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Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during and shortly after the Second World War, created by Midsomer Murders screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse ended in 2000. It began broadcasting on ITV in October 2002.
Foyle investigates a series of nighttime holdups against apparent war profiteers, leading him to the nearby US military base run by Major Wesker. Dean's lover, Private Gabe Kelly, an African-American, appeals to Wesker to let him marry Dean, but is later set up as the prime suspect in her murder.
The episode reveals Foyle's long-standing friendship with Carlo Lucciano, a restaurant owner, which dates back to when Foyle's wife was alive. Foyle mentions that his son Andrew is undergoing pilot training with the RAF in Scotland. Tony Lucciano asks Stewart to be "his girl" and write to him while he is serving.
Foyle examines Pierce's top-secret role during the war within the Special Operations Executive (SOE) after she is shot outside MI5 by a man saying "For Elise". Pierce survives and is visited by an ex-SOE colleague, Sir Ian Woodhead, who is the current director of MI6.
Foyle, through Nelson, also becomes aware of Strasser's war crimes in Normandy in 1944 and exposes his superior's attempts to foil the Americans by faking Strasser's death. Foyle then considers the need to protect the German for the greater good his information offers, but Strasser is ultimately arrested by the Americans after a tip-off from ...
Series 4 of the ITV programme Foyle's War was first aired in 2006. It is the only series to be divided into two parts, one comprising two episodes screened in 2006, and the other comprising two from 2007. It was the last series of four episodes; later series had only three. It is set in the period from March 1942 to March 1943.
Series 2 of the ITV programme Foyle's War was first aired in 2003; comprising four episodes, it is set in autumn 1940. Series 2 was broadcast in the United States on PBS on Mystery! , on 18 and 25 July, and 1 and 8 August 2004, as Foyle's War II, [ 1 ] and on Netflix as of April 2014.
Foyle has been in retirement after his resignation a year earlier at the end of "Casualties of War".Stewart has been removed as a police driver by Foyle's replacement, Meredith, and has been working as a librarian in the Air Ministry's cartography facility at Beverley Lodge for the last six months.