Role: Stephen Beck
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(Courtesy of the Michael Kitchen website, and Granada Media.) |
War Games
October 1940:
At the London head quarters of a multinational company a young secretary plummets to her death. In Hastings, Foyle is busy acting as a police referee for a series of large-scale Home Guard manoeuvres. When a member of the Home Guard is killed, Foyle and Milner discover some people will do anything to protect trading links with the Nazis.
When Foyle arrives at the ransacked country home of a wealthy industrialist, Sir Reginald Baker, at first it appears that this is just another case of domestic burglary - though Foyle is not so sure. Then, Harry Markham, a member of the Home Guard, is shot and killed during a large-scale exercise on the Sussex Downs, where Foyle is acting as police referee. Is it simply a tragic accident?
Once again, Foyle is not convinced - particularly after discovering that his old barrister friend Stephen Beck, a German socialist and 'naturalised Briton', had met with the murdered man only days before his death. To make matters even more disconcerting Foyle also encounters his old police sergeant, Jack Devlin, now an officer in the army - it's immediately clear that the two of them share a troubled history.
Employing whatever means he has at his disposal to gather information - even enlisting the aid of local children who are collecting salvage - Foyle moves from the small-scale sordid world of burglary and petty criminals into the much larger, and dirtier, world of international finance.
As he learns that many big corporations continue to trade with the Nazis, Foyle realises, to his disgust, that money talks a universal language - even during the war.
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Christopher Foyle ... |
Michael Kitchen |