Lois has returned to England from singing for soldiers. Harry is leading a platoon in combat abroad. He is stationed in Louvain Belgium and Germans are quickly sweeping closer. Gregor and Konrad are still on the run fugitives. They are sleeping in the forest and Gregor wakes up when he hears a tank approaching. Konrad shoots one of the smolders and then they are on the run. Kasia is still leading German soldiers to the resistance to be killed. She spots an SS officer in church and she chooses him for her next target. Her comrade is late getting to them and Kasia has to shoot the man herself. As retribution for the death of an SS officer, 25 Polish citizens are placed in front of a firing squad. Kasia is guilt ridden and distraught over the deaths of her countrymen and women. Webster is treating wounded soldiers from the front lines in Belgium.
Albert is receiving all sorts of hate. One night, there is a red swastika on his door. Herr Rossler has reluctantly joined the Nazi party to spare his daughter Hilde who has epilepsy. Douglas also wants to protect his daughter Lois and he goes to see Robina, Harry’s mother. Previously, Robina and Jan went to see Douglas to tell him that Harry had married Kasia. Nancy tries to smuggle a story on the Nazi euthanasia program out of Germany. Hilde Rossler and her mother leave Germany to stay at a lake house.
No one is safe anymore in Poland. There is a LOT of turmoil in Britain over the fate of the English troops. Lois is restating her independence about her pregnancy and she doesn’t want help. Kasia believes she can still continue to bring German soldiers to the resistance but it’s not safe to bring the SS Officer. Robina doesn’t believe she needs to do anything in the way of support for Harry’s child that Lois is carrying. Gregor and Konrad join forces with a British army unit since there is usually safety in numbers. There is a lot of tension in this episode and you wonder how the situation can become worse in Episode 5?
TV series, PBS Masterpiece series with seven episodes, each episode is one hour long, directed by Adam Smith, Thomas Napper, Andy Wilson, Chanya Button and written by Peter Bowker with Sean Bean, Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Arthur Darvill, Blake Harrison, Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Patrick Kennedy, Lesley Manville, Ewan Mitchell, Parker Sawyers, Brian J. Smith, Zofia Wichlacz, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kuleza, Victoria Mayer, Max Rieselt.
Note: Imdb 7.2 out of 10 with 2,589 views, Rotten Tomatoes 85% with 27 critics 54% with 13 user ratings, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 1,152 reviews, Metacritic 74 out of 100 with 12 critics (11 positive 1 mixed) 5 out of 10 (3 positive 2 negative), indiewire.com Grade B-.
Special Note: Commissioned by the BBC in October 2017, casting began in October 2018. Filmed in Prague, Chester, Liverpool, Lytham St. Annes, Wigan and Lyme Park.
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