Speaker 1: Monaco is the playground of the wealthy and privileged. Packed
Speaker 1: in less than a square mile of glistening coastline, It
Speaker 1: is one of the densest populations in the world while
Speaker 1: also possessing the most millionaires per capita. A place where
Speaker 1: you literally rub elbows with the rich and famous. But
Speaker 1: there are two truths I've learned over my many years
Speaker 1: of globe trotting. One you don't have to be rich
Speaker 1: to travel well. And two, travel is the only thing
Speaker 1: you can spend money on that actually makes you richer.
Speaker 1: So travel before it's too late, far and wide, early,
Speaker 1: and often alone and with friends. Don't be that person
Speaker 1: who's too busy when you're young and then too tired
Speaker 1: when you're old. Your money will return, your time won't,
Speaker 1: and we're all too quickly approaching that final destination.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your friend, Jane. I didn't have the
Speaker 2: chance to meet Fabian, but he was a valued asset
Speaker 2: and a brave man. He gave his life to secure
Speaker 2: that microphone. We're gonna make sure his death was not
Speaker 2: in vain. Fortunately we have a lead. The assassin knocked
Speaker 2: over an elderly janitor during his escape.
Speaker 1: Was he able to id the killer.
Speaker 2: He's refusing to speak to authorities. Casino Securities holding Hi
Speaker 2: until the police arrived, but Martin got us access to
Speaker 2: speak with him. Martin told me you were the best
Speaker 2: interrogator he had during the war.
Speaker 1: That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sure it's like riding a bicycle.
Speaker 1: You seem awfully young for this type of work. How
Speaker 1: old are you?
Speaker 2: Let me guess, what's a smart, attractive girl like you
Speaker 2: doing in a job like this? What should I be
Speaker 2: barefoot and pregnant somewhere instead?
Speaker 1: You clearly haven't met my wife. I've got no problem
Speaker 1: with women in the workplace. I mean, why the CIA.
Speaker 2: Maybe I wanted to see the world and meet new
Speaker 2: and interesting peace who want to kill you? Occupational hazard?
Speaker 1: I'm guessing Martin didn't find you at finishing school. How'd
Speaker 1: you two meet the Peace Corps?
Speaker 2: Actually, I was looking to change the world. Martin offered
Speaker 2: me that chance.
Speaker 1: A slight contradiction.
Speaker 2: The world is filled with contradictions. My parents worked for
Speaker 2: the Red Cross, so I grew up on the road
Speaker 2: like you. When I was seven, I caught the Measles
Speaker 2: say to leave me behind. Their ocean liner hit an
Speaker 2: iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank, killing everybody on board,
Speaker 2: including my brother and sister.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's horrible.
Speaker 2: Martin was a friend of the family. After I graduated college,
Speaker 2: he showed me evidence that the ship did not hit
Speaker 2: an iceberg but a Soviet torpedo. The KGB covered the
Speaker 2: whole incident up and the rest of the world didn't
Speaker 2: want to start World War three over it. My entire
Speaker 2: family was murder trying to save lives. How's that for contradiction.
Speaker 1: We're taking y'all have our motivations, and Martin is great
Speaker 1: at finding them. Speaking of what do we know about
Speaker 1: the witness.
Speaker 2: He's an undocumented worker, no paperwork or ID. It's probably
Speaker 2: too scared to speak to the authorities. We're holding him
Speaker 2: in a private room.
Speaker 3: Causino Montlo, keep the change, I see, state your business
Speaker 3: Martin's ANDAs MHM.
Speaker 2: Has he said anything yet not?
Speaker 3: The world just listens to the I.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you babysitting. Why don't you boys step outside for
Speaker 2: a cigarette while we talk to the gentleman.
Speaker 3: Yes, sire, Cherie hele Vien, he's all yours.
Speaker 1: Jane, good evening, sir. My name's Geen. I'm here to
Speaker 1: ask you a few questions. Do you speak English, Deutsch, Galliano,
Speaker 1: cattle in all right? Perhaps you need a little encouragement.
Speaker 2: Isn't a knife a little rush?
Speaker 1: Are not looking for a knife? Looking for this?
Speaker 2: A bottle?
Speaker 1: Opener, Hand me that bottle. It's probably nothing to write
Speaker 1: home about, but I doubt anyone will miss it. But
Speaker 1: nothing stimulates conversation like a glass of wine. I once
Speaker 1: got an SS officer to confess his battalion's position over
Speaker 1: a nice Cabernet wine. Fine wont graci yine yine, yine yine, Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, Rebecca. Check his out left forearm.
Speaker 2: There's a tattoo a number. He was in a concentration camp.
Speaker 1: Nobody has made poor through charity. Sadakatuka?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It's a Yiddish proverb. He's speaking Schwadiit a mixture of
Speaker 1: Hebrew and the local Oxetan dialect. It was spoken by
Speaker 1: French Jews in the region for hundreds of years, but
Speaker 1: now it's mostly a dead language after the Nazis wiped
Speaker 1: out entire villages. This man's not a hostile witness, just
Speaker 1: scared and confused. Give me five minutes alone with him
Speaker 1: and I'll see what he knows.
Speaker 2: He's all yours. I'll be outside.
Speaker 1: If every single retins, there.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't be much longer. Mind if I buy a smoke
Speaker 2: messy done already it was.
Speaker 1: A middle aged white male, medium height, blonde hair, blue eyes,
Speaker 1: and a hairlip. Take that to the authorities and have
Speaker 1: them scour the city.
Speaker 2: There's not enough manpower and we don't have enough time.
Speaker 2: There's less than two thousand locals in Monte Carlo, but
Speaker 2: over fifty thousand tourists visiting for the Grand Prix. So
Speaker 2: I bet he's hiding in the tourist population. It's a
Speaker 2: needle in a haystack.
Speaker 1: I've got an idea how we can cover more territory.
Speaker 1: Follow me, where are we going to consult? My own sources.
Speaker 1: For any traveler, it's easy to get lost in the
Speaker 1: bright lights of a new city, to be seduced by
Speaker 1: the security and comforts of the straight and narrow. But
Speaker 1: to truly discover a place, you must be willing to
Speaker 1: leave the beaten path and explore the darker corners, because
Speaker 1: the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Speaker 1: A premois la de LUGEI.
Speaker 2: Wow, what is this?
Speaker 1: Place, the Pompadil, greatest speakeasy in Monte Carlo, where the
Speaker 1: people that really run this city come to play. The valets, waiters,
Speaker 1: bus boys, pool boys, bartenders and cabaret dancers. They're the
Speaker 1: first to know anything, and the best at keeping secrets.
Speaker 2: Isn't that the waiter from the hotel sure is.
Speaker 1: Escuse him, Dominique. Can I speak with you a moment,
Speaker 1: Monsieur d'Or. Of course, we were just toasting in fabian zoo.
Speaker 1: He's a tragedy felt by all of us. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm here. A witness saw white male, blonde hair, blue
Speaker 1: eyes and a hairlift leave the murder scene. We think
Speaker 1: he's hiding amongst the tourists, so I figured i'd ask
Speaker 1: the eyes and ears of the city if anyone could
Speaker 1: find him. It's the people in this room.
Speaker 2: We give me.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: It helps to know people in low places.
Speaker 1: The service industry is the backbone of this city. They
Speaker 1: find what falls between the cracks. Monsieur d'Or. Fancois works
Speaker 1: valet at the hotel Armitage, and he's seen a man
Speaker 1: staying there that feeds the description. Thank you, Monique, can
Speaker 1: I offer oh? It is a pleasure just bring Fabian's
Speaker 1: killer to justice.
Speaker 2: Impressive lead. Let's head straight to the Amitage.
Speaker 1: Why us, you've got an ID and a location. Call
Speaker 1: the Monico police and have them search the hotel so they.
Speaker 2: Can screw it up and scare them off, and based
Speaker 2: on what evidence the word of a drunk valet. Sorry, Jean,
Speaker 2: We're not done yet, not by a long shot.
Speaker 1: We're here, So what's the plan.
Speaker 2: Find out his room number, confirm his identity, make the arrest.
Speaker 1: I know the Hermitage night manager. He's a real stuck up,
Speaker 1: self important asshole. Don't expect any cooperation from him.
Speaker 2: Oh don't worry. I've got my own means of persuasion,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't require a bottle of wine.
Speaker 1: In that case, I volunteer to stake out the bar.
Speaker 1: You'll know where to find me.
Speaker 2: Bon soolie, madame?
Speaker 1: How many sist to do?
Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm looking for my husband and I was
Speaker 2: hoping you could help.
Speaker 1: Of course, what this this nana and room numbell? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, that's just the thing. I'm his wife and I
Speaker 2: know he's here, but probably checked in under a different
Speaker 2: name because he is with her. Hmm. Tall, blonde hair,
Speaker 2: blue eyes, hairly, if you would just direct me to
Speaker 2: his room, I would be so grateful. I'm a real
Speaker 2: generous tipper.
Speaker 1: That's very generous, madame.
Speaker 4: But it is strictly against hotel policy to reveal the
Speaker 4: room number.
Speaker 2: I guess then why don't you just let me take
Speaker 2: a peek at the guest list?
Speaker 1: Impossibly in Paul See.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I don't know what's coming in to me.
Speaker 2: I've just traveled all this way and I know he's here,
Speaker 2: and so I would I would hate to see him
Speaker 2: in the lobby of this.
Speaker 5: Of this beautiful hotel and and you know, make a
Speaker 5: scene or something like that, because because if I see
Speaker 5: him with her, I'm just gonna start yelling and screaming
Speaker 5: and oh my god, the Lord.
Speaker 1: Knows what I might to my dam Please conduct.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't want to seem like that in the
Speaker 2: middle of your swanky, fancy little hotel, do you, or
Speaker 2: are you protecting them?
Speaker 6: Is that what men like you do protect other cheated,
Speaker 6: scumback assholes who come here to this fancy hotel hot
Speaker 6: in their horse Well, you profit on the misery of others, madam.
Speaker 4: Please, I would desist you if I could, but hotel
Speaker 4: policy strictly prevents me from conducting such actions, regardless of
Speaker 4: my no desios not to mention. We have hundreds of
Speaker 4: guests here at a hotel, and I have not seen
Speaker 4: the gentleman in question. I must ask you to lead
Speaker 4: the establishment. I'll be forced to call hotel security to
Speaker 4: escort you out.
Speaker 1: Fridge, did you find him?
Speaker 2: You're right? That manager's a total asshole. Is guarding the
Speaker 2: guest list like Fort Knox.
Speaker 1: So your feminine wiles have failed. Got a plan?
Speaker 2: B Well, I guess if we can't get to him,
Speaker 2: he'll just have to come to us.
Speaker 1: And how are we going to do that?
Speaker 2: Let me know if the bartender turns around.
Speaker 1: You can't be serious. Not the fire alarm.
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 7: Follow me?
Speaker 2: If he's here, we'll see him. Used to hear and
Speaker 2: watch the entrance. I'm gonna go check the other fire exits.
Speaker 1: Wait or there the guy in the tuxedo leaving the stairwell.
Speaker 1: He fits description?
Speaker 2: Holy shit, that's him. Where's it going in such a hurry?
Speaker 1: Why don't you arrest him and find out?
Speaker 2: Very funny? Come on, let's follow him. Looks like he's
Speaker 2: heading for the casino.
Speaker 1: Did we lose him?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 2: He is by the roulette table.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's placing some bets.
Speaker 2: Let's get a closer look, would you.
Speaker 1: He's betting on twelve different numbers, No more bits. Why
Speaker 1: are you staring like that?
Speaker 2: I memorizing the numbers. They must mean something.
Speaker 1: Just so happens. I've got a photographic memory.
Speaker 7: Twelve winner, he won?
Speaker 1: Where'd he go?
Speaker 4: Shit?
Speaker 2: I was too distracted by the numbers. Go check the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I'll cover the exit. Hoad on, hold on, excuse him?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: Ah, wow, my dam have a wonderful leaving.
Speaker 2: Excuse me. I'm looking for my brother. He is a
Speaker 2: medical condition and I think he may have just come
Speaker 2: by here. He's tall, blonde in a tuxedo.
Speaker 1: No, ma, dam I'm sorry. Shit, shit, nothing in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: no sign of him.
Speaker 2: Damn it. We lost him.
Speaker 1: What kind of guy leaves a roulette game without collecting
Speaker 1: his winnings?
Speaker 2: A guy who's after bigger prizes. Those numbers were a
Speaker 2: signaling meant something more important to him than money. It
Speaker 2: could be anything phone number, bank account, passport, or cipher
Speaker 2: to some encryption.
Speaker 7: So now what.
Speaker 2: Now? You go home to VLASTA. It's late and we
Speaker 2: don't want your wife getting suspicious do we I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go back to case the hotel than reporting to Martin.
Speaker 2: He won't be happy. No microfilm to share with the
Speaker 2: NATO Allies tomorrow, and the killer is still on the loose.
Speaker 1: First staged in nineteen twenty nine, the Monaco Grand Prix
Speaker 1: is the premiere motor sporting event in the world. Twenty
Speaker 1: racers who pilot the pinnacle and automotive innovation, speeding through
Speaker 1: the streets of the Principality at breakneck speeds, rocketing around
Speaker 1: the two mile course through hairpin turns and high speed
Speaker 1: tunnels to cross the finish line and win the checkered flag.
Speaker 1: The first to complete the seventy eight laps around the
Speaker 1: course won't just stand on a victor's podium, but will
Speaker 1: be escorted from their vehicle directly to the Royal Box,
Speaker 1: where they will receive the golden trophy from the Prince
Speaker 1: of Monaco himself. A race as dangerous as it is
Speaker 1: glamorous and prestigious.
Speaker 7: They're so loud I cannot lea on myself.
Speaker 2: Think, hello, Jem, what is going on with you? You've
Speaker 2: been writing the same paragraph for an hour.
Speaker 1: There are only so many letters in the alphabet. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I just keep going over last night in my head.
Speaker 1: I can't stop thinking about Fabian Melanchick.
Speaker 2: Can't work like this. Go back to the room and
Speaker 2: get some rest. I can take the photos and meet
Speaker 2: the publisher. You can write the race chapter later.
Speaker 1: Wait, what did you just say?
Speaker 2: I said, do you should take a break?
Speaker 1: And no? Before that letters in the alphabet, I was
Speaker 1: joking that you were taking so long to choose them.
Speaker 1: That's it?
Speaker 2: What's it?
Speaker 7: Are you all right?
Speaker 1: I will be I'm gonna go back to the room.
Speaker 1: I'll meet you there later. Be safe. You're brilliant.
Speaker 7: Get some rest.
Speaker 1: Rebecca Martin, are you there? It's Jane. It's important, Geane.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Are you all right?
Speaker 1: Did you catch the killer yet?
Speaker 2: He never came back to the hotel. We've got the
Speaker 2: whole police force out looking for him, and right now
Speaker 2: Martin is meeting with the ambassadors, unfortunately without the microfilm.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is the killer doesn't have it either.
Speaker 1: I figured out what the numbers mean on the way over.
Speaker 2: The numbers on the roulette wheel.
Speaker 1: You got a pen. It wasn't a cipher code or coordinates.
Speaker 1: It was a language. Cyrillic look there are thirty three
Speaker 1: letters in the alphabet. You assign each letter a number
Speaker 1: from the Roulett wheel and scramble the letters.
Speaker 2: It spells missing in Russian. They don't have the microfilm either.
Speaker 1: That's right, and I know where Fabian may have hit it.
Speaker 2: Then what are we waiting for? I've got a vespa
Speaker 2: parked outside.
Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas Cathedral, also known as cat Bral de nocred
Speaker 1: Dame i Macule, was built on the site of the
Speaker 1: first parish church in Monaco circa twelve fifty two. Dedicated
Speaker 1: to Saint Nicholas. After that church was destroyed, the cathedral
Speaker 1: was built in eighteen seventy five and consecrated in nineteen eleven.
Speaker 1: Since its construction, the cathedral has been the site of
Speaker 1: royal events from birth to death, royal christenings, weddings and funerals,
Speaker 1: all taking place within its Romanesque Revival walls. Grace Kelly
Speaker 1: married Prince Regner in the cathedral. Their children were christened
Speaker 1: at the Great Altar, and since it was built over
Speaker 1: the cemetery of the first parish church, most of the
Speaker 1: sovereign princes and consorts are now buried beneath the cathedral floor.
Speaker 1: Besides perhaps the Royal Palace. No building encompasses the history
Speaker 1: and legacy of the Grimaldi royal family and Monaco.
Speaker 2: More, we're here Church of Saint Nick.
Speaker 1: Let's go inside.
Speaker 2: It's locked up closed for race day.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you could pick a lock. See the
Speaker 1: priest entrance over there.
Speaker 3: Back.
Speaker 1: Guess that's one way to do it.
Speaker 2: Oh, this place is huge. What are we looking for?
Speaker 1: When Fabian was dying, his last words were prey to
Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas. For me, I didn't think anything of it
Speaker 1: at the time. But Fabian wasn't a devout man. He
Speaker 1: was a clever man, though, and he knew his history.
Speaker 1: He would know something, wouldn't be disturbed.
Speaker 2: What about this marble throne.
Speaker 1: That's the great altar made from Carrera marble. Too popular. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: In the corner there's one of the most historic and
Speaker 1: important pieces in the cathedral.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. The painting is attached to the altar.
Speaker 1: It's a retable created in fifteen hundred by local Renaissance
Speaker 1: painter Ludovico Brea in Saint Nicholas's honor. That's Nicholas seated
Speaker 1: at the center. So if I I was to pray
Speaker 1: to him. As Fabian requested, I would get down on
Speaker 1: one knee, just as I thought. This panel is loose
Speaker 1: boila the microfilm.
Speaker 2: Holy shit, it's a dead drop. Let me see that.
Speaker 1: Not so fast. I want to know what's on this
Speaker 1: film first. What is so important that I'm risking my
Speaker 1: life after Fabian already lost his.
Speaker 2: You know, I can just take it right. Fourth degree
Speaker 2: black Belta in all fine, it's maps, Pathfinder maps, Pathfinder.
Speaker 2: That's the Soviet code name. We're not sure if it's
Speaker 2: a person or a covert KGB unit, but it's the
Speaker 2: most effective weapon the Soviets have in this Cold War.
Speaker 2: Our sources inside the Kremlin say Pathfinders created detailed maps
Speaker 2: of every metropolitan city in the world that include government buildings,
Speaker 2: military installations, diplomatic missions, power grids, even soft targets like
Speaker 2: schools and hospitals. Everything you'd want to know to plan
Speaker 2: an invasion or stop one. They say. Pathfinders work in Cuba,
Speaker 2: for Castro created the Bay of Pigs disaster, so.
Speaker 1: These maps could be the key to stopping World War III,
Speaker 1: or the key to winning it. Don't move or I'll shoot. Please,
Speaker 1: we're unarmed. There's no need for violence. I assure you,
Speaker 1: who do you work for? How did you find me
Speaker 1: the casino?
Speaker 2: You are more obvious than a neon billboard.
Speaker 1: This is all a misunderstanding. I'm just a travel writer
Speaker 1: and name's Eugene Fodor. I was a friend of Fabian's.
Speaker 1: He had invited me for the race Flyer.
Speaker 2: He's been holding me hostage. He works for the CIA.
Speaker 2: Save me?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 5: What k.
Speaker 1: Not so tough?
Speaker 2: Without your gun?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 1: I don't play with little girls.
Speaker 2: Prob the gun and run, Gene go.
Speaker 7: Just sorry, so sorry, thank God, please help.
Speaker 1: That man is chasing me, so to all myself. I
Speaker 1: even did the on this point. I screw it, s
Speaker 1: Sisto set. Now there's a guy on the race.
Speaker 7: Oh god, oh ship.
Speaker 2: In another wire?
Speaker 8: Oh these guys wait, wait, wait, look down. The first
Speaker 8: guy made it across the tract. The second guy wasn't
Speaker 8: so lucky. That's gonna take a while to clean up.
Speaker 4: Bonjour a, May I help you, Madame Velasta Phodor.
Speaker 2: I'm meeting a guest for Tea.
Speaker 9: He's just arrived right this way, ah, missus Phodor, Martin
Speaker 9: Blanding Perman Next Industry is such a pleasure to finally
Speaker 9: meet you.
Speaker 10: Is Eugene not joining us?
Speaker 2: He's not feeling well, resting back at the room. Do
Speaker 2: you know my husband?
Speaker 1: In truth?
Speaker 10: For many years I knew Jan during the war, and
Speaker 10: this was intended to be a surprise. I was his
Speaker 10: commanding officer in fact.
Speaker 2: Oh, so you knew Fabian too.
Speaker 10: I did Fabian, and I thought we'd surprise Jean. But
Speaker 10: the past days events clearly changed those plans.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's awful. Sounds like you and Jane have a
Speaker 2: long history.
Speaker 10: I knew Jene's father as well. I served with him
Speaker 10: in the OSS. He was a close friend and the
Speaker 10: best geographer and strategist we had in intelligence. Did you
Speaker 10: know he helped plan the Norman the invasion we'd even
Speaker 10: chosen a different beach had to land in, pointed out
Speaker 10: the geographical disadvantages. Without him, we might all be speaking
Speaker 10: German now.
Speaker 2: I wish I could have met Jean's father. He sounds
Speaker 2: like an impressive man, as is your husband.
Speaker 10: But please don't be mistaken. While I have a personal
Speaker 10: connection to your husband, my company's interests in your travel
Speaker 10: guides is purely professional. I truly believe with perm Index's help,
Speaker 10: your travel guides can be on every bookshelf and every
Speaker 10: hotel in the world.
Speaker 2: I'm all yours. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jean. What's going on?
Speaker 1: I was looking for you in the grandstand and then
Speaker 1: you weren't in the room, so I got worried. But
Speaker 1: I remembered you had the meeting Martin. What are you
Speaker 1: doing here?
Speaker 2: Martin is the new publisher.
Speaker 10: Sorry, Jean, I meant to surprise you with Fabian. But
Speaker 10: the truth is we've been watching the two of you
Speaker 10: for years, and I see a tremendous opportunity with your company.
Speaker 10: It's the jet set agent. People want to see the world.
Speaker 10: Who better than the two of you to guide them.
Speaker 2: He is authoring distribution, of course he is.
Speaker 1: Martin's a great salesman. Yeah, just better make sure you
Speaker 1: know what you're buying. Honey, would be so kind as
Speaker 1: to let me speak with Martin privately. Just a couple
Speaker 1: war buddies catching up, Gina.
Speaker 2: Are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 1: Perfectly fine. I'll meet you back at the hotel.
Speaker 2: Boys will be boys. I guess a pleasure to meet you, Martin.
Speaker 2: I look forward to next time.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, my dear. You're a lucky man, I
Speaker 1: know so what the hell are you doing? I said,
Speaker 1: to keep her out of it.
Speaker 10: Fabian and I were going to explain last night.
Speaker 1: What that You've been manipulating us for months. I should
Speaker 1: have know the moment I saw you. Fabian didn't invite
Speaker 1: me here to see him. He invited me here to
Speaker 1: see you.
Speaker 10: You are extremely important to the CIA, Jean, Fabian and
Speaker 10: I wanted to approach you together, but before we did,
Speaker 10: I had to make sure you could see how this
Speaker 10: relationship would be mutually beneficial. We have the capital and
Speaker 10: the connections to build your books into a massive global brand.
Speaker 10: I'm not only here asking for your help. I'm offering
Speaker 10: to make your dreams a reality.
Speaker 1: I told you last night, I'm not a spy.
Speaker 10: You don't have to be. Just be who you are.
Speaker 10: The greatest travel writer in the world. Think of it.
Speaker 10: You speak multiple languages, understand cultures and customs, can move
Speaker 10: freely and conduct surveillance without suspicion, have contacts around the world,
Speaker 10: all the necessary ingredients for the perfect spy. All you
Speaker 10: have to do is what you do best and.
Speaker 1: End up like Fabian. I was almost killed today.
Speaker 10: Fabian died for something he believed in. He believed in freedom.
Speaker 10: He believed in democracy, he believed in you. This world
Speaker 10: is on the brink of nuclear war, Gene. If that happens,
Speaker 10: no one is safe.
Speaker 1: And what about Vosta.
Speaker 10: Last would never have to know, so you can focus
Speaker 10: on growing your business safe and protected. She would have
Speaker 10: everything she wants.
Speaker 1: No. Thanks, appreciate the offer, but we're gonna have to decline.
Speaker 1: Our business is doing just fine and we're not looking
Speaker 1: at any complications. But here's your microfilm, and you'll find
Speaker 1: Fabian's killer spread across that you came to port. Rebecca
Speaker 1: can confirm both with you the film.
Speaker 10: Jeane, you're a genius.
Speaker 1: Fabian was the genius. I was just being a good friend.
Speaker 1: From now on, stay away from me and my wife.
Speaker 1: You need more help finding something in Monte Carlo. Buy
Speaker 1: our guidebook, Jeane.
Speaker 10: There's more you should know. It's about your father.
Speaker 1: My father is dead. What if he wasn't? What manipulative bullshit?
Speaker 10: Is this bullshit? Sit down and I'll show you. You
Speaker 10: want to know what Fabian died for, Take this loop
Speaker 10: and see for yourself.
Speaker 1: I suppose I am curious. Tell me what you see.
Speaker 1: It's a map London, incredibly detailed subway line, gas mains
Speaker 1: bridge and tunnel schematics, military installations, diplomatic missions. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're playing an attack on London.
Speaker 10: Now look at the rest of the role.
Speaker 1: More maps, more cities, Berlin, Rome, Paris, the.
Speaker 10: KGB's next targets. These Pathfender maps are so top secret
Speaker 10: any Soviet soldier who lost one would be shot on site.
Speaker 10: I'm guessing Fabian wasn't the only one who died smuggling
Speaker 10: them out. But Fabian didn't just die to share them
Speaker 10: with the world. He died to share them with you.
Speaker 10: Take a closer look at the key in the Berlin map,
Speaker 10: the symbols.
Speaker 1: There's a discrepancy in the symbology, all right, someone hit
Speaker 1: letters initials. My father's initials his secret signature. He and
Speaker 1: I developed it during the war to verify the authenticity
Speaker 1: of classified documents. Is this a trick? My father was
Speaker 1: killed in a bombing rate outside Munich. They buried his
Speaker 1: body with military.
Speaker 10: That's what the Soviets wanted us to believe.
Speaker 1: He's still alive. You think he's the Pathfinder.
Speaker 10: In truth, we suspected it for years, but never had
Speaker 10: the proof until now. I'm sorry to have to tell
Speaker 10: you like this Gene, you can't be serious. Towards the
Speaker 10: end of the war, the OSS ran a program called
Speaker 10: Operation paper Clip to bring the best Nazi scientists and
Speaker 10: nuclear engineers to America to prevent their knowledge from getting
Speaker 10: into Soviet hands. You believe your father was recruited by
Speaker 10: the Soviets in a similar operation as a means to
Speaker 10: gain a strategic military advantage.
Speaker 1: My father was a hero. He helped the Allies win
Speaker 1: the war.
Speaker 10: He was Jane, but he's also been at the center
Speaker 10: of every communist revolution in the past fifteen years.
Speaker 1: It's a lie.
Speaker 10: Fabian thought you'd say that he knew how much you
Speaker 10: loved your father and how hard this would be. He
Speaker 10: only agreed to approach you once we had the evidence.
Speaker 10: Fabian sacrificed his life so you would know the truth.
Speaker 10: No one understands these maps or the man who made
Speaker 10: them better than you. Help us bring him in, Gene,
Speaker 10: help us win this war.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you're good Martin. You always know just the
Speaker 1: right buttons to press. Fine, I'll help, but if I
Speaker 1: do this, I do it on my terms. No handlers,
Speaker 1: no bureaucracy. I work with you and you alone, and
Speaker 1: I want Vlosta protected. You have my word, and if
Speaker 1: you're right, we bring my father in alive. No court martial,
Speaker 1: no military tribunal. He gets a fair trial and a
Speaker 1: court of law agreed. Good, and I have some other
Speaker 1: conditions too. You might want to get a pen.
Speaker 2: Glad to see they're not scraping you off of turn four.
Speaker 2: I'mlike our assassin, Becca, you are right.
Speaker 1: I checked back at the room. You weren't there.
Speaker 2: I was just dealing with the authorities. They're calling it
Speaker 2: a suicide to avoid frightening the tourists and the precess
Speaker 2: too focused on the Grand prix to care good.
Speaker 10: But unfortunately, without the evidence imminent Soviet threat, the NATO
Speaker 10: officials refuse to sign the peace treaty. Without Fabian's intelligence,
Speaker 10: there's no way to convince them. But now we have
Speaker 10: the maps, yes, and I'm gonna need you to deliver
Speaker 10: them to MI six.
Speaker 2: Immediately pack your bags, Eugene, We're heading to London.
Speaker 7: Wait, hold the train.
Speaker 2: Where the hell have you been? The train's about to leave.
Speaker 1: Sorry, got delayed, but I picked up some reading material
Speaker 1: for the trip. Check this out.
Speaker 2: You got the contract from Martin.
Speaker 1: It's everything. We've been working for the money to set
Speaker 1: up an office in New York, hire more writers, expand
Speaker 1: to South America, Africa, the Far East, worldwide distribution. You're right,
Speaker 1: this is the chance to build a global brand. But
Speaker 1: only if my partner agrees.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, you won't regret this gene. It's going
Speaker 2: to change everything. Come on, let's get on board.
Speaker 1: Why do we travel? What compels us to the next horizon?
Speaker 1: Is it the desire to escape, to discover, to reinvent?
Speaker 1: Or are we just in search of something we can
Speaker 1: never find. Travel takes us places we've never been, introduces
Speaker 1: new tastes, new sights, new sounds. But travel is never
Speaker 1: about losing yourself. It's about finding yourself. For we can
Speaker 1: travel to the furthest corners of the earth in search
Speaker 1: of what we need, but we must return home to
Speaker 1: find it.
Speaker 11: Fodor's Guide to Espionage is created by Lars Jacobson, written
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Speaker 11: Produced by Lars Jacobson and Sabrina Jaglam, and executive produced
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Speaker 11: stars Ethan Korn as Eugene Fodor, Leliah Symington as Vlasta
Speaker 11: Fodor and Jackie Emerson as Rebecca Ralston, with additional performances
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