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It's April 1942. The first American GIs arrive near Hastings - their orders to build an aerodrome and camp on farmland that has been requisitioned for the task. Landowner David Barrett is hostile towards Captain John Kieffer of the 215th Engineers, while his men are busy checking out the local girls.
Milner goes for a drink at the Wheatsheaf pub with Will Grayson, who saved his life at Trondheim and is back in Hastings on leave. Will returns home much later, drunk, and when fire breaks out in his house, he dies in his locked bedroom. Milner is upset by the tragedy and decides to investigate.
Kieffer asks Foyle to appease Barrett and Foyle is caught between the need to make the Americans welcome and calming local fears about this seeming invasion by the Yanks. Kieffer also asks him to give a talk to his men in return for trying his tournament quality fishing rod. Meanwhile GI Joe Farnetti asks Sam for a date.
Barmaid Susan Davies has a secret affair with young American soldier James Taylor, even though she's engaged to Barrett's nephew. Her boss, Alan Carter, is very anxious about Will's death. He and Susan are running an illicit whisky distillery from the pub.
Sam is upset by a letter from Andrew Foyle and decides to go with Joe to a dance at the American base. A distraught Taylor tells his moody sergeant O'Connor that Susan is pregnant.
On the night of the dance, Barrett's nephew Ben returns home. In the midst of the crowded hall, Taylor is taken ill, then Susan is found strangled, with Taylor's identity tags in her clenched fist.
The GIs close ranks and with Anglo-American relations stretched to breaking point, Foyle is told by the War Office to tread carefully. But his determination to find the truth about Susan's death forces him to break government orders. Was it Taylor who killed the unfaithful barmaid or has he been framed? As Foyle investigates, Milner also discovers what happened to his friend Will.
