Force 10 from Navarone Page #6

Partisans, thank God!

Good morning.

Good morning.

What's the matter with him?

We've been looking for you.

Be quiet.

You will make your report

to Maj. Petrovitch.

I think we've run into

bad company, colonel.

Yes, the leader.

- What about him?

- Afraid I know him.

- Nicolai.

- Who the hell is Nicolai?

It's Nicolai Lescovar.

The man I was sent to kill.

Dam, if it's the one I think it is.

I know where we are.

So do I. Right in it.

Do you think he's recognized you?

Yes, I think so.

Lt. Col. Barnsby,

United States Rangers.

Maj. Mallory, sir.

You got away from the Germans.

How?

We escaped.

Capt. Lescovar

has his doubts about that.

If you escaped, why were

the Germans not pursuing you?

We observed you for five miles

before we picked you up.

You shoulve observed that we killed

two Chetniks that were following us.

- The men with the bandaged faces.

- Exactly.

Hardly a cause for congratulation.

Those two men were Partisans.

Comrades of ours whom we had

infiltrated into the Chetnik camp...

...so now all links with our agent there

are broken, thanks to you.

I'm sorry.

The fact remains

that we're Allied officers.

There's no reason

we should be treated this way.

I'm in command of Force 10.

I insist that we be allowed...

...to contact the Allied mission.

I'm sure London informed you.

We are informed

of many things by London...

...very few of them

ever seem to materialize.

However, you are right.

I was informed of your mission.

Personally, I doubt if it was

ever a practical one...

...but now that you are here without

equipment, the question is academic.

And you, major, you came here

as an observer, perhaps?

No, sir.

I was charged with a mission

of my own.

It's confidential.

Confidential!

Sometimes I get the impression...

...that London looks

on this theatre of operations...

...as a convenient place for conducting

what they call "war games. "

- May I speak to you personally?

- You are speaking to me personally.

- I mean alone.

- No.

The People's Army does not conduct

military business in secret.

Very well, sir.

I was sent here to identify a German

agent, code name Nicolai.

We are reliably informed...

...that he has infiltrated the People's

Resistance Army, and is now known...

...as Capt. Lescovar.

And having identified this man,

what were your further orders?

I was to eliminate him, sir.

- Eliminate. Don't you mean kill?

- Yes, sir. I do mean kill.

Do you hear that, Lescovar?

The gentlemen from London

want us to shoot you.

I'm sorry, major.

I must admit you are

indeed partly right.

There was an agent

named Nicolai...

...operating somewhere south of here

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