242: Enemy Camp
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Here's the story of the way we usually like it. There's a sky, and he's back behind enemy lines. Maybe he's dropped there in the middle of the night, maybe he sneaks in under the border, whatever. He's there, he's been there for a while. Months, years maybe. He's in disguise. Up waiting on our behalf, no one suspects, no one can tell. He looks and acts just like them, and them. They're in their midst for so long. Speaking their language, eating their food, breathing their air, watching their TV shows, and reading their newspapers, something happens to them. He starts to change. He starts to become more like them. And then, when it's time for him to strike, to launch his mission against them, he hesitates. He's not sure who he sympathizes with anymore. It's a very romantic idea, this idea of what it means to live inside the enemy's camp. But sometimes, this is the way it really happens. Today in our radio program, we have that story happening to several different people in several different places, in several different ways. True Stories from W.B. E.C. Chicago. This is "American Life," distributed by Public Radio International. Each week on our program, we choose some subject, bring you documentaries, interviews, short fiction, found tape, found writing, anything we can think of on that subject. I'm Ira Glass. Today on our program, "Life Behind Enemy Lines," our show in four acts, act one, confession, in that act, the true story of a fixer for the Catholic Church and how he came to sympathize with the people that he was sent to deceive, act two, blood agent, how microscopic beings inside you and me control our thoughts and minds, no kidding, act three, sleeping with your enemy, in which we ask the question, whose side is your girlfriend on, whose, and act four, yet another ineffective roadmap for world leadership, in that act two political enemies try to hang out on each other's turf, get closer to each other, try to become friends. What happens? Stay with us. Tech One, confession. This is the story of a young priest who is sent out on a series of jobs by church administrators
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