The RAT PATROL Episode and (shameless) Ratings Guide
The Bring 'Em Back Alive Raid Season 1 Episode 24 (Airdate: Mar 13, 1967)
A good show for Moffitt watchers. Some interaction with Dietrich	Body count. 1 Spent most of his time talking to the good doctoer	Shirt and jacket buttoned up real tight. must have been real chilly that day.	Dirty Blonde Hair attractively messy. Shirt and Jacket also - a rariety for Tully.	Concerned about Troy;frustrated by the lack of cooperation of the rest of the rats.

Jan's notes: aka The Glow in the Dark Raid
Tue Aug 31 20:50:36 1999

The RP are sneaking into a German camp. Troy immediately eliminates the sentry who I think is Manfred Lantig. Poor guy, didn't even make past the first 30 seconds.. Though I believe he shows up later as another German. Moffitt and Tully go off to one end of the camp, Troy and Hitch make their way to a building. Inside the building is A Mystery Man. Mystery Man has very good hearing because he hears Troy and Hitch sneaking up. He jams the door with a chair. (Does that really work? Has anyone ever tried it? I tried with my dining room chair but its back was not high enough.) He then opens a metal box filled with spongy material and removes a vial. Troy tries the door, finds the knob stuck so Troy and Hitch make their way to the side of the building where there is a window conveniently left open. Intelligent mystery man forgot about that. They peer through the window and see Mystery Man hiding something in his desk drawer. Mystery Man then attempts escape through the window but he lands right in the hands of Troy and Hitch. The two tie him up and then Troy goes in to see what Mystery Man locked in the drawer. He finds the vial and takes it. He then climbs back through the window and tells Hitch to go get Moffitt and Tully. Troy takes Mystery Man back to the jeep. Hitch gets Moffitt and Tully from where ever they were lurking and they head back toward the building. As they reach the building, Troy starts the Jeep. Suddenly, the sentry in the watchtower who had been sleeping throughout all this wakes up, hears the jeep and sounds the alarm. He also turns on his searchlight and finds Moffitt, Tully and Hitch. Troy in the meantime has taken off with Mystery Man.

To make up for being asleep on the job, about ten Germans show up to point their rifles at Moffitt, Tully, and Hitch. These three look absolutely sheepish about being caught and also look like they are wondering how soon they can get out of here. Herr Hauptmann Dietrich shows up, takes a look at what interrupted his sleep, and goes to check out building. He can't open the door either so he has one of his strongest men force it open with his shoulder. Dietrich stands back in a very cool AI am the Hauptmann@ pose - one hand in his pants pocket and the other jammed in his belt. He is of course dressed in full uniform,    even though it is the middle of the night. When the door is opened, Dietrich goes in the building. He comes out and orders two of his men to go do something. You then hear a vehicle starting so I think he told them to see if they could find Troy and Mystery Man. (My German is not very good yet) He then goes back to the sheepish threesome and announces that Troy has made off with 2 ounces of pure radium. Radioactive City Music Hall. See the glowing dancers.

Meanwhile, Troy has taken the Mystery Man who we know is Doctor Schneiderman to their camp. Troy and Schneiderman exchange pleasantries which went something like this:


Schneiderman : You will never get away with this (Dream on, Doc)

Troy: Yes, I will, Dr, Schneiderman (I am Troy. I always get what I want)

Schneiderman: I am an important man( in his own mind)

Troy: It's okay to experiment on animals, but you use human beings, creep (Don't let the animal rights activists hear you say that)

Schneiderman; You don't like me very much. (states the obvious)

Troy: Shut up or I'll gag you with this rifle. (Shut up or I'll gag you with this rifle)

So Schneiderman is some sort of Mengele wannabe though what he was planning to do with the radium, I have no idea - make some poor Arab ingest it to see if it is possible to create a living night light.

Back at Dietrich's camp, he tries valiantly to explain to Moffitt, Hitch and Tully about the radium. Moffitt doesn't believe him. Dietrich offers to let them and Troy go if only they tell him where to find Troy so he can retrieve the radium. He tells them that the radium is probably killing Troy at this very moment. Moffitt is having none of it though. Thinks Dietrich is telling them a fairy tale. Dietrich leaves in disgust. Tully who has found a big stick from somewhere throws it at Dietrich and the soldier as they leave.

Hitch asks if Dietrich could be telling the truth. Moffitt poo-poos the idea. Then Hitch looks at the metal box he has been fiddling with and sees that it is lead-lined. He points this out to the other guys. Moffitt then immediately comes to the conclusion that Dietrich is telling the truth and that they must get out of there.

Meanwhile, Troy and Schneiderman are having a nice friendly meal out under the stars. Troy looks at the vial which he has in his left shirt pocket. He questions Schneiderman about it who indicates that it is a A harmless vaccine of no military value. Radium's melting point is 700C. I don't think it would look like a vaccine of any sort. Troy then sort of chucks the vial at Schneiderman who jumps and then quickly offers the vial back to Troy.

Meanwhile, the threesome are trying to figure out a way to escape. Door and windows guarded, the walls are too thick to break down. Then Tully notices that the floor has a hollow sound. He throws back the Mexican rug and removes the German table to reveal a trap door. Hitch and Tully lift the door to reveal a secret passage. The three peer into the hole. Hitch takes a close look like he expects to see a giant sandworm come slithering out. Moffitt tells Tully to check it out and Tully reports that there is light about 20 yards out. Aha! The escape route. Not one of the three stop to think that the building was furnished by a German who vactions in Mexcio and probably would have noticed a trap door in the floor. Nope, they jump into the passage thanking their lucky stars. Hitch removes his glasses just before entering the tunnel. (Just in case they run into sandworms) They sneak out and make their way to their jeep which was conveniently left where they found it. They never even thought to consider that Dietrich might have found and moved it. Dietrich pops up from behind his staff car, calls his men from the tent where they were hiding and head over to two men who are operating a radio tracking device from the back of a truck. He gives them their instructions to listen for any transmissions. Moffitt, Hitch and Tully reach their jeep and take off.

Hitch criticism: In the building, Hitch is wearing his FFL hat with the goggles wrapped around it. The goggles are still on the hat when he emerges from the tunnel. But by the time, he gets to the jeep, the goggles have somehow made their way down to his neck. When the men jump into the jeep, Hitch is in the back hanging on to the fifty. As Tully is backing the jeep out, Hitch decides to adjust his goggles so they are around the hat again. He has a wee bit of trouble though and practically drops his hat on Tully's head. Good then Tully is wearing his helmet.

The men head toward the camp with Hitch hanging off the back holding on to the fifty with one hand. Why doesn't he just sit down? And he is still fiddling with his goggles. Leave them alone, Hitch or you'll go blind. Dietrich is patiently following them.

At the camp, Hitch and Tully tell Moffitt that Troy was there recently. Tully also found another big stick to play with. Cripes, Hitch with his goggles, Tully with his sticks Hitch asked Moffitt how the radium would affect Troy. Moffitt tells them how quickly radium can kill a rabbit. Is he comparing Troy to a rabbit?

And what is Troy doing all this time? Why he is sightseeing with the good Doctor and practising with his code book. Schneiderman goes all philosophical and theorizes about a world without war or impurities. A scientist's paradise. ( Actually I would have thought the reverse would be true)

Hitch, Moffitt and Tully head off in the direction they figure Troy would have taken. Dietrich follows. Troy is parked behind a dune somewhere scanning the desert looking for his men. He sees them and also sees Dietrich. Troy radios a message to his men telling them about Dietrich somehow knowing that Dietrich has his special radio signal tracking equipment and would pinpoint Troy's location. He gives them Dietrich's location and his. Tully immediately figures out that Dietrich would be moving in a parallel position to them. Give the man a gold star.

Meanwhile, Dietrich is taking the information provided by his radio gurus and drawing a pretty triangle on a piece of paper. He then tells them that he will head toward to the second signal (the one sent by Troy) just as Troy figured.

Troy moves his location so he will be in the perfect location to ambush Dietrich. Dietrich heads toward Troy, he rounds the dune and the fearsome threesome come barrelling over the dune firing their weapons. Dietrich motions to the truck carrying his radio signal tracking equipment to take off. Can't lose that. Rommel won't give him any new toys. Moffitt and Hitch manage to blow up the half track but then Tully drives into a bush. He saw all those sticks and just could not control himself. Troy then starts firing at Dietrich . Dietrich decides he really doesn't want the radium or Schneiderman that badly and leaves.

The three men run toward Troy yelling about the radium. Troy tells them that he had put the vial in the glove compartment after he noticed Schneiderman being so jumpy around it. Of course, that is a lot closer to where Schneiderman was sitting. The mad scientist just got a noninvasive vasectomy.

Back at the Allied camp, Troy comes out of the medic camp and reassures the guys that he is still healthy and wise. I am really curious just how the medics determined that. Is a Geiger counter part of the medical equipment in WWII or did they just put out the lights in the tent to see if he glowed.

Moffitt has a nice line, saying to Troy 'Perhaps that will teach you not to steal.' And both Tully and Troy show off their great smiles. And the four men drive off into the desert to go harass Dietrich some more.

Jan

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