- Hogan provides information to a German baroness that includes phony invasion plans.
- At the start, Klink, Schultz, and Hogan are seen at a party; Hogan is in his Class A uniform. Klink introduces him to Baroness von Krimm. She starts coming on to Hogan and gives him the 'where have you been all my life' line. They chat a bit, and she invites him to her place. Hogan is not sure if he can do it, and says that he has an agreement with management: Hogan does not escape, and they do not shoot him. Schultz makes arrangements for Hogan to slip out of camp with a car; no candy bars, this one is free. Hogan gets suspicious. Schultz then tells Klink that he has fixed it for tomorrow night.
The next evening, Hogan is at the house with the Baroness, in his leather jacket, not a Class A outfit. He sits on the couch with the baroness and kisses her. He asks her if there is a Baron, and she says that he commands a panzer unit at Stalingrad. The baroness questions Hogan some more, and gets more cozy. Hogan finds a hidden microphone. Klink and Schultz are listening to their conversations in the next room on a radio.
Back at camp, Kinchloe gets a message from London. As Kinch is decoding the message, Hogan tells the men about the meeting with the baroness. Kinch says the message from London that they are going to drop a man 'Hercules' in tomorrow night.
The next night, a man drops out of a C-47, and Hercules is brought to camp. He brings with him plans for 'Operation Anvil', the coordination of the underground with a land invasion. These are actually phony plans that they want the Germans to find and believe that they are real. Kinch suggests just taking the plans to the baroness, but Hogan and Hercules think that is too easy, and will not work. Hogan thinks some more.
While this is going on, Major Hochstetter comes to Klink's office, and finds out about their listening to Hogan's conversations with the baroness. He says that Klink should not be doing the listening; Gestapo operations may be compromised by amateurs, and tells Klink to stop the listening. Then Hochstetter thinks, and says wait, that they might get some useful information out of this. Schultz tells Hochstetter that he gave Hogan permission to leave camp that evening, on the orders of Klink. Hochstetter says to let him see the baroness.
That night, Schultz and Hogan are at the front gate, and Schultz tells the gate guards to let Hogan out. Meanwhile, down in the tunnel, Hercules is dressed in civilian clothes and leaves through the tree stump tunnel entrance. He says that if he is caught wearing civilian clothes, he will be shot as a spy. Hogan meets Hercules, and they go to the baroness. Klink, Schultz, and Hochstetter are in the next room listening. Hogan says that his guest is an airman that dropped in, and asked that he stay at the house for a few days. At first the baroness says no, but then says that he can stay in the cellar; she will get him food. She leaves the room, and goes to the room next door where Klink and the others are listening in. Hogan shows Hercules the microphone, and they start their phony talk about he is not a flyer, but purposely dropped, and his plans to deliver the orders to the underground. Hercules says that his sign is 'The birds fly south', and the countersign is 'Before the first snow'. Hochstetter tells the baroness to go back and keep them busy. He then tells Schultz to go back to camp, change into civilian clothes, and have a newspaper under his arm.
Schultz is seen at the door with the paper under his left arm, and two Gestapo men with guns hiding next to the door. He rings the bell, and the baroness lets him in. He says that he has come to see a friend. Hercules comes out, and Schultz flubs the phrase 'the birds fly south' several times. Hercules then says the correct sign and countersign. Hochstetter and the men then come in and take Hercules to Gestapo Headquarters. Even after all of this, Schultz can not get the phrase 'the birds fly south' correct.
Hogan wants to get Hercules out of Gestapo Headquarters, so he tells Newkirk and Carter to pose as Gestapo officers who captured a Frenchman (LeBeau) and are bringing him to Gestapo Headquarters.
The next night, Schultz lets Hogan out the front gate again to see the baroness. Newkirk and Carter go out through the tree stump and as Gestapo officers take LeBeau to Gestapo Headquarters. They talk to an officer at the desk, telling him that they captured this man doing something strange. The officer asks Carter his name, and he gives it as 'Fritz'; Newkirk does not know what it is either, but he always called him 'Fritz'. Carter says that his rank is Oberkunder, which is a head waiter. The desk officer knows something is not right, so he starts to pull a pistol; Carter stops him, and asks him which room the Englander is in. The desk officer says 'nine', which Carter interprets as 'nuen', German for 'no', or he will not tell him. LeBeau then says he is referring to cell number 9. They go to the cell, unlock it, take Hercules out, and as the alarm is sounded, toss smoke bombs, and get away with Hercules.
Hochstetter at the baroness's house gets a call that the Englander has escaped aided by two men dressed as Gestapo. Hochstetter and Klink then go into the front room and find Hogan and the baroness on the couch. Hogan asks what they are doing here, and Hochstetter asks Hogan what he is doing here. The baroness says that Hogan never left there all night.
At the end, Hochstetter is in Klink's office questioning Hogan. He then says that he will find the Englander, and leaves. Hogan asks Klink to see the baroness again. Hogan suggests that Klink plant a microphone and wait for the baroness to talk. Klink is dismayed, as this is what he has been doing, but did not tell Hogan.
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