Foyle's War (TV Series)

The Eternity Ring (2013)

Ellie Haddington: Hilda Pierce

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Hilda Pierce : Anything else?

  Christopher Foyle : I'd need a driver.

  [Pierce looks at him] 

  Christopher Foyle : You owe it to her. So do I.

  Hilda Pierce : The work we're doing matters. I appreciate our methods may not be to your liking, but it's not our fault; it's just the way it is.

• Christopher Foyle : [about Vessing's murder]  His death is too convenient.

  Hilda Pierce : Sometimes things work out that way.

• Hilda Pierce : [In the back seat of her car]  I'll come straight to the point. I want you to stay with MI5.

  Christopher Foyle : What on Earth makes you think I'd do that?

  Hilda Pierce : Well, you always wanted to be part of the Service.

  Christopher Foyle : I applied once during the War and was rejected. They had their chance.

  Hilda Pierce : This is no time for hurt feelings. This is business. You're very good at what you do, and I'd like to work with you.

  Christopher Foyle : [Dourly]  I haven't got the requisite capacity for deceit.

  Hilda Pierce : Precisely. I need someone I can trust.

  Christopher Foyle : Well, that would be mutual.

  Hilda Pierce : Point taken. Oh, come on, Foyle. what's the alternative? What are you going to do the rest of your life? Fish? Bigger fish to be caught here.

• Hilda Pierce : Circumstances have arisen in which we feel we have a need of your help.

  Christopher Foyle : Circumstances being... the end of the war?

  Hilda Pierce : If only it had ended. We have a new war, a new enemy.

  Arthur Valentine : The Soviets.

  Hilda Pierce : George Orwell calls it the Cold War, and I think that might prove apposite.

• Christopher Foyle : Given that nothing where you're concerned is ever quite what it seems...

  Hilda Pierce : I don't know what you mean.

  Christopher Foyle : Well, you know as well as I do that Fraser detests communism, Stalin and everything they stand for. By the same token Mrs Wainwright was nowhere near the theatre at the time you stated; neither has she met Vlessing. The photograph is a fake. I know it, you know it; so at some time I'd be grateful if you'd be kind enough to explain to me precisely what's going on.