The.Lost.Women.Spies.S01E01.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH Subtitles

At 00:00:00,920, Character said: The Second World War.

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At 00:00:03,840, Character said: France is under Nazi control.

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At 00:00:07,000, Character said: The French Resistance fight back against the German invaders.

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At 00:00:12,620, Character said: But they can't do it alone.

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At 00:00:17,490, Character said: British secret agency, the SOE,

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At 00:00:20,890, Character said: send arms, explosives and agents to help them set Nazi Europe ablaze.

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At 00:00:29,550, Character said: But when the Gestapo crack down on mail agents,

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At 00:00:34,570, Character said: Winston Churchill concocts an audacious solution.

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At 00:00:39,190, Character said: He illegally sends certain agents who are banned from the front line.

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At 00:00:44,990, Character said: Women.

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At 00:00:46,270, Character said: Vera, this business of women agents, you understand it must be kept secret at all times.

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At 00:00:52,710, Character said: Most secret. Our eyes only.

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At 00:00:55,070, Character said: Spymaster Vera Atkins is charged with finding women.

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At 00:00:59,590, Character said: Are you prepared to take the fight to the Nazis, behind enemy lines, in occupied France?

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At 00:01:06,330, Character said: As a spy.

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At 00:01:09,010, Character said: Training them.

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At 00:01:10,470, Character said: Good shot.

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At 00:01:13,080, Character said: Yes, sir.

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At 00:01:14,240, Character said: And sending these agents behind enemy lines.

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At 00:01:18,780, Character said: Are you ready?

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At 00:01:21,320, Character said: The Nazis won't know what hit them.

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At 00:01:29,220, Character said: But after the war, many are missing.

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At 00:01:35,840, Character said: I'll send them off as long as I can. Go!

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At 00:01:39,160, Character said: Having sent these women to war, Vera makes it her life's mission to find them.

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At 00:01:44,880, Character said: A mission that takes her deep into Germany.

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At 00:01:48,960, Character said: And the horrors of the Nazi regime.

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At 00:01:52,000, Character said: What happened to her?

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At 00:01:53,480, Character said: All three were taken to the crematorium building.

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At 00:01:56,700, Character said: How do you know?

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At 00:01:58,420, Character said: I watched.

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At 00:02:00,280, Character said: But it's only after her death that Vera reveals the secrets.

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At 00:02:05,840, Character said: Behind her lost, women, spies.

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At 00:02:23,040, Character said: In the early 1960s, Tanya Szabo pays a surprise visit to a woman who was once her mother's boss.

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At 00:02:33,020, Character said: A woman, who during the Second World War, was in charge of Britain's first ever female secret agents sent into combat.

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At 00:02:44,200, Character said: Many of whom wouldn't return.

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At 00:02:48,000, Character said: I was in my 20s and I was looking forward very much to meeting Vera Hedkins.

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At 00:02:56,490, Character said: A little trembling as well because she was known to be fierce, this very severe lady, the Kensington lady.

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At 00:03:11,200, Character said: Vera would not have been at all concerned about how I felt.

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At 00:03:17,640, Character said: But, and certainly in no way whatsoever, did I resent Vera sending my mother off to such

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At 00:03:29,600, Character said: dangerous places on her secret missions.

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At 00:03:38,510, Character said: When war is there, you do what you have to do.

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At 00:03:43,610, Character said: Your mother, when I met her, was 22, recently bereaved.

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At 00:04:00,740, Character said: She wanted action.

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At 00:04:06,490, Character said: She wanted some sort of revenge.

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At 00:04:10,700, Character said: Vera did not easily open up to anybody.

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At 00:04:14,780, Character said: I was very aware of her decided coldness at times.

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At 00:04:21,460, Character said: and then there would be these little chinks and she would open up.

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At 00:04:30,090, Character said: I always drove them to the aerodromes.

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At 00:04:35,160, Character said: Always seemed to be a summer's day.

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At 00:04:39,620, Character said: I saw them off.

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At 00:04:45,820, Character said: When the war ended and they didn't come back,

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At 00:04:51,550, Character said: I went looking for them all.

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At 00:04:58,880, Character said: Missing, presumed dead.

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At 00:05:02,750, Character said: Such a terrible epitaph for anyone.

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At 00:05:07,780, Character said: The admission is surprising.

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At 00:05:11,620, Character said: Very few people outside of Vera Atkins' inner circle

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At 00:05:15,520, Character said: knew that after the war, she'd gone looking

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At 00:05:17,740, Character said: for her missing agents.

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At 00:05:26,020, Character said: Excuse me.

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At 00:05:30,600, Character said: For Vera, the most important thing that she could do

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At 00:05:34,280, Character said: was to find out exactly what had happened to her agents.

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At 00:05:39,840, Character said: Long after the war ends, Vera still keeps hold of files

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At 00:05:44,160, Character said: on her former agents, locked away like all her secrets.

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At 00:05:56,350, Character said: In later life, she moves from Kensington to Winchelsea in Sussex, taking her closely guarded

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At 00:06:03,520, Character said: files with her.

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At 00:06:06,600, Character said: On the 24th of June, 2000, Vera Atkins dies.

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At 00:06:12,290, Character said: She announces, through her sister-in-law, that her treasured and secret files have all

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At 00:06:18,180, Character said: She's now moved to her sister-in-law's shed in Cornwall.

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At 00:06:24,370, Character said: Journalists begin investigating the files.

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At 00:06:28,150, Character said: What is quite clear is that after the war,

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At 00:06:31,370, Character said: when SOE was being closed down,

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At 00:06:33,490, Character said: basically everything that had happened that SOE had been involved in

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At 00:06:37,010, Character said: was going to be just completely hidden.

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At 00:06:39,970, Character said: The British government destroyed many files

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At 00:06:43,130, Character said: relating to their women agents.

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At 00:06:46,450, Character said: But Vera's survive.

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At 00:06:49,950, Character said: I mean, to be honest with you, she shouldn't have kept them.

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At 00:06:52,690, Character said: That was illegal, even then, to keep official documents,

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At 00:06:56,350, Character said: especially secret ones.

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At 00:06:58,390, Character said: But she wanted the story to be told by someone at some point.

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At 00:07:05,190, Character said: The files contain the revelation that, after the war,

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At 00:07:09,770, Character said: Vera went looking for all her lost women spies.

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At 00:07:13,210, Character said: She definitely felt responsibility to her female agents,

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At 00:07:18,940, Character said: and that must have completely haunted Vera for the rest of her life.

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At 00:07:25,690, Character said: In the files are page after page detailing the lives and codenames

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At 00:07:31,450, Character said: of Britain's first-ever female agents sent to the front line.

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At 00:07:37,680, Character said: One agent in particular catches the eye.

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At 00:07:41,980, Character said: Noor Enyat Khan's training record is terrible.

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At 00:07:44,320, Character said: She was not seen as a competent agent at all and as a result she was not

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At 00:07:50,080, Character said: recommended to go to France by her instructors. But Vera Atkins sent her

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At 00:07:54,160, Character said: anyway. Why did Vera send Knorr behind enemy lines against the advice of others?

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At 00:08:05,060, Character said: All Vera's private files suddenly become available.

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At 00:08:09,960, Character said: Private files that reveal the true story of Britain's lost women spies.

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At 00:08:19,020, Character said: But also the shocking story of the one woman whose job it was to send them into battle.

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At 00:08:25,680, Character said: Vera Atkins.

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At 00:08:32,400, Character said: It's a story that begins in France in 1940.

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At 00:08:43,360, Character said: Nazi Germany has invaded and taken over the north of the country and Hitler has

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At 00:08:52,660, Character said: set his sights on Britain as the next target for Nazi invasion.

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At 00:09:02,380, Character said: In France, an underground force of French fighters called the Resistance

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At 00:09:07,100, Character said: tried to stop the Nazis at any point they can.

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At 00:09:11,040, Character said: They commit acts of sabotage.

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At 00:09:14,220, Character said: They attack soldiers. And to do this, they need help.

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At 00:09:19,480, Character said: They need organisational skills, they need weapons and they need money.

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At 00:09:25,160, Character said: They need all the help they can get to stop the Nazi threat.

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At 00:09:29,240, Character said: This support is provided by a British secret agency known as the Special Operations Executive, or SOE.

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At 00:09:41,240, Character said: SOE was sanctioned by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as early as 1940.

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At 00:09:48,340, Character said: It was unofficially known as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

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At 00:09:54,380, Character said: And the whole idea was literally to set Europe ablaze and disrupt the Nazi war machine.

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At 00:10:07,820, Character said: Churchill wants to frustrate the Nazis in France, and also help the resistance to launch

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At 00:10:14,760, Character said: mass sabotage attacks against the Germans ahead of D-Day, whenever the Allied invasion

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At 00:10:23,480, Character said: of France will take place.

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At 00:10:31,320, Character said: The department responsible for this is SOE's France, or F, section.

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At 00:10:40,690, Character said: Head of F section is Maurice Buckmaster.

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At 00:10:45,110, Character said: He's an unlikely choice for a top job at SOE.

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At 00:10:50,510, Character said: Buckmaster served in military intelligence, but he knows nothing about sabotage.

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At 00:10:58,490, Character said: Sir.

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At 00:10:58,870, Character said: He had no experience whatsoever in training people for guerrilla warfare.

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At 00:11:05,190, Character said: Schedule a supply drop to Acrobat for the 22nd.

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At 00:11:09,830, Character said: Yes,...