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Close to the Enemy

Stephen Poliakoff

Helen Flint

Jim Sturgess

Freddie Highmore

Charlotte Riley

Phoebe Fox

August Diehl

Robert Glenister

Alfie Allen

Sebastian Armesto

Julian Bleach

Emma Fielding

Charity Wakefield

Angela Bassett

Lucy Ward

Alfred Molina

Ciara Charteris

Duncan Wisbey

Carly Bawden

Debra Baker

James Bradshaw

Andrew Price

Close to the Enemy: Episode 1

Drama: Classic & Period

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Episode 1

BBC Two - Close to the Enemy, Episode 1

A British intelligence officer must persuade a German scientist to work with the RAF.

Drama. At the end of the Second World War, a British intelligence officer must persuade a kidnapped German scientist to work with the British RAF to develop the jet engine.

It is the end of the Second World War and Lotte and her father Dieter, a recently captured German scientist, arrive in England. Captain Callum Ferguson, an intelligence officer, is assigned the task of courting Dieter into working with the British RAF to develop the jet engine. With the emerging Cold War, it is crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible. 

Meanwhile, Kathy Griffiths from the War Crimes Unit is looking to bring war criminals who escaped prosecution to justice. As Lotte navigates the strange corridors of the bomb-damaged London hotel where they are staying under the British government's watchful eye, Callum must win over the trust of her father.

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It is the end of WWII and Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned one final task for the Army.

It is the end of WWII and Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned one final task for the Army: to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, helps the British to develop the jet engine.

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