Anthony Horowitz tackles a lot of sensitive issues in this episode. Some might be rather personal to him given his background.
The King David Hotel bombing in Palestine by Zionists. A conference taking place regarding peace in middle east taking place in London. A reformed Oswald Mosley type figure Charles Lucas who launches his new campaign which is not much different from his old campaign.
Foyle looks into an attack on a young Jewish student, his father a prominent businessmen is later found shot.
When there is a blip in the security arrangements, Foyle ends up being the fall guy and made to resign from MI5.
However a visiting Jewish student in London might be planning more than just starting a new course.
Horowitz also looks at the plight of ordinary Britons in the post war landscape. There was still no NHS, so people without money and food still could not afford medicine. Sam comes to the aid of a little boy who might have got whooping cough.
Horowitz cleverly weaves some modern parallels with Lucas's right wing party who wants to reclaim Britain for the British. He also wants to reach out with other like minded Europeans and exploit Africa and Africans. Not too different from the new alt right neo nazis.
As a mystery it did not really hang too well. There were just too many ingredients and the slimy guy from the foreign office was just too obviously up to no good. It was watchable without being too enthralling.
Aside from being a metaphor for these modern times. Lucas was given too much free reign in this episode. Even Sam's politician husband was too weak willed to confront him properly. Given that Britain had just won a war against the Nazis, someone like Lucas at that period would had placed himself in a perilous position with his history.