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00:02In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, dropped their first women agents into Nazi-occupied France.
00:12They'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 up.
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.
01:18Good shot.
01:19Yes, sir.
01:21And infiltrated into France.
01:24Ready?
01:25The Nazis don't know what hit them.
01:29Despite the danger, these brave women volunteer to be sent behind enemy lines to stop the Germans from reaching the
01:38Normandy beaches.
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 and how much will they risk in the
01:57fight against Hitler's deadly regime?
02:12F-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, F-Section's largest
02:27based in the French capital.
02:32What? What is it?
02:34Noor was almost arrested at a letterbox. Suttle 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, and this means that the Nazis might know what's going on, and arrests
02:50could 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.
03:10Sir, you should see this.
03:13That'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 op-butcher, Gilbert Norman, have disappeared.
03:32Disappeared?
03:34They 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.
03:54If Suttle and Norman have been arrested and are being interrogated by the Gestapo,
04:00if they reveal the secrets, then every 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.
04:44What?
04:46That.
04:48In England, you pour milk first, then tea.
04:51In France, we pour tea first, then milk.
04:58A real French woman would never do that.
04:59A real French woman would never do that.
05:04Oh, 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,
05:20and it was just the little tiny things that 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.
05:37But 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.
05:56A 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.
07:06D-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, blend in,
07:53knew 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, had 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 and to fight against
08:30the Nazis.
08:31So, Violette really would very much like to get her own back and do whatever she could.
08:39Vera 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 Szabo and Yvonne Bazden have strong motivations.
09:19They are assigned to SOE training.
09:28F-Section are desperate for news from the Prosper Circuit.
09:34Buck, what is it?
09:38Call sign Butcher.
09:39He'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?
10:26All SOE agents are trained very carefully that when they send an encoded message, they have to also, at the
10:34end, 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?
11:00She wouldn't have his specific codes.
11:02Or Butcher's been captured and has given his transmission codes to the Gestapo.
11:07Impossible.
11:09He'd have shot himself before he did that.
11:12Send a reply.
11:15Butcher, you've forgotten your security checks.
11:17Show 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.
11:37For 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 weapon stamp.
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.
12:44Nothing 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.
13:00Fuck.
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.
13:18What 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.
13:47Fine.
13:50Flight to France.
13:51Make your way to Paris and report back what you find.
13:55Good.
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.
15:02Henri 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 Soutu.
15:12Excellent 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?
15:24What's been going on?
15:26And maybe, you know, this Derricourt contact is going to know a lot more.
15:36Back in Britain, new recruits Yvonne and Violette begin their SOE training, designed to identify their strengths and weaknesses for
15:48action in the field.
15:52The women had the same training as the men of SOE. It was incredibly gruelling.
16:01It was physically, mentally exhausting. Very, very hard work. Things 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.
16:20They were going to let me know.
16:23They were going to learn.
16:34They were going toến trip?
16:35We decided to take this time in a while.
16:39Soll I know if I was ever going to sleep, that's what I saw.
16:45This one of them was going to jump around.
16:46Somebody was going to hear me, already.
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
17:19and 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.
17:34In the case of Violette Szabo,
17:36she 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.
17:55Violette's training report is on the whole very positive.
17:58She's confident, she's plucky, she's physically very tough.
18:04Pretty much everything that they want in an agent.
18:07But the instructors also noted other things
18:09that concerned them about Violette.
18:11They say that she's fatalistic in her outlook,
18:14that 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.
18:28She 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
19:00was 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
19:14that 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?
19:57You're here, in France.
19:59Who else is with you?
20:01No one, sir.
20:03The meeting with Sir Till's contact was a trap.
20:06Butcher is definitely in German hands.
20:10Well, are you sure?
20:11One hundred percent.
20:13One hundred percent.
20:13Aghazarian and I have flipped a coin to see as you 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.
20:45Sir?
20:47We followed.
20:55Send a message.
20:57We'll find you in your safe house.
21:01They can't trust anyone.
21:04Nor 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,
21:43which agents are in Gestapo custody,
21:45and 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
22:03has 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.
22:15People are being arrested.
22:16It means that the people who were in any way connected with the circuit
22:19are in grave, grave danger.
22:22There is something else.
22:25One of our agents has been contacted by German military intelligence.
22:30About Deracour.
22:33Deracour?
22:35This Adver officer claims that Deracour is letting the Gestapo copy all our agents' unencoded letters
22:43before sending them back to London.
22:46Preposterous.
22:47Preposterous.
22:48I know.
22:50But this agent of ours will be sending this report in.
22:54Officially.
22:56German military intelligence hates the Gestapo.
22:59And they're 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.
23:25167 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 F Section that it's been blown.
23:44It was crucial to the planning for D-Day because it was a centre of resistance.
23:52Try and get as many agents back to London as possible.
24:14But 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.
25:46Your 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.
26:40And 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.
27:23Madeline is Noor's alias.
27:29His message is coded.
27:32Nor has been compromised.
27:35Or captured, is that possible?
27:40The intel comes from a woman called Sonia claiming to be an informant.
27:45Well, we don't have any informants on our books called Sonia.
27:56So, who is Sonia?
28:00They didn't know who she was.
28:02Was this a joke? Was it something to confuse them?
28:05Was this even a Gestapo ruse? What 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 Naur to salvage the Prosper circuit.
28:47Sir, a message just received from callsign Nurse.
28:51Nurse? That's Naur'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 Naur.
29:15It seems that despite Sonia's warning, Naur outwitted the Gestapo and is safe.
29:24Sir, there's something you should know.
29:28Naur's fist seems off.
29:33Each wireless operator had what was known as a fist.
29:37It was their way of using the Morse key to type Morse code.
29:41It could be as simple as how fast they tapped or the gaps they left in between the dots and
29:46the dashes or just something that was very unique about it.
29:50And the person working as their opposite back in headquarters would be able to recognise the fist.
29:57And it's a very reliable way of recognising which agent is using the machine.
30:04And Naur's fist had become unusual.
30:08What are you saying?
30:10Someone else might have sent the message.
30:15So how can we be certain Naur is really Naur?
30:22Send a reply.
30:24Ask questions only Naur would know the answers to.
30:29These would be to do with her family or childhood or something very personal that only the two of them
30:34would have known.
30:35If these came unanswered or they were vague, she would know that Naur 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 Naur's identity still hanging in the air, work at F Section ploughs ahead.
31:09Buckmaster begins making plans for D-Day.
31:13D-Day is approaching, but nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen.
31:18It's a closely guarded secret.
31:20But Buckmaster has plans for Vera.
31:24He wants her to set up a station, a kind of forward unit, within France after the landings.
31:31But he has a problem.
31:35Vera 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.
32:09You'll find a letter of recommendation from my commanding officer.
32:20Yes, I see.
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 to be able to go to the continent
32:36and operate as a representative of Britain
32:40if she, in fact, still has a Romanian passport.
32:43Without British papers,
32:45it would be impossible for Vera to work freely in liberated France.
32:51There is something else.
32:54My Romanian nationality.
32:57We were hoping there was some way to complete my application
33:01without it being mentioned.
33:05I'm sure you understand what 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.
33:22This is about national security itself.
33:26It's a persuasive argument.
33:30Vera is given British nationality
33:32without her Romanian roots coming to light.
33:45With Vera now a British citizen,
33:48her secret work at F-Section can continue.
33:51Sir, Ms. Atkins, reply from Nars.
33:57No.
33:59Vera's personal questions to No have been answered correctly.
34:05Hearing back from Noor was a huge relief for Vera
34:09and indeed for Buckmaster
34:10because it meant, first of all, that she was safe.
34:14Secondly, it meant that there was still radio communication
34:18between London and Paris.
34:19And finally, this means that they're going to be able
34:22to build up the prosperous circuit again.
34:27Soon, requests from Nars flood into F-Section.
34:35New SOE agents are infiltrated
34:38to bolster the fledgling's circuit.
34:42Buck, another request from Nars.
34:50Authorize the drop.
34:54Arms.
34:57Explosives and cash
35:00are sent over in airdrops.
35:20What's this?
35:22A draft of 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,
35:39he actually recommends her for the George Medal.
35:45Because of Noor,
35:47the prosperous circuit has been reinforced
35:49and reconstructed
35:51and is in perfect order.
35:55It is unique in the annals of this organization
35:57for a circuit to be so completely disintegrated
36:01and yet to be rebuilt.
36:07Because, regardless of personal danger,
36:10this young woman remained on her post
36:13at times alone
36:15and always under threat of arrest.
36:19Sir.
36:22She's ended.
36:25For Buckmaster,
36:27the faith placed in Noor
36:28meant that F-Section
36:30had a circuit in Paris again.
36:34Crucial for their plans
36:36for D-Day.
36:46D-Day preparations
36:47kick into overdrive.
36:51The date
36:52is still a closely guarded secret
36:54but all signs point
36:56to the invasion going ahead
36:57in the first half
36:59of 1944.
37:03Prime Minister Winston Churchill
37:05gives the SOE a direct order
37:07and that is to prioritise
37:09arming the French resistance.
37:12F-Section's central role
37:14will be to equip
37:15and coordinate
37:16the French resistance fighters
37:18on the ground.
37:21Their mission
37:22is to attack
37:23and slow down
37:25German reinforcements
37:26heading to the Allied landing zones.
37:39Vera,
37:40shut the door.
37:48Fuck.
37:56A new directive.
37:58The head of SOE,
38:01Major General Colin Gubbins,
38:03makes it painfully clear
38:05just how important
38:06F-Section is
38:08to the D-Day plans.
38:11Strategically,
38:12France is overwhelmingly
38:13the most important zone
38:15in the Western theatre of war.
38:18F-Section should therefore
38:20regard this theatre
38:21as one where heavy casualties
38:23are inevitable.
38:25that will yield
38:27the highest possible dividends.
38:31He means heavy casualties
38:32for our agents.
38:39Therefore,
38:40increase SOE aid
38:41to the field
38:42to the maximum possible peak
38:44and maintain until D-Day.
38:48Increase SOE aid.
38:50Supply drops.
38:53Cash,
38:54weapons,
38:54explosives.
38:56And increase
38:58the supply of agents.
39:03Send even more agents
39:05to strengthen
39:06the circuits
39:07for D-Day.
39:12And expect
39:13heavy casualties.
39:25F-Section's most important role
39:28is going to be
39:30in the weeks
39:31and days
39:31before D-Day.
39:33In spite of the human toll,
39:36the huge casualties
39:37which Gubbins
39:38has warned them about,
39:39Vera and Buckmaster
39:40are still recruiting agents
39:42because they need
39:43to send them in
39:45to France.
39:46It's absolutely vital.
39:47They have to succeed.
39:51Key to this
39:52is infiltrating
39:53the agents
39:54undetected
39:55behind enemy lines.
39:58The man responsible
39:59for this
40:00is F-Section's
40:01air movement officer
40:03Henri Dericourt.
40:08Since Boddington's
40:10mission to France,
40:11the allegations
40:12of treachery
40:13against Dericourt
40:14hadn't subsided.
40:17In fact,
40:19they'd intensified.
40:22In February 1944,
40:25Buckmaster
40:25is forced
40:26to recall Dericourt
40:27from France
40:28to London
40:29to clear up the matter
40:30once and for all.
40:35That'll be all.
40:38Henri Dericourt.
40:40Buck.
40:41Oh!
40:42How lovely to see you.
40:44Likewise.
40:45I see Boddington's
40:46already given you
40:47the tour.
40:47Well, he's an excellent guide.
40:49You said something
40:49about drinks tonight,
40:50Boddington,
40:51at the Savoy.
40:53It's a nice establishment.
40:55You better behave yourself.
40:59Dericourt
40:59was quite well known
41:01to the SOE
41:02by the time
41:03he actually joined them.
41:05He came from France
41:06fleeing Nazis.
41:07He's Boddington's
41:08old friend.
41:09And in those days,
41:11places like the SOE
41:12were run very much
41:14along the lines
41:15of, you know,
41:16old boys' network.
41:17And despite the fact
41:19that Dericourt
41:20is actually being
41:21investigated
41:21for possibly being
41:23a double agent,
41:25he's put up
41:26in the Savoy Hotel.
41:27he's treated well
41:29by Buckmaster
41:30and Boddington.
41:32Bucks.
41:34The allegations
41:35against Dericourt
41:36were true.
41:37What would that mean
41:38for F-Section?
41:39All of our planning.
41:41Vera,
41:42the reports lack 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
41:52to worry about.
41:53The danger
41:55with Dericourt
41:55possibly being
41:56a double agent
41:57was that he was
41:58bringing the agents
42:00both to France
42:01and from France.
42:03And the fear was
42:04that all of the people
42:05he'd come in contact
42:06with would also
42:07have been compromised.
42:09Every single agent
42:11would have been blown.
42:13This would derail
42:15all of F-Section's
42:17D-Day planning.
42:20Don't worry, Dericourt.
42:22We'll clear this
42:23whole sorry business up.
42:25Take it as an SOE objective
42:27to clear your name.
42:28Thanks, sir.
42:29And they did.
42:31By September 1944,
42:33MI5's investigation
42:35of Dericourt
42:35winds up
42:36and he's told
42:37he's free to go.
42:54With D-Day
42:56on the near horizon,
42:57Vera is busier
42:59than ever
42:59overseeing
43:00the deployment
43:01of women's spies.
43:04She needs
43:05the SOE's
43:07circuits
43:07as strong
43:08as possible
43:09for F-Section's
43:10ultimate aim,
43:12stopping the Nazis
43:13from reaching
43:14the Allied landing zones.
43:16In March,
43:17she sends
43:18six female agents
43:20into enemy territory.
43:22That's more than
43:22any point
43:23in the war so far.
43:25First to fly
43:26is Yvonne Basden.
43:29The parachute drop
43:31is scheduled
43:31for this evening.
43:32The drop zone
43:33is the south of France
43:35near Toulouse.
43:36From here,
43:37you're to make
43:38your way
43:39across country
43:40to Dole
43:40where you're
43:41to make 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 items
44:07gone,
44:08she's cleared
44:09for take-off.
44:10And the infiltration
44:12of agents
44:13doesn't stop.
44:17Reports are
44:18that the weather
44:18has cleared
44:19over central France.
44:21Tonight,
44:21you are to be
44:22infiltrated
44:23by parachute
44:24near the
44:24Limassan region.
44:32From the drop zone,
44:34you're to meet up
44:35with the
44:35salesman's
44:36circuit
44:36and begin
44:37making contacts
44:38with the
44:38resistance.
44:41But Violet's
44:42mission
44:42has an added
44:43danger.
44:45An SS
44:46panzer division
44:47is located there
44:48and it's up
44:49to Violet
44:50as courier
44:51to try and
44:51help the
44:52resistance
44:52stop those
44:53panzer tanks
44:54from reaching
44:55the Allied
44:56landing sites.
45:02How am I
45:03looking?
45:04Good.
45:08You're clean.
45:10Are you ready?
45:18The Nazis
45:19won't know
45:20what hit them.
45:22Very good.
45:27With D-Day
45:28imminent,
45:28the circuits
45:29are ready
45:30for action.
45:32In France,
45:34the SOE,
45:35their agents
45:36and the French
45:36resistance
45:37go into
45:37overdrive.
45:38They're frantic
45:39trying to work
45:40as fast as
45:41they possibly
45:41can because
45:42they just
45:43have to slow
45:44the Nazi
45:45defences down.
45:48D-Day
45:48messages,
45:49activating
45:50sabotage
45:51attacks led
45:52by the circuits,
45:53could start
45:54at any time.
45:57In Dahl,
45:59the Scholar
45:59Circuit is
46:00a hive of
46:01activity and
46:02Yvonne is
46:02right at the
46:03centre of it.
46:04She's
46:05coordinating
46:05with French
46:06resistance
46:06fighters.
46:08She is
46:08actually
46:09physically
46:09making detonators
46:10herself.
46:11She is
46:11choosing the
46:12targets that
46:13they are going
46:13to attack
46:14together.
46:14She must have
46:15been so
46:16stressed out
46:17but also
46:18excited because
46:19this is the
46:20moment that
46:20she has been
46:21working towards.
46:22This is why
46:22everybody has been
46:23risking their
46:24lives.
46:25They've got to
46:26make D-Day work.
46:33On the 5th of
46:35June, 1944,
46:37SOE broadcast
46:39hundreds of
46:40action messages
46:41in code
46:42over radio
46:43stations.
46:46That day,
46:48messages from
46:49the circuits
46:49come flooding
46:50back into
46:51F-section.
46:55Sabotage
46:56operations have
46:57started.
47:16D-Day has come.
47:19tout o'注
47:25Hopefully
47:25lead us to over
47:25him outaro
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