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00:02In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, dropped their first women agents into
00:09Nazi-occupied France. They're hand-picked by spymaster Vera Atkins.
00:17Are you prepared to take the fight to the Nazis?
00:22Behind enemy lines? In occupied France?
00:26As a spy.
00:28But they quickly become targets for the Gestapo.
00:34Odette and Peter Churchill have been captured.
00:37What?
00:38Keep those hands.
00:41Don't worry. You'll be safe with me.
00:46Now Vera's newest recruit, Noor Inayat Khan, is playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with Hitler's intelligence forces.
00:57Do you want people to make you as an agent?
01:01No, of course not. Sorry.
01:03Sorry won't save you from the Gestapo's cell.
01:06But with D-Day approaching, more agents need to be trained.
01:17Good shot.
01:20Good shot.
01:41Send even more agents to strengthen the circuits for D-Day and expect heavy casualties.
01:49But as the Nazis crack down, how long can they remain free?
01:53And how much will they risk in the fight against Hitler's deadly regime?
02:11F-Section wait anxiously for news from Paris.
02:17The day before, they'd received an alarming message from Francis Suttle, the organiser of the Prosper Circuit.
02:25F-Section's largest, based in the French capital.
02:32What? What is it?
02:34Noor was almost arrested at a letterbox.
02:36Suttle claims was blown.
02:38He says if Noor had gone there yesterday, she'd have been met by the Gestapo searching the safe house.
02:43He thinks their security has been compromised.
02:46And this means that the Nazis might know what's going on, and arrests could follow soon.
02:53He is not letting anybody send any information, send other agents.
02:58He's not sure what's going on, and he stops all these flights going in and out of Europe.
03:09Sir.
03:11You should see this.
03:14That'll be all.
03:19Sir?
03:21What is it?
03:23A flash message.
03:25Intel from an agent in Paris.
03:28Suttle and his wireless opera butcher, Gilbert Norman, have disappeared.
03:31Disappeared?
03:34I think they've been arrested.
03:37Arrested?
03:40Message to be confirmed.
03:43Sir, this intel has been marked flimsy.
03:47What if it isn't?
03:50Vera and Buckmaster do not know what's happening in Paris.
03:53If Suttle and Norman have been arrested and are being interrogated by the Gestapo, if they reveal the secrets, then
04:03every single agent that they have in Paris is in danger.
04:16In Paris, Noor is unsure what's happening to the Prosper Circuit.
04:22All she knows are rumours of arrests.
04:27Agents have gone to ground, and Noor can't risk making contact with any other elements of the circuit, in case
04:34they betray her.
04:40Do not do that again.
04:42Do not do that again.
04:44What?
04:46That.
04:48In England, you pour milk first, then tea.
04:51In France, we pour tea first, then milk.
04:57A real French woman would never do that.
05:03No, no.
05:06Oh, no, indeed.
05:08These are basic things that the SOE have taught Noor from the start, and yet the lessons haven't sunk in.
05:15It was incredibly important that any agent going into France blended in, and it was just the little tiny things
05:22that ended up being the huge catastrophe that could see them arrested.
05:27Do you want people to make you as an agent?
05:30No, of course not. Sorry.
05:32Sorry won't save you from a Gestapo cell.
05:36But this isn't the only sign that she's a foreign agent.
05:42I'm buying you new clothes.
05:47What's wrong with my clothes?
05:50Your jacket.
05:52Your English-looking Macintosh jacket.
05:55A Parisian woman wouldn't be caught dead in it.
06:01We'll buy you new, French-looking clothes.
06:07Noor hadn't even finished her SOE training.
06:11With her resistance cell in chaos, now she's been dropped in the deep end and is trying to tread water.
06:29In London, Vera and Buckmaster wait for news on the Prosper Circuit.
06:39But, worryingly, no further messages come through.
06:46Meanwhile, Vera's search for more women spies continues.
07:01It was very important that the recruiting of agents continued.
07:05D-Day was approaching and so the SOE wanted to make sure that when that signal for D-Day came,
07:13they could literally almost flick a switch and they were ready to fight back.
07:19It means finding more agents.
07:24Vera pours over personnel files for potential new recruits.
07:30One is 22-year-old Violette Sabo.
07:35She was born in a British hospital in Paris, of a French mother and an English father.
07:43And then she was schooled in France.
07:46One of the most important things that they needed was somebody who could speak French fluently,
07:52blend in, knew about France, and she had all of those skills already.
07:56But she had some real personal motives for wanting to go back into occupied territory.
08:02Part of the reason is clearly because Etienne, her husband,
08:07had been killed at El Alamein with the free French.
08:13So Etienne never met his daughter.
08:16She was born and unfortunately he died before he had the opportunity to meet her.
08:22And it would have made Violette so fervently passionate about wanting to go out to France
08:29and to fight against the Nazis.
08:31So Violette really would very much like to get her own back and do whatever she could.
08:39And Vera now turns to another recruit put forward by SOE, Yvonne Bazden.
08:48Yvonne Bazden was the daughter of a British father who married a French woman shortly after the First World War.
08:55She spent most of her early childhood in France, which meant she spoke French perfectly.
09:01She felt very much at home in France.
09:03She'd lived there for years before coming to Britain as a teenager.
09:06So in many ways she was the ideal recruit for F Section.
09:12Both Violette Sabo and Yvonne Bazden have strong motivations.
09:20They are assigned to SOE training.
09:28F Section are desperate for news from the Prosper Circuit.
09:34Buck, what is it?
09:37Call sign Butcher. He's trying to transmit from Paris.
09:41After 12 days of radio silence, they get the message they've been waiting for.
09:53What's it say, Buck?
09:55Confirmation.
09:59Francis Suttle has been captured.
10:02The head of the Prosper Circuit, F Section's largest and most important, is in German hands.
10:15Sir, this message, it's unusual.
10:18Has it come to Eclipse?
10:22Butcher's security check is missing.
10:25All SOE agents are trained very carefully that when they send an encoded message,
10:32they have to also at the end send a security check.
10:36These are check words that only they will know.
10:39It could just be atmospheric conditions playing havoc with the signal.
10:43True.
10:46Butcher might also be on the run.
10:50The Gestapo looking for him, he might not have had time to include it.
10:55Could it have been sent by Noor?
10:58Using Butcher's set, or she wouldn't have his specific codes?
11:02Or Butcher's been captured and has given his transmission codes to the Gestapo.
11:07Impossible.
11:08He'd have shot himself before he did that.
11:12Send a reply.
11:15Butcher, you've forgotten your security checks.
11:18Show more care in the future.
11:21The vital wireless link from London to Paris is still in place, for now.
11:28But the Prosper Circuit is fragile.
11:38For those SOE agents on the ground in Paris, their fate is becoming increasingly uncertain.
11:46Contact has been lost with the leaders of the circuit, and it's assumed they're in Gestapo custody.
11:53People are being arrested.
11:56Safe houses are being compromised.
11:58They don't know what to do.
12:00Who can they report to?
12:02Who can they trust?
12:04Where should they go?
12:05What should they do?
12:07However, Noor is still in Paris, and she's still transmitting to London.
12:15F-Section tries to untangle the chaos.
12:21Another report.
12:22There's been more arrests.
12:26How many agents is that now?
12:29Lost track, Boddington.
12:33The Gestapo have raided another weapons dump.
12:37Who is betraying them to the Germans?
12:40If you read these reports, the list of possible traitors is endless.
12:43Sir, that can't be true.
12:44And nothing can be verified.
12:46These reports aren't worth the paper they're written on.
12:49The only thing we know is there's something wrong in Prosper.
12:59Fuck.
13:03We can never make sense of what's happening set on our backsides in London.
13:07If I can take my own wireless operator, I can fly out to Paris, make contact somehow with the circuit,
13:13and work out what the hell is happening once and for all.
13:16Nick.
13:17No.
13:17What if you're called?
13:19It was enormously risky to send Boddington into Paris because he was number two in SOE's F-Section.
13:28So if he was captured and interrogated and he talked, the whole of F-Section could have been blown out
13:36of the water.
13:41Despite the danger, Buckmaster gives him the green light.
13:47It's fine.
13:49Fly to France.
13:51Make your way to Paris and report back what you find.
13:54Good.
13:57Send a message to Butcher.
13:59Arrange a meeting.
14:23Boddington with his wireless operator, Jack Agazarian, are infiltrated into France.
14:31They land just outside Soussel, in the west of the country.
14:47Greeting them is SOE Air Movement Officer, Henri Derricourt.
14:54Nicholas.
14:56Henri.
14:57How long has it been?
14:58Too long.
15:00Jack Agazarian, Henri Derricourt.
15:04It's good to have someone out here we can trust.
15:06I'm your man.
15:08I've arranged a meeting in Paris with a contact close to Soutil.
15:11Excellent work.
15:13Hopefully, they can clear this whole mess up.
15:17Boddington's really relieved because this means he can get down to what's been going on in the Prosper Circuit.
15:22Is it salvageable what's been going on?
15:25And maybe, you know, this Derricourt contact is going to know a lot more.
15:36It's not going to know a lot more.
15:37Back in Britain, new recruits Yvonne and Violette begin their SOE training.
15:44Designed to identify their strengths and weaknesses for action in the field.
15:52The women had the same training as the men of SOE.
15:59It was incredibly gruelling.
16:01It was physically, mentally exhausting.
16:05Very, very hard work.
16:07Things like obstacle courses and map reading.
16:13The women would have been learning skills that they had never thought in a million years they were going to
16:19need.
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16:52Next comes weapons handling and shooting practice.
16:58Violette's report says that she was a crack shot,
17:01that she was excellent with firearms.
17:08The agents then move on to parachute training.
17:15All agents have to conduct four jumps
17:18and for Yvonne, it's a terrifying experience.
17:25There are accounts saying the men were frightened too.
17:29It wasn't just the women.
17:30And it's not surprising because accidents were pretty common.
17:33In the case of Violette Szabo,
17:35she landed awkwardly and damaged her ankle.
17:39It seems a pretty intense injury.
17:42It took several weeks to recuperate.
17:49In London, Vera keeps tabs on her agent's progress.
17:54Violette's training report is on the whole very positive.
17:58She's confident, she's plucky, she's physically very tough.
18:03Pretty much everything that they want in an agent.
18:06But the instructors also noted other things that concerned them about Violette.
18:12They say that she's fatalistic in her outlook,
18:15that she lacks a sense of responsibility.
18:17So, really, some quite negative things they're saying about her.
18:21But Vera Atkins saw the steel that was in Violette.
18:27She would always stand up and fight where necessary.
18:32She had this other quality which did shine through.
18:36A personality, a real personality.
18:40Yes, Vera would have wanted all of that.
18:44Violette is assigned the role of courier.
18:49Yvonne's training report is relatively positive as well,
18:53and in particular with reference to her wireless skills.
18:56So, it was obvious, really, that the role assigned to her was wireless operator.
19:02It's promising news.
19:04More and more women agents are coming through,
19:07soon to be deployed to circuits in France.
19:11But since Noor's wireless message that contact has been lost with leaders of Prosper,
19:17F section are on tenterhooks.
19:22Who has escaped Gestapo arrest?
19:25And how long can they remain free?
19:28?
19:31?
19:32?
19:32?
19:57You're here.
19:58My phone's.
19:59Who else is with you?
20:01No one's up.
20:03The meeting with Sir Till's contact was a trap.
20:06But it was definitely in German hands.
20:10Well, are you sure?
20:12100%.
20:13Aghazarian and I flipped a coin to see you should go.
20:16It fell to him, so he went.
20:18I waited in the safe house, but he didn't return.
20:21If I had gone, I'd now be sat in a Gestapo torture chamber.
20:28Poor Aghazarian.
20:36Send a message to F-Section.
20:38Arrange a Lysander pickup immediately.
20:41I need to get back to London.
20:46So, were you followed?
20:55Send a message.
20:57We'll find you in your safe house.
21:00They can't trust anyone, nor has to move.
21:14Meanwhile, Boddington returns to London.
21:29Buck, here's my report.
21:34Prosper is destroyed.
21:37Destroyed?
21:38Entirely?
21:40It's impossible to know which agents are active, which agents are in Gestapo custody, and who can be trusted.
21:48The Gestapo are raiding weapons depots, making arrests.
21:53Prosper as a circuit is a corpse.
21:57It's worse than they could have imagined.
22:00The most important SOE circuit operating in France has been absolutely destroyed.
22:06The most important members of it are in the hands of the SS Gestapo.
22:12It means safe houses are not safe.
22:14People are being arrested.
22:16It means that the people who were in any way connected with the circuit are in grave, grave danger.
22:22There is something else.
22:25One of our agents has been contacted by German military intelligence.
22:29About Deracour.
22:33Deracour?
22:35This Adria officer
22:38claims that Deracour is letting the Gestapo copy all our agents' unencoded letters before sending them back to London.
22:46Preposterous.
22:47I know.
22:50But this agent of ours will be sending this report in.
22:54Officially.
22:56German military intelligence hated the Gestapo.
23:00And are trying to get us to close down the network.
23:03Then the Gestapo won't have anybody to arrest.
23:06This rumour is just that.
23:08A rumour.
23:09We can't and shouldn't act on it.
23:14Agreed.
23:17But it's clear to Buckmaster and Vera that the Prosper Circuit is blown.
23:23One hundred and sixty-seven agents are rounded up, arrested, many of them tortured, and some of them killed by
23:33the Gestapo.
23:34The Prosper Circuit was the most important in France.
23:39And it's a disaster for the F-Section that it's been blown.
23:44It was crucial to the planning for D-Day because it was a centre of the resistance.
23:52Try and get as many agents back to London as possible.
24:13But one agent who doesn't return is Noor.
24:21Buckmaster writes to Noor and says, come back.
24:24It's very dangerous.
24:25We'll organise a flight for you and get you out.
24:28But Noor says she's the last link left.
24:32She's the last radio operator standing between Paris and England.
24:37I have to be here.
24:39If I've gone, there's no radio operator left.
24:41She feels she can rebuild this circuit.
24:44And Buckmaster receives this message and he asked her to lie low and be very careful.
24:56Despite the danger, Buckmaster realises just how vital she is and keeps her in her post.
25:10She becomes one of F-Section's most important agents, as she is their one remaining radio operator in Paris.
25:22And a letter she sends to Vera gives hope that all might not be lost after all.
25:38Dear Miss Atkins, excuse pencil.
25:45Your bird has brought me luck.
25:48I remember you so often.
25:50You cheered me up so sweetly before I left.
25:54Lots of things have happened and I haven't been able to settle down properly.
26:00Still, my contacts are regular and I'm awfully happy.
26:05Lots of love, yours, Noor.
26:19Your bird has brought me luck.
26:23But despite the upbeat letter, Vera is worried about Noor.
26:29Noor is clearly operating under great stress.
26:33She's meant to be sending in messages regularly, but most of the wireless messages she's sending are outside the scheduled
26:39times.
26:39And this shows that she's having to move around and having to adapt a lot.
26:43And Vera has reason to worry.
26:48The Gestapo in Paris are now aware of a lone British wireless operator and are on the hunt.
27:02Sir, both Violette Szabo and Yvonne Basten are progressing well.
27:06Very good.
27:07Both their training reports show an increasing aptitude for...
27:11Sir, Miss Atkins, an urgent message from the signals room.
27:15Dismissed.
27:19Madeline has been injured and is now in a hospital.
27:24Madeline is Noor's alias.
27:28This message is coded.
27:32Noor has been compromised.
27:35All captured.
27:36Is that possible?
27:40The intel comes from a woman called Sonia, claiming to be an informant.
27:45But we don't have any informants on our books called Sonia.
27:55So, who is Sonia?
27:59They didn't know who she was.
28:02Was this a joke?
28:03Was it something to confuse them?
28:05Was this even a Gestapo ruse?
28:07What was going on?
28:10We can't verify who Sonia is.
28:15The message can't be trusted.
28:24I think for now, Vera, we have to ignore it.
28:29More rumours.
28:32They push forward with their plan for Noor to salvage the Prosper Circuit.
28:47Sir, a message just received from callsign Nurse.
28:51Nurse?
28:53That's Noor's wireless callsign.
29:01Previous safe house was unsafe.
29:04She's moved to another.
29:08But she is up and running again.
29:12Clever girl, you're Noor.
29:15It seems that despite Sonia's warning, Noor outwitted the Gestapo and is safe.
29:24Sir, there's something you should know.
29:27Noor's fist seems off.
29:33Each wireless operator had what was known as a fist.
29:36It was their way of using the Morse key to type Morse code.
29:41It could be as simple as how fast they tapped,
29:44or the gaps they left in between the dots and the dashes,
29:47or just something that was very unique about it.
29:50And the person working as their opposite back in headquarters
29:54would be able to recognise the fist.
29:57And it's a very reliable way of recognising
30:00which agent is using the machine.
30:04And Noor's fist had become unusual.
30:08What are you saying?
30:10Someone else might have sent the message.
30:14So how can we be certain Nurse is really Noor?
30:22Send a reply.
30:24Ask questions only Noor would know the answers to.
30:28These would be to do with her family,
30:30or childhood, or something very personal
30:33that only the two of them would have known.
30:35If these came unanswered or they were vague,
30:38she would know that Noor had been captured.
30:41Excellent thinking.
30:43Draft a list of questions, Miss Atkins.
30:45Then send the message.
30:47Sir.
30:48The questions are sent.
30:50It's an anxious wait.
31:01With questions over Noor's identity still hanging in the air,
31:06work at F Section ploughs ahead.
31:09Buckmaster begins making plans for D-Day.
31:13D-Day is approaching,
31:14but nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen.
31:17It's a closely guarded secret.
31:21But Buckmaster has plans for Vera.
31:24He wants her to set up a station,
31:26a kind of forward unit,
31:28within France after the landings.
31:31But he has a problem.
31:34Vera Atkins isn't British.
31:38She's actually Romanian.
31:40Only he and Vera know this within F Section.
31:44Romania was fighting on the side of Nazi Germany during the war.
31:49Technically, she was an enemy alien.
31:53But with D-Day looming, this has to change.
32:01Vera applies for British nationality
32:05and is interviewed by the Home Office.
32:08You will find a letter of recommendation
32:11from my commanding officer.
32:19Bath.
32:20Yes, C.
32:23Buckmaster writes a letter to the Home Office.
32:25He very much backs her application
32:28and says that without the British citizenship,
32:32it's going to be very difficult for Vera
32:33to be able to go to the continent
32:36and operate as a representative of Britain
32:39if she, in fact, still has a Romanian passport.
32:43Without British papers,
32:45it would be impossible for Vera to work freely
32:48in liberated France.
32:51There is something else.
32:54My Romanian nationality.
32:57We were hoping there was some way
32:59to complete my application
33:01without it being mentioned.
33:05I'm sure you understand
33:06what with the work I do for the war effort,
33:10how sensitive it might be.
33:14It is essential that the people I meet,
33:18the people that I work with,
33:20never learn that I am Romanian.
33:22I mean, this is about national security itself.
33:26It's a persuasive argument.
33:29Vera is given British nationality
33:32without her Romanian roots coming to light.
33:45With Vera now a British citizen,
33:47her secret work at F-Section can continue.
33:51Sir, in seconds, reply from nurse.
33:56Noor.
33:59Vera's personal questions to Noor
34:01have been answered correctly.
34:05Hearing back from Noor
34:06was a huge relief for Vera
34:09and, indeed, for Buckmaster
34:10because it meant, first of all,
34:12that she was safe.
34:14Secondly, it meant that there was still
34:16radio communication between London and Paris.
34:19And, finally, this means
34:21that they're going to be able
34:22to build up the Prospero Circuit again.
34:27Soon, requests from nurse
34:29flood into F-Section.
34:35New SOE agents are infiltrated
34:38to bolster the fledgling's circuit.
34:42Buck, another request from nurse.
34:50Authorize the drop.
34:54Arms.
34:57Explosives and cash
35:00are sent over in airdrops.
35:20What's this?
35:22A draft
35:23of Noor's citation.
35:26Citation?
35:30Noor's work is exemplary.
35:33Buckmaster is so impressed by her
35:35and her courage and bravery
35:36having stood alone in Paris
35:38that, in February 1944,
35:40he actually recommends her
35:41for the George Medal.
35:45Because of Noor,
35:47the Prospero Circuit
35:47has been reinforced
35:49and reconstructed
35:51and is in perfect order.
35:54It is unique
35:56in the annals
35:56of this organization
35:57for a circuit
35:58to be so completely
36:00disintegrated
36:01and yet to be rebuilt.
36:07Because,
36:08regardless of personal danger,
36:10this young woman
36:11remained on her post
36:13at times alone
36:15and always under threat
36:16of arrest.
36:19Sir.
36:22She's earned it.
36:25For Buckmaster,
36:26the faith placed in Noor
36:28meant that F Section
36:29had a circuit
36:30in Paris again.
36:34Crucial
36:34for their plans
36:36for D-Day.
36:46D-Day preparations
36:47kick into overdrive.
36:51The date
36:52is still a closely
36:53guarded secret
36:54but all signs
36:55point to the invasion
36:57going ahead
36:57in the first half
36:59of 1944.
37:03Prime Minister
37:04Winston Churchill
37:05gives the SOE
37:06a direct order
37:07and that is
37:08to prioritise
37:09arming
37:09the French resistance.
37:12F Section's
37:13central role
37:14will be to equip
37:15and coordinate
37:16the French resistance
37:17fighters
37:18on the ground.
37:21their mission
37:22is to attack
37:23and slow down
37:25German reinforcements
37:26heading to the
37:27Allied landing zones.
37:39Vera,
37:40shut the door.
37:48up.
37:56A new directive.
37:58The head
37:59of SOE,
38:01Major General
38:02Colin Gubbins,
38:03makes it painfully
38:04clear just how
38:06important
38:06F Section is
38:07to the D-Day plans.
38:11Strategically,
38:12France is
38:13overwhelmingly
38:13the most important
38:15zone in the
38:16Western theatre of war.
38:18F Section
38:19should therefore
38:19regard this theatre
38:21as one where
38:21heavy casualties
38:23are inevitable
38:25but will yield
38:27the highest
38:27possible dividends.
38:30He means
38:31heavy casualties
38:32for our agents.
38:39Therefore,
38:40increase
38:40SOE aid
38:41to the field
38:42to the maximum
38:43possible peak
38:44and maintain
38:45until D-Day.
38:48Increase
38:49SOE aid.
38:50Supply drops.
38:52Cash,
38:53weapons,
38:54explosives.
38:56And increase
38:58the supply
38:58of agents.
39:02Send even
39:04more agents
39:05to strengthen
39:06the circuits
39:06for D-Day.
39:12And expect
39:13heavy casualties.
39:21Yes.
39:25F Section's
39:26most important
39:27role
39:28is going to be
39:30in the weeks
39:30and days
39:31before D-Day.
39:33In spite
39:34of the human
39:35toll,
39:35the huge casualties
39:37which Gubbins
39:37has warned them
39:38about,
39:39Vera and Buckmaster
39:40are still
39:41recruiting agents
39:42because they need
39:43to send them
39:44in to France.
39:46It's absolutely
39:47vital.
39:47They have
39:48to succeed.
39:51Key to this
39:52is infiltrating
39:53the agents
39:54undetected
39:55behind enemy lines.
39:57The man
39:59responsible for this
40:00is F Section's
40:01air movement
40:02officer,
40:03Henri Derricourt.
40:08Since Boddington's
40:10mission to France,
40:11the allegations
40:12of treachery
40:13against Derricourt
40:14hadn't subsided.
40:17In fact,
40:19they'd intensified.
40:22In February
40:231944,
40:25Buckmaster
40:25is forced
40:26to recall
40:27Derricourt
40:27from France
40:28to London
40:29to clear up
40:30the matter
40:30once and for all.
40:34That'll be all.
40:38Henri Derricourt!
40:40Buck!
40:41Oh!
40:42How lovely to see you.
40:43Likewise.
40:45I see Boddington's
40:46already given you
40:46the tour.
40:47Well,
40:47he's an excellent
40:48guide.
40:49You said
40:49something about
40:49drinks tonight,
40:50Boddington,
40:51at the Savoy.
40:53It's a nice
40:54establishment.
40:55You better
40:56behave yourself.
40:59Derricourt was
41:00quite well known
41:01to the SOE
41:02by the time
41:03he actually
41:03joined them.
41:05He came from
41:06France fleeing
41:07Nazis.
41:07He's Boddington's
41:08old friend.
41:09And in those
41:10days,
41:11places like
41:11the SOE
41:12were run
41:13very much
41:14along the lines
41:14of, you know,
41:16old boys' network.
41:17And despite
41:19the fact that
41:19Derricourt is
41:20actually being
41:20investigated
41:21for possibly
41:23being a
41:23double agent,
41:25he's put up
41:26in the Savoy
41:27Hotel.
41:27He's treated
41:28well by
41:29Buckmaster
41:30and Boddington.
41:32Bucks.
41:34The allegations
41:35against Derricourt
41:36were true.
41:37What would
41:38that mean
41:38for F-Section?
41:39All of our
41:40planning?
41:41Vera,
41:41the reports
41:42lack evidence.
41:43There's no way
41:44they'll be proven.
41:45I know a chap
41:46I can trust
41:47when I see one.
41:49But Buckmaster
41:51has plenty
41:51to worry about.
41:54The danger
41:55with Derricourt
41:55possibly being
41:56a double agent
41:57was that he
41:58was bringing
41:59the agents
41:59both to
42:00France
42:01and from
42:02France.
42:02And the fear
42:04was that
42:04all of the
42:05people he'd
42:06come and
42:06contact with
42:07would also
42:07have been
42:08compromised.
42:09Every single
42:10agent
42:11would have
42:12been blown.
42:13This would
42:14derail
42:15all of
42:16F-Section's
42:17D-Day planning.
42:19Don't worry,
42:21Derricourt.
42:22We'll clear
42:23this whole
42:23sorry business
42:24up.
42:25Take it as
42:25an SOE objective
42:26to clear your name.
42:28Thanks, sir.
42:29And they did.
42:30By September
42:321944,
42:33MI5's
42:34investigation
42:34of Derricourt
42:35winds up
42:36and he's
42:37told he's
42:38free to go.
42:54With D-Day
42:55on the near
42:56horizon,
42:57Vera is
42:58busier than ever
42:59overseeing the
43:00deployment
43:01deployment of
43:01women's spies.
43:04She needs
43:05the SOE's
43:07circuits as
43:08strong as
43:08possible for
43:09F-Section's
43:10ultimate aim,
43:12stopping the
43:13Nazis from
43:14reaching the
43:14Allied landing
43:15zones.
43:16In March,
43:17she sends six
43:18female agents
43:20into enemy
43:21territory.
43:22That's more
43:22than any point
43:23in the war so
43:24far.
43:25First to fly
43:26is Yvonne
43:27Baysden.
43:29The parachute
43:30drop is
43:31scheduled for
43:31this evening.
43:32The drop zone
43:33is the south
43:34of France,
43:35near Toulouse.
43:37From here,
43:38you're to make
43:38your way across
43:39country to
43:40Dole,
43:40where you're to
43:41make contact
43:42with the
43:42Scholar circuit.
43:44This will be
43:45your circuit.
43:46You've been
43:47assigned to them
43:48as a wireless
43:48operator.
44:00Ready?
44:02Ready,
44:03Miss Atkins.
44:04With any
44:05incriminating
44:06items gone,
44:08she's cleared
44:09for take-off.
44:10And the
44:11infiltration of
44:12agents doesn't
44:13stop.
44:16Reports are
44:18that the weather
44:18has cleared,
44:19over central
44:19France.
44:20Tonight,
44:21you're to be
44:22infiltrated by
44:23parachute near
44:24the Limassan
44:25region.
44:32From the
44:33drop zone,
44:33you're to meet
44:34up with the
44:35salesman's
44:36circuit and
44:37begin making
44:37contacts with
44:38the resistance.
44:41But Violette's
44:42mission has
44:43an added danger.
44:45An SS
44:46Panzer division
44:47is located
44:48there,
44:48and it's
44:49up to
44:49Violette
44:50as
44:50courier
44:50to try
44:51and help
44:51the resistance
44:52stop those
44:53panzer tanks
44:54from reaching
44:55the Allied
44:56landing sites.
45:02How am I
45:03looking?
45:04Good.
45:09You're clean.
45:10Are you ready?
45:12Ready?
45:18The Nazis won't
45:19know what
45:20hit them.
45:22Very good.
45:26With D-Day imminent,
45:28the circuits are
45:29ready for action.
45:32In France, the
45:34SOE, their agents and
45:36the French resistance
45:37go into overdrive.
45:38They're frantic trying
45:39to work as fast as
45:41they possibly can
45:42because they just
45:43have to slow the
45:44Nazi defences down.
45:47D-Day messages,
45:49activating sabotage
45:51attacks led by the
45:52circuits, could start
45:54at any time.
45:57In D-Day, the
45:59scholar circuit is a
46:00hive of activity, and
46:02Yvonne is right at the
46:03center of it.
46:04She's coordinating with
46:06French resistance
46:06fighters.
46:07She is actually
46:08physically making
46:09detonators herself.
46:11She's choosing the
46:12targets that they are
46:13going to attack
46:14together.
46:14She must have been so
46:16stressed out, but also
46:18excited, because this is
46:19the moment that she has
46:21been working towards.
46:22This is why everybody
46:23has been risking their
46:24lives.
46:25They've got to make
46:26D-Day work.
46:33On the 5th of June,
46:351944, SOE broadcast
46:38hundreds of action
46:40messages in code over
46:43radio stations.
46:47That day, messages from
46:49the circuits come flooding
46:50back into F-Section.
46:55Sabotage operations have
46:57started.
47:16D-Day has come.
47:22D-Day.
47:45F-Section.
47:48F-Section.
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