The Prisoner

This is another episode that deals with Nazis.

Warsaw, April 1945.

The title.

The place was a palace. With the war over a rescue organization now occupies the place, helping survivors from the concentration camps.

A young woman is frightened by the soldiers but they are Polish soldiers.

It looks like she with be with other women on beds in one room. The nurse wants to ask her questions and the woman is still in the mindset of being in the concentration camp. She says she is 19 years old. She says she stayed alive by, basically, using her imagination to be elsewhere.

One of his imaginations was to have all the people who watched the train with the prisoners go by, some making fun of it, gathered together to be killed. The nurse tells her she can't hate forever.

She's alone in the room and suddenly she hears a Nazi soldier call her. The soldier is not in good shape at all. He says he must send a note to his wife so she can know where he is.

She finds a gun in someone else's suitcase. When she gets back to the room the soldier is gone. She had planned to kill the soldier herself. He suddenly appears again. The soldier gives her his wife's address.

She writes the letter and mails it but buys a guy on the black market.

She gets back to the room and pulls the gun on the guy who is facing the other direction. He talks about he had been told to hate. He turns around and sees the gun and tells her to fire, that at least she has a reason to hate. She shoots, closes her eyes and when she opens them he's not there.

The next day they bring a doctor in to look at her. They are sending her to an insane asylum. The soldier's wife had gotten the letter and shows up.

They all move down to an underground section of the palace. The wife says her husband had been missing since 1939. His body is found. Newland says that the woman, Ruth, was interviewed and said she did have an encounter with a German soldier long after his death.

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