Content warning. This episode contains references to war crimes and sexual violence.

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True Spies.

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

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And there was this couple. She was in her wedding dress and he was in his tux.

They were stepping over the rubble. They were going to get married in the rubble there somehow.

As mortars were literally landing all around.

I'm Sophia Di Martina and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.

Balkan betrayals, part one, the correspondent.

In the underground car park of a concrete apartment block, the American kills his engine.

And if the security service happened to stumble across my car, even at that point,

they would probably assume that I'm in one of those apartment buildings and would spend the next three hours looking for me in there.

He leaves the block on foot, turning his leather jacket against the chill of Belgrade in November.

The locals use coal burners to stay warm and the pollution hangs heavy in the air.

They would toss the coal embers into the giant garbage dumpsters so you had that smell as well.

And so you just sort of turned gray and smelled gray and smelled like Belgrade after you're out on the street for a couple of hours.

As he walks, shadows flicker in his peripheral vision.

It's around 10 pm, the streets are quiet, but it never hurts to watch your back.

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