Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze...
of past and future ages...
during the first experiments on Americas greatest and most secret project-
the Time Tunnel.
Tony ewman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new, fantastic adventure...
somewhere along the infinite corridors of time.
Come on. Come on!
The weather on the Cherbourg Peninsula is terrible this time of year.
But, then, bad weather has its advantages.
It makes invasion of this part of the coast quite unlikely.
Sit down.
Now, make no mistake about this room, gentlemen.
The room is soft, but the gestapo is not.
You will cooperate.
What are your names?
Im Anthony Newman, and this is Douglas Phillips.
Major, we were there by mistake. Theres nothing we can tell you.
You have already told me a great deal.
Your accents tell me that you are American.
Your inflections tell me that you are well-educated.
Your presence here tells me you were dropped to help the French underground.
Major Hoffman.
Yes, certainly, General. I have the schedule right here.
The field maneuvers are scheduled to begin on the morning ofjune 6.
- The, uh, day after tomorrow. - june 6.
My men are doing everything they can to locate the men who did it.
Were gonna be sitting right in the middle of the biggest invasion in history.
- He did not tell me about this. - Were on the Cherbourg Peninsula.
- o, sir.! - just 48 hours before D-day.
The Time Tunnel.
Thank you, General. I would be delighted to drive up with you.
Bitte sehr.
- Have you verified the time? - Yes, sir. Its june 4, 144.
The place is the Cherbourg Peninsula.
Yeah, but what town, Ann? We cant get a fix without the town.
- Could it be the city of Cherbourg? - No, Ive been in Cherbourg.
This must be one of the smaller villages.
Ann, get on the computer, will you, please?
I want photographs of Valognes, Montebourg and Sainte-Mére-Église.
- As of the year 144. - Yes, sir.
Ray, the preinvasion barrage is going to start at midnight on the fifth ofjune.
Unless we can get them out of there by then...
I wouldnt give you a nickel for their chances of staying alive.
Never mind! That is one thing about you Americans.
You always have loyalty to one another.
But it can be inconvenient.
Can you remain silent while you watch your friend being tortured?
You wont get anything out of us, Major.
They will work very nicely, Major.
I still say it is a waste of time, Dr. Kleinemann.
Yes, I have no doubt that, given time, you could break them.
Yes, the gestapo is very good at breaking things.
But how much better would it be to be able to control them?
- It will not work. - Thats not up to you to decide.
I have my orders from Berlin to give you anything you want, Doctor.
- I will obey them. - Of course you will obey.
Because you are conditioned to obey.
And thats precisely what I am going to do with one of the Americans.
I will recondition one of those men...
and he will kill the other...
in cold blood...
without a moments hesitation or remorse.
And that will test the usefulness of my new technique.
Now, I want the man with the coat for my experiment...
and you will allow the other one to escape.
Hoffman here.
Remove the guard from the front.
One of the Americans will be coming out soon.
Allow him to leave, but put a man on him.
You. Come with me.
Move!
You will change into the hospital gown now.
Get the guard out of the way, but dont alert him.
The prisoner must be convinced hes effecting his own escape.
Now watch him.
Freedom is on his mind.
But he must have a weapon. He must arm himself.
Yes, a small arm. Very good. Very good.
Now he will check to see if he has raised an alarm.
No guards. He could escape now, but he wont.
Not yet. Not with his friend in jeopardy.
He doesnt have much time now.
Whoevers on the phone will certainly spread the alarm.
But he has to try.
Unless you want him breaking in here, youd better sound the alarm now.
If he stays, he will certainly be apprehended.
If he cannot help his friend- Yes, thats it. Go for help.
Ja.
Very, very good indeed.
His emotions are quite predictable.
- Where are those photographs? - Here they are, General.
- Thank you. - I checked out the Nazi doctor.
His name is Dr. Hans Kleinemann.
It was rumored that he developed a quick form of brainwashing through the use of drugs.
Unfortunately, most of the people he experimented with died.
This must be it. Sainte-Mére-Église.
Sit down.
What are they doing to him?
- Who are they? - I dont know.
Ray, can you locate that building in this photograph?
No. And we dont have the comparative locations for the gestapo headquarters either.
Ann, get on the computer again.
See if you can find out what building the gestapo used in the town of Sainte-Mére-Ëglise.
Yes, sir.
General, even if we do get the locations...
how are you gonna decide which one to transfer?
I dont know. I honestly dontt know.
All right. Who are you?
My name is Anthony Newman. Im an American.
Or a German with a good command of English.
Im not a German.
Theyre holding my friend down at gestapo headquarters.
- He needs help. Theyll probably torture him. - Why should we help him?
- Youre members of the underground, arentt you? - What makes you think that?
The gestapo thinks were part of your group.
And, uh, you escaped from gestapo headquarters?
Yes, thats right.
Or they permitted you to escape in the hope of trapping us.
We keep a close watch on gestapo headquarters.
No one gets away from there unless the gestapo want them to.
Chien.
Hitler.
There was an S.S. man trailing him.
Unknown to you, of course.
I didnt know I was being trailed.
I just was hoping that the underground would find me and help me get my friend out.
Like you helped us at the prison tonight?
No, uh, he could not have known we would be there.
Somebody did. Somebody told them.
I say that Nazis have sent him here to spy on us.
We should kill him. Tonight!
It is time for the BBC. Mirabeau, watch him.
Good evening. This is the BBC News.
Severe storms continue to plague most of the British Isles today.
A low-pressure center has moved off the Isle of Man...
sending heavy rain showers into the area between London and Edinburgh.
There will be no personal messages till our second broadcast.
- Listen to me. My friend- - Now, listen!
You heard Duchamps. If your friend is in gestapo headquarters...
nothing can help him.
Nothing at all.
What I am going to give you now...
will make you feel very pleasant.
You will not fall asleep.
Instead you will have the desire to talk...
to answer my questions.
You will regard me as your friend.
- Your only friend. - I will tell you nothing.
How long will it take for this serum of yours to work?
How soon can he answer questions?
We cannot trust any answers he will give.
Well, then, what is the point of all this?
To reach his subconscious...
open his mind and erase his past.
Can you hear me?
Do you know that I am talking to you?
Yes.
You will pay special attention to my voice.
Mine will be the only questions you will answer...
until I tell you otherwise.
Do you understand?
I understand.
- What is your name? - Douglas Phillips.
- Your nationality? - American.
Ask him about the Allied invasion plans.
Now I want you to tell me what you know...
about the Allied invasion plans.
Come on. Come on, Douglas.
You can tell me. That is something you know.
D- day,june 6.
Germany defeated.
- 1945. - Gibberish.
No, not gibberish.
Pieces of the story...
he has been conditioned to repeat and repeat.
If you can get anything out of him regarding the underground...
let me know, Doctor.
Until then, I have more to do than waste my time...
with your psychiatric gymnastics.
You will open your eyes now.
You will be able to see me very well.
Open your eyes.
You can see me very well, cant you?
Yes.
You will look to your right now.
Do you recognize the picture?
- It is myself. - And who are you?
- What is your name? - Douglas Phillips.
No.
Douglas Phillips is dead.
Your name is Heinrich Kreuger.
- Whats your name? - Imm Douglas Phillips.
No. Douglas Phillips is dead.
Your name is Heinrich Kreuger.
- What is your name? - My name is Heinrich-
No. Phillips.
My name is Douglas Phillips.
Youre doing very well, Herr Kreuger.
Very well indeed.
Another two or three hours...
and you will know exactly who you are...
and the man you were will be quite dead.
And that concludes the news.
Kindly listen now to a few personal messages.
- Get ready. - The fox is on the loose.
The maple trees are green.
Mary has a brother named Christopher.
The long sobs of the violins of autumn.
Thats it.
The road makes an S curve. The dog has blue eyes.
That concludes the messages for this afternoon.
What do you know about it?
There was a message to be sent over the BBC.
There was a second line which was supposed to be the signal for the invasion.
- Was? - Is.
And what is this line?
I dont know.
If youre an American, how did you get here?
We were being transported back to our home base...
and they- they put us here by mistake.
Look.
If the Germans meant to use me to infiltrate the underground...
they never would have dragged me to gestapo headquarters first.
Theyre far too clever for that!
That is true.
Can you identify yourself? Do you have any papers?
He has nothing. I searched him.
And you claim you were sent here to help us, huh?
Look, I told you. We were put here by mistake.
How can you prove who you are?
I cant.
Not any more than you can prove that youre not a unit of the gestapo...
pretending to be the underground.
Touché.
Listen. What is your specialty? Demolition?
- Electronics. - Electronics?
If hes telling the truth, we can use him.
If he is not, he can destroy us all.
I say we take a chance. Get out the refinery maps.
I believe your story. We can use you if you are willing to join us.
Ill do anything I can.
But first I want to get my friend out of gestapo headquarters.
Well try... when we get the invasion signal.
When the signal comes, our mission...
is to cut the telephone cables beneath gestapo headquarters.
Until then, we keep away from there. All of us.
We will give the German no rest.
First it was a prison.
Now we hit the Cherbourg refineries.
It is essential to the invasion that the German fuel supply be wiped out.
That is impossible. That refinery is so well guarded.
- We could never get inside. - We dont have to.
Here. Open the map.
Here is the refinery. And here a gas tank near the street.
If we blow this, it will get the refinery.
Pow!
We will leave here at 2000 hours.
Mirabeau, you will drive the truck.
- What is your name again? - Newman.
Newman, you will take care of the wiring.
Verlaine,you and I will cover him.
I will go over the wiring diagrams with you later.
One last thing.
So there will be no possibility of a leak of information...
we will all stay here in this room until it is time to go.
I have the location of the gestapo headquarters, General.
Thank you.
The gestapo used a doctors office at 74 Rue de la Mer.
Oh, yes. Here it is.
Itll take me a while to work out the coordinates.
Lock in on Dougs signal first.
Your name is Kreuger...
and this is the village in which you were born.
Your life as a child was not pleasant.
His new childhood is fed into his brain.
Visual memories.
So you turn him into somebody else?
What good is he to us?
Wait. Heres something interesting.
And the man responsible...
for the death of your father last year is still alive.
Look at his face.
Remember the face.
Should you see this man, you must kill him.
He is evil. Deceptively so.
If he speaks to you, you will not hear him.
You must kill him.
Psychiatric parlor tricks, Doctor.
I am plagued by the underground...
and you occupy yourself with mental games.
We will see, Major.
I have a consignment here to deliver.
I am one hour late.
Here are my orders.
Who were you trying to kill? The German or me?
Come. The truck is waiting.
Yes, General. My men are doing everything they can to locate the men who did it.
General, I am paying an informant, but he did not tell me about this raid.
I have the coordinates, General.
I want a visual fix. Then well take him at my signal.
Yes, sir.
Major, come here. I want to show you something.
Look, the world is falling in around my neck, and you-
This is important.
Kleinemann did what he said he would do.
Hold the retrieve.
Captain, this is your commanding officer...
Major Hoffman.
Heil Hitler.!
- What is your name, Captain? - Heinrich Kreuger.
- And your unit? - 74th Panzer Division.
Gestapo. Hoffman.
Why did you not tell me about the raid on the refinery?
I see.
Of course I will pay it. Just give me the address.
Yes, I have it.
That was one of my informers.
You will take some men to this address.
If possible, you will take the saboteurs alive.
If not, you will kill them.
Do you understand the order?
Completely.
My car and the men are outside.
Well, what do you think?
I think hes completely brainwashed.
He could be faking.
Go around and cover the front of the building.
You, come with me.
We may have trouble with the telephone cables.
Theres only a single stairway leading to the basement.
Gestapo!
Lets get out!
Doug!
Whats wrong with you?
Whats the matter?
You cant shoot a man in the face, can you?
No, you can only shoot him in the back, as you did my father!
What? Doug, dont! Dontt!
- Dont make me do it! - Get out of the way!
Dont shoot!
Come on! Come on! Come on!
- Chien. - Hitler.
The German capitaine went back to headquarters.
They will be searching this district from house to house before long.
That will suit you fine, wont it?
They sent you here to spy on us, didnt they?
Why didnt you shoot him when you had the chance?
No, because that would have spoiled it, wouldnt it?
- Doug is only pretending to be one of them. - Ah, pretending!
Youre in no position to make accusations. You tried to kill me after the raid.
- Shut up, both of you! - You side with him against me!
- I said shut up! - And that concludes the news.
Kindly listen to a few personal messages.
The fox is angry.
The spring in Mexico is very warm.
The dice are on the table.
- Thats us. - Quiet!
The long sobs of the violins of autumn...
wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
That is the signal. The day has finally come.
We will cut the telephone cables tonight.
We will paralyze communications on the Cherbourg Peninsula.
We will have a better chance of success if we kill him first.
No. I say it was coincidence that the Nazis arrived at the prison...
and it was fate that they attacked our other headquarters.
Do you really believe in that, Duchamps?
Unless I believe in that, we are doomed before we start.
It will take all of us to do thejob.
And if we cannot trust each other, the job is impossible.
You will come with me to steal the staff car.
Verlaine, you will set the explosives.
Mirabeau, scout gestapo headquarters.
And now, I suggest we get some rest.
Major, I want 20 men.
Enough to canvass that entire district house by house.
We will root them out and destroy the pigs one by one.
I admire your zeal, Captain, but-
It is the only way it can be done.
And we would do it, if we had the men available.
But, unfortunately, we have had to send most of our staff to Rennes for field maneuvers.
Hoffman.
Send him in.
Our informant is here.
Uh,you are among friends, Mirabeau. He is one of us.
Now what do you have for me?
Something very important. But I want £5,000 for it, English money.
I have news of the invasion.
I will decide how much it is worth after I hear it.
We received a signal from the BBC this afternoon.
The invasion will take place in 48 hours.
- In what area? - Between here and Merville.
Oh, nonsense. We have heard that broadcast.
The British and the Americans are creatures of habit.
They will never launch an invasion, unless on the very best weather conditions.
And the Channel forecast is bad. They are sending out false reports.
I am not interested in invasion rumors.
So I will pay nothing for them. What else do you have?
I can deliver the leaders of the underground to you tonight.
The price will be £1,000 sterling, 500 in advance.
- How will you deliver them? - We have orders to blow the telephone cable...
right underneath gestapo headquarters.
In about 30 minutes, a command car will be stolen from the Rue de la Mer.
The men will come here as an inspection team.
And under this pretext, they will go to the basement...
place the explosives and then leave.
And, uh,just what is your part in all of this?
I- I have the tools to put your alarm out of commission.
Also, I will be the lookout.
All right. We shall be ready for them.
Where will the American be in the next hour?
He- He will be helping to steal the car.
- I have to- I have to go. - No, no! Wait!
- How many men will be after the car? - Two.
The American and Duchamps. We will rendezvous after they have it.
- All right. You go now. - Thank you. Thank you.
I will arrange a reception party for them.
No, wait. This will be your job, Captain Kreuger.
Its your enemy.
The one who poses as an American. He will be there.
You will take care of him.
Yes.
This time I will not miss.
This time I will kill him.
They keep that car available for couriers in the field class.
If the guard does not accept my orders, I will have to kill him.
- You cover me. Understood? - Yes.
I am Captain Haus. My orders are to proceed to Rennes immediately.
Doug!
- Leave him! Get in the car! - No, we have to take him!
Help me!
Help me.!
I say we kill him now. You should not have brought him here in the first place!
He means nothing but trouble. It has to be done.
- You, get away from him. - Put that away, Mirabeau.
I am not going to risk my life on your Nazi friend.
Tais toi, both of you! And put the gun down!
Youre not killing anyone. Welll wait until the doctor gets here.
- Chien. - Hitler.
I appreciate your coming, Dr. Shumate. It is no small risk.
If there were another doctor in the village, I would be fighting by your side.
This is the man, Doctor.
A very interesting case. Verlaine told me about him.
Uh, uh, uh.
Can you hear me?
Leave me alone.
Doug? Doug, its me-Tony.
My name is Heinrich Kreuger.
You. You tell them who I am.
You saw me at gestapo headquarters.
- Go on. Tell them. - Whats he talking about?
Wh-Why does he pretend to recognize me?
So... thats why you wanted to kill him.
You dont believe these Americans, do you?
Its a conspiracy. You can see that, cantt you?
Cant you?
Drop it! Drop it! Get over there!
Well cut the pretense, eh?
Get back there! Stay there!
I will get paid...
whether I deliver you or they collect you here.
It is easy to make mistakes in this business, mon ami.
I wish to apologize.
Im sure I would have thought the same thing in your place.
We will stop you. You will not succeed.
- I have given him a sedative. - Can you help him?
Perhaps one of the psychiatrists in Paris can help him.
I am only a country physician. No.
It is my opinion only Kleinemann can give him back his identity.
He has given him a serum. Only Kleinemann will have the antidote.
- But I will stay with him. - Then we have to get Kleinemann out and bring him here.
The project comes first.
If we can get Kleinemann and still obtain our objective, we will do it.
But remember, the lives of a great many men depend on how effective we are.
The direct assault is out.
We must change our plans.
Along which wall of the gestapo basement are the telephone cables?
The west wall.
Trés bien. We will avoid gestapo headquarters altogether.
You will cut the cables and electric wires behind gestapo headquarters.
If they are expecting us, this will confirm their suspicions.
We will go into the basement. When you have finished,join us there.
It is now... 10:46.
- What about getting Kleinemann? - If we are lucky...
you can make your try after we have set the bomb.
Okay.
The basement we want is this side of gestapo headquarters.
When the guard starts the other way, we go.
- When you have cut the wires, meet us in the basement. - Okay.
Now.
Where are they?
Perhaps Mirabeau was lying.
No. Relax, Major.
A man like Mirabeau doesnt lie...
when theres a large amount of money at stake.
- You see? - Get ready.
The wires are cut.
Four meters. The main cable should be right behind this wall.
Are you sure you have enough explosives?
When this goes off, there will be nothing left of the gestapo except a charred building.
- How much time can you give me to get Kleinemann? - Three minutes.
- Three minutes? - You cover the bomb. I will go and help him.
What does Kleinemann look like?
Oh, about 60 years old, craggy face, mustache-
- Youll never get him out! - Look, make some noise.
That should draw some of them downstairs.
Very well. But three minutes. Now get going!
They are tunneling through the basement walls.
You two get downstairs. Go next door. Cut them off.
Hold it.!
This building is gonna blow up in one minute, Dr. Kleinemann.
You have 30 seconds to get the antidote to the serum you used on the American.
- Yes, but I- - Get it!
Im a scientist. Dontt expect any false heroic gestures from me.
If there is nothing more I can do, I will go now.
I will have many patients today.
Le bon Dieu bless you, Doctor.
Thank you.
You know my voice.
You will do what I tell you to do.
You will listen.
Your name is Douglas Phillips.
You will resume your real identity.
What has happened to you will seem like a dream.
Its not working, Kleinemann!
The antidote is in his bloodstream. It takes time.
On the count of three, you will awaken.
You will feel fresh, alert, relaxed...
better than you ever felt in your life.
One, two, three!
Tony!
- Whats going on here? - Thatss gonna take some explaining.
- It is the beginning. - The invasion.
Its morning, June the sixth.
I should leave you here to the mercy of the bombers.
But you have information we need, and you will give it to us.
We must all get to the shelter.
A terrible necessity, Ray.
I want to try for a transfer as soon as possible.
Tracking and ready, sir.
Hold it until I give the word... and pray that it works.
- Wed better get to shelter. - Right.
This, then, Your Majesty, is the great Magna Carta...
limiting the powers of the king and establishing the rights of man.
It needs only your signature to make it the law of the land.
You, the Earl of Huntington!
You call yourself a loyal subject?
This is treason! Treason!
Ill hang you and all the barons who follow your flag.!
Seize the traitor! Seize him!
Dont let him escape!
Surrender.! Surrender now.!
Chain him to the wall.
Go tell the captain of the guards to search the castle.
More of Huntingtons men may have got in.
Im sorry you became involved in my quarrel with the king.
But well die for a good cause.
- Just who are you? - That doesnt matter.
But as for the Magna Carta, King john will sign it.
- Im sure of it. - Itss a pity wellll never live to see it.
Heat the other iron.
Where is the Council of Barons meeting?