A scene from The Stranger 1946
Professor Charles Rankin

You're not much changed. Put you back in your old uniform, you'd look very much the same.

Konrad Meinike

Franz, I am a different man than before.

Professor Charles Rankin

I, too. I, too, am different, Konrad. You know how I gathered and destroyed every single item in Germany and Poland that might have served as a clue to my identity. Well, guess what I'll be doing at 6:00 tonight. Standing before a minister of the gospel with a woman's hand in mine, the daughter of a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, a famous liberal. The girl's even good to look at. Yes, the camouflage is perfect. Who would think to look for the notorious Franz Kindler in the sacred precincts of the Harper School, surrounded by the sons of America's first families? And I'll stay hidden... till the day when we strike again.

Konrad Meinike

Franz! There will be another war?

Professor Charles Rankin

Well, of course.

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