Virginia ends her engagement to an unfaithful man and chooses a life of adventure and travel over marriage.

During a snipe hunt in Smyrna, Virginia accidentally shoots her own left foot, leading to an amputation below the knee.

Suffering from a post-amputation infection, Virginia has a vision of her father Ned urging her it is her duty to survive.

Virginia becomes the first female agent in F Section after Nicolas Bodington vouches for her qualifications to SOE leadership.

Virginia arrives in Vichy France under cover as a New York Post journalist, tasked with building an intelligence network.

In Lyon, Virginia builds the Heckler circuit, recruiting Germaine Guerin's brothel network and other key local allies.

After German raids and arrests eliminate the local SOE network, Virginia becomes the only agent still able to contact London.

Virginia organizes the escape of twelve SOE agents from the Mauzac internment camp, her biggest operational victory to date.

Nazi commander Klaus Barbie posts thousands of wanted flyers across France naming Virginia the enemy's most dangerous spy.

Virginia makes an agonizing 5,000-foot climb through snow over the Pyrenees Mountains on her prosthetic leg to escape occupied France.

Virginia returns to occupied France working for the OSS, disguised as a peasant woman under the code name Diane.

After D-Day, Virginia travels hundreds of miles arming, training, and organizing guerrilla Resistance fighters across France.

Virginia's sabotage team blows up a critical railway bridge near Le Puy and drives a commandeered train into the wreckage.

After Germany surrenders, Virginia learns from Dr. Rousset that her nephews Allard and Leccia were executed at a death camp.

Virginia joins the CIA but is given menial, repetitive work far below her abilities and retires shortly after her 60th birthday.

Virginia Hall defied her mother's expectations and abandoned an engagement for a life of adventure, eventually losing her foot in a hunting accident that only deepened her resolve to serve a greater purpose. She became the first female agent of F Section and built a formidable spy network in Lyon even as German forces hunted her relentlessly. After organizing a dramatic prison escape and eluding Nazi commander Klaus Barbie's obsessive pursuit, she made an agonizing climb over the Pyrenees on her prosthetic leg to survive. She returned to France under the OSS, arming and organizing Resistance fighters in the lead-up to D-Day and executing major sabotage operations. Despite her pivotal role in liberating France, Virginia ended her career at the CIA performing menial work that did not reflect her extraordinary contributions to the war effort.

Virginia Hall's journey from adventurous rebel to legendary wartime spy.

Virginia studies at five European universities over seven years, including time in Paris and Vienna where she falls in love.

The Foreign Service rejects Virginia's diplomatic application and she moves to Warsaw to work as a clerk in the American embassy.

Virginia meets undercover British agent George Bellows in Spain, who successfully lobbies for her to join the SOE.

Virginia moves to Lyon and finds a bed at a convent where nuns become among her earliest Resistance recruits.

SOE agent Alain resents Virginia's leadership; Peter Churchill visits and confirms that Alain's reckless behavior is putting Virginia in danger.

French police arrest Virginia and Olive at a Lyon café, but both agents escape by climbing out through a window.

Escaped prisoner Gerry Morel knocks on Virginia's door and she helps him successfully flee to safety outside France.

An unusual music-hall entertainer named Denis Rake arrives in Lyon as an additional wireless operator to assist Virginia's network.

A suspicious priest named Robert Alesch visits Virginia, asks for a radio set and contacts, and she grows uneasy at his German accent.

Wireless operator Celestin is arrested and a message found on him reveals Marie as the leader of the Heckler circuit.

Virginia is arrested at a Spanish train station, smuggles a coded letter to Bodington from her cell, and secures her release.

Virginia attends the SOE's wireless school in Spain and trains herself to send and receive her own coded messages.

Virginia trains Colonel Vessereau's Resistance fighters in the Nièvre region, giving them the motto shoot, burn, destroy, and leave.

Virginia forms the Diane Irregulars, a guerrilla combat unit, alongside newly arrived OSS agents Henry Riley and Paul Goillot.

Virginia and OSS agent Paul Goillot become romantically involved during their unit's extended stay at a lakeside chateau.

Before entering espionage, Virginia navigated rejection by the Foreign Service and a series of diplomatic postings that sharpened her skills and determination. Once in Lyon, she built her network through unlikely alliances with nuns, brothel owners, and music-hall performers, while managing the reckless egos of male agents who resented her leadership. Her personal courage was tested in narrow escapes, from slipping out of a café window to smuggling a coded letter from a Spanish prison cell. After lying low in Spain and training herself to transmit wireless messages, she returned to France under the OSS and organized a new generation of guerrilla fighters. The mission culminated in the formation of the Diane Irregulars combat unit and a deepening romance with fellow OSS agent Paul Goillot.

The agents, allies, and close calls that shaped Virginia's spy network.

Virginia's father Ned dies of a heart attack, leaving the family finances in disarray and Virginia without her greatest supporter.

Virginia meets Dr. Rousset through Germaine; he creates a fake asylum safehouse and uses his medical practice to undermine German soldiers.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, publisher George Backer urges Virginia to leave France, but she defiantly refuses.

Virginia writes a despondent letter to Bodington admitting vulnerability, then chastises herself for the weakness and resolves to press forward.

Agent Ben Cowburn visits Virginia and warns her that her identity and location are almost certainly known to the Germans.

Virginia publishes her final New York Post article, announcing that Parisian Jews are now required to wear the yellow star.

It is revealed that the priest Robert Alesch is actually German double agent Agent Axel, passing Virginia's intelligence directly to the Abwehr.

Virginia's party is arrested by Spanish Civil Guards at a train station after crossing the Pyrenees as undocumented refugees.

The Gestapo arrests Dr. Rousset and tortures him for days after Virginia's departure, but he refuses to reveal her location.

Germaine Guerin is arrested by the Gestapo after Alesch systematically exposes Virginia's remaining network of contacts.

OSS representatives inquire about Virginia at MI5, discovering she is already known to them as a highly capable field agent.

German officers arrive at the farm where Virginia is transmitting; she hides her radio and they fail to see through her disguise.

RAF bombers successfully drop weapons, explosives, and supplies by parachute to Virginia's Resistance fighters at Le Chambon, fulfilling her guarantee.

Virginia rejects a public Distinguished Service Cross ceremony, insisting that a secret agent should receive no public recognition whatsoever.

Robert Alesch appears before a Paris court, is convicted of providing intelligence to the Nazis, and is executed by firing squad.

From her father's death to a spy's private admission of despair, the turning points in Virginia's story reveal a woman who constantly chose purpose over safety. Her refusal to leave France after Pearl Harbor and her fierce resolve after writing a despondent letter to her handler show the inner battles hidden behind her composure. The network she built was gradually dismantled by Robert Alesch, a German double agent posing as a priest who exposed her colleagues to arrest and torture one by one. Virginia herself narrowly escaped over the Pyrenees only to be captured at the Spanish border, while those closest to her paid a severe price in her wake. Her story closed not in public triumph but in quiet refusal — rejecting a medal ceremony, watching a traitor face a firing squad, and accepting that the world would never fully know what she had sacrificed.

The revelations, betrayals, and defining choices that tested Virginia at every turn.