Foyle has his work cut out in this episode. He has Milner investigating illegal gambling, a new superior officer who is visiting from London and he is another petty, mean minded bureaucrat.
Trouble rears its head when his goddaughter visits who he has not seen for some years, she brings her young son who has not talked since his school was bombed and his fellow pupils and teachers died.
A traumatic child and a disturbed goddaughter is the last thing Foyle needs but he realises that they need somewhere to stay.
There is a sinister Spaniard who has forced two youths to do some tasks for him. The same youths who helped Milner when he was attacked by two goons from a gambling den.
The main plot is Foyle has to find the murderer of a local teacher who had run up gambling debts. His wife works as a secretary in a military research centre. The head of the facility is an old acquaintance of Foyle and he wants the investigation cleared up quickly due to the important nature of their military work, developing a special kind of bomb.
I do wonder why Anthony Horowitz needed to use the development of the real life bouncing bomb as an aspect of the story. More controversial as bombing dams is now regarded as a war crime since the Geneva Convention was updated in the 1970s.
I did like how Foyle's moral compass was offended as the military and police bosses would rather compromise in the murder investigation for the war effort.
There were nice little touches in this episode. Despite his goddaughter's son suffering from shock, other school kids found war to be fun. Playing in bombed out sites. This was mentioned several times by the late film critic Barry Norman as he grew up during the war.
Trouble rears its head when his goddaughter visits who he has not seen for some years, she brings her young son who has not talked since his school was bombed and his fellow pupils and teachers died.
A traumatic child and a disturbed goddaughter is the last thing Foyle needs but he realises that they need somewhere to stay.
There is a sinister Spaniard who has forced two youths to do some tasks for him. The same youths who helped Milner when he was attacked by two goons from a gambling den.
The main plot is Foyle has to find the murderer of a local teacher who had run up gambling debts. His wife works as a secretary in a military research centre. The head of the facility is an old acquaintance of Foyle and he wants the investigation cleared up quickly due to the important nature of their military work, developing a special kind of bomb.
I do wonder why Anthony Horowitz needed to use the development of the real life bouncing bomb as an aspect of the story. More controversial as bombing dams is now regarded as a war crime since the Geneva Convention was updated in the 1970s.
I did like how Foyle's moral compass was offended as the military and police bosses would rather compromise in the murder investigation for the war effort.
There were nice little touches in this episode. Despite his goddaughter's son suffering from shock, other school kids found war to be fun. Playing in bombed out sites. This was mentioned several times by the late film critic Barry Norman as he grew up during the war.