other side. 376 00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:26,994 It's time. 377 00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:30,259 Stromm agreed on the phone that Elke would cross over to our side 378 00:29:30,435 --> 00:29:33,633 as the professor crosses over to the east. 379 00:29:33,805 --> 00:29:38,743 At least I will see her, as we pass. 380 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:41,641 You'll take care of her, Mr. Mason, 381 00:29:42,314 --> 00:29:47,218 until Emma is freed or until Gerta returns. 382 00:29:59,298 --> 00:30:03,292 Liebchen. Liebchen. 383 00:30:21,386 --> 00:30:22,752 They lied, Paul. 384 00:30:22,921 --> 00:30:25,083 They had no intention of returning Elke. 385 00:30:25,257 --> 00:30:26,281 They gave their word. 386 00:30:26,458 --> 00:30:28,950 What good is their word? 387 00:30:29,461 --> 00:30:31,657 You've betrayed an old man. 388 00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:35,130 You involved an innocent child in a cruel hoax. 389 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:36,359 You harassed an old lady 390 00:30:36,535 --> 00:30:38,868 and subjected her to the torture of a murder charge. 391 00:30:39,037 --> 00:30:42,098 And you've made me feel like a fool for believing you could be trusted 392 00:30:42,274 --> 00:30:43,367 to keep your word. 393 00:30:43,542 --> 00:30:45,909 What I have done has been done for the best cause. 394 00:30:46,978 --> 00:30:49,504 Of course. The end justifies the means. 395 00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:51,377 You know your Lenin, Herr Stromm, 396 00:30:51,550 --> 00:30:53,550 but apparently you don't know the meaning of honor. 397 00:30:53,719 --> 00:30:56,746 And you do? You hypocrite. 398 00:30:56,922 --> 00:31:01,326 Was it honorable when you tried to bribe me, failed, 399 00:31:01,493 --> 00:31:05,931 and then bribed Franz Hoffer, a thief and a renegade? 400 00:31:06,098 --> 00:31:08,533 Was it honorable when your client, 401 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:11,568 to avoid payment of the money, killed him? 402 00:31:11,737 --> 00:31:14,172 I offered no bribe. 403 00:31:14,606 --> 00:31:17,633 I made a counter-proposal reducing your blackmail demand 404 00:31:17,809 --> 00:31:20,404 to dollars instead of human flesh. 405 00:31:20,579 --> 00:31:24,277 - And Mrs. Ritter did not kill Hoffer. - That is not for me to decide. 406 00:31:24,449 --> 00:31:26,475 It is a decision for the Peoples' Court. 407 00:31:26,985 --> 00:31:30,478 Then let me see the Ritters. Mrs. Ritter is an American citizen. 408 00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:33,181 She is entitled to proper representation 409 00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:35,759 and as soon as my government arranges for my credentials... 410 00:31:35,927 --> 00:31:37,987 When I see your credentials, 411 00:31:38,163 --> 00:31:40,997 then you may see the Ritters, not before. 412 00:31:41,166 --> 00:31:44,102 Are you the public prosecutor, or aren't you? 413 00:31:44,269 --> 00:31:47,103 If a woman's life doesn't concern you, then what does? 414 00:31:47,272 --> 00:31:51,334 Herr Mason, I despair discussing subtleties with Americans, 415 00:31:51,510 --> 00:31:55,470 but consider, Herr Mason, what is the only real, 416 00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:57,878 irreplaceable treasure in our world? 417 00:31:58,383 --> 00:32:00,943 A mind like Professor Ritter's. 418 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:04,920 If you can swallow your prejudices for just a moment, 419 00:32:05,090 --> 00:32:07,889 you will recognize what I have already accomplished. 420 00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:11,086 The opportunity to work with a man of Professor Ritter's eminence 421 00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:13,323 will undoubtedly attract many other similar brains 422 00:32:13,498 --> 00:32:15,023 from all over the world. 423 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,102 But, again, by what means? 424 00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:20,705 By any means, Herr Mason. 425 00:32:21,206 --> 00:32:23,766 And that is all the time I have to waste with you, Herr Mason. 426 00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:26,741 If your credentials arrive properly authenticated by my government, 427 00:32:26,912 --> 00:32:31,441 you may represent Frau Ritter at her trial, if not... 428 00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:35,144 She must take her chances without you. 429 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:41,792 Well, Herr Mason. 430 00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:46,356 Still no word from your government? Perhaps they are ignoring you. 431 00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:49,592 Herr Stromm, if this is in truth a court of law, 432 00:32:49,768 --> 00:32:52,499 if you make any pretenses to justice, 433 00:32:52,671 --> 00:32:54,503 you will allow me to see my client. 434 00:32:54,673 --> 00:32:56,335 Client? You have no client. 435 00:32:56,508 --> 00:32:59,672 You have no legal standing whatsoever. 436 00:33:00,712 --> 00:33:05,047 Perry, got them. All properly signed and sealed. 437 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,461 Well, Herr Stromm? 438 00:33:18,697 --> 00:33:21,565 Court will convene in 15 minutes. 439 00:33:21,733 --> 00:33:23,827 You may have ten minutes with your client. 440 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,164 Ten minutes? That's hardly time to discuss... 441 00:33:26,338 --> 00:33:30,742 Ten minutes, Herr Mason. Take it or leave it. 442 00:33:39,184 --> 00:33:40,345 Mr. Mason. 443 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:42,784 Ten minutes, no longer. 444 00:33:45,991 --> 00:33:49,052 Herr Prosecutor, state your case against this woman. 445 00:33:49,227 --> 00:33:51,924 In the matter of the death of Franz Hoffer, 446 00:33:52,097 --> 00:33:57,968 a citizen of the Peoples' Republic, we have irrefutable proof 447 00:33:58,136 --> 00:34:03,234 that Frau Emma Ritter and only Frau Emma Ritter had both the motive 448 00:34:03,408 --> 00:34:06,572 and the opportunity to kill the deceased. 449 00:34:07,012 --> 00:34:10,312 Then proceed with your case, Herr Prosecutor. 450 00:34:10,482 --> 00:34:15,147 You were present when Herr Mason first visited the chalet 451 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,917 and made an offer of $50,000 for the child, were you not? 452 00:34:20,091 --> 00:34:21,889 Jawohl, mein herr. 453 00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:24,689 And where did he say this money was? 454 00:34:24,863 --> 00:34:27,196 With, uh, Frau Ritter. 455 00:34:27,365 --> 00:34:30,028 And where were you when this was being discussed? 456 00:34:30,201 --> 00:34:33,797 With Herr Hoffer in his inner office. 457 00:34:33,972 --> 00:34:40,936 Yes, in his inner office, listening as Herr Mason knew he would be, 458 00:34:42,013 --> 00:34:44,209 because the money was not being offered to me, 459 00:34:44,382 --> 00:34:47,443 it was cleverly being offered to a man without loyalties, 460 00:34:47,619 --> 00:34:51,784 to a man who would do anything for such a sum. To Franz Hoffer. 461 00:34:52,257 --> 00:34:55,785 A most ingenious scheme that almost bore fruit. 462 00:34:56,227 --> 00:34:59,664 What did Hoffer do when he heard the offer of money? 463 00:34:59,831 --> 00:35:01,697 He became quite excited 464 00:35:01,866 --> 00:35:04,836 and told me to bring the child to the chalet at once. 465 00:35:05,236 --> 00:35:08,570 Ah, what did you do after you delivered the child to the chalet? 466 00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:10,299 I waited outside with the child. 467 00:35:10,475 --> 00:35:14,173 - Who was with Hoffer at that time? - Only Frau Ritter. 468 00:35:15,213 --> 00:35:18,047 Frau Magistrate, I request permission to offer objections 469 00:35:18,216 --> 00:35:21,744 to testimony presented without regard for the rules of evidence. 470 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,084 The weighing of evidence is the function of this court. 471 00:35:25,256 --> 00:35:29,091 Permission denied. Proceed, Herr Prosecutor. 472 00:35:29,260 --> 00:35:31,286 And it was approximately one hour 473 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:34,490 after the two Americans crossed the border for the first time 474 00:35:34,666 --> 00:35:37,363 - that Frau Ritter crossed? - Yeah. 475 00:35:37,535 --> 00:35:39,800 And she came before the two Americans, 476 00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:43,066 along with Fräulein Pommer, crossed a second time. 477 00:35:43,241 --> 00:35:45,870 Yes, uh, approximately five minutes before. 478 00:35:46,411 --> 00:35:49,404 - You are positive of that? - I have it here in my log book. 479 00:35:49,581 --> 00:35:51,516 Read it into the record. 480 00:35:51,683 --> 00:35:56,018 First the two Americans accompanied by Hoffer at 1:40. 481 00:35:56,187 --> 00:35:58,554 Then Frau Ritter at 2:41, 482 00:35:58,723 --> 00:36:01,420 and then Fräulein Pommer at 2:46, 483 00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:04,358 and then the two Americans again at 2:55. 484 00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:06,928 A five-minute head start. 485 00:36:07,098 --> 00:36:09,294 Five minutes alone with Hoffer and the child 486 00:36:09,934 --> 00:36:13,632 ample time for Frau Ritter to commit murder. 487 00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:18,067 I went to the chalet as has been said. 488 00:36:18,910 --> 00:36:19,934 And what then? 489 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:27,246 Herr Hoffer went into the inner room to make arrangements for Elke and me 490 00:36:27,419 --> 00:36:30,548 to cross back to West Germany. 491 00:36:31,156 --> 00:36:32,419 What did you do at that time? 492 00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:37,156 Elke and I waited in the outer room 493 00:36:37,328 --> 00:36:38,660 and then 494 00:36:39,497 --> 00:36:44,162 Herr Mason and the others came and they found the body. 495 00:36:44,335 --> 00:36:47,601 No, no, Frau Ritter. That is not what you did. 496 00:36:47,772 --> 00:36:49,331 As Franz Hoffer was arranging for you 497 00:36:49,507 --> 00:36:51,942 and your grandchild to return to West Germany, 498 00:36:52,377 --> 00:36:54,505 you went into the inner room, 499 00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,274 waited until the arrangements were completed, 500 00:36:57,449 --> 00:37:00,851 - then stabbed him to death. - No! 501 00:37:01,019 --> 00:37:02,612 Then you took back the cashier's check, 502 00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:05,518 which you there upon destroyed. 503 00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:08,159 Surely the court will not allow Herr Stromm 504 00:37:08,326 --> 00:37:11,091 to state conclusions based on facts not in evidence? 505 00:37:11,262 --> 00:37:15,597 Herr Mason, you will please not prompt the court. 506 00:37:15,767 --> 00:37:16,826 Proceed, Herr Stromm. 507 00:37:19,137 --> 00:37:22,972 Frau Ritter, how do you account for the fact 508 00:37:23,141 --> 00:37:25,804 that a search of the body and of the premises 509 00:37:25,977 --> 00:37:29,243 revealed no cashier's check? 510 00:37:32,751 --> 00:37:35,243 I only know 511 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:40,457 I did not go into that inner room. 512 00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:43,789 I did not kill him. 513 00:37:46,364 --> 00:37:48,560 Herr Professor Ritter, 514 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:53,564 I regret exceedingly the necessity of subjecting a man 515 00:37:53,738 --> 00:37:57,231 such as yourself to this ordeal. 516 00:37:57,842 --> 00:38:02,871 We only desire confirmation from you of certain matters of, uh, date, 517 00:38:03,047 --> 00:38:05,278 place and so on. 518 00:38:05,450 --> 00:38:08,079 The procedure requested by your wife's counsel. 519 00:38:08,253 --> 00:38:09,915 Now, sir, 520 00:38:10,088 --> 00:38:14,526 you first learned of the existence of your granddaughter... 521 00:38:14,692 --> 00:38:16,854 I'm hungry. 522 00:38:18,263 --> 00:38:19,959 What's that, sir? 523 00:38:20,832 --> 00:38:24,132 How can I study if I am hungry? 524 00:38:25,937 --> 00:38:28,304 Who took my books away? 525 00:38:29,974 --> 00:38:31,875 Quiet. 526 00:38:32,510 --> 00:38:34,206 How is a man to sleep? 527 00:38:34,379 --> 00:38:36,371 Professor Ritter, are you all right? 528 00:38:37,215 --> 00:38:41,983 My things. Where are my things? 529 00:38:42,954 --> 00:38:46,789 This is not my razor. 530 00:38:48,059 --> 00:38:49,459 Emma, 531 00:38:50,495 --> 00:38:54,728 you should know I cannot abide pajamas. 532 00:38:55,266 --> 00:38:57,030 Only a nightgown. 533 00:39:00,071 --> 00:39:04,406 Old fashioned, I suppose, but so am I... 534 00:39:04,843 --> 00:39:07,142 Try to get a hold of yourself, herr doctor. 535 00:39:09,581 --> 00:39:11,482 There it is, the bells. 536 00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:37,403 I can't get it out of my mind. Such a tragedy. 537 00:39:37,575 --> 00:39:39,510 What did those people expect? 538 00:39:39,677 --> 00:39:42,977 It's a wonder that poor old man was able to endure as much as he did. 539 00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:44,877 Well, they outsmarted themselves. 540 00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:47,382 Now he's no good to them or anyone else. 541 00:39:47,552 --> 00:39:50,750 Mr. Mason, do you think that he might recover? 542 00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:53,619 Perhaps by having his old familiar things around him... 543 00:39:53,791 --> 00:39:55,350 I don't know, Gerta. 544 00:39:57,295 --> 00:39:59,264 Well, what are you doing here? 545 00:39:59,430 --> 00:40:01,695 The chambermaid let me in. 546 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,333 I thought there might be some arrangements I could make, 547 00:40:04,502 --> 00:40:06,562 some way I might be of service. 548 00:40:06,738 --> 00:40:08,229 You might help Gerta with the luggage. 549 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:10,086 She's going to pack the professor's things. 550 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:12,335 Sure, I'd be glad to. 551 00:40:12,510 --> 00:40:15,139 Would you excuse us? Paul. 552 00:40:18,182 --> 00:40:20,310 It's hard to believe, isn't it? 553 00:40:21,152 --> 00:40:24,816 I mean, that Dr. Ritter had a breakdown? 554 00:40:24,989 --> 00:40:26,617 He won't talk to anyone about it. 555 00:40:26,791 --> 00:40:30,558 It's not certain. He could just be ill. 556 00:40:32,964 --> 00:40:35,331 How did you know about that? 557 00:40:36,634 --> 00:40:39,433 Well, Mr. Mason mentioned it, didn't he? 558 00:40:39,971 --> 00:40:41,735 On his way in. 559 00:40:46,911 --> 00:40:49,005 Well, what do you think? 560 00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:50,910 For a travel agency representative, 561 00:40:51,082 --> 00:40:54,075 our Mr. Carleton has been very busy. 562 00:41:00,325 --> 00:41:02,365 I'm sorry. I seem to have picked this up by mistake. 563 00:41:02,493 --> 00:41:04,155 Oh, thank you, Drake. 564 00:41:04,329 --> 00:41:05,957 Just some notes I had for a travel book. 565 00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:08,330 Let me know when you publish it. I'd like to buy a copy. 566 00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:10,332 You'll be the first to know. 567 00:41:14,505 --> 00:41:16,838 I can imagine what it must have been like in the courtroom 568 00:41:17,008 --> 00:41:19,068 when the professor lost all sense of reality 569 00:41:19,243 --> 00:41:21,212 and slipped into some dream world of his own. 570 00:41:21,946 --> 00:41:24,745 I'm convinced he's lost his mind. 571 00:41:25,049 --> 00:41:26,779 I've been thinking, Paul. 572 00:41:26,951 --> 00:41:28,010 Before coming to Germany, 573 00:41:28,186 --> 00:41:31,054 when I worked out the agreement with that editor, 574 00:41:31,222 --> 00:41:35,057 it was with the understanding that if the East Germans dealt fairly with us, 575 00:41:35,226 --> 00:41:37,422 there would be no story. 576 00:41:37,595 --> 00:41:39,962 Well, they haven't dealt fairly, 577 00:41:40,131 --> 00:41:42,896 and though the story will have a slant we hadn't anticipated, 578 00:41:43,067 --> 00:41:45,400 I think now is the time to release it. 579 00:41:45,570 --> 00:41:49,371 You, uh, think the communists will be embarrassed by the publicity? 580 00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:52,135 Paul, men are shot down every day 581 00:41:52,310 --> 00:41:54,541 trying to escape to the West. 582 00:41:54,712 --> 00:41:57,773 The whole world watches and the communists couldn't care less. 583 00:41:57,949 --> 00:42:01,283 They're not as sensitive to public opinion as we are. 584 00:42:01,452 --> 00:42:03,614 Then, uh, what's to be gained? 585 00:42:03,788 --> 00:42:05,723 Well, according to Herr Stromm, 586 00:42:05,890 --> 00:42:08,490 they're recruiting other eminent scientists from around the world, 587 00:42:08,659 --> 00:42:10,958 using whatever persuasion they can. 588 00:42:11,362 --> 00:42:12,386 So? 589 00:42:12,563 --> 00:42:15,795 How many scientists do you think would even consider going over, 590 00:42:15,967 --> 00:42:17,936 no matter what the persuasion, 591 00:42:18,102 --> 00:42:21,095 after they read what was done to one of the greatest of them all? 592 00:42:23,074 --> 00:42:25,407 I'm going to call that editor. 593 00:42:25,643 --> 00:42:27,976 By midnight, the story will be in print. 594 00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:32,480 And by morning it will be picked up by newspapers everywhere. 595 00:42:32,817 --> 00:42:33,944 Where are you going? 596 00:42:34,118 --> 00:42:37,452 To take this to the old man and to be with Mrs. Ritter. 597 00:42:37,622 --> 00:42:40,524 That suitcase is too heavy for you. Here, let me carry it down for you. 598 00:42:40,691 --> 00:42:43,160 Oh, that's very kind, but it's not necessary. 599 00:42:43,327 --> 00:42:46,456 I'll tell you what. My car is downstairs. I'll drive you over. 600 00:42:46,631 --> 00:42:48,998 Well, if you're sure it's no trouble? 601 00:42:49,167 --> 00:42:51,534 I won't have to change taxis at the border. 602 00:42:51,702 --> 00:42:53,762 No trouble at all. 603 00:43:00,711 --> 00:43:04,148 Well, so far so good. 604 00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:06,978 The trap's baited, and midnight's the deadline. 605 00:43:07,151 --> 00:43:09,848 Yes, if the word gets back to Stromm in time, 606 00:43:10,021 --> 00:43:12,047 and Stromm does the right thing. 607 00:43:19,764 --> 00:43:21,960 Doggone, I forgot something. 608 00:43:22,133 --> 00:43:24,625 Gerta, why don't you go on down and have my car ordered around? 609 00:43:24,802 --> 00:43:26,964 - I'll meet you in front, okay? - All right. 610 00:43:27,138 --> 00:43:28,629 Right. 611 00:43:51,329 --> 00:43:52,797 Julius. 612 00:44:00,071 --> 00:44:03,439 Well, I checked with the hotel again. Not a word. 613 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:08,412 Ten o'clock. They must have cleared the checkpoint hours ago. 614 00:44:08,579 --> 00:44:11,048 Surely Stromm has the word by now. 615 00:44:11,215 --> 00:44:13,946 Gerta's pass, like ours, is good through tomorrow when court closes. 616 00:44:14,118 --> 00:44:15,142 But Carleton's? 617 00:44:15,319 --> 00:44:18,084 Carleton hasn't had any trouble crossing back and forth before. 618 00:44:18,256 --> 00:44:20,851 What happens if we don't hear from Stromm by midnight? 619 00:44:21,025 --> 00:44:24,894 The story is released, and our advantage is gone. 620 00:44:28,933 --> 00:44:32,233 - This, I believe, you are waiting for. - Thank you. 621 00:44:32,403 --> 00:44:35,498 - Is it...? - From Stromm. 622 00:44:38,576 --> 00:44:40,807 Nein. Nein. 623 00:44:40,978 --> 00:44:43,880 What you propose is out of the question. 624 00:44:44,048 --> 00:44:46,108 Impossible! 625 00:44:49,820 --> 00:44:51,914 Perhaps it's just as well. 626 00:44:52,089 --> 00:44:53,289 After what you've done to him, 627 00:44:53,457 --> 00:44:56,916 Dr. Ritter is of no use to us in our hands, 628 00:44:57,228 --> 00:44:59,356 but in yours, 629 00:44:59,664 --> 00:45:02,896 there could be no better argument for living and working in freedom 630 00:45:03,067 --> 00:45:04,899 than Professor Ritter's case. 631 00:45:05,069 --> 00:45:07,766 We did not destroy his mind. We had no idea. 632 00:45:07,939 --> 00:45:10,272 The old man must have been unstable all along. 633 00:45:10,441 --> 00:45:14,811 - There is no doubt of his breakdown? - Unfortunately, no. 634 00:45:14,979 --> 00:45:17,179 A board of eminent psychiatrists has been examining him, 635 00:45:17,315 --> 00:45:18,840 they've only just finished. 636 00:45:19,650 --> 00:45:22,313 What a frightening story this will make, Paul, 637 00:45:22,486 --> 00:45:24,284 for the entire world to read. 638 00:45:24,455 --> 00:45:28,085 I sent for you to make you a proposition. 639 00:45:28,459 --> 00:45:32,829 Suppose I was to release Professor Ritter in your charge 640 00:45:32,997 --> 00:45:34,556 in exchange for your silence. 641 00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:37,725 - With his wife and the child? - Only the professor. 642 00:45:37,902 --> 00:45:40,667 The child is my guarantee that you would keep your pledge of silence. 643 00:45:44,508 --> 00:45:46,773 I can make one telephone call in your presence, 644 00:45:46,944 --> 00:45:48,173 and not one word concerning, 645 00:45:48,346 --> 00:45:50,474 Dr. Ritter's mental condition will be printed, 646 00:45:50,648 --> 00:45:53,208 but if I don't make that call, then promptly at midnight... 647 00:45:53,384 --> 00:45:56,616 The child is actually of no importance to us if you keep your word. 648 00:45:56,787 --> 00:45:58,050 And neither is Frau Ritter. 649 00:46:00,391 --> 00:46:03,793 A feeble-minded old man, a harmless child, 650 00:46:03,961 --> 00:46:05,520 these we may give up. 651 00:46:05,696 --> 00:46:09,030 But Dr. Ritter can't manage without her now, don't you understand that? 652 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,431 Nein, nein. I do not have the authority. 653 00:46:13,471 --> 00:46:15,736 My superior has arrived. 654 00:46:15,906 --> 00:46:17,306 They kept me waiting for two hours 655 00:46:17,475 --> 00:46:19,671 while Professor Ritter was being questioned. 656 00:46:19,844 --> 00:46:22,370 I'm a patient man, fräulein. 657 00:46:22,546 --> 00:46:23,639 I'm used to waiting. 658 00:46:23,814 --> 00:46:26,045 You may discuss your request, Herr Mason, 659 00:46:26,217 --> 00:46:29,051 but I will recommend that under no circumstances 660 00:46:29,220 --> 00:46:32,554 will the Peoples' Government free a murderess. 661 00:46:35,026 --> 00:46:37,655 I told Herr Mason that in exchange for his silence, 662 00:46:37,828 --> 00:46:41,856 concerning Professor Ritter's illness, we will release both the old man 663 00:46:42,033 --> 00:46:45,800 and the child, but we will not free a murderess. 664 00:46:45,970 --> 00:46:49,407 Is that your only objection, Herr Stromm, 665 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,442 Frau Ritter is no more guilty of murder than I am or you are. 666 00:46:54,612 --> 00:46:56,513 So you say. MASON: Not I. 667 00:46:56,681 --> 00:46:59,617 The testimony of your own witnesses in your own Peoples' Court. 668 00:46:59,784 --> 00:47:04,188 I know that if your mind had not been filled with other concerns, 669 00:47:04,355 --> 00:47:08,554 you would have seen it immediately in the testimony of the border sentry. 670 00:47:09,126 --> 00:47:13,222 Fräulein Pommer crossed the border 9 minutes before Mr. Drake and I did. 671 00:47:13,397 --> 00:47:15,866 What are you trying to tell me, Herr Mason? 672 00:47:16,033 --> 00:47:19,492 Fräulein Pommer told us she crossed the border after we did. 673 00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:22,401 In effect, she lied. 674 00:47:22,573 --> 00:47:24,701 Just as she lied to the immigration authorities 675 00:47:24,875 --> 00:47:26,935 when she applied for a U.S. visa, 676 00:47:27,111 --> 00:47:30,047 just as she lied when she told her story to Professor Ritter, 677 00:47:30,214 --> 00:47:34,709 as she lied about the carefully rehearsed attempt to escape with Elke. 678 00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:37,078 Gerta, 679 00:47:37,722 --> 00:47:39,281 you killed Franz Hoffer. 680 00:47:40,558 --> 00:47:43,756 Sit down, all of you. 681 00:47:44,762 --> 00:47:47,095 If you search her belongings carefully, 682 00:47:47,264 --> 00:47:49,790 I imagine you'll find the stolen cashier's check. 683 00:47:49,967 --> 00:47:52,903 Heh, no, you won't. 684 00:47:53,237 --> 00:47:56,207 I didn't want the money. I destroyed the check. 685 00:47:56,374 --> 00:48:00,004 Fräulein, not only have you killed this man, 686 00:48:00,177 --> 00:48:03,807 you have made it impossible for us to refuse Frau Ritter's release. 687 00:48:04,682 --> 00:48:08,847 I fear I shall have to report this to our superiors. 688 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:11,746 Report to them what you like, 689 00:48:11,922 --> 00:48:13,857 I shall explain that I worked, planned, 690 00:48:14,024 --> 00:48:15,993 and waited for so long to get Ritter back, 691 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,686 and then when we were at the point of success, 692 00:48:18,863 --> 00:48:21,697 Franz Hoffer was going to give them our weapon, the child, for money. 693 00:48:21,866 --> 00:48:24,768 Ha, I am proud I killed him. 694 00:48:24,935 --> 00:48:27,666 I would do it again and again for the cause. 695 00:48:27,838 --> 00:48:31,673 Herr Stromm, there is only one way to absolve yourself of any blame 696 00:48:31,842 --> 00:48:33,105 for what has happened. 697 00:48:33,277 --> 00:48:38,045 Gerta, you cannot mask murder with false patriotism. 698 00:48:39,116 --> 00:48:42,280 The future of the state cannot be entrusted to such as you. 699 00:48:43,654 --> 00:48:47,819 No, you don't dare. You don't dare. You can't take my place. 700 00:48:47,992 --> 00:48:50,655 Now, fräulein, you have no place. 701 00:48:52,129 --> 00:48:56,396 Don't you touch me. Wait, they are going to use you. 702 00:48:56,567 --> 00:48:59,731 Don't let them, you idiot. You... You fool! 703 00:49:04,842 --> 00:49:08,609 Sam, have you talked to your editor? 704 00:49:09,046 --> 00:49:10,981 Julius is all clued in. 705 00:49:11,148 --> 00:49:14,585 To stop the story, I just have to call my office, 706 00:49:15,586 --> 00:49:17,350 before midnight. 707 00:49:17,755 --> 00:49:19,053 Well, Herr Stromm? 708 00:49:21,358 --> 00:49:25,352 Very well, Herr Mason, make your telephone call. 709 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,515 Well, Sam, maybe you'd like the first interview 710 00:49:52,690 --> 00:49:55,785 with Professor and Mrs. Ritter and their granddaughter in Free Berlin. 711 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,124 Great. Are you all right, Dr. Ritter? 712 00:49:59,296 --> 00:50:03,700 I am lucid, young man, in possession of my faculties. 713 00:50:03,868 --> 00:50:06,133 At least I think so. 714 00:50:06,303 --> 00:50:07,601 Mr. Mason, 715 00:50:07,771 --> 00:50:11,299 you were right when you accused me of not using my analytical mind. 716 00:50:11,809 --> 00:50:15,678 I did not realize exactly how you wished me to use it 717 00:50:15,846 --> 00:50:20,181 until you whispered to me in the anteroom of the court. 718 00:50:20,484 --> 00:50:23,386 That was an inspiration of the moment, doctor. 719 00:50:23,554 --> 00:50:24,578 And he sure did use it. 720 00:50:24,755 --> 00:50:26,917 He fooled a whole roomful of psychiatrists. 721 00:50:27,825 --> 00:50:30,488 Well, isn't it time for that young lady to be in bed? 722 00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:33,991 Yeah. 723 00:50:34,798 --> 00:50:38,166 Oh, mein Klein Maus.