- Cheryl Portman: "Mohnfeld"... Odd name for a German officer?
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: [confused] We can't *all* be named *Schmidt*, Fraulein Portman.
- Major Craig: Your war's going to last a lot longer than mine Captain.
- Captain Berghman: Its 2000 years old now. For the first time since Jesus we're beginning to think and feel as a people. The days of the wandering Jew are coming to an end. We're going home.
- Major Craig: Palestine?
- Captain Berghman: Israel, Major. Israel. That's where we began. Anyone looking for trouble in the future will know where to find us.
- Major Craig: We better be moving once the burial party is finished.
- Captain Berghman: Why waste the time? A few feet of sand won't make any difference.
- Major Craig: You heard the order.
- Captain Berghman: That smoke can be seen for miles.
- Major Craig: Look Berghman, if you have any complaints take them to the Colonel. Or find yourself a Rabbi.
- Colonel Harker: Its out of the question.
- Major Craig: Colonel Harker, you went to an awful lot of trouble to Shanghai me in on this mission. If you're not going to follow my advice what the hell am I doing here?
- Colonel Harker: You can't take heavy transport through that without mine detectors.
- Major Craig: Why are you telling me? You brought me along to tell you.
- Colonel Harker: Alright Major, tell me.
- Alfie: Corr, I get a cold feeling down the back of me neck just looking at 'em.
- Dolan: What kind of bleedin' mission are we going on anyway Sir?
- Sergeant Major Tyne: You'll know when you're supposed to, not before.
- Alfie: Meaning you don't know either 'ay Sar' Major?
- Sergeant Major Tyne: Alright alright, what is this gentlemen. Well, all of you come on out!
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: Sergeant Major
- Sergeant Major Tyne: Sir!
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: Do you have the orders regarding my men?
- Sergeant Major Tyne: We're to have no dealings with you SIG unless otherwise instructed. Sir!
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: See that those orders are complied with Sergeant Major.
- Sergeant Major Tyne: Sir!
- Sergeant Major Tyne: Taking orders from a ruddy Kraut. What's this bleedin' war coming to?
- Lt. Boyden: [asking about mortar setup] Everything OK?
- Alfie: Ah, Leftenant Boyden Sir, if you don't mind me asking. What's the old man up to now then?
- Lt. Boyden: A lovely scheme Alfie. A lovely scheme. He's going to stir up a bit of fighting between the Italian's and German's.
- Alfie: Well, how's he going to do that then Sir?
- Lt. Boyden: First we open fire on the German's. Then our mortars hit the Italian's. Now the Italian's see the German column and vice versa. So both of them get to thinking its the British on the other side that's doing all the firing, you see?
- Alfie: And they get themselves a bloody battle going.
- Lt. Boyden: [laughing] Right.
- Alfie: Blimey, do you think we'll make it Sir?
- Lt. Boyden: Know any good prayers Alfie?
- German Colonel: [salutes Colonel Harker] My compliments Colonel
- Colonel Harker: I have your assurance that our wounded will receive prompt medical care
- German Colonel: The best we can provide
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: As soon as you hand over the Kesserling document Colonel Harker
- Colonel Harker: Mohnfeld... ..
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: The name is Von Kruger
- German Colonel: Von Kruger, need I remind you of protocol?
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: This is an intelligence matter
- Colonel Harker: Then it wasn't Bruckner
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: What I told you was the truth, with one slight alteration. The Jew found me in the tunnel. The paper please.
- Captain Berghman: Sorry, we have no tea. Perhaps you'll settle for chocolate.
- Major Craig: Very British of you, Major.
- Captain Berghman: If those tanks reach El Alamein, the Germans have Egypt.
- Colonel Harker: They may have the lock, but we have the key. Without fuel, Jerry goes *nowhere*!
- Major Craig: Tuareg! Hold your fire. If there's one there's more.
- Colonel Harker: Wouldn't be the first time they've attacked a column.
- Captain Berghman: English column's Colonel. This is German.
- Alfie: A ruddy work of art mate even if I do say so myself.
- Dolan: It'll save the Jerry's the trouble of re-painting if we're taken.
- Alfie: Now that's a cheering thought. Handsome.
- Sergeant Major Tyne: Come on, come on, get cracking. You'll never get the Victoria Cross for admiring yourselves.
- Dolan: Its Charing Cross we're after sir.
- Alfie: I think Dolan's feeling a touch of the sun Sar' Major.
- Sergeant Major Tyne: You'll be feeling a touch of my boot if you don't hop to. This is Lybia, not London!
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: If my father in Tel Aviv could see me here now fighting for the British, he would take back my Bar Mitzvah.
- Captain Berghman: War and politics Mohnfeld, they always mix.
- Lt. Max Mohnfeld: Just the same, if he ever finds out, he'll give me another Bris.
- Cpl. Bruckner: Well, now we know how the Italian's must feel with their German allies huh?
- Sgt. Krug: And the English will throw us to the wolves just as quick.
- Captain Berghman: If we let them. Get the men ready Sergeant.
- Colonel Harker: What is it Sergeant Major?
- Sergeant Major Tyne: More coming Sir, over there on the other side.
- Colonel Harker: [turns around] They must be German. The Italian's are too fond of comfort to travel this late.
- [turns back to the Italian's]
- Colonel Harker: Their sentries haven't seen them yet. Take what men you need Berghman and make sure they don't.
- Captain Berghman: [in German] Bruckner, comenzi
- Colonel Harker: What do you estimate the range
- [of the approaching Germans]
- Colonel Harker: ?
- Major Craig: Two thousand yards, maybe a bit less.
- Colonel Harker: Twice the effective range of our mortars.
- Major Craig: I'll get the range finder. And prepare mortars.
- Lt. Boyden: Colonel Harker, Sir. Major Craig and Captain Bergman reporting.
- Colonel Harker: Oh thank you Boyden. Bergman. Hello Craig, good of you to come. I'll get right to it. Sometime ago you submitted a plan to Staff outlining a proposed raid on the German fuel bunkers at Tobruk.
- Major Craig: In its infinite wisdom, Staff turned my plan down.
- Colonel Harker: Things do have a way of changing though don't they Major. Rommel is 90 miles from Suez. Every shell, every gallon of petrol he gets has to come 300 miles from Tobruk. The RAF is doing its best, but still too much is getting through. So we're going to have a go at Rommel's source of supply.
- Major Craig: laughing
- Colonel Harker: Did I say something to uh, provoke humor?
- Major Craig: Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.
- Colonel Harker: Would you care to expand on that?
- Major Craig: When I submitted the plan we could have blown up their fuel bunkers with a handful of men. How in hell are we supposed to get through their defenses now?
- Colonel Harker: Drive through Major. Disguised as prisoners of war, guarded by Captain Bergman's personal Afrika Korps. The plan will still basically be yours, except now it will be maximum effort land, sea and air.
- Major Craig: Colonel, can you direct me to the nearest bus stop?
- Colonel Harker: We've been aware of an anti-royalist faction in the Egyptian military. But this?
- Captain Berghman: [pulls out his sidearm] I will do the honors Colonel
- Colonel Harker: That uniform's a disguise Bergman. Don't carry it too far.
- Captain Berghman: Shooting the girl, wouldn't trouble the Nazi's, if that is what's bothering you Herr Colonel
- Colonel Harker: What bothers me is going into action with officers who make rash and thoughtless moves. The Portman's think this is a German column transporting British prisoners. I want them to continue in that belief.
- Major Craig: I'll say one thing for the Germans, they certainly know how to build an engine.
- Captain Berghman: It doesn't cost much, either, when they use slave labor. Two hundred Jew power, Major.
- Major Craig: We all know what's going on in Europe.
- Captain Berghman: Well, if you do, if you really do, there must be a little of the Jew in you.
- Major Craig: They say there's a little of the Jew in everyone.
- Captain Berghman: Jah, a little of the Nazi, too.
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