"Good morning, Mr. Phelps." "All attempts to identify the enemy assassin known as Werner Stravos have failed." "There are no photographs of him, and his only contact is Eric Bergman, head of his country's Internal Security." "Stravos' next victim is to be killed two days from now at 4:00." "Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to stop Stravos and end his murderous career." "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." " Feel anything?" " No." "The electric charge is very low." "But it will register." "Now, Jim, this is harmless, but it will give the desired effect." "Just be sure that Bergman doesn't give you the real drug." "It'll kill you." "Willy?" "Only the first two are blank, Jim." "Now, for security reasons, Stravos is run by an unknown member of their central committee." "However, in an emergency, this man, Eric Bergman, their chief of Internal Security, can arrange a meeting with Stravos." "Bergman is clever and he's very cautious." "Getting him to act before 4:00 won't be easy." " Have they ever met?" " No." "Bergman knows nothing about Stravos." "He learns about Stravos' assignments after they've been completed." "Then that puts Bergman in the same position as we are." "That's right, Valerie." "He doesn't know the victim or the killer." "All he can give us is an introduction." "At 2, the laboratory will be prepared to review all the experimentational specimens." "And at 4, you have a meeting here with the defence minister and Hans Seigman about the new chemical warfare plant." "Will there be anything else, Dr. Tratzmer?" "No, thank you." "Thank you." "Cochran's classification is H-9." "Department payroll." "But he didn't just work in payroll, colonel, he was in charge of it." "Each week, he paid off all the American agents in Western Europe." " Is that what Mr. Cochran told you?" " Yes." "It's also what our most reliable sources have confirmed." "I suppose he refused any offer of asylum." "Why is it defectors only want to change their standard of living and never their politics?" " How much?" " Two hundred thousand Swiss francs." "The money is to be deposited in this bank in the Western Zone, under the name of Richard Stevens." "He has sent us a signature card." "How thoughtful." "He is in Europe right now." "I have had him followed." "However, we are not the only ones who have had him under surveillance." "An American agent." "I wonder if he is there to watch Cochran or to protect him." "Exactly where is Cochran now?" "I do not know." "He lost both my man and the American agent." "However, he will be contacting us by 9 for our answer." "Jim." "Yeah, Barney?" "Here are the dates." "January 9th and 26th." "February 21 st." "May 10th." "June 3rd." "August 19th." "November 23rd." "December 10th." "Got it." "A Mr. Cochran calling Major Dieter, colonel." "The major will take the call." "Stall him." "Major Dieter." "Cochran, what's your answer?" "I'm afraid you'll have to give us more time, Mr. Cochran." "We're still conferring with our superiors." "Two hundred thousand is a large amount." "Contact us later today." "Not later." "Now." "You won't get a second call." "The money will be deposited." "You've got until 9:30." "No tricks." "Where shall we meet?" "Western Zone, 110 Unden Strasse." "Room 23." " Come alone." " When?" "Nine forty-five." "Knock twice." "We're either buying a defector or we're being sold one." "Either way, we'll have to pay for the privilege of finding out." "He's coming." "Against the wall." "Have you checked with the bank?" "Then you know we have kept our end of the arrangement." "All right." "Okay." "It's not easy, you know." "This isn't something you do every week." "My name is Mark Cochran." "I became an intelligence agent nine years ago." "My first assignment w..." "Don't do anything." " We'll have to set up another meeting." " No." "We will protect you." "You're coming over into the Eastern Zone with me." "Thanks but no, thanks." "I'm afraid you have no other choice." "Sir." " Yes, lieutenant?" " A woman wishes to speak with you." " She insists it is most urgent." " Who?" "She would not state her name." "She would only give me this." "Her code card." "Very well." "I'll take care of it." "Tell her to wait." "Fritzy." "Fritzy." "Go." "Fritzy." "Fritzy." "Fritzy." "Fritzy." "Fritzy." "Fritzy." "Please sit down, Miss Engstrom." "Thank you, colonel." "I have been sent here to examine certain files." "Just a routine inspection." "Miss Engstrom, you have a very high classification." "I find it difficult to imagine that the Central Committee would send someone of your qualifications on a clerical errand." "Just which files do you intend to examine?" "I'm not at liberty to say." "I believe we spend more time hiding things from ourselves than from our enemies." "Sometimes it is wise to keep things hidden, colonel." "Sometimes you do not know who the enemy is." "Now, if I could be shown to the file room..." "Major Dieter wishes to see you immediately, colonel." "Send him in and also send in Lieutenant Reikman." "Major Dieter, this is Maria Engstrom, from the Central Committee." " Miss Engstrom." " Major Dieter." "I have looked forward to meeting you, major." "I have read your dossier." "You have a most promising future." "Thank you, Miss Engstrom." "See that Miss Engstrom is escorted to the file room downstairs, lieutenant." "She claims she is here to look at files." "But she is far too important for that." "Something is in the air." "Have you checked with OBQ Central?" "They would not know." "She comes directly from the Central Committee." "Do you think something is wrong?" "I don't know what to think." "That will be all." "But I had no other choice." "I had to bring Cochran here." "Perhaps they left you no other choice, Dieter." "They did not feed him to us." "They tried to kill him." "Or they tried to make it look as though they tried to kill him." "It is dangerous to be certain of everything, Dieter." "Just as dangerous to be certain of nothing." "Send Mr. Cochran in." "Thank you." "I don't intend to tell you anything, colonel, not until you set up a new identity for me in Switzerland and until I get paid the money." "Under the circumstances, I don't see why I should pay you anything at all." "You better change that attitude, Bergman." "Because those are my terms." "Now, you just think about them." "Just who do you think you are?" "Just where do you think you are?" "I could wipe my hands clean of you." "Have you executed." "No one would object." "No one would lift a finger to stop it." "You're garbage." "You are nothing." "You have no position to bargain from." "Now, I suggest you tell us what you know." "We will eventually set up a new identity for you in Switzerland." "And see that you're paid." "Now, those are my terms." "Send the guards in." "I suggest you think about them." "Now take him to the detention room." "What do you intend to do with him?" "For the present, nothing." "If he's not a defector, if he is a part of an American plot, he'll make his own move in his own time." "And if he is a legitimate defector?" "Then we will have to break him." "I'll have Dr. Mannerheim run him through some pain threshold tests." "Breaking him should not be too difficult." "I disagree." "He'll hang on to whatever information he has for as long as he can." "It will be the only thing that will keep him alive." " Yes?" " Miss Engstrom would like to see you and Major Dieter in the file room immediately, colonel." "Tell her we'll be right down." "There is a man in the Western Zone." "Emile Van Drist." "I want him picked up and brought here immediately." "Who is this man?" "For the present, all the information you need to know is on that paper." "Abducting someone from the West will not be easy, Miss Engstrom." "I want him brought here immediately." "Get him." "Oh, a word of advice to both of you." "To transmit any of this to OBQ Central or higher would not only jeopardise my assignment, it would also cost you your lives." "Did you find what you were looking for in there?" "Yes, colonel." "I did." "Norvan Koenig." "Norvan Koenig." "This was one of Stravos' victims." "Why are you interested in that file?" "It is inactive." "I closed it." "No file is ever closed, colonel." "Colonel Bergman." "Yes?" "This is Dr. Mannerheim." "I have been running some pain threshold tests on the American defector Cochran." "Yes?" "You'd better come to the detention room." "There's something here you should see." "Very well." "I'll be right over." "Excuse me." "We were not informed anyone had defected." "I'm not certain yet whether anyone has." "Well, please explain." "I will." "Once I have determined the man's validity and value." "Excuse me." "Your defector is a drug addict, colonel." "Right now he is suffering the pains of withdrawal." "I believe I now know why you needed the money, Mr. Cochran." "I don't have to tell you what this is, do I, Mr. Cochran?" "You've had enough practise with it." "Heroin." "This will ease your pain." "Just tell me everything you know." "I'll tell you everything." "Just give me the fix first." "No." "Tell me everything you know first." "No!" "Let me have it." "Let me have it." "Please let me have it." "Not yet, Mr. Cochran." "Oh, let me have it." "I've got to have it, please." "Just a little information, Mr. Cochran." "All right." "In the last year, we paid off eight agents thought to be reliable." "Three independent." "Four were our own, four..." "That makes only seven." " But you said there were eight." " Yes, eight." "Who was the eighth?" "A double..." "Double agent." "Big one?" "Yes, big." " What was his name?" " Don't know." "Don't know his name." "His code name?" "He must have had a code name." "Don't you want to tell me his code name?" "Yes, yes, I want to tell you." " Orpheus, Orpheus." " Paid regularly?" "No, no, no." " Only on assignment." " Yes." "That's right." "What were the dates you paid him?" "I don't know." "I can't remember." "I don't know." " Tell me the dates you paid him." " I can't remember." " The dates." " I can't remember, not like this." " The dates." " The fix." "The dates first." "No, give me the fix." "Give it to me." "Let me have it." "The pain." "The pain is terrible." "It's so cold, the pain." "I suggest you discontinue questioning now, colonel." "He will only become more incoherent." "Why have I been brought here?" "What are you going to do?" "What do you want with me?" "I would also like to know the answers to those questions, Miss Engstrom." "Several months ago," "Anton Stravos was ordered to kill this man:" "Norvan Koenig." "Yes." "Operation Lion." "Koenig was a brilliant chemist." "He was invaluable in helping our enemies discover a new high-speed rocket propellant." "His death put a stop to the project." "However, a month ago, experimentation began again." "They must have found another chemist." "Correct." "This man." "That's ridiculous." "I'm not a chemist." "I don't know anything about fuel propellants." "I work in a ball-bearing factory." "At a lathe." "I see." "Perhaps you could tell me." "At this ball-bearing factory?" " Yes." " Show me where you work." "Here, on the first level." "No." "You work here." "Three storeys below the ground." "I don't know what you're talking about." "I work at a lathe." "That is the truth." "We shall measure your truth." "I'm going to ask you a few questions." "If you should refuse to answer them, Major Dieter will shoot you." "Do you understand?" "Is your real name Emile Van Drist?" "Yes." " You are lying." " No, that is the truth." "Are you working for the Americans on their new rocket propellant?" "No." "Do you know this man?" "No." "You do know this man." "A friend?" "A relative, perhaps?" "No." "Your father?" "No." "That's Norvan Koenig's father." "He's telling the truth." "Something must be wrong with the machine." "No." "There is nothing wrong with the machine." "You see, we are looking at Norvan Koenig." "True?" "Answer." "I know he admitted to being Koenig, Miss Engstrom." "But it's impossible." "It is possible." "Plastic surgery." "Stravos killed Koenig." " We verified it." " No." "The Americans allowed you to verify it." "Allowed us to believe that Stravos had completed his assignment successfully." "That can only mean someone warned them." "Correct." "The Central Committee runs Stravos and only one man in the committee gives him orders." "Yes." "But he is not the traitor." "Then who?" "You, colonel." "Impossible." "How can I inform the Americans of something I didn't know?" "You must be aware that we don't learn of Stravos' assignments until after they have been completed." "Under normal operating procedures, there would be no way." "But Operation Lion was different." "Stravos had great difficulty in locating Koenig." "Internal Security was assigned to help him." "Yes, but I didn't know I was helping Stravos at the time." "I was not told why I was looking for Koenig." "Who told you to locate him?" "OBQ Central, I believe." "Wrong." "I have the order here." "It was in your Stravos file." "You received your instructions from the Central Committee, and you knew the Central Committee ran only one agent." "Stravos." "To a man of your intelligence it would have posed no problem to make the connection between Stravos and Koenig." "And then to have informed the Americans of your suspicions." "The question of my intelligence is not substantial proof of my guilt." "No." "But it will produce substantial doubt at your trial." "And in the case of this enormity, it will send you to the firing squad." "But I did not inform them." "You can kill me and you will still have a double agent on your hands." "You can explain that to the Central Committee." "Wait." "The American, the defector." "He told me he was paying off a double agent." "A big one." " Who?" " I don't know who." "The Americans called him Orpheus." "Cochran, the defector, told me he was paying Orpheus on assignment." "Now, once he gives us the dates, we can see if they correlate with the dates of our agent's last assignments." "When one lines up, we have our man." "Middle of November." "Third week." " December?" " December." "December 8th." "Oh, God." "That's all I can remember." "And that's all we need to know." "Check those dates with the dates of our agent's last assignments." "I want Mr. Cochran to continue with his withdrawal." "I will be questioning both him and Koenig later on today." "No." "Colonel, you promised me." "Please, you promised me." "He has earned his reward, Miss Engstrom." "He is to continue with his withdrawal." "No, colonel, no." "No, please, colonel, please." "Give him some heroin, doctor." "No!" "I gave you specific instructions, colonel." "There's no excuse for this." "This will go in my report." "Doctor, under no circumstances is he to receive any heroin." "Colonel Valdachek, Miss Engstrom calling." "Colonel, some new information has come to light in the Operation Lion case." "Two prisoners are being held in Internal Security." "Will you arrange transportation to have them taken to Reingart Prison?" "I want them placed in maximum security." "Thank you, colonel." "All set." "Well?" "Did anyone match?" " Yes, colonel." " Whose?" "Stravos cannot be Orpheus." "Impossible." "Somewhere it would have leaked." "Well, it did with Koenig." "Koenig's death was ordered just a few months ago." "Stravos has been our agent for over six years." "The Americans could not have fooled us for so long." "It is possible Stravos became a double agent only recently." "I do not believe it." "He works alone." "He has random movement." "Only one man in the Central Committee knows what he looks like." "It would be so easy for him." "I am going to prove it." "I am going to bring him in." "Colonel." "That is my decision." "Can you arrange a meeting?" "Yes." " But we must decide soon." " Why?" "Every day, Stravos listens to a radio broadcast from our country." "If at precisely 1:00 he hears that a Hans Dorfman has requested "The Moonlight Sonata,"" "he will contact me." "It is now ten minutes to 1." "If we delay, we will have to wait another 24 hours." "All right." "Do it." "But do not think for one moment, colonel, that you are exonerated." "Tell him we must meet today." " Hello." " Hamburg, two days." "I will contact you." "No." "It must be today." "Impossible." "Perhaps tomorrow." "It is of the utmost urgency that we meet today." "It would be very difficult and dangerous." "I will take the responsibility." " Now, meet me..." " No." "I will make the arrangement." "I will call you at 3:30." "If I decide to meet." " Yes?" " Hotel Wilhelm." "Twenty minutes." "Room 210 in your name." "Come alone." "Hotel Wilhelm," "Room 210." "Twenty minutes." "It's gonna be close." "The Hotel Wilhelm is in the Western Zone, I believe." "Dieter, get four of your best men." "No." "I have my own people." "They are trained to be discreet." "I will alert them." "We had better go." "You are staying here, colonel." "I could not possibly allow you to go into the West." "I am going to meet Stravos." "That will not be possible." "Although we've never met," " he'll meet only me." " Why?" "We have an arranged password between us." " Well, what is it?" " I can only divulge that to Stravos." " You will tell me." " No." "I could be shot if you're the traitor and I allowed you into the Western Zone." "That, Miss Engstrom, is the chance you must take." "Very well, colonel." "That's good, Paris." "Yes, sir, may I help you?" "My name is Bergman." "I have a reservation." "Yes, Mr. Bergman." "My reservation was for Room 210." "Yes, sir." "But the party who made the reservation called back and changed it." "I see." "Don't turn on the lights." "Password." "Lexicon." "Swans." "Scorpio." "Stravos?" "Do not move." "Do not turn around." "Password." "Lexicon." "Swans." "Scorpio." "Orbit." "Satellite." "Oak." "Now, why this meeting?" "A terrible emergency has arisen." "Your latest victim has asked for asylum in our country." "But he cannot defect immediately." "Naturally, we could not tell him we had marked him for death." "We have to stop your plan." "There is no way." "It will activate in a few minutes." "There is still time to call your victim and warn him." "We can say we have discovered a plot to kill him." "There is only one man in the Central Committee who is supposed to know who my victims are before I kill them." "There is to be no deviation from this rule." "We've never had an emergency like this before." "Then why didn't my contact in the Central Committee call me?" "Your contact met with an automobile accident." "He's in critical condition." "He cannot be moved." "You have to stop your plan." "I planted a bomb in Dr. Tratzmer's office at the Neurological Centre." "Dr. Tratzmer's office." "Neurological Centre." "Dr. Tratzmer." " Good afternoon, defence minister." " Good afternoon." " How have you been?" " Fine, fine, yourself?" " Oh, perfectly well." "Perfectly." " I'd like you to meet Hans Seigman." "I have been looking forward to meeting you." "Everyone out." "There is a bomb in here." " What?" " No." "Well?" "Call someone." "Try to stop it."