After the fall of Mussolini, the Jericho team's mission is to locate an Italian official who can tell them of the Axis plans. To divert the Germans from their real mission, they make it look like they are out to capture Mussolini himself. But the cunning German in command does not take the bait, and to make things worse the Italian partisan contact Jericho freed to help them does not trust them any more than he does the Germans.
