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Continued...
Night, two days later
Another bombing raid is taking place.
Curling is roaming the fields near Jackson's farmhouse.
Barbara Hicks wakens at the sound of two reports from a shotgun. She looks out of her bedroom window and sees Curling shooting at rabbits.
Joan and Rose lie awake in their bunks, listening to the noises outside.
Barbara dresses and, as she leaves the cottage on her bicycle, she sees a man in uniform cycling towards her. He passes so closely that he nearly knocks her over.
Tom Jackson arrives at the farm cottage, having cycled all the way from his base. Joan greets him at the door with a kiss.
A short while later, Rose calls on Jackson and tells him that Barbara has gone out and his son has arrived. Jackson takes a revolver from a drawer and says, "Let's do it, then."
Curling is gathering up his kills when he hears a gunshot. He looks at his pocket watch and notes that the time is five o'clock.
Jackson, overcoat on and a bottle of whisky in his hand, watches Rose and Joan drive the tractor through darkness of the farmyard.
A covered truck arrives, splashing its way across the ford at the entrance to the farm.
Jackson, already drunk, staggers to a nearby field, sinks onto the grass and takes another swig of whisky. Disturbed by something, he rises to his feet and what he sees shocks him. He drops the open bottle and claps a hand to his mouth.
***
Next morning
Sam drives Foyle to join Milner at Jackson's farm.
As Milner takes his boss into the farmhouse, Sam gets out of the car and walks to where Rose and Joan are sitting on a bench outside the milking parlour. Sam smiles, but the two Land Army women survey her with insolent and resentful stares. Barbara and Tom are nearby and look at her blankly.
In the farmhouse, the dead body of Hugh Jackson is upright in an armchair, his face is splattered with blood from a shotgun wound in his chest. Milner says it doesn't look as though he shot himself because there was no note left and those who commit suicide with a shotgun usually blow their heads off. The detectives note that the gun lying against Jackson's chest has been recently fired and the man smells of whisky. Milner informs Foyle that there is no wife, but there is a son, Thomas, and it was he who found the body.
In the farmyard, Tom tells Foyle that he found his father at around 6am, after having just arrived from his barracks on a twenty-four hour pass. Joan interrupts the conversation, complaining crossly that the cows must be milked, but the farm workers are not being allowed to do it. Foyle tells her to go ahead and Tom can help as he is finished talking with him.
Foyle notices that Barbara, instead of going with the others, makes to leave and he queries it. Barbara replies that she doesn't work on the farm. Going by her attire - khaki tie, khaki trousers, white shirt and dark blue v-neck jumper -
Foyle seeks confirmation that she is with the Land Army. Barbara, obviously not pleased to be spoken to by the detective, replies sarcastically, "No, I'm wearing this for a dare." She goes on to explain dryly that she is a pole selector, who surveys woodland to find trees suitable for felling for use as pit props and in roadblocks, et cetera. Foyle gives a little smile and asks if she knew the dead man. She says she didn't and that she has been there only a few days.
Foyle asks her first impressions of Jackson and she replies, "He was not too different from most men: rude, lazy, lascivious - and ignorant!"
Her provocative words elicit no protest from Foyle, who merely responds with "Right. I see. Thank you very much." He asks her to keep them informed of her whereabouts and, with a little smile, turns away.
In the milking parlour, the DCS speaks with Rose, Joan and Tom. The women tell him that they sometimes stay in the farm cottage rather than in the hostel because of early starts and that Jackson lived alone in the farmhouse. Many gunshots were heard the previous night because Curling, who owns the farm next door, was hunting rabbits. Rose reckons that the reason the farmer was shooting so close to the house was because he was angry with Jackson, but she won't say why. Tom leaves, so Foyle asks Rose about Jackson's wife and she replies that the woman went off with a farm labourer ten or twelve years ago.
***
At the POW holding camp, Cornwall interrogates a nervous Lieutenant Sabartovski. He tells him that the relevant authorities have been notified that he is alive and well. Sabartovski admits to being a navigator and part of the Dornier's crew, but is reluctant to say more. Cornwall assures him that his organisation goes by the book in accordance with the Geneva Convention 1929.
***
In Jackson's farmhouse, Foyle and Milner examine the room in which Jackson was found. Foyle looks at the bullet hole in the back of the chair and then at a blood-spattered door immediately behind. He is digging a pistol bullet from the wood of the door when Milner comes in to report that he can find no whisky bottle.
Foyle postulates that someone shot Jackson with a pistol while he sat in the chair; the bullet passed through him and into the door and then a shotgun was used to make it look like suicide. "Clever. But not clever enough to fool us, eh, Milner?"
Milner grins and says, "Being the amateur sleuths we are".
"Well, quite!"
They decide to stick with the suicide story for the mean time, until someone says he or she knows something to the contrary.
Sam bursts in to report that Barbara Hicks has found another German.
Continue on...
Night, two days later
Another bombing raid is taking place.
Curling is roaming the fields near Jackson's farmhouse.
Barbara Hicks wakens at the sound of two reports from a shotgun. She looks out of her bedroom window and sees Curling shooting at rabbits.
Joan and Rose lie awake in their bunks, listening to the noises outside.
Barbara dresses and, as she leaves the cottage on her bicycle, she sees a man in uniform cycling towards her. He passes so closely that he nearly knocks her over.
Tom Jackson arrives at the farm cottage, having cycled all the way from his base. Joan greets him at the door with a kiss.
A short while later, Rose calls on Jackson and tells him that Barbara has gone out and his son has arrived. Jackson takes a revolver from a drawer and says, "Let's do it, then."
Curling is gathering up his kills when he hears a gunshot. He looks at his pocket watch and notes that the time is five o'clock.
Jackson, overcoat on and a bottle of whisky in his hand, watches Rose and Joan drive the tractor through darkness of the farmyard.
A covered truck arrives, splashing its way across the ford at the entrance to the farm.
Jackson, already drunk, staggers to a nearby field, sinks onto the grass and takes another swig of whisky. Disturbed by something, he rises to his feet and what he sees shocks him. He drops the open bottle and claps a hand to his mouth.
***
Next morning
Sam drives Foyle to join Milner at Jackson's farm.
As Milner takes his boss into the farmhouse, Sam gets out of the car and walks to where Rose and Joan are sitting on a bench outside the milking parlour. Sam smiles, but the two Land Army women survey her with insolent and resentful stares. Barbara and Tom are nearby and look at her blankly.
In the farmhouse, the dead body of Hugh Jackson is upright in an armchair, his face is splattered with blood from a shotgun wound in his chest. Milner says it doesn't look as though he shot himself because there was no note left and those who commit suicide with a shotgun usually blow their heads off. The detectives note that the gun lying against Jackson's chest has been recently fired and the man smells of whisky. Milner informs Foyle that there is no wife, but there is a son, Thomas, and it was he who found the body.
In the farmyard, Tom tells Foyle that he found his father at around 6am, after having just arrived from his barracks on a twenty-four hour pass. Joan interrupts the conversation, complaining crossly that the cows must be milked, but the farm workers are not being allowed to do it. Foyle tells her to go ahead and Tom can help as he is finished talking with him.
Foyle notices that Barbara, instead of going with the others, makes to leave and he queries it. Barbara replies that she doesn't work on the farm. Going by her attire - khaki tie, khaki trousers, white shirt and dark blue v-neck jumper -
Foyle seeks confirmation that she is with the Land Army. Barbara, obviously not pleased to be spoken to by the detective, replies sarcastically, "No, I'm wearing this for a dare." She goes on to explain dryly that she is a pole selector, who surveys woodland to find trees suitable for felling for use as pit props and in roadblocks, et cetera. Foyle gives a little smile and asks if she knew the dead man. She says she didn't and that she has been there only a few days.
Foyle asks her first impressions of Jackson and she replies, "He was not too different from most men: rude, lazy, lascivious - and ignorant!"
Her provocative words elicit no protest from Foyle, who merely responds with "Right. I see. Thank you very much." He asks her to keep them informed of her whereabouts and, with a little smile, turns away.
In the milking parlour, the DCS speaks with Rose, Joan and Tom. The women tell him that they sometimes stay in the farm cottage rather than in the hostel because of early starts and that Jackson lived alone in the farmhouse. Many gunshots were heard the previous night because Curling, who owns the farm next door, was hunting rabbits. Rose reckons that the reason the farmer was shooting so close to the house was because he was angry with Jackson, but she won't say why. Tom leaves, so Foyle asks Rose about Jackson's wife and she replies that the woman went off with a farm labourer ten or twelve years ago.
***
At the POW holding camp, Cornwall interrogates a nervous Lieutenant Sabartovski. He tells him that the relevant authorities have been notified that he is alive and well. Sabartovski admits to being a navigator and part of the Dornier's crew, but is reluctant to say more. Cornwall assures him that his organisation goes by the book in accordance with the Geneva Convention 1929.
***
In Jackson's farmhouse, Foyle and Milner examine the room in which Jackson was found. Foyle looks at the bullet hole in the back of the chair and then at a blood-spattered door immediately behind. He is digging a pistol bullet from the wood of the door when Milner comes in to report that he can find no whisky bottle.
Foyle postulates that someone shot Jackson with a pistol while he sat in the chair; the bullet passed through him and into the door and then a shotgun was used to make it look like suicide. "Clever. But not clever enough to fool us, eh, Milner?"
Milner grins and says, "Being the amateur sleuths we are".
"Well, quite!"
They decide to stick with the suicide story for the mean time, until someone says he or she knows something to the contrary.
Sam bursts in to report that Barbara Hicks has found another German.
Continue on...