Damien Lewis

France falls, deserts the Legion because he doesn't want to join Vichy French forces, goes to Marseille, the port city, meets Mary Jane Gold, the beautiful, glittering, incredibly wealthy American socialite in Marseille.

She's helping run an escape line for Jews out of Europe and funding it.

He...

has got gangster contact, underground gangster contacts by now in Marseille.

He says, I'll use my gangster network to help you.

They fall in love.

She nicknames him Killer Kurod because of his background.

They rescue together 2,000 Jews.

And then the network gets penetrated.

And Mary Jane Gold is fine because she's an American neutral country.

She can just go back to the States.

But Kurod is obviously not.

So he manages this unbelievable escape, gets to the UK.

Right.

Gets the UK volunteers for hazardous operations, gets recruited into special operations executive, wherein he is characterised as a lone wolf operator, then gets parachuted back into France by the special operations executive as an assassin, carries out several assassination operations, eventually gets hunted down by the Gestapo, escapes again.

But by now they know his real name.

So at that stage, he's recruited into Bill Sterling's SAS under a false name because he can't serve in SOE anymore.

You can't serve as an SOE agent if the enemy know your identity.

So Raymond Carod in North Africa, in Bill Sterling's SAS training camp, has gone around all the French Foreign Legion bases recruiting people.

Of course, you're not allowed to leave the French Foreign Legion.