Season Five. 1944. It's a year later and Sam is helping Foyle to type a book about the Hastings police during WW2. She also has a job at an air force reconnaissance centre, where some frictive types work (just made that word up, probably thinking of 'fictive'). You know there'll be a murder or two.
Morale at the station is much lowered and Milner is thinking of transferring. Ultimately Michael Jayston pops up again and begs Foyle to help with the case, much to the delight of everyone.
Nice thinking that Horowitz has introduced the triple aspects of religion and war - those that will not condone any killing, those that want the enemy treated as brothers, that it's too soon to do anything - as realised by Sam's uncle in trying to comfort a woman who's lost two sons and now a husband and 'has nothing left to give'. Also that military secrets might be being leaked to priests.
Didn't know most of cast: Malcolm Sinclair, Fiona Glascott, Vince Leigh, Julian Wadham, Sheila Ballantine, Nicholas Day.
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| Actually Langley Park, Slough |
No idea what cartoonists were doing employed at a RAF Mapping centre, but sure Horowitz was right in his detail. For example, there was indeed an attack on an aircraft factory in Marienbug, though I did mishear it as 'Marienbad' and assumed H. was joking with us! Wouldn't it be funny if every insight, assumption, theory or observation I've made in this blog was wrong!*
* Ed. No.
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