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October 13th, 1943.

Noor Inayat Khan steps out of her apartment building on the Rue de la Fessandre in central Paris.

It's a cold, sunny morning.

The sun is rising, the shadows shrinking, but Khan is tired.

Ever since she arrived in France, she's been losing friends and colleagues to Gestapo arrests.

The collapse of the Prosper Spy Network has left Britain's Special Operations Executive

almost totally blind in Paris.

Only her radio transmissions provide London with fleeting glimpses into the occupied city. This is Khan's last day in Paris.

Tomorrow she will catch the train to the airfield,

where, under the cover of darkness, she'll fly back to the safety of Britain.

One day to kill. One day to survive.

Khan pauses in front of a shop window and checks her appearance in the glass. one day to survive.

Kahn pauses in front of a shop window and checks her appearance in the glass.

In the new blue trouser suit, she looks like a model secretary.

She checks the scene behind her in the reflection.

A stocky man passes.

Then a woman with a pram.

Satisfied, K continues walking. A car exhaust backfires,

sending pigeons scattering into the sky. Khan flinches, then regains her composure. Next left,

she decides. As she turns the corner, she looks over her left shoulder, her training now as instinctive as breath. She sees them immediately. Two men, tall, unmistakably

Gestapo, unmistakably tailing her.

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