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.
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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.
One of the best written episodes, it's a terrific script, with some tremendous characters. I love that we get the story of a man, Edward Hylton, who's returned from the horror of war, and now has to face real life, but of course things change over a matter of time. Paul Thornley is superb as the shell shocked soldier, a truly memorable performance.
It really is the end of an era, the end of the war, the end of Foyle in the Police, and of course the end of Milner. We also learn that Foyle has hidden a secret well.
Moving, engaging, witty, captivating, will we ever get a show this good again? 10/10
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Apr 15, 2019
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