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- German paratroopers swarm all over Le Crest, forcing the Maquis into hiding in the woods. Brave woman doctor Bosco, Nicole, Philippe and Max's son Jean-Louis are among the casualties. The British agents and Renard and his family manage to get back to the town of Beaufort, where Liz is able to rescue Kit from the firing squad though Emily and Luc are less fortunate and Renard kills Stuckler to avenge them. There is jubilation in Beaufort as American tanks roll through the streets but back in London, Faith, Gordon and Max feel only bitterness at the shameful betrayal of their colleagues by the top brass.
- Discovering that Annette was the traitor who betrayed Marie and her father Emily intends to shoot her but Luc seems to have beaten her to it. Cad learns that his son has been killed in action as Kit arrives in France. Vivien's irresponsible behaviour, fraternising with Germans to be close to Yvette, causes Liz to request that she return to England, though Vivien intercepts the memo. Vivien tells Yvette that she is her mother, only to be rejected by her. However Vollen is suspicious of Vivien and arrests both the women.
- Having forced Sylvie to tell him of the set-up at Le Crest, Stuckler shoots her and her mother. The previously complacent Philippe, appalled by the brutality, agrees to spy for Virginia and tricks Stuckler into divulging the German plan of attack on Le Crest but before he can tell Virginia, Renard, unaware that he has changed sides, abducts him as a hostage. Nicole is put on trial for treason by the Maquis, found guilty and sentenced to death. Faith and Gordon secure military back-up for the uprising and inform Emily but next day Faith is told that it has been withdrawn and she is unable to pass on the news.
- Emily and Luc make it back to Le Crest, where Liz has just arrived but Lewis and Kit are both caught by the Germans and Kit is tortured. Philippe, using his position as prefect of police, takes advantage of Stuckler's absence to order their release but Kit is too ill to travel and only Lewis and Philippe make it back, with Stuckler now aware that Philippe has gone over to the Maquis. Back in London Faith hopes to send in a last minute back-up of French paratroopers but the Germans have already begun their air attack on Le Crest.
- Having successfully blown up a vital factory, Kit and Liz learn from Luc that Vivien and Yvette have been captured and ambush the car in which they are being taken. In the resultant confusion Voller accidentally kills Yvette and is himself shot dead by Luc. A grieving Vivien refuses to leave her dead daughter, thus jeopardising the lives of all the agents and Liz is forced to shoot her before she, Kit, Emily and Luc all escape.
- Interrogated by Renard, Philippe says nothing but Virginia divulges their relationship. Already angry to think that no Allied support will be forthcoming to combat the expected German air strike, Renard orders them both to be shot along with Nicole. However Stuckler, unaware of Philippe's change of heart, has captured Renard's family and forces an exchange with them for Philippe whilst Virginia must prove her loyalty by killing Nicole. Nicole tells Emily that she is pregnant and is temporarily spared. Aware that they stand alone, Kit and the Maquis set out to destroy the German planes but are ambushed and Lewis surrenders himself to allow the others to escape.
- Liz, Matty and Colin Beale are landed in France and seek their respective safe houses. But all does not go to plan.
- London discovers that Matty has been captured and decide that she is most use to them if they do nothing. Whilst the local group plan a rescue attempt.
- Gordon is smuggled home in a coffin and Cad decides to send a willing Kit back to France, though he warns him not to let his feelings for Liz get in the way. Vivien tracks down her daughter Yvette and visits her without admitting her identity but is dismayed to find she is a collaborator with a Wehrmarcht boyfriend. The Germans also discover Emily's transmitter in a barn and raid Marie's house. She is captured and her father killed though Liz and Emily manage to escape.
- Matty is captured by the Germans. Krieger continues with transmissions to London hoping to gain valuable information.
- Back in the UK, Liz has problems with her family. Krieger puts pressure on Claudine to help him identify the partisans.
- Now working in London with Cad and Faith, Liz has to inform Vivien Ashton that her husband was one of several spies shot by the Germans. Vivien, who has worked in France as a wine importer and was an actress, offers her services as an agent, as does young WAAF wireless operator Emily Whitbread, and both prove resourceful in training. Along with Colin, who has been training as a group leader, they will be sent to Southern France, where Emily will pose as the relative of widow Marie Ferrier, whose son is in the Maquis. Kit returns to England, to be met by Liz, though their conversation is awkward.
- Vivien, Emily and Colin parachute into France to be met by gruff Resistance leader Gordon, whose mood is not helped by the fact that Colin has fractured his ankle in the drop. Vivien poses as a nanny to her friend Juliet whilst Emily - who fears she is pregnant after sleeping with her boyfriend before leaving - moves in with Marie, arousing the suspicions of Marie's neighbour Annette. Colin panics when he finds a woman member of the Milice, the collaborators' army, set up to oppose the Resistance, searching his room and shoots her. Back in England, Liz turns down Kit's marriage proposal.
- Liz is sick and has to ask Claudine to complete a task for her. London has to change plans and recall one of the girls back to England. Meanwhile, Krieger becomes suspicious of the de Valois household.
- Liz Grainger continues with basic training whilst Matty Firman is accepted to train as a radio operator.
- Liz goes off to meet her old school friend Claudine de Valois. Matty is taken for questioning by the Germans. Both get to meet with Colonel Werner Krieger.
- Liz arrives in France and takes control of a plot to raid the dock and disable a U-boat transmitter, helped by local contact Jeanne. Vivien goes to Toulon where she is told her daughter Yvette lives, only to find she is no longer there and her decision to act on her own angers Liz. Jeanne is forced to betray the operation to the German commander Voller but shouts a warning to the agents before she is shot dead and Gordon wounded. Colin, meanwhile,has made it back to London and is visited in hospital by Cad and Faith.
- Twenty villagers from Courmont are killed in reprisal for Rex,who renounces God and quits the church. Whilst Emily has to break it to Kit and Renard that the uprising must be aborted,Faith and Gordon desperately plead for military back-up from the War Office,only to be told that all resources are needed for the Normandy landing. Lewis challenges Virginia over her visits to Philippe but she refuses to explain herself. Philippe, meanwhile,appalled by the massacre,confronts Stuckler though the meeting is interrupted by Rex,who kills several German soldiers before being shot himself. Sylvie and her mother are arrested as Jews whilst Emily stumbles upon Nicole's treachery.
- Vivien and Gordon get rid of the 'Milice' woman's body as Colin escapes to Spain. As Cad and Faith consider who should replace him, Liz volunteers, having caught Laurence in bed with another woman and agreed to a divorce and custody of daughter Vicky. She also rows with Kit and they part on bad terms. Whilst Emily seeks an abortion, Vivien's reason for coming to France is revealed - nineteen years earlier she had a daughter whom she gave up for adoption and now asks local priest Father Giraud to help her trace her.
- Faith is appalled to learn that the planned revolt will have no military backing and is purely a diversion, which will result in many partisan deaths. In Le Crest, however, the blissfully unaware Maquis plan their uprising. Luc tells Emily he is sure Nicole is the traitor but Nicole makes sure she is seen as a savior when she alerts Emily to a German weapon search. Sylvie, a young Jewess working as a courier, befriends Franz, a sympathetic German guard, who helps her to free Rex from prison. Virginia, meanwhile, lunching with old friend Alain Regis, a pharmaceutical factory owner who offers her his help, is shocked to see her ex-husband Philippe in the company of Stuckler.
- Rex goes into hiding, unaware that Stuckler will order reprisals if he is not recaptured. Emily and Luc declare their feelings for each other whilst Virginia, trailed by a suspicious Lewis, visits ex-husband Philippe, though she fails to get him on side. Faith, her conscience pricked by Gordon, colludes with Max, a Free French colonel seconded to the War Office, to postpone the uprising until military back-up can be brought in from North Africa. However the message to abort is too late in arriving and the revolt begins.
- Liz Grainger is recruited by SOE and undergoes basic training with other new recruits.
- Emily is saved from arrest at a road block by local woman Nicole and the two women travel to Le Crest, the Resistance stronghold in the French Alps, run by Luc, Renard and Rex, the parish priest. Faith takes over from Cad and recruits two new agents, Virginia Mitchell, who lived in France and has a French ex-husband, and actor Lewis Lake. Kit and Renard are summoned to London and asked to organize a local uprising as a diversion for an invasion, though Kit is not enthusiastic to risk his colleagues' lives. Nicole proves to be a spy for Stuckler, the local German commander, and, on her information, Rex is arrested.