Foyle's War: The French Drop

[meganbmoore]

So, Netflix, in its infinite wisdom, interpreted my carefully spacing out the third season of Foyle’s War so that it would last me a while as “please send me the first three discs at once.” Hmph.

Anyway, this episode focused on a man who supposedly committed suicide, but was possibly murdered, the investigation of which eventually leads to Foyle learning about England’s new division of government spies. One thing I like about the pilot episodes of each season of this series is how they set different tones for the seasons. In the first season, Foyle has to choose between arresting a killer because he’s a murderer, or letting him go because the victim was a German, and the killer in a position to help England with the war. In the second, he learns that people more powerful than him won’t always make the same choice, even if it’s wrong. Here, he has to choose between principles of another sort and what might be a greater good.

We also have both Foyle and Milner contemplating leaving Hastings for other assignments, and Sam having to keep both their intentions quiet from the other, which resulted in a few small, funny scenes, especially as she’s adamantly against either leaving. We also learn that (it seems) half the men she’s related to are vicars. Which amuses me more than it probably should. And she wants to be a detective, which we had pretty much figured out, but it was nice to have it confirmed.