The Catcher Was a Spy Ending Explained

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00:00Hi, welcome back to my channel.

00:02In this video, I will explain the ending of The Catcher Was a Spy, so, let's begin.

00:06In Ben Lewin's biographical war film, The Catcher Was a Spy, baseball catcher Morris

00:10A. Moaberg becomes a spy for the Office of Strategic Services and gets assigned to kill

00:14Werner Heisenberg, the mastermind behind Germany's efforts to build an atomic bomb during World

00:18War II.

00:20Mo arrives in Zurich, Switzerland, in December 1944 to murder Heisenberg and ensure that

00:25the Nazis will not succeed in building a nuclear weapon that can threaten the United States.

00:29Mo then gets acquainted with Paul Scherer, Heisenberg's friend and fellow physicist,

00:34who invites the baseball player to dinner also attended by the German scientist.

00:38Despite getting ample opportunities to put bullets in Heisenberg, Mo walks away at the

00:42end of the film, bidding farewell to the former without hurting him, here is everything you

00:45need to know about the ending, just to let you know this video will contain spoilers.

00:50Moaberg doesn't kill Werner Heisenberg because he gets convinced that the latter hasn't been

00:53making an atomic bomb.

00:55The former baseball catcher also realizes that Germany is on the verge of defeat as

00:59far as World War II is concerned, which wouldn't be the case if Heisenberg had almost made

01:03a nuclear weapon to destroy the United States.

01:06After talking to the German physicist privately, Mo perceives that the man opposite him is

01:10not a threat to his country in any matter, which makes him walk away from the scientist

01:13without killing him.

01:15Mo's decision is justified since he arrives in Zurich after making it clear to his colleagues

01:19and superiors that he will only kill Heisenberg if he gets convinced that the physicist is

01:23a threat.

01:25In reality, the conclusion of Mo's mission to kill Heisenberg wasn't drastically different.

01:30He immo ascensed when a runner was going to steal and even though Heisenberg was trying

01:33to hide it, Berg knew he was despondent because Germany didn't have the bomb and was going

01:37to lose the war, Robert Rodat, who penned the film, told the New York Times.

01:42That was the tell.

01:44Berg never understood himself, but he understood other people, the screenwriter added.

01:48The pivotal point in Mo's mission was a lecture Heisenberg gave to a room full of foreigners

01:52in Zurich, as the movie depicts.

01:55He was supposed to shoot the physicist down if the latter confirmed the potential completion

01:59of an atomic bomb but such a confirmation never came from the latter.

02:03Berg's assignment had been to look Heisenberg over.

02:06He was to fire only if he heard indisputable evidence that a German bomb was nearing completion.

02:11Berg wasn't exactly sure what he had heard, but it didn't seem terribly threatening and

02:15nobody else seemed to find anything amiss either, reads Nicholas Daudoff's The Catcher

02:18Was a Spy, The Mysterious Life of Mo Berg.

02:22For decades, historians and scientists have been debating whether Heisenberg was really

02:26trying to build an atomic bomb.

02:28According to Daudoff, such a bomb never materialized.

02:32He Mo had just heard Heisenberg say that the war was lost for Germany.

02:36Were Heisenberg poised to unfurl an atomic bomb, he would probably have spoken differently

02:40or not at all, he wrote in The Catcher Was a Spy.

02:43If Heisenberg was supervising a bomb project, it seems unlikely that Hitler would have permitted

02:47him a long public visit to Switzerland.

02:50Besides, only a large dose of OSS wishful thinking finds Heisenberg, with his bomb nearly

02:55built, telling a lecture hall full of foreigners about it, the book further reads.

03:00Heisenberg himself was not really motivated to build an atomic bomb for the German government,

03:04according to various reports.

03:06The point is that the whole structure of the relationship between the scientist and the

03:09state in Germany was such that although we were not 100 percent anxious to do it, on

03:13the other hand, we were so little trusted by the state that even if we had wanted to

03:16do it, it would not have been easy to get it through, the scientist told his colleagues,

03:20as per Thomas Powers, Heisenberg's war, the secret history of the German bomb.

03:25I never thought that we would make a bomb, and at the bottom of my heart I was really

03:28glad, Heisenberg added.

03:31His colleagues shared little enthusiasm as well, especially Carl Friedrich von Wiesacker.

03:35I believe the reason we didn't do it was because all the physicists didn't want to do it, on

03:40principle.

03:41If we had all wanted Germany to win the war we would have succeeded, Wiesacker said about

03:45building an atomic bomb for Germany, as per Powers' book.

03:49According to Philip Morrison, who was a part of the Manhattan Project under the leadership

03:52of J. Robert Oppenheimer, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to kill Heisenberg in 1944,

03:57two years after Victor Weisskopf and Hans Bethe suggested kidnapping him.

04:01I have no doubt that those were Heisenberg's orders and that he would have done it, but

04:05it would have made no difference, said Morrison, as per Dawidow's book.

04:09With our project, you could shoot Fermi in 1944 and it would have made no difference.

04:14A year before the American bomb, 100,000 people were working on it.

04:18By 1944, Heisenberg was no longer very valuable, he added.

04:23That's all for now folks, I would appreciate it if you could give the video a super thanks

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04:30day, take care, bye!

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