Foyle's War

16 episodes have been filmed, aired, and are available for purchase on DVD. The 3 final episodes of the series are currently in production.

A synopsis of each episode (provided in the sections that follow) is adapted from information provided by ITV, PBS, Acorn Media, and other online sources. Original air dates are those in the UK.

Episode 1: The German Woman
Episode 2: The White Feather
Episode 3: A Lesson in Murder
Episode 4: Eagle Day
Episode 5: Fifty Ships
Episode 6: Among the Few
Episode 7: War Games
Episode 8: The Funk Hole
Episode 9: The French Drop
Episode 10: Enemy Fire
Episode 11: They Fought in the Fields
Episode 12: War of Nerves
Episode 13: Invasion
Episode 14: Bad Blood
Episode 15: Bleak Midwinter
Episode 16: Casualties of War
Episode 17: Plan of Attack
Episode 18: Broken Souls
Episode 19: All Clear

For the most part, there are 4 recurring characters in Foyle's War.

Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle is played by Michael Kitchen (IMDB). His confident, understated, and measured performance of the Hastings police officer is magnificant.

Foyle's assistant is Sergeant Paul Milner (IMDB) played by Anthony Howell.

Honeysuckle Weeks (IMDB) plays his driver Samantha Stewart, who often has a critical role in solving the cases.

Finally, Foyle's son, Andrew, a RAF pilot who makes an appearance in about half of the episodes, is played by Julian Ovenden (IMDB).

The entire series of Foyle's War, 19 episodes, is available on DVD, 4 episodes per DVD set for the first four sets, the final 3 episodes on the fifth set.

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Foyle's War
Set 1

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As World War Two rages over Europe, one man fights his own battle against murder, mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England.

It is May 1940 and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) feels his skills would be better used aiding the war effort than investigating domestic crime in Sussex. His boss, Assistant Commissioner Summers (Edward Fox) disagrees and sends him back to Hastings, offering him help instead, in the form of cheerful driver Samantha Stewart (Honeysuckle Weeks).

The first bombs are falling. Paranoia and anti-Nazi feeling are growing amid the rationing and nightly blackouts and Foyle soon finds himself investigating a scam to avoid enlistment. Meanwhile, an elderly couple, German Thomas Kramer (David Horovitch) and his English wife Elsie (Elizabeth Bell) are arrested in the middle of the night at their cottage in the village of Lower Fenton. They are declared 'enemy aliens' and interned, causing Elsie to suffer a fatal heart attack.

The Kramers' nephew, Mark Andrews (Benedict Sandiford) seeks help from local landowner and magistrate Henry Beaumont (Robert Hardy). When Henry appears disinterested in the case, Mark loses his temper, asking why Beaumont's wife, Greta (Joanna Kanska) - a German - is still enjoying her freedom.

As Foyle prepares to bid farewell to his son Andrew (Julian Ovenden), who is going to train as an RAF pilot, his investigation leads him to The Bell pub and hotel, run by landlord Ian Judd (Philip Whitchurch). But as he tries to question Judd, an air raid warning sounds and a stray bomb drops, killing barmaid Tracey Stephens (Nancy Lodder).

The next day, Greta is brutally murdered while out riding her horse and a swastika is found carved into a nearby tree.

Foyle needs an assistant and chooses Paul Milner (Anthony Howell), a former police sergeant who has been badly wounded at Trondheim. The two begin their investigation - and soon discover plenty of people had reason to kill Greta.

Foyle's War
Set 1

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Detective Sergeant Paul Milner is adjusting to life as Foyle's assistant after losing his leg at Trondheim. He is drawn to the oration of the charismatic Guy Spencer (Charles Dance), a prominent member of the pro-Hitler organisation, The Friday Club.

Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle is asked by Chief Superintendent Hugh Reid (Michael Simkin) to interview Edith Johnstone (Lisa Ellis), a girl accused of sabotage near a military camp. It's a hangable offence but Edith seems defiant. She boldly tells Foyle she will have the last laugh, crudely raising one hand in a faint echo of a fascist salute.

The investigation leads to The White Feather Hotel, where Edith was a chambermaid, and to her sweetheart David Lane (Ed Waters) and his father Ian (Ian Hogg), both local fishermen.

A domineering woman called Margaret Ellis (Maggie Steed) runs The White Feather. She hosts a social gathering of prominent people who all sympathize with The Friday Club ideals. Rosemary Harwood (Rebecca Charles), who works in Lord Halifax's office, also attends the occasion. She has with her a letter stolen from the War Office that could seriously damage the war effort.

A talk at the hotel with Guy Spencer as guest speaker comes to an abrupt end when Margaret Ellis is shot in the darkness of a power cut. Was the killer aiming for Spencer? Is David Lane seeking revenge for the 'brainwashing' of Edith, or is someone looking for retribution for Isaac Wolf?

As Foyle and Milner unravel the interwoven evils of the The Friday Club, Milner is forced to confront his own attitude and his allegiance to Foyle. The climax brings a tragedy of its own, with the events of Dunkirk and the bravery of those who go to rescue the stranded soldiers.

Foyle's War
Set 1

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David Beale (Nicholas Audsley), a conscientious objector, dies in police custody. A brick bearing a threat is thrown through the window of Gascoigne (Oliver Ford Davies), the tribunal judge who had him arrested and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle begins an enquiry.

However, when Joe (Gregg Prentice), a young evacuee staying with Gascoigne, becomes the victim of a grenade booby-trap at the summerhouse, the investigation turns to murder. Foyle and Detective Sergeant Milner suspect someone is out for revenge and go through Gascoigne's cases for clues.

An imperious man in his late fifties, Gascoigne lives in a grand house with his intensely reserved wife Emily (Cheryl Campbell) and their daughter Susan (Sophia Myles). Susan has been banned from having a romantic alliance with Peter Buckingham (Elliot Cowan), because Gascoigne considers him beneath his daughter's station.

Foyle's enquiries lead him to the factory where Peter works. But when he is barred from the site - which apparently makes munitions - he becomes suspicious.

Sam Stewart, Foyle's driver, becomes friendly with Tony (Danny Dyer), an English-Italian waiter who works in his father's restaurant, where Foyle frequently eats. Tony confides in her that he has joined up, so she is shocked when he is found prowling around Gascoigne's house with his acquaintance Jack Winters (Christopher Fox).

Milner is sent as a bodyguard to Gascoigne but he is dismissed when he is accused of being caught in a compromising position with Susan. Within hours there's another murder.

Could the death of the young evacuee be a smokescreen for a maze of family conflict and prejudice against pacifists? And what is the real work of the factory?

Foyle's War
Set 1

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Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle and Detective Sergeant Milner are called to investigate the discovery of a stabbed body found in the aftermath of a bombing raid. The dead man is identified as Graham Davies (Tom Bowles) and the one lead is a gold locket he was clutching in his hand.

Andrew, Foyle's RAF pilot son, returns from his training. He is posted to Hastings in a Top Secret operation that tests his prowess as a Spitfire pilot against the new RDF system - radar.

As he becomes part of the team, Andrew realizes that all is not well - and that the unease among the girls who work as plotters at the radar station has something to do with the senior officers, Wing Commander Keller (Anthony Calf) and Group Captain Graeme (Roger Allam) - and with an event that took place some months before.

Foyle and Milner's enquiries reveal Davies was a lorry driver for the Whittington Gallery in London. The gallery has removed its priceless collection to the safety of a Welsh mine, using a meticulous checking system which seems to eliminate the possibility of theft.

Milner eventually traces the locket to Harold Smith (Geoffrey Hutchings) and his wife Enid (Eileen Davies). It belonged to their dead daughter Lucy, who served with the WAAF, and they claim it was stolen from their Eastbourne house a few weeks earlier.

Sam Stewart has to deal with the arrival of her father, the Reverend Iain (Stephen Moore). He has decided to put a stop to her work as Foyle's driver and take her home.

Events build to a climax when Andrew is arrested for treason and Foyle has to find him, torn between his desire to help his son and his duty as a policeman. A second murder complicates matters further and, as the truth emerges, Hitler begins his Eagle Day bombing raids %u2026

Foyle's War
Set 2

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Sam is made homeless when a bomb decimates her boarding house, alerting Foyle to a system of organized looting around Hastings. But when the father of one of the suspected looters is found dead on the beach, Foyle and Milner's investigation brings them into conflict with British efforts to secure vital American aid for the war.

A bomb decimates Sam's boarding house and Foyle investigates the looting of some valuable items belonging to Sam's battle-axe landlady, Mrs Harrison. When he uncovers a system of organized looting around Hastings, the signs all point to a gang of pilfering Auxiliary Fire Service volunteers.

One night, while Foyle is dining with his one-time love Elizabeth, a local man, Richard Hunter, the father of one of the suspected looters, dies on the beach from a single gunshot to the head. Many think his death is suicide - he was, after all, a hopeless, bitter alcoholic. But Foyle isn't so sure.

Perhaps Hunter was planning to shop the gang to the police? Did they silence him? The deeper Foyle digs, however, the more intriguing the clues become. Could there possibly be a link between the miserably failed Englishman, Richard Hunter, and the eminently wealthy and successful American industrialist, Howard Paige, who has arrived to give a talk about an American group's policies to aid Britain's war effort?

The answers seem to lie buried deep in the past, in a supposedly more innocent age, amidst Oxford's dreaming spires. They involve a close friendship, a terrible betrayal and a strange cone-shaped piece of metal. In his attempt to bring a surprising murderer to justice, Foyle enters increasingly murky waters and must rely on the integrity of a German spy.

Ultimately, high-powered political forces over which Foyle has no control wade in when this small town murder investigation puts at risk the vital donation of American aid and the crucial start of Land-Lease in the war.

Foyle's War
Set 2

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As Andrew Foyle takes to the skies for dangerous sorties over Germany, Sam goes undercover at a fuel depot to track down the culprits behind an illicit fuel racket. But just as Sam is about to point the finger at Connie, another driver, the girl is found dead. Sexual indiscretions and racketeering - plus links to Andrew - combine to make this a delicate case for Foyle.

When Foyle and Sam are shot at and almost run over by a speeding vehicle, they inadvertently uncover an illicit fuel racket. In an attempt to track down the culprits, Sam eagerly goes undercover at the local fuel depot run by Michael Bennett, using her mechanical training to pose as a newly recruited tanker driver.

Making friends with another female driver, Connie, Sam is introduced to a whirl of dances, make-up and men. Sam is surprised when she discovers that one of the young men in Connie's little group is Foyle's son, Andrew. Alongside his best friend Rex, Andrew is now an active pilot and does regular scrambles over to Germany.

Soon Sam thinks she's discovered the source of the petroleum thievery: Connie. But before anything can be done, Connie is discovered - dead.

As Foyle sets out to uncover the reasons for her demise, he must untangle not only a complex crime network of racketeering and illicit fuel trading, but also an intricate interpersonal network of sexual indiscretion, illegitimate pregnancy and homosexuality.

There are even some suggestions that Andrew himself may be involved in Connie's murder. Of course, Foyle trusts that his son is innocent - but how can he help him if Andrew refuses to tell the truth?

Foyle's War
Set 2

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At the London head quarters of a multinational company a young secretary plummets to her death. In Hastings, Foyle is busy acting as a police referee for a series of large-scale Home Guard manoeuvres. When a member of the Home Guard is killed, Foyle and Milner discover some people will do anything to protect trading links with the Nazis.

When Foyle arrives at the ransacked country home of a wealthy industrialist, Sir Reginald Walker, at first it appears that this is just another case of domestic burglary - though Foyle is not so sure. Then, Harry Markham, a member of the Home Guard, is shot and killed during a large-scale exercise on the Sussex Downs, where Foyle is acting as police referee. Is it simply a tragic accident?

Once again, Foyle is not convinced - particularly after discovering that his old barrister friend Stephen Beck, a German socialist and 'naturalized Briton', had met with the murdered man only days before his death. To make matters even more disconcerting Foyle also encounters his old police sergeant, Jack Devlin, now an officer in the army - it's immediately clear that the two of them share a troubled history.

Employing whatever means he has at his disposal to gather information - even enlisting the aid of local children who are collecting salvage - Foyle moves from the small-scale sordid world of burglary and petty criminals into the much larger, and dirtier, world of international finance.

As he learns that many big corporations continue to trade with the Nazis, Foyle realizes, to his disgust, that money talks a universal language - even during the war.

Foyle's War
Set 2

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London is in the grip of The Blitz. Back in Hastings the disappearance of a young boy and a break-in at a local food depot lead Foyle and his team to nearby Brookfield Court - a 'funk hole' or hotel catering for long-term guests in wartime. What they discover there is a viper's nest of cowardice, greed and deceit%u2026

In their efforts to find young Mathew Farley, who has disappeared, Milner and Sam interview a number of 'guests' from London, quietly sitting out the war up at Brookfield Court. They're an unpleasant bunch playing tennis and indulging themselves - seemingly oblivious to the massive war effort going on around them.

Milner's convinced that there's something dubious happening at the house but he can't prove anything. Then, just when Mathew Farley's body is uncovered in the nearby woods, Foyle is suddenly taken off the case and placed under house arrest, accused of sedition and spreading disaffection.

Detective Chief Inspector Collier arrives from London to investigate the charges. Milner soon realizes that he may have to risk his own police career if he is to remain loyal to Foyle. Sam also faces divided loyalties when she embarks on a secret romance with Foyle's son, Andrew.

Finally, when a town councillor, Frank Vaudrey, is murdered in the summerhouse at Brookfield Court, Foyle must use all his mental resources to solve this new murder and to prove his own innocence. Surprisingly, the route leads him back to London - where the discovery of a heartbreaking wartime tragedy provides Foyle with all the answers that he needs.

Foyle's War
Set 3

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English agent Facteur is killed when he steps on a mine after landing in the French countryside.

Foyle arrives at the Admiralty to see his brother-in-law Commander Howard, hoping he can get him a job heading up a new naval command center in Liverpool. Howard first tries to calm a bitter row between Major General Sir Giles Messinger of MI5 and Lieutenant James Wintringham, who is angry that Messinger has been spying on his competing institution, the Special Operations Executive.

Wintringham returns to the SOE headquarters and is desperate that news of Facteur's death does not reach Messinger and MI5.

In Hastings, Foyle and Milner, whose marriage is breaking up, arrest a shopkeeper who is dealing on the black market. There's an explosion next to his shop and police find the charred remains of a young man. Although it looks like suicide, Foyle has his doubts, especially as the man was carrying a gold watch inscribed with a date.

The watch is traced to William Messinger, son of Sir Giles, who refuses to accept his son's death could be anything other than suicide. But his wife Anne confides to Foyle that William seemed afraid. He was working with a young Pole called Jan Komorowski at Hill House.

Foyle and Sam head for Hill House. Sam's uncle Aubrey is the local vicar and tells them of strange happenings in the churchyard. Foyle goes to Hill House and learns that the SOE is a new Top Secret intelligence organisation engaged in the art of dirty warfare. Hill House trains secret agents in murder and deception.

As Foyle interviews members of the SOE including shady ex-con Maccoby, Sam conducts her own investigations into the disturbances at her uncle's churchyard, tracking down a mysterious bald man and discovering a map of France hidden in a phone box.

But when Sam picks up Foyle from Hill House, the car spins out of control and they crash. What is the truth about these secret organisations and what really happened to William and Facteur? What Foyle discovers affects his future career.

Foyle's War
Set 3

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Dashing surgeon Patrick Jamieson takes over Digby Manor to house his medical unit treating burned airmen, but not everyone is happy with the situation. Sir Michael Waterford, a veteran of the last war and his housekeeper Mrs Roecastle are forced to leave their home, and military doctor Group Captain Lawrence Smythe disapproves of Patrick's brilliant but unconventional methods.

Det Chief Supt Christopher Foyle marks the anniversary of his wife's death with a visit to her grave, but his son Andrew, a spitfire pilot, doesn't turn up. He is told to take weekend leave after a heated argument with Drake, a lazy member of the RAF ground crew. Andrew goes out with Sam on a date but his mood does not improve.

Jamieson's protégé Dr Wrenn tells Foyle that someone is trying to sabotage their work at Digby Manor. He accuses Sir Michael, who also seems to have some difficult history with Drake. Meanwhile Smythe is getting increasingly incensed by Jamieson's unconventional attitude and threatens to close the unit. But as he leaves, a huge statue falls from the roof nearly crushing him.

Andrew is restless, especially when young airman Greville Woods is sent on a risky night flying mission instead of him. Then Greville crash lands Andrew's spitfire and suffers serious burns.

When the patients of Digby Manor perform a revue, Dr Wrenn appears looking muddy and shaken. Later that night Drake is found murdered nearby. His battered wife Beryl pleads her innocence, as does Dr Wrenn, who recently discovered his wife Mary was having an affair with Drake.

As Foyle and Milner hunt for the murderer, a cache of drugs go missing from the hospital. Then the case turns personal for Foyle when Andrew, who hated Drake, goes AWOL.

Foyle's War
Set 3

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A German plane crash lands in the Hastings countryside. Foyle and Milner capture two airmen, Sabartovski and Schimmel, and they are handed over to the imperious Major Cornwall who works for the POW interrogation service.

Nearby on Hugh Jackson's farm a brand new tractor has been delivered to the delight of the land girls, Rose and Joan - but rival farmer Curling is bitterly jealous. Jackson's son Tom and the girls are up to something but keep their activities secret from Barbara, a pole selector staying at the farm.

The next morning, Jackson is discovered shot dead in his armchair. Another German, Weiser, is found nearby, his parachute caught in a tree. His pistol is missing, but before Foyle and Milner have a chance to interview him, Cornwall takes him away.

Foyle discovers a bra in Jackson's bedroom. It is found to be Barbara's but everyone at the farm is a likely suspect. Foyle also learns that Tom's mother ran away with a farm hand, Andrew Neame, when he was a child. Keen to do her bit to help the war effort - and perhaps find out some inside information - Sam goes to work at the farm.

At the POW camp, Schimmel seems concerned that Weiser will soon be well enough to leave the sanatorium. A Luger pistol is found at the farm and Weiser tells Foyle that a woman matching Barbara's description took it while he was stuck in the tree.

Foyle questions Barbara in the woods while Milner finds a pig in a freshly dug grave. They also encounter a mysterious man whom Foyle guesses is Neame. Rose and Joan are arrested in connection with meat profiteering and Rose admits she is pregnant with Hugh Jackson's child. Meanwhile Schimmel and Sabartovski are caught trying to escape from the camp.

Neame denies running away with Mrs Jackson - but where is she? Can Sam find the answer at the farm? And can Foyle and Milner discover the truth about the German prisoners of war before it is too late?

Foyle's War
Set 3

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Sam is drinking in a local pub when Jack Archer, a Royal Engineer from the bomb disposal unit, drunkenly pulls out a gun. Assistant Commissioner Rose tells Foyle to keep an eye on dangerous communist agitator Raymond Carter, who has come to Hastings with his fiancée, painter Lucinda Sheridan.

Milner is working undercover in a fake builders yard set up by the police to try and catch the men behind an organized crime racket. A man called Ian Kimble furtively offers Milner petrol and hardware.

Sergeant Rivers asks Sam to put in a good word for Jack Archer with the magistrate because he's engaged to his daughter Gwen. Meanwhile Jack and his colleagues Earnest Jones and Captain Hammond diffuse a bomb in a school playground.

When Milner tries to arrest Kimble he is shot in the arm. Foyle goes to the docks and shipyard bosses Mark and Peter Talbot tell him Kimble works in the stockroom. But when Foyle goes to Kimble's home address, he finds it doesn't exist.

Carter attacks Foyle for snooping on him but Lucinda explains how passionately Carter cares for the workers and how deeply committed he is to the People's Convention.

Back at the shipyard there's a bombing raid. A bomb falls into a building but doesn't explode. Archer, Hammond and Jones are called in - and discover thousands of pounds scattered over the floor. They take the bomb from the shipyard and go to the pub with their newfound cash, but when Earnest leaves, he is abducted.

Rose tells Foyle to investigate Carter's relationship with the Turner brothers' shop steward Derek Woodgate. Foyle finds incriminating photographs of the shipyard in Carter's hotel room - but then discovers from Woodgate that only 200 men work at the yard, while the Talbot brothers have been receiving wages for 400.

When Earnest Jones' murdered body is found, Hammond blames the Turners and goes to offer them a deal. Will the detectives find the cash and the bomb before it's too late? And can Foyle discover the truth about Carter and the shipyard?

Foyle's War
Set 4

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The first American GIs arrive near Hastings - their orders to build an aerodrome and camp on farmland that has been requisitioned for the task. Landowner David Barrett is hostile towards Captain John Kieffer of the 215th Engineers, while his men are busy checking out the local girls.

Milner goes for a drink at the Wheatsheaf pub with Will Grayson, who saved his life at Trondheim and is back in Hastings on leave. Will returns home much later, drunk, and when fire breaks out in his house, he dies in his locked bedroom. Milner is upset by the tragedy and decides to investigate.

Kieffer asks Foyle to appease Barrett and Foyle is caught between the need to make the Americans welcome and calming local fears about this seeming invasion by the Yanks. Kieffer also asks him to give a talk to his men in return for trying his tournament quality fishing rod. Meanwhile GI Joe Farnetti asks Sam for a date.

Barmaid Susan Davies has a secret affair with young American soldier James Taylor, even though she's engaged to Barrett's nephew. Her boss, Alan Carter, is very anxious about Will's death. He and Susan are running an illicit whisky distillery from the pub.

Sam is upset by a letter from Andrew Foyle and decides to go with Joe to a dance at the American base. A distraught Taylor tells his moody sergeant O'Connor that Susan is pregnant.

On the night of the dance, Barrett's nephew Ben returns home. In the midst of the crowded hall, Taylor is taken ill, then Susan is found strangled, with Taylor's identity tags in her clenched fist.

The GIs close ranks and with Anglo-American relations stretched to breaking point, Foyle is told by the War Office to tread carefully. But his determination to find the truth about Susan's death forces him to break government orders. Was it Taylor who killed the unfaithful barmaid or has he been framed? As Foyle investigates, Milner also discovers what happened to his friend Will.

Foyle's War
Set 4

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A mysterious bomb is dropped in deserted, barren land and smoke envelopes a cage of sheep. Later, a dead sheep falls out of a van into a country lane.

GI Joe Farnetti shocks Sam by proposing to her, while Milner is also surprised by a plea for help from his one-time love Edith Ashford. Edith's brother Martin, a Quaker and conscientious objector, has been accused of murdering war hero Tom Jenkins. Jenkins served with the Royal Navy and saved his men when a convoy of ships was attacked by Germans. He was honored by the King. The case is outside Foyle's jurisdiction but he agrees to visit DCS Fielding, a former army colleague.

Vet Ted Cartwright, whose son Leonard was also on the besieged ship, is called out to Foxhall Farm, where Brian Jones' cows have gone down with a mysterious illness.

Fielding reluctantly lets Foyle look into his murder case. Tom Jenkins and Martin Ashford argued violently and arranged to meet on the beach to settle their differences. Jenkins was killed and his blood was found on Ashford's clothing, with a knife in woodland nearby. Ashford claims he is innocent but won't talk to the police. The evidence is mounting against him but Foyle realizes he's not being told everything.

Meanwhile, the sick cows disappear from Foxhall Farm - where Ashford works. Jones seems more upset about their theft than either Ashford's arrest or the death of Jenkins - his son in law. Fielding gives Foyle the murder weapon - a trocar, used by vets. It belongs to Ted Cartwright.

Sam and Jenkins' widow Elsie are both ill with flu. The police receive an anonymous letter claiming the killer was a tall man with white hair. Edith eventually admits that her brother was having an affair with Elsie, and Jenkins was a violent man. But Elsie died that morning. Her final delirious words were about a dead sheep.

Ashford tells Foyle he feared Elsie would be charged with her husband's death unless he took the blame. Meanwhile Sam goes to hospital, her body covered in black sores. Police stop another Quaker, Henry Styles, from leaving Hastings and he tells them the disease is anthrax, caused by a biological warfare experiment that went wrong.

As he's on the verge of cracking the murder case, Foyle must venture into the most secretive aspects of the war to find the answers that could save Sam.

Foyle's War
Set 4

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When Grace Phillips dies in what appears to be an accident at a local munitions works, Foyle is asked by one of her co-workers, who is deeply disturbed by the event, to look into her death. Grace had always been such a cheerful girl but recently something had been bothering her and a few days before she died she had mentioned being worried about stealing.

Entering the world of munitions work, where nearly fifty percent of workers are women, Foyle initially believes Grace's death is purely an industrial accident - a tragedy but not a murder.

However, when another woman is found brutally murdered in the town, Foyle establishes a link between the two women and starts to believe the deaths are connected. To make matters even more difficult for Foyle, the second victim is Milner's wife, Jane, who had walked out on Milner more than two years earlier. Jane seems to have returned to Hastings with the hope of being reunited with her husband, not knowing that he is now romantically involved with another woman.

Milner finds himself center stage in Foyle's investigation - Milner wanted his wife, Jane, out of his life and he can neither produce an alibi for the time of her death nor explain how his wife's blood has been found on his clothes.

With everything pointing to Milner's guilt, Foyle and Sam have to work overtime to find out how Jane and Grace are connected, to catch their killer and to prove Milner's innocence.

Foyle's War
Set 4

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Foyle's life is turned upside down when his god-daughter, Lydia, and her seven year old son, James, turn up on his doorstep needing somewhere to stay. They have nowhere else to go. James has been severely traumatized by a bombing at his London school where most of his classmates and teachers were killed; he hasn't spoken a word since. Soon after their arrival, Lydia disappears. Ably assisted by Sam, Foyle has to care for Lydia's troubled young son until he can find Lydia and bring her safely home.

To add to the pressure, a series of sabotage cases is keeping Foyle very busy; something that isn't pleasing his boss, Assistant Commissioner Parkins, who would rather Foyle spend his time stamping out the increase in illegal gaming along the South Coast.

Sabotage and gambling come together when a local man and gambler is found murdered near a military research center. This military building is also the target of some internationally-funded saboteurs and Foyle enters the top secret arena of weapons research in his pursuit of the truth.

Foyle's War
Set 5

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It's April 1944 and something big is about to happen. Everyone on the South Coast can just feel it. Troops and Forces vehicles are on the move in vast quantities and the Allies have stepped up their bombing campaign over Germany and it would seem the end of the war is in sight.

Foyle is at home, having resigned as Detective Chief Superintendent at Hastings Police. No longer needed as a police driver, Sam has had to find a new job too. Milner has cracked a large fraud case involving false transportation claims for journeys that were never made but which cost the War Office thousands of pounds. The perpetrator, Burton, is a well-connected man and warns Milner to watch out - Burton's got friends who wouldn't be pleased to see him in jail.

Near Hastings a church conference is taking place. Amongst the topics being discussed are the question of forgiveness and reconciliation being offered to the Germans after the war and the morality of Allied aerial bombardment of German cities. It's a subject that invokes passions on all sides and somehow seems connected to a young RAF man's untimely death.

DCS Meredith is the new man in charge at Hastings Police station. Fed up with the new boss, Milner has applied for a transfer. No longer needed as a police driver, Sam has also found new employment - although she's being very reluctant to tell people what the new job involves.

When someone fires shots outside Hastings police station and Meredith is killed, Foyle has no choice but to return to his old job and piece together the facts.

Foyle's War
Set 5

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In order to ease the boredom of the blackout, Foyle has taken up chess. His tutor is psychiatrist Dr. Josef Novak, a Polish Jew who works at Sackville House in Hastings. Sackville House has been requisitioned by the War Office for the rehabilitation of servicemen traumatized by war. Novak's family in Poland were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis while Novak was out of the country. Unable to return home or help his family, Novak had no choice but to come to Britain as an exile.

When one of Dr. Novak's colleagues, Julian Worth, is found murdered, Foyle is called upon to investigate. There's no shortage of suspects as it becomes quickly apparent that Worth was not a well-liked man. Soon after the discovery of the body, Novak attempts suicide but is found just in time by Foyle and Milner. As he is carried to the ambulance, Novak implies that he was responsible for Worth's murder. Foyle is not convinced.

News reaches Hastings Police station of a 14-year-old telegraph boy who is missing from his home in London. Tommy Crooks had been evacuated to Hastings earlier in the war and his father thinks he may have made his way back to the coast. When a German POW working on a farm near Sackville House is found dead, it is revealed that Tommy has good reason to hate the Nazis more than most and finding him becomes Foyle's top priority.

Foyle's War
Set 5

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Set against the last 6 days of the war on the Home Front, Hastings is preparing itself for victory celebrations. For Foyle, it means retirement and hopefully the return of his son, Andrew, from the war; for Sam a new and uncertain future; for Milner a promotion at another police station down the coast and a new baby. Until the announcement, however, there's still work to be done.

Foyle is enlisted as the police representative for the council's Victory Day Celebrations Committee. Worried about a break down in public order, the council have collected together the great and the good of the town to see how best to manage what is anticipated as the biggest street party of all time.

Foyle is surprised to see his old friend Major John Kiefer on the committee - there representing the American forces stationed in Hastings. It's been over 2 years since these two friends met and Foyle recognizes that his friend has been dramatically changed by his wartime experiences. For Kiefer, who just wants to go home, the end of the war can't come soon enough. But when one of the committee members is murdered, no one is going anywhere. All the evidence points to a fellow committee member being the guilty party and, in his quest to solve his final case, Foyle must dig into one of the dirtiest secrets of the war and uncover truths the Allies would rather remain hidden.