Five Graves to Cairo

471 00:33:08,278 --> 00:33:11,239 With the laundry? Nothing, sir, nothing at all. 472 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:13,533 - Mouche. - Mouche. 473 00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:21,416 Mouche knew him better than I did. 474 00:33:21,416 --> 00:33:23,293 - Didn't you, Mouche? - Who? 475 00:33:23,293 --> 00:33:24,669 - Davos who. - What of it? 476 00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,421 We were talking about the laundry, here. 477 00:33:26,421 --> 00:33:27,714 Where does Davos come in? 478 00:33:27,714 --> 00:33:29,633 - I do the laundry. - All alone? 479 00:33:29,633 --> 00:33:31,676 Sometimes he helped me put it out to dry. 480 00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:33,428 A flag on the sand, perhaps? 481 00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:35,305 Bed sheets, towels, washcloths 482 00:33:35,305 --> 00:33:37,390 all nicely spread out for the Messerschmitts. 483 00:33:37,390 --> 00:33:38,517 What Messerschmitts? 484 00:33:38,517 --> 00:33:39,643 It's my guess, mademoiselle, 485 00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:41,770 that you've been washing some sort of alphabet. 486 00:33:41,770 --> 00:33:44,314 A towel could be a dash; A washcloth a dot. 487 00:33:44,314 --> 00:33:46,066 Don't you see, a sheet could mean 10,000 men, 488 00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:48,652 and a towel, petrol tanks coming through. 489 00:33:48,652 --> 00:33:50,445 You suspected nothing? 490 00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:51,613 No. 491 00:33:51,613 --> 00:33:52,781 The sheet, a dash, and a... 492 00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,617 Say that slower, please. 493 00:33:55,617 --> 00:33:56,993 It's perfectly simple. 494 00:33:56,993 --> 00:33:58,411 The Germans were smart again. 495 00:33:58,411 --> 00:34:00,497 And the British were stupid. 496 00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:02,457 Why not call us naive, mademoiselle. 497 00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:05,669 We use sheets just to sleep on, towels for drying hands. 498 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:06,962 Your hands will need a lot of towels. 499 00:34:06,962 --> 00:34:08,713 Shh, Mouche, Mouche, please, why fight? 500 00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:10,966 He will not be here long. He... he's going away. 501 00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:12,926 - Aren't you, sir? - No, I'm not. 502 00:34:12,926 --> 00:34:14,010 Huh? 503 00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:18,014 But, sir, but I heard with my own ears from the kitchen. 504 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:19,307 They are letting you through the lines. 505 00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:21,768 They're sending you to Cairo, sir. 506 00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:23,269 You will be safe. 507 00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:24,813 Of course. 508 00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:27,941 I limp into British Headquarters in Cairo, with this club foot of mine. 509 00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:29,359 Where have you been, Corporal Bramble? 510 00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:31,236 Oh, nowhere in particular. 511 00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:32,821 I spent a day or two with Rommel. 512 00:34:32,821 --> 00:34:33,905 Rommel? 513 00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:35,824 Field Marshall Rommel, sir. 514 00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:37,909 You mean to say, you were under the same roof with Rommel? 515 00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:40,453 Yes, sir. As close as I am to you? 516 00:34:40,453 --> 00:34:41,663 That's right, sir. 517 00:34:41,663 --> 00:34:44,040 And... And what, sir? 518 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:47,294 You didn't leave him with a bullet in his head and his head in a puddle of blood? 519 00:34:47,294 --> 00:34:49,337 Sir, sir. 520 00:34:49,337 --> 00:34:50,630 He's talking so fast again. 521 00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:52,132 He's talking foolish. 522 00:34:52,132 --> 00:34:54,175 Perhaps, Corporal John J. Bramble, 523 00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,136 formerly with the Four Square Insurance Company. 524 00:34:56,136 --> 00:34:57,929 Head office: Threadneedle Street, London. 525 00:34:57,929 --> 00:34:59,264 Clerk of the Claims Department, 526 00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:01,433 always rather afraid of the manager, 527 00:35:01,433 --> 00:35:04,436 one of 120,000 men in the Army of the Nile, 528 00:35:04,436 --> 00:35:07,897 that it should be this J.J. Bramble does sound foolish. 529 00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:10,483 Oh, I'm scared. 530 00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:11,693 I'm all scared inside. 531 00:35:11,693 --> 00:35:12,986 What do you think I am? 532 00:35:12,986 --> 00:35:15,655 It's just that I happen to have drawn the black ball, blast it. 533 00:35:15,655 --> 00:35:17,824 But we haven't drawn it, Farid and I. 534 00:35:17,824 --> 00:35:19,618 Oh no, we haven't. 535 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:23,371 And we saved your life, didn't we, Mouche? 536 00:35:23,371 --> 00:35:25,582 I heard a wife crying and two little boys, 537 00:35:25,582 --> 00:35:27,584 and some words came out of my mouth. 538 00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:29,336 And I'm very grateful. 539 00:35:29,336 --> 00:35:31,087 But you won't be involved, either of you. 540 00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:32,964 I'll work it out. 541 00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:36,343 You will work it out, ah? 542 00:35:36,343 --> 00:35:37,844 In the morning, he'll ring for breakfast. 543 00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:39,095 Number 5. 544 00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:40,930 Black coffee in