Invasion (15 Jan. 2006)

American troops arrive in Britain and the Corps of Engineers building an airstrip on a Hastings farm is met with resentment.

Director:

Gavin Millar

Writer:

Anthony Horowitz (written and created by)

Stars:

Robert O'Sullivan, Jay Benedict, Zoë Tapper

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Robert O'Sullivan	...	Boy at Roadside
Jay Benedict	...	Captain John Kieffer
Zoë Tapper	...	Susan Davies
Philip Jackson	...	Alan Carter
Andrew MacLachlan	...	Dr Mark Rogers
Peter Jonfield	...	Harold Grayson
Corey Johnson	...	Sergeant Jack O'Connor
Jonah Lotan	...	Joe Farnetti
Keith Barron	...	David Barrett
Sam Hazeldine	...	Will Grayson
Anthony Howell	...	Sergeant Paul Milner
John McArdle	...	Stan Davies
Jane Wood	...	Mary Davies
Jay Simpson	...	Sergeant Ian Brooke
Michael Kitchen	...	Christopher Foyle

Storyline

March 1942: The US Army Corps of Engineers arrives in Hastings to build an aerodrome and Foyle needs to calm a local farmer whose land has been requisitioned by the government. Foyle also gets hooked into giving a lecture to the American GIs on local customs. It all takes a more serious turn when a local barmaid, Susan Davies, is found strangled. She had been seeing one of the GIs and was pregnant, but was also involved selling illegal whiskey for her employer, Alan Carter. Meanwhile Sgt. Milner investigates the death of friend, Will Grayson, who died in a house fire. He had been drinking at Carter's pub but wasn't drunk when he left and Milner can't quite figure out why his friend didn't get out of the burning house in time. Finally, Sam gets unhappy news from boyfriend Andrew.

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Plot Keywords:

engineer | lecture | barmaid | house fire | pub | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | War

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 January 2006 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paddock Productions, Greenlit Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The decorations for the dance at the American base incorporate the Morse code symbol for "V" (...-). This was commonly used in World War II as a symbol for victory and was often associated with the first four notes in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

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Goofs

The American soldiers are members of the 215th Engineering Battalion (Aviation) on a mission to construct an airfield for the U.S. Army Air Corps. However the members of this unit wear the divisional insignia of the First Infantry Division. The First Infantry Division did not have a unit like the 215th in its table of organization and, in any case, did not arrive in England until July 1942, four months after the events depicted in this episode.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Boy at Roadside: [yells] The Jerries are here. The Jerries are here.

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Connections

Featured in Masterpiece Mystery: Foyle's War, Series IV: Invasion (2007)

User Reviews

Comments on "Bad Blood" episode

I just received a tape of this episode of Foyle's War from Great Britain. As in the previous episodes of this series, this and the other episode of Foyle's War 4 were beautifully photographed and well acted. Having said that, I was disappointed in the research done about two of the facts included in this film.

When the GI (Joe Franetti) is talking to Samantha Stewart about his military service, he says he received training at Fort Benning in Virginia. Fort Benning is located in the state of Georgia, not Virginis.

Second, a reference is made to the medicine streptomycin. According to the internet site "Foyle's war.com" this episode is set in August 1942. Streptomycin was not discovered until 1944.

I hope the producers/director will do a better job in researching all the facts about the events in wartime Great Britain. This is one of the best series on television. Please don't let poor research degrade this excellent production.