Were you listening in to that call?
- Not "listening in" so much as "checking."
Ah.
We're all being encouraged to be on the lookout for the "out of the ordinary."
And what I'm doing is ensuring the caller is the person they say they are and not a spy of some kind.
- Oh, I wasn't aware German spies were expected in Cheshire.
3,000 Czech soldiers in the village, Mrs.
Simms.
What about them?
Who's to say they're all Czech?
Who's saying they're not?
Can you tell the difference between a Czech accent and a German one?
Are you seriously suggesting that 3,000 German soldiers have snuck into the country by pretending to be Czech and no one's noticed?
I'm saying we shouldn't assume anything is as it seems anymore.
So snooping... Not snooping.
Checking.
So checking in on calls is, in your mind, a first line of defense.
If you got a telephone call at home from your husband to say he's on his way back... - We don't have a telephone at home.
Let's say you can afford one.
Let us say that.
- And he telephoned to say he's on his way home, and I stayed on the line for a little bit, I could verify the man on the line really was Mr.
Simms, and not a German spy pretending to be him.
- By his accent.
Exactly!
Have you heard from Mr.
Simms at all?
- No, not yet.
And I suppose he's not actually fighting, is he?
Just sitting behind the lines, writing about fighting.
Yes.
(switchboard clicks) Writing about fighting.
Number, please.
