X Company (2015–2017): Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot - full transcript

As a new team of Allied agents face a terrifying first mission, Camp X's spymaster Duncan Sinclair must convince a fragile young man with a perfect memory to join the fight.

Ugh!

Let me go!

Forget my name.

Everybody, go, go, go, go!

Lucie!

Come on, Harry!

Anything?

Higher!

- Again?
- Yeah.

- Higher.
- Tom Cummings,

cause of death: Harry.



There it is! don't move it!

- You got a response?
- Hang on, hang on.

Where is he?

Office. British house call
with Mayhew.

You have to take a look at this.

He's the real deal.

Vaudeville? Ha ha! This?

George, we are hanging on
by our fingernails.

Now, it's time to get creative
and look beyond Oxford

and Cambridge.
We need people like him.

- Failed basic training.
- It doesn't matter.

Yes, it bloody does!

- Referred to a psychiatric unit?
- So he saw a psychiatrist.

- I don't care if he...
- No, I'm sorry, Sinclair...



we are out of time!
And frankly,

it is this kind of backwards
thinking that loses wars.

May I remind you
who funds this camp?

May I remind you who runs it?

- Sir?
- Yes.

It's Harry.

- Emergency frequency.
- What's going on?

He's transmitting single digit?

He wouldn't take the risk
if he had a choice.

They arrived safely last night,
but when Rene met with Leo,

the gestapo was waiting.
Leo was interrogated

and hanged.

Come on! Come on!

Ok! Go!

Tell them I evaded capture, shot
SS officer. Considered compromised.

"Rene evaded capture.

Shot SS officer.
Considered compromised."

Dammit.

Our inside source
is uncompromised.

That means Leo didn't talk,

otherwise they'd know
the housekeeper was his wife

and that she understands
German. Thank you, Leo.

This morning, Richter told

Major Kiefer he wants
reprisals as a warning

not to help the resistance.

He plans to massacre
the entire village.

Women and children
will not be spared.

No, no. Come, please.

Come!

Hey, stop!

Beautiful work.

Who is the artist?

You,

down.

Come here!

Down.

Down!

Ten seconds to tell me
who did this.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

- Five.
- Please, I don't know.

- Four.
- No.

Three.

- Two.
- Me! It's me!

Leave him alone!

Annie!

Where did your girl learn
the symbol of the resistance?

I'm sorry.

She likes pranks

and she's stupid.
She does not think.

This won't happen again.

I teach her a lesson
she won't forget.

Non!

I know what she needs.

And everyone here
can watch and learn.

No, sir. Please.

Victor will give
the order to strike at 1500.

How about we cut
to the punchline?

- Direction-finding van.
- They're on us, shut it down!

No. If we don't get clearance,
this village is as good as dead.

We don't wait for clearance.
We go ahead without it

- That's not your call to make.
- We don't need to play

"mother, may I?" Every time
we bloody blow our nose!

We do this, the Germans know we're here.

It changes the game for
every network in the area.

Keep going, Harry. Request clearance
to strike first.

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There.

Good.

Now... Heil Hitler.

Annie, show some respect.

Do as you're told right now!

Come on. Higher, higher.

Keep going.

Heil Hitler...

- Heil Hitler.
- There. Was that so hard?

- Lunch?
- Right away, sir.

Sorry.

If you lower your arm,
we will shoot you.

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Ja.

We bomb
Richter and the major at lunch,

draw the platoon to the bridge.

They want to blow the bridge.

We eliminate the platoon,

we eliminate Richter.

They save the town.

- Out of time. They're here.
- Neil, ring the bell.

We've got to slow them down.

Out of the way!

We've got to move!

Not until we get
the green light!

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I'm sorry. I don't speak german.

Raus.

We're there to stir up
the French, recruit resistance,

so that when we hit
the beach, they stand up and fight.

What are you saying?

Maybe we let
Richter have his way.

A massacre like that,
wouldn't you stand up and fight?

Or we show them that the Germans
aren't above a kick in the ass.

- Green light. Kate.
- I'll go get a bird

to get 'em out.

Green light! Green light!

- Tom!
- Come on, Harry!

- Come on!
- Tom!

- Tom!
- Pass it up!

Pass it up! I got it, go!

Ok.

Green light, let's go!

Out the back,
there's an alley!

I'll hide here.
You can't be seen with me, go!

I'm right behind you.

- Go! Go!
- Aurora, listen to me.

- Squeeze here, pull the pin
- I was in that class with you.

Once you've released the
pressure switch, you've got...

10 seconds to toss it and get out of range.

Stay out of sight. Meet you on the bridge.

- Go, go, go, go!
- Going.

Do you remember when you
signed the official secrets act?

"Be it enacted by the king's
most excellent majesty

by and with the consent
of the commons in this present."

And I said maybe we'd get you a desk
and you'd work in cryptography?

- Yes.
- I may have lied.

Open the door!

- Come on!
- No! No weapons in my church!

- Who else is here?
- Only the faithful.

Who are you?

I asked you. Who are you?

My name is
Marie-Rosese Tavernier.

- You're not from here?
- No, I'm from Beaune.

- What's going on?
- You come with us.

Good. You will
save me a lot of work.

I came to help my cousin in
the sturmbannfuhrer's kitchen.

I'm happy I won't be the one who
has to say why his lunch is late.

Fine. Go.

No. You come to the station for them...

after the sturmbannfuhrer's lunch.

"Unable to complete
obstacle courses."

"Panic reaction
upon discharge of weapons.

"Private Graves is prone

"to trembling, hyperventilating,

and apparent hallucinations."

Read Dr. Bennett's notes.

Alfred has exceptional
intelligence.

He's got a condition that's been
identified as synesthesia.

- Synesthesia?
- The brain is cross-wired.

One sense is actually fused
to another.

Yes. I fail to see how this
helps make an agent of him.

George, you have colleagues at
Bletchley who make him look normal.

- Sinclair...
- I need him.

One mission.

Why did you enlist?

I want to serve...

Do my part.

He read the recruitment posters.

People are dying
and I'm home doing nothing.

- Apart from a Vaudeville show.
- Oh, you think that's what I want to do?

Alright, let me make it simple.

If we lose the war,
the last defense of democracy

will be fought
by you, underground,

for as long as the enemy
is in power.

You don't want
to do that on a whim.

It's not a whim.

Do you have the slightest idea
what we do here?

No, he doesn't, not yet.

No. I'm sorry, Duncan,
this won't do.

I think I do know what you do
here. I saw through the windows.

Demilitarized zone. Vichy.
Undercover. Active.

You have networks in Denmark, Norway,
Netherlands, North Africa, and France.

Where there are cells.
I don't know what that means.

Armee secrete, 6 members.
Groupe du muse de I'homme, 8.

Volontaires de la liberte, 11.
Weather charts.

Tide charts. You're monitoring
the moon phase

for a Norway drop.

Next full moon
is Saturday, April 30th.

Dit-da, di-dit. Di-dit.
Dit-da-dit-dit. Dit-dit-dit.

Di-dat, dit-dit. Dit-dit
dit-dit dit-dit

da... A, I,

R, L. Airlift.

Villemarie.

Priority.

What's happening in Villemarie?

Sehen Sie was?

Hier ist niemand.

Moment. Schauen Sie mal hier.

Ich war mir sicher,
dass das von diesem Turm kam.

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I have a little girl.

Her name's Frieda.

She likes pranks too,

to make people
"surprise" and laugh,

just like you.

I see you here
in the house and the garden.

I always think of Frieda.

And "how's" your name?

- Annie.
- Annie.

Happy to learn to know you.

Happy to learn to know you.

We don't have much time.

Hey, boys, need a hand?

No, we're pretty much finished.

Long way
from chemistry class, huh?

How many guys you think
will be on the bridge?

What's the reason for asking?

I mean, they're someone's
brothers, you know?

- Fathers even?
- Yeah.

40,000 killed in London
last September.

Jenny Patterson, she lived
across from us, she was 24.

They found her crushed
under 2 stories

of rubble, with
her 3-month old in her arms.

He survived by nursing
his dead mother.

These "fathers,"
these "brothers,"

they elected the bastard
who started this.

They love him. They're gonna
slaughter our village

for him. So bloody well
keep that in mind

while you do the bloody job
you trained for.

I'll do the north sentry first.

You walk onto the bridge.

He'll ask you for papers,
you don't stop.

Ok? He'll follow you. I come up
the side, take him from behind.

You keep going.
Take out the south sentry.

- Alright?
- Yeah.

Harry?

Yeah, yeah.
Um, I got the easy job, right?

What's the matter?
Never blown up a bridge before?

Yeah, well, maybe in advertising,
cutting throats is easy.

- Oh, the bastards!
- Shhh...

They think I don't understand.
Saying it right under my nose...

My husband hanging outside...

- Shh...
- My daughter!

I want to see his face,
look him right in the eyes

when he knows it's coming.
It's almost over.

Excuse me.

I let her go.

I really must want
to study medicine, you know?

But I-I... I cannot
go to the university

if first, I don't
join the military, so...

Yeah...

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Hey! Papiere!

Wo gehst du hin?
Hey. Papiere!

Bloody hell!

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Good.

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Jose, cognac.

Yes, sir.

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Geez!

We're the only spy-training
facility in North America.

We train assassins,
codebreakers, saboteurs.

We specialize
in unconventional warfare,

which is why we need
unconventional warriors like you.

It's live fire, Alfred.
You get used to it.

It's not just the noise
for you, is it?

What is it? Is it smell?
Taste? What? Tell me.

You said
I'd be working with codes,

- behind a desk.
- We could do that.

I need that memory of yours

for a very special operation.

First, you're going
to need some training.

- A special operation?
- In France.

This is Hydra.

It's a state-of-the-art
signals station.

We're the communications center
of North America.

We relay radio traffic from South
America, Europe, and Washington.

Anything?

Alfred, this is Krystina.

Our first team
is in the field right now.

Rene is the leader.

Canadian journalist in Paris
when the Germans rolled in.

He took the fight underground.

That's Harry. Three months ago,

Harry's biggest concern was
getting home to his parents

before curfew.
Harry's an improviser, engineer.

He loves explosives,
gadget design,

and he transmits morse code
at 51 words a minute.

That's Tom.

He was the first American
through the gate.

The U.S. is just joining the war

but they have
no foreign intelligence,

no training schools, no spies,

so Roosevelt came to us.
Tom's an ad man.

He specializes in propaganda

and deception.

Neil was as a copper
in London and Shanghai.

His entire family was wiped out
in the blitz.

He hates the Germans.

Aurora, French Canadian
fluent in German.

She's worked with the resistance
since the beginning of the war.

None of us imagined
we'd be here, Alfred.

No one's born knowing
what they can do.

That's it.

I'll blow it
from underneath the bridge.

It's time.

I'll release it quietly
under the table,

then I'll run out
before they wonder why.

Jose!

It's coming, sir!

I'll get it.
Now, go get your coat and run.

- Thank you.
- Go.

Where are you going?

What are you doing?

Jose?

My cousin was feeling faint,
I was just letting in some air.

Why is there a coffee pot
on the floor?

I am sorry, sir. I, uh...

I will bring it to the kitchen
in a moment.

Jose!

- Go.
- No, Jose.

What's going on?

- No, you can't.
- I'll take care of everything.

- This was not the plan.
- It's too late.

- It is the only way.
- Jose.

Tell Annie I love her.

This is for Leo.

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Runter, runter, runter, runter.

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Maman!

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Maman! Maman!

Maman! Maman!

Maman?

Maman. Maman.

Maman. Maman.

Maman. Maman.

Maman.

Maman.

Maman.

Ma... man.

Jose's dead.

I can hear them. Here they come.

Heil Hitler!

Harry...

This is all yours.

What? No!

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Also los.

- Kommt, kommt, wir gehen.
- Was?

We're losing them, come on!

Harry... Harry.

Ah, come on!

You killed ma maman!

You killed her!

- She's dead!
- It's Annie!

Stop!

Why did you kill her?

- Stop!
- I hate you!

Why?!

We won't get this chance again.

She's dead!Ma maman!
Ma maman!You killed maman!

You killed maman!

This isn't personal,
this is what we have to do.

You killed maman!

Stop! Stop!

- Annie! Hey, come with me.
- Ma maman! You killed maman!

- Non. Maman. Non!
- Shh! Come, Annie.

Ma maman,
you killed her!

- No! No...
- Come with me.

- Maman!
- Let us through!

- What the hell!
- He's gonna get the girl.

- You killed maman!
- Ich nehme sie.

Kannst gehen.

Dammit! Dammit!
I'm going up there.

Stop.

Hey, Mann. Sie ist doch nur ein M?dchen.
H?r auf damit.

Hey.

Ugh!

Halt!

Runter.

Runter von der Bruecke.

Runter von der Bruecke.

Runter von der Bruecke.

No!

- Runter von der Bruecke.
- Vorwaerts.

Harry, blow it!

Achtung!

Ah!

Bewegt euch.

Halt. Stehen bleiben.

Do it! Now!

Do it!

No.

- Now!
- Just wait.

I won't lie to you.
Survival rate in the field is 50%.

And the truth is
we are losing this fight.

We are up against
a ruthless, relentless enemy...

You've seen what happens
to me. There's got to be others.

- No one can do what you do.
- I live in a room

where it's quiet.
I stay away from busy streets.

It takes me all morning
to get the guts

to go out for groceries.

Then why did you enlist?

I was tired of hiding.

I thought maybe I had
one fight in me.

You're afraid.

Alfred, my back is
against the wall.

I get reports.

A thousand families murdered
in the middle of the night.

Boatfuls of boys, young women
trying to patch them up.

I have one dead son.

The other boy's
in the mediterranean

and it rips my guts out
every time I have to ask

someone else to do this.

But I am afraid
of what happens if I don't.

Give me a chance.

One mission.

Please.

We should not lose sight of the fact that
our armed forces are engaged

on other battlefronts
all over the world,

and that no one front
can be considered alone

without its proper
relation to war.

We are on the offensive
all over the world.

Bringing the attack
to our enemies.

In the pacific by relentless
submarine and naval attacks,

amphibious thrusts,
ever-mounting air attacks,

we have deprived the japs...

Villemarie. Villemarie.
Bois de Charel. Bois de Charel.

High tide. High tide.
Current, 9 knots.

15-foot beach. High tide.

9 knots. 15-foot depth. Sunrise.

Proxigean sunrise. Sunset.
6:12, sunrise. Sunset.

The bridge when it blew up,
it was 2 days away from

the proxigean spring tide.

- The what?
- Every year and a half,

combination of new moon
and the proxigee.

It's when the moon's
at its closest,

so the tide's at its highest.

He jumped from the middle
of the bridge?

Yeah, yeah, near it.

Factor the height
of the bridge; ebbing tide;

depth, 15 feet;

currents, 9 knots;
He'd be swept away.

There's a bend downriver,
he'd have cover.

There's a chance he'd survive.

Aurora, gentlemen...

This is Alfred.

Drink. Good work.

This guy's a wall. What are
you gonna do to this guy?

Ok, hold on.

What is that?

Oh!