It's 1945 already and the well caught days just before the war is officially ended. The police station is about to close, the band to be disunited, ending series five on just three films. But what this episode is really about - Horowitz the Historian again - is the Exercise Tiger incident at Slapton Sands in which due to errors 749 American serviceman died and the story was hushed up.
The poem Andrew (Julian Ovenden) recites, 'All Clear' sure sounds like a Pudney...
They sounded out the last all clear
And told us, those that made it here
That very soon we'd hold once more
Those very things that we held dear
Yet nothing's clear to me
I gaze from darkness to a summer haze
And though they part, the clouds of war
Lead only to uncertain days.
... but isn't.
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