Enemy Lines

So, General.

Maybe you'd like to enlighten me what you need from us.

British Intelligence have passed us information

about a scientist

the American High Command is very interested in.

He's being kept at one of the Nazi's top-secret installations.

They've code named the project-- what is it?

Project Feuervogel.

Fire Bird.

And you'd like us to what, eliminate this scientist?

No, Sir.

We need him alive.

We know you've a great

bunch of guys for this type of thing, Colonel.

I have orders from High Command

to requisition your team for this mission,

under the command of Major Kaminski, here.

I wasn't informed about this.

We're tellin' you now, Colonel.

Look, things developed quickly on this.

Washington wants this scientist, and they want him yesterday.

They talk to your people, then here we are.

All on the same side.

Very well.

Let's reconvene at Staff HQ.

03:30.

General.

Major.

This isn't goin' to be easy.

Look, I know the odds are against you.

But what is it you want the most?

I want this war over with.

- I wanna go home. - Hmm.

You pull this off and we'll all be one step closer

to doin' exactly that.

Bloody briefin' in the middle of the night?

What's this is all about, Sarge?

They don't tell me anything.

I heard they're sendin' us and a couple of Wrens

to Bognor for a two-week holiday.

At ease, men.

This is General McCloud, US Army Intelligence.

Major Kaminski, US Marine Corps.

These men need you to run a little errand for them

to Poland.

Your target for extraction, Dr. Aleksander Fabian.

Fabian is one of the world's leading experts

on solid fuel propulsion.

A rocket scientist.

The Nazis have him.

We want him.

The installation he works at is under very heavy guard.

But one day a month, his captors allow him

to spend a night visiting his wife and daughter.

They're being held under house arrest elsewhere.

It's a pressure point

to keep his mind focused on this job.

You will attack the convoy transporting Dr. Fabian

en route to see his family.

Kaminski.

The best place to attack is here.

4 miles from the meeting house at this crossroads.

It has good cover and Polish resistance tells us

he's escorted with only a handful of guards.

It's the perfect point to extract him.

Okay, so we grab this scientist,

but how do we get in and out, Sir?

Parachute drop?

It's Hitler's back yard.

Flak and fighters everywhere.

Airborne is out, but the Colonel has something lined up.

You travel to Sweden, tonight.

The Swedes have offered us their limited co-operation.

Unofficially.

Seems they can sense the tide of war turning in our favour.

In Borgholm, you'll rendezvous

with a Swedish fishing boat captain,

who'll drop you here, near Polish coast.

Major.

Then, we'll head to the crossroads.

Here.

When we have the target,

we will make our way into these woodlands

to connect with Polish resistance,

who will then guide us to the coast

and transport us by boat to our rendezvous

with a British Navy sub in the Baltic.

You'll be joining us, Sir?

That's right.

Major Kaminski speaks Polish.

He'll be leading the mission.

This is a tough one, Sir.

Hitting the ground running like this.

New CO out of the blue.

We all have to play the hand that's dealt to us.

You know that.

Sir.

- Do we have a problem? - No.

These men are professional soldiers.

Good,

'cause there's an invasion of Europe on the horizon.

We need to be shoulder to shoulder

all the way to Berlin.

US Marines are meant to be hard as nails.

Had a few ribbons on him anyway.

Yeah.

They're smooth bastards, those Yanks.

My sister went out with one.

Yeah,ut she'll go out with anyone.

Alright, Sarge?

Yeah, bloody marvellous.

Yanks breeze in three years into the bloody war

and start ordering us about.

Hmm.

I want an end to the war, though, right?

Amen to that.

(Indistinct conversation in distance)

This is as far as I will take you.

We're still miles from the shore.

See that?

Those are German patrol boats.

They go up and down the coast here.

If we are boarded and they find you here...

It's dark.

We can make it without them spotting us.

Maybe you signed up for a suicide mission, Major,

but I haven't.

Or I can just commandeer this boat

if I choose to.

It's not about who's at the wheel.

Those patrols are still out there.

What do you want us to do?

Swim?

There's a boat down on deck.

You row to shore.

Fine.

What would the patrol boats do if you turn your lights on?

They would board, check things out.

I will say I got lost or something.

And once they realize it's just me,

they will let me go on my way.

So that's what you're gonna do.

When we reach the shore, you turn your lights on,

you draw them to you.

That I can do.

Make it lower, boys!

Alright, let's go.

How's the radio looking? We live?

It's not looking good, Sir.

I mean it could just be a mixture

of the cold and moisture.

Can you fix it?

I'm gonna need some time to open it up.

Alright, listen, next time we stop,

see if you can fire it up.

We gotta get moving, alright?

We're behind schedule.

Do you think he can handle himself, Sarge?

I don't know.

We'll find out.

Lucky, he's got us with him.

Let's go.

The Swedish contacts have reported

the trawler dropped them on schedule,

but still no confirmation from the team.

They also said they had to drop them short of the coast.

- They what? - Here.

They made their way to the landing site

by a smaller boat.

Okay, well, let's just hope they don't sink like stones