Foyle encounters an adulterous couple who murder the spouse of the woman involved in the affair. Not much brilliance there, except that the couple are part of a top-secret project to invent a bomb that can destroy German dams and flood Nazi installations with a roaring wall of water. The highest military officials manage to keep Foyle from arresting the murderous couple because they mean so much to the War. Foyle quits in disgust.
By the way, the bomb being invented in the show is an actual bomb that really did destroy a dam and kill not only workers in Nazi installations but countless innocent civilians caught in the path of the flood. As a German documentary later showed, one woman, for instance, woke up in her bed as she floated down the cascade created by the breaching of the dam. Somehow, she survived to tell her story. As the episode makes clear, there are questionable forces (like murder and revenge) that mix themselves into the most moral of endeavors (like the Allied cause) in human affairs. What is a moral man like Foyle to do? What are the rest of us to do in our own times as we confront the same issues in our national and international politics?
Review of Casualties of War
