The meeting is cut short as the police arrive, Duval having been tipped off. Frank asks Simone to pass a document on to someone who turns out to be a member of the French resistance she learns that Frank is involved with them. A small fire in the radio room of the submarine requires Frank Strasser (Simone's brother) to replace the incumbent radio operator who was injured. Inspector Pierre Duval wants to detain him but Lüders says he can give him information to avoid this happening. Diesel-Maschinenmaat Pips Lüders gets into fight after a game of cards. The night before the crew are due to leave, they visit the local brothel and try to get Mechanikergast Thorsten Hecker to lose his virginity with a prostitute, as it is considered bad luck to have a virgin on board. Her boss, Gestapo Inspector Hagan Forster, is attracted to her. Simone Strasser arrives from Alsace to work at the Police HQ and billets with nurse Margot Bostal. In La Rochelle, U-612 is being readied for its first patrol under the inexperienced Captain Klaus Hoffmann, who gives evidence at the court-martial of a submariner accused of cowardice in the face of the enemy and attends the execution, where he performs a mercy killing. U-113 is surprised by an air attack and Captain Wrangel goes overboard whilst the boat is forced to dive, and sunk with all hands from depth charges by an American destroyer.
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