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Eric turn your face to me that's it keep you back to the train now wait all right now Eric be back in a few days Ernst as the British zone terminus of the East German underground I'd had my share of surprises but none to match finding lot and Eric and my custody this was the man who had disappeared behind the iron curtain nearly a year ago voluntarily brilliant nuclear physicist and authority on thermo nuclear reaction been swallowed up in the gigantic red more Eastern Europe highest bidder for his brain and now he was back it was up to me to escort him safely to Hanover to British intelligence and as we rode I speculated on why he had come back I suppose you're wondering why I came back why did you very simple I finally realized I picked the wrong side so I chucked the whole show and came home just like that as you say just like that you sound pretty casual how else should I be I don't know if it's my conscience you're concerned with don't bother I got more from them than they got from me oh yes I know every installation they've set up what the fish and a bull material output is per day and what their potential is for producing the hydrogen bombing quantity where are your records notes that sort of memorized paper and pencil were too risky I had a security guard with me constantly how did you get away walked out of Magdeburg what about the guard I imagine they'll bury him with full military honors yes I imagine they will yes but we're here now and I'm safe and that's all that really matters isn't it well I won't feel safe until we get past Tullers laban when's that about about two hours do we stop there as for a few minutes mind if I take a nap search yourself wake me a jealous laban will you right want to sleep and I thought about how easy his escape had been too easy this was no ordinary defection to the camp of the free world this man was important important enough that his safe arrival could cause considerable embarrassment to those from whom he'd escaped we wheezed into Tullers laban a few passengers got out some came aboard and we started off again did you sleep well very leaving Tullers laban you slipped no I yes who is it come in now will you please tell this stupid one moment if you please but there is no time easy does it go ahead identify me but hurry it's all right conductor I know what about his father well I'll take care of it later now if you please of course I forgive me but my job and I have a wife and yes yes we know all that now will you go please yes Bruce now we are in trouble oh what's the matter they know where we are what they have an agent aboard this train when did he get on just now a dollar sleep well we just left Tullers laban yes I know and that idiot of a conductor would not let me find you in time to get you off well then we stay here in this compartment till we get a hand over now that is the problem we won't get to Hanover why there is a bomb on board a bomb yes in a suitcase and the plan is to destroy the train when we get on the ochre river bridge well then we'll stop the train no I thought of that and that's no good because whoever it is has orders to explode it if the train stops for any reason before we reach the river what did you learn this an hour after you left I received a message from the man in market board they found a body of that guard soon after her egg left they missed you in urbis Felde and they arranged this taller slave an interception but how did you I drove and when I got here the train was pulling out of the station job if it had not been for that stupid it's too late for that now yes we've got to find the bomb it's the agent a man or a woman I don't know Bruce how soon before we reach the ochre river but from now about the hour and a half hour and a half we're between the three of us we should be no Eric you stay here but at least I should Eric yes we know nothing of atomic reactions that is your field this is ours just do as you're told will you please all right Ernst yes get the conductor yes and hurry we are not at all why should they want to do this to me it's not you what's us they're doing it too but what can I do where shall I look we'll do the looking all we want from you was cooperation of course I will cooperate what else is here for me to do well not much now first do you have a list of the passengers that got on a tall asleep yes good second can we get into the baggage car while the train is in motion and this train you can some of the first and second that's enough as long as we can get on this one no wait what about the baggage did we take much aboard a tall asleep only the baggage clerk knows that you'll go with me when I go to the baggage car yes Ernst yeah go through the cars claiming that you've lost a bag you understand yes match up every bag with an owner mark the location of any odd ones that you may find he may have put it on one of the baggage shelves and left the train where will you be a baggage car yes but after that back here the calendar yes Eric it won't be easy staying here you didn't expect it to be did you I suppose not well nothing good luck but if he's not a policeman and not a soldier why should I let him in this baggage car is how they do not argue with us there's no time but why should you let me let me go this is an emergency I must be permitted inside to check the baggage but where is your permit badge credentials anything that I may look at jobs are hard to get my wife and children all right all right then I'll tell you someone has planted a bomb on board that's gonna go on bomb yes I'm a bomber and if I don't find it and well let me see an hour and 15 minutes none of us will be able to hold a job anymore now may we come in yes come in come in it all right what do you want to know how many pieces of baggage came aboard a taller slave and not many five suitcases a trunk and that's great the crate what's in the crate I don't know it's routed through to Hanover all right heavy have you got a hammer but I have no authority to me a hammer careful oh no now the suitcases over here yeah have you a sharp knife yes but why I must cut the bags open cut but the owners will take the responsibility now get the knife it was the only thing to do the bags had to be cut open and inspected by hand opening a catch might set the bomb off even if the detonator wasn't wired to it which in all likelihood it was as I cut into the first bag I felt a hard knot forming in the tip of my stomach reached inside the bag the second case I left the conductor in Carl and went back to the compartment checking the bags I suppose how much time do we have not quite an hour time enough I don't know you're sure the bomb is aboard yes I'm sure Ernst doesn't make mistakes what do we do now or you do just what you've been doing stay here I'm going out and check the passengers that came aboard a taller sleeping anything you want me to tell Ernst when he gets back yes it gets back we're doomed I tell you what's the matter Dietrich the engineer is going to stop the train stop what do you mean stop he can't I told you what would happen if we stop before we reach the ochre nevertheless engineers going to stop well fine he says he has a bad coupling on the cold tender but did you tell him why we couldn't stop yes he says he can see the bad coupling on the cold tender the bomb we cannot see oh no therefore the bad coupling must take precedence if he's going to stop the train her adjust informed me that due to a defective coupling the engineer was about to stop the train and under these circumstances it was a horrifying thought because we knew that the train was to be blown up if it stopped for any reason before we reach the ochre river still be in the what's the matter the engineer is gonna stop the train no he can't I told you I know Dietrich told him what more can I do it's out of my hands well there's one thing more you can do what mr. Cullen go back to the engineer tell him we want 15 minutes and tell him that if he refuses I'll personally kill him but the coupling what about I don't care about the coupling if it breaks were dead anyway so let's at least try to find the bomb yes mr. Cullen I'll tell him what shall we do if that engineer refuses and I will kill him at least get him out of the cabin let the fireman run on the train you know there is still the possibility that agent may have planted the bomb and himself then left the train I might but we don't know no that we don't what about that baggage car that's clean the passengers luggage oh no every piece matched up yeah no where there can we go now Dietrich gave you a list of passengers that boarded at Tullis seven huh yes yes all right give it to me all right here but they are all check Bruce except one couple in second class one couple couple yes it's married couple newly wed they could not possibly be the one that would be very clever of them wouldn't it yes very where are they in this car the compartment third from the end of your pistol yes I might give it to me here do you want me to come with you now give me five minutes right this was infinitely worse than fighting in the dark dark fighting terrified me here my enemy was unseen unknown and out of reach yet he was close enough to mark us all for death at a specific time as I hurried along the corridor I glanced at my watch if the engineer gave us the 15 minutes I'd ask for then we'd already use three of those precious minutes planning strategy one thing I knew for certain the hand-holding the gun in my pocket would not come out until I was completely satisfied as to the identity of the newlyweds my name is Bruce Callender there's been a bit of a stir aboard and well the conductor made me a kind of deputy to make an inquiry may I come in thank you I'm Lieutenant Crofton Royal Navy this is my wife Gerda Gerda this is Mr. Callender how do you do how do you do you're a medical aren't you no no Canadian oh good show good show they have a drink with us old boy well not right now thank you all right well what's all the fuss about mr. Callender well it seems that there was a jewel robbery in Talisleben the thief was apprehended at the station but not before he'd managed to stow the loot somewhere the authorities believe that he may have put it in someone's baggage with the view toward recovering it sometime during the journey oh then you'll want to inspect our baggage that is no no no I have no authority to do that but if you will see for yourself so that I can report it to the conductor I doubt very much whether it could be an either my police or girders they haven't been out of our sights since we arrived at the station but you won't mind making the inspection oh no not at all my dear fellow but I'm afraid you'll be wasting your time oh look here do have a drink won't you uh no thanks anyway we're on our honeymoon you know oh really yes I've been trying to get Gerda to marry me for a long time now it wasn't until yesterday that she finally made up her mind oh yes today that's right I finally wore down a resistance didn't I got it yes but of course the bags if you please lieutenant oh yes yes forgive me only two mine and girders I'll get them shirts socks ties sorry mr. Karen there's nothing here ah good now Mrs. Crapton I'll do it girl no no you may not open it then if you will open it yourself I can't why not girl don't ask me why I can't do it that's all you have to have a reason please leave me alone this is no time to be stubborn you can't obstruct the law I don't care about the law my release will not be open yes it will I will not open it then I will he snapped open the catchers of girders release and then he saw it a picture of a rosy cheek boy in a Luftwaffe uniform proud arrogant the super race lieutenant turned away his face looked like they'd been slapped hard I stood there for a moment it isn't very pleasant to see a man's world disintegrated by a photograph what happened they're not the ones oh no what I don't know I do I'm jumping off the train what why they're after me not you if I'm off the train is safe oh sit down you're making a fool of yourself how do you propose to let him know you've jumped when we can't even locate him I can't even die no glee can I wait here for me Ernst where are you going to find Dietrich I was on my way to see you we need more time the engineer must give us more time but he won't well he'll have to can the fireman run the train yes but if the coupling excuse me what do you want to come to the cabin and fermé l'éuverte quand nous avons quitté calisthenic a bale a fermé maintenant a viva tendu l'entente mais oui pendant plus d'une heure oh mon dieu oh mama mr. Collin the little room at the end of the train it has been locked so this woman says since we left palace lady but Dietrich that's where it is that's the only place it could be we've looked everywhere else yes get rid of the woman go on I said get rid of it as he yellow to what you are madame but why is he a madame she will play thank you shall we force the door no he'd set the thing off before we cracked it but are you sure he's in there I'm not sure he isn't in there how will you find out well I'm going to climb to the top of the car move down to the laboratory smash the window and shoot and I hope I hit him and not the bomb but if it is not he then you will have killed an innocent man and if it isn't I don't shoot over a hundred innocent people will be dead in five minutes I don't know if I should permit it after all I'm the chief conduct we've got five minutes Dietrich don't try to stop me the responsibility is yours I will do what I can to help all right now get Ernst tell him what I'm going to do tell him as soon as he hears the shots to have you open the door he'll disarm the bomb I was that clear yes mr. Collins all right then hurry we only have four minutes as he ran down the corridor I turned and went to the door leading to the outside of the train and there I took off my shoes and checked the pistol Ernst had given me at any moment I expected the train to start slowing down which I knew must be followed by the blast until I got to the roof of the car I didn't quite know how I was going to reach down and break the glass but when I got there I saw that this time the brakes had come my way this was an old relic that had the light standards at each end of the car carefully so as not to betray any movement to the man beneath me I hooked one leg around the standard and let myself ease down as I hung there for a second I hope that the man inside was the man I sought this is my last chance he had to be then suddenly there was a shift of wind and I was almost blinded by the senders brakes were applied the time was now I raised my gun and something cleaned up yes mr. Collin the passengers are still a little excited no doubt you shoot very straight mr. Collin the body will be turned over to the authorities in Hanover just a minute he tricked I'll be right back pardon me madam we the door is open now I'll forgive me I'm la pot it to wear to oh you're quite welcome I show you the direction of Anthony Ellis escape has brought you trained from obisfeld a story by Ross Murray starring William Conrad is Bruce featured in the cast were Lawrence Dubkin Fritzfeld Alastair Duncan Byron Kane Richard Peele Jerry Gaylor and Gladys Holland the special music for escape was composed and conducted by Leith Stevens next week you are high on the frozen slopes of a great mountain terrified and caught in a blizzard while the thing for which you've been hunting has suddenly become the hunter and if it finds you then for you and your companions there can be no escape so listen next week when escape will bring you Anthony Ellis's exciting story the abominable snowman this is Roy Rowan speaking CBS