9.090 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestWhen a crucial mission collapses in the USA and Eva Delectorskaya finds herself in terrible, fatal jeopardy, she knows she has no option but to run and hide - forever. The final chapter of this epic story of love, duplicity and betrayal is about to end, and who will pay the greatest price remains to be discovered.
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Acting
Rampling and Atwell playing the same woman decades apart—seamless.
Costume
1940s espionage fashion that makes treason look fabulous.
Writing
Boyd's novel adapted with proper respect for moral ambiguity.
Hayley Atwell
Eva Delectorskaya
Rufus Sewell
Lucas Romer
Michelle Dockery
Ruth Gilmartin
Michael Gambon
Baron Mansfield / Lucas Romer
Charlotte Rampling
Sally Gilmartin / Eva Delectorskaya
Thekla Reuten
Sylvia Rhys Myers
Alexander Fehling
Karl-Heinz
James Norton
Kolia
Adrian Scarborough
Morris Devereux
Bertie Carvel
Mason Harding
Tom Brooke
Angus Woolf
Anthony Calf
Gerald Laird
Julian Firth
Club Servant
Gwilym Lee
Sean Gilmartin
Dominic Rowan
Detective Sergeant Mason
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
William Boyd adapted his own novel and insisted on keeping the dual-timeline structure that most screenwriters would have flattened.
The real MI6 recruited women like Eva—glamorous, multilingual, expendable. Most never got to invent new lives.
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