:08:00
He doesn't say.
:08:02
Think it might be the Bismarck?
:08:04
It's possible, sir.
:08:05
She's just completed
three months' training...
:08:07
in the Baltic.
:08:09
Couldn't pick a better time
to break out...
:08:11
with this Crete business
going on...
:08:13
and our convoys scattered.
:08:14
I have a nasty hunch
that's the idea, sir.
:08:17
I hope you're wrong.
:08:18
Can't afford to have that monster loose.
:08:21
Look what Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau did to us.
:08:23
22 ships sunk... 115,000 tons.
:08:25
All in two months.
:08:27
They don't have anything like
Bismarck's fire power.
:08:29
She could stand off and sink
every ship in a convoy...
:08:33
without ever coming under fire.
:08:35
Shepard, get on to
the Commander-in-Chief,
Home Fleet.
:08:37
Tell him we're not sure...
:08:39
but we're very much concerned.
:08:40
We'll let him have...
:08:42
every scrap of information.
:08:43
Aye aye, sir.
:08:44
Oh, and, Shepard.
:08:45
I wish you'd prepare
your recommendations...
:08:47
in case it is the Bismarck.
:08:49
Very good, sir.
:08:52
Pretty rough assignment...
:08:53
for a new man on the job.
:08:55
I'm not worried about Shepard.
:08:57
He's one of the ablest men
in the service.
:08:59
I'm told he's as cold
as a witch's heart.
:09:02
That's a slight exaggeration, sir.
:09:04
I want a man who's cold.
:09:06
I'd like a man with no heart at all...
:09:09
no soul...
:09:10
just an enormous brain.
:09:12
The battle of the North Atlantic...
:09:14
is a grim business.
:09:15
It won't be won
by charm and personality.
:09:17
We've had too much of that.
:09:19
I've known Shepard for years.
:09:21
We've served together before.
He was different then.
:09:23
Any particular reason for the change?
:09:24
I suspect there are many reasons, sir...
:09:27
reasons of a personal nature.
:09:29
Oh. I see.
:09:31
Well, how are we going to
get the information...
:09:34
on those two ships?
:09:35
We have an agent in southern Norway...
:09:37
Get in touch with him.
:09:39
It's too dangerous to get in touch
with him directly.
:09:42
There isn't time to go
through Zurich or Stockholm.
:09:47
In this case,
you'll have to make direct contact.
:09:50
Sir, this man is
in Nazi-occupied territory.
:09:52
I realize that.
:09:55
All the same, we must get
in touch with him immediately.
:09:58
Aye aye, sir.