Secret Army

- Season 2

(1978)

Lifeline is ordered to prevent an officer's interrogation at any cost.

In the aftermath of Yvette's death in a British air raid in Saint-Nazaire, Lifeline is forced to help Russian evaders as well as the Allies.

Lifeline is landed with a very special agent and a wounded Polish engineer from Peenemunde.

Monique is injured whilst on a trip to France.

Natalie's new love Francois and a group of evaders are passengers on a train that is due to be bombed.

Albert must rely on Hans Van Broecken, who hates him, to weed out a possible Nazi infiltrator among the evaders.

Two American airmen take members of Lifeline and Kessler hostage. Meanwhile, Kessler has seized three major Dutch masterpieces held by a convent of nuns.

An attempt is made to enlist Major Brandt into von Stauffenberg's plot to kill Hitler. The British carpet bomb Berlin.

A British Wing Commander suffers severe facial burns when his plane is shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Belgium. The British want him returned, but his face risks being noticed by the Germans. Some makeup is enough for him to reach Paris accompanied by Natalie, but Monique believes he should pose as a woman if he is not to be discovered during the rest of the journey. He successfully travels down the escape line to Spain. In Brussels, Madeleine faces isolation because of her affair with Kessler, although she finds Monique a surprisingly good listener. The Candide ...

Approaching Christmas, Lifeline receives a list of demands from a group of orphaned children who have a hidden Group Captain. The man is drifting in and out of consciousness. Albert is worried that it might be a German trap, but the man is handed over to Lifeline disguised as a St Nicolas dummy in a pram. Meanwhile, Brandt gets into an argument with Kessler over the abominable atrocities taking place in Eastern Europe.

Francois is determined to retrieve an airman from the Communist resistance while Max plots his betrayal.

Brandt's continuing grief over losing his wife leads him to drink heavily, to Kessler's concern. He develops a crush on Monique. While Alain has to hide two airmen, a neighbouring farmer finds an injured German fighter pilot on his land. He turns out to be one of Germany's leading airmen, flying a prototype night fighter unknown to the Allies. Max is dispatched to sketch it, and the British wish to capture the German airman for his information. Max suggests that he and the Communists transport the airman to the French coast, where he might be picked up by a British ...

Lifeline helps a Belgian pilot who has escaped from the Gestapo headquarters, while Kessler learns of Brandt's involvement in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler.