(tension music)
[Virgil] Beware.
You will meet Radagast.
You will tell him about the orbital b*mb.
Your presentation was fascinating.
[Yuri, in Russian]
He interests me, this Frenchman.
Go talk to him.
Are you watching my father
because of him?
These ab*rtion are performed
in deplorable conditions.
- [Anne] Who are you?
- Friends.
[man]
We're taking you to the hospital.
This b*mb
isn't just a project.
She's in orbit.
You have access to it.
[Boris] He's a spy.
He asks me to spy on my homeland.
[Francis] A nuclear w*r
threatens us.
- [Lyudmila] I want to help you.
- [Charles] What does she want?
Go west.
- [Charles] He needs a code name.
- [Francis] Luna.
(distant music)
(dull crackles)
(pressure jets)
[Pavel, in Russian]
Successful engine block separation.
Phase 2 engaged.
The trajectory of the probe
is correct.
(communication beeps)
(alert beeps)
(interference)
(intriguing music)
(alert beeps)
[Boris, in Russian]
What is this interference?
[Pavel] Something is interfering
with communications.
I lost control.
[Boris] It's impossible.
[Pavel]
The interference messed things up.
(warning signs)
[Pavel] She's spinning!
Turn off.
[Boris] Power off and reset!
[Boris] It's no longer responding.
The probe leaves its trajectory.
(aerodynamic turbulence)
- [in Russian] Shall we blow it up?
- Never !
- We have to destroy it.
- It's not protocol.
These are Bakharin's orders.
It was Bakharin
who ordered this launch.
He pushed it back to coincide
with Army plans.
I will not sacrifice 3 years of work.
- Pavel, destroy it.
- No.
[scientist] Boris!
- You're not the boss.
- Leave me.
- Paul!
- [Boris] Stop!
(electronic beep)
We lost it in the atmosphere.
(dramatic music)
The signal will return in 2 minutes.
- Why do you want to destroy it?
- [Bakharin] Boris!
Lock the door.
(the music intensifies)
[Bakharin] Boris, destroy it!
Open the door !
Boris !
Open the door immediately.
Golubev!
The probe must be destroyed.
The parachute.
[Bakharin] Boris, can you hear me?
Open that damn door!
Golubev, open the door!
Boris, open!
Break down the door.
(fire)
(slow, suspenseful music)
[in Russian]
Where is she?
Where did the probe fall?
(indistinct murmurs)
(eerie music)
[Bakharin, in Russian] Enough, Boris.
Tell me where the probe fell.
[Boris] No, I won't let
your soldiers get it before me.
[Bakharin] I swear
they'll bring her back intact.
[Boris] I want to recover the data
myself.
It represents months of work.
Give me the coordinates.
I want to go there myself!
Boris !
Do not say stupid things.
You disobeyed.
- Then Pavel ira.
- No.
- Send one of my assistants.
- No.
Agreed. So a scientist
who ignores your secret project
orbital b*mb!
(intriguing music)
Now I understand why
you delayed the launch.
You wanted it to cross the path
of your orbital b*mb.
Which caused interference.
The orbital b*mb
sent him a message.
Hence the loss of control of the probe.
You installed a transmitter
and you hid it from me.
What is this message
that you don't want me to find out?
Dania, let's talk straight.
You wanted to destroy the probe
so that the message does not fall
into the wrong hands.
(Bakharin sighs)
You're retiring
after the Voshkod project, right?
Yes.
It might happen sooner than expected.
Tomorrow,
I want the coordinates of the fall.
And that's an order!
(dramatic music)
[Bakharin] Major !
Watch him.
[major] At your command!
(soft music)
[Lyudmila] If I gave you
important information,
would you pass me west
immediately?
Really important information.
Francis ?
You don't promise her anything, okay?
[Lyudmila] Allô ?
Francis ?
Your information gives us food for thought,
but nothing is decided.
You talked
about walks in Gorky Park.
(she sighs nervously)
That's enough, I'm tired
of spying on my dad for you.
For weeks, we have been talking about
his habits and his movements.
I have nothing
in exchange.
Listen,
calm down, Lyudmila.
Be patient.
[Francis] What is
this important information?
(eerie music)
[Francis] Lyudmila ?
(Lyudmila breathes nervously)
I...
[Lyudmila] I don't know if I should...
(the music intensifies)
[Lyudmila] You promise me...
What are you doing ?
A regular noise...
The line is no longer secure.
Hello ?
Hello ?
Hello ?
She won't understand anything.
- Let's call her back.
- Not on this line.
- She had a tip!
- [Charles] Exactly.
If the KGB is listening,
she's in danger.
- We have to warn her.
- [Charles] We'll find a way.
What does the protocol say?
It's not a rocket launch
with clear guidelines.
[Virgile]
It could be a bluff.
You must not use it
to reach Radagast.
If it's tapped,
we're screwed.
(Virgil sighs)
(slow music)
[Charles] She's burned out.
We can't go on with it anymore.
[Virgile] It takes another strategy
to approach Radagast.
(sigh)
[in Russian] They won't call back.
[Martine] Was it necessary
to remove my appendicitis?
I don't know who came up with the idea,
but you can say thank you.
No one will come
to ask you questions.
Above all, take your medications well.
The 2 men, who was it?
I called.
Nobody knows.
It's as if they never existed.
Maybe a coincidence.
He knew my name and yours.
[Martine] What are you planning to do?
(soft music)
[Lyudmila] If I gave you
important information,
would you pass me west
immediately?
[Francis] Be patient.
[Charles] If the KGB listens,
it would put her in danger.
(the phone is ringing)
[man, in Russian] Have you seen the time?
What do you want ?
[en russe] Lyudmila.
Lyudmila Golubeva.
Please.
What ?
Lyudmila.
(the man hangs up)
Hello ? Hello !
(he hangs up)
Hello ?
Hello ?
[Lyudmila] Allô ?
It's me.
What happened ?
[Francis] Wait a moment.
(soft music)
I wanted to warn you.
Earlier,
you were tapped.
The SDECE has decided to interrupt
our communications.
Are you letting me down?
[Francis] Not me.
Tell me about the information
you wanted to give.
My father wants to go to Algeria.
How so ?
Yesterday, a probe was launched.
She communicated
with the orbital b*mb.
Due to a problem,
it crashed in Algeria.
The army refuses to allow my father to go there.
(she breathes nervously)
May
to go there?
I do not know.
If he goes, would you go with him?
[Lyudmila] Maybe.
[Francis] Lyudmila...
This would be an opportunity
to bring you back to France.
(a door opens)
[Boris, in Russian] Hang up
or I'll report you to the police.
I'll try.
(nervous breathing)
(tones)
(strong breathing)
(soft music)
(she sighs)
I don't understand
how you made your account.
Engineering is a dangerous profession.
[Anne] He was a doctor,
the one who sewed you up?
Yes.
(eerie music)
[in Russian] Today she spoils us.
The lady needs
something?
My father is under house arrest.
General Bakharin refused
to send him to search for a probe
which communicated
with the orbital b*mb.
Does your father know
the tenor of the communication?
No, but General Bakharin
wants to destroy all traces of this exchange.
(suspense music)
Radagast sent a probe.
She took off the day before yesterday
and did not land in the USSR.
It crashed here, in Algeria.
I have no contact details.
It's in this desert area.
They will do anything to get her back.
Radagast will surely go there.
How did you get this information?
At CNES.
And you know where to look?
Well no, but...
I go through the radar readings regularly .
All CNES radar readings?
Even at the SDECE,
with a department
devoted to radar listening,
it would take weeks.
[Francis] Yes...
It's true that I was lucky.
[Charles] Lucky...
You called her back.
Damn, Francis,
do you realize?
- We couldn't leave him.
- We could !
We even had to!
(He blows)
[Charles]
Well, did she tell you something else?
(we touch)
(fracas)
(eerie music)
(cris)
(he is out of breath)
[en russe] Yuri?
Did you tell them everything?
[in Russian]
What should I have done?
They're gonna take us to your probe, just
like you wanted.
"We" ?
[in Russian] Your daughter is coming with us,
it's safer.
Is the military really hiding
something in the probe?
For sure.
Is it related to the orbital b*mb?
[Yuri] Only you know
where the probe fell.
You must tell us.
Otherwise, we will force you to do so.
(dramatic music)
[Yemeline] If Bakharin
wants to make disappear
any trace of this transmission,
it is that it is likely
to compromise him.
Your goal: find the probe
and the message she picked up,
then blow it all up.
It will help us bring down Bakharin
and all his supporters in the army.
And for them?
Do the housework.
[Bakharin] I prefer to see Golubev
dead in the East
than living in the west.
[housekeeper] Paul, finish your plate.
Your mom will be proud of you.
- Mom !
- [Anne] Good evening.
[housekeeper] Good evening.
[Anne] Francis isn't here?
Mr. Mareuil has left.
He had an emergency.
And he left a note.
Look, mom.
(slow music)
[housekeeper] Mr. Mareuil has canceled
your table at the restaurant.
Sit down, darling. Eat.
(the music intensifies)
[operator]
Takeoff in 10 min.
[Virgil] Thank you.
[Virgile] Takeoff in 10 min.
First time ?
Good listening.
You returned to East Berlin
under your own identity, protected.
There, we enter illegally.
Espionage over there
is either the death penalty or life imprisonment.
And believe me,
you would prefer the death penalty.
If I tell you "jump", you jump.
"Run", you run.
- [Virgile] And "don't move"...
- I don't move.
You don't move.
[Virgil] It's going to be fine.
Good. The Russian plane
lands in an hour.
Someone will follow them and
connect you with Radagast and Luna.
Obtain the coordinates of the probe
to find it before the KGB.
Find the link
to the Orbital b*mb.
But the Algerian army
collaborates with the Russians.
They will have great freedom
of movement.
Understood ?
(dramatic music)
Your shoulder, okay?
[Charles] It's the button of the heart.
Where the soul resides.
If something should happen,
it will be able to escape
more easily.
It's just a tradition
to bring you luck.
(roar of the plane)
(action music)
As soon as you jump,
the parachute opens.
You let yourself be carried.
As soon as you hit the ground,
bend your knees. Agreed ?
Come on, carabiners.
[Virgil] Come on, go!
[Virgile] Go !
(a car arrives)
And the Russians?
They landed in Laghouat.
A single track
goes southwest.
They will stop at El Khoussouf.
- [Virgil] El Khoussouf?
- A Bedouin camp.
The gates of the desert.
Virgil.
(suspense music)
Algerian army.
They must have seen our parachutes.
[Algerian ally] Let's get off the track
so they don't see our tracks.
- Good day Mrs.
- Hello.
[patient]
We have an appointment in 10 months, right?
[Mrs. Duchamp] Yes?
- Madame Duchamp?
- Hello.
I called about
Martine Archambault.
Appendicitis?
Yes.
The bill has been paid, but by whom?
Are you his mother?
No, I'm his aunt.
You have to see that with the parents, then.
Sorry.
- Good day.
- Good day.
- Good day.
- Bye.
(slow music)
(panting breath)
(a door closes in the distance)
[in English]
Hello, Emily Wolf speaking.
Hello do you speak French ?
[Emily] Yes. Good day Mrs.
Forgive me, I'm confused.
May I know where I am?
[Emily] You're at the
US Embassy.
(nervous breathing)
(camp hubbub)
(slow music)
[Boris] Are you coming to spy on me again?
They are the ones who did this to me.
Yuri ?
It was in Berlin that they started
asking you to watch me.
You are suspected of treason.
They want to trap you.
You don't realize
the consequences of your actions.
I had no choice.
The space program,
the army,
me,
we were supported by Khrushchev.
He's not here anymore.
This orbital b*mb gives
Brezhnev and the KGB the opportunity to clean up.
Starting
with General Bakharin.
If we go back to Moscow,
nothing will be like before.
(cricket songs)
(dramatic music)
(men discuss)
[Virgile] Algerian soldiers.
sh*t.
They were faster than us.
We give up.
We go back to the car.
What ?
They saw us land.
They must have followed us.
Radagast and Luna are here!
When I tell you "we give up",
we give up!
Go on.
(low music)
(panting breath)
- (a man shouts)
- [Virgile] Stop.
[soldier, in Arabic]
Whose parachute is this?
[soldier] Where are they?
- Where are they ?
- [ally] I don't know!
[soldier] Traitor!
[soldier] You will speak.
[Virgil] sh*t!
(intriguing music)
[Virgil] Francis!
(soft music)
[Francis] Lyudmila.
Francis.
Yes.
I want to go with you.
[Francis] That's what I'm here for.
Do you have the
exact coordinates of the probe?
[Lyudmila] My father has them.
Take me.
It's too early.
[Francis]
Your father would come with us?
[Lyudmila] He will never leave
his homeland.
[Yuri, in Russian]
Are you okay?
[Lyudmila, in Russian]
Yes, thank you.
(eerie music)
[soldier]
We're looking for French people.
(distant talks)
Contignet told you to go no matter
what?
Next bullshit,
I'll leave you there. Understood ?
(panting breath)
[in Russian]
Vasily will sleep here tonight.
I will be in your father's tent.
(she sighs)
(panting breath)
(tension music)
(exclamation d'effort)
[Francis] And Radagast and Luna?
[Virgile] We'll follow them. Go up!
(low music)
[Yuri, in Russian] Is it here?
Somewhere
within 500 yards.
From up there, we will see better.
You stay here and watch.
(mysterious music)
[in Russian] There!
(he sighs)
(dark music)
(slow music)
- Is the destruction system intact?
- Yes.
Just plug in the detonator.
(mysterious music)
(exclamation d'effort)
(suspense music)
(nervous breathing)
[Virgile] We don't know where the 4th is,
we're not moving.
[in Russian] So?
[in Russian]
I don't know what I'm looking for.
I will proceed by elimination,
inspect everything, item by item,
and note the scientific data.
Do that after, you'll have time
before I blow it up.
[Yuri] First find
the communication module.
(dramatic music)
(low music)
[Yuri, en russe] Boris.
- Did you find anything?
- No nothing.
They're going to blow it all up.
(suspense music)
Give your watch.
That's what he's looking for.
You see that ?
This radio module received
information from the orbital b*mb.
The result is these numbers.
[Lyudmila] What do they mean?
Those numbers in my watch...
The KGB wants them.
It's our life insurance.
If I had retained
some semblance of a bond with you...
They couldn't have
turned you against me.
I know how to put machines
in orbit around the Earth,
take pictures
of the dark side of the moon,
but not take care of a child.
(sad music)
(eerie music)
Photos need to be recovered.
Attends.
[Francis] We don't know where
the other Russian is, it's too dangerous.
Luna will get us the pictures.
She wants to help us.
[in Russian] There is a hidden car.
We are not alone.
(the music intensifies)
[in Russian]
We can't wait any longer.
[en english] Lyudmila !
[Yuri] Come see.
Did your dad find something?
Non.
He inspected everything?
Yes, he does not understand,
everything seems normal.
Agreed. Go help him.
(the music intensifies)
Dad, go away, quickly!
- The army is coming.
- He's bleeding.
We can't move it.
[Lyudmila] The b*mb
communicated something to the probe.
The Russian army is hiding something.
- Think about the consequences.
- What do you want ?
Numbers, what are they for?
The coordinates of a target.
(she shouts)
They will t*rture them.
Don't screw it up.
(g*nshots) Let's
get out.
I got trapped.
(screams of fear)
(g*nsh*t)
(muffled cry)
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01x03 - Episode 3
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In 1965, in the midst of the Cold w*r, a French rocket scientist is thrown in the field for a nearly impossible spy mission and falls for a Soviet woman secretly working for the KGB.
In 1965, in the midst of the Cold w*r, a French rocket scientist is thrown in the field for a nearly impossible spy mission and falls for a Soviet woman secretly working for the KGB.