In their truck they have the recaptured Keiller. He is surprised when the Japanese capture him, complaining that the war is over, but the Japanese do not speak English. Just then an American fighter flies over but the pilot Peter Bellamy has to bail out before the plane crashes nearby. The next day the Japanese accuse the prisoners of sabotaging the radio so they take six prisoners as hostages for future punishment and force one of them to burn all of the mail sacks. He escapes back to the living quarters while the guard is being reprimanded. The Japanese get a radio working one night so Van Elst sneaks into the radio room and shorts the circuit out behind the back of the guard. From what the Allied officers have previously heard on their radio they know the war is now over and Japan has surrendered but they have to keep the news secret from Yamamitsu to avoid a slaughter. Lambert tells the other officers that Yamamitsu will kill everyone in both camps if Japan loses the war because his previous war crimes mean he will be executed so he has nothing to lose. He narrowly avoids being seen by the guards after he hides the radio and returns to the living quarters. Meanwhile, in one of the sick bays, Dutchman Van Elst attempts to tune a home-made radio but hears only static.

The prisoners want their long overdue mail but Lambert is more interested in what might be in the boxes. The Japanese bring Father Paul back along with a number of mail sacks and a number of boxes. At the male camp, Lambert inspects the prisoners and encourages one of them to return to the forced labour work the Japanese make the prisoners undertake. Helen and Father Paul are the only two who understand Latin so he uses this in his burial services to pass messages between the camps. Amongst the prisoners in the women's camp are Keiller's wife Kate and Beattie's wife Helen.

The camp's chaplain Paul is taken by the Japanese to the women's camp to give a burial service. Cyril Beattie also thinks Lambert should obey the Japanese as they are making things worse for themselves and those in the women and children's camp by trying to escape. It is apparent that the prisoners have destroyed a Japanese radio and that one escapee Keiller is still currently free. Lambert leaves to confer with the other officers. Yamamitsu is angered by Lambert's remarks and warns him about prisoner behaviour and that he will make reprisals against women and children held in another nearby camp if the prisoners do not behave. He is permitted to see camp Commander Yamamitsu where, through an interpreter, he complains about the treatment of the prisoners and the conditions. Colonel Lambert argues in disgust with the Japanese Captain Sakamura at the way the prisoner has been murdered for attempting to escape. When he has finished they make him stand by it and shoot him so that he falls back into the grave he has just dug. One prisoner is being forced to dig a grave by Japanese soldiers.

A Japanese prisoner of war camp in the jungle on an island in the Malay peninsula at the end of the second world war in 1945.

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