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As World War Two rages over Europe, one man fights his own battle against murder, mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England.
It is May 1940 and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) feels his skills would be better used aiding the war effort than investigating domestic crime in Sussex. His boss, Assistant Commissioner Summers (Edward Fox) disagrees and sends him back to Hastings, offering him help instead, in the form of cheerful driver Samantha Stewart (Honeysuckle Weeks).
The first bombs are falling. Paranoia and anti-Nazi feeling are growing amid the rationing and nightly blackouts and Foyle soon finds himself investigating a scam to avoid enlistment. Meanwhile, an elderly couple, German Thomas Kramer (David Horovitch) and his English wife Elsie (Elizabeth Bell) are arrested in the middle of the night at their cottage in the village of Lower Fenton. They are declared 'enemy aliens' and interned, causing Elsie to suffer a fatal heart attack.
As Foyle prepares to bid farewell to his son Andrew (Julian Ovenden), who is going to train as an RAF pilot, his investigation leads him to The Bell pub and hotel, run by landlord Ian Judd (Philip Whitchurch). But as he tries to question Judd, an air raid warning sounds and a stray bomb drops, killing barmaid Tracey Stephens (Nancy Lodder).
The next day, Greta is brutally murdered while out riding her horse and a swastika is found carved into a nearby tree.
Foyle needs an assistant and chooses Paul Milner (Anthony Howell), a former police sergeant who has been badly wounded at Trondheim. The two begin their investigation - and soon discover plenty of people had reason to kill Greta.
As World War Two rages over Europe, one man fights his own battle against murder, mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England.
It is May 1940 and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) feels his skills would be better used aiding the war effort than investigating domestic crime in Sussex. His boss, Assistant Commissioner Summers (Edward Fox) disagrees and sends him back to Hastings, offering him help instead, in the form of cheerful driver Samantha Stewart (Honeysuckle Weeks).
The first bombs are falling. Paranoia and anti-Nazi feeling are growing amid the rationing and nightly blackouts and Foyle soon finds himself investigating a scam to avoid enlistment. Meanwhile, an elderly couple, German Thomas Kramer (David Horovitch) and his English wife Elsie (Elizabeth Bell) are arrested in the middle of the night at their cottage in the village of Lower Fenton. They are declared 'enemy aliens' and interned, causing Elsie to suffer a fatal heart attack.
As Foyle prepares to bid farewell to his son Andrew (Julian Ovenden), who is going to train as an RAF pilot, his investigation leads him to The Bell pub and hotel, run by landlord Ian Judd (Philip Whitchurch). But as he tries to question Judd, an air raid warning sounds and a stray bomb drops, killing barmaid Tracey Stephens (Nancy Lodder).
The next day, Greta is brutally murdered while out riding her horse and a swastika is found carved into a nearby tree.
Foyle needs an assistant and chooses Paul Milner (Anthony Howell), a former police sergeant who has been badly wounded at Trondheim. The two begin their investigation - and soon discover plenty of people had reason to kill Greta.