A true story of espionage, surveillance, and political paranoia, where information proves deadly.

In late 16th-century England, a queen stands at the center of Europe’s most dangerous secrets.

This episode traces the shadowed world of Elizabethan conspiracy through the lives of Francis Throckmorton, Anthony Babington, and Sir Francis Walsingham, men operating at the edges of power during one of England’s most unstable eras.