by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Advancing into a tiny French village, Hanley and his men kill two Germans and capture their lieutenant, a demolitions expert named Karl (played by a pre-stardom Robert Duvall). Sharkishly, Karl informs the Americans that the entire town has been booby-trapped with mines--and that he will help locate the explosives under certain conditions. With the local villagers clamoring to be let back into town, Hanley may have no choice but to enter into a deal with the eminently untrustworthy Nazi. This episode was cowritten by Steve Fisher, a specialist in such "film noir" exercises as I Wake Up Screaming.
