Trench 11

What do you see?

Bag.

Geophone.

I don't hear anything.

It's seven days, Berton. They're dead.

Get the water and the lights ready. We're going in.

One noise, and the Germans will blow the secondary charges.

It's a trap.

If there's a chance, we go.

You know that.

Let's get this over with. Come on.

Go back to the auxiliary tunnel. Wait for me there.

Get out of here.

Oh, fuck.

Aaah!

Shh. The Germans are right above us.

Shh.

If they hear us, they'll blow the charges.

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Oh. Where in God's name is he?

Bloody war will be over by the time he gets here.

As you were.

Give General Mackenzie my apologies.

When I'm done with our friends from intelligence here,

I'll be along immediately.

Gentlemen.

This is the front as it stood two days ago.

In May of last year,

the Germans began constructing an underground bunker here,

deep within the Argonne Forest,

almost 11 miles behind their lines.

These spoil heaps indicate

that they've dug three to four levels.

They've gone as deep as a hundred feet, sir.

That doesn't make any sense.

The Germans go underground to hide from our shells

or to drive tunnels beneath our lines to plant explosives.

And they wouldn't need to do either so far from the front,

would they, sir?

So, what the devil are they doing there?

We don't know, but...

our sources place Reiner at the compound

within the last 48 hours.

Reiner, that little bastard.

What do they call him, the Prophet?

What do you make of this, Doctor?

Reiner is a menace, sir.

The man has been instrumental in weaponizing chemicals...

Phosgene, mustard gas.

We believe he's also attempted to weaponize anthrax,

cholera, and the bubonic plague.

Beneath Trench 11 could be the Wotan complex,

rumored to be Reiner's base of operations.

If he has been developing something in there,

we must go in and find out what.

Surely any evidence would have been removed during the retreat.

No, sir.

When the German line fell two days ago,

they did try to destroy the base, but they failed.

They left with just the clothes on their backs.

Whatever they were working on is still there.

What will you need?

An escort to get us through the Argonne.

It will have to be American, I'm afraid.

Well, Colonel, surely something can be arranged.

I mean, the Americans?

The Argonne belongs to them now, and they paid dearly for it.

Colonel...

We are about to end this war, Jennings.

Every other soldier within 200 miles

is now gathering near Cambrai for the final offensive.

Anything else, gentlemen?

A tunneler to get us down below.

Given our timeline,

I took the liberty of checking with brigade.

Name's Berton.

Canadian.

What's the medal for?

He tried to save some tunnelers in the salient in July.

Miracle he survived.

12 days underground?

My God.

It says here he's on furlough. How will you find him?

Well, he's a tunneler on his first leave in over a year.

We've a fairly good idea where to look.

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Veronique.

Oui.

Oui, oui. J'arrive.

Everything okay?

I wish you didn't drink as much.

Is that you or your father talking?

Well, your drinking is the one thing he can relate to.

Well, I guess he would. He owns a tavern, after all.

He's been drinking a lot more since I've met you.

Why is that?

Maybe because he doesn't like that a foreigner from far away

has seduced his daughter.

I-I didn't seduce you. You seduced me.

Uh-huh. I was drunk.

And... And I put my arms around you, and...

Yes. You put your arms around me.

Yeah, I put my arms around you, and then you kissed me.

Just like that.

Oh, I can't wait for you to meet my parents.

Your parents?

And you're gonna love Winnipeg.

Why?

Ohh.

It's even more romantic than Paris.

I can't wait for this war to be over.

[ Mid-tempo electronic music plays ]

That's the Argonne. You ever been?

Hell of a place for a picnic.

I suggest we wait here.

Wait till this blows over, then head in.

Negative. We need to push on.

With all due respect, sir, we're six men.

We drove most of them bastards out,

but God knows how many are still hiding in there,

waiting to cut us down.

In this weather, we don't know what we're walking into.

We wait here and observe.

In one hour, we move.

Understood?

Fucking limeys.

Just my luck, I get the one war in a hundred years

where those pricks are on our fucking side.

- Yeah. - What's the word on them?

Nothing good.

I heard the major is real ambitious.

Oh, fuck. That's just perfect.

Spent most of the war riding a desk.

Now he'll do anything to get a promotion

before the show's over.

Well, what's your professional opinion of our American escort?

They've been in constant combat for months on end.

That starts to take its toll.

My advice, sir, would be not to push them too hard.

Hit me, Pronger.

Fuck off, Private. Get your own.

No wonder they've been fighting over the same fields

for four years.

They're all drunk. This guy has been at it all day.

He's killed more Germans than any of us.

More than Pronger?

Okay, nobody's killed more fucking Germans than Pronger.

Okay, so then who the fuck is this guy?

A tunneler.

Fuck, I wouldn't mind being underground

when the war is going on above.

No fucking way.

When the lines formed,

Germans started digging beneath no-man's-land.

Guys like him are sent underground

to stop the German tunnelers

and to plant bombs of their own under Fritz's line.

Three months ago, he gets trapped 80 feet down.

Nobody comes for him. So, what does he do?

That crazy bastard digs himself out.

By the time he finally gets out,

his family has already thrown his funeral.

Yes, that's it, all right.

Any movement?

Nothing but the rats.

You ever eat rat, Major?

Move in and take a look.

You heard the major. Pronger, we're up.

What is it they keep chewing?

Seems they live on it.

Forced March, sir.

Cocaine. A stimulant.

Seems they hand it out with rations these days.

Apparently rather effective.

Let's go. Let's go.

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I don't think we pushed this far.

We didn't. These are German shells.

Why are they killing their own guys?

There's something you need to see, Major.

Two main entrances were blown in,

but for some reason this one was spared.

And, uh, here...

as you can see, there used to be a ladder.

Whoever got rid of it did it in a hurry.

You care to tell us what we're here for?

This is a reconnaissance mission.

Observe and report.

This base is abandoned, so we don't expect any resistance.

What a shame.

Once we're in, the doctor and I

will collect any relevant evidence,

and we'll be on our way.

- Simple enough. - How do we know it's abandoned?

I heard entire divisions got left behind when the line fell.

Shut it, Kelly.

We don't got the numbers for a raiding party.