Nancy observes wealthy playboy Henri Fiocca watching her from across the bar at a Paris café.

Nancy and photographer Frank Gilmore watch a Nazi officer whip a Jewish woman tied to a waterwheel in Vienna.

Nancy runs into Henri Fiocca at a tango bar in Marseille, where he dismisses his date to dance with her.

Nancy, Henri, and the hotel bar crowd hear Neville Chamberlain announce Britain's declaration of war on Germany.

Nancy and Henri marry at Marseille Town Hall and celebrate with a reception at their hotel ballroom.

Nancy drives a volunteer ambulance near the Belgian front, transporting refugees and the wounded for weeks.

Nancy meets Resistance operatives Ian Garrow and Patrick O'Leary and agrees to smuggle supplies and people.

Nancy learns that Ian Garrow has been arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Fort Saint-Nicholas.

Nancy bribes a prison guard with 500,000 francs and successfully frees Ian Garrow from the Mauzac camp.

Patrick O'Leary is arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau after meeting with the informant Roger le Neveu.

Nancy parachutes into France but her parachute snags in a tree; Resistance fighter Tardivat cuts her down.

Nancy and Hubert are welcomed by Maquis leader Henri Fournier at his château and begin establishing their base.

Nancy bicycles 500 kilometers through enemy-occupied territory to contact a radio operator in Châteauroux.

Nancy kills Obersturmführer Wolff with her bare hands in a hotel elevator during the Montluçon raid.

Antoine the bartender tells Nancy that her husband Henri Fiocca was killed while held in captivity.

This pool follows Nancy Wake's headline journey from a Paris journalist to one of the most effective agents in the French Resistance. It begins with her first glimpse of Henri Fiocca and her shocking firsthand exposure to Nazi brutality in Vienna, tracing her path through marriage, the outbreak of war, and her decision to fight back. Nancy builds her Resistance network in Marseille, rescuing allies and evading capture before being trained by the SOE and parachuted into occupied France. Embedded with the Maquis in Auvergne, she becomes a vital field commander, orchestrating supply drops, surviving German attacks, and riding 500 kilometers through enemy territory to keep her unit in contact with London. The pool ends with her killing the Nazi officer Wolff and returning to Marseille, only to learn the devastating price Henri paid for his loyalty to her.

Nancy Wake's most crucial acts of courage and resistance.

Nancy interviews Jewish refugee Jonas Lieberman about the Nazi violence he survived in Vienna.

Nancy and Frank Gilmore attend a Nazi rally in Berlin and are disturbed by the crowd's worship of Hitler.

Nancy's Vienna and Berlin exposé is published by Hearst without her byline, as the paper does not credit female journalists.

Henri puts Marceline in a taxi without joining her, then buys Nancy a French 75 cocktail at the bar.

Henri proposes marriage to Nancy at their favorite Marseille restaurant after two years of courtship.

Nancy covertly delivers fake identity documents to a Cannes hotel for Jewish refugees escaping France.

Nancy's ambulance truck breaks down near Belgium, forcing her to abandon the front and walk back to Marseille.

Henri returns to Marseille wounded from the Maginot Line, his arm in a sling.

Nancy runs into Stephanie in a Grenoble café and learns Stephanie and her husband are fleeing to Switzerland.

Vichy police arrest Nancy in Toulouse; O'Leary secures her release by claiming she is his mistress.

Marceline reveals Nancy's identity as the White Mouse to Police Commissioner Paquet, and Henri is arrested.

Nancy and a group of Resistance contacts trek through the Pyrenees mountains on foot into Spain.

Nancy tries to volunteer at de Gaulle's Free French Headquarters in London but is condescendingly turned away.

Nancy meets SOE head Maurice Buckmaster and passes a demanding series of psychological and physical assessments.

After a German attack destroys Gaspard's compound, his surviving troops join Nancy's camp and Gaspard accepts her terms.

This pool traces the supporting events and relationships that made Nancy Wake who she is, beginning with her early journalism in Paris and the encounters that fired her determination to fight the Nazis. It covers her courtship with Henri in more intimate detail, including his proposal and her agreement to move to Marseille and leave her career behind. As war arrives, Nancy takes on increasingly dangerous work — forging documents, driving ambulances, and navigating a city under occupation — while the people around her are tested and transformed. The pool follows her harrowing flight out of France over the Pyrenees and her frustrating first attempts to contribute to the fight from London, culminating in her formal recruitment by the SOE. Back in France, it closes with the pivotal moment when Gaspard, humbled by a devastating German attack on his own base, finally submits to Nancy's leadership.

The people and moments that shaped Nancy's path to war.

Nancy overhears Gaspard's plan to assault her and steal her money; she and Hubert flee the château on foot.

Henri and Nancy share their first kiss by the River Seine after a night out in Paris.

Gaspard arrives at an airdrop wearing a stolen Nazi uniform; Nancy forces his men to strip and leave in their underwear.

Henri's father and Marceline confront Nancy and Henri at Verdun's, making their opposition to the relationship clear.

Nancy and Hubert watch Obersturmführer Wolff torture and murder Olivia Soutine in a town square while her daughter looks on.

Nancy and Hubert steal a German bus from a raided transport and drive it back to use as mobile headquarters.

Nancy finds Gaspard torturing captured informant Roger le Neveu and holds a knife to Gaspard's throat to stop him.

Henri is drafted and says a tearful farewell to Nancy at the train station before deploying to the Maginot Line.

Nancy discovers that their expected contact Anselm is her SOE weapons trainer René Dusacq.

After Henri returns from the front wounded, Nancy confesses her espionage activities and he promises to buy her a bicycle.

News reaches the Maquis camp that Allied forces have landed in Normandy on D-Day.

Nancy alters a command order to appear from Koenig instead of de Gaulle, finally compelling Gaspard's troops to retreat.

Nancy interrogates Marceline in the Maquis camp and learns Marceline was sent by Paquet to assassinate her.

Marceline shoots Henri in his cell after he refuses to betray Nancy; that same night Nancy wakes screaming from a nightmare.

Nancy reunites with her SOE colleagues in London and learns that Patrick O'Leary survived his imprisonment at Dachau.

This pool focuses on the moments of revelation and decision that shift the course of the story, moving from the early sparks of Nancy and Henri's romance to the hard-won authority she earns in the Maquis. It captures the personal discoveries — a plan overheard in the dark, a colleague revealed in a safe house, a manipulated order that saves lives — alongside the emotional turning points that define Nancy and Henri's bond. As the Allied liberation draws closer, the pool traces the consequences of loyalty and betrayal: the execution of a spy, a falsified command, and Henri's murder at Marceline's hands. The climax reveals the true cost of their love — Henri dies refusing to betray Nancy, and she returns to a victorious but empty Marseille. The pool closes on a note of hard-won reunion, as Nancy learns that at least one comrade she feared lost has survived.