A young man confronts Hilda (Ellie Haddington) on the Intelligence HQ steps.
"Don't you remember me?" he asks.
"No," she replies.
"This is for Elise," he says, extracting a gun from his coat, and shoots, twice.
It's a fucking great beginning to what turned out to be the last of the entire series (season eight). And as it's all about the brave girls of the SOE, and the suggestion (which I happen to believe) that they were betrayed from within, it's a powerful and emotional film. Good for you, Horowitz.
And in fact Foyle's parallel brief, to trap gangster Damian White (Leo Gregory), is almost secondary, though he does, of course, get his man (with Honeysuckle's help). I like the way he brings in the black market, and the clandestine gay scene, and rationing (Sam's cooking whale meat for them in this one).
With the usual cast are Conleth Hill (MI5), Hermione Gulliford, Emma Fielding, Katherine Press (the betrayed 'Elise'), Nick Caldecott.
I didn't realise Horowitz wrote the first seven episodes of Midsomer Murders, nor that he has a third Bond novel out, 'With a Mind to Kill', nor that he has written two Sherlock Holmes novels, 'The House of Silk' and 'Moriarty'. Must catch up on his TV series Collision (2009) and Injustice (2011). One of his heroes is William Goldman, which makes me like him even more.
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