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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- TriviaFollowing the decision of the former Director of Television for ITV, Simon Shaps (who only stayed in the job for eighteen months), to cancel the series, this episode was intended to be the last ever made. Writer Anthony Horowitz had to abandon several scripts for episodes set in 1944, and jump forwards to this episode covering the end of the war in 1945. After Shaps left his TV executive role, three more episodes were filmed in 2009. The Russian House (2010), set in peace-time, was the first of these episodes.
- 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.
Here, we are in May of 1945. Everyone knows the war is about over and the Germans must surrender, but it seems to keep dragging on. Foyle is ready to retire, but has been roped into being on a committee to oversee the expected celebrations as soon as the final peace is declared. Also on the committee is a U. S. Army major who Foyle met a few years earlier when he oversaw the construction of an air base. The major seems older, worn out, and preoccupied by something.
Also on the committee is a thirty-something man, a British army veteran, who seems to be very anxious, to the point of mental illness, and a doctor who is concerned about him. We see that at his home this nervous man is being harassed by odd letters and papers posted on his door. Before long both the doctor and the nervous man are dead.
There are two other threads, wonderfully interwoven, about a soldier returning home to his wife who has not seen him for four years, and Milner's pregnant wife about to give birth. The stress and strains of war are everywhere.
As usual everything is extremely well done. But I was disappointed in the ending. As in a few other episodes, Foyle confronts the person he has deduced to be the murderer, on the murderer's territory. Foyle is alone. Doesn't he want backup when he confronts a violent person? He explains his deductions and the murderer immediately confesses. Really?? It's that simple? I don't buy it. It's not realistic. I would have rated it a 9 with a better ending.
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