advise you
to agree to my proposal.
And, firstly,
to tell us all you know.
No matter how little you know.
And, secondly,
to accept my offer
and promptly,
within these 2-3 days,
start working for us.
Stirlitz spoke
abruptly, distinctly and loudly,
so that those who might listen to him
could hear him well.
He tried to give Kathe a hint that
main things would be said later.
He saw that Kathe understood it
and waited.
But to say what was to
determine their next moves,
to say it now, Stirlitz could not.
Nor in the car
did he feel like talking about it.
God knows why he got scared that
his car had been bugged.
So he would have a chance to say
the key words only in the hallway.
He'd have about 2minutes, he calculated
it while going here, to the ward.
The baby is ready.
It's hard for you to carry the baby,
I can carry him into the car.
That's OK, Frau Kien
will carry the baby herself.
All right.
And you see to it
there are no patients in the hallway.
Listen to me, my girl,
listen very carefully.
They are going to give
you information for the center.
Bargain, demand guarantees,
demand that the baby be with you.
Give in when it comes to the baby.
They might be recording us, so stick
to this scenario when I question you.
You don't know the cipher. Our
messages haven't been deciphered.
Erwin was the decipher.
And you are just a radio operator.
And I will take care of the rest.
Erwin went to meet the resident in
the area of Kainstrasse and Ransdorf.
But who he is, you don't know. Say:
A Foreign Office man came to Erwin.
In the car I'll show you his photo.
Got it?
This man from the Foreign Office
was the Eastern department councilor
Haintz Kortner.
He was killed in a car crash
a week ago.
It was a false lead.
Checking on this lead, the Gestapo
would inevitably lose 10-15 days.
And now even one day counted.
Here you are.
Take the prisoner
to room 15.
I'll be questioning her there.
The prisoner - to room 15.
Come in.
In two hours Rolf
would be reporting to Mueller
that the Russian radio operator
disappeared from the clinic.
Two departments of the local
police would be put on high alert.
The nurse on duty
and the ward nurse would be arrested.
And in another hour
Schellenberg would call Mueller.
Hi, buddy.
Good evening.
Excuse me. Hold on, please.
It's important that trying to find
you, they'll have to come to me.
It's the second point.
Yes, I'm listening to you.
Stirlitz has a surprise
for us all.
He brought the Russian radio operator,
who agreed to work for us.
Mueller knew that.
He'd been sweating for already
90 minutes comparing
the transcript of the first interrogation
of the Russian radio girl to the tape
that his service, which was
in constant rivalry
with Schellenberg's department,
had obtained.
The Reichsfuhrer
congratulated him on this success.
In fact, Stirlitz was laying
all on the line.
He realized that the cipher
had not been cracked yet.
It was practically impossible
to crack it,
as it was his personal code
and the Gestapo had no key to it.
The messages sent to Stirlitz
from the Center had another key,
which the radio operator
might not know.
It was the decipherer's responsibility,
who kept quiet because he was
buried under the ruins of the house.
At the interrogation
he and Kathe played their parts well.
However,
Stirlitz kept on asking himself,
if he had a right
to bring Kathe here, to prison,
Katherine Kien,
Katya Kozlova?
Yes, he could've
taken her to Babelsberg,
could've found her an apartment
and provided her with a new ID.
That would've meant
that by saving Kathe's life
he had deliberately doomed to failure
the operation, which
this way or the other could be of
consequence for the future of Europe.
He realized that after
abducting Kathe from the hospital
all the Gestapo would be
raised in general alarm.
And if she managed to escape,
all the tracks would lead to him.
So he, too,