The following is a brief, official synopsis. Thanks to ITV for the publicity stills and to Shelagh and Gillian for the press-pack.The following is a brief, official synopsis. For a detailed account of the episode, click here.
Foyle and Milner's crackdown on an organised crime racket leads them to a shipyard owned by brothers Mark and Peter Talbot. There's a bombing raid at the docks and a group of Royal Engineers from the bomb disposal unit find thousands of pounds of hidden cash. Instead of telling police, they smuggle the money out - but one of them is abducted. What is going on at the Talbots' shipyard? And is there any link with communist agitator Raymond Carter, who has come to Hastings with his fiancée - and whom Foyle has been ordered to watch closely?
Sam is drinking in a local pub when Jack Archer, a Royal Engineer from the bomb disposal unit, drunkenly pulls out a gun. Assistant Commissioner Rose tells Foyle to keep an eye on dangerous communist agitator Raymond Carter, who has come to Hastings with his fiancée, painter Lucinda Sheridan.
Milner is working undercover in a fake builders yard set up by the police to try and catch the men behind an organised crime racket. A man called Ian Kimble furtively offers Milner petrol and hardware.
Sergeant Rivers asks Sam to put in a good word for Jack Archer with the magistrate because he's engaged to his daughter Gwen. Meanwhile Jack and his colleagues Earnest Jones and Captain Hammond diffuse a bomb in a school playground.
When Milner tries to arrest Kimble he is shot in the arm. Foyle goes to the docks and shipyard bosses Mark and Peter Talbot tell him Kimble works in the stockroom. But when Foyle goes to Kimble's home address, he finds it doesn't exist.
Carter attacks Foyle for snooping on him but Lucinda explains how passionately Carter cares for the workers and how deeply committed he is to the People's Convention.
Back at the shipyard there's a bombing raid. A bomb falls into a building but doesn't explode. Archer, Hammond and Jones are called in - and discover thousands of pounds scattered over the floor. They take the bomb from the shipyard and go to the pub with their newfound cash, but when Earnest leaves, he is abducted.
Rose tells Foyle to investigate Carter's relationship with the Turner brothers' shop steward Derek Woodgate. Foyle finds incriminating photographs of the shipyard in Carter's hotel room - but then discovers from Woodgate that only 200 men work at the yard, while the Talbot brothers have been receiving wages for 400.
When Earnest Jones' murdered body is found, Hammond blames the Turners and goes to offer them a deal. Will the detectives find the cash and the bomb before it's too late? And can Foyle discover the truth about Carter and the shipyard?
