Wonder Woman (1975–1979): Season 2, Episode 2 - Anschluss '77 - full transcript

Nazis hiding in South America try to rebuild the Third Reich by cloning Hitler.

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Diana, have you seen this?

(Diana)
Yes, as a matter of fact,
uh, I have.

I picked up a fresh copy off
the newsstand just last night.

It seems to me
that the tone of this article

is a little...skeptical.

Well, I'm not surprised.

'You should've seen the faces
of the reporters'

'when they asked me
about her age'

and I told them
she was about 27,

2527, to be exact.

She doesn't look
a day over 2526.

[chuckles]
She'll be glad to hear that.

- Hm.
- I must admit, though.

It's as much of a mystery to me

as it was to my father
years ago.

- She looks the same.
- Mm-hmm.

I was standing
as close to Wonder Woman

as I am to you right now

and she looked as young

and beautiful and fascinating--

Your father was a major then,
wasn't he?

Yeah, the old Army Air Corps.

And I was wrapped in a cloak and
carrying a dagger for the OSS.

- Seems like yesterday.
- Did you see this?

Oh, yes. Thank you, Diana.

Actually,
I'm not sure they believe

every word you've told them,
Steve.

Hey, I don't care
what they believed.

As far as I'm concerned

Wonder Woman's back and--

- Steve Trevor's got her?
- Don't I wish.

[alarm ringing]

Uh. Ahem.

- Let's go.
- Yup.

[alarm ringing]

How was, uh,
your daughter's birthday, Joe?

Oh, fine. Thanks, Diana.
She flew in from Los Angeles.

And we had
two dozen teenagers over.

Nice of you to remember.

- Bet you, uh, had a lot of fun.
- Oh, yes, we did.

[door buzzing]

[device beeping]

[indistinct chatter]

[buzzing]

[door shuts]

[beeps]

(male #1 on monitor)
'Good morning,
Diana, Steve, Joe.'

- Good morning.
- Good morning, sir.

'What you're seeing is,
of course'

'Hitler's takeover of Austria
in 1938'

'justified by the Nazis
as an anschluss'

'or political reunion
of the Fatherland.'

Followed by Munich,
followed by World War II.

(male #1 on monitor)
'This is a former high-ranking
intelligence officer'

'Fritz Gerlich,
who worked from within'

'to undermine
Austria's resistance.'

'Today, Gerlich is alive
and active in South America'

'specifically,
in the province of Cordova.'

Cordova? Surprising.

We know of large cells of
Neo-Nazis in Rio, Buenos Aires.

But San Rafael,
the capital of Cordova

is a dusty
and isolated little community.

(male #1 on monitor)
'Exactly, Joe.'

'Steve, you and Diana
are to fly to San Rafael'

'to determine why Gerlich picked
a dusty, isolated capital'

'as a base for what the Nazis'

'are now calling Anschluss-77.'

How did we find out
about Anschluss-77, sir?

(male #1 on monitor)
'A high-level CIA intercept
of a message to Gerlich'

'just gave us the code name
last night.'

Anschluss.

A term out of the past,
a face out of the past.

What do they mean now?
How dangerous are they?

(male #1 on monitor)
'That's what you will find out.'

[instrumental music]

[water sloshing]

[engine revving]

[engine revving]

Hm. I thought Captain Gaitan
was gonna meet us here.

He probably thought the plane
we were on wasn't gonna make it.

I had my doubts about that, too,
and the bus.

[chuckles]

Well, why don't you relax here
a second?

- Keep an eye on the luggage.
- Alright.

I'll see if I can find ourselves
a reception committee.

Okay.

[dramatic music]

[speaking in foreign language]

Hey, wait a minute!

[music continues]

Hey!

[grunting]

[thunderclap]

Come here. Come here.

[grunting]

[grunting]

♪ Wonder Woman ♪

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[Steve groans]

(Steve)
'Wonder Woman, what are
you doing in South America?'

Well, I think
my reasons for being here

are pretty much the same
as yours.

Are you alright?

Oh, yeah,
except for my whole body.

[chuckles]
I seem to have pulled a muscle
in my shoulder.

Here. Sit down.

Better?

Why, it's perfect.
How'd you do that?

Well, it's a principle
that's similar to acupuncture.

Pressure applied
to the nerve endings.

I learned it centuries ago
from an old Chinese doctor.

Centuries ago?

[chuckles]

He taught you well.

Who were those men?

Ah, probably, a couple of thugs

working for a former
Gestapo agent, Fritz Gerlich

who, by the way, isn't
supposed to know I'm even here.

Hey, I'd better go see
about Diana.

[intense music]

(Fritz)
'I asked for the man'

you bring me his credentials.

Then you ask me to believe
that your men were defeated

and driven off by a young woman

wearing what are obviously
the colors of the American flag.

Sorry, sir, but I do.

She has an amazing,
almost superhuman strength.

Oddly enough, your description
sounds somehow familiar.

There was such
an American intelligence agent

used against us.

But it's been 40 years.

- I beg your pardon, sir?
- Never mind.

In any case, it's now
more essential than ever

that I obtain
complete information.

The woman he works with
obviously has his trust

and is an important
American agent.

Do you think you can take her

without suffering
further injury?

Certainly, sir.

[engine revving]

And I assure you, Mr. Trevor

that no one, absolutely no one

except
the Ministry of the Interior

and myself
was aware of your arrival.

'Perhaps, these men were bandits
out to rob you.'

I doubt it.
But never mind that now.

I'm sorry to mention it, captain

but there is
another possibility.

A leak? In the ministry itself?

Well, I'll check into it.

Have you ever seen this man?

(Gaitan)
Depends upon
when the photo was taken.

He'd be older. That photo
was taken before World War II.

Then it is an old picture
of a man I've seen.

The scar is the same.

I don't know his name,
but I have seen him

'rather frequently
in the last few months.'

It's very important that
we find him as soon as possible.

Oh, well..
Uh, he drives a white van.

And on two occasions,
I've seen it parked

outside Dr. Stern's house.

- Dr. Stern?
- Yes.

He lives just outside of town.

But he's had a clinic over here
in San Rafael

for over 20 years
that I know of.

Since sometime after the war?

Yes.

Amazing how popular

certain of our countries became

after the war.

[instrumental music]

[birds chirping]

[doorbell ringing]

(Diana)
Looks like no one's here.

- We maybe too late.
- Let's check around the back.

[intense music]

[knocking on door]

- After you.
- Oh, get in.

It's ice-cold.

[music continues]

[dramatic music]

Dr. Stern. It's strange.

'It seems like someone knew
we were coming to this house.'

'But how?'

Diana, you read a little German,
don't you?

- Yes.
- What do you make of this?

This is
a German medical treatise.

Something about
cellular mutation.

- "Mutation?"
- Well, uh..

I may have mistranslated
the words "Da Silva"

to mean, uh, repetition.

Cellular repetition.

[intense music]

Steve, I think we should
find out more about Dr. Stern.

Like, what exactly?

Like, how much
or how little experimenting

he's done on cellular repetition

which is another word
for cloning.

You mean, the creating
of an identical new cell

from a living cell?

Yes.

Like a lizard
being able to grow a new tail.

I think we should find out
whether this lizard

lost his tail

or grew it back.

(Steve)
Mm-hmm.

Let's see what else
we can find out.

They also knew
we were coming to San Rafael.

[flower pot shattering]

[music continues]

[gasps]

[music continues]

Diana?

(Diana)
'Steve!'

[car door closing]

Diana!

Go on!

[dramatic music]

[engine sputtering]

[engine sputtering]

[engine revving]

[music continues]

Now you get Herr Gerlich.

(Diana)
Fritz Gerlich, I imagine?

We ask the questions.

You're the one
who is handcuffed.

Get back to town.

And remember, at 2 o'clock,
you must be at the airport

to pick up Herr Strasser
and Herr Rogel.

Yes, sir.

[intense music]

Now we shall wait
for Herr Gerlich.

So, Ms. Prince.

You and I both know
that the value of our work

lies in acquiring information.

'And acquiring it
while it is still useful.'

My leg.

[instrumental music]

Quite sound now.

Quite remarkable.

What you would call a miracle.

Well, precisely,
what is the purpose

of your mission
here in San Rafael?

Who led you to Dr. Stern?

And I've heard a remarkable
story about a young woman

who seems to be able to toss

grown men about like toys.

'Just what is her function
in American intelligence?'

As I indicated,
I have very little time.

Hans.

Tie her to the beam.

This is a two-minute fuse.

If you decide to cooperate,
call out.

'We shall return
and extinguish the fuse.'

If you do not, auf wiedersehen.

[lighter clicks]

[dramatic music]

Pretty girl.

[helicopter whirring]

[helicopter whirring]

[music continues]

[thunderclap]

[explosions]

[helicopter whirring]

She realized that if she told me
what I wanted to know

I would still
have to dispose of her.

Good agent.

[dramatic music]

[helicopter whirring]

[music continues]

[dramatic music]

[engine revving]

[brakes squealing]

[exhales sharply]

[speaking in foreign language]

He claims to know very little
about his employers.

Where was he going now?

[speaking in foreign language]

He was only told
to go to the airport.

He would be met there.

- He's lying.
- Yeah, certainly he is.

He knows where they took Diana.
Ask him.

[speaking in foreign language]

He says, "What girl?"

Apparently,
he doesn't realize yet

how important it is to me
to find this girl.

We may have to refresh
his memory.

[speaking in foreign language]

[intense music]

[helicopter whirring]

[helicopter whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[engine revving]

[engine revving]

[speaking in foreign language]

[music continues]

Nobody could have survived
a cave-in.

I'm sorry, I'm deeply sorry.

To be all alone like that,
sealed off..

Maybe she's trapped.
We need some men.

We've got to try and find her.

[intense music]

Diana!

You're alright! You're alive.

She's okay.

I don't wanna talk
in front of Gaitan.

Here, please, sit down.

How did you manage
to get out of that cave?

Well, uh, I got out
just before the blast went off.

Thank God.

- Was it Gerlich?
- Yes.

I was, uh, near the mouth
of the cave when it happened

and, um, I followed
Gerlich and the others

to a helicopter.

It took me a while to get back,
but I guess I was lucky.

Hm. You were lucky
for both of us.

Did you, uh, did you get any
idea of where they were going?

Yes, a place called
Campo Grande.

They weren't very careful
in what they said

because they didn't think
I'd be around

to repeat it.

- Of course not.
- 'Steve.'

In the old newsreels we saw,
Gerlich had just one leg, right?

- Right.
- Well, now he has two.

Two perfectly good legs
to stand on.

[engine revving]

[band music]

- Karl Strasser?
- That is correct.

- Born?
- 16th March, '47.

At Stuttgart.

Your father's SS file number?

4-1-7-5-7-7.

[indistinct yelling]

- Johan Rogel?
- That's right.

Your father was
SS Gruppenfuhrer Heinz Rogel.

- File--
- No, sir.

File 2-1-3-9-9-4? Right?

No, sir.

My father was SS Sturmbannfuhrer

Dr. Albert Rogel.

Waffen-SS, Medical
Experimentation Division.

Good! They're alright.

Welcome to Cordova.

[instrumental music]

[engine revving]

Dr. Von Klemper.

Herr doctor.

Oh! Oh, the sons
of m-my old comrades.

Oh-oh, Karl. Johan.

[chuckles]
I understood
there'd been a delay.

The van that we planned
to bring them here in was taken

but another way was found.

However, gentlemen..

...I must stress the fact
that we must move swiftly.

Tsk, yes, yes, Fritz, but, uh,
we have waited this long.

You have endured so much.

Well,
you will not be diverted now.

[chuckles]
Come, gentlemen.

This is the day..

...the 39th anniversary

of der Fuhrer's
Austrian Anschluss. Der Tag!

And you have come in time
to share the glory.

[chuckles]
Do you remember the, uh, project
I was working on

with your fathers in 1945?

- Hm.
- Oh, yes, of course.

The acceleration
of the healing process.

- Through cellular regenesis.
- Hm.

Yes. The more quickly to return
our wounded to the front.

Ah, yes,
but since that primitive time

I have achieved the ultimate.

The infinite duplication

of a single living cell.

The process called cloning,
of course.

But, doctor, last year, research
scientists in America and Europe

succeeded in doing
the very same thing.

Ah, but they are light years
behind what I have accomplished.

[chuckles]
Ah, nein, nein.

When Fritz first came to me

he had but one leg, huh?

Well, this is the greatest
scientific breakthrough

of the century!

(Dr. Von)
'Oh, no.'

'Just a prelude to the greatest'

which you are about to witness.

Comrades,
just before you arrived

I prepared for cloning

living cells from
the sacred body of der Fuhrer..

'...preserved all these years
for this very day.'

[chuckles]
Comrades, come here.

[sighs]

[indistinct]

This great moment

shall live forever
in our history.

Hm.

[electricity crackling]

[intense music]

[electricity crackling]

[machine beeping]

[air hissing]

[music continues]

- Heil Hitler!
- Heil Hitler!

- 'Sieg Heil!'
- 'Heil Hitler!'

[crowd cheering]

(male #2)
'Heil Hitler!'

Steve, Gerlich seemed to have
no idea why we're here

or exactly how we learned
about Dr. Stern.

Yup, could be
Gaitan is not our man.

Could be. To the, uh, right.

[engine revving]

[intense music]

[gunshots]

[engine revving]

[gunshots]

[intense music]

[gunshots]

(Diana)
'Concrete bunkers?'

[engine revving]

(Steve)
'A tank!'

[engine revving]

And an armored car, too.

[indistinct chatter]

(Steve)
'A firing range
with Brown Shirts?'

'That accounts
for the rifle shots.'

(Diana)
'Well, Steve,
now I know for sure'

'what they meant
by Anschluss-77.'

Diana, you take the jeep.

'Find the nearest telephone,
get a hold of Gaitan.'

Tell him what's going on.

Tell him to get some men
and equipment out here

as soon as possible.

Alright.

Be careful, Steve.

As soon as I call Gaitan,
I'll be back.

I'll be here.

[gunshots]

[dramatic music]

[engine starts]

[engine revving]

[speaking in foreign language]

[music continues]

[engine revving]

[music continues]

[engine revving]

[truck honking]

[telephone ringing]

- Policia Nacional.
- Captain Gaitan.

- This is Diana Prince.
- Yes, Ms. Prince.

Steve and I have just verified
the existence

of a large Nazi installation
near Campo Grande.

You'll need
a heavy weapons force.

They have about 50 men assembled

with tank
and helicopter capability.

I'll get authorization

from the
provincial governor's office.

Steve and I will maintain
surveillance until then.

One last thing, Ms. Prince,
I was wrong about someone

'in the Ministry
of the Interior.'

I ordered the search
of the apartment

of my most loyal officer.

'The leak has been stopped.'

[truck door shuts]

[gate rattling]

[speaking in foreign language]

I, uh

took the wrong off-ramp.

[dramatic music]

[tires screeching]

[tank fires]

[thunderclap]

[instrumental music]

[engine revving]

[tank fires]

[explosion]

[engine revving]

[music continues]

[sighs]

Hm. "Captain Hoffman."

(man on PA)
'All personnel report
to the main staging area.'

'All personnel report
to the main staging area.'

[speaking in foreign language]

[intense music]

Achtung!

[speaking in foreign language]

[instrumental music]

Achtung!

(all)
Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!

"Heil Hitler?"

- Heil Hitler!
- Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler!

More than 47 years ago..

...I stood
in a small Munich beer hall..

...and spoke to a small band
of loyal followers.

I was scorned
as a powerless nobody.

'But my small band
of Brown Shirts'

'grew into thousands!'

'And the thousands
into millions!'

'And we conquered
a third of the world!'

(all)
Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

(Hitler)
'Today, I again speak'

'to a small band
of loyal followers'

brought here
from all over the world.

Again, we shall grow
into millions!

History shall repeat itself!

A new anschluss has begun!

(all)
Sieg Heil!

Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

When you men
leave this location..

...you will return to the cells

which you will head
in Latin America

'Europe, Africa.'

Those who remain
will launch the first assaults

wherein that flag
will be carried into battle!

[crowd cheering]

(Hitler)
'A police force tomorrow'

'a provincial capital next week'

'and within days, weeks'

'we will see a world at war!'

[crowd cheering]

- Sieg!
- Heil!

- Sieg!
- Heil!

- 'Sieg!'
- Heil!

(all)
Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

[instrumental music]

(Wonder Woman)
'Steve.'

Wonder Woman?

You're not gonna believe
what just happened.

I know. I was there. I heard.

But that was Adolf Hitler
in the flesh.

- Yes, I know.
- 'No, you don't understand.'

It was a cloned version of him

just like he was
back in the 1930s.

You see, earlier,
Diana Prince and I

found some papers of a Dr. Stern

who's been working
on cellular regenesis. Cloning.

Well, he'd be crazy to think
that he could conquer--

Well, he was mad
the first time around.

And from what I just heard, it's
gonna cost a few million lives

to prove him wrong again.

Then this Dr. Stern
would have to be here, right?

Right.

[instrumental music]

I'm Captain Hoffman.
I'm relieving you.

(Steve)
'Report to your corporal.'

[door shuts]

Dr. Stern, I presume.

Or are you?

You cannot lie. Who are you?

I'm Dr. Heinrich Von Klemper.

And you made the clone
of Adolf Hitler?

Yes.

Is the cloning process finished?

No, he must have
additional treatments

'for complete stabilization
of the cellular structure.'

And when will that happen?

The Fuhrer is on his way here

accompanied by his bodyguard.

You will be arrested and shot.

What are you doing?

The good doctor

has just hired
a new lab assistant.

[intense music]

Heil Hitler!

And, Fuhrer

this is...my lab assistant.

[speaking in foreign language]

Now activate
the reversal process.

Never.

Hold it. Lower your weapons.

Sidearms, too.

Keep your hands on your head.
Back against the wall.

Tell me how to activate
the reversal process.

You cannot lie.

Which dial?

Answer me!

Dials four..

...six, eight.

In that order.

[device beeping]

[electricity crackling]

Now what?

Dial..

...eleven.

[electricity crackling]

[device beeping]

[electricity crackling]

[intense music]

[gunshots]

[engine revving]

- 'Senor Trevor.'
- It's Gaitan.

Believe me, doctor,
we did the right thing.

Would you take him out, Steve?

Open the door.

[dramatic music]

[electricity crackling]

Steve..

...it's finished.

Not quite.

[electricity crackling]

[explosion]

[explosions]

So he was cloned
and then, uh, uncloned.

That's it.

And Wonder Woman helped you
to find the secret Nazi base?

(Steve)
'Uh, she was even there
for the uncloning'

but by that time she'd changed
into a medical technician.

And subsequently
destroyed the lab.

Well, it's your report,
not mine.

(Joe)
'At least
we have concrete evidence'

that Anschluss-77
has been smashed.

- Beyond repair.
- Yes. That should please him.

It's too bad
you weren't there to witness

'this, um,
magical transformation, Diana.'

Mm..

[thinking]
But Wonder Woman was.

[theme song]

♪ Wonder Woman ♪

♪ Here to fight
the force of evil ♪

♪ And your chance
won't be denied ♪

♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Woman of the hour ♪

♪ With your super power ♪

♪ We're so glad ♪
♪ We're so glad ♪

♪ You're on our side ♪
♪ You're on our side ♪

♪ Wonder Woman ♪

♪ You're a wonder
Wonder Woman ♪♪