Damien Lewis

It's called desertion, isn't it?

You face horrendous things if you desert the French Foreign Legion.

But they're deserting in their droves because they're hungry for action.

And in Ciotona, their base, the 2SAS base in southern Italy, where the Yugoslav concentration camp internally turns up,

A significant part of Cary Elwes' 2SAS force is made up of Kouroud and his French Foreign Legionnaires, former French Foreign Legionnaires.

It's known as the French Foreign Legion SAS Squadron.

That's what they were known as.

So Cary Elwes and Kouroud, they have reasons to want to intervene, first off.

This is a real SAS mission.

This is 120 kilometers behind enemy lines.

That's where the concentration camp is.

So it's got SAS stamp all over it.

Secondly, Carod knows that there are former French foreign legionnaires in that camp as a personal reason to go.

Thirdly, Cary Elwes is the son of a champagne merchant and he spent half his life in France.

He's a massive Francophone.

He's got a reason to go to the camp.

So they start to cook up a mission with Zelko, the escaped Yugoslav partisan.

And the problem is that because their mission has been so rushed, Operation Slapstick, they've got like just a handful of Jeeps and they've had to, you know, scavenge a 1916 Renault school bus and various other things to transport their men around.

They do not have the transport to get there.

And even if they had the transport to get to the camp,