Foyle's War on ABC1

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Foyle's War -  Broken Souls
8:35pm Sunday, 27 Jul 2008  
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In order to ease the boredom of the blackout, Foyle (Michael Kitchen) has taken up chess. His tutor is psychiatrist Dr Josef Novak (Nicholas Woodeson), a Polish Jew who works at Sackville House in Hastings. Sackville House has been requisitioned by the War Office for the rehabilitation of servicemen traumatised by war. Novak's family in Poland were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis while Novak was out of the country. Unable to return home or help his family, Novak had no choice but to come to Britain as an exile.

When one of Dr Novak's colleagues, Julian Worth (Oliver Kieran-Jones), is found murdered, Foyle is called upon to investigate. There's no shortage of suspects as it becomes quickly apparent that Worth was not a well-liked man. Soon after the discovery of the body, Novak attempts suicide but is found just in time by Foyle and Milner (Anthony Howell). As he is carried to the ambulance, Novak implies that he was responsible for Worth's murder. Foyle is not convinced.

News reaches Hastings Police station of a 14-year-old telegraph boy who is missing from his home in London. Tommy Crooks (Danny Worters) had been evacuated to Hastings earlier in the war and his father thinks he may have made his way back to the coast. When a German POW working on a farm near Sackville House is found dead, it is revealed that Tommy has good reason to hate the Nazis more than most and finding him becomes Foyle's top priority.


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All Clear - 8:35pm Sunday, August 3

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Foyle's War -  All Clear
8:35pm Sunday, 03 Aug 2008  
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May 1945

In this final episode set against the last six days of the war, on the home front, Hastings is preparing itself for victory celebrations. For Foyle (Michael Kitchen) it means retirement and hopefully the return of his son, Andrew (Julian Ovenden), from the war; for Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) a new and uncertain future; for Milner (Anthony Howell) a promotion at another police station down the coast and a new baby. Until the announcement however, there's still work to be done.

Foyle is enlisted as the police representative for the council's Victory Day Celebrations Committee. Worried about a breakdown in public order, the council has collected together the great and the good of the town to see how best to manage what is anticipated as the biggest street party of all time.

Foyle is surprised to see his old friend Major John Kiefer (Jay Benedict) on the committee - there representing the American forces stationed in Hastings. It's been over two years since these two friends met and Foyle recognises that his friend has been dramatically changed by his wartime experiences. For Kiefer, who just wants to go home, the end of the war can't come soon enough. But when one of the committee members is murdered, no one is going anywhere. All the evidence points to a fellow committee member being the guilty party and, in his quest to solve his final case, Foyle must dig into one of the dirtiest secrets of the war and uncover truths the Allies would rather remained hidden.