[Speaking Russian]
WOMAN: The East-West Express from Moscow now arriving,
Platform 34.
The East-West Express from Moscow now arriving,
Platform 34.
WOMAN: [Speaking German]
[Speaking German]
[Speaks German]
[Speaking German]
[Speaks German]
[Whistling]
[Speaks German]
Ja, ja.
WOMAN: Attention.
International Moscow Express now departing Track 2.
Pardon, madame.
WOMAN: [Speaking German]
[Speaking German]
Aah!
You put something in the Moscow wagon.
Where?
Nothing.
Let's take him.
I've got no money.
I'm poor.
Move. move!
That's enough, Neckerman. That's enough.
Neckerman, lose the car.
John, hang in here and see if anyone comes looking
for these Kremlin hotshots.
Right, Leroy.
[Whistle blows]
Airport, please.
Jawohl, madame.
[Car horn honks]
You're seven minutes late, Harry.
Traffic.
Let me patch this in and get it decoded,
and then we'll talk.
Elsa.
Hello, Harry.
I thought you two might be happy to see each other.
You know, uh, kiss and make up.
Oh, we're working the same circuit again, huh?
So what's it going to be this time?
Friendship?
No, thanks.
Then what do you suggest?
Something like a more reasonable relationship?
That's what we have now, Harry.
I don't understand.
We have nothing at all.
Ready to hear playback.
This is Angelo, tape 15...
the last tape I'm sending you.
Our next contact will be of a more personal nature.
Friday next, Milan,
La Scala opera house, midday tour.
ELSA: That's only three days from now.
If you have been correctly analyzing recent intelligence,
then you must be aware
of our little disagreements here in Moscow...
Sounds like the Angelo faction
is losing ground to the hawks.
Yes, but how much ground?
Unfortunately, the militarist hard line is prevailing.
If unchecked, this could only lead to disaster.
Project "Winter Harvest" has been reactivated
under the direction of colonel Nikolai Bunin.
Agents throughout Europe will be equipped with the weapons
for possible activation in the event of crisis.
He's talking about biological warfare.
I thought "Winter Harvest" was buried.
Not if Bunin's involved.
Let's hear the rest of the tape.
My knowledge of the details of the plan is incomplete.
However, Bunin's is not,
and I'm coming out before it is too late.
The colonel is presently in Zurich.
If "Winter Harvest" is not stopped now,
we shall all pay the consequences.
See you at the opera.
Fascinating.
I fail to see where I fit into all of this.
Initially, we brought you into the operation
to take over security for the Angelo connection.
I know that.
Now I've got to keep you aboard to protect Angelo.
- And Elsa? - Elsa?
She's been Angelo's primary contact.
Now, look, Harry... Angelo is big,
and we don't want to lose him.
Now, you heard the tape.
I heard the tape.
Kind of short notice, isn't it?
See you at the opera.
And now let me show you my favorite composer.
He was born in a small village,
very poor,
but he had such musical talent
that, uh...
It's late, man. There's no sign of anybody.
Yeah, and we don't even know who we're looking for.
But the family and the village recognized
an exceptional musical talent.
That's why he was sent to Milan to study in the conservatory.
See, Giuseppe Verdi.
He was able, with his music,
to capture the soul of the Milanese
and the Italian people,
and that was before the independence.
Now let me show you the auditorium.
Here they are rehearsing "Nabucco,"
the opera by Verdi.
[Cast singing Italian]
[Singing in Italian]
Angelo here.
This is crazy. Not you.
Yes, it is me.
Move.
Let's go.
Down!
Come on.
Let's move!
Thank you.
Molinari's here. Let's move it.
Second chair.
[Tires squeal]
[Cathedral bell tolls]
[Radio signal]
[Bell tolls]
There is a green Mercedes following us
with three men inside.
We'll try to take them out.
We're ready.
Better use the belts.
[Horn honks]
[Shouts in Italian]
[Horn honks]
GUARD: Alto!
GUARD: [Shouts in Italian]
Pleased to meet you, miss Lang.
Our snapshots and our film clips of her
do not do her justice.
[Horn honks]
This is one of your safe houses
I didn't know about.
Well, if you had, it wouldn't be.
They'll know about it tonight.
You'll be gone by then.
Where to?
The promised land.
Too soon. I'm not ready to go yet.
General,
before we discuss your plans or our plans,
I think it's important that you provide us
with the names and locations of all secret agents
and operations you have any knowledge of.
It's for your safety as well as ours.
Da? wrong time, wrong place.
Thank you.
You see, Angelo has an agreement
with Washington...
see cassette number two...
that I am not to be debriefed
until I arrive safely in the United States.
Mr. Haller,
I want colonel Wargrave
in entire charge of these proceedings
until further notice.
That's perfectly all right with me,
but I will have to check with Washington.
After all, general,
you are the third most powerful man
in the Soviet union.
Oh, no, sir.
I am the first most powerful man
in the Soviet union
now that I have left.
I could bury you in a missile site.
No good.
We have to give them a chance.
We have to let Bunin have a chance to kill me,
because you see, colonel, if we get Bunin,
we stop project "Winter Harvest."
How long?
Till I say enough.
There are two messages here, Rudi.
One... Milan failed.
I didn't know that there was anything going on in Milan.
Well, I did.
You see... general Marenkov has defected.
Save your surprise for another time, Rudi.
That's what you call a friend.
There's a second message
I'm afraid you won't like, either.
This is your authorization from marshal Prachko
to turn over to me
the entire clandestine military intelligence setup
under your control in Europe.
They're in deep reserve in case of war.
I know that.
It's been my chief concern, my sole responsibility.
It's taken years to set them up.
Listen, Marenkov knows too much.
We're no longer involved
in an ordinary intelligence operation.
We're pretty close to a political crisis.
My orders are to eliminate Marenkov at any cost.
So, therefore, I need the best,
the most secret forces we have hidden in Europe.
They have been yours, and now they are mine.
So, locate Marenkov in Milan.
Alert all your first-strike units
in Switzerland and Italy on a war basis.
Would you like me to choose you a tie?
Yes, very much.
[Knock on door]
Gentlemen.
Well, Mr. Haller, how do you like me?
Ordinary enough for you?
General Marenkov, what is your plan?
My plan is to force Bunin to destroy himself
by trying to destroy me.
How?
That's where I need your help.
I do have a little proposal.
We take the Atlantic Express from Milan
by way of Zurich, Basel, Germany, Belgium,
Rotterdam, Amsterdam.
First class, no doubt.
Right.
The train... you really think it's worth the risk?
We don't know. For us he's just a piece of luggage
to be delivered safely to Washington for them to unpack,
but we'll use him to flush out.
Bunin's whole secret military intelligence operations
in Europe... people they've had buried for 20 years,
agents held in deep reserve for potential all-out war.
They're going to have to try everything
and everybody to get him,
and we clean them out, if we survive.
♪ She took me to St. Petersburg
♪ Where both her brothers lay
♪ And when she took me home again
♪ She said, "life is hard today" ♪♪
WOMAN: Attention.
Atlantic Express now boarding
on Platform 12.
Atlantic Express...
[Speaks Italian]
[Speaking Italian]
WOMAN: [Speaking Italian]
WOMAN: Aah!
[Police whistle blows]
Elsa.
Elsa, I've got some bad news.
It's about Harry.
What?
They shot him leaving the elevator
with the baggage.
A sniper. Harry's dead.
Elsa, I'm sorry.
I'm very sorry for you and Harry.
I'm sorry for all of us.
Wargrave is reported dead.
Who gave the orders to shoot him?
I didn't. I don't know, perhaps Moscow?
I am Moscow. I didn't give such orders.
We're not his only enemies.
Well, try to find out who killed him.
We are trying hard, comrade colonel.
[Telephone rings]
[Ring]
Yes. send her up, please.
But why did Marenkov defect? Why would he?
How should I know?
How should I know what's going on
in a man like this?
I don't understand it, either, but...
You see, reasons before the fact are predictions,
and reasons after the fact
are what astronomers call "noise,"
sounds that don't signify.
We know he has done it. Let's undo it.
[Buzzer]
Let her in.
Nikolai.
Olga. So good to see you.
Everything all right?
Perfect.
Wonderful. Let me see it.
Oh, good. Good.
Good. excellent.
We have all the information we need.
Marenkov is on the train, Rudi,
with a half a dozen carabinieri.
It will take a special operations attack.
That we have.
Here are the numbers, the names, and the codes.
Call them, call Lugano.
Strike operative.
And alert our Andermatt team
to be ready for backup operation.
Come. let's have some tea.
This smoking is just killing me.
You know, I was just thinking.
What?
I was just thinking
I might have to get myself on that train,
but the problem is
ov knows me too well.
Don't we have someone on the train?
Yes. we have a mole in the last two cars,
and a mouse in one of the others.
MAN: You are now entering Switzerland.
Have your passport ready for inspection.
You are now entering Switzerland.
Have your passport ready for inspection.
[Speaking Italian]
[Train whistle blowing]
General?
Have you any interesting news for me, gentlemen?
Nope.
The Soviets haven't even announced your defection.
They're waiting to announce my death.
A bit premature.
Have you announced colonel Wargrave's death?
[Train whistle blowing]
Coffee?
No, thanks.
Do you hate me?
I didn't kill him.
Excuse me.
Lots of snow on the mountains this year.
Plenty of snow on the ground, too.
Unlike us, it goes where it pleases.
What about some coffee?
Ja, ja.
Danke.
Coffee?
Despite the snow, it's on time.
The Atlantic is five minutes behind.
You hungry?
No. bored.
Sit down, Elsa.
Please.
We have nothing to talk about.
Yes. we can talk about you,
about Wargrave, how you met.
It could be one of your more amusing stories.
An embassy party in Paris.
I was so pleased with myself...
young,
foreign correspondent,
woman.
And he fell in love with all three of you.
All two.
Well, after a passionate week of flattery,
we ended up at the usual restaurant
with the usual candlelight
and Elsa, eager to say yes to anything.
He leaned across the table, took my hand, and he said,
"would you drop off a little package for me
in Yugoslavia?"
And that is how he recruited you?
Thanks.
But he loved you.
No.
I loved him.
Please, I have to use your telephone.
I have to get a doctor.
Please. hurry, please.
You have a wife, don't you?
Yes, almost.
Tell me.
You like sad stories?
They're the ones I know.
After the war, I was a young officer
in command of a remote region
in white Russia.
I fell in love with a young woman.
Like you, she was a natural leader,
and, therefore, like me, a communist party member.
They were always calling her away on emergencies,
and I was stuck in this town,
little more than a village really, just rural,
but I loved her.
I wanted to marry her.
So one day I said,
"it's now or never."
The day before the wedding, another crisis.
They called her away.
She told me she would be back for the ceremony,
no matter what.
So the guests are all gathered together,
I am dressed in my best uniform,
the band is playing, the bears dancing.
There's joy and laughter.
Suddenly, the telephone...
it's a stranger's voice.
There'd been an accident.
She has been driving too fast to get back to our wedding.
She was dead.
I told nobody.
I held the entire ceremony without her,
without the bride.
I even danced with the bear.
I know you were married, general,
and I know your wife committed suicide.
Call the Swiss at Lugano.
Find out what the delay is on the line before Evere.
Lieutenant.
It was Joseph Stalin's last days,
the nightmare days.
Every night when I came home,
my wife used to ask me,
"how many of your friends
have you sent to prison today?"
She was not a party member. We had terrible fights.
Every time I'd come home, she used to nag me.
She used to shout,
"what kind of leaders are you who are afraid to be killed,
"leaders who are afraid to die?
Leaders must lead."
I'd shout back.
I used to shout, "what do you know?
What can I do?"
But you see,
one night when I came home,
she had killed herself.
And you waited all these years for revenge.
I had to have the patience
to wait all these years for revenge.
MAN: 12,609. Signal 68 is red.
Anything?
There's an unauthorized stop signal on the track,
and if we try to pass it,
it cuts the power. The train will be stopped.
Then we'll be attacked.
Prepare to defend the engine. Sound the red alert.
Leroy, John!
[Alarm beeping]
Get back inside and close the door.
Turn off those lights!
Everybody in their compartments
and stay on the floor.
[Machine-guns fire]
WOMAN: Aah! Help us!
HARRY: On the floor, everybody, on the floor!
I'm going to help Elsa.
From Haller to Elsa.
John's coming to help you.
Okay, read you.
Elsa?
Wargrave.
Harry.
Where's John?
Oh, cute, Harry, you tricky bastard.
Where's John?
He's in the back car with Elsa and Marenkov.
Harry! Harry!
[Car engine starts]
[Speaking Italian]
Ov! Elsa!
Elsa!
You...
where's Marenkov?
I don't know where he is.
You were supposed to be with ov.
HARRY: Marenkov!
Marenkov, it's Wargrave.
How are you, Harry?
Damn cold out here.
Colder than Moscow,
but too hot in that train.
Well, it will be cooler now.
HALLER: So you didn't trust any of us?
Had to play it on your own.
I had no choice. Only colonel Molinari
had no connection with the original group.
If there was a mole among us,
it had to be Haller, Leroy, John, Neckerman, or Elsa.
So the colonel arranged the sniping.
I played the victim.
You suspected every one of us?
Why not?
You suspected me.
You never suspected yourself, of course.
I always suspected him.
When he told me,
"if the train is attacked and stopped,
get out and hide in the snow,"
I thought he wanted me to freeze to death.
MOLINARI: But he didn't even tell me where you would be.
Relax, colonel.
We're still alive, aren't we?
Harry...
I liked you better dead.
Signal Andermatt. Tell them to go ahead
with the operation on the Wasserhorn,
and then abandon everything in Zurich.
Oh, by the way,
the real Golchak doesn't smoke.
What? doesn't smoke?
Unh-unh.
Oh, that will kill me.
The weather is clearing around Biasca, Airolo,
the St. Gotthard canyon.
Very bad on the other side of the mountain...
blizzards of hurricane force building.
Find out if the Davos weather station helicopter
can survey the pass.
If the weather holds, I'm sure they'll try.
This is where I'd try my best shot if I was Bunin.
There's no way to protect the train here.
Atlantic,
this is Davos Airmobile One, on station,
now surveying your route.
Stand by, Atlantic.
The helicopter is out.
They'll give direct reports to us
and check avalanche situations along the route.
It's uphill from now on, all the way to Goeshen.
Well, Elsa.
Elsa.
I'm sorry.
I had to use you.
Don't feel bad, Harry.
I only cried crocodile tears.
Atlantic,
Davos One.
We have entered into the pass.
Will attempt to overfly Wasserhorn summit
and report conditions.
Stand by, Atlantic.
We're getting the first reports from the Davos helicopter.
Stick it on the horn.
Atlantic, Davos One.
Have sighted two skiers on Wasserhorn summit.
Repeat...
two men on summit.
I hear you... two skiers.
We are going in for a closer look.
Avalanche.
Atlantic, they have set off an avalanche.
It's falling towards the village.
Your only chance is the tunnel.
Elsa, get Haller and Leroy.
Engineer, we are in definite avalanche danger.
Give me everything you've got... all speed.
You'll be safe if we can get to the tunnel.
I know about the tunnel. Can we get there in time?
Not at this speed.
What would happen if we lost a few cars?
About three? Maybe.
Three? good. Take it, Neckerman.
Elsa, get Marenkov up to the dining car.
Leroy, get me a couple of pounds of plastique
and an automatic detonator.
Molinari, have all the people move beyond the dining car.
Haller, we're going to uncouple the last three cars
to see if we can get some speed
up the hill into the tunnel.
[Speaking German]
Everybody out. This is an emergency.
Everybody out. Take your luggage.
[Speaking German]
Everybody out. Take only your hand baggage.
Come on.
[Speaking German]
[Shouting]
Everybody out. This is an emergency.
Out, please.
[Speaking German]
Aah!
It's frozen. Forget it, Harry.
I'll have to blow it.
Everybody back!
3, 4, 5!
Down!
Move!
HALLER: The explosion must have
disconnected the battery system.
MOLINARI: Yes, but we're still moving along.
In a moment, the grade begins to go down.
We'll be able to coast down to the next substation,
where we automatically pick up power for the train again.
LEROY: Harry, we have two more flashlights.
That's the first time you've kissed me
where half of it didn't belong to uncle Sam.
That half was scared to death.
I don't like this world.
An avalanche to kill Marenkov,
one lousy Russian defector.
Elsa, I got you into this long before I loved you.
Professor Golchak.
Yes, sir. You have a reservation.
218, sir.
Thank you.
Here I am, Dr. Heinz Golchak
or colonel Nikolai Bunin or as you please.
Professor Heinz Golchak.
I'm taking a chance of meeting you
because by now your cover story is in danger.
I came for help.
Sit down. Geiger, sit down.
For a change, listen to me.
Your group, having pulled off an idiot attack
to free some of your people awaiting trial in Hamburg,
ended up killing 20 innocent onlookers,
and are now holed up in a miserable hovel in Willich.
But I have to help them. That's why I'm here.
I have a proposal to help. I offer you a clear deal.
There's a Soviet freighter, the Maxim Gorky,
off the coast of Rotterdam.
Once aboard, your people will be free.
The freighter's on its way to Angola.
You will be safe there.
They'd accept that. What do you want them to do?
What they always do... blow up something.
I want the Atlantic Express destroyed,
and I want it to be a full Geiger Group operation
in the Geiger uniform with black ski masks,
windbreakers, boots, and pants,
and no survivors on that train.
I'll need a guarantee of their escape route.
So do I. I'll be on the train and on the Gorky.
I've got colonel Scholten on the telephone.
He'll take over when the Atlantic gets to Holland.
He also warns that the German police
reports the Geiger group is somewhere in Willich.
They're obviously waiting to cross into Holland.
Scholten? Wargrave here.
Can you hear me? Then listen carefully.
I want you to let the Geiger group through.
Yes, yes. I know we're the probable target,
but I want you to let them through, have you got that?
Right.
MAN: Express now arriving on Track 16.
MAN: [Speaking French]
[Brakes squeal]
MAN: Disembarking passengers
proceed to your right.
Disembarking passengers
proceed to your right.
Transfer passengers proceed to your left.
MAN: [Speaking German]
[Blows whistle]
Lost three cars in an avalanche.
Replacing them.
MAN: Attention all passengers.
Atlantic Express now boarding
on Track 16.
Attention all passengers.
The Atlantic Express now boarding on Track 16.
MAN: [Speaking French]
[Alarm sounds]
It's all right, gentlemen. I know what it is.
I carry a diplomatic passport,
and as such, I don't have to submit to this,
but as a courtesy to the Swiss government,
I'm happy to oblige.
Collecting books, are you?
Well, I'm selling them at an auction
in Sotheby's in London.
In England? Aha. That's all right.
Thank you.
Certainly.
The Atlantic has left. Send a signal to Willich.
Why don't you get some sleep?
It's quiet.
Marenkov's asleep,
dreaming up history,
Leroy's up in the engine, ready for anything,
Haller's writing a report about nothing,
and I'm watching the store.
And I'm watching the night roll by.
You want coffee?
No. thanks.
What could Marenkov want out of this for himself?
A better life for himself.
How do you know?
Who wouldn't?
Don't forget, Elsa,
he's a monster... With feelings.
That makes him human.
[Brakes squeal]
Mr. Scholten.
WOMAN: Welcome to Holland.
Scholten.
Good to see you.
Welcome to Holland.
Have your passports ready, please.
[Train whistle blows]
Julian.
Haller.
- Scholten. - Neckerman.
Any news?
Something new. Something different.
There's a Russian freighter, the Maxim Gorky.
It's lying right outside our territorial waters,
bobbing up and down like a piece of cork,
and going nowhere instead of to Angola.
They're picking up agents, I hope.
Trying to, I guess. But so have we.
Good.
Any sign of Bunin?
Nah, nothing.
I think I'm going to check train security again myself.
I'm going to take it man for man.
I'll follow along, Haller.
Coming, Harry?
Oh, no. I'm babysitting our Teddy bear.
In the car right behind the engine,
the rear toilet,
the welded piece next to the ceiling will come out.
Inside are four grenades, two pistols,
one sub-machine-gun, planted there in Milan
by a man I had there... Philip John.
I cannot make my move until the Scholten group
returns to the rear of the train.
They will by the time you have to start.
We still have more than 20 kilometers to go.
I'll join you up forward.
Passports, please.
CONDUCTOR: Danke.
Soon, we won't have time.
We'll be across the bridge and then Rotterdam.
There'll be plenty of time.
Stay here.
Give me one of those grenades.
We'll meet at the speedboat, huh?
Hello.
Stay still. Listen.
Move... or we're all dead. Come on.
Turn around. Turn around!
If you shoot me, the grenades explode.
We all die.
Slow up the train.
Stop it before the bridge
or else I open my hands.
Open that door...
Wide!
Stop it. Stop it! Go back!
Hey, take it easy. It's stopping.
MAN: Everyone get down! We are under attack!
MAN: Everybody down! Get down!
Go! go!
Go!
WOMAN: Aah!
Bunin! Bunin!
[Speaking Russian]
SCHOLTEN: It's Geiger.
He's dead.
Harry, Bunin got away.
Not yet. What about the rest?
20 of them... dead.
And Bunin's on his way to the Gorky, huh?
Now's our chance, Harry.
The chopper will catch Bunin.
Let's take advantage of it, Scholten.
We'll take the whole bunch and the freighter.
Half the deep cover agents in Europe are on that boat.
That's war. You'll make it an international crisis.
What do you think this is?
It's just another Geiger group attack
on a Dutch train.
Everybody's used to terrorism these days.
Harry, don't you understand
that terrorism is anybody's bomb
until you take their masks off,
until they are no longer anonymous?
So let's gather up the dead and put them to work.
[Car horn honks]
[Speaking German]
Schnell! schnell!
[Speaking German]
Harry, come on.
HARRY: Cast off the bowline.
[Engine starts]
HARRY: Scholten, take over.
I hope I can remember
how to handle one of these things.
[Horn blowing]
Topside, everybody. Give me hand.
All right, cover up.
[Gun firing]
Fire!
Aah!
Fire two!
Well, I guess we made first prize.
General?
We've just received some intelligence from Moscow.
With Bunin gone and project "Winter Harvest" exposed,
it seems the hawks in the Politburo
are out of business.
And what did they say about general Marenkov?
Nothing. just silence.
[Whistling]
I'm sorry for him.
He knows he can never go home.
He's all alone with himself.
[Marenkov sings]
What about us?
Maybe we should start working on it.
[Marenkov singing] ♪ Wisest things
♪ She wanted me to know
[Harry and Marenkov singing] ♪ She took me
♪ To St. Petersburg
♪ Where both her brothers lay
♪ And when she took me home again,
♪ Said, "life is hard today" ♪♪
Subs source used: Vorenus Adaptation: Miclar1