The Dam Busters Page #2

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I see.

You can't bomb it,

you can't float a mine against it

and you can't torpedo it.

- Looks impossible.

- Yes, it does, doesn't it?

The other day I thought of a new,

a wonderful idea.

- You've found a way to do it?

- I think so.

The committee that's enquiring into

my original idea is meeting again tomorrow

and I rather expect they'll want

to wind the whole thing up.

Well, if they do, I'm done.

Why don't you go ahead

with your new idea until you're ready

and then get them

to form a new committee?

My dear fellow, you talk as if I could pull

committees out of a hat.

It took months... well, years almost

to get Whitehall to start this one.

Somehow or other I must just keep it alive

until I'm ready.

Oh, I'm sorry!

You want to get back to your surgery.

Well, I ought to really.

- Barnes?

- Hmm?

- Will you promise me something?

- If I can...

Would you try to get away for Easter?

You do need a rest, you know.

You think I'm going crazy?

A lot of people do, you know.

No, but you can't go on day and night.

Nobody can.

All right, Doc.

- Hello, Dr Pye.

- Hello, Wallis.

- Would you do something for me?

- I'll try.

You've got a lot of influence

over those fellows in there.

Will you try to stop them

winding the thing up right away?

- They'd need a very convincing reason.

- I've got a new idea.

It's quite different

only... l must have time.

- Can you explain to them what it is?

- That's just the point, I can't.

If I were to try explain it to them now

they'd only laugh at me.

- It's difficult without knowing more...

- Yes, I do see that, but...

We'd better go in.

Surely Mr Wallis must realise

the false position he's putting us into.

We were appointed to examine

a definite proposition.

I don't think we were confined

to any definite proposition.

We were appointed to examine every

possibility of air attack on these dams.

I know, but Mr Wallis

did put forward a

theory that was hopelessly

wide of the mark.

And on the strength of this, he wants time

to explore a completely new theory

that's too fantastic even to explain.

I'm only asking for one simple thing:

I want you to give me sufficient time.

To discover how much explosive

would be needed to breach these dams

if we could explode a bomb

directly against the wall.

How do you propose to get the bomb

directly against the wall?

That is what I'm working on now.

Yes, but surely

you can give us some idea.

I don't think that we can press Mr Wallis

to do that.

If I had a partly formed theory,

I certainly shouldn't want to talk about it

until I'm sure that it is all clear.

Quite so.

How long would you need to carry out

these new experiments?

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