Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after the DCS is murdered, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after the DCS is murdered, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after the DCS is murdered, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.
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- TriviaDuring the war approximately 90 million aerial photographs were taken. Of them, some 10 million still survive.
On one occasion, a photo analyst was looking through his stereo viewer of a pair of aerial photos. He noticed an image of a man standing up against a wall, responding to the call of nature. A lot of hilarity ensued among the photo analysts and many of them took turns looking at the image. But then someone noticed something else.
Nearby was a set of strange rails and they also saw some tube-like objects - things that would have been overlooked were it not for the man in the photo. It turned out that this was a launcher for V1 "doodle bug" flying bombs. Thanks to the man's need for relief, the bombers were alerted and were able to take down a rocket site.
- GoofsThe episode opens with an obviously Catholic confession (since only Catholics practice confession and the confessor is seen praying the rosary). The character confesses to "breaking the 6th Commandment," and the priest replies: "You've killed someone?" In the Catholic tradition "Thou shalt not kill" is the 5th Commandment; it is the 6th Commandment in the Protestant tradition.
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Rev. Aubrey Stewart: So why don't you tell us what you're doing with yourself, now you've been thrown out of the police?
Samantha Stewart: I wasn't thrown out, I resigned. Anyway, I can't tell you anything except I'm making a vital contribution to the war effort.
Rev. Aubrey Stewart: I'll drink to that.
Samantha Stewart: It's not the same, you know, sir. You should have stayed.
DCS Christopher Foyle: Really?
Samantha Stewart: Well, if you're writing a wartime history of the Hastings police, you ought to stay until the last chapter.
DCS Christopher Foyle: No... Belongs to somebody else.
Samantha Stewart: DCS Meredith, you mean. He was the one who fired me.
Rev. Aubrey Stewart: I thought you said you resigned?
Samantha Stewart: Well, I would have... Given the chance.
Milner is unhappy with his new boss, DCS John Meredith who seems indifferent to the job. Milner wants a transfer but then Meredith is killed. The target was supposed to be Milner as he received threats by a trucking racketeer he had arrested.
At the same time, Milner was looking in the case of a young man Henry Scott, who hanged himself. It looked like suicide but Milner is not convinced. The young man did secret map work for the Air Ministry and he had confessed to his priest about some unhappiness in his life.
Foyle is coaxed out of retirement. His return immediately boosts morale at the police station. Foyle sets about to investigate the goings on at the place where the dead young man worked but he needs security clearance.
Milner feels sad that he did not get to know more about the murdered DCS Meredith. As he subsequently learns that both of his sons had been killed in the war, it shattered both his life and his wife's.
Anthony Horowitz deals with several issues in this episode. Samantha's clergyman uncle returns with another bad bottle of wine. He is attending an ecumenical conference regarding the indiscriminate bombing of Germany to get them to an unconditional surrender. One of the priests is a German who fled the Nazi's and was Scott's priest. Horowitz also looks at complex racketeering scams which required inside help from the ministry of defence.
For me, casting someone who had a prominent role at the start of the 2006 reboot of James Bond 'Casino Royale' rather gave the game away! It was a good switcheroo though. Plan of Attack is a solid adventure with some nice red herrings but it is not an exciting one. There was just something sloppy and convenient about it.
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- Dec 5, 2018
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