The essential episodes of X Company
Watch these 15 in order and you've got X Company — each pick states its reason.
- 01
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.
- 02
Franz Faber uses increasingly inhuman techniques to get Alfred to break, while Sinclair, now on the ground in France, leads the team on a daring rescue attempt.
- 03
With the Gestapo hot on their heels and no way out of France, the team must get creative to get Alfred and René back to Camp X.
- 04
Alfred risks his life to free the British POWs in the hope they can help rebuild their resistance networks.
- 05
The team goes in search of a doctor, rumoured to be helping Jews escape France, while Aurora gets closer to Franz Faber's wife.
- 06
Tension within the team explodes when Harry defies Auroras orders and sets a plan in motion to assassinate a high-ranking German general.
- 07
Aurora struggles to maintain her leadership as divisions within the team grow deeper. And a midnight attack by German commandos threatens to destroy their fledgling guerrilla army.
- 08
The team is forced to mobilize to Dieppe without Aurora; Sinclair's friendship nearly costs him his life.
- 09
Aurora fights to gain back the team's faith; Alfred reveals their Dieppe objectives are a raid on a German radar station and an attempt to steal the secrets of the Enigma machine.
- 10
The team pays a devastating price at Dieppe as Alfred and Aurora put everything on the line to try and "turn" Franz Faber.
- 11
Sinclair and Faber face off against each other; Neil and Harry take a trip to find Miri.
- 12
The team tries to rally France before the Nazis take over; Faber's transfer could cost the team.
- 13
Aurora struggles to keep her cover as Helene Bauer as the Nazis hunt for spies among the Polish resistance.
- 14
With plans to assassinate the man who could win for the Nazis, Sinclair and Krystina join the team in Berlin.
- 15
The team's final mission could change the course of the war. Aurora needs Faber's help to land the knockout blow…but can he be trusted?
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