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Foyle's War

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Foyle's War	comment	British crime drama, debuted in 2002, starring Michael Kitchen as DCS Christopher Foyle, a high-ranking detective in Hastings during World War II. When his requests for transfer into the war effort are denied, the modest, mild-tempered Foyle begrudgingly returns to his duties on the Home Front, only to find that his job is more in-demand than ever, as people all over are taking advantage of the panic, confusion and chaos caused by the outbreak of war to try and get away with murder — in many cases literally.Foyle is assisted in his investigations by his driver, Samantha Stewart (Honeysuckle Weeks), a perky Mechanized Transport Corps (MTC) officer transferred to the police for the duration owing to Foyle's inabilitynote Apparently to drive, not an uncommon thing then, note Samâ€™s actual role is to ensure that Foyle has a car available when needed, as well as drive - cars then, needing regular and frequent maintenance, and it is a pool car, not specifically allocated to him and who eagerly involves herself — at times to Foyle's exasperation — in the investigations that arise, and his sergeant, Paul Milner, an ex-soldier who rejoined the police after his leg was shot off during the Battle of Norway. Another recurring character was Foyle's son Andrew, a dashing Spitfire pilot with the RAF.The show often attempts to subvert the traditional myth of wartime Britain as a place where everyone pulled together for the common good, showing how scheming, cowardly, cynical and desperate people at the time could be, and the various ethical and moral dilemmas that fighting against the Nazis raised; a common theme raised in the series is the ethics of police work and crime during wartime, with many of the more cynical characters querying the validity of investigating seemingly trivial crimes (and even murder), during a war that killed thousands every day. As such, along with the murders and intrigues standard for the genre, early episodes in particular often focus on draft-dodgers, fascist sympathizers, black-marketeers, looters from bombed-out houses, the unfair treatment of conscientious objectors, homosexuals, enemy aliens and so forth. Episodes are often themed around a particular event or issue that occurred during the war (such as the Blitz, Dunkirk, the entry of the Russians and the Americans into the war and the secret weapons and tactics employed by the British during the time), with Foyle often coming into conflict with both higher-ups and Secret Service operatives when his investigations begin to touch upon matters which the War Office would prefer were kept secret.When ITV decided to stop making the series and make two final episodes, one each for 1944 and 1945, there were many complaints; series creator Anthony Horowitz certainly wasn't happy. In the event, it was not only given a concluding season, ending on V-E Day, but subsequently renewed for three more seasons set in the war's aftermath: in the final two seasons, Foyle, having retired from the police force, is recruited by MI5 and becomes involved in the early days of the Cold War.
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Foyle's War / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
Foyle's War / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Foyle makes a few attempts to transfer from the police into the armed services over the course of the series. Inevitably, that week's investigation will either piss off (or implicate) whomever has the authority to bring it about, and he remains in Hastings.
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Foyle's War / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Foyle's War / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Christopher Foyle is named for a bookshop owner who Horowitz thought had a good name for a 1940's detective (Christina Foyle, who passed the shop to her nephew Christopher when she died). The real Christopher Foyle appears in "Bad Blood" very briefly when the fictional Foyle says hello and that he got "the book you sent." Anthony Horowitz is the ship's officer who takes Foyle's ticket at the end of "The Hide."
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Foyle's War / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Foyle's War / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Milner in the first episode and Andrew in "Enemy Fire". DCS Meredith is in one throughout the episode he is featured in, out of grief as he lost his two sons in the war.
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Foyle's War / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Foyle's War / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: In "Elise," Ian Woodhead complains that Hilda Pierce was emotionally invested in her female agents, which is confirmed during the flashbacks. As we discover, Woodhead was responsible for getting several of those agents killed.
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Foyle's War / int_1abf68d5	type	You Meddling Kids
Foyle's War / int_1abf68d5	comment	You Meddling Kids: A group of schoolchildren gathering salvage for a school prize manage to collect papers that prove Reginald Walker is secretly trading with the Nazis. He manages to wriggle out of punishment, but Foyle finds another way to get him.
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Foyle's War / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Foyle's War / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Foyle, who is defined almost totally by his self-control. Others too, but Milner for instance has a lapse in "Bleak Midwinter" to show that O.O.C. Is Serious Business, whereas with Foyle there simply never is any OOC. Hilda Pierce in the postwar episodes.
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Foyle's War / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Foyle's War / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Jane, Milner's first wife, is horrified and disgusted by his missing leg and refuses to even look at his prosthetic, much less let him talk about how he feels about being an amputee. She leaves for an extended stay with her sister, which eventually becomes a formal separation.
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Foyle's War / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Foyle's War / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "A Lesson in Murder" ends with Mrs. Gascgoine shouting "You too shall receive justice!" when she shoots her husband for admitting that he had murdered the 11-year-old evacuee staying with them—the fake threat that Judge Gascgoine had created in his plot to lure the boy into a deadly trap.
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Foyle's War / int_239ba401	type	Doesn't Trust Those Guys
Foyle's War / int_239ba401	comment	Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Obviously nobody likes "Jerry" when the Blitz is at its hottest and people in England are dying or losing their houses every night. Episodes set later in the war and post-war have various characters express the opinion that they ought to wipe the Germans out completely once newsreels begin to publicize the The Holocaust and the Nazis' manifold other crimes against humanity. This tends to complicate things for Foyle if a German (or someone who merely has a German name) is killed or otherwise involved in his current investigation.
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Foyle's War / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Foyle's War / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead
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Foyle's War / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Foyle's War / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Former SS officer-turned-MI5 asset Karl Strasser refers to himself as a supposed SchreibtischtÃ¤ter, or "desk criminal," a term widely used to describe the bureaucrats of the Holocaust who organized the killings but did not partake in any violence themselves. However, the term did not garner widespread use in Germany until the 1960's, after Hannah Arendt used it to describe Adolf Eichmann.
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Foyle's War / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Foyle's War / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Mr. Bennett, the man who runs the fuel depot in "Among the Few," likes to get overly friendly with his female workers and ogles them through the blinds of his office. Which is why his wife plans to frame him for racketeering.
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Foyle's War / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Foyle's War / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Milner's sergeant being obviously terrified of the horses when Milner interviews a stablehand in "The Hide."
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Foyle's War / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Foyle's War / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Major Wesker in "Killing Time". He pretends to be sympathetic to Gabe Kelly and his girlfriend Mandy Dean, saying he'll help them get married and start a life in America. Instead we find out he never intended to help, and in addition to stringing them along blackmailed Mandy for sex before murdering her and framing Gabe when she tried to turn the tables.
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Foyle's War / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Foyle's War / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: In one episode, Foyle instructs Sam to stay in the car because whenever she doesn't, she gets into trouble.
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Foyle's War / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Foyle's War / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Andrew's friend Rex is forced to admit to Foyle that he's gay (and in love with Andrew) and dies on a mission shortly thereafter. It's implied this was suicide; Andrew describes watching his plane go down and being surprised not to see him bail out. The only other time homosexuality is mentioned, the guy in question is already dead... until "The Eternity Ring", where one of Foyle's MI5 handlers turns out to be gay, and survives the episode — with an undeserved beating, but also with career intact.
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Foyle's War / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Foyle's War / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Foyle, on occasion. In "The French Drop," Col. Wintringham thinks that he can handle Foyle like any other rural copper, despite Hilda Pierce's continual insistence that Foyle is clever, persistent, and dangerous, and is about to call down to the guard to let him in.
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Foyle's War / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Foyle's War / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Repeatedly discussed when Foyle is asked (or required) to let off a murderer because they're vital to the war effort, or when the British side starts adopting morally questionable tactics, because if you're fighting the Nazis for their horrific immorality you have to be careful about which of your own principles you're willing to sacrifice. Foyle nearly always comes down on the side of doing what his job as a policeman requires regardless of the "greater good."
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Foyle's War / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
Foyle's War / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Sam Stewart.
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Foyle's War / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Foyle's War / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: Mrs. Meredith tells Foyle and Milner that she has no feelings left after the death of her two sons in the war. This is why she isn't distraught or even upset that her husband—who was the same way—has been murdered.
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Foyle's War / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Foyle's War / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Milner's argument with his wife in "Bleak Midwinter" somehow turns into a "violent" altercation by the time it reaches Foyle's office, according to the witnesses in the Cafe.
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Foyle's War / int_2d1d46bb	type	Lotsa People Try to Dun It
Foyle's War / int_2d1d46bb	comment	Lotsa People Try to Dun It: In one episode, the Victim of the Week is left incapacitated but not dead by a blow to the head from one intended killer, then dragged off and drowned by a second, unrelated assailant.
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Foyle's War / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Foyle's War / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Andrew is subject to one in "Eagle Day" when he starts getting too curious about why one of the RADAR plotters killed herself. Graham plants documents in his locker and uses a college misstep to detain him as a suspected spy and keep the Lucy Smith matter hushed up.
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Foyle's War / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Foyle's War / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The culprit in "Bleak Midwinter". Before they know Harry's the killer, Sam describes him as "putting on an act" at his girlfriend's funeral. He poisons his girlfriend for wanting out of a safebreaking scheme, then kills his girlfriend's old friend—Jane Milner—for getting a letter that might implicate him. His boss at the mechanic's suggests that the conscription board took a look at him and decided they didn't need his help. Later, Harry freaks out when Sam coincidentally visits their shop and accidentally stabs his own partner-in-crime when trying to get to her. He finally tries to escape capture by taking a hostage and then blowing himself, herself, and Detective Foyle up. Fortunately, the "nitroglycerin" his girlfriend stole for him had been denaturalized by her beforehand.
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Foyle's War / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Foyle's War / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Sam in "Invasion." As soon as she gets a letter from Andrew saying he's breaking up to date someone at his new base, she accepts the invitation of an American soldier who's been flirting with her. Foyle is quietly but visibly irritated with her until she explains that Andrew gave her the push, and he apologizes for making judgments.
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Foyle's War / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Foyle's War / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: In "Trespass", a British government black ops unit blows up ships earmarked to carry Jewish refugees to Palestine, posing as an Arab terrorist organisation called the Friends of Arab Palestine.
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Foyle's War / int_2e5e04c0	type	Must Make Amends
Foyle's War / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends: Stephen Beck is racing against the clock to bring down the Walkers before he's sent overseas to raise a German resistance. He holds himself responsible after the spy he planted in their office and later the burglar he sent to their estate are murdered, but feels secure in handing the matter over to Foyle.
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Foyle's War / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
Foyle's War / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Foyle is often one of the most well-adjusted people around. Milner is a bit closer to this trope, at least initially — you don't get your leg shot off without coming away with some issues, and he and his wife have problems in their marriage beyond the difficulties that this generates — but he still manages to come to terms with it all remarkably well. DCS David Fielding is an example of a policeman with a path similar to Foyle's, but whose experiences have led him to become burned out and caused him to lose the desire to investigate. DCS Meredith is a subversion, as he was appointed to the Hastings office merely by his reputation alone as an excellent detective even though he shows the opposite when he is there as he is unable/unwilling to pursue investigations due to the overwhelming grief caused by the death of his two sons.
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Foyle's War / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Foyle's War / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: A captured Nazi spy who has witnessed a murder is convinced to help Foyle, despite having every reason not to want to do with him or his case, because Foyle appeals to his sense of justice; what he saw was nothing to do with the war, but murder plain and simple.
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Foyle's War / int_327b5216	type	Black Market
Foyle's War / int_327b5216	comment	Black Market: Everything from food to lumber and metal to silk stockings.
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Foyle's War / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Foyle's War / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: The opening titles for the post-War/Cold War seasons, and associated arrangement of the theme music, are noticeably darker and less upbeat than the War years.
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Foyle's War / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Foyle's War / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Milner has the tendency of behaving like this when he comes in contact with Foyle and Sam after he's put in charge of the Brighton office. He disrespects both of them — and immediately regrets it, but takes his sweet time to apologize due to the case at hand.
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Foyle's War / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Foyle's War / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Karl Strasser's "murder" in "Sunflower," arranged by British Intelligence so they can sneak him out of the country.
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Foyle's War / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Foyle's War / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: At the end of "War of Nerves," Captain Hammond asks which of the Talbots' heavies tortured and killed Ernie, and replies "I'm glad you're here" when one of them gives a nod of acknowledgement. Because the briefcase of "returned money" is rigged to explode, and now he'll be able to take the murderer with him.
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Foyle's War / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
Foyle's War / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Sam.
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Foyle's War / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Foyle's War / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Judge Gascoigne does this to get rid of Joe, the Blitz evacuee. He fakes a threatening phone call asking him to come to the summer house but doesn't go, knowing that it will excite the boy's curiosity. Sure enough, Joe sneaks into the house and sets off the grenade rigged to the door.
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Foyle's War / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Foyle's War / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Several episode titles. "The French Drop" is a well-known sleight of hand trick, but the episode revolves around a British agent killed after parachuting into France. "Bad Blood" refers both to the animosity between Ashford and Jenkins but also the anthrax contamination from the army experiments, which result in more literal bad blood when Sam is infectd.
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Foyle's War / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Foyle's War / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Examined. A running theme throughout the series is Foyle being asked why he's bothering to investigate petty smugglers and lone murders when they're in the biggest war the world has yet seen. But crime doesn't stop just because there's a war on, and often enough it ties directly into some crucial aspect of it. In "Fifty Ships," Foyle expresses his belief that the war begins with people like the one he's arresting at that moment—making the world around them that much worse by their actions on a small scale.
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Foyle's War / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Foyle's War / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Foyle also deduces that a prisoner was torturednote sprayed full-force with a fire hose, specifically from a brief Sherlock Scan of his cell. In that case, nobody involved in the torture actually had any questions they wanted answered — they were just doing it because the prisoner was a Conscientious Objector.
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Foyle's War / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Foyle's War / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The series finale, "Elise." Sam finally tells Foyle about the pregnancy and asks him to be godfather. However, Hilda Pierce commits suicide, taking Ian Woodhead with her, and Foyle's trust in Elizabeth Addis has been destroyed.
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Foyle's War / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Foyle's War / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The spy in "Plan of Attack" is Keppler, the German priest. The British agent at the mapmaking office had even dismissed him as too obvious.
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Foyle's War / int_424b665e	type	Heroes Gone Fishing
Foyle's War / int_424b665e	comment	Heroes Gone Fishing: Foyle enjoys fly-fishing; He and Major Kiefer get to enjoy a brief respite from their respective duties, and form a friendship, while enjoying a brief fishing trip. Which presumably also supplements their rationed diet, into the bargain.
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Foyle's War / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Foyle's War / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Averted in "Fifty Ships." English actor Henry Goodman plays American character Howard Paige and does a pretty decent job with the voice without going too overboard. Halfway in "Killing Time" with Sergeant Calhoun, who is supposed to be Southern but uses a standard-sounding American accent.
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Foyle's War / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Foyle's War / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In "Sunflower", Sir Alec continually reminds Foyle that he's no less happy about MI-5 protecting ex-Nazi Strasser, but Strasser is an excellent information source and they need to keep him out of the Americans' hands for the good of British Intelligence. At the end, it's Valentine who tips off the Americans about the faked death and where to pick Strasser up. Valentine may be a career intelligence agent, but relying on men like Strasser makes them no better than what they're supposedly fighting against.
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Foyle's War / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Foyle's War / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Foyle's rage is always supremely controlled and collected. He does admit to having "quite enjoyed" punching out a looting firefighter, though.
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Foyle's War / int_47741ade	type	Parachute in a Tree
Foyle's War / int_47741ade	comment	Parachute in a Tree: In one episode, a German WWII flier who is found hanging in a tree from his parachute after a plane crash is involved in a murder taking place at the same time. Played with: the soldier did not in fact land with the parachute. He was transported in by a submarine and then hung himself up in the tree to make it look like he had been in the plane. Played with in the same episode, where one of the crew members of the bomber is found exactly at the side of a tree with a parachute that had been tampered with to prevent deployment. Turns out, he grabbed the parachute that the navigator was supposed to take, as the latter wasn't supposed to get out alive should the plane be felled according to Luftwaffe emergency protocol.
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Foyle's War / int_47929816	type	Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Foyle's War / int_47929816	comment	Lights Off, Somebody Dies: "The White Feather."
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Foyle's War / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Foyle's War / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: "A Lesson in Murder". The boy Joe Pearson was the intended target of the grenade all along. Judge Gascoigne was already disgusted with having a lower-class boy running around his house, but decided that killing him was the only way to keep Joe from exposing that Gascoigne had been taking substantial bribes. In "War Games," Reginald Walker orders the dogs to be set on the children who grab the piles of (highly incriminating) papers he's having burnt, and one of them is badly bitten. Mrs. Walker, having already been called a stupid woman by her husband, leaves him for this.
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Foyle's War / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Foyle's War / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: It's a British murder mystery show and therefore required to show off some very fine manors belonging to the local Sir (or Lady) Whomever. Often the epicenter of the crimes committed, though a few are requisitioned by the War Office and turned into intelligence headquarters or medical centers.
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Foyle's War / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
Foyle's War / int_486b0458	comment	Draft Dodging: Featured several times. One episode featured a man with a heart condition who ran a racket where he would turn up at the medical exam of someone who had been called up, claiming to be that person, and fail due to his heart condition, thereby allowing them to avoid conscription.
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Foyle's War / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Foyle's War / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Milner points out to a shopkeeper that he's referring to his employee Matthew in the past tense.
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Foyle's War / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Foyle's War / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: In "Invasion," the farmer walks into the police station to confess Susan's murder because he'd told his nephew that she was cheating on him with an American soldier in the hopes that he'd rough the guy up and is horrified to discover her dead. The nephew sets the story straight, however; he had spent the evening verifiably drinking at a pub. Foyle doesn't press the charge of making a false confession, understanding why the man did it.
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Foyle's War / int_4bdbca25	type	Irregular Series
Foyle's War / int_4bdbca25	comment	Irregular Series: The three series released after the un-cancellation were more noticeably irregular in their release, with gaps of 2-3 years between series.
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Foyle's War / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Foyle's War / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Hilda Pierce in "Elise", after realizing who was responsible for the agents' deaths in France during the war.
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Foyle's War / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Foyle's War / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Colonel Winteringham in "The French Drop" is nowhere as clever as he believes himself to be. He insists Foyle is a dim rural cop who will be easy to mislead and control, was unable to find an interdepartmental spy even though Foyle exposed him with one conversation, and when he sent an agent on a mission with faulty intelligence, covered up the death in a sloppy way that had easily-exposed holes in the story. Hilda Pierce opines that he won't last long in the job.
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Foyle's War / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Foyle's War / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: Andrew does this as a way of apologizing to Sam in "All Clear."
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Foyle's War / int_505ec51b	type	Immigrant Patriotism
Foyle's War / int_505ec51b	comment	Immigrant Patriotism: Carlo Lucciano, an Italian restauranteur and Foyle's old friend, is quite loyal to his adopted country, disgusted with what's going on in his birthplace, and proud of his son for joining the British Army. None of this saves him from the angry mob that attacks his restaurant after Italy declares war on England.
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Foyle's War / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Foyle's War / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Justified, as it's times of war, so the punishments are greater. Although most of the culprits know that they are going to be punished for their misdeeds or are only tangentially related to the crime, Foyle usually lets them know of how much they are underestimating the charges they are about to face, which are usually much, much graver than the culprits initially thought; in a couple of instances, Foyle argues logically for the charges and tells the culprits that they're going to face the death penalty, much to their surprise.
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Foyle's War / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Foyle's War / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Averted in "The French Drop". There's also an odd subversion in "The Eternity Ring" in which there is a murder, but in plot terms it's almost completely irrelevant.
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Foyle's War / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Foyle's War / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Mrs. Milner returns home early to find Milner and Sam (staying over because her boarding house was bombed) dancing in the kitchen.
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Foyle's War / int_53b84f6d	type	Proscenium Reveal
Foyle's War / int_53b84f6d	comment	Proscenium Reveal: "The French Drop" begins with a prisoner being dragged off and having his head repeatedly shoved in a bathtub by Nazis trying to torture information out of him. After the man is taken back to his cell, the two Nazis go upstairs and begin a conversation in perfect English, revealing that they're British officers training agents to endure torture.
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Foyle's War / int_54689fb6	type	Eagle Squadron
Foyle's War / int_54689fb6	comment	Eagle Squadron: In "The Hide", Foyle investigates the case of James Devereaux, the son of a distinguished local family who will be tried for treason for belonging to the British Free Corps, a unit composed of Englishmen fighting for Nazi Germany. If found guilty, Devereaux will be sentenced to death. (The real-life BFC was a curious, very minor sideshow operated by the SS, which never actually saw combat. However Truth in Television in that at least one member was subsequently executed for treason.)
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Foyle's War / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Foyle's War / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: Foyle's previous Number Two, Captain Devlin, is much happier to reunite than Foyle is. Devlin planted evidence at the scene of a burglary because he wanted to guarantee a long conviction. Foyle discovered the fabrication after Devlin joined the Army and withdrew the evidence himself. He calls this unforgivable when he informs Devlin what happened, as the reason for his coolness.
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Foyle's War / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Foyle's War / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Stafford, one of the staff at the spy school in "The French Drop", talks with Foyle about some of the dirty tricks they're teaching students to use, and pointedly mentions carborundum powder for locking up car brakes. After Maccoby is arrested for attempting revenge by using it in Foyle's car, Foyle thanks Stafford for the warning but notes that it would have been more useful if it was less covert. In "War Games," Harry tells his sister Lucy that what he stole from the Walkers is being looked after by some friends and will only describe them as "busy." Foyle later helps her work out that he hid it in the beehive—busy bees.
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Foyle's War / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Foyle's War / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: "Killing Time" features a couple who hang about the woodland roads, with one pretending to be injured so that anyone driving past will stop to help. If they look wealthy, the couple then robs them at gunpoint with the question "did all right in the war, did you?" It turns out to be the husband and wife at Adam's guest house. The husband was badly traumatized after having to mercy kill a fellow soldier in a friendly fire attack and he and his wife were deeply embittered that the rich at home got richer during the war.
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Foyle's War / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Foyle's War / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: In "The French Drop", while Foyle is being given a tour of the British Special Operations Executive's headquarters, he sees an old "friend", ex-pimp Leo Mason, giving a lecture on the best ways of suborning enemy agents. As he explains, bribery is a popular option, but cautions them to remember that anyone willing to accept a bribe is, by his very nature, untrustworthy.
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Foyle's War / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Foyle's War / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: There are a few throughout the series. They tend to become corpses partway through the episode.
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Foyle's War / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Foyle's War / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Andrew and his friends.
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Foyle's War / int_5fb4ac87	type	Nazi Gold
Foyle's War / int_5fb4ac87	comment	Nazi Gold: The gold box in "War Games." It was given to Reginald Walker by the German trade office as a gift for the lovely trade deal they'd struck. It belonged to a Jewish family who were shot by the Nazis; they had used it to hold their prayer book. This fact nullifies Walker's protection from prosecution, and he shoots himself when Foyle leaves.
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Foyle's War / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Foyle's War / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Sam, who wheedles more than one invitation to dinner or tea out of Foyle.
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Foyle's War / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Foyle's War / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The children collecting scrap in "War Games" end up recovering the incriminating letter when they sneak onto the Walker estate for the big pile of papers that Simon is burning.
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Foyle's War / int_607ee22	type	Chute Sabotage
Foyle's War / int_607ee22	comment	Chute Sabotage: In "They Fought in the Fields", a German airman is found dead because his chute failed to open. Later events in the episode reveal that he grabbed the parachute intended for the plane's RADAR operator, which had been sabotaged so as to preserve the secrecy of German RADAR systems.
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Foyle's War / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
Foyle's War / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: In backstory; when Foyle was a soldier during the First World War, he had a relationship with a woman who had nursed him after he was injured.
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Foyle's War / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
Foyle's War / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure!: "Bad Blood" involves Sam getting anthrax when she cuts her hand on an infected farm. Once Foyle works out that it came from an Army experiment, he marches into their office and threatens to return with more police, more Army officials, and most especially the press unless they give him and antidote. The major's underlings, who have already argued with him over the wisdom of their experiments, give him a bottle of streptomycin but they warn him that it's not guaranteed to cure her, just that it might help. Fortunately, it does.
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Foyle's War / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Foyle's War / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: The murderer in "The Funk Hole" takes one from a resident and compels Vaudrey to swallow it by offering a choice between agonizing death by gunshot wounds or "going to sleep." However, the pill is not instantaneous as he had assumed, and Vaudrey lives long enough to be discovered by the landlady and utter some revealing Last Words.
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Foyle's War / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
Foyle's War / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: The firefighters in "Fifty Ships." Strictly speaking, not everyone they rob is dead, but it's about the same level of loathsome to rob houses that have just been bombed. And the crime carries the death penalty thanks to a recent revision of the law.
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Foyle's War / int_64972c10	type	Flashback Effects
Foyle's War / int_64972c10	comment	Flashback Effects: The flashbacks in "Elise" use an inversion of Monochrome Past, being brighter and more colorful than the scenes set in the drab present.
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Foyle's War / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Foyle's War / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Mandy Dean (a white Englishwoman) and Gabe Kelly (a black American soldier) in "Killing Time". Gabe gets beaten up after he and Mandy are seen dancing together.
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Foyle's War / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Foyle's War / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: The longest seasons are only four (movie-length) episodes each. The shortest is two.
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Foyle's War / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Foyle's War / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: A very serious version in "Invasion" with a pub that makes industrial-grade alcohol into whiskey for people who are tired of the weaker beer found under rationing—which is not safe no matter how you dilute or distill it. It severely sickens an American soldier, and it's the reason Milner's friend died. The alcohol made him blind so that he couldn't find the key to escape from a burning room.
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Foyle's War / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Foyle's War / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Played straight with some British-born Nazi sympathizers, subverted with a captured German spy of the My Country, Right or Wrong variety. The captured spy actually provides Foyle with useful evidence, entirely voluntarily, because even though they are at War, Murder is still Murder.
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Foyle's War / int_6d0c6ed6	type	Lead Police Detective
Foyle's War / int_6d0c6ed6	comment	Lead Police Detective: Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle has a higher rank than usual for the trope, but still gets out and investigates in person, due to the manpower shortage that has resulted from most of the able-bodied young men being shipped off to the War.
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Foyle's War / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Foyle's War / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Loads of people. Foyle particularly gets a lot of crooks to commit suicide after he lays out their schemes shattered before them. In "All Clear", Griffiths takes an overdose of sleeping pills because Kiefer kept hounding him over the Slapton Sands disaster. This definitively ends Kiefer's friendship with Foyle.
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Foyle's War / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Foyle's War / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: "All Clear", intended at the time to be the final episode, has a subplot about Milner's wife giving birth to their first child. "Elise", the actual final episode (so far), ends with Sam informing Foyle that she's pregnant and inviting him to be the child's godfather.
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Foyle's War / int_6e51da74	type	Hair-Trigger Explosive
Foyle's War / int_6e51da74	comment	Hair-Trigger Explosive: Much of "Bleak Midwinter" revolves around happenings in a munitions factory where the workers have to follow a very strict dresscode to avoid generating a disastrous spark. A young woman named Grace dies by dropping the shell she's working on, and the foreman is later criticized for letting her work when she was clearly unwell. Later, it's revealed that her boyfriend Harry pressured her into stealing nitroglycerin for a safebreaking plot. When he shakes the vial, Foyle realizes that it's been denatured—the compound would be far too volitile to have been transported otherwise.
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Foyle's War / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Foyle's War / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: A running theme of the series is that people on the Allied side, whether ordinary citizens or officials, did plenty of awful things too. Sometimes they're bad people taking the opportunity of war to cover their tracks, sometimes they've broken under the strain or personal tragedy, and numerous individuals try to argue with Foyle that the war and Britain's interests justify or necessitate their actions (be it covering up a spy's death from incompetent intelligence-gathering or deliberately cultivating anthrax). While he is sometimes overruled by higher-ranking officials, he never agrees that such immorality can be accepted.
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Foyle's War / int_7434bef6	type	SinsOfTheFather
Foyle's War / int_7434bef6	comment	Sins of the Father: In "The Hide", James Devereaux, the scion from a prominent family, faces conviction and execution for treason for being an Eagle Squadron member. Foyle uncovers that Devereaux, as a child, secretly witnessed his father beat his first wife (James' mother) to death, and the authorities swept the killing under the rug as an accident. So his joining the British Free Corps was an act of rebellion, and although he was a double-agent, being executed for treason was his way to disgrace his family to get back at his father. Faced with these facts, his father does the honorable thing for the first time in his life and confesses everything and is arrested, so that his son's actions become mitigating circumstances and gains a new trial.
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Foyle's War / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Foyle's War / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Happened to Andrew Foyle... kind of. He still did voiceovers in letters and such, and appeared for the intended final episode. Milner was Left Off The Bus when the setting changed to London in series 8. Desk Sergeant Rivers was replaced by the young, garrulous Brooks in series 5.
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Foyle's War / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Foyle's War / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Barbara in "They Fought in the Fields." She had been married to an abusive husband. However, befriending Foyle and discussing their losses (her a son, him his wife) softens her cynicism.
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Foyle's War / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Foyle's War / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Said word-for-word of Hilda Pierce in "Elise."
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Foyle's War / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Foyle's War / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: In "Broken Souls." Dr. Novak had invited Foyle to join him at the movies, and Foyle declined. When Novak left early—unable to watch the newsreel footage from the concentration camps—he ran into an German POW who knocked him over and, in a moment of rage, killed him. When Foyle delivers his quiet summation, Novak uses this as another point when chance altered his life forever; if Foyle had been there with him, it would not have happened (although he does not try to cast responsibility onto Foyle).
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Foyle's War / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Foyle's War / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Milner in early episodes, and occasionally Andrew. While he's naturally more stoic about things, Foyle was also a veteran of the First World War, and occasionally finds himself recalling things he'd probably sooner forget. Most of the post-war episodes explore the difficult emotional ramifications when men were returned home from combat, from POW camps, and from injuries, then dropped back into their old lives after several years away. The expectations (from themselves or from their family and friends) to just go back to how things were before the war cause a lot of friction.
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Foyle's War / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Foyle's War / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The ugly American stereotype is inverted with Major John Kiefer, a highly professional officer who goes to great lengths to break down the barriers between his men and the locals. When we encounter him again in "All Clear" being openly rude to his British allies, it's not this trope but instead a clue that something is seriously wrong. Inverted again in "Sunflower," where the Americans are impolite and also very much in the right about Karl Strasser. This is why Valentine and Foyle conspire to get him into their hands at the end. Played straight in the case of Howard Paige. A very ugly version of this comes up in "Killing Time" when the American military demands the imposition of a local "color bar" until they leave, even though England, although plenty racist, did not have de jure segregation.note Although Hastings complies, in Real Life there were multiple instances of British locals siding with the African-American troops, who had generally arrived first and befriended the community, and at least one pub barred white soldiers instead.
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Foyle's War / int_7ab37e1	type	Miss Conception
Foyle's War / int_7ab37e1	comment	Miss Conception: A naive young woman's lover tells her that she won't get pregnant if they have sex standing up. Unsurprisingly, she ends up pregnant, and then throws herself in front of a train, prompting her father to seek revenge by attempting to murder her lover. Another ambitious young woman lures an American soldier into a fling which gets her pregnant; she is then found dead in a party that the American base threw for the locals. Though there is motive from the soldier to terminate the pregnancy and the whole plot revolves around her being pregnant, he was actually intoxicated at the time after consuming an extremely toxic (and also deadly) moonshine that the girl had produced, and her culprit in the moonshining killed her for her refusal to turn off the still.
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Foyle's War / int_7ba4adea	type	Black Market Produce
Foyle's War / int_7ba4adea	comment	Black Market Produce: "The Funk Hole" has a dishonest butcher who robs a food depot with his two young cronies, resulting in one of them getting shot and killed by the Home Guard. In "Bleak Midwinter", set in rationing-bound World War II England, Foyle busts an operation that's been smuggling restricted food, leading to a subplot for the rest of the episode about who's going to end up with the food once it's done being held as evidence. Comes up again in "Elise," where the police show no interest in prosecuting black marketeers after the war. It helps that Chief Superintendent Usborne is profiting from the arrangement.
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Foyle's War / int_7cca3964	type	Matchlight Danger Revelation
Foyle's War / int_7cca3964	comment	Matchlight Danger Revelation: Foyle and his son take cover during a raid in what turns out to be a fuel dump.
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Foyle's War / int_7cd6822e	type	Significant Name Overlap
Foyle's War / int_7cd6822e	comment	Significant Name Overlap: Dr. Novak attempts suicide because of "what Worth said." It was not his just-murdered and hated colleague Dr. Worth, however. It was a BBC journalist named Worth, reporting on the horror of the concentration camps, including the one where Novak's family was sent. In "The Cage," there are two Evelyn Greens. One is a Russian agent. Meanwhile, a different Evelyn Green disappears, which is brought to Foyle and Sam's attention because the other Evelyn's mother lives in Adam Wainwright's constituency and asks for his help. The spy Evelyn was tipped off to leave the country by her lover, a mole in British army intelligence, who arranges for the second Evelyn to be detained in her place.
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Foyle's War / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Foyle's War / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Foyle is a master at these, notably in the episode "Fifty Ships", where he delivers one for the B-plot and one for the A-plot.
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Foyle's War / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Foyle's War / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: A sort of recurring example, in that Foyle's Catchphrase of "My name's Foyle, I'm a policeman," establishes both his no-nonsense nature and his fundamental modesty; it establishes who he is and why he's there quite bluntly, but Foyle is actually a Chief Superintendent, a high-ranking commanding officer, yet never once throws his weight around on this basis.
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Foyle's War / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Foyle's War / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Sam, while driving Foyle, mentions that one of her MTCnote Motorized Transport Corps instructors was nicknamed "Chloroform" because she and everyone else fell asleep during his lectures:
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Foyle's War / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Foyle's War / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: While never actually beating anyone up himself, whenever someone says something particularly immoral you know that Foyle is about to open a can of verbal whupass on that poor idiot. He also takes out a looting firefighter with one well-placed haymaker in "Fifty Ships".
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Foyle's War / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Foyle's War / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: It can be something of a challenge getting Sam to stop talking. When they're driven by someone else in one episode, Foyle and Milner remark on how odd the quiet was.
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Foyle's War / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Foyle's War / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Andrew's friend Rex is revealed to be one towards the end of "Among The Few". Arthur Valentine in "The Eternity Ring." Kaplan in "Elise."
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Foyle's War / int_8531772	type	False Roulette
Foyle's War / int_8531772	comment	False Roulette: A bad guy tries it, but it doesn't work out the way he expected.
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Foyle's War / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Foyle's War / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Sam.
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Foyle's War / int_87af3e94	type	Start to Corpse
Foyle's War / int_87af3e94	comment	Start to Corpse: The average episode doesn't feature a murder until (roughly) halfway through. The intervening time usually follows Foyle's investigation into smuggling, fraud, or some other crime related to the war effort.
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Foyle's War / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Foyle's War / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: In droves. Foyle isn't even that fazed at the fact that his son unwittingly led them to take refuge on a fuel deposit and then lit up a match. He proceeds to politely ask him to extinguish the flame. Foyle is remarkably polite and calm for someone as relentless as he is. He has seen people die charred up in explosions in front of him, which only cause him to start asking more questions; curiously, once they're exposed, the culprits never turn violent against him. it is highly implied that Foyle's nerves of steel are the result of his service in the First World War, where death could come without warning and at any time. Nothing Foyle encounters is more nerve wracking than what he must have encountered in the trenches. Whereas any other person would have lost his composure, Milner is remarkably parsimonious (yet visibly upset) about being accused of the murder of his wife. When he finds out that he's been framed by an antagonizing patrolman, he never confronts him and continues pursuing the investigation at hand nevertheless.
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Foyle's War / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Foyle's War / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Captain James Kiefer of the US Army. By the time he becomes a Major, he's so shell-shocked that he even damages his friendship with Foyle.
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Foyle's War / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
Foyle's War / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: Gordon Drake, the victim in "Enemy Fire." He was having an affair with Dr. Wrenn's wife, and the air raid warden helpfully told Wrenn this. Andrew blamed his deliberately negligent maintenance for Greville Woods' crash. He was blackmailing Waterford. And finally, he squandered his wife's money and abused her. Foyle notes in an interview with one suspect that all of Hastings decided to go and sort him out one way or another on that evening. Wrenn confesses because he hit Drake with a rock, but the air raid warden—his brother-in-law—set him up to be framed so that he could murder Gordon for mistreating his sister and finished the job by drowning him in a trough.
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Foyle's War / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Foyle's War / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Charlotte in the postwar series never attains a role beyond providing exposition on request.
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Foyle's War / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Foyle's War / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "The Hide" takes a rather different approach to finishing the series than "All Clear" did. In "The Hide," the big reveal about Foyle is that as a young soldier recovering from a wound, he had a relationship with a married nurse, and the man he's spent the episode saving from being executed for treason is her son. In "All Clear," it was that he can drive.
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Foyle's War / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Foyle's War / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Gordon Drake. Not even his own wife feels sorry about his death and she was happy to hear he finally got his just desserts.
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Foyle's War / int_8f8402a9	type	Behind Every Great Man
Foyle's War / int_8f8402a9	comment	Behind Every Great Man: Hilda Pierce is the real power in MI5. Lampshaded by the Americans in "Sunflower."
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Foyle's War / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Foyle's War / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: In "Killing Time," when Sam asks Mrs. Dean if Dean will care for her mixed-race grandchild after Mandy's murder (rather than leave the baby in the city's care), Mrs. Dean does hesitate—then she shuts the door. In "Trespass", Lucas has a moment of regret when his son angrily leaves after Lucas' xenophobic, antisemetic rally results in two elderly immigrants being killed by a Molotov cocktail that Lucas' mob threw, but only a moment before turning back to his plans for the next one.
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Foyle's War / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Foyle's War / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Foyle's suspect in a murder case turns out to be innocent. The supposed victim, his girlfriend, had realised that he was gay and run off, calling him "sick"... right into a lethal fall down a stairwell. Another glaring example is an army interrogator in "The Cage" who unwittingly kills the only doctor that could cure him from a deadly tick-transmitted illness endemic to West Berlin, because the doctor could single him out as a commie.
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Foyle's War / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Foyle's War / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: In "Bleak Midwinter," a man is accidentally stabbed while trying to hold back his friend. He simply looks down at the weapon and says "What have you done, you bloody fool?" as he falls to his knees.
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Foyle's War / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Foyle's War / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: In "Killing Time", Sergeant Calhoun is guilty of beating Gabe, graphically threatening Mandy, starting a fight with Black soldiers, cheating a local boxer, threatening Gabe into a false confession, and blackmailing the couple who have been robbing drivers in the woods into mugging the payroll officer. With all this plus local antipathy towards American segregation, Foyle points out that any jury will hang him for Mandy's murder—but that turns out to be the one thing he didn't do and he points Foyle to the real culprit, Wesker.
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Foyle's War / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Foyle's War / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Happens a lot in war, and so to more than a few characters. Foyle sometimes gives clues that, underneath his stoic exterior, losing Andrew is his greatest fear.
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Foyle's War / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Foyle's War / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Judge Gascgoine blames his wife Emily for his murder of a child because her stately family house was too expensive to keep up. She responds by taking the revolver from his desk and shooting him. When confessing, she calmly tells Foyle that she didn't do it because she hated him, but because it was the right thing to do.
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Foyle's War / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Foyle's War / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: The identity parade in "Bleak Midwinter." Foyle isn't watching the elderly witness as he walks down the line. He's watching the patrolman who drove him over, after having given the task to that patrolman in the first place.
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Foyle's War / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Foyle's War / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: After his wife is found murdered, the search of Milner's house turns up a shirt of his with blood on the cuffs. He says "Is this the part where I say I cut myself shaving?" It's actually her blood, but it was planted by someone else to frame him.
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Foyle's War / int_97e48376	type	The Elites Jump Ship
Foyle's War / int_97e48376	comment	The Elites Jump Ship: The season two finale, "The Funk Hole", revolves around this trope: wealthy Londoners are staying for an extended period in a country house being rented out as a "guest home", pretending to be on vacation, or else busy with some kind of "work", when in fact they simply prefer not to have to take shelter from German bombs with the other, poorer civilians in London.
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Foyle's War / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Foyle's War / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Said word-for-word by two different characters, once as the complete, classic, German-accented "See, ve are not so different, you and I" (although the Nazi in question is not a villain and means it in the sense that he was an ordinary soldier who went where he was told).
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Foyle's War / int_99e4958e	type	Wall Bang Her
Foyle's War / int_99e4958e	comment	Wall Bang Her: In "Eagle Day", Lucy Smith's parents relate that Alistair Graham persuaded their daughter to have "relations" with him against a wall, convincing her that having sex standing up would prevent her from getting pregnant. It didn't, and she killed herself in shame.
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Foyle's War / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Foyle's War / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land/So What Do We Do Now?
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Foyle's War / int_9bb8ac92	type	Stealing the Credit
Foyle's War / int_9bb8ac92	comment	Stealing the Credit: In "Fifty Ships," it turns out that Howard Paige patented Richard Hunter's gearbox invention in America and made millions, leaving Hunter broken and poor in England. Then, after Hunter couldn't bring himself to shoot, Page took the gun and killed him.
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Foyle's War / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Foyle's War / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Collier's refrain of "war does different things to different people" whenever anyone tries to protest that Foyle would never commit sedition. He's referring to himself, losing his family when a simple lapse in paperwork stranded them in a bad air-raid shelter. His final repetition of the line, after Foyle sums up his murder of Vaudrey, ends with "look what it's done to me."
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Foyle's War / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
Foyle's War / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
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Foyle's War / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Foyle's War / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Most episodes feature one, due to the sometimes-convoluted plots, and the unexpected ways that events can intersect and influence each other.
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Foyle's War / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Foyle's War / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: The strange death of Milner's war buddy in "Invasion," given that he was the man who carried Milner to safety after Milner's leg was shot off. He was blinded by badly-distilled home whiskey and couldn't escape a fire because of it. When Milner works this out and arrests the pub owner, he has his patrolman leave the room and forces the man to drink a mouthful of the stuff. Averted in "Bad Blood" when Sam contracts anthrax from ill-judged military experiments. When confronting the army scientists responsible, Foyle never says "my driver is sick," but simply says that one woman has died already and another is seriously ill. This doesn't mean he isn't seriously worried about her, however—his moral outrage just wouldn't be less if it was a different person.
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Foyle's War / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Foyle's War / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Dr. Wrenn is absolutely distraught when he finally confesses to murdering Gordon Drake because, as he'd protested before, he's a doctor and therefore dedicated to saving lives. Fortunately, it turns out that he didn't kill Drake by hitting him with a rock—it just left Drake incapacitated enough for someone else to drown him in a horse trough. The killer in "Broken Souls" is horrified with himself not only because he is a doctor and took a life, but because he was witnessed by a traumatized boy whom he'd helped earlier that day.
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Foyle's War / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Foyle's War / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: In "Plan of Attack," a Catholic man goes to confessional for breaking the Sixth Commandment—committing murder. In Catholicism, this is the Fifth Commandment. The Sixth Commandment in Catholicism is to not commit adultery.
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Foyle's War / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Foyle's War / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: In "The White Feather", Sir Ernest Bannerman, an MP and one of Guy Spencer's most prominent supporters, exits the hotel after the murder and says since his regular driver is absent, Sam may have the honor of driving him and his wife back to London so he can attend to Parliamentary business. Apologetically, she explains that Foyle hasn't yet authorized them to leave. Bannerman is more incredulous than outraged when he asks if someone as lowly as her (and a woman, no less), is actually refusing his orders; to her own surprise, she says that is exactly what she is doing.
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Foyle's War / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
Foyle's War / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: In "Trespass", a former member of Mosley's black shirts was attempting to start up a similar organisation in post-war Britain. Although he claims to be in favour of a single European government, in his first speech he reveals it will be a Europe free of Jews, Slavs and other 'undesirables' (in fact, he names most of the ethnic groups of Europe as people who will be expelled from Europe). He whips a mob into a frenzy where they murder a pair of harmless Polish refugees in the mistaken belief they are Jewish.
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Foyle's War / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Foyle's War / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Inverts the stereotype in that Foyle never loses his temper.
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Foyle's War / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Foyle's War / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Sam isn't an unusual nickname for Samantha, but several individuals are surprised when Foyle's driver Sam is a woman.
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Foyle's War / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Foyle's War / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Foyle, during the course of the series. He's a widower with a grown son, but shows little or no interest in the prospect of remarrying.
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Foyle's War / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Foyle's War / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Hilda Pierce first appeared as a one-off character in the second season, and made enough of an impression that she was brought back for a couple more appearances during the war years. With the post-war shift of focus to the secret service, she became a regular character and was central to the plot of the final episode.
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Foyle's War / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Foyle's War / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Every second murderer or thereabouts. A notable one is the American businessman who Foyle has to let go because he's important to the war effort; Foyle tells him that his fate has only been postponed, because one day the war will be over. The original final episode of the series ended with Foyle embarking on a ship bound for post-war America. When he (and the series) returned in "The Eternity Ring", it's made clear that Karma, in the person of Christopher Foyle, has caught up to the bastard... to the extent that the FBI want a word. MI5 threaten their own pseudo-Karmic retribution — Foyle can work for them, or he can be put on the boat back to America. The murderers in "Casualties of War". Because they are so instrumental to the development of the "bouncing bomb," Foyle is barred from arresting Lydia and Hans for killing Lydia's husband. This, along with the other events of the episode, prompts Foyle to resign at once.
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Foyle's War / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Foyle's War / int_a8559a9f	comment	A very ugly version of this comes up in "Killing Time" when the American military demands the imposition of a local "color bar" until they leave, even though England, although plenty racist, did not have de jure segregation.note Although Hastings complies, in Real Life there were multiple instances of British locals siding with the African-American troops, who had generally arrived first and befriended the community, and at least one pub barred white soldiers instead.
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Foyle's War / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Foyle's War / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: In "Invasion," there are a few misunderstandings between British and American slang—for instance a soldier asks Foyle why a girl asked him for a "rubber."note In England: pencil eraser. In America: condom.
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Foyle's War / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Foyle's War / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: At the end of "High Castle". Knowles, the murdered translator, had been bribed with diamonds taken from concentration camp victims; his dying widow needs the diamonds in order to afford dialysis in America, and begs Foyle to let her keep them. When asked if he let Mrs. Knowles keep the diamonds, Foyle responds, "What would you have done?" End episode.
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Foyle's War / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
Foyle's War / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Andrew writes war poems.
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Foyle's War / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Foyle's War / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: "Enemy Fire" examines the changing attitudes towards combat stress, fatigue, and trauma through a Shell-Shocked Veteran from World War I and Andrew Foyle's development into one as a pilot. The veteran was actually being blackmailed by someone who knew he'd shot himself in the foot because he couldn't take the horror anymore. In contrast, Andrew's commander promotes Andrew out of the flying service into a instructor position, understanding and empathetic to the fact that he's gone past what he can mentally endure. The treatment of black American soldiers (and any English girls who chose to take up with them) features heavily in the sixth-series episode "Killing Time." Attempting suicide was still a criminal offense and often seen as a cowardly act. The false framing of a young man's death as a suicide is treated as worse than if it had been death in an accident (though the fact that it was to cover his CO's incompetence is the main offence). Particularly evident in "Casualties of War," where a nun at a hospital tuts over the grave sin a young woman committed by trying to walk into the sea.
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Foyle's War / int_aba51fc7	type	Nazi Nobleman
Foyle's War / int_aba51fc7	comment	Nazi Nobleman: Several upper-class Nazi sympathizers appear; one family has a full-fledged shrine to the Third Reich in the basement of their Big Fancy House.
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Foyle's War / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Foyle's War / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: In "War Games", Reginald Walker offers a half-hearted apology for shouting at his wife, when she dared to object to him setting the dogs on a group of children. Her response is calm, collected, and carved from ice:
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Foyle's War / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
Foyle's War / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: Dr. Novak attempts this after learning that his family was sent to the concentration camps. Foyle and Milner find him in time.
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Foyle's War / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Foyle's War / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Foyle is the master of the well-timed cutting remark. For those criminals who earn his contempt rather than his sympathy he gives a pretty good Death Glare as well.
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Foyle's War / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Foyle's War / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The opinion expressed by a man who bribed a judge to give his son conscientious-objector status. Having seen all sorts of horror in World War I only to be hurled into war with Germany again twenty years later, he decides to keep his son from what he forsees as an ultimately futile horrorshow.
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Foyle's War / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Foyle's War / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Many a culprit will say something along these lines to justify what they did. In many cases they're entirely justified, but had no right to commit the crime nor they had a blanket under the excuse of the war going on, which is the whole purpose of the series.
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Foyle's War / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Foyle's War / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: The unfortunate smuggler whose lorry (carrying barrels of gasoline) explodes at the start of "Among the Few". The fire mostly obscures his head and shoulders, but his hideously burned hand is fully visible on the wheel.
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Foyle's War / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
Foyle's War / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Usually played straight, but averted in "The Eternity Ring", which rather than a murder mystery has an espionage plot. Not only is there only one murder, but it's a red herring.
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Foyle's War / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Foyle's War / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: The bomb-clearing Engineers in "A War of Nerves." When Hammond started, the average survival rate was seven weeks, and he notes that they found out how German bombs work mostly by being blown up. Which is why he's so fatalistic about stealing from, and then being killed by the Talbots—it was liable to occur through the normal course of his duties anyway. The culprit in "The Cage." The infected tick bite he picked up in East Germany gave him a rare form of encephalitis, so he's ill and shaky when his boss and Foyle confront him. Having been exposed as a mole and facing an agonizing decline over the next several days, he elects to shoot himself.
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Foyle's War / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Foyle's War / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Mr. Bishop, Howard Paige's handler, is fairly disgusted with his charge but as exposing Paige as a fraud and a murderer would create a scandal that would scuttle the effort to bring America into the war, so he will have to very apologetically keep Foyle from arresting him.
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Foyle's War / int_b652fd1	type	Blitz Evacuees
Foyle's War / int_b652fd1	comment	Blitz Evacuees: Frequently. "The Funk Hole" involves seditious (that is, utterly despairing) comments in an air raid shelter that are misattributed to Foyle. Inspector Collier arranged the whole misunderstanding to exact revenge on a warden named Vaudrey whose inattention left two hundred evacuees stranded in a school that was bombed — among whom were Collier's mother and sister.
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Foyle's War / int_b778066b	type	Connect the Deaths
Foyle's War / int_b778066b	comment	Connect the Deaths: Played straight and averted in different episodes. Sometimes a witness for one crime will turn up dead as part of a different thing happening (such as the witness in "Bad Blood" being infected by escaped anthrax and dying before Foyle can interview her).
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Foyle's War / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Foyle's War / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: "All Clear", intended to be the final episode, shows the closing of the Hastings police station on V-E Day, and all the main characters moving on. The theme of post-war uncertainty is central to all their stories, while leaving things open enough for a potential return to the series.
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Foyle's War / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Foyle's War / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Done by the culprit in "The Funk Hole." He forces his victim to swallow a cyanide pill and says that the other option is to be shot once in each limb and the stomach to die a slow, agonizing death.
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Foyle's War / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Foyle's War / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: More than a few of Foyle's superiors travel this path. One of them does wise up between series and apologizes to Foyle for having been a "Colonel Blimp of the worst sort."
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Foyle's War / int_bcb313b3	type	UnCancelled
Foyle's War / int_bcb313b3	comment	A notable one is the American businessman who Foyle has to let go because he's important to the war effort; Foyle tells him that his fate has only been postponed, because one day the war will be over. The original final episode of the series ended with Foyle embarking on a ship bound for post-war America. When he (and the series) returned in "The Eternity Ring", it's made clear that Karma, in the person of Christopher Foyle, has caught up to the bastard... to the extent that the FBI want a word. MI5 threaten their own pseudo-Karmic retribution — Foyle can work for them, or he can be put on the boat back to America.
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Foyle's War / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Foyle's War / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: In "A War of Nerves," the Talbots first tell Foyle that nothing's been going missing from their factory. After a bomb lands in a warehouse, one of them says that it's a bit silly to investigate their missing supplies in perspective with the war. Foyle reminds them that they'd claimed nothing had gone missing. When a poorly-constructed suitcase bomb fails to go off and is neutralized by the police, Foyle casually brings it back to the man who built it, who panics. Foyle remarks "good, so you know what this is."
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Foyle's War / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Foyle's War / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Subverted: Foyle calls a man locally known as a WWI hero out on getting a magistrate to give his son undeserved conscientious-objector status, and the man tells him how he knew his son was just scared to fight, was disgusted, and in fact went to the magistrate to tell him not to believe him, but was unsuccessful and now considers himself to "have no son". In the end it turns out as Foyle had suspected. The man had bribed Gascoigne to rule in favor of his son's petition. Having lived four years of horrific trench warfare in WWI, only to watch England go to war with Germany again just as his son was old enough to be conscripted, he refused to allow his child to be sent into the same hell that he had to endure. A woman with a German cousin (and spy) assists him in reaching shore by light signals, because he's family. After Foyle reveals this, her husband is so disgusted that he strikes her and declares that while he won't divorce her, he will never acknowledge her existence again—if she says something he will ignore it, if she enters a room he will leave it.
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Foyle's War / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Foyle's War / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: Unless the detective force is on the ball, hiding your crimes amidst the confusion and general mayhem of war is a no-brainer; motive, method and opportunity all have red herrings in ample supply: In the first episode, "The German Woman", a swastika carved into a tree near the scene of her murder makes for the easy assumption that she was killed by one of the vengeful villagers, instead of trying to prevent her former lover from seducing her stepdaughter for the father's money. Lampshaded by Milner in "Eagle Day", after a body is discovered in the ruins of a bombed-out house:
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Foyle's War / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Foyle's War / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Judge Gascoigne asks a man requesting conscientious objector status if he would (hypothetically) render aid to a child injured by the Blitz. He uses the man's affirmative to deny him CO status because helping victims would technically involve him in the war effort, and so his beliefs are not genuine.
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Foyle's War / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Foyle's War / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: A young British man who is the son of a businessman seeking to become a prospective Nazi profiteer, is revealed to have spent time in Germany when Hitler rose to power; he has multiple Nazi memorabilia, including a picture where he is shown to have been part of the Hitler Youth.
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Foyle's War / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Foyle's War / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Most episodes in the war years have Foyle investigating the central murder(s) while also trying to solve another crime related to the war such as racketeering, looting, or fraud. In the MI-5 series, the secondary plot is typically an aspect of postwar life that Adam Wainwright is dealing with in Parliament.
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Foyle's War / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Foyle's War / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In "A War of Nerves," Hammond knows that the Talbots are going to kill him one way or another, as though he won't die anyway from detonating bombs. He arranges to return the money alone. When one of their goons shoots him, he lives long enough to say they should count it—as soon as they open the briefcase it explodes from the UXB he kept and rigged inside. Foyle, Sam, and Milner arrive just in time to witness it. The murderer in "Bleak Midwinter" tries to do this. Hilda Pierce successfully does this to Ian Woodhead and herself in "Elise."
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Foyle's War / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
Foyle's War / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Sam and Andrew agree to be friends and see where things go post-war. She ends up marrying Adam.
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Foyle's War / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Foyle's War / int_cbe687ab	comment	Played straight in the case of Howard Paige.
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Foyle's War / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Foyle's War / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In-universe; Foyle does not like people making jokes about murder. For example, in the first episode, the victim's rather spoiled step-daughter (played by Rosamund Pike) makes a rather snide crack about her being dead, prompting Foyle to bluntly explain to her precisely how gruesome and agonising her death would have been. The step-daughter promptly looks rather ashamed. And ill. A fellow patrolman frames Milner for the murder of his wife as "a prank" because he considered him "stuffy". He was more than willing to take Milner's job after badmouthing him in Foyle's presence until the latter confronted him. According to the patrolman, he unwittingly let things balloon, but he wouldn't ultimately let Milner go to the gallows as the culprit. Unsuprisingly, Foyle drops the book on him.
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Foyle's War / int_cf479cd8	type	Bomb Disposal
Foyle's War / int_cf479cd8	comment	Bomb Disposal: "War of Nerves" involves an engineering squad that travels around detonating unexploded bombs. Their leader says that the Germans have now begun deliberately dropping bombs that won't go off in hopes of killing the men sent to deal with them.
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Foyle's War / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Foyle's War / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Andrew Del Mar in "High Castle" is a nasty old man, a racist, and a war criminal who provided material assistance to the Nazis. However, whenever his son ignores his insights, things go badly. Among other things, the younger Del Mar would not have been murdered by a Soviet assassin had he followed his father's advice.
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Foyle's War / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Foyle's War / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Foyle has a cool looking brown jacket he wears throughout the series.
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Foyle's War / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Foyle's War / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Andrew's commander gives him a dressing-down for starting a barfight with anti-Irish remarks and points out that while the government might officially be neutral, plenty of Irish individuals volunteered to serve in the British war effort, as both military and civilian workers, and without their help the British would be much worse off. In "All Clear," Andrew returns to Hastings and tells his dad that he intends to get back together with Sam. Foyle's response is a pause, and then a plain "You weren't very kind to her." Sam expresses her opinion much more sharply when he turns up. Specifically, she tells him to check the pamphlet on desertion. A rare one from Sam to Foyle in "The Eternity Ring," after he inadvertently gets her fired while investigating her employer.
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Foyle's War / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Foyle's War / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Henry Beaumont in "The German Woman": Thanks to his wealth and influence, he is able to game the system and keep his (much younger) German wife from being interned after England and Germany declare war, even if she still has two brothers actively serving in the Nazis' military forces; he declares to Foyle that he loved his wife, knew she wasn't "the enemy" and was willing to break the law for her. Foyle does not say aloud what he said to his own superior earlier: that a man such as Beaumont is used to expecting favors, and would not take the notion of getting into legal trouble over his crimes very seriously. Nor does Foyle remind Beaumont that his own former gardener came begging to him to use the same influence to get the gardener's entirely innocent German uncle out of internment, only for Beaumont to say there was nothing he could do.
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Foyle's War / int_d5ca97d	type	Dream-Crushing Handicap
Foyle's War / int_d5ca97d	comment	Dream-Crushing Handicap/Handicapped Badass: Notably subverts both tropes to an interesting and believable effect! Milner's handicap means he sometimes can't always give chase to a fleeing perp and he takes a beating more than once; but he's also a way-more-than-competent detective in other respects.
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Foyle's War / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Foyle's War / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Andrew Foyle is promoted to a training position, removing him from the flight roster. This is actually a good thing and done by a group-captain sympathetic to the psychological strain he was enduring.
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Foyle's War / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Foyle's War / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: In "The German Woman", Foyle swiftly works out that Greta Beaumont nee Hauptmann (who is not only German by birth but has two brothers actively serving in the Nazi military) should have been interned as soon as the British law came into effect, and the committee that classified her as a "refugee from Nazi oppression" and gave her free reign of the English countryside, "must have been blind, idiotic, corrupt, or all three." It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to notice that her English husband is both very wealthy and (as a retired magistrate) very influential.
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Foyle's War / int_da297ad2	type	One of Our Own
Foyle's War / int_da297ad2	comment	One of Our Own: Milner is the chief suspect in the murder of his wife.
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Foyle's War / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Foyle's War / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Karl Strasser in "Sunflower," on the evil end of the scale.
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Foyle's War / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Foyle's War / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Griffiths in "All Clear." He's sent a number of strange messages (a tiger photo on his door, an envelope of sand, ominous phone calls) which all make him very unhappy. He commits suicide and leaves a note saying that "I wasn't responsible." The messages were all from Kiefer, who decided that Griffiths was the reason that Exercise Tiger, at Slapton Sands, was attacked by U-Boats resulting in over 700 deaths. Foyle isn't satisfied and points out several other factors that contributed to the disaster rather than one man's faulty signaling.
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Foyle's War / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Foyle's War / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: In "High Castle," Foyle asks a Nuremburg prosecutor if it's really necessary for them to go on trying industrialists and other civilians who were subordinate to the Nazi high command. In the course of their investigation of the industrialist's death, the prosecutor is able to show him why it is when he takes Foyle to the man's old factory in Monowitz, a "sub-camp" of Auschwitz that was built because so many prisoners were dying on the forced marches from there to the work sites. He spares no detail in describing the hellish conditions that the enslaved prisoners were forced into for the sake of civilian industrialists, who knew exactly what was being done to their "workforce".
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Foyle's War / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Foyle's War / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: The final series, in an understated British sort of way, suggests that there might be a future for Foyle and Elizabeth Addis. In the series finale, Foyle learns that she's been reporting on him to MI5, which he might have forgiven in time, and then that she was knowingly complicit in a cover-up that led to the deaths he's investigating, which he's not going to overlook as easily.
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Foyle's War / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Foyle's War / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer
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Foyle's War / int_def127cc	type	Leave Behind a Pistol
Foyle's War / int_def127cc	comment	Loads of people. Foyle particularly gets a lot of crooks to commit suicide after he lays out their schemes shattered before them.
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Foyle's War / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Foyle's War / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Sir Michael Waterford in "Enemy Fire" appears to still be heavily affected by his shellshock from World War I and rarely manages to make eye contact with anyone.
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Foyle's War / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Foyle's War / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Sam doesn't hide her curiosity about the crimes Foyle investigates and often makes suggestions or conjectures of her own—though sometimes she does offer useful insights when some aspect of the crime involves something she knows about (like machinery or, in one case, gardening). She gets her wish in "Among the Few" when Foyle places her undercover in a fuel depot because he doesn't have any actual officers available for the job and lifts some key evidence in spite of getting locked in a room with a (faulty) bomb. When she's with MI-5 and goes undercover as a companion and reader for an invalid, she names Agatha Christie as her favorite author in the interview (in the earlier episode "The French Drop", her uncle mentions that he remembers her always reading Edgar Wallace's books as a young girl). Joe Pearson, an 11-year-old evacuee staying at the Gascoigne's country manor, spends his days running around and cataloguing everything he sees in an exercise book. He runs into Sam and Foyle when he's recording their license plate. He also saw Judge Gascoigne accept a Â£2000 bribe, which is why Gascgoigne killed him.
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Foyle's War / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Foyle's War / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: The commander of the prison camp exclaims "Bloody 'ell, I need a smoke," when informed that one of his prisoners has been murdered.
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Foyle's War / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
Foyle's War / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: Series 8 and 9 are desaturated and occasionally slightly green-grey in palette, giving Foyle and Sam's life a grey and drab look in the continuing difficulties of postwar Britain and their less-than-voluntary participation in MI-5's work.
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Foyle's War / int_e4760ebc	type	I Regret Nothing
Foyle's War / int_e4760ebc	comment	I Regret Nothing: Judge Belmont admits to having falsified his wife's medical records to exempt her from the internment of Germans and says that he would do it again because he loved her. The culprit of "The Funk Hole" is unrepentant when Foyle confronts him with the murder of Vaudrey, although it is tinged with the bitter acknowledgement of how he has changed. The murderer in "Eagle Day" says he's happy to hang for the first murder because it was an innocent man with the same name—he doesn't consider his killing of Group-Captain Graham to be a crime.
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Foyle's War / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Foyle's War / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: "A Lesson in Murder" ends with a mob destroying an Italian restaurant and killing the owner in response to the news that Italy has declared war.
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Foyle's War / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Foyle's War / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Foyle. He will not leave a crime uninvestigated or let an injustice stand if he can possibly help it. Hilda Pierce notes this as a key trait of his, and makes sure to tell him in "War Games" that Walker escaped punishment... because she thinks Foyle might like to continue being determined.
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Foyle's War / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Foyle's War / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: In "Invasion," Andrew writes from his new posting to tell Sam that he's found someone else. As soon as she reads the letter, she accepts the advances of the young American soldier who's been asking her out, and she still isn't ready to forgive in "All Clear."
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Foyle's War / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Foyle's War / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Foyle will usually introduce himself to others with something along the lines of "My name's Foyle, I'm a policeman." (In the later seasons, after he's retired from the police force and been recruited by MI5, introductions instead often feature the exchange "What's your interest? Are you a policeman?" "Something like that.") "...Right," is also Foyle's preferred pat response to anyone being abrasive, controversial or evasive on first meeting him. If he's being shuffled around by bureaucratic oversight or told a case is falling out of his jurisdiction, you can expect this word to fall out of his mouth. Given his need to be an unflappable, cool-headed policeman, it's to be expected.
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Foyle's War / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Foyle's War / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: The wartime search for a mole codenamed "Plato" is at the core of "Elise." The real problem was that there never was a mole. Ian Woodhead, the head of SOE, invented the mole in order to keep the other spy organizations unaware that the Germans had successfully infiltrated the network.
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Foyle's War / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Foyle's War / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: A point of contention in "Enemy Fire" between Dr. Jaimeson and the very military Group-Captain Smythe. Smythe takes exception to the lax discipline among the recovering pilots in the burn injuries hospital and complains that they aren't wearing official hospital uniforms. Jaimeson's reply is that he had the uniforms destroyed because men with severe burns to their hands can't do up the ties; the injuries they've suffered are so horrific that keeping their spirits up is essential to recovery, not to mention they've more than earned the consideration.
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Foyle's War / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Foyle's War / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "The Eternity Ring", Foyle (and the viewer) knows something is up with Sam when she's not hungry. Hilda Pierce breaks down into sobs in "Elise" after she discovers that Woodhead invented Plato.
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Foyle's War / int_e9f79e23	type	Screw the War, We're Partying
Foyle's War / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying: One episode features a countryside hotel where people try to pretend the war isn't happening. Such places were called "funk holes" and Foyle describes them as tailored for people with more money than conscience. (Certainly true there, as two of the residents were involved in food racketeering and one was writing sensationalist and fabricated news stories about the Blitz.) Subverted by an instance where a business owner comes to acquire a turkey under shady circumstances to sell it for Christmas. Foyle arrests him and seizes the turkey as evidence. The policemen try to make a banquet out of the seized food until Milner stops them from what would be considered theft. The turkey itself becomes a Running Gag over the episode for the same reason until Foyle decides to be lenient.
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Foyle's War / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Foyle's War / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Foyle's first attempt to get transferred out of the police service is scotched when he realizes that his superior took a bribe to falsely designate the late Mrs. Beaumont as a refugee and refuses to let it slide. Chief Superintendent Usborne in the final season.
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Foyle's War / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Foyle's War / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Along with his late wife, another in Foyle's life was James Devereaux's late mother, the nurse Foyle grew close to in the First World War.
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Foyle's War / int_f142296a	type	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card
Foyle's War / int_f142296a	comment	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Many of the murderers are somehow essential to the war effort and use this to wriggle out of a well-deserved punishment. Not surprisingly, there are frequent Karma Houdinis.
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Foyle's War / int_f21d434a	type	New Job as the Plot Demands
Foyle's War / int_f21d434a	comment	New Job as the Plot Demands: When her gig as Foyle's driver ends with his resignation from the force (brief though it is), Sam has to find a new job—and whatever she gets always seems to involve her in the plot and end before the episode does. During the last year of the war she works in a mapmaking facility when one of the cartographers is murdered. Post-war she becomes a domestic assistant to a local artist (who is murdered), then Adam Wainright's partner in his doomed guesthouse for a few episodes, and finally MI-5 strongarm Foyle into joining to clear her name of being a Russian agent, which gets her fired and MI-5 faked the incriminating photo specifically to get Foyle involved. After that, she works as Foyle's assistant in the intelligence office until the end of the series.
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Foyle's War / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Foyle's War / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Milner jokes that a bomb hit a cemetery; there were no deaths but a number of bodies were found. "The Eternity Ring". The fact that it's an incredibly lame pun is actually a plot point, of sorts.
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Foyle's War / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Foyle's War / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: In "Broken Souls," Brooks asks Sam to dig in her bottom (dresser) drawer for loose change for his football pool. She replies she has no drawers, top or bottom. Then they both burst out giggling.
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Foyle's War / int_f2af9fae	type	Torture First, Ask Questions Later
Foyle's War / int_f2af9fae	comment	Torture First, Ask Questions Later: Don't force a prisoner to play Russian Roulette unless you know exactly where the bullet is. Foyle also deduces that a prisoner was torturednote sprayed full-force with a fire hose, specifically from a brief Sherlock Scan of his cell. In that case, nobody involved in the torture actually had any questions they wanted answered — they were just doing it because the prisoner was a Conscientious Objector.
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Foyle's War / int_f3f1a9e2	type	Not My Driver
Foyle's War / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: In "High Castle", an assassin takes the place of a cab driver to kill his victim.
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Foyle's War / int_f4b1129f	type	Anger Born of Worry
Foyle's War / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Foyle is incensed that Sam went snooping around in the fuel depot's office and almost got killed by a bomb.
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Foyle's War / int_f641252f	type	Da Editor
Foyle's War / int_f641252f	comment	Da Editor: The editor of a local paper in "Fifty Ships" is an impatient, blunt-spoken taskmaster who isn't keen on being interrupted in haranguing his staff so he can speak to Foyle. However, he pointedly defends his missing reporter's habit of sleeping in his car (for fear of the Blitz) as not cowardice, but the natural psychological consequence of having to go and take photographs of bombed-out houses several times a week.
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Foyle's War / int_f70bcdc3	type	External Combustion
Foyle's War / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: A grenade wired to the steering wheel and rigged to explode when the door is opened is used to kill a former Nazi in "Sunflower". Or so it seems. Actually, the explosion was used to fake his death.
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Foyle's War / int_f7588306	type	Reverse Psychology
Foyle's War / int_f7588306	comment	Reverse Psychology: Sam gets some useful information from a waitress in "The White Feather" by making a disparaging remark about boyfriends in general, prompting the waitress to defend her friend's choice and drop his name to prove he wasn't some anonymous fly-by-knight.
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Foyle's War / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Foyle's War / int_f9f2c33	comment	Subverted by an instance where a business owner comes to acquire a turkey under shady circumstances to sell it for Christmas. Foyle arrests him and seizes the turkey as evidence. The policemen try to make a banquet out of the seized food until Milner stops them from what would be considered theft. The turkey itself becomes a Running Gag over the episode for the same reason until Foyle decides to be lenient.
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Foyle's War / int_fb9e0265	type	Team Dad
Foyle's War / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Less so with Milner (although there's clearly a great deal of mutual respect), but for all his gruffness Foyle clearly comes to view Sam as something of a daughter-he-never-had. Andrew even uses it as a point in favour of his proposal to Sam: that she would love the idea of Foyle as her father-in-law! (She still turns him down.) And an American soldier she dates makes a point of letting Foyle know that his intentions are honorable, to which Foyle replies that her actual father would probably like to know that.
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Foyle's War / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Foyle's War / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Foyle is often underestimated as a kindly-looking father figure type, but he never compromises his moral convictions. An old flame of Foyle's who appears in one episode notes that he's grown "very hard" since childhood, which makes you wonder if his politeness is something of a mask. Most culprits in the series fit this description, as well as some of the not-quite-so harmless victims.
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Foyle's War / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Foyle's War / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: In "The German Woman", Foyle and Sam are helping the victims of a recent bombing raid. Foyle compliments Sam on her improvised bandage for one, and she confesses that her first aid instructor in the MTC said he'd prefer to bleed to death rather than be treated by her. Bridges, a recovering burn victim in "Enemy Fire", warns Andrew not to stay in the hospital long or they'll have the skin off his arse for grafts, and jokes with Sam that his post-war career isn't likely to include acting or modeling.
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Foyle's War / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Foyle's War / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Minister Roper "Sunflower". He had Helliwell's farm evaluation falsified because Helliwell wanted to turn it into a real estate development; Roper wanted to ensure that it would remain farmland given the continuing food shortage in Britain.
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Foyle's War / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Foyle's War / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Sam's uncle's green wine.
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Foyle's War / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Foyle's War / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: Andrew is deeply affected by his friend Woods' crash in "Enemy Fire" because Woods was in his plane, flying a mission that would have been Andrew's. Though the crash isn't fatal, Woods is severely burned and Andrew is unsettled by the specialist hospital full of scarred and disfigured airman. Sam has a bit of this in "Fifty Ships" when a housemate of hers is killed going downstairs to the cellar, while Sam herself was still getting out of bed. Dr. Novak, when he hears the news reports from the concentration camps, because he only escaped by the luck of being at a symposium in Paris and unable to return to Poland when the Nazis invaded.
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