9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 15, 2014

Transcript:

woman: how did you manage to get through the german lines to my house? Man: All I can recall is my head injury, and thinking that I really had to find you before the local french patriots hanged you as a collaborator. Woman: That, in a nutshell, is the trouble with being a double agent: you deliberately appear to betray the people you're protecting, while you appear to protect the people your betraying. if you're good at what you do, you'll be garroted by the wrong people, and thanked by the worse ones.