Foyle joins a municipal committee preparing for the imminent V-E Day celebration but soon finds himself investigating the deaths of two of its members.Foyle joins a municipal committee preparing for the imminent V-E Day celebration but soon finds himself investigating the deaths of two of its members.Foyle joins a municipal committee preparing for the imminent V-E Day celebration but soon finds himself investigating the deaths of two of its members.
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- TriviaMajor Kiefer's anguished memories are of Operation Tiger, a tragic live-fire invasion rehearsal that took place in April of 1944. This took place at the Slapton Sands beach in southwest England. It was a live-fire rehearsal, with the landing craft being launched far enough out for the soldiers to experience seasickness, compounded by the confusion, explosions, noise, and smells of a realistic invasion, as well as encountering the fresh destruction of the beach terrain and the mayhem associated with life fire.
Things went wrong when a German E-boat (PT boat) patrol fleet, attracted by the radio chatter, launched a torpedo attack against the ships and landing boats (LSTs). In response, the fleet was ordered to scatter, which left hundreds of men in the water, resulting in the deaths of over 700 American soldiers and sailors, most of whom drowned. To compound the tragedy, the British did not cease artillery fire once the survivors reached the beach, raining live rounds on the "invaders", which resulted in another 300 deaths; Americans killed by the British.
All of this was compounded by the enforcement of orders to completely conceal what had happened - orders that were necessary in order to preserve morale for the actual invasion. Kiefer's anger at the British was largely due to the loss of these 300 men, the personal trauma he had experienced during and after the exercise, compounded by the gag order.
- GoofsThroughout the series there are iron railing everywhere in Hastings, but most of them were collected for salvage.
- Quotes
Samantha Stewart: They said you drove Milner and his wife to the hospital, sir?
DCS Christopher Foyle: I did.
Samantha Stewart: But I thought you couldn't drive. Are you telling me that all these years...?
DCS Christopher Foyle: Well, I've never actually ever at any time said I couldn't drive, I mean, I just preferred not to.
Samantha Stewart: S-so you never really needed me?
DCS Christopher Foyle: I wouldn't say that.
Martin Longmate the owner of the Majestic hotel is vying to be the new Tory MP in the 1945 General Election. He wants a glorious celebration which might coincidentally help his election cause.
Foyle has been asked to assist the local council's celebrations. However one of the attendees Dr Henry Ziegler, an Austrian GP is found stabbed to death.
Ziegler who had been in Britain for some years had received anti German abuse. One of them was the curator in the museum where the celebration committee meetings were held.
Soon another member of the committee commits suicide and Foyle is wondering if there is a link.
The American Colonel that Foyle went fishing with in an earlier story returns but he is angry about an incident that happened in the war an he blames someone in Hastings.
Horowitz paints a picture of a post war Britain where some problems still remain. Bitterness and recriminations. People rewriting their back history and the issues regarding demobbed soldiers returning home. Issues Horowitz will revisit when a new head of ITV resurrects the show.
An end of term atmosphere in this episode. Foyle contemplates his future, Milner looks forward to a promotion. A new Britain is dawning but not the one Longmate is envisaging. The future will be bright but it will be red.
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- Mar 19, 2020
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