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tammyy2j
11-04-2010, 18:34
Few Hollyoaks stars have gone on to bigger and better things after bowing out of Chester, but one now boasting quite an impressive CV is Max Brown. If you were a regular watcher of the 'Oaks in the early noughties, you might recognise him as Kristian Hargreaves, the dashing young biology student who bagged most of the ladies in the village. Since quitting the teen soap, Brown has done Hollywood (Paradise Lost), sexy (The Tudors), and now he's moving on to serious with the seventh series of ITV1 drama Foyle's War. We caught up with Max to find out more.

What can you tell us about the new series of Foyles War?
"It's very exciting - it's only three parts this year, so they're all like mini movies. It's all about the period after the war, so it's the tough time in England. Foyle's obviously not working for the police force any more - he's an advisor and he's finding it hard to take his retirement seriously."

Your character is brought in for a love story, isn't he?
"Yes. My character - Adam Wainwright - bumps into Sam in London and through the depressing time in England, they find a love between them while battling through different scenarios. They become very close and Foyle sort of hands Sam over - it's like the father approving of the new boyfriend!"

Were you nervous about joining a long-running series?
"It's something I'd watched and I was a big fan of Honeysuckle [Weeks] and Michael [Kitchen], so it's always a bit strange coming into something so established and playing a new big character. With a devout fan base, the pressure is on! But they were more than welcoming and the character is so lovely, so it was too good an opportunity to turn down, really."

Where does Adam end up by the final episode?
"He has inherited this house off his aunt, who is the only close one to him in his family. He's realised that the brilliant brain he has for maths is completely useless at that time, so he inherits this guest house and starts to run it as best he can. In the meantime he becomes a campaigner for everything British and everything right."

The series was brought back due to demand from fans. Does that mean it's likely we'll get another series next year?
"It's interesting because obviously it was brought back because of the fanbase and it's called Foyle's War but now it's set after the war! I don't know what the next step for Foyle could be. There's always crimes to be solved, so there is opportunity to do another one, but we'll see how well this seres is received. I had so much fun on this that I'd love to come back."

You're also coming back for the final series of The Tudors...
"Yeah, I think it's getting a mid-June release date in this country. Edward Seymour has stepped up to a whole different level in the final season, so it'll be exciting to see how that's received. It's great, and it's such a big piece of work. The only problem is, the words are almost poetic - they're impossible to learn sometimes! There are words and phrases that you've never come across before so if you're trying to ad lib to get yourself out of forgetting a line, there's no hope for you on The Tudors! That show has taught me to learn my lines perfectly."

What's it been like working alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers?
"Jonny's great - he's got such a great energy on set and is someone who is always word perfect. You can often work with people who are quite safe, but Jonny always likes to push the boundaries and do something different in a scene, which will sometimes work and sometimes not!"

Joss Stone got some bad press for her acting abilities when she first popped up on the show...
"She was so lovely to work with. I thought she did a great job! I only had a couple of scenes with her, but in those I thought she was great. It's funny how well-received she was in America compared to here. I guess they haven't heard her German accent or whatever! But the accents are all over the place - there's a European sound to everybody."

Obviously the show follows history, but how does the final episode of the series end?
"It's hard to say without giving it away. But it depends what side of the camp you're on as to whether you'll be happy or not!"

Foyle's War returns Sunday at 8pm on ITV1.

alan45
22-04-2010, 14:38
"It's true that in Foyle's War the Second World War, is at an end - this current series takes us right through to August 1945," comments the ITV source.

"But it remains extremely popular, with around seven million people tuning in to the first two episodes of this series. ITV are talking to Anthony Horowitz and Greenlit Productions, who make it, about further ideas for the drama and the intention is definitely to do more, with Foyle possibly getting involved in The Cold War."

Writer Anthony makes a cameo appearance in this Sunday's episode - that's him looking nautical in the picture above with Michael - the last in the current series, as captain of a ship on which Foyle travels. How apt!

Perdita
12-03-2013, 17:48
23rd March 2013

The Eternity Ring: Michael Kitchen stars again as the thoughtful and enigmatic Foyle but in this new series (series eight) we will see him in a different and exciting new role – working for British Secret Intelligence. With one war ended, a new one is looming as the iron curtain falls across Europe. MI5 suspects British atomic research has been infiltrated, and ask Foyle to investigate whether a Russian spy network could be at work in the heart of London.


Honeysuckle Weeks as Sam and Michael Kitchen as Foyle

16 July 1945. A military convoy arrives in the New Mexico desert carrying Professor Michael Fraser, a British nuclear scientist, and his wife, Helen Fraser. Another scientist, Max Hoffman, is waiting for them, and he takes them into a bunker where they watch the explosion of the first nuclear bomb together.

One year later, a cypher clerk, Aleksei Gorin, steals secrets from the Soviet Embassy in London. He is chased by NKVD agents but manages to escape.

Perdita
16-03-2013, 10:24
Sun, 31st March 2013

Short synopsis: The Cage

Foyle’s investigation into the death of a nameless Russian leads to a mysterious military facility run by a respected Colonel with an impeccable war record.

But as Foyle makes enquiries, he realises the dead Russian was a spy with dangerous connections to British intelligence. Sam does her best to help husband, Adam, during his by-election campaign, but can’t help putting her foot in it...

Long synopsis:

An attractive woman, EVELYN GREEN, takes a mysterious phone call and quickly leaves her home without saying goodbye to her husband.

A bleeding man drags himself into a small hospital seeking help. A nurse calls for a doctor to help her but the man is already dangerously close to death. He utters some final words - ‘Ten Eye’ – and dies. DR ROSS thinks he has saw someone outside of the hospital in the woods but he’s not sure.

SIR ALEC MYERSON arrives at MI5 to take over from Sir William Chambers who has left in disgrace after being identified as a Russian spy. HILDA PIERCE brings him up to speed and they discuss Foyle’s assignment - an investigation looking into the death of several
Russian defectors.

VALENTINE and FOYLE are interviewing new applicants for MI5. FOYLE is keen on one applicant called DANIEL WILLIS but VALENTINE decides he’s not for MI5 because he didn’t go to a public school. FOYLE’s called to SIR ALEC MYERSON’S office where he’s told about the death of several high-ranking Russian defectors. MI5 safe houses have been breached, and VALENTINE was in charge of them, and FOYLE needs to get to the bottom of what’s gone wrong.

CHARLOTTE, a secretary in MI5, shows an apprehensive SAM to her new desk. FOYLE asks her to fetch the files on the Russian defectors so he can start his investigation.
ADAM and GLENVIL HARRIS are out on the campaign trail but not having much luck knocking on doors. They meet a woman, MRS GREEN, who tells them her daughter has been missing for three days; ADAM offers to talk to the police on her behalf. The girl’s name is Evelyn Green.

SAM has fetched the defector’s files for FOYLE. She tells him that a Russian has been found dead at a local hospital in an apparent suicide and she thinks it might be relevant. When FOYLE gets to the hospital, DR ROSS shows him the body of the dead man. It has one identifying mark – a tattoo which has been scratched out on his upper arm. Could he be Russian Gestapo?

PART TWO

MYERSON wonders if the dead Russian is connected to the death of the defectors in the safe houses. Also a woman, Evelyn Green, has gone missing from the Foreign Office and she knew the addresses of the safe houses and could be the leak they’re looking for.

CHARLOTTE and SAM discuss a new fashion – the coupon buster shoe. FOYLE interrupts their chatter and asks SAM to look for a copy of the NKVD insignia. He asks CHARLOTTE if she knows if the phrase ‘Ten Eye’ is Russian but she doesn’t recognise it.

Evelyn Green’s husband tells FOYLE about the strange disappearance of his wife. She was a Communist sympathiser during her university days but her husband denies she is still a member of the party. He thinks his wife may have met another man because she’d become distant recently.

SAM, ADAM and GLENVIL HARRIS discuss the political campaign. SAM thinks her husband should talk about the future and not hark back to the war to encourage people to vote for him.
At the hospital, a NURSE tries to stop several soldiers removing the body of the dead Russian. DR ROSS calls FOYLE to let him know and he agrees to come to DR ROSS’s house the next morning.

While SAM and ADAM eat their dinner, ADAM tells his wife about the disappearance of Mrs Green’s daughter. He wants to make a difference to people’s lives, and he asks if Sam would have the time to help him campaign in the following days.
The next day, FOYLE arrives at the Ross home but when MRS ROSS shows him inside they find DR ROSS dead in his basement office.

PART THREE

FOYLE looks around the basement for some clues as to what happened with a police officer. DS JONES thinks it is suicide but FOYLE isn’t so sure. JONES questions MRS ROSS who tells them she and her husband had been forced to divorce during the war because MRS ROSS was Jewish and they lived in Germany. They were to remarry next week – why would Ian Ross have committed suicide at this point in time? FOYLE discourages JONES from questioning MRS ROSS any further because he’s causing her too much distress.

SAM is with ADAM talking to local Peckham voters. They are sceptical about Labour’s policies but SAM manages to bring them around with her keen sense of humour and a joke about rationing. After leaving the meeting, SAM agrees to have her photograph taken with a loaf of bread.

Back at MI5, CHARLOTTE hands SAM a file and asks her to take it to Arthur Valentine. She notices it contains documents about an ‘Evelyn Green’, the woman missing in Adam’s potential constituency. She quickly hands the file to VALENTINE who is having an irate conversation on the telephone about someone ‘escaping to Berlin’. He makes another call before he’s interrupted by SIR ALEC MYERSON who wants to know how the woman from the Foreign Office managed to escape to Berlin. She was obviously a spy, and she wasn’t adequately vetted by MI5, MYERSON thinks.

VALENTINE asks CHARLOTTE to keep him informed about Foyle’s investigation. SAM overhears and makes a note to tell Foyle.
In the park, SAM tells ADAM about the secret ‘Evelyn Green’ file she has seen at work – isn’t it also the name of the girl from West Peckham he’s looking for? ADAM isn’t sure what to do and they agree to speak to Foyle.


At the hospital, a NURSE talks to FOYLE about the tragic death of Dr Ross. She tells him that Dr Ross had been called out to a car accident the day before at a place called Barton Hall – previously an army camp during the war.
FOYLE tries to gain entry to Barton Hall but he’s turned away in spite of presenting his Secret Service identification. He hears the soldiers saying they must inform ‘Tin Eye’, and he drives away.

PART FOUR

At home, ADAM shows SAM the morning’s newspaper. There’s a picture of SAM holding the loaf of bread from the previous day – the article has deliberately made it look like Sam has joined the campaign against government bread rationing. It’s an attempt to scupper Adam’s by-election campaign. SAM is devastated and leaves for work. GLENVIL HARRIS arrives with a plan to blacken the name of the Tory candidate but ADAM tells him he doesn’t want to play dirty.

FOYLE is talking to PIERCE and MYERSON at MI5 about the progress of his investigation. He wants to know if he can have access to Barton Hall which PIERCE tells him is a government listening station. PIERCE tells him that a woman, Evelyn Green, gave away the addresses of the defectors, but FOYLE is keen to find out who her informant was.

ADAM returns to the home of MRS GREEN to find out if her daughter has returned. MRS GREEN is still distraught, feeling something awful has happened to her girl.
While having dinner with SAM and ADAM, FOYLE is told about the disappearance of Mrs Green’s daughter, Evelyn, in Peckham. SAM tells him about an MI5 file she spotted at work about an ‘Evelyn Green’. FOYLE promises he will look into the matter but he’s annoyed with SAM for snooping in the office.

FOYLE finally gains access to Barton Hall and meets MAJOR JAMES MCDONALD and LT. COLONEL HARRY GALT who’s in charge of the listening station. It’s apparent to FOYLE that Barton Hall may not be all that it seems, although GALT and MCDONALD deny ever having met the dead Russian found at the nearby hospital. Waiting outside, SAM is winked at by a motorcycle courier. She sees a small bow from a woman’s coupon buster shoe lying on the ground. Driving away, FOYLE tells SAM that the ‘Ten Eye’ the Russian spoke as his dying words probably refers to the monocle that Galt wears – “Tin Eye”. Galt must be lying about having not met the dead Russian.

PART FIVE

FOYLE, ADAM and SAM visit MRS GREEN at her home. She tells FOYLE that her daughter works at a Haberdasher’s called Leytons – not the Foreign Office. She gives them a photograph and it shows her daughter wearing a pair of coupon busters from which Sam found the bow previously. They realise there are two Evelyn Greens – one is in Berlin, and the other is at Barton Hall.

VALENTINE tells FOYLE about Colonel Galt and his background in counter espionage – FOYLE wonders why someone like this would be working in a listening station but VALENTINE is not forthcoming with further information.

FOYLE meets DANNY WILLIS again and asks him to break into Barton Hall to look for Mrs Green’s daughter. FOYLE then meets with MRS ROSS who tells him that her husband was working on some blood-tests relating to his research on tick bites. She is afraid that now DR ROSS is dead she is going to be deported to Germany. She wonders if her husband did take his life – he blamed himself for his wife’s internment during the war in a concentration camp.

DS JONES is telephoned by FOYLE who wants to know about a car accident involving a military vehicle near Barton Hall. FOYLE returns to Barton Hall and we find out that it was MCDONALD who crashed his car, and DR ROSS attended the accident. FOYLE can see MCDONALD scratching an infected wrist. FOYLE asks him why MCDONALD and GALT are lying about knowing the dead Russian. MCDONALD decides to tell the truth; the Russian was trying to break into Barton Hall and Galt had him tortured, paranoid the Russian might be a spy. MCDONALD was taking the Russian to a military hospital when he made a run for it and escaped. The Russian’s name was Palenko.

Back at MI5 HQ, SAM sees the same motorcycle courier whom she saw at Barton Hall. She tells FOYLE and he asks her to fetch the files on Colonel Galt and Major McDonald immediately.

PART SIX

DANNY WILLIS breaks into Barton Hall and finds Mrs Green’s daughter, EVELYN, locked in and frightened in a basement cell. It’s obvious to him that Barton Hall is being used for interrogation purposes. DANNY grabs EVELYN and together they escape, although they’re pursued by MAJOR MCDONALD and his soldiers. GALT is furious with MCDONALD for letting another prisoner escape. He thinks the whole Barton Hall operation is now be threatened.

EVELYN is taken to Sam and Adam’s home where she tells them what happened. She was walking to church when some policeman arrested her and put in her a van with no windows. Taken to remote house in the countryside, she was imprisoned in a cell. While there she saw a man in a uniform knife another prisoner. DANNY tells FOYLE that Barton Hall is a psychological interrogation unit probably run by the Secret Service. Evelyn was probably arrested by mistake and taken to Barton Hall.

ADAM tells SAM they should let MRS GREEN know her daughter is safe. He reminds SAM it’s polling day the following day.

The following day at MI5, CHARLOTTE tells FOYLE that the files he’s requested on Galt and McDonald are restricted. FOYLE confronts VALENTINE and asks him why his investigation is being obstructed. VALENTINE comes clean and tells him there was a mix up – the wrong Evelyn Green was picked up by MI5 and he’s worried Myerson will use Valentine as a scapegoat for the mistake. He tells FOYLE that the address for Evelyn Green was supplied by Barton Hall.

MRS GREEN is reunited with her daughter.
FOYLE returns to Barton Hall to tell GALT that he knows Barton Hall is not a listening station and that it could be connected to the murders of Dr Ross and Palenko. GALT is honest with FOYLE about the interrogation techniques he’s developing at Barton Hall. FOYLE asks him if he followed Palenko to the hospital the night he died, but GALT refuses to give him an answer. It’s clear FOYLE thinks it was GALT who murdered Palenko.

PART SEVEN

ADAM is at the polling station with GLENVIL HARRIS.

FOYLE revisits MRS ROSS and tells her DR ROSS didn’t commit suicide after all. She shows him the blood-tests that her husband was working on before he died, and tells him that he was treating someone with Tick-borne Encephalitis. It’s a disease common to parts of Europe, but not Britain.

CHARLOTTE gives FOYLE the files he’s been asking for on McDonald and Galt.
COLONEL GALT, PIERCE, VALENTINE and MYERSON are having a meeting. GALT is furious and thinks Foyle is behind the security breach at Barton Hall. MYERSON himself is angry that the wrong Evelyn Green was picked up and no one at MI5 was informed. Suddenly, they’re interrupted by Foyle’s arrival. FOYLE remains tight-lipped about the whereabouts of Mrs Green’s daughter when they ask him. He tells him that more importantly, they have a mole at Barton Hall – McDonald. McDonald killed Palenko. McDonald’s file confirms what FOYLE is saying is true – inside there is photograph of McDonald with Evelyn Green – the Foreign Office spy who escaped to East Berlin.

ADAM is running neck and neck with his rival in the by-election. It’s going to be a close call.

Perdita
16-03-2013, 10:28
FOYLE and GALT race to Barton Hall to confront McDonald. He has a gun but the Encephalitis is taking hold of him and he’s weak. FOYLE tells him he’s seriously ill and needs medical attention. He killed the only man who could tell him he was ill – Dr Ian Ross. MCDONALD killed Ross thinking the doctor had recognised him when he followed Palenko to the hospital.

MCDONALD confesses to FOYLE that he was at university with Evelyn Green and they were in love. He recruited her as a Soviet agent – both sickened by the British class system. He killed Palenko because he was going to betray the cause and Evelyn Green – his contact at the Foreign Office. Evelyn Green was feeding Palenko the addresses of the MI5 safe houses – Palenko was an assassin sent to Britain to kill Russian defectors.

MCDONALD tells FOYLE that Galt had ordered him to arrest Evelyn Green, but instead he fed MI5 the address for another Evelyn Green, hoping to buy his comrade and lover time to escape the country. He escorted Evelyn to Berlin and once she was safe, quickly returned to England to kill Palenko. But Palenko escaped to the hospital where Dr Ross treated him. MCDONALD tells FOYLE he is sad that he won’t live to see the day that Communism will prevail. GALT is disgusted by his colleague’s betrayal. FOYLE leaves the room and overhears a shot ring out – it’s not clear if MCONDALD has shot himself, or if he was shot by GALT.

The by-election result is read out and ADAM wins. GLENVIL HARRIS and SAM are delighted. SAM quickly grabs a moment with ADAM and kisses him tenderly.

Back at MI5, FOYLE tells MYERSON that Evelyn Green does not want to talk about her experience at Barton Hall so there is no need to silence her. MYERSON is pleased and he tells FOYLE that he wants Danny Willis to apply for a job in MI5. FOYLE is perturbed that MYERSON won’t shut down Barton Hall – he can’t agree with the methods used there, but MYERSON tells him the work has saved the lives of agents in the field. He wants FOYLE to remain with MI5 and FOYLE agrees but on one condition – he wants MRS ROSS to be given leave to remain in England. MYERSON agrees.

MRS ROSS opens a letter which tells her she can remain in England.

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Perdita
24-03-2013, 06:26
3/3
7th April 2013

Short synopsis:

In this final episode, Foyle is drawn into the bizarre murder of an ex-Nazi defector and leading expert on Soviet intelligence who had been working for MI5. Meanwhile Sam’s husband, Adam, is so pre-occupied with his new political job, she worries whether she’ll be able to share some big news with him...

PART ONE

SIR ALEC MYERSON, the head of MI5, is with FOYLE at Leconfield House. He tells FOYLE that Professor Van Haren is actually a high-ranking Nazi whose real name is KARL STRASSER. MI5 are protecting him because he is a valuable intelligence asset, but someone is now trying to kill him and he wants FOYLE to investigate.

ADAM WAINWRIGHT is busy as a new MP listening to the grievances of his constituents. A man called GEOFFREY HELLIWELL requests to see him, but he is from Devizes, not London. He tells ADAM his farm was bought under a compulsory purchase order during the war, but now the government is refusing to sell it back to him for a reasonable price. He appeals for Adam’s help; the Minister involved in the deal is Adam’s boss, HUGH ROPER.

SAM WAINWRIGHT visits a hospital for tests. Later she sadly tells FOYLE how busy ADAM is with his work and how she misses their old life. Together they visit Professor Van Haren’s boarding house but the Professor is not there and instead they meet his landlady, MRS BRENDA STEVENS. After leaving their card, another tenant, MARK PARRY-JONES, questions BRENDA on who the visitors are. After finding out Foyle is with MI5, he teases Brenda about an indiscretion with Professor Van Haren before telling her not to worry because they both want him dead.

PART TWO

ROPER is annoyed that the RAF strikes are worsening and getting bad publicity in the papers. ADAM mentions the Helliwell case to him but the Minister, ROPER, says the contract holds, and a local land-agent, George Gibson, re-valued the land fairly and Helliwell simply doesn’t want to pay the price.

GEOFFREY HELLIWELL leaves his hotel only to be beaten up and robbed violently.
VALENTINE talks to FOYLE about KARL STRASSER and his Nazi background. He doesn’t agree with MI5 giving him a new identity, and nor does he like STRASSER.

ADAM visits HELLIWELL in hospital to find out more about the robbery. HELLIWELL thinks ADAM has orchestrated the attack on him but ADAM denies any link, shocked HELLIWELL could think such a thing. Later, he tells SAM he doesn’t think ROPER is connected to the attack, but there is something fishy about the price of the Helliwell’s land rising so dramatically. SAM offers to help ADAM find the land agent, GIBSON. Perhaps he knows something.

THOMAS NELSON revisits the school where he used to teach before the war. He is to be re-interviewed for his old job. But during the interview, he catches sight of a picture of some sunflowers and again his mind flashes back to a sunlit field of the flowers, although this time we catch a glimpse of Nazi uniform in shot. Realising he is mentally scarred, the HEADMASTER kindly decides THOMAS might not be quite ready to teach again, but asks him to keep in touch.

CHARLOTTE (an MI5 secretary) tells FOYLE that VAN HAREN would like to meet with him later that day. FOYLE arrives to meet VAN HAREN who is nervous and upset by what he thinks have been attempts by a man to follow him. He tells FOYLE about his experience of the war, and escaping Germany after the Allied invasion. He thinks a bullet left at the boarding house indicates his life is in danger, so Foyle tells him lightly that perhaps he should move house. VAN HAREN think FOYLE is not taking his allegation seriously and is annoyed.

LIEUTENANT GENERAL HOYT JACKSON and RAY DONOVAN from the US EMBASSY visit HILDA PIERCE and SIR ALEC at MI5. They want KARL STRASSER brought in for war crimes, but PIERCE denies MI5 know anything of his current whereabouts. After they’ve left, SIR ALEC tells PIERCE he’s unhappy about lying to the Americans.

VAN HAREN returns to his boarding house later that night to find a sinister dried sunflower placed on his pillow. We see a flashback to the field of sunflowers again.

PART THREE

The next day, VAN HAREN shows FOYLE the sunflower in his room, and tells him ‘Sunflower’ was the name of a military operation in France during the war, but he denies being present when the offensive took place. FOYLE wonders if one of the other residents in the boarding house could be responsible, but VAN HAREN thinks it could be someone in MI5 – either way his life is in danger. Outside, PARRY JONES, another of the boarding house’s residents, makes a pass at SAM who rebuffs him. FOYLE interviews BRENDA STEVENS but she denies knowing anything about the dried Sunflower. She tells him a young woman did call for VAN HAREN a few days ago, wearing a uniform from the hospital of St Mary’s.

ROPER and ADAM discuss the growing crisis with the RAF mutiny in the Far East.
SAM asks CHARLOTTE to help her locate someone – GEORGE GIBSON, the land agent involved in the land deal.

PARRY JONES and EDWARD TCHOREK (a young Polish war survivor) are playing chess in the pub as FOYLE talks to them. PARRY JONES confides that he worked in SOE (intelligence) during the war, but that he knows nothing about the threats towards VAN HAREN - or an operation called ‘Sunflower’.

COLONEL JACKSON and DONOVAN talk to PIERCE once again – they won’t let her stand in the way of bringing STRASSER to justice, and use the threat of US loans being withdrawn to make her think again. PIERCE watches them leave, unmoved.

MARY NELSON says goodbye to her brother THOMAS as she is going to work, worried he may be depressed again. She is obviously the young nurse BRENDA STEVENS was talking about with FOYLE as she’s wearing a nurse’s uniform. After his sister has left, THOMAS makes his way to his bed where he pulls out a gun – is he suicidal or about to take revenge?

Perdita
24-03-2013, 06:26
PART FOUR

THOMAS leaves his high-rise flat in a hurry. Where is he going?
ROPER is interviewed by the BBC about the conditions RAF personnel find themselves in the Far East. Leaving the building with ADAM, he’s accosted by HELLIWELL on crutches who warns him he will get to the truth about his land and the thugs who attacked him - one way or another.

VAN HAREN and FOYLE talk again. FOYLE advises him again to move but the German is reluctant to leave England, annoyed FOYLE appears to be doing so little. As they talk, FOYLE and VAN HAREN are shot at by an unseen assailant, and VAN HAREN sustains a small bloody scratch to his wrist. He pleads with FOYLE to do something – what more evidence does he need?

Outside St Mary’s hospital, BRENDA STEVENS points out to SAM the young nurse who visited the boarding house asking for PROFESSOR VAN HAREN. SAM follows her back to her home, a modern high rise flat.

VALENTINE asks FOYLE about the shooting on VAN HAREN – he reminds FOYLE that he doesn’t fit in, and that MI5 shouldn’t be protecting a bloody Nazi. FOYLE then reports to SIR ALEC who’s annoyed about the attack on VAN HAREN. FOYLE tells him about the Sunflower operation in France, but SIR ALEC and PIERCE remain tight- lipped as to whether they know what he’s talking about. They decide 24-hour protection is the best course of action to protect VAN HAREN (STRASSER). As he leaves, they ask FOYLE about authorising a tap on a GEORGE GIBSON. Taken by surprise, FOYLE makes up a quick excuse and leaves.

He later confronts SAM who tells him why she is looking into GIBSON, and they agree they’ll go and interview him to find out if there’s any truth to Helliwell’s allegation against ROPER. In his garden, GIBSON is polite when they ask him about the Helliwell land deal in Devizes, but he denies remembering such a deal taking place. Unseen by SAM and FOYLE inside the house, GIBSON picks up the telephone – secret service officials are listening in and they make a note of who he calls and what is said...

BRENDA STEPHENS gladly says goodbye to VAN HAREN when he tells her he is going to the seaside for a few days. We watch him walk to his car, but as his protection officers walk away there is a massive explosion – VAN HAREN has been killed by a car bomb.

PART FIVE

ADAM tells his wife that he’s horrified that she has tapped GEORGE GIBSON using her MI5 powers – what if SAM loses her job?

VALENTINE and FOYLE are examining the remains of Van Haren’s car when PIERCE arrives in her own car. She tells them that SIR ALEC wants to see FOYLE immediately as they were about to hand VAN HAREN over to the Americans. At the embassy, FOYLE is obliged to tell JACKSON and DONOVAN about the history of threats against VAN HAREN – and the attempt to shoot him before the bomb was placed in his car. In return, the Americans tell FOYLE about a military operation, ‘Sunflower’, in Northern France, 1944. Twenty-six American soldiers died in a war crime, and they think that STRASSER/VAN HAREN was involved in some capacity. PIERCE says that may be true, but now STRASSER is dead, the matter is now closed.
Outside, PIERCE is furious that FOYLE has made her look a fool in front of the Americans by not preventing the assassination of STRASSER.

Back at the boarding house, FOYLE interrogates BRENDA STEVENS who says that she is not upset VAN HAREN is dead. He tells her he knows that she knew he was really a German, not a Dutch national. STEVENS tells him he is right, and that they had a brief affair. In the pub, PARRY JONES also tells FOYLE he knew VAN HAREN was in fact a German Nazi officer – he had found the Nazi identity pass in his room – he was really KARL STRASSER, a German Nazi, not the Dutch national PETER VAN HAREN. PARRY JONES denies planting the hand-grenade in Strasser’s car but it’s clear he is also angry with MI5 for disbanding his war-time intelligence unit (SOE) – perhaps this is his motive for killing Strasser.

In their parliamentary office, ADAM re-questions ROPER about the land deal in the light of Sam’s new evidence from the phone tap. From the recorded conversation, he tells ROPER that he knows that GIBSON doubled the land value to prevent the Helliwells from buying their land back. And furthermore, that ROPER was the onegiving GIBSON his instructions – ADAM tells ROPER that he has a telephone transcript from the previous day to prove it (the one recorded by Sam). ROPER is shocked when ADAM suggests that he may be corrupt – ROPER tells him that it is in fact HELLIWELL who’s crooked because he wanted to sell the land for redevelopment when ROPER wanted to keep the land for food production. ROPER asks ADAM to leave his office, sickened that ADAM should think he corrupted the land deal for the money.

PART SIX

SAM and FOYLE visit the young nurse, MARY NELSON, in the hope she can shed light on Van Haren/Strasser’s assassination. She tells them she’s worried about her brother, TOMMY, who had become obsessed with the Dutch man living at the boarding house (Van Haren). He hasn’t been home for two days, and is suffering from shell-shock after being shot in the head during the war. She tells them he could have returned to a hospital which treated him after being wounded in action.

FOYLE and SAM arrive at Norwell Hospital and Thomas’ doctor confirms he is there - but in a dangerous state. FOYLE asks to interview Thomas and reluctantly his doctor agrees. THOMAS tells FOYLE about his experience as a Captain in the Royal Artillery in France – he was attached to a US Field Artillery Unit when they came under attack and became trapped behind enemy lines in a placed called Mortain. The US soldiers surrendered to save themselves but were rounded up by the Germans who then machine-gunned the unit. The officer in charge was KARL STRASSER (VAN HAREN). The sole survivor of the shooting, THOMAS tells FOYLE how he managed to escape into a field of Sunflowers. It was in the field that STRASSER shot him in the head, leaving him for dead, but the bullet did not kill him and he survived – he recognised his shooter as the same man he saw coming out of a library in London a few weeks ago. FOYLE asks THOMAS if he killed STRASSER and he tells him ‘yes’.

ROPER dictates a letter of resignation to his secretary; he will not stand at the next election. GLENVIL HARRIS (Adam’s political colleague) is furious with ADAM for Roper’s resignation, and tells him that no one in the party will want to work with him after snitching on a good and capable man. Stung, ADAM wonders if GLENVIL helped arrange the attack on Helliwell, but GLENVIL shows him a police report which shows the attack on Helliwell was an ordinary mugging by a well-known gang. ADAM is mortified.
SAM tries to comfort ADAM and tells him ROPER was a crook, politicians shouldn’t lie - whatever their motives. She respects ADAM for what he’s done and his belief in creating a better world. She tells him that she is having a baby – they’re thrilled.

PART SEVEN

VALENTINE and FOYLE examine the burnt body of STRASSER/VAN HAREN at the morgue. They can see an SS tattoo on his arm – but FOYLE is thinking about something else.
Back at Leconfield House, VALENTINE and FOYLE talk to SIR ALEC who’s angry that they have visited the morgue without his permission. FOYLE asks SIR ALEC if he’s been behind all the decisions to hide STRASSER from the Americans when he is a known war criminal. He tells SIR ALEC about the evidence they heard from Thomas and how the young soldier thinks he killed Strasser, but FOYLE knows Thomas did not in fact kill Strasser, and that he did not plant the grenade in the car – it was MI5. PIERCE tells FOYLE his accusation is absurd, but FOYLE knows STRASSER is still alive and well in spite of there being a headless corpse in the morgue with Strasser’s Nazi tattoo. Foyle tells them this was a clever touch but that they missed one thing – the graze on his wrist from when he was shot at by Thomas was not visible on the corpse masquerading as Strasser.

We flashback to Strasser getting into his car outside Mrs Steven’s boarding house, but this time we see him driving off in another as his own is exploded. PIERCE finally gives in and tells FOYLE that STRASSER is indeed in a safe place, he is an invaluable source of information and he must be protected for the greater good from the Americans.

The next day, PIERCE is at an airport and STRASSER is with her. A plane lands to take him away. We flashback to THOMAS’ body lying bloodied in the Sunflower field in France. Again, we see STRASSER raise the gun at Thomas and shoot.

Back at the airport, FOYLE, driven by SAM arrives in a car. PIERCE is surprised to see him and STRASSER makes a joke about FOYLE wanting to say goodbye. He tells FOYLE that the shooting was an act of war, as an SS officer he had to dirty his hands to prove his loyalty to Himmler. Furthermore, in military retreat, he couldn’t have taken twenty-six American soldiers prisoner, even if had wanted to.

Suddenly another car pulls up – it’s the Americans. PIERCE tells FOYLE he is a traitor to the service – but VALENTINE intervenes and says it was him who tipped off HOYT JACKSON and RAY DONOVAN – STRASSER is led away, watched by a crestfallen and humiliated PIERCE.
We cut to FOYLE in the back of his car as SAM drives. He looks tired. She asks him where he would like go and he replies; ‘That is a good question.’
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alan45
12-12-2014, 16:13
Michael Kitchen returns to the role of Christopher Foyle, a Senior Intelligence Officer for the secret service, MI5, in this new series of ITV’s award-winning drama Foyle’s War.

The three films follow Foyle’s battles in the dangerous world of espionage, at a time in our country’s history when political and foreign governmental relationships were delicately balanced.

Foyle’s War is created and written by celebrated novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz OBE and as with the previous series, is inspired by real events in the early Cold War.

The guest stars include John Mahoney (Frasier, In Treatment, Hot In Cleveland), Richard Lintern (Silent Witness), Nigel Lindsay (Four Lions), Jaime Winstone (Mad Dogs) and William Postlethwaite (Midsomer Murders, Suspicions of Mr Whicher).

The three new two-hour films once again star Honeysuckle Weeks as Samantha Stewart, Daniel Weyman as Adam Wainwright, Ellie Haddington as Hilda Pierce, Tim McMullan as Valentine and Rupert Vandsittart as Sir Alec Myerson.

With each episode scripted by Anthony Horowitz the stories explore the world of the American and German businesses that were accused of fuelling Hitler’s War Machine and will reflect on the tangled web of promises to the Jews to create a state of Israel in British Palestine. The major blight of post war Britain, the Black Market, will be focused on as will some of the darkest secrets from operations conducted by the British Special Operations Executive during WW2.

Episode one: High Castle Sun 04 Jan 2015
Time: 8.00pm - 10.00pm

Episode one, High Castle, focuses on the American oil companies who worked closely with IG Farben (Germany’s biggest oil company) to provide fuel essential for Hitler’s War Machine.
This episode touches on the Nuremberg trials and the lesser known story of thirty executives from IG Farben who built their own concentration camp near Auschwitz called Monowitz.

Foyle is drawn into their world when a London University Professor, William Knowles, is found dead in a park after working as a translator in Germany.

It looks like he may have taken a bribe to carry information back to England for a suspected Nazi war criminal; Herman Linz. When the Nazi war criminal is found dead, Foyle is under no illusion that foul play is behind the academic’s murder.

Sam decides to step up her role at work and volunteers for a risky undercover job and Foyle unaware of her pregnancy agrees.

Guest stars include John Mahoney, Nigel Lindsay, Jaime Winstone, Joseph Drake, Amanda Lawrence and Hermione Gulliford.

alan45
12-12-2014, 16:13
Michael Kitchen returns to the role of Christopher Foyle, a Senior Intelligence Officer for the secret service, MI5, in this new series of ITV’s award-winning drama Foyle’s War.

The three films follow Foyle’s battles in the dangerous world of espionage, at a time in our country’s history when political and foreign governmental relationships were delicately balanced.

Foyle’s War is created and written by celebrated novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz OBE and as with the previous series, is inspired by real events in the early Cold War.

The guest stars include John Mahoney (Frasier, In Treatment, Hot In Cleveland), Richard Lintern (Silent Witness), Nigel Lindsay (Four Lions), Jaime Winstone (Mad Dogs) and William Postlethwaite (Midsomer Murders, Suspicions of Mr Whicher).

The three new two-hour films once again star Honeysuckle Weeks as Samantha Stewart, Daniel Weyman as Adam Wainwright, Ellie Haddington as Hilda Pierce, Tim McMullan as Valentine and Rupert Vandsittart as Sir Alec Myerson.

With each episode scripted by Anthony Horowitz the stories explore the world of the American and German businesses that were accused of fuelling Hitler’s War Machine and will reflect on the tangled web of promises to the Jews to create a state of Israel in British Palestine. The major blight of post war Britain, the Black Market, will be focused on as will some of the darkest secrets from operations conducted by the British Special Operations Executive during WW2.

Episode one: High Castle Sun 04 Jan 2015
Time: 8.00pm - 10.00pm

Episode one, High Castle, focuses on the American oil companies who worked closely with IG Farben (Germany’s biggest oil company) to provide fuel essential for Hitler’s War Machine.
This episode touches on the Nuremberg trials and the lesser known story of thirty executives from IG Farben who built their own concentration camp near Auschwitz called Monowitz.

Foyle is drawn into their world when a London University Professor, William Knowles, is found dead in a park after working as a translator in Germany.

It looks like he may have taken a bribe to carry information back to England for a suspected Nazi war criminal; Herman Linz. When the Nazi war criminal is found dead, Foyle is under no illusion that foul play is behind the academic’s murder.

Sam decides to step up her role at work and volunteers for a risky undercover job and Foyle unaware of her pregnancy agrees.

Guest stars include John Mahoney, Nigel Lindsay, Jaime Winstone, Joseph Drake, Amanda Lawrence and Hermione Gulliford.

Perdita
16-12-2014, 06:45
11th January


Episode 2 - Trespass

Trespass is the second episode of the series and explores the tangled web of British promises to create a state of Israel in British Palestine.

When a young man is assaulted in the grounds of a university, Foyle wonders if the attack is racially motivated as the victim is the wealthy son of a high profile Jewish businessman.

Tensions are also starting to run high in London with Guy Spencer, a charismatic right-wing leader, but it looks like there may be more to his prison release than meets the eye, and Spencer is in fact being set up to take the spotlight off a dangerous espionage operation involving MI6.

Sam meanwhile is determined to help a young boy she meets in hospital suffering from whooping cough; the NHS is still to come on-line and she sees that Adam’s constituents are in need of greater state care after the deprivations of the war.

Guest stars include Richard Lintern, William Postlethwaite, Alexander Arnold, Amber Rose Revah, Finbar Lynch and John Heffernan.

Perdita
05-01-2015, 12:41
18 January

Last in series


Episode 3 - Elise

In the third episode of the series, Foyle must re- examine Hilda Pierce’s top secret role during the war within SOE (Special Operations Executive) when an attempted assassination is carried out on Hilda outside MI5.

SOE French section sent many agents behind enemy lines and Foyle suspects the shooting may be connected to the hunt for a traitor within SOE called Plato who could have been behind the deaths of nine agents in France.

Meanwhile, Sam is faced with a dilemma when Adam and Glenvil decide to crack down on the blackmarket in East Peckham resulting in Adam’s arrest when some illegal cigarettes are planted in their home.

Guest stars include Katherine Press, Emma Fielding, Tony Clay, Leo Gregory and Conleth Hill.

Glen1
12-01-2015, 19:38
There is to be no more Foyle's War on conclusion of the present series. Confirmed by the author. Anthony Horowitz . Great shame .Never been a poor episode. Best to end on a high I guess. ..:(

parkerman
12-01-2015, 19:54
Yes, I agree. Never a poor episode. Excellent drama and extremely well acted.

alan45
13-01-2015, 02:50
Yes, I agree. Never a poor episode. Excellent drama and extremely well acted.

Michael Kitchen played the part to perfection. The scripts were well written and the storylines believable. Well done to all concerned.

alan45
13-01-2015, 02:50
Yes, I agree. Never a poor episode. Excellent drama and extremely well acted.

Michael Kitchen played the part to perfection. The scripts were well written and the storylines believable. Well done to all concerned.

lizann
30-07-2016, 00:43
honeysuckle has been found safe

Perdita
30-07-2016, 05:18
honeysuckle has been found safe I m glad about that, I was worried