And Lucy, frustrated by her husband's drunkenness and refusal to love, becomes attracted to him. The Needle pretends to be merely a lost sailor.
David had been a Royal Air Force commander, but he was paralyzed as a result of an automobile accident on their wedding day. Lucy is frustrated, mired in a loveless marriage with her emotionally damaged husband. Storm Island is isolated and occupied only by a lighthouse-keeper and by a young married couple, a woman (Kate Nelligan), her partially paralyzed husband David (Christopher Cazenove), their son, and their shepherd, Tom. In his attempt to return to Germany with the information, the Needle travels by boat to an area off the coast of Scotland, intending to rendezvous with a German U-boat, but a fierce storm strands him on the nearby Storm Island. Hitler has summoned Faber to come brief him about the Allied invasion plans in person. The Needle manages to remain in Britain until the eve of D-Day in 1944, when he learns that the D-Day invasion is to take place on Normandy, and he discovers phony plywood "airplanes" intended to look, from the air, like Patton's invasion force, but it's a ruse to throw off the Germans. Perhaps none of these experiences fully explains his isolation and ruthlessness, but maybe it's just part of being a spy. He was raised by parents who did not love him, he was shipped off to boarding schools, and he spent parts of his childhood in America, where he learned English. He kills with a singular lack of passion, and will kill even the most innocent of bystanders if he thinks they might somehow threaten his objective, or just get in the way. He is known as the Needle because of his trademarked way of killing people by jabbing a stiletto into their rib cages.
The Needle dropped out of sight in Germany in 1938 and now inhabits a series of drab bed-sitting-rooms in England while he spies on the British war effort. A man calling himself Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland) is actually "the Needle," a German spy in England during World War II.
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