May 1940 (I think) and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Fascists led by Charles Dance group together at titular hotel preparing to welcome Nazis, when one of their number is shot dead. In a neat dovetailing, Milner (Anthony Howell) has already been introduced to this group and isn't sure what to make of it; and a young suspect, who may be vaguely involved, ends up at Dunkirk.
'By the way - do you cure your own meat?' is Foyle / Horowitz's great left field question.
Anti-Semitism hugely apparent in certain echelons of society, visualised by that controversial and totally faked publication 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', brilliantly debunked in Will Eisner's final graphic novel (graphic documentary, in this case) 'The Plot' in 2015. You don't see this sort of thing in the war films of the era (naturally).
Milner's plight as a war casualty is further being etched through the behaviour of his unfeeling wife (Mali Harries).
With Colin Tierney, Maggie Steed, Paul Brooke, Bernard Kay, a young Tobias Menzies and Honeysuckle Weeks (of course).
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