- Robert Lindley: I know. We don't have any more German enemies, do we?
- Sterling: No authorized ones, anyway.
- Dr. Bernhardt: Sometimes I think we shall never get together on this earth until we find someone on Mars to hate.
- Robert Lindley: [looking at two Germans in the train] I wonder how they'll handle it.
- Sterling: Truthfully, I hope. Otherwise I'm wasting my valuable time. I'm in re-education. Seems pretty hopeless at times. I mean, what is more important than giving them the light to see?
- Robert Lindley: Giving them something to eat?
- Sterling: Your field?
- Robert Lindley: I do sleight of hand. We're supposed to make fifteen hundred calories look like an eight-course meal... and prevent things like plague and starvation.
- Perrot: What chance has a European got with an American around?
- Robert Lindley: I'm afraid you overestimate us.
- Perrot: Huh, not at all. How can we compete with your American charm, your chocolate...
- Sterling: Your soap?
- Perrot: Your cigarettes?
- Robert Lindley: Well, it's more blessed to give than to receive.
- Narrator: [voiceover] You couldn't blame the American. It was the first time he'd ever seen Paris and he really did take it in. From street cafés on the Montmartre to the plaza in front of Notre Dame. 240 steps up the Gothic spires, it was even more attractive. She was just like the picture postcards always said she was: the most beautiful city in the world.
- Lucienne: What do you want?
- Robert Lindley: Oh, practically nothing now. I'm not even going ask what you're doing in my compartment. I'm just going to hope.
- Narrator: [voiceover] There he was, his first German. You can't knock it out of your head. You know you've licked him. Licked him in two wars and you're still not so sure you've got the upper hand. You could be wrong, though.
- Narrator: [voiceover] Frankfurt. The biggest ghost town you've ever seen. A community of hollow shells, chipped and battered by Allied bombings, according to a methodical plan. A plan that would cancel out the city as a tough enemy center.
- Lucienne: Is this what you Americans call sweeping a girl off her feet?
- Robert Lindley: You want to know something? I don't get anywhere with girls back home either.
- Narrator: [voiceover] This was a world of rubble, under strict military control, with a system of economy all its own. Here there was no such thing as the dollar, the franc or the pound. A person's bankroll is their specially printed occupation money *and* their supply of cigarettes.
- Robert Lindley: I had a feeling we might cement relations between France and America very nicely.
- Lucienne: The women of France are in deed grateful, sir, At least half of the Allied army offered the same touching proposition.
- Robert Lindley: What happened to the other half?
- Lucienne: I think they were in the Pacific.
- Narrator: [voiceover] Commerce is conducted from briefcases holding prized personal possessions, to barter for the necessities of life. Everything from diamonds to diapers found their way to this inflationary market.
- Robert Lindley: Lucienne, maybe I should have told you before. I'm a sucker for slumming. Care to see some nightlife?
- Narrator: [voiceover] And you must not forget the social world. City filled with bulletin boards with their cards seeking the whereabouts of lost friends, relatives, displaced persons.
- Robert Lindley: Somebody's all mixed up here. I work for the same government you do. I'm an American citizen.
- USFET Col. Johns: Any contact with German nationals?
- Robert Lindley: That's what's so annoying. You make a much better detective than I do. And a lot better-looking.
- Lucienne: Have you forgotten why we are here?
- Robert Lindley: No. I'm here to do what I can to get somebody back. Somebody I think's important. Maybe I'm kidding myself. I don't know. Maybe I'm here because I know how much you want him back.
- Lucienne: Listen, you are a stranger in a strange country. And a reasonably attractive girl who speaks your own language makes you feel close to her. It is as simple as that.
- Robert Lindley: I didn't say you were attractive. I said you weren't bad-looking. A lot of difference.
- Robert Lindley: Come on. What's the matter with you?
- Sgt. Barnes: But, Mister, an outta bounds joint and smooching with an underground babe, why, they'll throw the book at me.
- Robert Lindley: Not if you're smart. You suspected this girl from the start, didn't you.
- Sgt. Barnes: No. No, I...
- Robert Lindley: Yes you did. You were going with her to get a line on her activities, weren't you.
- Sgt. Barnes: I was?
- Lucienne: Yes! And you are able to tell your superiors about an enemy and save the life of a very important man.
- Sgt. Barnes: Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
- Lucienne: You have become a citizen of Europe in two days. Perhaps it was a little fast. Because we are more used to the - sensation, it is easier for us to control it.
- Robert Lindley: Sensation?
- Narrator: [voiceover] A monument of ruins. Other cities like Hiroshima have been obliterated. But no other city so mighty as Berlin has fallen so low.
- Kessler: What do you think? I should quiver with fear? What more can they do to me now? But do not feel sorry for us.
- Robert Lindley: I won't. I'll leave that to you.
- Kessler: Because there's still have one thing we have left: our determination to have the Germany we deserve.
- Robert Lindley: I think you've got that now.
- Robert Lindley: I really tried to figure out what makes you tick, Max.
- [looking at Max's fellow Soviet officer]
- Robert Lindley: What makes all of you tick. We try to understand you. Why don't you try to understand us?
- Robert Lindley: Where will you be, Lucienne?
- Lucienne: Nowhere for very long. Don't you see? There is nothing one can count on. No one's address is dependable. But if ever the world comes of age, I will see that you know where to find me.
- Robert Lindley: I had a kid brother that fought close to a British outfit in Italy... the turning point of the war.
- Sterling: So, that's how American history will record it?
- Robert Lindley: What do you mean?
- Sterling: Well, the actual turning point of the war was El Alamein.
- Robert Lindley: Oh, you're quoting English history now.
- [they both chuckle]