A Call to Spy (2019)

David Schaal: Colonel Gubbins

Quotes 

• Col. Maurice Buckmaster : We've spent years working on sabotage and subversion techniques. We know the best way to cut off Nazi access. We want to place small sabotage teams of three agents all over, one wireless each.

  Vera Atkins : Surprise, sabotage, vanish. Germans won't know what hit them.

  Christopher : We have experienced agents in the training facilities to implement the plan, but we need money.

  Col. Maurice Buckmaster : We've had no choice but to learn the hard way how to do this, trial and a lot of error. But I think it's fair to say we're experts now.

  Colonel Gubbins : We propose a joint operation, OSS and F Section agents working together, the Americans and the British side-by-side.

• Colonel Gubbins : Welcome to my Scottish country home. Not the type of place the Nazis would expect to be a spy training center, is it? Don't get too comfy. Many of you won't last the week. Now, what is the SOE? Affectionately, we call it our new ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. Here, we will train you in sabotage and subversion. Those who excel will go to France as spies. The rules, you've been given code names. Do not disclose your real name to anyone here. Each team's mission: acquire information, build resistance, and set France ablaze.

• Colonel Gubbins : Yours will be a lonely courage, but make no mistake. The intelligence you gather, the sabotage you set, the locals you recruit to resist will change the course of this war.