Guest star Jeremy Slate represents excellent casting, as he's an agent for the Germans posing as an American lieutenant flyboy to infiltrate and get vital information about the French Resistance. Vic has the week off, so Rick is leading the regular squad.
Slate's cover story is quite convincing, as they see him parachuting in distress from an American plane hit by a German fighter. One key complication is that Rick is accompanied by a captain from Intelligence, played by genre veteran John Agar.
An interesting aspect of this story is that the viewer is put in the unusual position of identifying with Slate, the enemy, as we watch his apprehension of being found out as a spy. That's because the set-up shows the German commander setting him off on the mission, rather than haivn the story begin after he parachutes and leaving his true identity a secret for us to discover along the way. Lots of untranslated German and French dialogue is utilized as German soldiers are after the Americans (including Slate, who they would only know as an American, not aware of his spy status) and hold a group of French clergymen hostage, who are sheltering our heroes.
Story structure gives Rick and his troops relatively smaller roles for a change as the focus is on the bad guys plus the French. Slate tries to kill Agar, who's seriously wounded but able to identify him as a spy.
An extremely suspenseful episode that keeps one guessing.
Slate's cover story is quite convincing, as they see him parachuting in distress from an American plane hit by a German fighter. One key complication is that Rick is accompanied by a captain from Intelligence, played by genre veteran John Agar.
An interesting aspect of this story is that the viewer is put in the unusual position of identifying with Slate, the enemy, as we watch his apprehension of being found out as a spy. That's because the set-up shows the German commander setting him off on the mission, rather than haivn the story begin after he parachutes and leaving his true identity a secret for us to discover along the way. Lots of untranslated German and French dialogue is utilized as German soldiers are after the Americans (including Slate, who they would only know as an American, not aware of his spy status) and hold a group of French clergymen hostage, who are sheltering our heroes.
Story structure gives Rick and his troops relatively smaller roles for a change as the focus is on the bad guys plus the French. Slate tries to kill Agar, who's seriously wounded but able to identify him as a spy.
An extremely suspenseful episode that keeps one guessing.