Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Eddie Chapman, génial perceur de coffres emprisonné à Jersey, propose son aide aux services secrets allemands lorsque les troupes du Führer envahissent l'île. Après avoir fait ses preuves, il est chargé de faire sauter une usine en Angleterre. Chapman s'introduit discrètement dans la patrie de Shakespeare et met à profit son temps libre pour se tourner vers le contre-espionnage britannique. Il se verrait bien en agent double. La suggestion intéresse au plus haut point les services de Sa Majesté, qui vont même jusqu'à simuler la réussite de la mission de Chapman pour achever de mettre les Allemands en confiance...
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00:00Jersey today is renowned for an atmosphere of tranquility and repose.
00:05Many Britons think of retiring on this island.
00:08They speak of its unconfined atmosphere, its fortunate primacy, the unusual silence that permeates the landscape.
00:15Eddie Chapman, you're under arrest.
00:18What's the meaning of this?
00:20Please shut the door. It's a terrible draft.
00:22On your feet, Chapman, in the presence of the Commandant.
00:24Look who's giving orders around here now.
00:27Who are you, Chapman?
00:29I'm a realist, I'm in prison, and I want to get out.
00:32I don't give a damn for Germany or for England either.
00:34Why should I? What have they done to me lately?
00:37You haven't finished.
00:38You're damn right I'm not finished.
00:39Only one side's going to win this war, and I'm going to be on that side.
00:42Whichever it is.
00:43Yes, whichever it is.
00:45If it's England, God help me, I've got 15 years ahead of me by and far.
00:48It's fortune.
00:50England?
00:53England will be no more.
00:55It will be razed to the ground.
00:57That's a fair choice.
00:59I'd rather live for Germany than die for England.
01:01And if we wanted you to die for Germany?
01:09Why should I say that?
01:11I, of course, was shot while attempting to escape.
01:19Your new name is Franz Graumann.
01:22Private second class in the German army.
01:24Franz who?
01:25Graumann. You remember him?
01:27Graumann? Lovely.
01:30From safe cracker to prisoner, private second class,
01:35and a potential member of the most successful espionage group in the army,
01:39Dean Steller-Haas.
01:42Long wait one day.
01:44A man who drops into England by parachute,
01:46the German radio, and the identity card of the man who's been reported dead.
01:51You could hang for that.
01:53That's remarkable.
01:54That's not at all what I expected from a British bad guy.
01:59Well, now we've established you're not going back.
02:04What else would interest you?
02:07$10,000.
02:08Not in advance.
02:09Cash.
02:10Trust the banks.
02:11People will keep on paying.
02:12Which side are we really on?
02:15You mean you don't know?
02:23To be continued...