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Farewell, Chief Superintendent Foyle
A good man may be hard to find, but it’s just as hard to let a good man go. This season,
Masterpiece Mystery! says goodbye to two esteemed British crime fighters and men of mystery when it retires the stiff-upper-lipped Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) and the aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) in finales to Foyle’s War and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
The three-part Foyle’s War, Series V airs on Masterpiece Mystery! Sundays, July 13 to 27, at 9 p.m. (The two-part The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series VII will premiere in August and we’ll have more on that later.)
“Hastings, the seaside, the end of the war—where else would you want to be?” asks one of the many suspects on Foyle’s War this season. Where else indeed?
Foyle’s War has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “a triumph from start to finish,” and now the end has come for the popular World War II whodunit. It’s April 1944, and victory is at hand for the Allies. But underneath the swell of anticipation and relief lurk resentment, recrimination and regret.
A year has passed since DCS Foyle (Michael Kitchen) abruptly resigned from the Hastings Police, and his former colleagues are still struggling to adjust to life without him. While Foyle plods away on a writing project, Sergeant Paul Milner (Anthony Howell) is contemplating leaving the force and Samantha Stewart (Honeysuckle Weeks) is at loose ends after having been fired by Foyle’s replacement, the irascible DCS Meredith.
In Plan of Attack (July 13), a troubled young airman is found hanged and suicide seems the obvious explanation, but Milner has his doubts. Before he can test his theories, though, a shocking act of violence turns the station upside down, forcing Foyle out of retirement and Sam back into the driver’s seat. It’s soon clear that the alleged suicide is no open-and-shut case. Was the young man the victim of a love-triangle killing? What secret did he take with him to his grave? And does a German priest hold the key?
The following episodes will find Foyle and company dealing with the murder of an unpopular young doctor (with no shortage of potential suspects) on July 20. On July 27, Hastings prepares for the German surrender, but there is still one final case to solve – the murder of a local committee member. The case will put odds with his old friend, American Captain John Kieffer.
published: July 8, 2008
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