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Speaker 1: You might feel lost, trapped, even helpless. But with the

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Speaker 1: yourself or your travel companions. Delays might keep you from

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Speaker 2: Jeane, are you just gonna stare out the window all morning?

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Speaker 2: Or help us come up with a plan to escape?

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Speaker 1: I just can't believe I've locked down all of East Berlin.

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Speaker 3: That I have no trouble believing, but building a wall

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Speaker 1: Flost is gonna be worried sick.

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Speaker 2: News of the lockdown must have already reached her, so

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Speaker 1: That won't be good enough for my wife. I won't

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Speaker 1: If I don't get word to her soon, Martin.

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Speaker 2: Will be all over this. He'll make sure she's taken

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Speaker 1: But for how long?

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Speaker 2: Hopefully not long?

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Speaker 3: This is all my fault. Perhaps I should try to

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Speaker 3: head home.

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Speaker 1: We came here to help you and your nephew escape.

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Speaker 1: We will still find a way out for all of us.

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Speaker 2: That's right. No more sitting around here feeling sorry for ourselves.

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Speaker 1: The city is shut down, roads and checkpoints closed, trains

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Speaker 2: And the National People's Army and combat groups of the

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Speaker 2: working class soldiers are guarding the construction, with orders to

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Speaker 3: How long are we savi you?

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Speaker 2: This safe house won't be compromised, But the longer we're here,

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Speaker 2: the harder it will be to cross the border. Every

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Speaker 1: Would it be foolish to assume there was a plan B?

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Speaker 2: Well, there was a plan BC and D, but this

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Speaker 3: Are there any papers you can think of that could help?

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Speaker 3: I could make whatever needed.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure of it. Huh. That does make me

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Speaker 2: think I have a contact here in the east, a

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Speaker 2: black marketer who we've used before to help move things.

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Speaker 1: Is he good enough to help move us?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna find him and find out where does he live?

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Speaker 2: Prince Lauerberg, I'll go check it out and be back

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Speaker 1: We'll go with you.

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Speaker 2: With Javago being hunted, it's best I go alone. I

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Speaker 1: If you insist, be safe, I'm sure she'll be back soon.

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Speaker 4: Do you know Elvis?

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Speaker 1: Her photo be Elvis?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 5: The King My uncle said you were famous, have your

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Speaker 1: I never met the man, but I've been to Memphis,

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Speaker 3: Listening to Elvis was al Mattia's firstly in English. Now

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Speaker 1: It's a great way to learn. I used to pretend

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Speaker 4: My uncle is to me about how you get to

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Speaker 5: I want to see end on everything, not be trapped

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Speaker 5: Of course, of course, please tell me more about America,

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Speaker 1: For an avid learner like yourself, Just be prepared for

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Speaker 1: all derived from the beauty of free speech.

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Speaker 5: Incredible, and you can criticize the government openly.

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Speaker 1: If you so choose. But most importantly, if you have

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Speaker 4: This is what my uncle told me. But it's great

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Speaker 1: And I know better than most. I was born in Hungary,

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Speaker 1: I thought that when you meet people from different cultures,

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Speaker 3: But of course woy is what always happens.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was in the United States promoting my guide

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Speaker 1: I vowed to never return to Europe except in uniform,

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Speaker 4: Was it difficult to fight for countries? Is it not

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Speaker 3: Ah?

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Speaker 1: But that's exactly how it became mine. It wasn't because

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Speaker 1: to my wife, it is a decision I've never regretted.

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Speaker 4: I hope one day to make the same choice.

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Speaker 1: I hope we give you the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jean, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That must be Rebecca Good and tag youngs. You startled us.

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Speaker 2: That's the vibe of the whole city. Nervous citizens are

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Speaker 2: and he's going to help.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's great news.

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Speaker 2: He runs a small car repair shop in Mitta. We're

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Speaker 2: going to relocate there and he'll smuggle us out.

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Speaker 1: You're sure it's safe.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the best option we have. Everyone, grab your things,

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Speaker 2: we won't be returning here, Ziggy. I returned. Hello, Rebecca,

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Speaker 2: come to the back, Siggy. This is my colleague Jeene

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Speaker 2: and our friends.

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Speaker 6: Pleased to meet you. Crazy day, no Soviet it's always

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Speaker 6: liked to build falls and destroy bridges.

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Speaker 1: Bad for business. Thank you for helping us, ah, but.

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Speaker 3: We all help each other.

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Speaker 6: I get sings in, I get sings out.

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Speaker 3: I do not ask what.

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Speaker 6: I only tell you. The cost, which they must tell you,

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Speaker 6: has just sent up much likes of all that is

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Speaker 2: Of course, See, we don't have a lot of money

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Speaker 2: with denim jeans and rock fine.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I do love the Levi's.

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Speaker 6: And they fetch a pretty penny with the coms.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, prices just went up.

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Speaker 6: you have a deal.

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Speaker 1: But I've on you.

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Speaker 6: All my usual routes have been closed. The only one

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Speaker 1: Can you get us through it?

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Speaker 6: This this new high security. A normal smuggler would say

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Speaker 6: it is madness. But Ziggy is best smuggler in the world,

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Speaker 6: and Ziggy has an idea.

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Speaker 1: Some might say crazy.

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Speaker 3: I say genius.

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Speaker 6: You see this family automobile right here, A traby that

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Speaker 6: says Schweinschlager family volks band on the side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So last month I help a folk music band escape

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Speaker 6: to the Vest. They saw a brighter future there for

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Speaker 7: The uncle here.

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Speaker 2: Nothing trusty about it, Trovi.

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Speaker 1: I'm leaning toward crazy here.

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Speaker 3: No, it's genius.

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Speaker 6: I tell you, sees this flyer here. A Volks music festival,

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Speaker 6: the biggest in Germany, happened yesterday here in the east,

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Speaker 2: I was going to.

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Speaker 6: Sell my new acquisitions, but I had a little too

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Speaker 1: Yep, definitely crazy.

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Speaker 6: No, don't you see these bands from the Vest. There

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Speaker 6: are many, and they all want to get home. I

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Speaker 6: Vest as a family band.

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Speaker 1: That's absurd, Rebecca, We're wasting time here.

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Speaker 8: It is absurd.

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Speaker 2: But they aren't looking for a family, and hiding in

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Speaker 2: a crowd does make sense.

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Speaker 4: I even have papers for you.

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Speaker 3: Let me see those, these passports, as Heiser. But I

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Speaker 5: I think it's fallen through a party in the county jail.

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Speaker 2: Like Elvis, It's actually not so crazy. We can all

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Speaker 2: speak German enough to get by, and if the checkpoint

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Speaker 2: to audition. Frankly, it's the best option we have. And

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Speaker 2: the clock is.

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Speaker 1: Ticking all right, I guess if the later Hosen fits

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Speaker 1: wear it. Though much of Germany can resemble the modern world,

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Speaker 1: they have their own distinct tastes in music, food, and fashion,

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Speaker 1: all of which they take great pride in. For example,

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Speaker 1: in fashion, there is the male outfit of led Josen

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Speaker 1: that may defy logic but remain the life of the party.

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Speaker 1: Imagine leather shorts with suspenders, accompanied by a blouse, knee

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Speaker 1: this with plenty of beer, pretzels and broughtwurst at the

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Speaker 1: sing along in chorus with the rest of the crowd

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Speaker 1: as the ump pumppa ump pumppa of the Volks music

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Speaker 2: Whoa nice legs, Jean?

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Speaker 1: Don't objectify me in my later hosan at least your

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Speaker 1: derndal seems to fit.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I'm not quite as booksome as this wardrobe requires.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, don't you both look fantastic. Hear the completed

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Speaker 3: to memory. Where's Mattias? He's working on Zika with Ziggy.

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Speaker 3: Come this way, Oh go, I think I fixed it.

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Speaker 6: It might not be roomy or reliable, but it will

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Speaker 2: Where will we put the instruments? They won't fit on

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Speaker 1: Stuff them in the trunk.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you say, I'll drive in case we get stopped

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Speaker 2: the ab sheet Ziggy, thank you for the help. Good luck.

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Speaker 6: I look forward to my airlift of Levice.

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Speaker 8: You have my word.

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Speaker 1: If you are renting a car on vacation, try to

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Speaker 2: Gene, watch out, Stasi police car up ahead?

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Speaker 1: Shit, everyone, get down on the floor. What do I do?

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Speaker 2: Just keep your hands on the wheel and look straight ahead.

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Speaker 1: Shit? He's pulling out and following us. What should I do?

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Speaker 2: Keep calm? We don't know if he's onto us yet.

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Speaker 1: What if your friend, Zuki you got a better offer

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Speaker 2: He wouldn't risk it.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure as the Soviets have put a pretty big

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Speaker 1: There's a stop light coming up ahead as he's still following. Yes,

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Speaker 9: Hum.

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Speaker 2: If the answer is yes, stay silent. If no, do

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Speaker 1: Hmm?

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Speaker 2: Okay? What are you doing making sure we're prepared?

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Speaker 3: Why did you get that gun?

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Speaker 2: Sickie really loves his leviys gene. When you hear a gunshot,

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Speaker 7: Hold on, everyone, okay, just drive, I'm done.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing? I said, drive? I'm dating on

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Speaker 7: I am is as fast as it goes.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, are you going?

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Speaker 1: You can't outrun them in this piece of crap, but

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Speaker 1: It's one way down this alley because.

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Speaker 2: I've only got one bullet left. Hold it steady. I

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Speaker 3: Wow, that was like John Vayne.

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Speaker 1: Nice work. But now what are covers more blow than

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Speaker 2: We need a new place to hide in a new

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Speaker 10: I know a place by Zarriva, very close an old

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Speaker 1: The river Spree might sound small, especially as it is

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Speaker 1: but the Spree is nothing to be sniffed. At approximately

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Speaker 1: Czech Republic. In Berlin, the Spree was where the original

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Speaker 1: from a rather different perspective as the river winds between them.

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Speaker 1: You can choose your time too for something really lovely

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Speaker 1: But more recently, the Sprie has also become a border

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Speaker 1: below underwater, chain link fences, submersible mines and barricades create

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Speaker 3: You know, Jane, you stare at a river like I

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Speaker 3: used to as a boy. Back then, this time of year,

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Speaker 3: the Spree would be filled with swimmers. Now it's illegal

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Speaker 3: and you'd only get shot.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not that way forever.

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Speaker 3: A riven never stays the Sames they say.

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Speaker 1: Nope, can never step into the same river twice.

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Speaker 3: I want to thank you, Jean for risking your life

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Speaker 3: to save us. You are more like your father than

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Speaker 3: justin looks. He would be very very proud.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know what to think about my father

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Speaker 1: right now. Humh For so long I thought he was dead.

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Speaker 1: I grieved him and made my peace with it. But

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Speaker 1: now not only do I learn he's alive, but that

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Speaker 1: he's been helping the Soviets for years. If it's true,

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Speaker 1: it betrays everything I believed for so long.

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Speaker 3: I can tell you from experience, many men are forced

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Speaker 3: to make opromises. Only they can know the whole truth.

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Speaker 3: I suppose, but I know this, he is still the

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Speaker 3: man that you think he is.

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Speaker 1: How can you be sure?

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Speaker 3: Because I know he tried to escape to the Vest.

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Speaker 3: He had me make him a passport.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing?

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Speaker 3: I've kept it in the lining of my coat to

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Speaker 3: give to you when we crossed. But there's no need

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Speaker 3: to wait.

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Speaker 1: Here. My God, it's really him. I haven't seen him

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Speaker 1: in so many years.

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Speaker 3: That photo is a few years old now, but I'm

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Speaker 3: sure he hasn't changed.

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Speaker 1: Happened to him?

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Speaker 3: Za KGB took him in the night before I could

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Speaker 3: give it to him, No Chavai. Maybe they had heard

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Speaker 3: of his plans, Maybe they just needed him for theirs.

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Speaker 3: When Martin told me you would be my escort across,

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Speaker 3: I thought I'd give it to you. Hopefully you'll meet

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Speaker 3: him again before I do. For me, most likely in

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Speaker 3: the next life, but please keep it for him and,

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Speaker 3: with luck, one day put it to use.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Hopefully one day we're all together toasting to

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Speaker 1: Mattais's graduation. What is this in the passport? A postcard?

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Speaker 3: It's the last message I received from your father.

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Speaker 1: There's no message or address, only a quote from a

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Speaker 1: certain point onward. There's no longer any turning back. That

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Speaker 1: is the point that must be reached.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't sure what it meant, but I recognized his

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Speaker 3: I knew it must mean something.

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Speaker 1: It's a Franz Coffka quote, Ka ka kafka. He must

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Speaker 1: be in Prague.

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Speaker 3: You two do think alike. You know I have more

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Speaker 3: passports in my coat lining. I was saving them to

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Speaker 3: use his leverage once we were in the West. But

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Speaker 3: in case something happens to me while we are trying

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Speaker 3: to escape, I want you to have them, Jeane. These

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Speaker 3: men are extremely dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Then Rebecca is the safest choice to hang on to them.

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Speaker 1: Plus it earns you bonus points with the CIA.

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Speaker 2: Rebecca, you boys have our plans se figured out yet.

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Speaker 1: Still working on it. But in the meantime, I want.

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Speaker 3: You to have zies.

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Speaker 2: Three French passports for men. I doubt we can use them.

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Speaker 3: No, they're for French radicals in a secret group called

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Speaker 3: Vier talmejour. They think they're being funded and supported by

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Speaker 3: the OAS, but it's really the KGB using them as

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Speaker 3: assassins for their own communist agenda.

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Speaker 2: Assassins in France. Do you know the target?

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Speaker 3: President Charles Dago?

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Speaker 1: Shit?

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Speaker 2: Shit? How long do we have?

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Speaker 3: I made the original passports three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Ago, which means they're probably safely in Paris and prepping

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Speaker 1: for the mission.

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Speaker 2: It also means we have even more urgency to get

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Speaker 2: across and get these photos into the proper hands. We

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Speaker 2: need a plan and now the.

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Speaker 1: Reality is after the shootout, the Stasse will be looking

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Speaker 1: for us and the car. The border will be on

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Speaker 1: even more high alert than it was. There's no slipping

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Speaker 1: through anymore, no matter how good the forged passports are.

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Speaker 2: You're right, we need a direct approach.

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Speaker 1: You said, Checkpoint Charlie is the only exit point. Do

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Speaker 1: you know how it's laid out?

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Speaker 2: There is a gate and a guard station with multiple soldiers.

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Speaker 1: What kind of gate?

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Speaker 2: A raised arm?

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Speaker 3: How tall?

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Speaker 2: And I have no clue.

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Speaker 3: Geane, what are you thinking.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking that if we can't get over or around

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Speaker 1: the gate, maybe we can go through it, or rather

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Speaker 1: under it.

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Speaker 3: Hmm. The Trobby would never fit underneath the gate, not

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Speaker 3: as it is.

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Speaker 1: But what about without our roof and windshield?

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Speaker 2: You're serious?

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Speaker 1: We'd have to wait until late when there's no traffic,

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Speaker 1: create a distraction, and hopefully zoom right under while the

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Speaker 1: guards aren't looking. Of course they'll notice soon enough, but

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be on western soil before they can do

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Speaker 1: anything about it.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, but it just might work.

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Speaker 2: It's not like we have any other options, but it

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Speaker 5: The tools in the ship I can alter the car,

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Speaker 5: take off the roofs of ndshield.

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Speaker 4: I'm good with mechanics.

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Speaker 1: That's great, Matisas.

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Speaker 4: I can even use.

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Speaker 5: Some of the scrap metal in the shipyard to reinforce

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Speaker 5: the trunk in case the soldiers shoot at us.

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Speaker 3: Good thinking, my boy.

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Speaker 2: Now we just need a good distraction.

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Speaker 1: I've got an idea for that. See those pro pane tanks.

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Speaker 1: They're mostly empty, but put them all together and light

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Speaker 1: them up and they would make one hell of a distraction.

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Speaker 3: I'll help you stack them.

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Speaker 1: Great, let's get to work.

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Speaker 2: You boys get started and I'll be back as soon

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Speaker 2: as possible.

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Speaker 1: Where are you going to.

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Speaker 2: Do some recon at checkpoint? Charlie and check the height

451
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Speaker 2: of the gate. Seems pretty important for.

452
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: Your plan by yourself in that dress.

453
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: Might as well put this darndal to good use. Mattias,

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Speaker 2: pass me a piece of that charcoal?

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Speaker 1: And what is that for?

456
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 2: A lady never reveals her secrets. I'll be the saying.

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Speaker 1: That's the last one. Should be enough to create an

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Speaker 1: explosion that gets everyone's attention.

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Speaker 3: And at this distance no other buildings will get damaged

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Speaker 3: while people hurt.

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Speaker 5: I've got over here too, Uncle, it's the cars ready.

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Speaker 2: Looks like you boys have been busy. The car actually

463
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 2: looks better without the roof and windshield.

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Speaker 3: You're back.

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Speaker 1: What did you learn about the checkpoint?

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Speaker 2: I learned that a girl in a dirndl can get

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Speaker 2: away with about anything in this place. See the black

468
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 2: line on the back of my leg, that's the height

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Speaker 2: of the bottom of the gate. I drew it on

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Speaker 2: there while I was asking the guard directions to Alexander Platz.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing to see how many guards wanted to

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00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 2: help impressive as always, but don't be fooled. It is

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Speaker 2: well guarded and heavily armed, and the shift changes at

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Speaker 2: the top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: That's in twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: No time like the present.

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Speaker 3: Then, Rebecca, come stand over here please so we can measure.

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00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: Please tell me you've shrunk, because otherwise the car is

479
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: still too tall by a couple of inches.

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Speaker 4: Shiser, this won't fit.

481
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: What the hell are we going to do?

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Speaker 1: I've got it. You didn't shrink, But we can shrink

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Speaker 1: the car. What do you mean. Watch if we release

484
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: some pressure in these tires, we can lower the height.

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Speaker 1: It'll be close.

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Speaker 4: I can do this fun for me too.

487
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: That's enough. Still needs to be drivable, Rebecca, measure again,

488
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: got it by a kneecap.

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Speaker 3: We should just be able to make it under, hopefully.

490
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Speaker 2: With our heads intact. Is the diversion ready to We.

491
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Speaker 1: Stacked all the propane tanks and collected all the oily

492
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: rags and flammable materials. It will make a beautiful bonfire

493
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: with an explosion large enough to draw everyone's attention here

494
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Speaker 1: to the shipyard and away from the gate.

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Speaker 2: Then let's pack it in and light it up. I'll

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Speaker 2: drive this time.

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Speaker 1: Checkpoint Charlie is a crossing point in the Berlin Wall,

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Speaker 1: located at the junction of friedrich Strasse, Ziemerstrasse and Mauerstrasse,

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00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: which coincidentally means wall street. Checkpoint Charlie was originally designed

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Speaker 1: as the single crossing point on foot or by car

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00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: for all foreigners and members of the Allied forces between

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00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: East and West Germany. The name Charlie comes from the

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00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Other Allied checkpoints

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00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: on the Autobahn from the west were Checkpoint Alpha at

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00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: Hemstout and Checkpoint Bravo at Drei Linden, but the East

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00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: Germans officially referred to it as the grandsuber Gangstelle or

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00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: border crossing point. The single lane guard post is surrounded

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00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: by sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden shed used as

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00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: a guard house with a manual lifted arm gate to

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00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: let cars through. The East Germans never built any permanent

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00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: structures at the checkpoint, their reasoning being that they did

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00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: not consider the inner Berlin sector boundary in international border

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00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: and did not treat it as such. But with no

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00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: minefields or no man's land on the other side of

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00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: checkpoint Charlie, Freedom and the West is only a step away.

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00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 2: Okay, everyone, stay on the floorboards, keep your heads down,

517
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 2: and the blankets and cushions over you for protection. Yes,

518
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: and almost time for the shift change. Why haven't the

519
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 2: tanks exploded yet?

520
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: Maybe there wasn't enough gas left in them after all.

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00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 2: Damn it, they're changing shifts. It's now or never. What

522
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: do we do?

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00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: Just go for it?

524
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: All right, stay low and hold on. Here goes nothing.

525
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: For it?

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00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: I am. It's got like three horsepower?

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00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 7: How far are we?

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00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 2: Three hundred yards to the checkpoint? I'm killing the likes

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00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: so they don't see us two hundred yards? Shit, shit,

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00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 2: I think they've spotted us one hundred. Yeah, our diversion

531
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: is working. They don't see us.

532
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 9: First saw horse up ahead, hold on, day ahead, Here

533
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 9: goes nothing good.

534
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 2: We're through. We made it, is everyone okay?

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00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: Besides a haircut from that gate arm, I think we're

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00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: all good.

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00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 3: Why is they not shooting? Because they can't anymore? My boy,

538
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 3: Via in's a vest.

539
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: That's right, Mattias. You're free to.

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00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 4: Save whatever I want?

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00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: Is that case? I love alb I love America.

542
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: Great sit down, now that we have that settled, Rebecca,

543
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: can you please take me to the hotel. The stassy

544
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: may not have killed me, but Vlosta certainly will.

545
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, one last trabby tour.

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Speaker 1: Jean.

547
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 2: Is that you?

548
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: Hi, darling. I'm so sorry. You must have been worried,

549
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: sick at.

550
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: The phone to the embassy all day until Martin told

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00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 2: me you were safe. He said the East Germans canceled

552
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 2: your visas and he had to get new ones issued.

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00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: It was one of the craziest twenty four hours of

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00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: my life. But this is one instance where I am

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00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: truly proud to be an American.

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00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 4: Yes, what a waste with that wall. They sure won't

557
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 4: be getting many.

558
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: Tourists and that's for certain. Go back to sleep. I'll

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00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: join you soon.

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00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 2: Good night, my love.

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00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: It's like cappuccino afforl though Doncazette.

562
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: Woods in Morgan. Jean is one of those coffees for me.

563
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm bringing them up to Vlasta, so anything you have

564
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: to say better be quick before these get cold.

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00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: I just wanted to let you know that Jevago and

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00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 2: Matteias made it safely to the US Embassy are in

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00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 2: good hands.

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00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to hear that. Thank you. Did you

569
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: also tell Martin about my father and Prague.

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00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 2: I did, but he said that all of that is

571
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 2: going to have to wait. First. He needs us to

572
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: transport those passport photos of the French assassins from Jevago

573
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 2: to Paris immediately, of course he does. The murder of

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00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: Charles de Gaul would threaten peace in Algeria and the

575
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: very existence of NATO itself, which is exactly what the Soviets.

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00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: Want, and we certainly can't let that happen. So when

577
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: do we leave?

578
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: The plane departs at noon?

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00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: Oh boy, then I guess I better tell Vlasta to

580
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: drink this fast.

581
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: I'll see you at the airport.

582
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: Alfas in Berlin.

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00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: Bonjour, Pelli.

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