He couldn’t see or hear them anymore as they cut their engines, they were likely floating to their target. But they were probably here for a while. So he headed back to Planet Nuremberg. Maybe he could find out more about…unusual visitors, over there.
At the bar he watched for anybody who was a foreigner. He struck up conversations with drinkers and alcoholics. He kept trying to talk about the number 3. Sounds random, but all he needed to do was figure out who was a foreigner. The Rheinlanders would show three fingers using their thumb, index and middle fingers. Anybody who wasn’t, would use their index, middle and ring finger. Talking to people gets you a lot of information. Everybody who isn’t a spy thinks that you have to be some kind of quick witted one-man army to be a spy. But really, it’s just about talking to people. Maybe stay silent during a conversation for a bit, more unnecessarily then you need to be. This makes people feel awkward, and they begin to talk about anything that comes to their mind. You’d think people would want to talk about the weather but no, nobody wants to talk about the weather. Because it’s boring. So they talk about whatever comes into their mind first, and that can reveal a lot of information, that they may not have wanted to reveal. Because most people don’t work well when they’re stressed.
While speaking with a group of Rheinlanders about anything to do with the number 3 (like the third installment of some blockbuster film, whatever, it didn’t matter to him) he noticed one of them quickly raised their ring finger before realizing their mistake and switching it out for the thumb. Bingo.