Foreign Intrigue - S1E07: Radio Message
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00:07 Foreign Intrigue, an exciting television drama played against the tense background of present-day Europe.
00:15 Produced in Europe especially for television by Sheldon Reynolds.
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00:23 Here, get this to the newsroom.
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00:36 After that I told her I wouldn't see her anymore.
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00:46 Kill it.
00:47 Do you intend to go through to Paris?
00:50 Yes.
00:51 Well, I thought...
00:52 Please.
00:53 What does it mean?
00:56 I don't know.
00:58 I'm sorry, madam.
00:59 All flights have been cancelled.
01:02 Cancelled?
01:03 Why?
01:05 I don't know, madam.
01:06 But no one is allowed to enter or leave the country.
01:10 As of now.
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01:19 [Doorbell rings]
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01:27 Robert Cannon.
01:28 Mr. Cannon, this is the airline office.
01:30 We are sorry, sir, but your flight 327 to Paris has been cancelled.
01:34 Oh.
01:35 When's the next flight?
01:37 All flights have been cancelled after further notice.
01:40 Until further notice?
01:41 Why?
01:42 Orders from the war department, sir.
01:44 We are very sorry to inconvenience you.
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01:51 The big news today is no news.
01:53 Rumors and gossip are trying to find some explanation for Foreign Minister Utrecht's silence.
01:58 The only thing we do know is that he has closed all traffic into and out of the country.
02:02 We can talk about the weather, of course.
02:04 There are mild westerly winds which promise continued good weather.
02:08 The channel area has had storm warnings, but it is hoped that it will be passed.
02:13 Since I haven't received any new quotations from the New York Stock Exchange since the closing of the country,
02:18 I can only give you a brief summary on our last report.
02:21 There have been no definite fluctuations.
02:23 The market is expected to be...
02:25 Extension 18, please.
02:27 We've known each other a very long time.
02:32 This is the only reason I let you come here at a time like this, Bob.
02:36 Well, that's what I'm trying to find out.
02:38 What kind of a time is this?
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02:40 Excuse me.
02:41 Sure.
02:42 Yes.
02:43 Yes.
02:44 No, don't take any chances.
02:46 I don't want a baby to get across.
02:48 And you handle these cases yourself.
02:51 There are going to be a lot the next 48 hours.
02:54 48 hours.
02:57 I'm sorry, Bob. I can't tell you a thing.
03:01 Well, can't you talk off the record?
03:03 This thing is too big to be off the record.
03:06 That big?
03:07 That big.
03:10 And yet it involves just two men.
03:13 That much I can tell you.
03:15 At all costs, at any cost, we've got to get two men.
03:20 We're here. Now what do we do?
03:23 We wait.
03:25 How long?
03:26 Until he comes.
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03:52 I was delayed.
03:54 The situation has changed.
03:55 They've sealed the country tight.
03:57 No one and nothing can get in or out.
04:00 We'll have to change our plans.
04:02 The world lives on the alert.
04:06 Planes can be sighted and smash across the frontier in a matter of minutes.
04:11 Gun sights can focus and fire in seconds.
04:15 25 minutes after the order went out, the country was sealed and waiting.
04:26 Yes, until further orders.
04:29 I think I can piece some of this together.
04:35 You can?
04:36 You said two men.
04:39 There are two possibilities.
04:41 Either you're trying to keep the men inside the country, or you're trying to keep them out.
04:46 That's logical.
04:48 I'll guess you're trying to keep them in.
04:53 Good guess.
04:56 And then I'll guess they're carrying something you don't want out of the country.
05:00 Now I understand how you managed to get your stories.
05:04 Wait.
05:05 One more point.
05:08 If these two men are carrying something tangible, something physical, then I can't help.
05:16 But if it's information they're carrying, I think you can use me.
05:24 How can you help?
05:25 Every channel in and out of the country is blocked.
05:29 Every channel.
05:30 The borders?
05:32 The borders and the planes.
05:33 The mails?
05:34 The mails and the wire services.
05:36 Private radios?
05:37 Every channel and the wire length is jammed.
05:40 Everything in and everything out?
05:42 Absolutely everything.
05:43 Good. And I can help.
05:45 How?
05:46 Well, let me file a story.
05:48 What?
05:49 Just one report to my home office saying that the country is closed.
05:53 It'll be the only report to leave the country.
05:55 The only channel out.
05:56 These two men are looking for some way out.
05:58 They'll hear about this.
06:00 And they'll try to contact you?
06:02 If it's really the only channel out, what else can they do?
06:06 It sounds possible.
06:08 But it's startling.
06:10 No more startling than sealing a country.
06:12 We'll have to work out the details.
06:17 But it's possible.
06:23 Why don't you tell me about it?
06:25 Yesterday, two couriers left the Middle East.
06:29 They were not ordinary couriers.
06:32 They were used only for the most important assignments.
06:36 They came by separate airways to this city.
06:40 They were seen together.
06:43 Then they disappeared. Vanished.
06:46 How important was their assignment?
06:48 If the information they were carrying should fall into the wrong hands within the next 48 hours,
06:55 I would not even begin to estimate the consequences.
06:59 What?
07:01 I could not even begin to estimate the consequences, Bob.
07:05 Will you know if this information leaves the country?
07:11 Our secret agents would know of it immediately.
07:14 But then it would be too late.
07:16 How were they carrying this information?
07:18 Here.
07:20 We had to take every precaution.
07:22 What other precautions did you take?
07:24 Each of the two couriers committed only half of the dispatch to memory.
07:30 The dispatch was so divided that either half is useless without the other half.
07:37 We couldn't take the chance that either men would turn traitor.
07:41 We could not anticipate that both of them might betray us.
07:45 Now our task is more complicated.
07:48 How complicated?
07:50 Complicated, but not impossible.
07:53 They must have the information in 46 hours.
07:56 It's 45 now.
07:59 If they must have it, we'll get it to them.
08:01 I'll leave you for a while.
08:03 What for?
08:05 Make yourself comfortable. As comfortable as possible.
08:08 Maybe gone for a while.
08:10 You're sure you can get the information through?
08:12 I never expected this to happen.
08:15 No one could expect this to happen.
08:17 But I prepared for it.
08:19 Just in case.
08:21 That's right. I located it.
08:31 Your message will leave the country in a few minutes.
08:34 How long do you think it will take them to contact you?
08:37 I'll go back to my hotel room and wait.
08:39 They'll move fast.
08:41 They've got to move fast.
08:43 Come in.
08:57 Has anyone tried to get in touch with you?
09:02 No one.
09:03 No telephone calls?
09:04 Nothing.
09:06 I don't understand it.
09:11 Don't understand what?
09:12 It's impossible.
09:14 I swear it's absolutely impossible.
09:18 But the first half of the information has gotten out of the country.
09:23 It's so hard to believe.
09:35 Closed the country.
09:37 No one could get in or get out.
09:39 No short wavelengths.
09:41 No telephone calls.
09:42 No letters.
09:44 The only message that could have gotten out of the country was my own.
09:46 I can't understand it.
09:48 I swear that nothing could have gotten through.
09:51 Wait a minute.
09:52 Only one half of that information has gone out of the country.
09:55 And that half is useless without the second half.
09:57 But they can always send the second part the same way.
10:00 I'm going back to my office.
10:02 We haven't lost yet.
10:04 Maybe they sent the first part of the information out of the country before you managed to clamp down.
10:08 Maybe they still can't get the second part out of the country.
10:11 Maybe they still have to come to me as the only channel open.
10:15 Maybe.
10:18 We've done very well.
10:21 Very well indeed.
10:22 Now let's finish the job.
10:24 Think of all they've done to stop us.
10:26 Doesn't it make you feel proud?
10:29 You know what you're supposed to do.
10:32 I know what I'm supposed to do.
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11:22 Mr. Robert Cannon, please.
11:25 [Bell rings]
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12:29 We'll have you follow every step you take.
12:31 This man isn't an amateur.
12:33 He's been doing a dangerous job for years.
12:35 He's been hand-picked, hand-trained.
12:37 For an amateur I'd say yes, follow him, try to get him.
12:40 But not this man.
12:41 But now we have a chance to get him.
12:43 What if you frightened him away?
12:45 Can you afford to take that chance?
12:49 No.
12:51 Do you have a gun?
12:53 Uh-uh.
12:54 Take this.
12:57 With a man like this I'd never have a chance to use it.
13:00 Take care of yourself, Bob.
13:05 I don't want anything to happen to you.
13:08 Neither do I.
13:10 Good luck, Bob.
13:15 Thanks.
13:17 It's getting late.
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14:13 How do you do, Mr. Cannon?
14:15 Did you enjoy your walk?
14:17 You know who I am?
14:25 I have an idea.
14:27 You know what information I have?
14:29 I have an idea about that too.
14:32 I know the War Department has permitted you to file a story.
14:37 That means you're close to them.
14:39 I can use you to contact them without exposing myself.
14:44 I'm ready to promise that I will not pass along the information I have.
14:50 For a price?
14:52 For a price.
14:54 How much?
14:56 A million dollars.
14:58 That's a round figure.
15:01 Some people have to work many years for that.
15:04 I've been waiting for years for this opportunity.
15:07 A million dollars, it's cheap.
15:12 I'll tell them that.
15:14 How do you expect to get your money?
15:17 I have a way, Mr. Cannon.
15:19 I'll meet you for the answer.
15:22 When? Where?
15:24 Since my trust in you is somewhat limited.
15:26 Suppose you leave your hotel again in an hour.
15:30 Turn left, Mr. Cannon, and keep walking.
15:34 Always alone.
15:36 I'll stop you.
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15:42 [car horn honks]
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16:05 It's worth a million dollars to stop him from sending his half of the information out of the country.
16:11 Then you'll pay.
16:12 I can't make a decision like this.
16:15 Well, who can make it?
16:16 The Council of Ministers after a meeting.
16:20 What can you offer?
16:21 In my position, immunity from arrest.
16:25 Nothing more?
16:26 I'll try to get in touch with the Council.
16:29 When do we have to start from your hotel?
16:32 Forty minutes.
16:33 Let's see what we can do.
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16:40 Can I use the telephone, please?
16:49 Over there.
16:50 [chuckles]
16:52 [clattering]
16:54 [phone rings]
17:06 Hello. You know who this is.
17:13 Did you send it?
17:14 Not yet.
17:15 What are you waiting for?
17:17 Will you double what you're paying me?
17:19 You know I can't do that.
17:22 That's too bad.
17:23 Perhaps I'll call you back.
17:25 Would you like some coffee?
17:35 And one of these.
17:36 Do you make them?
17:37 No.
17:38 They're very good.
17:39 It's very kind of you to say that.
17:41 Did you hear the news on the radio?
17:43 No.
17:44 No one can come in or go out from the country.
17:46 But that I mind. I never go anywhere.
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17:52 What did they decide?
18:02 That the situation called for urgent measures.
18:05 How urgent?
18:06 They are still debating that.
18:08 But it's almost time for me to take my walk.
18:10 There are powerful forces in the Council
18:12 who would like to delay this decision.
18:15 How long?
18:16 Until it's too late.
18:18 Try to stall it.
18:20 Yes, at least until tomorrow.
18:22 Something might break.
18:24 You must be getting tired.
18:45 I am.
18:47 Will they pay?
18:54 They haven't made up their minds.
18:56 My information is a very perishable commodity.
19:00 In another 39 hours, it has no more value.
19:03 They'll pay.
19:06 Then again, they might not.
19:09 It's very risky for me.
19:11 Perhaps half a million is better than none.
19:14 You know what will happen if you send along
19:16 your part of that dispatch.
19:18 It won't be pleasant.
19:20 I was hoping they'd pay.
19:22 You're talking about money.
19:24 I'm thinking about lives.
19:26 I can promise you immunity from arrest.
19:29 Something else that all the money in the world
19:32 can't buy for you.
19:34 A clear conscience.
19:36 Nights when you can sleep.
19:38 Long nights.
19:40 Think about it.
19:42 Thank you, I will.
19:44 Now start walking, Mr. Cannon,
19:46 and don't turn around until you've taken 50 steps.
19:49 Walk, don't run.
19:51 And count carefully.
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20:11 I promised I'd call you back.
20:13 I made up my mind I'm going to deliver the message.
20:16 That's very wise.
20:18 How long will it take you?
20:20 15 minutes, perhaps 20.
20:22 You've got plenty of time, don't worry.
20:25 We have broadcast his description.
20:33 We've put out a dragnet for him.
20:35 We've got every policeman in the city on the alert.
20:39 We must try to stop him
20:42 before he sends this message.
20:45 A sealed country.
20:47 Nothing can cross the border.
20:49 No telephone.
20:51 No cable graphics.
20:53 No radio.
20:55 Everything shut tight.
20:57 Everything.
20:59 Everything.
21:01 Not everything.
21:03 You've left one channel open.
21:05 One way out.
21:07 What are you talking about?
21:09 You close the country and announce it to the people.
21:12 The only thing crossing the borders are your announcements.
21:15 They're using your announcements to send out their information.
21:18 It must be them.
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22:24 Okay.
22:36 Do you mind if I start?
22:38 Okay.
22:40 Ladies and gentlemen.
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22:49 To enter or leave the country.
22:55 Thank you.
23:03 It was very clever of you to realize we used the one channel you had left open.
23:07 And very careless of you to leave it open.
23:10 Our code was hidden in your own news announcements to your own people.
23:15 We had to rewrite them slightly, of course.
23:18 You've made the wrong decision.
23:20 I don't think so. You're here too late.
23:22 The message went out a moment ago.
23:24 I'll be protected.
23:26 You'll be protected.
23:28 For a long time to come.
23:30 The station was shut off the air five minutes ago.
23:33 And now what's the meaning with this?
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