...and yet he's only a Commander on the Naval List.
And the rest are ours, I think.
Oh.
Mm.
Thank you.
Remember that French Army officer, de Gaulle?
He escaped to England when France fell.
He did more or less the same thing, as I remember...
promoted himself to General
and declared himself the voice of France.
But it never really came to anything.
This is different.
Connolly was acting on the instructions of the War Cabinet.
It was Winston's idea,
when he himself refused to go on one of the flying boats
that left for Iceland at the very end.
So I heard.
But no-one on this side of
the Atlantic really knows anything about it.
That's less important than shoring Connolly up for now.
His position in Washington is tenuous.
It's dicey. The Germans might take over our Embassy,
and that would be a bad blow for Connolly's prestige over there.
So you're in touch with him?
Have you heard the rumours that the King is unwell?
Some people are saying he's been moved
from the Tower of London to St. George's.
Well, I know there's an SS Special Security Battalion
that's been quartered beside it at Hyde Park Corner.
It's quite a force.
You can't be thinking of trying to free him?
Of course not.
Why was I invited here this evening?
Is there some connection with the Shepherd Market murder?
Let's just stay on track, shall we?
We need nothing of you.
Except loyalty to your country.
We're at the knife's edge.
What about this fellow Huth?
Could he be of value to us?
In what venture?
There's bad blood between him and General Kellermann,
they loathe each other, but how can that help you?
We just want to open channels,
as we have with the German Army.
That's what he wants.
Though it could easily be a trap.
He wanted me to be "Open to offers".
Well, do you trust him?
Could he be...
...useful to us?
Well, I don't know him. He's clever, but unpredictable.
And Kellermann?
Predictable and not so clever?
I think that's the way he'd like to be seen.
Harry Woods calls them Laurel and Hardy.
God, and we're occupied by them.
I'll be the go-between.
Tell me what I have to do.
Now, wait a minute. Bernard...
Let's...
I need to get to know him better.
This is a massive risk to take.
Well, we...
We all of us have to take risks, Douglas.
We've taken one by telling you as much as we have.
You have nothing to fear.
I think that's enough for tonight.
I have to get going.
Ah, just a moment.
These gentlemen owe us money.
Cough up, Staines.
Thank you, Sir Robert.
Thank you.
All those terrible people there tonight.
I've seen the same sort of greedy-eyed politicians
from Chaco to Addis Ababa.
Brown shirts, red shirts, black shirts...
They're all after the same thing.
Coloured shirts?
That... and grabbing as much of the world as possible.
Sounds like you've been in a lot of wars.
I was 18 when my paper sent me down to Paraguay
to cover the fighting in Chaco.
Since then, I've filed stories from China, Ethiopia, Spain.
And last year, I was in
Abbeville when the German Panzer Divisions arrived.
- It's a strange job for a woman. - Oh!
Don't be such an English stuffed shirt!
So you were 18 when you saw your first war?
What did your father say?
He owned the newspaper.
Ah.
And you...
You went into the police force?
Is this off the record?
You can trust me.
I wanted to set the world to rights.
Hold the front page.
I know.
This isn't the way to The Dorchester.
Who said I was still there?
I'm renting now.
My lady.
I'd ask you in for a drink,
but they need the cars back for the other guests.
That's all right.
I can phone the Yard for a car.
Your own car. You must be important.
That's what people keep telling me.
You know they've had 14
break-ins along here in the last three months.
Well, I can stand by the window if you like.
Well, this looks like a suite at the Dorchester.
But a lot more private.
Only problem is it's cold.
Let me.
Coffee, Superintendent?
Douglas, please.
People are calling me Douglas now.
It's all part of the new mood of informality
that the newspapers say that war brought.
Douglas, eh?
I think I like that better than Superintendent.
So would you?
Would I what?
Like coffee?
I have real grinds. They're hard to come by.
How real is your brandy?
Plenty real. Bring it over.
Winter in this town is going to kill me
if I don't find some way of keeping warm.
Maybe there I can help?
- Cheers. - Cheers.
See how freezing I am?
Maybe you're cold blooded.
I must be.
Well, that's cosy.
Don't tear anything.
I might not get another Paris gown as long as I live.