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The rear chamber isn't ready yet. Can you see to it?

That will give us a second one.

- I already told you, I don't know anything.

Please don't!

- Your name?

- I already told you.

Brigitte, no, no!

- Tell me your name.

- Brigitte.

- Liar.

- I swear to my mother's life.

- In other news,

Nazi forces now occupy Poland, Austria, Denmark, Norway,

Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,

Yugoslavia, Greece, and Northern France.

Hitler is now poised to cross the English Channel.

- Chancellor's office.

- Where do I sign?

- I told the gentleman's parents

it was a car crash, no survivors.

- They were only there six weeks.

- And the Germans are locating

our signals faster than anticipated.

And there was a slip up.

One of the agents was carrying British cigarettes.

- We're all such bloody amateurs.

- Miss Atkins, they're waiting for you.

- Mornings always get away from me.

- This is a rudimentary operation.

There's hardly any intelligence to go on.

- Ah, she arrives.

We need to talk replacements.

I want you in charge of recruiting some ladies.

- What happened, I thought everyone was opposed?

- Well, we went to Churchill,

he growled a bit, but he agreed.

Women will be more inconspicuous,

and then he said, "Good luck to you."

- We should train the women like the men.

- We can't afford to scare them off.

- They're civilians not soldiers.

They'll have no idea of what they're getting into.

Best to prepare them, don't you think?

- Miss Atkins, make sure they're pretty.

- For you or for the Germans?

Churchill has asked us to create a secret army of spies.

I find the ladies for F section, France.

- I could be ready for training next week.

- Good.

Excuse me, hello.

I'm Vera Atkins, may I speak with you?

- Yes.

- Sorry, after you.

- United States Embassy,

How may I help you?

- Virginia, this just arrived.

- Dear Ms. Hall, thank you again

for your interest in becoming a diplomat,

due to your condition, it will not

be possible for you to qualify.

- Psst, a friend's having a party tonight.

- I can't.

- You look like you could use a proper drink.

- With the Blitz over, I was hoping-

- The war's still a bloody mess, now with the refugees.

- Well, we certainly don't need any more Jews here.

- Well, the Jews aren't really safe here either, are they?

- More gin, anyone?

- Actually, I'm a whiskey man.

- The British would never let

the Germans waltz in like that.

- I can assure you the French hardly saw it as a waltz.

I was there, I drove an ambulance in Paris

before the surrender, it's worse than the press reported.

- Perhaps.

- I plan to go back.

- You can't.

- Watch me.

- We must get those bastards.

I don't believe we've met, Vera Atkins.

- Virginia Hall.

Dear President Roosevelt, I am writing

to inform you of disturbing discriminatory

regulations in the US Foreign Service.

I am more than qualified to be a diplomat.

You should understand a disability doesn't mean.

- No umbrella?

- Never.

- Tea or scotch?

- Oh, scotch would be lovely.

- Please sit.

- I'll get the chair wet, so-

- Oh, don't worry.

I been thinking about you.

- I got a little carried away at the party, the gin.

- Here you are, an intelligent woman

who I imagine could live comfortably in America.

What brings you here, Ms. Hall?

- Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be a diplomat.

- Hm.

- I've been working here for years, Italy, Turkey, France.

I fell in love with the people, languages, and I'm certainly

not gonna turn my back on Europe now.

- If only more Americans felt that way.

Why aren't you married?

- Why aren't you?

- I have a missing friend.

- I'm so sorry-

- Terrible verdict for anyone, don't you think, missing?

Do you have a fellow?

- I had an accident, gangrene set in.

He didn't think it was terribly romantic.

- It depends on who you ask I suppose.

Let's be straight with each other, shall we?

- Sure.

- You and I both know that America

will never hire you to be a diplomat.

So, I'd like to invite you to try out for a club

you can join, a club for women like you

who have lived in France, know the language,

and are passionate about stopping Hitler.

- Who are you?

- Rumour has it, You are the best wireless operator

in the women's Auxiliary Air Force

- Thank you.

Well, I believe it's because I play the harp

and the piano, and signalling is like music.

There is a rhythm to it.

- Indeed.

Well, Why did you join?

- We all have to play our part.

- And what is your part, Noor?

- Sorry?

- You were born in Russia to an American mother

and an Indian father who was Muslim,

a descendant of last the Mughal Emperor I understand?

- Yes, my father was the founder

of the Sufi order in the West.

- And that is?

- Sufism is as an Islamic spiritual path

towards God, by the means of peace and truth.

- As are you, correct, a lover of peace and truth?

- Of course.

- So why is this war your fight?

- Because I'm a British citizen

and I grew up in France as my home.

I cannot just stand by and let

the Nazis do what they're doing.

- Is that all, Noor?

- Well, actually, I also wish that an Indian

would win high military distinction in this war

because if a few of us could do something brave

in the Allied service, it might bridge

the gap between the Indians and the British.

- Now I understand.

Noor, I called you here today because I would like

to invite you to try out for a club unlike any other.

- Welcome to my Scottish country home,

not the type of place the Nazis would expect

to be a spy training centre, is it?

Don't get too comfy.

Many of you won't last the week.

Now, what is the SOE?

Affectionately, we call it our

new ministry of ungentlemanly warfare.

Here, we will train you in sabotage and subversion.

Those who excel will go to France as spies.

The rules, you've been given code names.

Do not disclose your real name to anyone here.

Each team's mission, acquire information,

build resistance, and set France ablaze.

- Another doll to play with.

- As I said, ungentlemanly warfare.

Get used to lady spies.

- Noor, come over here.

- What do you think, do you think

you can do that exercise over there.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Good, let's show these boys how this war is won.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Right.

- Two moves, come on, arms, legs.

What's a matter with ya?

That's it.

- Ready, go.

Remember, we've only got 120 seconds

then we've got to get out of there.

- Yes.

- Where do these bits go in?

Ah yes, the aerial terminal.

- That' not the aerial terminal.

That's the aerial matching.

- No, remember, I was using it earlier.

That's the aerial terminal down there.

- Here?

- No, that's that one here, the mains battery.

Oh, no, no, you're right.

- There'll be many people from across Europe

aiding in the resistance in France.

You'll be meeting people from Poland, other parts

of Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia.

- Slice, slice, stealth from behind.

Move the head back, slice.

You.

- Learn to be quick,

confident, and when necessary ruthless.

- Goodbye

- Yours will be a lonely courage,

but make no mistake, the intelligence you gather,

the sabotage you set, the locals you recruit

to resist will change the course of this war.

- I can't even lift my radio and frankly, I cannot lie.

I make a miserable spy.

- I wonder what my father would think

if he knew my path led me here.

I'm a pacifist and they are teaching us to kill.

- They're training us to survive.

Here, use Cuthbert, he's lighter

- That's heavy too.

You named him?

- Figured he was going to be with me for the rest

of my life, he might as well have a proper name.

Saint Cuthbert was a soldier and a healer,

a performer of miracles.

- My father, he, he witnessed a lot of miracles.

- Your father would be proud.

- She's a Princess for God's sake.

- And very pretty, don't you agree?

- She's a pacifist, Vera.

She writes fairytales for children.

- Have you read her training reviews?

Childlike, a daydreamer.

- She's good at her job, that's what matters.

- She won't last six weeks.

- These women aren't easy to find.

Now, would you suspect this girl as a spy?

- I'll think her over.

The wireless job is the most risky.

Who's next?

- Virginia is American, but she's lived in France,

athletic, captain of her basketball team at Radcliffe,

Head of the Drama league at Barnard,

studied in Paris and Vienna as well,

comes from a wealthy family with a passion

for travelling and hunting, just like her father.

- Interesting, what's she doing here?

- Building a resume with consular work.

She wants to be a diplomat.

- I didn't realise the Foreign Service

hired female officers.

- There are a few, but she just received a rejection letter.

Her training reports are improving.

Although Virginia lacks appreciation

for her own limitations, she is resourceful, a leader.

America isn't in this war.

We could set her up as a journalist.

There's a contact at the New York Post.

Her press reports can tell us what's

going on without setting off alarms.

- Genius, I always knew your talents

were wasted as my secretary.

Good lord, Vera, she has a wooden leg.

- Jesus Christ.

- It's only from below the knee

and besides it's the perfect cover.

No one will suspect pretty American reporter

with a limp of being guilty of anything.

- Progress Virginia to the next level of training.

God help us.

- That was impressive.

Come on.

General Maurice Buckmaster, head of F Section.

- Apologies for the surprise, this is the only way

to assess our agent's ability to withstand torture.

The Gestapo wont' go easy on you

just because you're a woman.

- And I don't plan to go easy on them because they're men.

- Ms. Atkins has suggested putting you into unoccupied

territory as our first female field agent.

I know your training isn't quite complete,

but we need people on the ground.

So I'm inclined to give it a try.

If you do decide to join us, we assessed the odds

of you coming home at no more than 50%.

Take a moment, consider our offer.

- Yes.

- Welcome to the Baker Street Irregulars, Virginia.

- Operational name, Brigitte.

- Now, a warm bath and a hot toddy.

- We don't expect you to partake

in all of the usual field work.

- But I can-

- Your mission is to create a hub in central France

to support agents with money,

safe houses, whatever they need.

That section needs organisation, one moment.

American, good.

These will help you stay alert.

They'll also help with the pain.

Use in moderation, if you take too many, you'll pass out.

And Virginia, we're desperate for information

about life in France, our spies are dying without it.

Boarding now.

When you get to Lyon, don't be fooled,

even in the Occupied Zone people are desperate.

Common folks are becoming collaborators.

Vichy police are dominated by the Nazis.

A Frenchmen named Dr. Chevain will be expecting you,

13 Place du Pont du Jour.

- 13 Place DuPont du Jour.

- Good, passcode?

I am a new patient. - Good, passcode?

I am a new patient.

- Passcode response?

For Dr Chevain? - Passcode response?

For Dr Chevain?

- Your response.

No, Dr Benoît. - Your response.

No, Dr Benoît.

No, Dr Benoît.

- Exactly, he's part of the local resistance.

He speaks English well.

- Good.

- Stay detached from all your agents.

Feelings confuse decisions.

Agent Alfonse is already on the ground

as is Wireless Mark, more will

follow as you build your network.

And keep this with you at all times.

- What is this?

- Cyanide, a more dignified end

than the Gestapo will give you.

Dr Chevain.

Can I help?

I am a new patient.

For Dr Chevain?

No, Dr Benoît.

Follow me.

- Brigitte.

I'm a doctor, I don't presume to know

how these things are done, but we have a situation.

- What is it?

- My friend is hiding one of yours in her basement.

He got caught in the webbing of his parachute

on his landing this time, his leg is shattered.

- Jesus, can you fix him?

- It's too serious.

- You'll take me to him, tonight?

- Of course, after my last patient.

- Thank you.

- He tapped on my door in the middle of the night.

He dragged himself here, bless his soul.

It is not safe for him to stay much longer.

- Thank you.

- Be careful on the stairs, mon cherie.

My dear. - Be careful on the stairs, mon cherie.

- Be careful on the stairs, mon cherie.

How is he?

- Thank you. - No, thank you.

- Do you have something to say?

- I think we need to get you to hospital.

- Yeah, and say what, I fell out of a tree?

- You need medical attention, here.

If gangrene sets in-

- I'm not going to a hospital.

We both know what's out there.

The risk of getting help here far

outweigh the possibility of gangrene.

Just get a message to the wireless.

London has to find me a way out.

- I don't know where your wireless is.

- You mean you don't know where he is?

- I just got here.

It could be days before my courier makes contact

and I can pass along a message to wireless, so.

- Jesus.

What do you think we should do?

- Get you out, that's what.

A cruel genocide is taking place in German-occupied Europe.

A cruel genocide is taking place in German-occupied Europe.

A cruel genocide is taking place in German-occupied Europe.

Hitler's crimes,

his crimes,

cannot be tolerated by our beloved country.

- One moment.

This is for you.

Thank you.

- One moment, please.

- New letterbox address?

- Yes, Dr. Chevain's for message drops,

and we have an injured agent.

At the next spy taxi centre, we can't

just drop a parachute, it has to land.

Good luck.

Good luck.

2 p.m., Restaurant Aubergine.

Meet Alfonse, bring newspaper.

Gin, please.

Good morning. May I borrow your newspaper?

I left mine on the bus.

Madam, did you order a gin?

- No alcohol is allowed today, madam.

You ordered a gin.

- I apologise, I've just arrived.

I don't know all the rules yet.

- Your papers.

- I'm a reporter for the New York Post.

What day did you say you arrived?

- What day did you say you arrived, madam? What day did you say you arrived?

- What day did you say you arrived, madam?

- Tuesday.

- Effective as of Monday there is a new law.

Alcohol is forbidden on Sundays.

Now you know.

Thank you.

- You all right?

Alfonse.

- Brigitte.

- Let's go, come on.

There are informants everywhere. We just want to keep our families safe.

I understand.

- I understand, sitting on the sidelines seems safe.

You doing nothing is what the Germans are counting on.

So, what can we do? You doing nothing is what the Germans are counting on.

So, what can we do?

- Resist.

Can I help?

- Your friend told us that you might be willing to help.

Thank you very, very much.

Jean will meet you tonight to print 2,000 copies.

- I'll see to it. - Good luck.

Hand these out to the workers.

- When I arrived, I didn't expect to see so much despair.

Farmers must deliver punishing

quotas of their produce to the Germans.

The people are hungry.

I got my ration card and found that I am allowed only

10 ounces of bread a day and two ounces of cheese per week.

No rations of spaghetti, rice, or chocolate.

Onions.

The French laws keep changing.

No alcohol is allowed on Sundays anymore

and the latest, women are forbidden from buying cigarettes.

The most concerning news, Jews are now required

NO JEWS ALLOWED The most concerning news, Jews are now required

The most concerning news, Jews are now required

to register with the government.

- We've got an injured agent.

The next spy plane needs to land.

- Brilliant, I'll let them know.

- Buck, Buck, wake up.

- What?

Bloody hell, he's one of our most valuable assets.

Tell Virginia to provide landing coordinates.

- Right.

Buck, go home.

I'll stay, go and see Anna and the children.

- No, no holidays, no weekends, no time off.

Can't afford to let anything slip.

Come on.

- Right.

Here.

Thank you. Have a good day.

Your papers, madam.

- I mean, the landing strip's too short,

- It's just shy of 400 yards, it can be done.

- It's-

- Technically.

- It's so bloody stupid to try.

- If we don't try, he dies here.

- I know.

All right.

The plane can't be on the ground longer than 10 minutes.

- We'll do it in five.

- Landing coordinates, Virginia found us a field.

- Thank God.

- Mark was late and he left out

the first part of his call sign.

- Code mutilations happen every day, Miss Atkins.

I don't see why you feel the need

to babysit the signal room, that's Leo's job.

- It could be a warning.

What if Mark is being controlled by the Germans?

- Yes, and it could be another signal interference.

Look, a valuable asset is dying.

We need to get him back and fixed.

We have the moon tonight, we can't wait

another month to send in a bloody plane.

- If we're already sending a plane,

we need more wireless operators in action.

- Well, we don't have many to choose from.

Send Noor, she transposes messages in record time.

- We haven't given her the final

level of field training yet.

- She'll be fine.

- She needs more practical training.

- Are you kidding?

I've finally put aside my reservations on that.

- Still Buck, I think that we still-

- God dammit, I didn't ask what you thought.

The plane leaves tonight and Noor is on it.

Prepare her, Ms. Atkins.

- Why do you keep her in the room?

- She's smart as a whip

and her attention to detail is incomparable.

Nothing is too much trouble for her.

- You know, there are rumours.

- Meaning?

- I've heard her name is fake,

that she's a Romanian Jew, plus her accent is off.

- Ms. Atkins grew up abroad.

She was put through the counts just like you

and we found no traces of anything suspect.

She was very helpful to British intel

before the war and she came highly recommended.

- All I'm saying is not everyone

around here trusts her the way you do.

- Tea?

- Yeah.

You know, I've been telling you

that I've been training to go abroad.

I have to go tonight.

- Why, where are they sending you?

- You know, we're not allowed to talk about it.

But Mom, we knew this was going to happen, didn't we?

- Please, don't go.

Your family needs you here.

- I need your understanding.

I have to do something.

- Remember the Sufi saying "Don't you know yet,

"it's your light that lights the world."

- Yes, that's why I must go.

- Here you are.

- You do think of everything, don't you?

- Message us as soon as you arrive

and make sure your change locations often,

so that they don't locate your signals.

- Yes. ma'am.

- This is your wireless.

If you have any doubts, tell me now.

There are ways to help the war effort here.

- No, ma'am, I'm resolved.

I can fight, my resistance is not motivated by hate.

- Good.

- That's a beautiful pin, it's a lapwing isn't it?

- Yes, here.

- No, I couldn't

- No, you must, our first female wireless.

Congratulations, Madeleine.

Freedom.

- Good luck to you.

Hello, mama.

- Hello, darling.

Vera, missing soldiers turn up all the time.

- We've been here too long already.

This feels dangerous.

- No, we're here now, we're seeing it through.

- I got it.

- Madeline.

- Brigitte?

- Come on.

Raoul!

- All right, this is the turn, go drive.

- This is Madeleine.

- Hello. - Pleased to meet you. - This is Madeleine.

- Hello. - Pleased to meet you.

- Quickly, lets move.

- Is he okay?

- Yes.

- Just another night or two, I'll find

another safe house for her soon.

Are you warm enough here?

Welcome, Madeline.

Hello.

- May we speak? - I don't want to.

- Hello. - Hello.

- Hello. - Hello.

I'm a journalist for the New York Post.

- May we speak?

- Come in. - Thank you.

I need a safe house for our agents

and the police will never look here.

- We cannot accommodate additional guests.

I can barely feed our nuns as it is.

- What if I could find extra food coupons?

- Then we could find rooms.

- Brigitte reports the morale here is low.

Nazi spies everywhere.

Recruiting, send more funds.

Yes?

Yes?

I've identified an illegal radio signal here.

But I have no radio.

Do come in.

I know he's here.

- Can I get you something to eat? - Where is he?

- Raoul, I need to talk to you about something.

- I'm heading to lunch.

You need to eat, I insist, come.

And as of late my new patients

have become a lot more interesting.

- I have no place for Madeline tonight.

Do you have any more friends who might be sympathetic?

An attic or a basement?

- I have a basement

Well, since I'm doing a favour for you,

I expect something in return.

- Okay.

- You need to see someone about your limp.

- It's not a limp, it's a wooden leg.

- Oh, I thought maybe you hurt

it on your way into France, a parachute landing.

How did it happen?

Do you mind?

- I guess the question is, do you mind, or eating?

- I'm a physician, strong stomach.

- My family's summer home is on a farm.

I love to hunt and went out

with some friends to hunt birds.

I'd even brought my father's favourite shotgun,

barrel pointing down as I was taught to do.

There was a wobbly fence.

Gangrene was setting in and a decision had to be made.

And I was unconscious, so the doctor made it for me.

I'm sorry.

- That's devastating.

- First I thought, maybe I get my leg back somehow,

but we all know miracles don't happen

- You may talk and I may listen and miracles might happen.

- Anyway.

- There's always a little room for dessert.

Thank you.

I have contacts too, a little gift.

A better soap.

- That bad?

- No.

THE JEWISH MACHINE

An exhibition about the Jews being evil.

Don't fall victim to their propaganda, madam.

The Germans are the enemy, not the Jews.

- I've never seen so much hatred.

The Germans control what the French read and hear.

False information is everywhere.

The latest, an antisemitic exhibition.

IMPERILLED BY THE JEWS The latest, an antisemitic exhibition.

The latest, an antisemitic exhibition.

THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION The latest, an antisemitic exhibition.

THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION

There are lines down the block to see it.

- I didn't think I'd get caught so quickly.

- You'll be safe here.

What do you think?

- It's perfect.

- These here are where the antennas are set up.

It's easiest to get a signal.

Don't message where you sleep anymore.

If you run out of time, sign off

without your security check.

London will figure it out.

- I am a new patient. - For Dr Chevain?

No, Dr Benoît. Excuse me.

- Father Robert Alesch. - Your sermons are legendary.

We can't just stand by and do nothing.

I completely agree.

I'm looking for Brigitte.

Do you have a message for her?

I must see her.

I'm sorry, Father, but...

Sorry to have troubled you.

Maybe you could come back later.

I can't promise anything but I've heard she's in town.

There is a double agent in Bordeaux. All my contacts have been arrested.

They may have blown my cover.

I need protection,

and money to rebuild the network.

I heard about Brigitte.

- If you see her, please... - I'll pass on the message.

It's urgent.

I understand.

Thank you, Doctor.

Thank you.

- I don't trust him.

- He's a resistance fighter.

- Did you hear his accent?

- He grew up near the border, his accent is common.

He's a priest, famous for his anti-Nazi sermons.

- I've never heard of him.

- He needs our immediate help.

- I will ask Madeline to check with London.

If they vouch for him, then it-

- No, no, that'll take too long.

In the meantime, he may be caught and murdered.

- Raoul, I am the one responsible for the safety

of every man and woman who walks in that door.

It's my call to make.

- I see, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do.

- Colonel Buckmaster, sir.

- These correspond exactly to the map over here.

Thank you.

- This one's a positive too.

Thank God, for Alesch, a local vicar working

with the resistance who provided us with a safe house.

- Right, good.

- I've heard we're going to war

with Hungary, Finland, and Romania.

- Everyone, one moment.

- Someone at the top said no.

- Why?

- All I've been told is you're not

getting your citizenship papers.

- Because I'm Jewish?

My intelligence work will be suspect as a citizen

of the enemy, and if anyone else here found out-

- If they do, I will remind them

that your intelligence efforts have always

been unofficial and not to worry, that technically

your rank is only that of a secretary.

- Who is dispensable without British papers.

- Indispensable to me.

Upstairs can be difficult.

They're comfortable with things as they are

and your secret is safe with me.

- Now we are the masters of our fate,

that the task which has been set us is not

above our strength, that its pangs

and toils are not beyond our endurance.

- He wasn't done.

- It's bloody rubbish.

My citizenship papers, they said no.

- Oh Vera, oh Vera.

- Mama, every time there's a knock on our door

I fear that they are coming to deport me every time.

- I thought we could remake our lives here.

I thought it would be safe.

- On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 a State of War has existed

between United States and the Japanese Empire.

To overcome this premeditated invasion,

the American people in their righteous might

will win through to absolute victory.

As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.

- Virginia's cover is blown.

American reporters won't be allowed in France now.

- We'll get her a French disguise.

- She needs to come back and cool off.

- She doesn't wanna cool off and her leadership skills

have exceeded expectations, we need her in the field.

- But her accent is-

- Will be passable, she was head of the Drama League.

- There needs to be a change in hair.

- And a new codename, of course.

- Philomene, it means strength.

- Excuse me, sir, I'm sorry.

Which wireless are we gonna transfer to Paris?

We have lost communication.

- Still nothing from Stevenson?

Send Noor.

- Mark's been in the field longer

and Paris is tougher than Vichy.

- Women can move about more freely in occupied territory.

We have to get this right.

Noor goes north.

- What else did London say?

- Father Alesch's credentials check out.

- Really?

- Yeah.

London said to send him 300,000 francs.

- We'll have to find him.

I left him on his own.

On your next get, ask London to send more wireless.

The passing of information's taking too long.

- Of course.

You know what, I think we should practise a bit more.

- Sure.

- Bonjour has to have a bit at the end.

Bonjour.

- Bonjour.

- Good.

There.

Don't you look beautiful?

It's the role of your lifetime.

- We should get you moving.

I wish you didn't have to go to Paris.

Will you be okay?

- We're only here for a short time, but what we do

while we're here changes the course of the future.

Boarding now for Paris.

Boarding now.

Search everything! Search everything!

Search everything! Search everything!

Open up!

- Get out! - With your luggage!

We don't have all day!

We don't have all day!

Heinrich!

What are you doing?

What do we have here?

What do we have here?

- Go, go, go! - We don't have all day!

I can explain. If you don't stop..

Everyone get back on the train!

Faster!

Faster!

Get on the train!

Go on!

Take it with you! Of course!

Thank you. I won't be long.

- Arrived, Philomene requests more wireless

to support growing resistance in Lyon,

off to meet circuit members at safe house.

8, Rue des Archers.

- It's safer than a hotel, I like the new look.

- The 10th of February, 1942.

We continue to organise drop zones

and distribute cash and weapons to our agents

as they pass through our hub here in Lyon.

Agents Joseph and Cole were parachuted in safely.

Okay boys, the German torpedo boats

are hiding in the main canal.

Good luck in Marseilles.

When using a gun double-tap, torso, head.

It's good to see your Father Alesch.

- Are there agents I should assist as I rebuild?

- Use it for your network.

- Be careful out there.

DECREE

Anyone hiding or helping spies directly or indirectly will be shot.

Anyone hiding or helping spies directly or indirectly will be shot.

Thank you. This will be really helpful.

- That should be enough for the explosives.

Go.

- Virginia's report identifies a number

of new Nazi supply lines across France.

- Impressive work.

- My contacts suspect an ammunition shipment

is passing through on its way to Paris.

I'm organising a group to destroy the freight line.

FREEDOM FOR FRANCE

FREEDOM FOR FRANCE

- The four petroleum targets are now set as planned.

Switching safe houses and will meet

the Head of the Northern Circuit when I get there.

- But he was decent. - Decent but still German.

You make me laugh.

- They're all the same. - I know.

They're all after the same thing.

What's going on?

What's going on?

You must go!

It's too dangerous here.

Good luck, sweetheart.

Urgent, Northern Circuit infiltrated, Gestapo.

On my own, send reinforcements.

- Get this to Buckmaster immediately.

Serena, right?

Could you do me a little favour just between us ladies?

- Sure.

- I need to get a message to Madeline

and I don't have time to wait for the men.

Tell Madeline that I'm working on a way to get her home.

Tell her to stay low and to keep moving.

I will get her home.

Got it?

Good.

I don't advise making any mistakes.

I have a really good memory.

- Right.

What? A woman with a wooden leg? She'll slow us down.

I'm telling you, she can't do it. It won't work.

- Alfonse.

- This is Philomene, Head of the Heckler Circuit,

and SOE Agent Paul and George, local mechanic,

he'll be assisting with us with explosives.

- Thank you.

- But we will not have much time, the ammunition shipment,

it passes through 30 minutes after dark.

Perhaps, we can get more hands.

- I can join.

- No, women shouldn't be in the field.

- Yes, they should, Paul.

- And certainly not you.

There's a lot of running involved.

- We were all trained in explosives.

- Who the hell are you to give orders?

- My orders come from London.

- All right, all right, look we're all

on the same side, right, so.

- Paul, stopping this ammunition

shipment will save 1000s of lives.

- My previous job at a French motor company

certainly didn't prepare me for this.

There could be many explanations, Vera.

Noor has been late before.

This new curfew is mucking up everyone's scheds.

- Your latest recruits have been doing

impressive work and Virginia's been spectacular.

You were right about her, good find.

- Let's hope they pull it off tonight.

If we could derail an ammunition shipment

that would certainly be good news.

They're over there. Come on, let's go.

Stop! Don't move!

Who are you?

Stop! I said stop!

Stop! I said stop!

Stop, you over there!

- Well, they now have our wireless.

- Look, the most pressing concern right now is George.

I mean, he hasn't been trained.

And God knows what he might divulge

under a challenging circumstance.

- Christ.

- George is the mechanic.

Can he pick the lock?

- With what?

- A wrench?

- Yes, because they do hand out wrenches in prisons.

- What if we could hide the wrench in a package?

The Geneva Convention allows for humanitarian groups

to deliver care packages to prisoners-

- They check care packages.

- Including games.

I mean, if it's an innocent game, what's there to check?

- This is bloody insane.

- I could ask Isabella to do it.

She' a resistance member who looks charitable.

- I don't know all right, we need more time to think.

- We don't have time, Paul.

- Yeah then, why not?

Good luck.

Thanks.

Good luck.

Your papers, madam.

On you go.

What's that?

Come on, let's play.

- But it's for the prisoners, sir. - They can have it after we've finished.

Put it down here.

- They're not coming.

- We're not going anywhere.

Shall we leave it there for tonight?

I'll come back tomorrow for a game of lotto.

Take her to see the prisoners.

- To while away the time tonight. - That's very kind of you, Miss.

Thanks.

Curfew!

Curfew!

Thank God!

Let's go.

- Come on let's go.

- Let's go. - Yes. - Come on let's go.

- Come on let's go.

What's going on here?

We're not looking for trouble, sir.

What are you doing outside after the curfew?

We didn't mean any harm.

Kneel down, all of you.

Now!

Sir, you're mis...

Sir, you're mis...

Your accent's not from round here.

- Philomene, get them out of here.

Go, now!

- Let's go.

- Alfonse, Alfonse.

- You see, he listened to my prayers.

We will take good care of them.

- Thank you, Sister. - Come with me.

- Remember they know you are now.

Stay here until I organise a way to get you back to London.

- But you won't have a wireless.

- We'll manage.

- In other news,

to keep their war machine going, the Nazis are tightening

their grip on the so-called unoccupied part of France.

French citizens are now being drafted

and being taken to work as forced labour in Germany.

- Noor?

- Giselle?

- I thought it was you. - Oh, my goodness! How are you?

- What are you doing here? - It's a long story.

You look like you need a cup of tea.

- I'd love one. - Come on.

I'm so happy to see you.

And I you. You have no idea.

I've been sleeping in alleyways for a few days now.

I have nowhere else to go.

Can you help me?

I have a family, Noor. If anyone finds out...

Giselle, thousands of Jews are going missing.

Innocent French children are marked with yellow stars.

Aren't you scared?

Please, for France.

Just for a few days.

That's all I can offer you.

Thank you.

- Not now.

Good.

- Will not return, my transmission's needed.

Excited to help rebuild the circuit.

Your word has brought me luck.

Next message, we'll send coordinates

for parachute replacements.

- Bloody hell, Noor.

Roosevelt's decision to enlist American troops

to help the British regain North Africa

has ended in a major defeat for the Axis.

Having lost control of the Mediterranean,

Hitler is assembling his German forces on the demarcation line,

Hitler is assembling his German forces on the demarcation line,

Hitler is assembling his German forces on the demarcation line,

preparing to occupy the rest of France.

Klaus Barbie has arrived.

Captain Barbie.

I'd give anything to get my hands on that limping slut!

Distribute these all over France.

Go easy on the sermons.

This is new to me.

I wanted to be convincing.

Don't give the Führer a bad name!

No one was supposed to suspect anything.

I'm... I'm sorry.

Your bonus.

Thank you, sir.

I've paid you more than your work was worth.

Find this woman.

Yes... yes.

- Heil Hitler.

- Philomene, Philomene?

- What's wrong?

NOTIFICATION TO ALL POLICE STATIONS - WANTED:

- They know you're the leader of 100s of spies.

It's only a matter of time before somebody

recognises you and speaks to the Germans.

They'll stop at nothing until they find you.

You need to take the train south to Perpignan.

But you need to go now.

- I'm not giving up, we're not giving up.

- Good luck.

Chop-chop! We don't have all day!

Chop-chop! We don't have all day!

Stop!

Stop!

Who's got all the papers?

Go on!

This is the punishment

for anyone who supports spies and betrays the Führer.

- Go on, go on...! - Here we go!

- Break down the door. - Yes, Captain!

Don't dilly-dally. Chop-chop!

What do we have here?

Found it!

Found it!

Quick! Get in!

Come on, come on!

Go!

It's about to start.

Where is she?

You're asking me questions I can't answer.

Why would she have told me? I'm a doctor.

All I care about is curing people. Curing...

One...

two...

Enough!

- Where is she? - I don't know.

THIS WOMAN WHO WALKS WITH A LIMP

IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST ALLIED SPIES IN FRANCE.

This is what we do with spies.

Perpignan, please.

Good luck.

Thank you.

- What have you done? - I did this for you.

- So you can eat. - No, no...

Open up!

Come on, open up!

Open up, I said!

Come on!

Come on!

Stop!

Get her!

We've got you now.

You dirty slut!

Come on, take her away!

- I'm so sorry, Noor. - Go, go, go!

Get off me!

Get down from there! Now!

Now!

Now!

- I found your notebook.

We have all your codes.

I'm going to ask one more time.

Who is she?

Loyalty...

is overrated.

Someone in your circuit tipped us off to your friend.

In the meantime start the transmission, Madelina.

- Madeline sent the coordinates for where the replacement

is to be parachuted, but there's a problem.

Her code is perfect.

- So?

- There's not a single mistake.

- Well, she's good.

- Yes, but there's always a mistake or two.

This one's perfect.

- What are you saying, Leo?

- I'm saying the style on this one is different.

- Her security check is correct?

- Yes.

- You're speculating.

- This doesn't feel right.

- So we're acting on feelings now, are we?

What's your opinion?

- We have a wireless who won't survive alone.

I don't know, Buck, it's not clear.

- Parachute those replacements to her proposed coordinates.

We begin here in Perpignan and go inland

to avoid the patrols, it's 35 miles across the mountain.

From there, you'll need to hop on a train

to Barcelona where you can get a train

to Portugal and then a ship to London.

Get some rest, you'll need it.

See you tomorrow.

- No complaining out of you.

She's on her way, heading south.

She's tried to escape twice, and I still can't get anything out of her.

Put her in the next carriage.

- Yes.

- Leo was right, they must have Noor's code.

- What?

- We parachuted those agents straight

into the hands of the Gestapo.

- Oh.

- The pilot made it back.

I didn't want to give up on her.

I don't want to give up on any of them.

God, Vera, what have I done?

- It's too goddamn late to ask that now

and they deserve more than the two of us sitting here,

second-guessing ourselves safely tucked away behind a desk.

- But what do we have to show for any of this?

We will soon have 100s of agents in the field.

Yes, we've made mistakes.

Yes, things should be done that have not yet been

accomplished, but we are getting better at this every day.

We must keep trying!

We must!

- Yes.

- Have we heard from Virginia?

- Right.

God dammit.

- Well done.

- Well, thank you.

- Please, have a seat.

- Thank you.

- A double.

- To Cuthbert.

- To Cuthbert!

Who deserves a medal, I think.

Yeah, Virginia I wish we had better news.

From what we know, the convent was not raided.

Everyone else have or was...

- Everyone?

- Yes.

- And Madeline, how is she?

- Her circuit was also compromised.

- What happened to her?

- She's missing.

- Send me back.

- You're one of our best, I wish we could.

- You can.

- The Gestapo are pulling in everything they can.

It would be criminal to send someone

as remarkable as you right now.

- They're looking for you, Virginia, they know who you are.

- My neck is my own, you know, if I'm willing

to get a crick in it, 'cause there's a war on-

- It is the necks of everyone in your network.

- Perhaps that wouldn't be the case if F Section

did a better job of protecting their agents.

- We are doing our best, and we are all too aware

that our best is costing people their lives.

- That's because there are too many field agents

who need to be supported by one wireless.

When one wireless goes down, everyone's compromised.

You need to train more.

That is the problem.

- We will consider that.

Vera, we suspect Alesch is the one

who betrayed Virginia's team, and upstairs has concerns

that it was you who checked him out.

- You know he checked out on paper.

- He did, yet, but-

- No one suspected he was a double agent, not me, not you.

- I know, but nonetheless we-

- That's it, let's not pretend this has anything to do

with my looking into Alesch, who checked out.

D-Day planning is around the corner and I am done

being the unofficial, untrusted part of our team

just because I was born a Jew.

You want me, I want my papers,

and proper rank, next move is yours.

- Well those tactics were very

effective with the French and all that.

Of course.

Ah, Vera Atkins. This is William Donovan,

Chief of OSS, America's SOE.

- Your reputation proceeds you, Wild Bill.

- As does yours.

- All good things, I'm sure.

- We've spent years working

on sabotage and subversion techniques.

We know the best way to cut off Nazi access.

We want to place small sabotage teams

of three agents all over, one wireless each.

- Surprise, sabotage vanish.

The Germans won't know what hit them.

- We have experienced agents and the training facilities

to implement the plan, but we need money.

We've had no choice but to learn the hard way,

how to do this, trial and a lot of error.

But I think it's fair to say we're experts now.

- We propose a joint operation,

OSS and F Section agents working together,

the Americans and the British side-by-side.

- You're field name should have been Persistent,

convincing your country to train you as a wireless.

Virginia, her real name is Noor.

- Madeline?

- Yes.

- It's beautiful.

- I have to deliver a letter to her mother.

I thought you might like to join me.

- Of course.

- When they told me she was missing, I knew what it meant.

I hadn't heard from her for so long.

- Your daughter is a hero.

I brought Virginia with me because

she was in the field with Noor.

- I am so inspired by her strength.

She once said to me, "Don't you know yet?

"It's your light that lights the world."

- All I know is that...

No one protected my daughter from harm.

- Liberte.

- This war has left no one unscathed.

- Look at them, our glorious amateurs.

Virginia's experience has been of great value to America.

I'm told you're the one I should thank for finding her.

- I'm sure if I hadn't found her she would have found us,

Mr. Donovan, just like she found you

- True.

We're sending her back, ahead of the Jedburgh teams

to organise, now with her wireless capability,

her skills are even more valuable.

You did great work with her.

- Thank you.

- I look pretty unremarkable, wouldn't you say?

- Indeed.

Shall we?

- Good luck to you.

- And to you, my friend.