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13 Episodes 1978 - 1978
Episode 1
Lifeline is ordered to prevent an officer's interrogation at any cost.

Episode 2
In the aftermath of the disaster in Saint-Nazaire, Lifeline is forced to help Russian evaders as well as the Allies.

Episode 3
Lifeline is landed with a very special agent and a wounded Polish engineer from Peenemunde.
Episode 4
Monique is injured whilst on a trip to France.

Episode 5
Natalie's new love Francois and a group of evaders are passengers on a train that is due to be bombed.

Episode 6
Brandt's wife Erika visits him in Brussels. She is frightened of the British air raids at home. Brandt tells her that his work there fighting the escape line will soon be done, as Lifeline has been penetrated by a German agent. Their cleaner overhears this and tells Albert. Lifeline ponders eliminating all nineteen hidden airmen for security. However, Max and Dr Keldermans propose that Natalie's uncle Hans Van Broecken (a German First World War deserter) might be able to identify the man. Despite disliking Albert he is persuaded to help. Eventually they trick the German into revealing himself because of his fighting skills, and he is killed, against Hans's wishes.

Episode 7
Two American airmen take members of Lifeline and Kessler hostage. Meanwhile, Kessler has seized three major Dutch masterpieces held by a convent of nuns.

Episode 8
An attempt is made to enlist Major Brandt into von Stauffenberg's plot to kill Hitler. The British carpet bomb Berlin.

Episode 9
A British Wing Commander suffers severe facial burns when his plane is shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Belgium. The British want him returned, but his face risks being noticed by the Germans. Some makeup is enough for him to reach Paris accompanied by Natalie, but Monique believes he should pose as a woman if he is not to be discovered during the rest of the journey. He successfully travels down the escape line to Spain. In Brussels, Madeleine faces isolation because of her affair with Kessler, although she finds Monique a surprisingly good listener. The Candide is threatened by terrorists for their supposed collaboration, and the Gestapo briefly take Albert into custody.

Episode 10
Approaching Christmas, Lifeline receives a list of demands from a group of orphaned children who have a hidden Group Captain. The man is drifting in and out of consciousness. Albert is worried that it might be a German trap, but the man is handed over to Lifeline disguised as a St Nicolas dummy in a pram. Meanwhile, Brandt gets into an argument with Kessler over the abominable atrocities taking place in Eastern Europe.

Episode 11
Francois is determined to retrieve an airman from the Communist resistance while Max plots his betrayal.

Episode 12
Brandt's continuing grief over losing his wife leads him to drink heavily, to Kessler's concern. He develops a crush on Monique. While Alain has to hide two airmen, a neighbouring farmer finds an injured German fighter pilot on his land. He turns out to be one of Germany's leading airmen, flying a prototype night fighter unknown to the Allies. Max is dispatched to sketch it, and the British wish to capture the German airman for his information. Max suggests that he and the Communists transport the airman to the French coast, where he might be picked up by a British motor launch in exchange for weapons. Albert now has information confirming Max's involvement in François's death, and arranges for Max to be killed, along with his comrades.

Episode 13
Lifeline helps a Belgian pilot who has escaped from the Gestapo headquarters, while Kessler learns of Brandt's involvement in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler.
