The Spy

Synopsis

The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.

First Air Date: 2020-04-08

Last Air Date: 2020-05-27

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 15

Created By: Jorge Paixão da Costa

Networks: RTP1

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Top Cast

Daniela Ruah as Maria João Mascarenhas
Luís Filipe Eusébio as Paulo Santos
Miguel Frazão as Carlos
Maria João Bastos as Rose Lawson
Diogo Morgado as Siegfried Brenner
Adriano Carvalho as Wilhelm Larenz
Marco D'Almeida as Richard Thompson
António Capelo as Nicolau Mascarenhas
Pedro Lamares as Major Jack Beevor
Miro Magariños as Manoel García

Seasons

Season 1 (2020)

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Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2020-04-08)

On June 26, 1941, the German army invaded Russia. Maria João photographs Lisbon full of refugees arriving in Portugal. When his father-in-law Nicolau suffers an accident, he asks Maria João to help him manage the company. Major Beevor, an English spy, meets with the National Football Coach Cândido de Oliveira to organize the Resistance activity in Portugal. At the same time that Rose is enticed by the British, Maria João is going to Porto because of an assault on the Mascarenhas branch. There, her best friend Rose introduces Maria João to Siegfried Brenner.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2020-04-15)

December of 1941. Life in Lisbon changed with the War. A mysterious accident in a wolfram mine brings to the capital the engineer Siegfried Brenner. Larenz, a III Reich spy, keeps a close eye in the engineer. At the same time, he controls every step of Rose Lawson, the best friend of Maria João. In the PVDE dungeons, suspected of subversive activities, the casapiano Roberto Moisés - father and devout spouse -, is interrogated and tortured by officer Paulo.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2020-04-22)

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Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2020-04-29)

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Ep. 5: Episode 5 (2020-05-06)

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Ep. 6: Episode 6 (2020-05-13)

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Ep. 7: Episode 7 (2020-05-20)

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Ep. 8: Episode 8 (2020-05-27)

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