Cloak and Dagger 50-06-04 ep04 The Brenner Pass Story

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Podcast Summary: "Cloak and Dagger 50-06-04 ep04 The Brenner Pass Story"

Title: Cloak and Dagger 50-06-04 ep04 The Brenner Pass Story
Host/Author: Harold's Old Time Radio
Release Date: June 27, 2025

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Introduction

"Cloak and Dagger 50-06-04 ep04 The Brenner Pass Story," hosted by Harold's Old Time Radio, immerses listeners into a gripping tale of espionage and sacrifice set during World War II. Drawing inspiration from actual incidents documented in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Washington files, this episode dramatizes the mission of an American engineer tasked with a perilous mission to sabotage the Brenner Pass, a critical escape route for the German army in Italy.

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The Mission Begins

The narrative launches with Everett Sloane posing a chilling question:

“Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind enemy lines, knowing you may never return alive?”
[00:32]

This sets the tone for the high-stakes environment in which Donald Harper, an OSS agent portrayed by Louis Soren, operates. Barry Kroeger provides context:

“Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of the oss. Today's story. The Brenner Pass is the story of an American engineer who single-handedly cut off the escape of part of the German army in Italy from onrushing American troops.”
[01:17]

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Challenges and Infiltration

Captain Harper's mission is fraught with adversity from the outset. After landing near the Brenner Pass on November 12, 1944, Harper faces extreme weather conditions:

“It snowed during most of the 40-mile journey and it was difficult for me to move quickly. And the longer it took me, the more chance I had of being discovered.”
[06:02]

Desperate and running low on supplies, Harper seeks refuge in a tavern frequented by Nazis and fascists. He hopes to remain undetected while securing necessary provisions:

“There was a tavern, Padre, not far from Palola. It wasn't sheer recklessness but desperation that made me go in there... I had no identification now and no food.”
[07:27]

Inside, interactions with the locals, particularly Hester Sondergaard (played by Virginia Payne) and Carl Weber (Boris Aplin), reveal the tension and precariousness of Harper's situation. Carl Weber's persistent efforts to engage Harper introduce an element of psychological warfare:

“You must not be rude, soldier. Men are never wrote to me.”
[09:26]

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Betrayal and Capture

As Harper attempts to finalize his mission, unforeseen complications arise. After planting explosives on the railway overpass adjacent to the highway, the presence of German forces becomes imminent:

“It was about 4 o' clock in the morning when we got to the highway and climbed up on the tracks of the railway... The troop crane of Germans would be coming over the railway soon.”
[19:07]

Despite meticulous planning, Harper faces betrayal when Carl Weber reveals his true allegiance, leading to a harrowing confrontation. The tension peaks as Harper is captured:

“You are the American who blew up the highway. Answer.”
[26:24]

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Sacrifice and Success

In the face of imminent execution, Harper's sacrifice becomes evident. As Barry Kroeger narrates the closing events:

“Though Donald Harper did not live to see victory, he shared in it. And once again, the record of an OSS agent closes with the words mission accomplished.”
[28:21]

Harper's mission successfully disrupts the German retreat, ensuring that American forces can advance without the enemy slipping through the Brenner Pass. His ultimate sacrifice underscores the themes of duty and heroism that resonate throughout the episode.

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Conclusion

"Cloak and Dagger 50-06-04 ep04 The Brenner Pass Story" masterfully blends historical facts with dramatic storytelling, highlighting the clandestine operations that played a pivotal role in World War II. Through compelling character portrayals and intense narrative arcs, the episode pays homage to the brave individuals who risked their lives in the shadows of war to secure victory.

Notable Quotes:

• Everett Sloane as OSS Agent:
  “Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines, knowing you may never return alive?”
  [00:32]

• Barry Kroeger:
  “Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of the oss. Today's story.”
  [01:17]

• Donald Harper:
  “Just give me supplies. Some TNT and a T uniform and some phony papers in case I tangle with the fascisti.”
  [05:03]

• Carl Weber:
  “Oh, the Germans. I amuse them. Porky and Imali. I tell them funny stories and they laugh at me.”
  [16:35]

• Barry Kroeger:
  “That highway has been completely destroyed.”
  [27:46]

These poignant lines not only drive the plot forward but also provide deeper insight into the characters' motivations and the gravity of their missions.

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Production Credits:

Heard in this episode are voices of Everett Sloane, Hester Sondergaard, Barry Kroeger, Louis Soren, Virginia Payne, Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, and Boris Aplin. Script by Winifred Wolf, with music directed by John Gart. Produced by Louis G. Cowan in association with Alfred Hollander and directed under the supervision of Sherman Marks.

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For listeners who appreciate stories of valor and cunning from the Golden Age of Radio, "The Brenner Pass Story" offers a captivating glimpse into the covert operations that shaped the course of history.

Transcript

[Corey Ford]

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[Everett Sloane]

Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines, knowing you may never return alive?

[Barry Kroeger]

What you have just heard is the question asked during the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens, who to this question answered yes.

[Everett Sloane]

This is cloak and dagger.

[Barry Kroeger]

Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of the oss. Today's story. The Brenner Pass is the story of an American engineer who single handed cut off the escape of part of the German army in Italy from onrushing American troops. The Brenner Pass is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services. A story that can now be told.

[Louis Soren]

No. No, Padre. I don't want it.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Drink it.

[Virginia Payne]

Drink this. Fil your meal. It will warm your insides.

[Louis Soren]

I. I want to talk to you. I. I want to tell you.

[Virginia Payne]

Drink this first. They warn abroad.

[Louis Soren]

Yeah. I'm so tired.

[Virginia Payne]

Rest then.

[Louis Soren]

So, so tired. Rest. You. You won't get me away, will you? You'll hide me if the Germans come, won't you, Padre? Won't you?

[Virginia Payne]

You came to me, my son, because you knew I'd give you sanctuary. Any man has sanctuary in this house.

[Louis Soren]

Yes.

[Virginia Payne]

I have taken an oath, Filio mio. Anything you tell me, only God and I will witness. And if I had not taken this oath, I still would not give you away.

[Louis Soren]

Thank you, Father.

[Virginia Payne]

You are an American. That much you have told me. Do you want to tell me more or do you want to sleep first?

[Louis Soren]

No. No.

[Virginia Payne]

It is better you sleep first. I'll sit beside you. I won't leave.

[Louis Soren]

No. No, Padre. I want to tell you. There may not be much time. I have a feeling that time is running out for me. My name was Donald Harper. I say was because somehow I don't feel as if I have a name anymore. When you're tracked down and hunted, you're not a human being. There's no past or future. There's just the present. And you run. So much has happened in a few weeks that it's hard for me to remember. Remember back from this morning when you Found me unconscious on the steps of the chapel. Back to the morning I was sent on my mission. November 12, 1944.

[Everett Sloane]

Captain Harper, I'm well aware of everything we have to gain if this scheme of yours succeeds.

[Louis Soren]

You still think it's just a scheme, eh, Colonel?

[Everett Sloane]

I don't have to think. I know what your chances are of actually getting through to the Brenner Pass and blowing up that highway. And I know what'll happen to you if the Italian fascists or the German police get you.

[Louis Soren]

I know a couple of things too, colonel. One of them is the country up there in the mountains. Yes, I. I nearly broke my neck half a dozen times when I was a kid climbing the rocks around my grandmother's hut. And just before the war, I took a trip from the states to see her again. I skied over every inch of that mountain near the Brenner pass. Colonel, I know I can do it.

[Everett Sloane]

We've been through this before, Harper. I'm aware of everything in your favor. Your knowledge of the country, the fact that you were an engineer before the war.

[Louis Soren]

Just give me supplies. Some TNT and a T uniform and some phony papers in case I tangle with the fascisti. It's all I need, Colonel. I tell you, I can do it.

[Everett Sloane]

It's true. If that highway to the Brenner pass could be destroyed, it would take the Germans months to repair it. It would cut off one of their retreats out of Germany. Of course, now we'd have them where we want them when the American armies advance their backs to the mountains and no way out.

[Louis Soren]

That's it? That's it. Your permission, Colonel? Please, let me try it.

[Everett Sloane]

You say your grandmother's hut is right near your objective?

[Louis Soren]

Yes, sir.

[Everett Sloane]

I'll give you names to memorize of other partisans in the mountains who might help you on the way. I'll have all the supplies you requested. And you can live.

[Louis Soren]

From the beginning, Padre. I had bad luck. It snowed during most of the 40 mile journey and it was difficult for me to move quickly. And the longer it took me, the more chance I had of being discovered. Then it came. You know what a storm is like here in the mountains. How it can blind you and throw you against the rocks. When it was all over, I realized what had happened. I had been thrown off my course. But that wasn't the worst of it. My knapsack was gone, all my supplies and the packet with papers the OSS had forged for me. I had no identification now and no food.

[Corey Ford]

Here at the Zebra, research shows the average Person would rather endure a root canal than search for auto and home insurance. Just try to relax. Or be trapped in a car for eight hours with toddlers on a sugar high. Or remove a nest of irate hornets. That's why the zebra search is for you. Comparing over 100 insurance companies to find savings no one else can Compare. [e-mail] we do the searching, you do the saving. I think I'll wait inside.

[Louis Soren]

But I still had the TNT for the highway near Ampezzo. There is a tavern, Padre, not far from Palola. It wasn't sheer recklessness but desperation that made me go in there, knowing I had no papers, knowing the tavern catered to Nazis and fascisti, knowing the rucksack on my back was filled with explosives. But there was no other place for miles and I had to get food or I couldn't go on.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Come, Tommy, tell us more of the story.

[Carl Weber]

Oh, well, as I've already told you, she was fat as Primadon.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Yeah, yeah.

[Carl Weber]

Me or she was big. Oh, she was like this. And I love what she's saying when she said it looked like this.

[Corey Ford]

See?

[Hester Sondergaard]

What would you like to order?

[Louis Soren]

Some bread and cheese, if you have it. And some coffee, black, very strong if you have it. Please.

[Hester Sondergaard]

See?

[Barry Kroeger]

Where is the vi?

[Louis Soren]

Bring it fast if you know what's good for you.

[Carl Weber]

Yeah, see, see, see. Fast. Bring it fast so you know what.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Is good for you.

[Boris Aplin]

See?

[Louis Soren]

See?

[Hester Sondergaard]

Coming right away.

[Louis Soren]

I tried to make myself as inconspicuous as possible. I hoped the Germans would continue to be amused by the Italian girl and not ask to see my papers. I had nearly frozen in the snow a half hour before. Now the sweat broke out all over my forehead. Pay attention to her. I kept praying. Watch her, watch her. Don't even look my way.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Here you are, senor. Cheese bread. It is here. I have it here. Right here.

[Carl Weber]

Oh, that soldier must be important to be served first. Come here, soldier. Come over here and tell us how important you are.

[Louis Soren]

Well, no, I, I, I'm not important at all. Forgive me, the, the waiter should have served you first.

[Barry Kroeger]

Come, come, take a sip of my beer, Tony. It will make it taste better.

[Carl Weber]

No, no, let the soldier have beer with us.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Ah, no.

[Carl Weber]

Poor soldier, he's all alone. Buongiorno. Come and have some beer with us, soldier.

[Louis Soren]

No, I, I Grazie, signorina. I, I will just finish this coffee and then I must go back to us.

[Carl Weber]

Wait a minute. You must not be rude, soldier. Men are never wrote to me. If I ask you to drink with us, you Must.

[Louis Soren]

No, no, please, signorina. Some other time, perhaps. Now. Now I must go.

[Announcer]

Ha.

[Carl Weber]

You are afraid of me, afraid of girls and afraid to drink beer. Oh, you should be back in your mama's lap, I think.

[Louis Soren]

Call me.

[Carl Weber]

I will give you some beer now. Perhaps you will acquire a taste for it. Here.

[Louis Soren]

She threw it in my face. I felt it start to trickle down my neck and I could hear the German laughing themselves sick. I wanted to snap that small neck of hers in half for making me the center of attraction. Grazi. Waiter. Look at that.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Look at that. You are sure? You are very sure you are not followed here to my house?

[Louis Soren]

Very sure, amico. And it's snowing again. Even the tracks from my snowshoes are covered.

[Hester Sondergaard]

We must be careful. Very careful, all of us. Partisans. The Germans are closing in on us. Do you know what would happen if they found out I took you in? An American? This would happen.

[Louis Soren]

But I tell you, there's nothing to worry about. And I'll be gone in the morning.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Ah, the morning. One, one.

[Louis Soren]

All I want is a night's rest.

[Hester Sondergaard]

There is a bed in the back room you may use, Senor Harper. You are sure you are not followed? Very sure.

[Louis Soren]

Yes, yes. And I'll be gone in the morning before you're awake.

[Hester Sondergaard]

That think, senor, the time being in his business, hospitable. But these times, they're very bad times for all of us.

[Louis Soren]

Yes, yes, I know.

[Hester Sondergaard]

To leave is important too. Yes. In order to fight back later, one must leave now, no?

[Louis Soren]

Yes, yes.

[Hester Sondergaard]

And the Germans are clever. Very clever. If they knew you were here.

[Louis Soren]

I was too tired to stand there and listen to the old man's whimpering. Too tired to watch his narrow eyes like small brown buttons, dart about the room, looking first at the windows and then at the door, half expecting the Gestapo to come. All I wanted to do was sleep. I fell across the bed. But a few minutes later I sat bolt upright, listening to the voices in the next room.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Daughter is here. An American in the back room sleeping.

[Carl Weber]

Are you sure?

[Boris Aplin]

Are you sure he's an American, Father?

[Hester Sondergaard]

His name is Harper. Donald Harper. Tony. The American Oasis sent him.

[Carl Weber]

An American. Oh, how the German police would like to know that.

[Louis Soren]

That girl, the girl from the tavern, the friend of the Germans. I didn't stay to here anymore. There was a small door leading out to the back of the hut. I knew, Padre, that somehow I must have come to the wrong house. I didn't dare take any more chances and stop again until I reached my grandmother's. And I Was so tired. So tired.

[Boris Aplin]

Donaldo mio.

[Carl Weber]

Donaldo.

[Boris Aplin]

So good it is to see you again.

[Louis Soren]

Oh, Nana, Nana.

[Boris Aplin]

Oh, but how you look so thin, so tired.

[Louis Soren]

Nothing changes here does. Could be six years ago or ten. Nana. Sitting here like this, in this house.

[Boris Aplin]

Your mama, your papa. How are they? Mel does not come here easily any longer. You have heard from them?

[Louis Soren]

Yes, Nana. A few weeks ago. They're fine. They tried so hard to get you to America.

[Boris Aplin]

When the war came, I would not go anywhere. Don Mill. This is my home. No one could make me leave my home. Not the Germans, not the fascisti. Here I stay until the world rights itself again. But what can I get you, Secomedie? Make yourself comfortable.

[Carl Weber]

You are hungry?

[Louis Soren]

Yes, but I'm. I'm too tired to eat. I. I just want to sleep.

[Boris Aplin]

Do then. I'll make up the room for you later. For now, rest here on this couch. When you wake, I will have food for you. Like the old days. Carmio, my dear one. I will be in the kitchen. Sleep now.

[Louis Soren]

I don't know how long I slept. When I awoke, I wondered for a moment where I was. And then I saw her. Standing over me.

[Carl Weber]

Like a little boy.

[Louis Soren]

You sleep.

[Carl Weber]

I've been watching you.

[Louis Soren]

You. What are you doing here?

[Carl Weber]

Watching you sleep. You don't drink beer and you're afraid of girls. And you sleep like a little boy.

[Louis Soren]

You followed me here. You brought them. What have you done with my grandmother?

[Boris Aplin]

What?

[Louis Soren]

I'll kill you. I should have killed you then.

[Everett Sloane]

I will now.

[Carl Weber]

Stop with you.

[Boris Aplin]

You're hurting.

[Louis Soren]

Render the Germans. You little. She devil. I'll kill you.

[Boris Aplin]

Donaldo.

[Louis Soren]

Here, here. What's going on? Nana, Are you. You all right?

[Boris Aplin]

Of course I'm all right. What are you doing? Tony, what is wrong?

[Carl Weber]

Oh, your grandson has his mother's hot Italian blood in his veins. He wants to kill me, that's all.

[Boris Aplin]

I'm ashamed of you, Donaldo. This girl, She's a friend.

[Louis Soren]

Friend.

[Carl Weber]

I will get the soup for you, Signora Apicella. Perhaps some soup will cool his.

[Louis Soren]

But none. I. I saw that girl with the German. She's. Ah.

[Boris Aplin]

She told me about that. She did not know who you were then. Yes, but she wondered why you disappeared from her father's house. She knew the name Donald Harper because she heard me speak of you often. So she came here after you?

[Louis Soren]

No, no.

[Boris Aplin]

She saw you asleep. Then she understood why you had run away from her.

[Louis Soren]

She was with Germans. I was there. I heard.

[Boris Aplin]

That girl, Donaldo is the leader of our group of partisans.

[Louis Soren]

Your leader? But the Germans.

[Carl Weber]

Oh, the Germans. I amuse them. Porky and Imali. I tell them funny stories and they laugh at me. Here's your soup. They do not hear me laugh when I get them drunk. And they tell me things I can use to our advantage. Your soup. Drink it.

[Louis Soren]

Tony, I. I'm sorry.

[Carl Weber]

I understand.

[Boris Aplin]

Donaldo. No.

[Louis Soren]

Yes, Nana. The girl is very pretty.

[Carl Weber]

Oh, Signora Apicella. You embarrass me. Ronaldo. We are friends now. See?

[Louis Soren]

See, Tony?

[Boris Aplin]

You worked too hard. Karamillo, what are you doing?

[Louis Soren]

Drawing diagrams? Nana, I've got all the plans made to blow up that highway early tomorrow morning. And I want to make sure nothing goes wrong.

[Boris Aplin]

Here. I brought you something to eat.

[Louis Soren]

You'll spoil me, Nana. But it was good to have you spoil me again these past few days.

[Boris Aplin]

How good it is to be able to. Will you leave then? Tomorrow, after you do what you have to do?

[Louis Soren]

Yes, I must. But I'll come back to say goodbye first.

[Boris Aplin]

I come. I come. Ciao. Ciao, signorina.

[Carl Weber]

Where is Donaldo?

[Louis Soren]

Tony, what are you doing here?

[Carl Weber]

Are you displeased to see me?

[Louis Soren]

Where is that partisan friend you were going to send to help me here?

[Barry Kroeger]

What?

[Carl Weber]

Me?

[Boris Aplin]

Me, me, me, me.

[Carl Weber]

I am the friend.

[Louis Soren]

Oh, no.

[Carl Weber]

I can do as good a job as any man. Let me help you.

[Louis Soren]

No, it's crazy.

[Boris Aplin]

Please. Please, let me do it.

[Louis Soren]

Girl, it's crazy.

[Carl Weber]

It is not crazy. Think. Think what it will mean for me after you are gone from these mountains, listening to my fat friends, the Germans talk about the explosion, and to know secretly that it was I who helped to make it.

[Boris Aplin]

Please.

[Carl Weber]

Please, Donaldo mio.

[Louis Soren]

It's too late to get anyone else.

[Carl Weber]

That's why I waited so long. The only man to get on this short notice is my papa and he is a scared rabbit.

[Louis Soren]

I was right the first time. You are a little she devil.

[Carl Weber]

That's easy.

[Boris Aplin]

Take her with you, Donaldo.

[Louis Soren]

All right then. Pay attention to this diagram. Now, there's a railway, as you know, going right over that highway. If we plant enough TNT to blow that right onto the road, it'll be blocked up for months. It was about 4 o' clock in the morning when we got to the highway and climbed up on the tracks of the railway. Tony stayed up above and I made my way slowly, slowly climbing down into the framework of the trestle, feeling my way along the girders. They were icy under my hands, and two or three times I almost slipped.

[Carl Weber]

Careful, careful. The Maldor.

[Louis Soren]

It's all right. Watch yourself. Watch how you handle those explosives.

[Carl Weber]

Do not trouble yourself about me. I told you, I can work as.

[Louis Soren]

Well as any man and work as quietly as one. The troop crane of Germans would be coming over the railway soon, and I had to finish before it came. I had a coil of wire around one arm and a pair of pliers hanging on a thong from my waist. Tony, you hear me?

[Carl Weber]

Yes, I hear you.

[Louis Soren]

Hand me down those packages of explosives, one at a time.

[Carl Weber]

Here.

[Boris Aplin]

Here you are.

[Louis Soren]

All right.

[Carl Weber]

Thanks.

[Louis Soren]

I shoved them in where I wanted them. Pack them close. Tony, the wedges, quickly. Don't be so slow about it.

[Carl Weber]

I'm doing it as fast as I can.

[Boris Aplin]

There.

[Louis Soren]

All right. I lashed the grenade on top of the braced explosives, wound it tight with a wire, twisted it with pliers. Finally, I was finished. There was snow on the ground, and yet my shirt was wet with perspiration. All right, last finishing touch. That does it for this side, Tony. Now let's get to the other side.

[Carl Weber]

See? Give me your pliers before you drop.

[Louis Soren]

Okay.

[Carl Weber]

There. I. I have helped you much this far. See?

[Louis Soren]

See? You've helped me.

[Carl Weber]

Let me do it.

[Louis Soren]

No, no. We haven't any time to argue. That train will be along any minute.

[Carl Weber]

Please, please. Let me set off the explosion. Let me have that pleasure. I will follow your directions. I will do it just the way you told me.

[Louis Soren]

No. The train. It's coming.

[Carl Weber]

Just tell me when to pull it.

[Louis Soren]

All right, you win. But heaven help you if you make a mistake. Hold it now steady. And don't pull on the wire yet.

[Carl Weber]

I will pull it softly. Softly. Lightly, but firm.

[Louis Soren]

Here she comes. Pull it.

[Barry Kroeger]

Nana.

[Louis Soren]

Nana. It's done.

[Carl Weber]

And I pulled the wire. Senor Nana.

[Louis Soren]

What is?

[Boris Aplin]

Is nothing. These attacks. Come on. After Nana.

[Louis Soren]

Tony, some water, quick.

[Carl Weber]

No, I will stay with her. Donaldo. You must leave quickly.

[Louis Soren]

No, I'll stay. You go on.

[Carl Weber]

This section will be swarming with soldiers. After what we've just done.

[Louis Soren]

And if they find you, they'll wonder what you're doing here.

[Carl Weber]

Men do not know how to take care of the sick. I will stay and help you.

[Louis Soren]

All right. Get the water. You.

[Boris Aplin]

You should not have stayed. Tan meal. I would have been. All right.

[Louis Soren]

All right. Don't talk. Just rest.

[Carl Weber]

Donaldo.

[Louis Soren]

What is it?

[Carl Weber]

Germans coming to this house. I can see from the window.

[Boris Aplin]

Oh, no, no. You should have gone before, not waited.

[Louis Soren]

It's all right, Donaldo.

[Carl Weber]

Do this one thing more for me.

[Louis Soren]

I won't leave while you hold them off for me. Is that what you want?

[Carl Weber]

I know them. I am a favorite of theirs. Please, caro mio. You can escape and do more important work. And I will not be harmed if.

[Boris Aplin]

I stay behind my son.

[Louis Soren]

Escape.

[Boris Aplin]

Escape. There is still time. The girl knows them upstairs.

[Carl Weber]

Upstairs? They may be around the back, too. So go upstairs. Jump from the window to the roof of the barn. You can make it from there.

[Louis Soren]

No, Tony.

[Carl Weber]

Go. Go. Go, I say. Promise not to turn back.

[Louis Soren]

I ran up the stairs to the tiny attic. I heard the door close downstairs, so I knew they had come in. I could distinguish their voices, too, Although I couldn't hear a word they were saying. I opened the window and saw it was an easy jump to the roof. Then Tony screamed and I forgot my promise to her and went back. Flattened myself against the wall at the head of the staircase.

[Carl Weber]

No, no. I have done nothing. But I came here to take care of this poor old lady. Well, can you not see that she's eating?

[Barry Kroeger]

Give her another taste of the stick.

[Louis Soren]

Perhaps.

[Barry Kroeger]

Another taste of the stick is what she needs. Senorina.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Somehow.

[Barry Kroeger]

Tony.

[Hester Sondergaard]

You are always around when there is trouble. Trouble? And Tony.

[Carl Weber]

Oh, let me tell alone, I beg of you.

[Louis Soren]

I surprised the first German when I jumped him. Brought the butt of my gun down on his head again and again. But the other German was not so simple a matter. He had my shoulders pinned down and I couldn't move. Then. Then I saw Tony standing over us, A heavy candelabrum in our hands. Good work, Tony. Now, listen to me carefully. Tony. Take my grandmother back to your house. No one will know you were here. If others question you, tell them. My grandmother was here alone when someone, a stranger, took refuge here and killed the officers who came. Then she went to your house because she was afraid. Will you remember that? All of it?

[Carl Weber]

Will you be back? Will I ever see you again?

[Louis Soren]

Who knows? Perhaps. Perhaps. Karina. Karina. My, my dear little Tony. Now go. Go quickly. She did. I. I wanted to tell you, Padre, that's everything that's on my way here. You. You will hide me. Rest easy. If they come, you.

[Virginia Payne]

I will do what I can for you.

[Louis Soren]

What right have you, coming in like this, Breaking down the door?

[Barry Kroeger]

Do not make trouble, Padre. I warn you.

[Carl Weber]

No, no.

[Barry Kroeger]

This is a house of God.

[Louis Soren]

It's all right, Padre. It's. No, no, no, you're mistaken. My name is not Donald Harper. I'm an Italian soldier. I was lost in the snow. My papers are gone.

[Barry Kroeger]

Come, come. This is tiresome. Admit it. You are the American who blew up the highway. Answer.

[Louis Soren]

You are mistaken, Herr Hauptman.

[Barry Kroeger]

You are Mr. We will see. Sergeant, send in the old man. You're Herr Hauptman. Use our with you.

[Hester Sondergaard]

See, Hartman.

[Barry Kroeger]

This our with you.

[Hester Sondergaard]

See? See?

[Everett Sloane]

I come.

[Hester Sondergaard]

I come.

[Louis Soren]

Oh, I.

[Barry Kroeger]

You recognize him? I see. That's how it's Emir. What is this man's name? Behester Harper.

[Hester Sondergaard]

Harper. Donald Harper. The senor is an American. Now, I have told you. You will let Sir Lone see.

[Barry Kroeger]

You have talked enough. Gonna.

[Hester Sondergaard]

You will leave my daughter and me alone. And the old lady too, now that I have told you. We have nothing to do with it.

[Louis Soren]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Hester Sondergaard]

But you will not tell my daughter. You promised. Remember? She has a soft heart. It would distress her.

[Barry Kroeger]

Take him away.

[Louis Soren]

Garth.

[Hester Sondergaard]

You will let us alone now.

[Louis Soren]

See?

[Hester Sondergaard]

See? We are on your side. Loyal fascist.

[Barry Kroeger]

You have nothing to say?

[Louis Soren]

Everything has been said for me.

[Barry Kroeger]

That highway has been completely destroyed.

[Louis Soren]

I'm delighted to hear it.

[Barry Kroeger]

That many loyal soldiers as I have been killed.

[Louis Soren]

Well, thank you for telling me.

[Barry Kroeger]

And what is more, you are in Italian uniform. A spy. Bullets are too good to waste on you American. But a rope can be used again. Sergeant Yahi Hartman, take this man out and hang him.

[Everett Sloane]

But I cannot do this.

[Barry Kroeger]

You will do as you are told, Herr Doctor. Here is the death certificate of the American who was hanged this morning. Sign it.

[Everett Sloane]

And the cause of death you want.

[Barry Kroeger]

And I should write as I told you. Just as I told you. Heart failure. A pity. Some weeks later, two retreating German battalions found their escape through the Brenner Pass blocked. Captain Harper had done his job well, and the onrushing American troops caught the enemy with their backs to a mountain. Though Donald Harper did not live to see victory, he shared in it. And once again, the record of an OSS agent closes with the words mission accomplished. A further adventure in black warfare is.

[Everett Sloane]

Next week's Cloak and Dagger.

[Announcer]

Heard in today's Cloak and Dagger adventure were Everett Sloane, Hester Sondergaard, Barry Kroeger, Louis Soren, Virginia Payne, Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber and Boris Aplin. Script was by Winifred Wolf. Music was under the direction of John Gart. Today's true OSS adventure was based on the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey ford and Alistair McBain. This has been a Louis G. Cowan production in association with Alfred Hollander and was under the direction and supervision of Sherman Marks. Stay tuned for the second big mystery high adventure on NBC.