30 Days of Hogan's Heroes - Day 9
(I’ll probably be a little late tomorrow, as I’m out of town for a couple of days - I'm going to Bordeaux to see a concert of One Night of Queen tonight!! In the meantime, more friendship feels :o)
Day 9 - Favourite scene?
Sergeant Andrew Carter is a very talented chemist and bomb-maker and scarily good at impersonation, but he’s also generally considered a goof and a ditz, prone to absent-mindedness and liable to foul up assignments that are thought to be simple. He has forgotten a camera in the middle of the compound (that means the firing squad), is somehow incapable of remembering the name of the (fictional) English town Leedingham, and his friends don’t hold back mockery, cutting remarks and digs, good-natured or not.
If you think this means they wouldn’t risk their lives for him without batting an eyelid, however, you’d be dead wrong.
In “Carter Turns Traitor”, Hogan has Carter pretend to defect to the Germans in order to learn the location of a secret chemical weapons plant. By the end, Carter has been so successful that the scientists take him with them, back to the plant - which is going to be destroyed shortly. A rescue mission being in order, Hogan and the guys dress as SS to get Carter back. This happens just before they go up the tunnel:
Hogan: This is dangerous. It’s broad daylight, and the area right now is loaded with German troops. I want you to understand, this mission is on a strictly voluntary status.
Kinch: So what, Colonel?
Hogan: Just want to make that plain.
Kinch: Let’s go get Carter, Colonel.
Newkirk: Now, Colonel. Now.
LeBeau: Why are we standing here?
Hogan (smiles): Okay. Let’s go.
It should be pointed out that this has to be one of the most serious conversations in the whole show. They mean it a hundred per cent.