Spy City: Difference between revisions
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'''''Spy City''''' is a British-German-Czech drama television series written by William Boyd. Berlin in 1961, the construction of the Berlin Wall is about to begin. Berlin is ruled by the four occupying powers; the British MI6, the French SDECE, the Soviet KGB, and the U.S. CIA have their agents stationed all over the city and several double agents have been recruited in all four intelligence services. British Fielding Scott, an agent of MI6, is supposed to escort an East German scientist across the border, but he is killed just before he escapes, along with his family. From now on, Scott has the task of finding the traitor in his own ranks who betrayed that the scientist wants to defect. At the same time, he must avoid a wrong decision on his part triggering a nuclear first strike of the opposite side.
'''''Spy City''''' is a British-German-Czech drama television series written by William Boyd. Berlin in 1961, the construction of the Berlin Wall is about to begin. Berlin is ruled by the four occupying powers; the British MI6, the French SDECE, the Soviet KGB, and the U.S. CIA have their agents stationed all over the city and several double agents have been recruited in all four intelligence services. British Fielding Scott, an agent of MI6, is supposed to escort an East German scientist across the border, but he is killed just before he escapes, along with his family. From now on, Scott has the task of finding the traitor in his own ranks who betrayed that the scientist wants to defect. At the same time, he must avoid a wrong decision on his part triggering a nuclear first strike of the opposite side.
'''The following weapons can be seen in the miniseries ''Spy City'':'''
Spy City is a British-German-Czech drama television series written by William Boyd. Berlin in 1961, the construction of the Berlin Wall is about to begin. Berlin is ruled by the four occupying powers; the British MI6, the French SDECE, the Soviet KGB, and the U.S. CIA have their agents stationed all over the city and several double agents have been recruited in all four intelligence services. British Fielding Scott, an agent of MI6, is supposed to escort an East German scientist across the border, but he is killed just before he escapes, along with his family. From now on, Scott has the task of finding the traitor in his own ranks who betrayed that the scientist wants to defect. At the same time, he must avoid a wrong decision on his part triggering a nuclear first strike of the opposite side.
The following weapons were used in the miniseries Spy City:
A suppressed Webley & Scott Metropolitan Police pistol is used by double agent Mr. S. Haldane (Aleš Košnar) in Ep. 01 "Operation Beethoven". The female assassin Friedericke Stahl (Eugenia Kuzmina) in Ep. 04 "The Flower Market" also uses (possibly the same) Webley & Scott pistol to kill Fielding Scott who also makes use of this pistol.
The East-German Stasi agent called Leatherjacket (Vaclav Jiracek) confronts Fielding Scott and Manfred Ziegler (Wanja Mues) with a Tokarev TT-33 in Ep. 01 "Operation Beethoven".
Fielding Scott's (Dominic Cooper) duty sidearm is a Walther PP which he uses in Ep. 01 "Operation Beethoven", Ep. 05 "Dark Imaginings" and Ep. 06 "The Wall".
Near the end of Ep. 02, a Beretta M1934 is seen lying in the case of a French hitman. Another suppressed Beretta is seen with an MI6 operator in Ep. 05 "Dark Imaginings".
The Soviet General Victor Kovrin (Mark Zak) is seen with a Makarov PM in Ep. 03. An assassin is seen using a suppressed Makarov in Ep. 04 and in Ep. 06 during a flashback. Kovrin's adjutant (Anton Tataru) draws a Makarov in Ep. 06 "The Wall".
East German Volkspolizei and some members of Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse (Combat Groups of the Working Class; a paramilitary organization in the GDR) can be seen carrying PPD-40s.
British troops are armed with L1A1 SLRs, the British variant of the FN FAL. It can be seen in every episode; notably with two soldiers standing in front of the British HQ in West Berlin.
