Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestAbandoned in East Germany as the operation unravels, Donoghue charges on with a desperate plan to smuggle Guttmann and his daughter across the border into West Germany.
A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.
Acting
McNally's exhausted spy eyes say what scripts won't.
Direction
Seymour milks every checkpoint queue for maximum dread.
Production
East Germany looks authentically gray, bureaucratic, and terrifying.
Creator
Gerald Seymour
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1988, months before the actual Wall fell—its urgency now reads as historical irony.
Bernard Hepton played a similar Soviet defector handler in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'—typecasting as Britain's most exhausted intelligence officer.
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