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[1] [2] Foyle investigates the vicious murder by near-decapitation of local magistrate Henry Beaumont's wife, who is, in fact, a Sudeten German, Much of the case centres on a local pub, and the case ends with an arrest of a cryptographer at the Admiralty who had developed a clandestine relationship with the dead woman. During this time Foyle ...
In series seven, Foyle works after retirement for MI5 on Cold War espionage. The stories are largely self-contained. There are some running plot strands, primarily involving the career of Foyle's son Andrew Foyle (Julian Ovenden) – a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force – or Foyle's relationships with minor characters. Each episode runs for ...
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 ...
Foyle discovers that "Elise" was the codename of Sophie Corrigan, who was an SOE agent killed during the war, and that it was her brother Miles who shot Pierce, blaming her and others for his sister's death behind enemy lines in France in May 1944.
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.
She is the basis for the character of Hilda Pierce in Foyle's War. The 2012 play The Secret Reunion by Adrian Davis is about five SOE women holding a London reunion in 1975: Atkins, Nancy Wake, Odette Sansom Hallowes, Virginia Hall and Eileen Nearne. [citation needed]
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.