Wish Me Luck

- Season 2

(1989)

Now working in London with Cad and Faith, Liz has to inform Vivien Ashton that her husband was one of several spies shot by the Germans. Vivien, who has worked in France as a wine importer and was an actress, offers her services as an agent, as does young WAAF wireless operator Emily Whitbread, and both prove resourceful in training. Along with Colin, who has been training as a group leader, they will be sent to Southern France, where Emily will pose as the relative of widow Marie Ferrier, whose son is in the Maquis. Kit returns to England, to be met by Liz, though ...

Vivien, Emily and Colin parachute into France to be met by gruff Resistance leader Gordon, whose mood is not helped by the fact that Colin has fractured his ankle in the drop. Vivien poses as a nanny to her friend Juliet whilst Emily - who fears she is pregnant after sleeping with her boyfriend before leaving - moves in with Marie, arousing the suspicions of Marie's neighbour Annette. Colin panics when he finds a woman member of the Milice, the collaborators' army, set up to oppose the Resistance, searching his room and shoots her. Back in England, Liz turns down ...

Vivien and Gordon get rid of the 'Milice' woman's body as Colin escapes to Spain. As Cad and Faith consider who should replace him, Liz volunteers, having caught Laurence in bed with another woman and agreed to a divorce and custody of daughter Vicky. She also rows with Kit and they part on bad terms. Whilst Emily seeks an abortion, Vivien's reason for coming to France is revealed - nineteen years earlier she had a daughter whom she gave up for adoption and now asks local priest Father Giraud to help her trace her.

Liz arrives in France and takes control of a plot to raid the dock and disable a U-boat transmitter, helped by local contact Jeanne. Vivien goes to Toulon where she is told her daughter Yvette lives, only to find she is no longer there and her decision to act on her own angers Liz. Jeanne is forced to betray the operation to the German commander Voller but shouts a warning to the agents before she is shot dead and Gordon wounded. Colin, meanwhile,has made it back to London and is visited in hospital by Cad and Faith.

Gordon is smuggled home in a coffin and Cad decides to send a willing Kit back to France, though he warns him not to let his feelings for Liz get in the way. Vivien tracks down her daughter Yvette and visits her without admitting her identity but is dismayed to find she is a collaborator with a Wehrmarcht boyfriend. The Germans also discover Emily's transmitter in a barn and raid Marie's house. She is captured and her father killed though Liz and Emily manage to escape.

Discovering that Annette was the traitor who betrayed Marie and her father Emily intends to shoot her but Luc seems to have beaten her to it. Cad learns that his son has been killed in action as Kit arrives in France. Vivien's irresponsible behaviour, fraternising with Germans to be close to Yvette, causes Liz to request that she return to England, though Vivien intercepts the memo. Vivien tells Yvette that she is her mother, only to be rejected by her. However Vollen is suspicious of Vivien and arrests both the women.

Having successfully blown up a vital factory, Kit and Liz learn from Luc that Vivien and Yvette have been captured and ambush the car in which they are being taken. In the resultant confusion Voller accidentally kills Yvette and is himself shot dead by Luc. A grieving Vivien refuses to leave her dead daughter, thus jeopardising the lives of all the agents and Liz is forced to shoot her before she, Kit, Emily and Luc all escape.