Berlin Express Page #2

Ticket and papers, please.

Sterling, Lt Kiroshilov,

compartment E.

You can't take that on the train.

You'll get it back tomorrow.

Can I get a sandwich in the diner?

Lindley, compartment A.

The diner is closed.

The mess sergeant

will call you for breakfast.

My name's Lindley.

Sterling.

My kid brother fought

with a British outfit in Italy.

The turning point of the war.

According to American history.

What do you mean?

The actual turning point of the war

was El Alamein.

You're quoting English history now.

Verzeihen Sie, bitte.

I wonder how THEY'LL handle it.

Truthfully, I hope.

Otherwise I'm wasting valuable time.

I'm in re-education.

It seems hopeless sometimes.

Yet what is more important

than that?

Giving them something to eat.

Your field?

I do sleight of hand.

I have to make 1,500 calories

look like a huge meal.

And prevent things

like plague and starvation.

Do you happen to know

who that Russian girl is?

German, you mean?

With a Parisian accent.

French? What chance has a European

with an American around?

I'm afraid you overestimate us.

How can we compete

with your charm, your chocolates?

Your soap. Your cigarettes.

It's more blessed

to give than receive.

I thought the diner was closed.

Unless you happen to be important.

What's so important about a German?

What makes you think he is German?

Reason it for yourself.

Bodyguard holding the train?

I'll wager it's one of Ivan's lads.

Only a Russian

would arrive with a platoon.

And only a Britisher would object.

Oh, you speak English?

Comes and goes, tovarisch.

Good night. Good night.

You'll take every precaution.

Yes, sir.

'There he was, his first German.

You can't knock it out of your head.

'You've licked him in two wars

'and you're still not sure

you have the upper hand.

'You could be wrong, though.

'Maybe he IS a right guy.

Then you find yourself

'rolling over the former enemy

border and the doubt is back.

'You're in his territory now.

'The trees look the same.

The sky is the same.

'The air doesn't smell

any different.

'All at once,

'the vestibule was chilly

and his own compartment

'suddenly seemed inviting and warm.'

What do you want?

Nothing now. I won't even ask

what you're doing here.

I'm just going to hope.

This is no longer your compartment.

Who said so? The United States Army.

For what reason? All over Europe,

people have been shifted.

I'm to be a casualty of the war?

Well, that's too bad.

I hoped we'd cement relations

between France and America.

At least half of the Allied army

offered the same...

touching proposition.

What about the other half?

They were in the Pacific.

OK, madame, or is it mademoiselle?

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