Foyle is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a university professor is found brutally murdered in a London park.Foyle is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a university professor is found brutally murdered in a London park.Foyle is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a university professor is found brutally murdered in a London park.
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John C. Waterhouse
- William Knowles
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- TriviaAccording to writer Anthony Horowitz, the real American company that was guilty of cooperating with the Nazis was Standard Oil although he chose to change the name to Global Oil.
- GoofsMrs. Knowles offhandedly says her husband had been at Bletchley during the war, as if everyone would have been aware of the code breaking operations that took place there during the Second World War. However, those operations were classified until the mid-1970s and Professor Knowles would have not been able to disclose what he was doing there to his wife under the Official Secrets Act.
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Arthur Valentine: William Knowles, eh? Should be right up your street.
Christopher Foyle: What does that mean?
Arthur Valentine: [tomgue in cheek] Dead body... knife in the back.
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The episode starts in 1942 with two young men trying to siphon off some whiskey from a ship bound for America.
We then move to London in 1946 when a dead man is found with the address of Clayton Del Mar who runs an American oil company. Del Mar has powerful contacts in Britain and elsewhere. He is working with middle eastern governments to get them to reduce being reliant on the Soviet Union and talk up British interests. Foyle is tasked by MI5 to investigate.
The dead man was involved in the Nuremberg trials as a translator. He had travelled from Germany to meet Del Mar. There seems to be some links between Del Mar's companies and helping the Nazis during the war.
Foyle sends Sam undercover to look after Clayton's infirm father who thinks his son may not have what it takes to run a powerful oil corporation. Foyle goes to Germany to find out more about the dead man who was a professor.
There is weakness in the writing of this story which is already overstretched. Sam needs to be a live in carer as she goes undercover. Sam just conveniently walks in on her husband consoling a young lady in the house who has lost her job. This enables to walk out of the house. The whole Soviet agent subplot in London was unnecessary. Some of the acting was a bit iffy. Both Rupert Vansittart as the MI5 Head and Nigel Lindsay as Clayton Del Mar were one dimensional
We then move to London in 1946 when a dead man is found with the address of Clayton Del Mar who runs an American oil company. Del Mar has powerful contacts in Britain and elsewhere. He is working with middle eastern governments to get them to reduce being reliant on the Soviet Union and talk up British interests. Foyle is tasked by MI5 to investigate.
The dead man was involved in the Nuremberg trials as a translator. He had travelled from Germany to meet Del Mar. There seems to be some links between Del Mar's companies and helping the Nazis during the war.
Foyle sends Sam undercover to look after Clayton's infirm father who thinks his son may not have what it takes to run a powerful oil corporation. Foyle goes to Germany to find out more about the dead man who was a professor.
There is weakness in the writing of this story which is already overstretched. Sam needs to be a live in carer as she goes undercover. Sam just conveniently walks in on her husband consoling a young lady in the house who has lost her job. This enables to walk out of the house. The whole Soviet agent subplot in London was unnecessary. Some of the acting was a bit iffy. Both Rupert Vansittart as the MI5 Head and Nigel Lindsay as Clayton Del Mar were one dimensional
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- Jun 7, 2019
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