Scenes with Hendley
3 scenes
Hendley Come on, Roger. We all know the score here, at least... most of us do. Your idea of this escape is to... start another front, to foul up the Germans behind the lines. All right, that's fine, that's fine. But once we get past that barbed wire, once we have them looking all over Germany for us, that mission is accomplished. Afterwards, we have some ideas of our own.
You mean getting home? Back to your family and children?
Hendley That's right.
Good God, man. Do you really believe I haven't thought about that, too?
Not Colin. He'd be an appalling hazard to the whole escape. That must be my decision.
Hendley You want to talk about hazards? Let talk about hazards. Lets talk about you. You're the biggest hazard we have. The Gestapo has you marked. No one has said you can't go.
That's true, and I have thought about the Gestapo. But if you're asking me how far a commanding officer is allowed to go, or dare go, or should be permitted to play God, I can't answer you.
Hendley Colin's not a blind man as long as he's with me. And he's going with me!
Roger's idea was to get back at the enemy the hardest way he could, mess up the works. From what we've heard here, I think he did exactly that.
Hendley Do you think it was worth the price?
Depends on your point of view, Hendley.
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