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- DirectorGeorg FenadyStarsRick JasonVic MorrowNick AdamsGerman soldiers are infiltrating the Allied lines dressed as Americans and Kirby is caught up in the action when he is involved in an ambush. He takes another soldier, Carl Driskoll [Roger Perry] prisoner not sure whether he is American or a German disguised as an American. They are both then captured by British Cpl. Tommy Behan [Gavin MacLeod], who is totally unsure who to trust. As they move along the road they come across a jeep that has been ambushed. The only survivor is Cpl. Marty Roberts [Nick Adams] who was a prisoner on the jeep. Now totally unsure who is who, Cpl. Behan handcuffs Kirby to Cpl. Roberts and marches his three prisoners away hoping to find help. They come across a hunter's cabin in the woods and decide to bunker down for the night. While there the cabin is approached by to soldiers and Cpl. Behan challenges them. They are German infiltrators and both are killed in the ensuing shootout but Behan is wounded. As they sit through the night, Roberts tries to talk the other two into tackling Cpl. Behan saying he can't stay awake all night. Behan feels he can trust Driskoll who seems to have stayed out of any involvement and asks him to keep the others covered while he sleeps. Driskoll takes his sten gun and then turns it on Behan and kills him. Roberts (who speaks fluent German) tries to convince Driskoll that he is an infiltrator also and, as Driskoll is about to kill Kirby, the owner of the cabin bursts in and takes him prisoner. He is a member of the French Resistance and decides to take them all to the American lines so they can work out who is who. On their way there they come across a German patrol and Driskoll shout out to warn them whereupon he is shot by the Frenchman. Kirby and Cpl. Roberts (who are still handcuffed together) make a break for it just as the Frenchman is himself killed. They come across a farmhouse and try to find something to break the handcuffs which they manage to do. Now separated Roberts tells Kirby he is not going back as he is scared he will be shot as a deserter. As they move out they are pinned down by the three remaining Germans. Roberts tries to distract to Germans by posing as an infiltrator but is killed by a group of GI's that have arrived on the scene and hear him speaking German.This was one of the best of the entire series run. It has much in common with episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" of the same era. The opening scenes setup a plausible yet nearly impossible conundrum. German infiltrators dressed as GI's have sown confusion and mistrust among allied soldiers, British and American alike. The only one the viewer can be sure of is Kirby. Gavin Macleod guests as a possinly unhinged Brit who has either gunned down several of his own countrymen or another group of German infiltrators. He happens upon Kirby, guests Nick Adams and Roger Perry and can trust none of them
To confuse matters further, Adams character possesses a suspicious fluency in German and is revealed to have attempted to assume the ID of a dead MP who had been escorting him as a prisoner. His explanation of German-American heritage and being under arrest as a US deserter satisfies no one. Even when the real infiltrator is revealed later on the twists don't end. A French resistance fighter intervenes throwing everything back to square one-he can trust no one's story. The ending throws an ironic twist to the story fully worthy of any Twilight Zone or Hitchcock episode ending.
