“One of their own has done the unthinkable.”
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
1 season · 6 episodes
S1 E1Boom-Ooh-Yatatatah
Dec 8, 20226.555 min
In the wake of Kim Philby’s escape to Moscow, his closest friend in Britain’s Secret Service, Nicholas Elliott, is under investigation.
S1 E2The Admiral's Glass
Dec 8, 20226.160 min
Investigator Lily Thomas understands that Elliott is never going to divulge anything of value in a conventional interrogation process so she manipulates him.
S1 E3Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Dec 8, 20226.453 min
Philby begins to understand that the KGB can never fully trust him now that he’s in Moscow, and as far as they’re concerned, his life as a spy for them is over.
S1 E4Vodka
Dec 8, 20226.154 min
Elliott rattles Blunt’s cage to make him panic and then follows him to a clandestine meeting in the middle of the night.
S1 E5Snow
Dec 8, 20226.151 min
Elliott and Lily fear that no one can be trusted. They must get to Blunt before anyone else to interrogate him and confirm their suspicions.
S1 E6No Man's Land
Dec 8, 20226.357 min
Lily has forced Elliot to remember more than he perhaps ever wanted to about Philby. Months later, Elliott receives a letter from Philby asking for a meeting in an East Berlin bar.
Guy Pearce
Kim Philby
Damian Lewis
Nicholas Elliott
Anna Maxwell Martin
Lily Thomas
Stephen Kunken
James Jesus Angelton
Adrian Edmondson
Sir Roger Hollis
Nicholas Rowe
Sir Anthony Blunt
Monika Gossmann
Galina
Lucy Russell
Jane Sissmore
Lucy Akhurst
Elizabeth Elliott
Jennifer Marsala
Iris
Anastasia Hille
Flora Solomon
Karel Roden
Col. Sergei Brontov
