(choral music) - Forgive me father for I have sinned.

- [Kepler] How long since your last confession?

- Two weeks.

- [Kepler] Tell me your sins.

- I have broken the sixth commandment.

- [Kepler] Thou shalt not kill?

- I have killed.

I have committed murder.

- [Announcer] It's certainly chalks away as American bombers leave Britain on one of their longest missions yet.

More that 1500 aircraft have been waiting for the weather to turn.

It did and off they went.

Their target, aircraft factories at Marienburg in East Prussia and Hosen in Poland.

A round trip of 1600 miles.

With German losses mounting the message is clear.

Unconditional surrender and there's just one question, how much more can Hitler take?

(engine revving) - Excuse me.

(engine sputtering) - Right then, let's see your papers.

- Where is it?

- Oh keep your hair on old girl.

We've got plenty of time.

- The Wing Commander asked for it half an hour ago.

Proper Command are already here.

- Well they can wait.

- Adam!

- Here it is.

- Where's Henry?

- Who can say?

Anyone would think there was a war on.

(engine sputtering) - I'm sorry sir but you'll just have to bare with us a moment longer.

(knocking) Come!

Is that it?

- Yes sir.

- We've got it, it's on it's way now.

Right.

Well, where was it?

- Everitt had it, sir.

- Everitt, not again.

Well, don't just stand there take it to the dispatch rider.

- Yes sir.

- Jane.

- Just a moment, here it is.

- Yes, thank you.

- Henry?

- Mister Scott, you've left your supper.

Mister Scott.

(knocking) Mister Scott?

Mister Scott?

Mister Scott?

Henry?

Henry?

(ominous music) (bombs falling) (ominous music) - [Brooke] Morning sir.

- Morning Sergeant.

Is Milner in yet?

- Yeah, he got here an hour ago sir.

He's in the interrogation room.

You know he got Burton.

- Burton?

- Bill Burton, the lorries man.

- Oh yeah, very good.

Tell Milner I want to have a word.

- Yes sir.

(somber music) (phone ringing) - Milner, the DCS would like a word.

- Thank you.

- Another of his ****** *** he wants you to sort out.

- I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

- It was never like this a year ago.

Never thought I'd hear myself say it, the good old days.

- Brooke tells me you've made an arrest.

- Yes sir, Bill Burton, we're holding him now.

He has a haulage operation.

I've been working with the special investigations of the army, falsified transport accounts.

- Someone was paying him?

- About 1200 pounds in the last year.

For lorry trips that were never made.

- Which barracks?

- Brighton Eastbourne.

But that was only last year so this could go back a lot further.

- Oi, he must have had people on the inside.

- That's what I'm trying to find out.

- Yes, well you better get on with it then.

- Yes sir.

- And the amalgamation.

(typing) Was the cause of a lot of local prickliness.

Am I going too fast for you?

- No sir it's not me, it's the typewriter.

It keeps jamming.

- Ah.

Doesn't when I use it.

I mean if you can do short hand why aren't we using your short hand.

- Well I can write it, I can't read it.

- Alright.

- Is there a Y in prickliness?

- Um, two I's I think.

- Is this gonna be a very long book?

- [Foyle] Well it looks like it.

You trying to tell me something?

- No sir.

- We're wasting our time is that what you're saying?

- No I'm sure lots of people will be interested in the subject.

You might think of a better title though.

History of the Hastings Constabulary in the Wartime Years.

Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it?

- Well it's not intended for the public at large.

- Well who is it for?

- Well there's gonna be a lot of stories about the war and the police along the south coast are as much apart of that story as any others are.

- Absolutely.

I agree.

Maybe I'll get a mention.

Do you miss police work, sir?

- Nope.

- Nor do I.

Right, once more unto the fray?

- Hastings in 1942.

- You're making a mistake.

- I don't think so.

These bills are forgeries.

The registration numbers listed here don't exist.

- I don't think you understand me Sergeant Milner.

I'm saying you're making a mistake.

- Then why don't you help me out Mister Burton?

- I don't think you know who I am.

I have friends, a great many of them.

They're not gonna take kindly to all this.

They might come calling.

- Are you threatening me?

- Look, I'm in here, nothing I can do.

But I'd watch my step if I was you, that's all.

- You witnessed all that sergeant?

- I did, Mister Milner.

- Then you can add obstruction and threatening a police officer to the charge sheet.

Let's see what your friends think about that.

- [Henry] There's a bridge over the river just here.

- According to the old maps the river didn't even run this way.

- The library will have weather charts going back over the last five years.

Heavy rain, it may have burst it's banks.

And I think we should have another look at this here.

- It looks like a barn.

- Well if you looked at it under the stereoscope you'd see that it was too high.

There's some sort of installation on the roof, possibly an aerial mast.

- Any local intelligence?

- Watertow, where did you say you came from again?

- The War Agriculture Executive Committee.

- They sent you here?

- I applied, I wanted to make maps.

- Henry, could I have a word?

- And that's the last of them, thank you.

- I heard you were ill. - I was, I'm back.

- I was worried about you.

- Were you, you didn't visit me.

- I didn't think you'd want to see me.

- You were right.

- Henry.

Can't we go back to the way things were?

- That's not possible, is it?

You see, if you drop a glass, it breaks.

You can try and glue it back together but it will still have cracks.

- I made a mistake.

I know that but what about forgiveness?

I thought that was important to us.

- I have forgiven you, Jane.

Doesn't make me want to see you.

- [Everitt] Oh dear.

- What are you doing here?

- A summons from the Wing Co. What was all that about?

- It's none of your business.

- But you're going to tell me anyway.

- No, I'm not.

- Are you doing anything tonight?

- Going to church, choir practice.

- Ah, of course, it's a Tuesday.

- What'd you want Adam?

- You know what I want, Jane.

The trouble is, you want it too.

- Bomber Command at Laverton aren't happy.

- When were they ever?

- The raid over Marienburg, there were errors on the map.

- There are always errors, we can't help that.

Anyway what does it matter, the raid was success.

- This cross hatching here, it's not woods.

There was a railway terminal and two gun emplacements here.

It's as plain as pikestaff.

- Well I'm very sorry sir, it won't happen again.

- It's already happened too often.

Your work is slap dash.

People are asking why you're still here.

- Are they?

We'd neither of us want that, would we?

- Do you understand what's going on out there?

The stage of the war?

Victory depends on getting it right, it's critical and you just-- maybe I should just move you to the printing section.

- Ha, not for me, thanks all the same.

I'll try harder.

- Everitt.

I'm still in charge of this unit.

I'm your commanding officer.

- Sir.

(choral singing) - Thank you, I need to hear that last phrase again please.

Particularly sopranos in bar 40, I need to hear the C sharp.

So can we go again from bar 37, thank you.

(choral singing) - Thank you that was very good, much better.

Thank you for your hard work.

I will see you all again on Sunday.

- [Choir Members] Thank you.

(chattering) - Jane.

Are you going back?

- Um, not just yet.

- But I'll wait and walk back with you if you like.

- Oh no, thank you that's very kind but um, I'm waiting for Henry.

- Father, can I talk to you?

- Of course Henry, of course.

Let us sit.

How are you?

You are, you're fully recovered?

- Yes.

- I hope you've not had any further temptation.

- No.

It was stupid.

- No it was, it was much more than that.

But we will not speak of it again.

And your work, are you feeling happy?

- How can I feel happy?

With my pens and paintbrushes I'm killing people I don't even know.

- Henry, Henry, you must not see it like that.

- I don't know how you can want me to stay there.

You of all people.

- Why, because I am a priest or because I am German?

- Both.

- I want this war to be over.

I want to go home but that can never happen until Hitler is finished.

Now, you are using your skills to help bring that day closer.

- They are bombing towns and villages.

They're not going to stop, unconditional surrender.

- I know it is not easy but we must try to see the greater good.

The light at the end of the tunnel.

- It's a very long tunnel.

- Things are stepping up?

- More and more raids.

- In Germany, East Prussia?

- I'm not meant to tell you.

- And I'm not meant to ask, but you know, I can't help it.

For you it's just a diagram on a piece of paper.

For me it's home.

- They want to have a crack at Hitler himself.

They think they can hit Berchtesgaden.

- What, that would be wonderful.

That would finish the war.

- But it is still murder.

- Ah, you should come to this conference at Cranville.

Bishop Francis Wood will be there he will be speaking.

He too like you believes in moral absolutes, even in war.

I will see you on Sunday, hm?

Try to be at peace.

- I always feel better talking to you.

- Will you walk me home?

- Why are you doing this?

- We work together, we come here together, we can't pretend we don't know each other.

- Well I thought I knew you.

But I know Adam Everitt very well.

In fact in know more about him than you do.

- What are you talking about?

- Why don't you ask him about his uncle Bill and the nice arrangement that he's got?

And I may just start talking about what I know.

You can tell him that too.

- [Speaker] Be here for some time in the afternoon.

- [Woman] Very nice though.

- Things have been going downhill since you left if you want the truth, sir.

We had a bad year last year.

Lost a lot of men to the forces.

Three cases still unsolved.

You've heard they're closing the station down?

- I have.

- Morale is at rock bottom.

Oh maybe it's just the war.

I heard things are going well in Russia but there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.

And then there's DCS Meredith.

- Hm, is there?

- I don't understand him, sir.

- Why might that be?

- Well you know I'd never speak badly of a superior officer and I do respect him but he's perhaps the reason I'm thinking of leaving.

And I just wondered if there's anything that you could tell me about him that might help.

- Well I don't know.

I do know that he was at Reigate for quite a while that he's well spoken of, gets results but apart from that I can't really say.

- Then you think I should stay?

(utensils scraping plate) - So what did you do today?

- I was in the garden.

- I see the tulips are out.

- Yes.

- Early this year.

- Not especially.

- Well, they're beautiful.

- Yes.

- Are you sure you won't have a drink?

- Not for me, thank you.

- Oh, we arrested a man today.

A chap called Burton, some scheme with lorries.

He's taken 1200 pounds off the government.

- I'm sorry, I'm not interested, John.

Actually, I have a slight headache.

Would you mind if I go up?

- No you go ahead, I'll clear up.

(light music) - How's Sam, sir?

- Oh she's fine, her typing's not what it should be but she's the same as ever.

- And how's the book?

- Slow.

- Am I in it?

- Oh she asked that.

Might get a mention in the final chapter.

Goodnight.

- Goodnight sir, thank you.

- It's a pleasure.

(dramatic music) - I know it's a bit of a cheek but you remember my uncle Aubrey?

- Yeah, the vicar.

- Well, all my uncles are vicars, but that's right.

He's coming to Hastings later today and he has a special dispensation to come here.

He's coming for the church conference.

Anyway, he sent me a telegraph saying his hotel has let him down, as you know all the hotels in Hastings are jammed at the moment what with all the troop movements and I can't find anywhere to put him up.

- I see.

- It would only be for a couple of nights and he did let us stay with him so.

- No, fine, I'd be happy to.

- Thank you.

His bus gets in at 10 to three.

- Does it?

- And I don't get off work 'til six, so.

- Don't you?

That's alright, I'll stroll down.

- Thank you very, very much sir.

Oh how's the book going?

- As much as you left it.

Just looked over the chapter on the horse racing and illegal rambling.

- Don't you mean gambling?

- I do, not quite what you typed.

- Ah, better be on my way.

Thanks again.

- I don't think they were trying to kill me sir.

Just making a point.

- You think they were working for Burton?

- Yes sir.

He's scared, I think I'll let him sit tight awhile.

I'm fairly sure he'll give me what I need.

- Then you should come along with me to Cranville College.

I've had a message from London.

Have you heard of Francis Wood, Bishop of Cirencester?

We've got a whole clutch of them down here.

Some sort of ecumenical conference.

It's hard to know why they're having it here when the whole coast is off limits.

- It is 10 miles inland sir.

- Just when it looks as though we're gonna bomb the Jerrys out of existence Bishop Wood wants us all to forgive and forget.

- You think he'll bring trouble?

- I think he is trouble.

- [Everitt] That's not a reason to leave.

- I wanna talk to you.

- [Everitt] Uh-oh.

Well that makes a change.

- [Speaker] Bye then.

- [Everitt] See ya.

- There's something you're not telling me.

- There's all sorts of things I'm not telling you, Jane.

For example, how crazy I am about you.

- Stop it.

- No I mean it.

Who'd have thought I'd have found love in a god forsaken dump like this but I'm quite serious.

I think I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

- You talk a lot of tummy rot.

- Well what about the weekend then?

What'd ya say, why don't we just slip away?

Just the two of us, like last time.

- Who is your uncle Bill?

- What are you talking about?

- Who is he?

- Who gave you that name?

Was this Henry?

What's he been saying about me?

Tell me, I want to know.

(engine revving) - [Passenger] Cheerio, nice to see you.

- Ah, my dear Mister Foyle, how very good to see you.

- [Foyle] And you.

- I take it Samantha spoke to you.

- [Foyle] She did.

- And I can stay?

- You can it'll be a pleasure, shall I take that?

- Thank you.

- Good trip?

- Oh stop and starts, never seen so many troops on the move.

It really feels like the big push and all that.

How are you?

I hear you're no longer with the police.

- Well that's right.

- Well, you must tell all.

Perhaps over a cup of tea, I'm absolutely parched.

(ominous music) - I don't understand, this can't be right.

- Can I help?

- Go to the library and get me anything you can on this area here.

- [Waterlow] North of Stuttgart.

- North and Northwest, this map was made in '31 it can't be right.

Get me any up to date information.

I need to know if there've been any raids that might have changed the landscape.

- I want a word.

- Not now.

- Yes, now Henry damn you.

- No, no, no, no.

- I said I want to talk to you.

- Go to hell Everitt.

- Henry, what is this, what's the matter?

- It's not there.

- What isn't there, where are you going?

- The church.

- It's this question of total and unconditional surrender.

Everyone knows the Germans have lost the war.

It's just a question of how many more innocent people have to die before they accept it.

Take the bombing of Hamburg, for example.

Hundreds killed, do we condone it?

Can we condone it?

Thou shalt not kill, the Bible makes it pretty clear.

Do you have any sugar?

- I'm afraid not.

- Of course if you're sticking to moral absolutes you come to love your enemy and that's where we are now.

Except we're not loving them we're bombing the hell out of them.

- And where do you stand?

- I'm behind Francis Wood.

Bishop of Cirencester, he'll be at Cranville and what he's preaching is reconciliation and forgiveness, a negotiated peace.

- Is this the right time?

- He won't worry about that.

You know he tried to set up a famine relief committee for children across Europe.

Can you imagine?

It would have meant breaking our own blockade.

Of course it didn't get very far.

Anyway look, you don't wanna talk about all this.

How are you, how's Sam?

- Well she's fine, you'll see her later.

- By the way, I've got something for you.

I brought it up from the country.

Bottle of my homemade wine.

- Very kind of you, thank you.

(bells ringing) - Well it's very reassuring to have a police presence detective chief superintendent but I think hardly necessary.

- Yes, well I think we'll be the best judge of that.

- Yes, of course.

- When you spoke in London you caused a riot.

- No, not at all.

A few dissenting voices.

- Are you planning on speaking in public while you're here sir?

- This is a church conference but any members of the public will be welcome.

- I hardly need tell you that sedition is still an offense.

- Sedition?

- The night bombing of German cities.

Degradation of the spirit for all who take part in it threatens the roots of civilization.

- You heard my address.

- I read it, let me tell you this Bishop Wood, you say those things down here and I'll throw the book at you.

Come on, Milner.

(ominous music) - [House Keeper] Mister Scott, what are you doing at home this time of day?

Is something a matter?

- I'm just trying to think.

- Are you all right?

- No.

- Would you like me to call the doctor?

- No I don't need the doctor.

- Where are you going?

- Out.

Yes, yes.

Look, I need to talk to you.

No, it's urgent.

No I know, I know.

No it can't wait.

- Waterlow, what were you doing in my office?

- I was looking for you sir.

- Why?

- I'm worried about Scott, he's gone.

- Gone, gone where?

- I don't know.

He asked me to get some reference on the area around Stuttgart and when I got back he wasn't at his desk.

I've spoken to the sentries they say he's left the building and I think he may have taken a photograph with him.

There were two photographs under the stereoscope.

I saw them just now, one of them is gone.

I didn't see the name.

- Do you think Scott took it?

That's against all regulations.

We must find him.

He's billeted in Birchwood Lane.

He told me that, would you like me to go around?

- Ah no, no, thank you Waterlow.

This is my responsibility, I'll deal with it.

- Sir.

(birds chirping) (woman shouting) - What news on Burton?

- This is a list of contacts that he's had over the past four years that I think we need to investigate.

- Army, Air force, RASC, NFS, it's endless.

Are you saying he was defrauding the whole lot of them?

- He'll have had people inside on everyone of these sir.

It's the only way it would have worked.

I'm still trying to get a list of names off him.

- Sorry to break in on you sir, but we've had a report.

A man found hanged in Garten Wood.

A couple of lang girls came across him, swinging in the breeze.

- Yes well I don't see why you need to bother us with it Sergeant.

There are plenty of miserable people out there.

We've got better things to do than to go out mopping up after them, you deal with it.

- I wouldn't have troubled you sir except the MO found a photograph in his pocket, taken from a plane.

It's a place called Hoch Feldhausen.

It's marked on the back.

Well, I'd say that sounds German.

Wouldn't you sir?

- Any idea who he was?

- His name was Henry Scott.

He was carrying his identity card.

- How long had he been here?

- Only about an hour or so sir according to the doc.

- Very young.

- You um, you don't suppose he was a Jerry spy, do you sir?

With all the troop movements around here it wouldn't surprise me.

- Why would a German spy carry a photograph of one his own towns?

It would incriminate him.

- Home sick?

- Sergeant do you mind climbing the ladder?

- Right you are sir.

- Tell me what you see.

- Well, it's a lovely view up here Mister Milner.

There's lots of trees.

- I'm not interested in the view, look at the branch.

Can you see where the rope was?

- Yes, it's cut a groove into the branch.

- How deep is it?

- Oh it's quite deep, it's deeper than I would have imagined.

- It doesn't go all the way around.

- No sir, about half way.

- What are you going on about Milner?

- Well look at the rope, sir.

There's a green stain all the way down where it's rubbed against the branch.

- Well what of it?

- If you were going to hang yourself, you'd throw the rope over the branch and tie it or you might climb up and tie it.

- Yeah.

- But this rope has been dragged over the branch with something heavy attached to the other end.

It's made a deep groove and a whole length of it has been stained green.

I also noticed extensive bruising at the back of the victim's head.

I suppose he could've hit the branch as fell but I don't think so.

- You think he was knocked out.

- Yes sir, knocked out and then dragged into the air.

I think he was murdered.

- It was a fascinating afternoon.

I met Francis Wood, very impressive.

And were you aware you have a German priest here in Hastings?

- A Jerry, he's probably spying on us.

- No, not at all, he's a friend of Bonhoeffer.

- Who's he?

- Bonhoeffer, you know who I'm talking about.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

- German protestant, spoke out against Hitler.

- He did here in 1933.

- Well you'll be sorry to hear that he insisted on returning to Germany and the Gestapo arrested him.

He's in prison.

But you must come out with me tomorrow.

There's some public forums and you can meet father Kepler.

He's in Hastings, from St. Jude's.

- I can't imagine anything more dreary.

- That's because you're a wicked girl and a severe disappointment to your parents and all your uncles.

So why don't you tell us what you're doing with yourself?

Now you've been thrown out of the police.

- I wasn't thrown out, I resigned.

Anyway, I can't tell you anything except I'm making a vital contribution to the war effort.

- I'll drink to that.

- It's not the same, you know sir.

You should have stayed.

- Really?

- Well if you're writing a wartime history of the Hastings police, you ought to stay until the last chapter.

- No, it belongs to somebody else.

- DCS Meredith you mean.

He was the one who fired me.

- Thought you said you resigned.

- Well I would have given the chance.

Oh, I've gotta go I'm afraid.

Got a seven o'clock start.

- Keeping you on your toes there at secret intelligence?

- It's a very boring job uncle Aubrey.

Worse than that, it's a long way away and I missed the car.

(light music) - Morning Bob.

- Morning.

- Reporting for duty.

(light music) - I won't be long.

(chiming) - So he's dead, well it's very sad but I can't say I'm completely surprised.

- What makes you say that Mrs. Hammond?

- He's tried twice before, suicide.

You wouldn't think that, would you, a good catholic boy.

- He was religious?

- Bible before bed every night.

- What else can you tell me about him?

- I can tell you I wish he'd never moved in.

You don't know what it was like having a person like that in the house, I never knew what was gonna happen next.

And now this.

- Can you tell me where he worked?

- The Air Ministry.

They're the ones who billeted him here but I can't tell you what he did, he wasn't allowed to talk about it.

- And when did you last see him?

- He came in about three o'clock or a few minutes before.

I could see he was in a state but he didn't stay long and he went out again almost immediately.

- Did he say where he was going?

- No, just out that's all he said.

You should go and visit Father Kepler.

Oh I know he's a Jerry but he's a good chap.

He's the priest at St. Jude's.

I told you, Mister Scott was devout when he wasn't trying to do himself in.

They were very close the two of them.

(crow cawing) - Hello?

- [Brooke] No one at home?

- [Milner] Seems not.

- Been no one at home for a while.

God's on holiday if you ask me.

How else do you explain Herr Hitler?

- Good morning.

- Ah, Father Kepler, good morning.

Christopher, this is the man I was telling you about.

Ah Martin Kepler, Christopher Foyle.

- It's a great pleasure.

- Oh how do you do?

- [Aubrey] Mister Foyle used to be in charge of the police in Hastings.

- You are joining us today?

- Oh I thought I'd might look in, yes.

- Ah.

You have left the police.

- I have.

- I always find it strange that anyone would wish to commit crime in a time of war.

- Well irrepressible human nature I suppose.

- Ah, and human nature cannot be defined by nationality.

- Probably know a little more about that than I do.

- I have to believe it in my position.

- How long have you been here?

- I came here two years before the war.

- I could see the direction my country was taking and I could not go with it so I left.

I had no choice, I'd spoken out in public.

It was a great mistake.

The Gestapo started to search for me.

- Very difficult I imagine for you to be in England at this time.

- What is difficult for me is that I did not have the courage to stay in Germany.

- Excuse me, are you Sergeant Milner?

- Yes sir.

- I'm Wing Commander Stephen Foster.

I'm here about the man who was found hanging in the woods, Henry Scott.

Look I really don't think any police investigation is needed.

- With respect sir, that's not for you to decide.

- I just don't want you wasting your time or mine.

Henry Scott was a mess.

He hated his job, he hated the war.

He tried to do away with himself at least twice before.

- Was this ever reported Wing Commander?

- No, of course it should have been.

But Scott was superb at his work and we decided to look after him ourselves.

- Did he have any enemies?

- No, none that I know of.

- Well I must say Milner this does look a bit like a blind alley.

- You still haven't told us what his work was, sir.

- I can't, not without clearance from the Air Ministry and frankly I don't think they'll give it.

Our work is highly classified.

- And we still have a man who is dead sir.

- A man who killed himself.

- Look this isn't getting us very far.

We'll apply to the Air Ministry, see what they have to say.

- Fine.

- I take it you are on the telephone.

And that we can get in touch with you?

- Of course, by the way did Scott have a photograph with him?

- Yes, what was the name on it, Milner?

- Hoch Feldhausen sir.

- That's right.

- I need it back.

- I'm sorry sir, I can't do that it's police evidence.

- It's actually very important to us right now.

(propeller droning) - Have you heard about Henry?

- Oh everyone's heard about poor Henry.

- You don't care, do you?

- Give me one reason why I should.

- Because we needed him here.

He was good at his job, he was the best.

- I imagine there are Henrys beavering away in drawing offices all over the country.

They'll find a replacement.

- He was my friend.

- Oh was he?

- You know how I felt about him.

- Rather better than you, Jane.

You felt sorry for him, that's all.

- You're a cad.

- It's the truth Jane and you know it.

You had no relationship with Henry Scott beyond some sort of Hansel and Gretel thing which in the absence of any gingerbread cottages was going nowhere.

And now that he's gone you're just trying to pretend that there was more to it than that.

- You're glad he's dead.

- Not really.

- Yes you are because he knew something about you.

You wanted him out of the way.

- Have you been eaves dropping?

- No, not really I've just sent up here to get some maps.

- Listen we shouldn't talk here, why don't you come out for a drink tonight?

- You never give up do you?

- Miss Stewart, is that right?

- Yes, Samantha Stewart.

- Adam Everitt.

Are you new here?

- Actually I've been here about six months.

- Well, the maps.

- Yes I've got them here.

- Maybe you better take them down.

- Right.

- Germany is being demolished.

Town by town, village by village, night after night.

Civilians are dying.

Monuments are being destroyed.

The bombers have no real plan of attack because in the darkness bombing is blind.

This is not the way of a civilized society.

This is nothing more than revenge and we have to tell people that it is wrong.

(whispering) Father Kepler, I'm very sorry but I've been asked to tell you there's a police officer here who wishes to see you.

- Well, will you excuse me gentlemen?

- The historic centers of the great German cities are being destroyed.

- You interrupted a very important meeting.

What is the concerns here?

- I understand you know a man called Henry Scott.

- Henry, yes I know him well.

- Did you see him yesterday afternoon?

- No I was here most of the afternoon and then I went home, why do you ask?

- I'm sorry to have to tell you that he was found dead yesterday afternoon.

In Garten Wood, not far from here.

- Um, may I ask you Sergeant, had he taken his own life?

- Yes it appeared that way.

- Forgive me, I thought all this was behind him.

I shall pray for his soul.

He was a very troubled young man but to take your own life is a great sin.

- What did trouble him, sir?

- The war, his part in it, the loss of innocent life.

He felt responsible.

- Why, what was his occupation?

- You don't know?

- No.

- Then I'm afraid I'm unable to tell you Sergeant.

Henry told me about certain aspects of his work but in very strict confidence.

You understand, I speak here of the trust between a priest and a supplicant.

So I am sorry Sergeant but in this case I have to answer to a higher authority than yours.

- And I still have to investigate his death.

- Of course, but if he took his own life I don't see why.

- I said it appeared that way.

- But you can't think he?

How was he found?

- He was hanging from a tree.

- Only a few weeks ago it was pills.

- You should have reported it.

- A crime against the state, perhaps but for me it was more a crime against his own faith.

- Did you try to help him?

- Of course.

And I failed, I will have to live with that.

But let me assure you, Sergeant Henry had no enemies.

There was nobody who would wish him dead.

- I don't believe it was suicide.

- Then I will help you in anyway I can though within those boundaries I've already explained to you.

- Thank you.

I don't suppose you've heard of a place called Hoch Feldhausen?

- Why do you ask?

- Have you?

- Feldhausen, it's a common name.

There was a Feldhausen I think outside Berlin but Hoch Feldhausen, no I don't think so.

- When did you come to England Sir?

- Before the war in '37.

- And where were you before that?

- I was in Munich, the church of St. Nicholas.

- Thank you, we'll talk again.

- Well I'm an easy man to find, my door is always open.

- [Everitt] Miss Stewart.

- Yes?

- I'd just like to say, about this afternoon, it's not good to eavesdrop, especially in a place like this.

- I don't know what you're talking about.

- Well listening in on things that have nothing to do with you.

I'd be careful if I were you.

- Are you threatening me?

- I'm just advising you not to repeat things that you shouldn't have heard in the first place.

- It's Mister Everitt, isn't it?

- That's right.

- Well, I'd forgotten all about it if you really want to know.

- I'm glad.

- But since you're so worried about it that you've come out here to bully me, I'm going to mention it to everyone I can.

- These priests and vicars aren't going to say anything to you.

And I'm not sure we can make them.

As for the Air Ministry, I doubt we're gonna hear from them.

- We can approach Wing Commander Foster again sir.

- Well we can always try I suppose.

Perhaps we should reconsider the whole thing.

I mean, are we sure we are dealing with murder here?

- I have a gut feeling sir.

- Not much else, I mean this man Scott was suicidal.

It seems an awful lot of trouble to lug him up into a tree.

- Unless it was to make it look like he killed himself.

- [Meredith] Goodnight Sergeant.

- Good night sir.

- Well, you do what you think is best.

- Thank you sir.

- I don't suppose you care for a drink before you get home?

- Uh, no sir, that's very kind of you.

- Damn, I've left my fountain pen inside.

(gunshot) Charlie?

- Milner?

- Brooke, call for an ambulance.

- I've missed you Charlie.

- Sir, try to keep still.

- I'm glad you're here.

(light music) - [Aubrey] Are you sure you don't want to join us today?

- [Foyle] No, I won't thank you if it's all the same to you.

- [Aubrey] They have a fascinating debate this morning.

The question is how do we get the message across?

The English church, the German church.

One family looking beyond the war to the future.

Coming together again.

- [Foyle] That would happen in time, wouldn't it?

- No Christopher, that's the whole point.

It has to happen now.

- [Officer] Mister Foyle.

- Uh-oh.

- What is it?

- Trouble.

- Oh, I'll leave you to it.

- Oh would you, thank you.

- Assistant Commissioner.

- How are you?

- I'm very well, you?

- Yes, thanks.

- Little over dressed for a church conference I'd have said.

- I'd like to speak to you privately.

You haven't heard, Meredith was shot last night.

- [Foyle] How is he?

- He's dead.

Milner was with him.

He's alright, he wasn't touched but Meredith died in his arms.

- Well I'm very sorry to hear that.

I never met him.

- I knew him well, in fact I recommended him for the job.

- Any idea who did it?

- Not yet.

We're not even sure that he was the target.

In fact it's more likely it was Milner.

- Really?

- Someone had a go at him just a few days ago.

- Did they?

- I was told I'd find you here.

- Well I know why you're here.

And the answer's no.

- I can understand that.

But listen this is completely unprecedented.

The shooting of a senior police officer in the street.

- Well I understand that, the answer's no.

- When you resigned a year ago I was new to the job.

I was trying to find my feet.

All the facts of the matter seem to be against you.

But the truth is I was a colonel blimp of the very worst sort.

And you were absolutely right to resign.

I beg of you to reconsider and come back.

If only to discover who committed this terrible crime.

We have to bring this killer to justice.

- Milner's very capable.

- I know that and I agree but did you know he's put in for transfer?

- I did.

- Well therein lies our problem.

This is difficult, particularly in the light of what I've just said, but I'm afraid there's been a certain lack of leadership in Hastings since you've left.

There is no one else.

- Mister Foyle.

- Good morning.

- Sir, don't tell me you've come?

- Only for awhile, just a temporary arrangement until we sort out what happened to Mister Meredith, okay?

- Sir.

Well thank goodness someone at the top is finally showing a bit of sanity.

- Right, question the judgment of any senior officer in front of me ever again I'll make sure you're transferred and demoted, better still, I'll have you discharged.

- Nice to have him back.

(sighs) (somber music) - Justice won't help my husband now, will it?

But I know you'll do your best.

- Yes.

- You didn't know John, did you?

- I didn't, no.

- No, I served under your husband Mrs. Meredith.

- Mister Milner, you wanted a transfer, he told me.

- It was personal circumstances.

- You're lying to me.

You both are, you think I'm the grieving widow so you're telling me what you think I want to hear.

But I'm not.

These are my two sons.

Teddy was killed the year before last in Africa.

Charlie died last year, he was with the eighth army in Sicily.

John didn't want your job Mister Foyle.

They twisted his arm to make him take it and when he did he didn't care about it.

He didn't care about anything.

He was dead inside, we both were.

I still am.

I can't grieve, I have no feelings left.

- He thought I was his son.

- Beg your pardon?

- When he was dying, that's who he thought I was.

- Did he?

- He called me Charlie.

- Well, some small comfort in that I suppose.

- I just thought that he was doing a bad job.

I didn't try to understand.

- Hello.

You alright?

- Yes.

No, not really.

- This is about Henry, isn't it?

Do you want to talk about him?

- I've got no one to talk to.

- Well, you can talk to me.

- I don't even know you.

- Yes, well that's the thing about Beverly Lodge isn't it?

Everyone's working in their different sections and nobody seems to know anyone.

- You're in the library aren't you?

- That's me.

And you work for Wing Commander Foster?

- Yes, administration.

- [Sam] How long were you there for?

- [Jane] Three years.

- [Sam] And what about Henry?

- He was here right from the start.

He was brilliant at his work, everyone said so.

- And you were very close?

- We were walking out together for a time.

Then it all went wrong.

- Don't tell me, that Everitt chap.

- Did you hear what we were saying?

- A bit, I'm afraid.

- Adam hated Henry.

But it was more than that.

Henry knew something about him.

But he might have just been making it up, I don't know.

- Well Adam certainly seemed worried about something.

- Adam wouldn't hurt anyone, I'm sure of it.

Sometimes he says stupid things but he doesn't mean them.

But at the same time I was the last person to see Henry alive.

And I know he wasn't going to kill himself.

- Well this is all pretty thorough.

Is this it?

- Yes sir.

- Well we certainly need more on Henry Scott and this, where is this place again?

- It's written on the back, sir.

- Hoch-- - Feldhausen.

- And what did Kepler have to say about this?

- He couldn't help me, he'd never heard of it.

- And you spoke to Foster, didn't you?

- Yes we did, nothing there either.

Although, he did want that back.

- Alright, well we should try him again.

- I'm not sure he'll be very helpful there.

He's under Air Ministry restrictions.

- Well we'll get clearance, I'll speak to Parkins.

Call Foster anyway.

- Yes sir.

- Kepler, Foster, who else isn't telling us anything?

- [Burton] How long are you planning to keep me here?

- [Foyle] As long as it takes Mister Burton.

- I want my lawyer.

- [Foyle] Well you're gonna need one.

Defrauding the armed services in a time of war.

There's not a judge in the country that's gonna look kindly on that one.

- [Burton] You can't prove anything.

- You made threats against a police officer.

You an accessory to the murder of another.

- What do you mean?

- Two attempts on this man's life after you made the threats lead to the death of another officer.

- I had nothing to do with it.

Look, I warned him, it's not me.

There are people out there, my connections.

I told you I was in here, I had nothing to do with it.

- Then why are you covering up for the people who did?

Listen, I don't really care one way or the other to be honest with you.

You made the threats, somebody's carried them out, now you're refusing to tell us who that was or might've been it's enough to hang you.

- Wait.

I work with lots of people and it could have been any of them.

- Well it's not enough.

We need names.

(sighs) (ominous music) - Yes of course I understand but I'm still going to have to wait until I've heard from my superiors in London.

I'm sorry there's nothing more I can say.

The police want to see me again.

- Put them off.

- Everitt for god's sake, everything has changed.

The officer who was in charge of the case has been killed.

- What?

- The put another man in, someone called Foyle.

They're bound to find their way here eventually.

- Well, you're going to have to stop them Wing Commander.

Because if they find their way to you, they'll find their way to me and if that happens we both go down.

- What do you know about the death of Henry Scott?

- Nothing.

Nothing at all.

- Don't lie to me, Everitt.

Tell me what you know.

- [Worker] Ready to go?

- [Colleague] Yes, jolly good.

I'll finish all this lot tomorrow.

- [Worker] Yeah, well done.

(ominous music) - I've got the pictures and it's just as we thought.

Dortmund, two weeks from now.

But they've got the factories half a mile to the south.

Yes, way off line.

It'll be a miracle if they hit anything.

That's right, don't worry.

I'll send them in the usual way.

- Stewart, what are you doing here?

- Hello Brookey, look I've got some very important information, who should I speak to about it?

- Well it's funny you should ask that, actually.

- Sam.

- Sir, what are you doing here?

- Well what are you doing here?

- I've come about Henry Scott.

Man who was killed in the woods.

It wasn't suicide, it was murder and I think I know who did it.

I've been working there for six months sir.

I was put onto them by the WVS.

They just said they needed someone to work in the library, I had no idea what they did.

Turns out they were making maps.

When they bombed some of those dams last year it was Beverly Lodge that made some of the maps that got them there.

And all the raids that are going on now, you wouldn't believe it.

- You might want to stop there.

- I haven't done anything wrong have I sir?

- You mean apart from breaking the Official Secrets Act?

- Well I had to tell someone after what Jane Hudson told me.

She's convinced Henry didn't hang himself.

- Even though he tried twice before.

- Oh she says they weren't real attempts.

You know, a cry for help and all that.

Anyway, he knew something about this chap Adam Everitt.

I've met him and can tell you he's a nasty piece of work.

If Henry had something on him he wouldn't hesitate for a second and he was the last person to see Henry alive.

And according to Jane he was on his way to his church, he was going to tell the priest there something that he knew.

Maybe he did.

Anyway you have to talk to Jane Hudson, sir.

She wants to see you.

- Right, um-hm.

Is that it?

- Yes sir.

- Well, what now?

- I have to go back to Beverly Lodge now.

Is there anything else I could do?

- You could keep your mouth shut and stay outta trouble.

- Wilco.

- My Lord I understand what you're saying, your talk of reconciliation.

- I'm sure you understand it better than anyone Father Kepler.

- [Kepler] Yes but the fact is the war has gone on for a very long time but the end is in sight.

- Martin Kepler didn't tell me very much sir.

He said he answered to a higher authority.

- He seemed reasonable enough when I met him.

Good afternoon.

- Can I help you?

- I'm just hoping for a few more words with father Kepler.

- Again?

- Yes, again if you don't mind.

- I do mind, this is an ecumenical conference and I object to my people being dragged into some squalid investigation.

Particularly Father Kepler.

- Particularly because?

- I should have thought it was obvious why you're singling him out.

As if he didn't suffer enough as refugee when he came to this country.

- Please my Lord, I am quite happy to talk to these officers.

Although I thought Mister Foyle had retired from police work?

- So did I.

As for the squalid investigation I'll grant is a little less ecumenical than your conference but considering a policeman has been murdered and another man has been found dead in the woods here, I'd have hoped the church might have managed a little more understanding of our position.

- I'm sorry, I'll leave you together.

- If you'd excuse us.

So this is now official?

- It seems so yes.

Ah no, I just wanted to ask if you'd by any chance seen Mister Scott on the day he died?

- No, I did not.

- Oh, didn't come to the church, for example.

- Well he may have done but he wouldn't have found me there.

I was here.

- Oh right, all day?

- Until about mid-afternoon, I left about three o'clock I think.

- Alright.

Did he ever talk to you about his work?

- I have already explained to your Sergeant, I am unable to talk about Henry's work.

- Alright, not quite what I asked.

Did he talk to you?

- Henry had doubts about his work, that we discussed often.

He felt ashamed but for a German to ask too many questions, even a category C alien like myself would not have been wise.

- I understand.

Evidently for whatever reason he took a photograph away from the place where he works that day.

Any idea why he'd have done that?

- No, I'm afraid not, no.

- Huh, I mean you wouldn't have seen that?

- Forgive me Mister Foyle I think I said I did not see Henry so how could I?

- Quite, quite.

- Foyle.

- Assistant commissioner.

- I don't want to take up too much of your time.

I've managed to get clearance for you to visit Beverly Lodge from the Air Ministry.

It basically gives you carte blanche.

Only you, I'm afraid.

And they're going to make you sign a great pile of official forms but at least you're in.

- [Brooke] So what exactly is this place do sir?

- [Foyle] I could tell you some of it.

- [Brooke] But then you'd have to shoot me, I know that one sir.

- Don't tempt me.

(engine idling) - Yes, well these are all in order.

I must apologize to you Mister Foyle.

I wasn't being deliberatively obstructive.

- No, no, no, I'm sure you weren't.

- Well maybe I was, but that's my job.

Very few people know of the existence of this place and the majority of people do probably work here.

But now that London have given you the go ahead, anything I can do to help?

- Well you can start by telling me exactly what Henry Scott did here.

- He was an Aircraftman second class.

Sent to us from High Wickam.

He'd done an apprenticeship as a lithographic maps and plan chartsman but we have lots of different sorts of people here.

Designers, cartoonists even.

- Um-hm.

- This is where the bulk of our work gets done.

We only have old maps of Germany.

Hitler made sure that none left the country after 1933 so we have to adapt them.

Using local intelligence, aerial photographs.

Anything we can get, really.

This is the stereoscope.

Take a look if you like.

We have two photographs taken at two different angles and the result is a three dimensional effect that allows us to judge height, distance, that sort of thing.

This is Waterlow, one of our more recent arrivals.

- How do you do?

- Mister Foyle's a police officer.

He's making inquiries about poor Scott.

- Ah yes that was a blow.

- You know him well?

- Not particularly, I work with him but we weren't good friends.

- Um-hmm, any reason for that?

- He was a bit of a bible basher.

Not quite my cup of tea.

- Shall we press on?

There are various divisions scattered around.

Fair drawing, printing.

We produce over 200 copies of every map we make here.

There's a library upstairs and distribution center.

Motor transport section over in the stables and of course we have our own canteen.

- How long have you been here?

- I came in '42.

- Before that?

- I was with Bomber Command at Laverton.

Other side of the fence you might say.

Henry Scott was unhappy with the work we do here.

He was good at his job but he hated the war.

Should have been a conscie.

- Why wasn't he?

- I don't know but nobody here was very surprised when he killed himself.

I'd of thought you have better things to do with your time.

- You'd be surprised.

- [Foyle] Sergeant.

- [Brooke] Sir.

- Well?

- He's not interested in you Everitt.

You can relax.

- Thank you for letting me visit you.

Christopher Foyle asked me to look in.

- Oh yes?

- He was concerned about you.

- He thought I needed a clergyman?

I already have one, thank you.

He's burying my husband.

- This may be an impertinence but do you go to church?

- I used to.

- Ah, this war has tested the faith of good many people.

All those lives lost.

Not just in England, across the whole world.

France, Poland, even Germany.

- Germany?

- They're suffering too.

- And they deserve to, they were butchers to begin with and they're butchers now.

- Mrs. Meredith I-- - Even the ancient Romans loathed them.

Every European war in the last hundred years has been caused by them and I hope at the end of this one they're wiped off the face of the earth.

- I can't share that feeling.

- I don't ask you to, but you can leave my house.

- Of course, I'm so sorry.

- The church wants us to love these people, to forgive them.

But I never will.

- Thanks for seeing me Mister Foyle.

I didn't know who to turn to but I had to tell someone what I know.

I'll get into trouble for talking about Beverly Lodge.

- It's alright.

- I understand that you knew Henry Scott.

- I was in love with him at least I think I was.

And he liked me.

We sang in the choir together at St. Jude's.

Henry was very close friends with the priest there, Martin Kepler.

- And you weren't?

- I had to get used to the fact that he was a German.

But he's a good man and if he'd stayed behind they'd have put him in a concentration camp so.

- Go on.

- Henry had very deeply held beliefs.

In a way that was the problem.

He hated what he was doing because he felt responsible for the bombings.

And there was another side to it.

In his relationship with me.

He wouldn't even touch me.

He said it was wrong.

We talked about marriage and I think he might have married me eventually but I wanted more than that.

I just wanted to be close.

- And that wasn't enough.

- I met someone else.

A man called Adam Everitt joined us in Revision Section.

I don't know how he was chosen because he wasn't very good and Henry was furious.

Henry hated his work in way but it was still important to him to get it right.

- And so you started seeing Adam Everitt?

- We went to Brighton for the weekend.

It was madness but I wanted to have some fun.

Sam will tell you, life at Beverly Lodge can be very gray.

- Did Henry know about this?

- Yes.

I don't know how but I think Adam told him.

It'd be typical of him.

After that Henry wouldn't talk to me again.

It was as if I had betrayed him, but it wasn't like that.

I never promised him anything.

- And you don't think he'd have killed himself.

- I know he didn't.

Don't ask me how, I just know.

- And what about Adam then?

- Henry was threatening Adam with something that he knew.

He told me he found out something about an uncle of Adam's.

I don't know what he was talking about but obviously it mattered to him.

- [Foyle] This uncle have a name?

- Bill, that was all he said.

- William Everitt, unless it was his mother's side.

- When was the last time you saw Henry then.

- It was about three o'clock.

I met him on the stairs, he said something very strange.

It's not there, those were his exact words.

- Um-hmm.

- I asked him where he was going and he said the church.

And that was it, I'm sorry.

- That's all of them, alright.

Going back four years.

- You've certainly been busy.

- I had nothing to do with what happened to you.

- I wish I could believe you.

- The first time that was different.

We didn't mean anything by it we were just trying to show you who's who.

- Are you going to tell me who was driving the truck?

- Their name's on the list.

I never killed anyone, I never would.

Guns, it's not my style Mister Milner, I promise you.

- What can you tell me about Beverly Lodge?

- [Aubrey] Well thank you once again for putting me up and putting up with me.

- [Foyle] Oh it's a great pleasure.

- Oh by the way, I visited Mrs. Meredith as you asked.

- Do any good?

- I'm afraid not, well perhaps it did help in a way having someone to blame.

- Oh yeah, who's that?

- Oh the church, God, the way of the world, anyone, anything.

In talking to her I suddenly realized, you're absolutely right.

This talk, you know repentance, reconciliation.

Bishop Wood, it's all very well but perhaps right now what we really need is a little more humility.

The church will be there at the end of the war.

They'll find us, people will find us.

Not sure we can drag them to places they're not ready to go.

That poor woman.

I don't think I've met anyone quite so lost.

Oh there you are Samantha.

You wanna give me a kiss goodbye?

- Goodbye uncle Aubrey.

- I suppose you'll be going back to the police now that Mister Foyle's in charge again.

- Well we haven't discussed it yet.

- Quite right, an unsuitable occupation for an impressionable young lady.

Well, time to go, good luck to you both.

We'll meet again soon.

- Don't you think he has a point, sir.

- Point, about what?

- About me.

- About you?

- Have you thought about having me back?

- We'll curve out an allowance.

See you in awhile.

- Bye.

(honking) - Can we give you a lift sir?

- Yes thank you, how'd you get on?

- Henry Scott went straight home on the day he died but he was seen in Lever Street later on making a telephone call.

- Burton?

- He's talked, he gave me a list of names going back four years.

One in particular will interest you.

- Good.

- Yes, I met Burton two and a half years ago when I was at Laverton.

I must have been out of my mind.

It isn't as though I needed the money but a hundred pounds for a signature on a piece of paper.

- Authorizing the use of lorries that didn't exist.

- Yes.

Of course once I'd accepted one payment I couldn't stop.

He kept coming back.

I hoped I'd lose him when I came here but he tracked me down.

- And then what?

- He has a nephew, Adam Everitt.

He was called up, he was a gunner in the RAF.

He didn't like it, he was scared and was looking for a way out.

Burton asked me to provide it.

- Did he ask nicely?

- He threatened me, of course.

Everitt has some design experience.

I exaggerated it and made a case for employing him here.

- And Henry Scott knew all about this did he?

- Yes he found out somehow, I don't know how.

Overheard a telephone conversation or something.

So quite convenient his death then?

- I'm many things Mister Foyle but I'm not a murder.

Are you going to arrest me?

- Well, Wing Commander, you've allowed an unqualified man to endanger the lives of pilots and crew.

You've stolen money that could have been used otherwise for the war effort, what do you think?

- I see.

- I think probably the Air Ministry will deal with you.

- Good, I'm glad.

I've been wanting this to happen for sometime.

If only we could go back in life, I often think that.

I'm ashamed of what I've done.

- Why are you arresting me, I've done nothing wrong.

- You're not being arrested Mister Everitt.

You're being returned to your unit where they'll be very thrilled to see you.

- [Milner] Sergeant.

- [Brooke] Sir.

- I'm not going to fight damn you.

- Well why don't you try deserting, then we can shoot you.

- Mister Foyle?

- Yeah.

- I wonder if I might have a word.

Have you finished your investigation here?

- Well you can never be sure.

- It's just that I thought I should let you know, my name is Richard Waterlow, I've been working here in the drawing office but I was actually sent here by air intelligence and I've been told to cooperate with you fully, Mister Foyle.

- Right, makes a change.

- We were concerned about leaking of information from Beverly Lodge.

There have been two or three raids in the past few months where the Germans seemed to have advanced knowledge of our intentions.

New defenses arriving at the last minute, that sort of thing.

- Any ideas?

- Adam Everitt was my first thought.

Little or no experience and he arrived at around the same time the leaks began.

I'd like to speak to him if that's alright with you.

- Well you're welcome but I'd be surprised if he was involved, Henry Scott perhaps.

- Well, we looked at him and his relationship with Father Martin Kepler.

- What's this?

- It's Kepler's file.

It seemed almost too obvious, a German priest living right here in Hastings.

But he's been thoroughly checked.

Came to England in '37.

He's a category C alien.

Cleared at every level.

(ominous music) - You know what this is.

- That's Hoch Feldhausen.

This is the photograph that Henry Scott took the day he died, it should have never been allowed to leave the building.

He should have been searched on the way out but security here has gone mental.

- So I've spotted.

According to this, have you read this?

- I've skimmed through it.

- Kepler was there for five years.

- So that's why he ran out.

The village was going to be bombed.

Scott knew about it and must have gone off to warn Kepler.

Is that the reason he was killed?

- Should be a corresponding photograph to that is that right?

- Yes, there certainly is.

Well I can see why the RAF would be interested in this one.

There's a railhead and a fuel dump.

- Can I see?

- Please.

- Cutting the supply lines is absolutely crucial right now.

We're talking about the last phase of the war and targets like this are top priority.

Must be one of the few places in Jerryland that we haven't plastered yet.

(choral music) - Mister Foyle, I thought I might see you again.

- You know I thought the same.

- You are still on your investigation.

- I am.

- And how are you progressing?

- So far so good.

- I don't see that I can help you any further.

- Well I'm sure you can cause I'm arresting you for the murders of Detective Chief Superintendent Meredith and Henry Scott and for the attempted murder of Detective Sergeant Milner.

Do you have anything to say?

- What on earth are you talking about?

- Do you have anything else to say?

- You must forgive me if I take a moment.

Ridiculous, this is still something of shock.

- Is that it?

- You are making a very grave mistake, Mister Foyle.

This man, detective, I never even met him.

Why would I want to murder him?

- You didn't.

- The intention was to kill Milner.

- It's Meredith's tragedy that you got the wrong man.

- The question still applies.

Why would I want to kill Mister Milner?

- Because you knew it was only a matter of time before the lie you told him would be uncovered.

- I told no lies to him.

On the contrary, at every turn I offered him my considerable help.

Any idea where this is?

- I can't say I recognize it.

- It's where you preached for five years.

- No I don't think so.

- Well it is according to the statement you made on your file.

- Where is it?

- It's written on the back.

- Hoch Feldhausen?

So it is, forgive me, I've rarely seen it from this angle.

- Not exactly Munich, is it?

- Where did you get this?

- It's the photograph Henry Scott had on him when he died.

It's the reason you killed him.

- I did not kill him.

I was his friend, the best friend he could have had.

- Oh, and he believed that until he realized that even you had betrayed him.

- No.

No, no.

Henry took his own life.

He was a deeply troubled young man.

- [Foyle] Well he certainly was when he saw that.

- I want a word.

- Yeah, not now.

- Yes now, Henry damn you.

- No, no, no, no.

- I said I want to talk to you.

- Oh go to hell Everitt.

- Henry realized it was exactly the same place where you'd told him you preached for five years.

- Yes I did tell him that.

- But not what you told Milner, it's in his notes that you told him that you'd preached in Munich and had never heard of Hoch Feldhausen.

- A misunderstanding perhaps and certainly not intentional and why would I lie about this?

- Well because being a priest in Hoch Feldhausen is more difficult than pretty much anywhere else, I'd have said Mister Kepler.

- And why would you have said that Mister Foyle?

- Because there's no church.

Which is exactly what he saw when he looked through the stereoscope and understood you to be the fraud that you are.

So since you're nothing like any priest I've ever met, what exactly are you, Mister Kepler?

- I did study in a seminary before the war but I was never in fact ordained.

- What a relief.

A spy?

- A patriot.

But yes, I'm employed by the Abwehr.

Reporting on troop movements along the coast.

As you can imagine I was rather surprised to find a major map making center right here under my pastoral care.

- I'm sure.

- It was a foolish oversight choosing a village that had no church.

I would be interested to know how you discovered it.

- His last words before he met you, of course, were to one of his more committed friends.

- Henry?

What is it, what's the matter?

- It's not there.

- What isn't there, where are you going?

- The church.

- He wasn't coming here as you well know.

- He was referring to the church in Germany where you were supposed to have preached.

- He knew I was at Cranville.

He did it for me there.

He was hysterical.

I arranged to meet him here and we walked together into Garten Wood.

I hoped it might be possible to spare him.

If i could have persuaded him that he was mistaken I wouldn't have harmed him.

But no, there was no other way.

And with his past history I thought no one would question his apparent suicide but your Mister Milner, he is very perceptive.

- No other way for him either?

- I admit, it was the act of a desperate man.

- [Meredith] Damn, I've left my fountain pen inside.

(gunshot) - It didn't go my way, none of this has.

- God is not on your side.

Are you surprised?

- You're telling me you think he is on yours?

Whatever you may think, I am not an evil man.

I have been doing my duty in exactly the same way as you have been doing yours.

God does not come into it.

- Semantics Mister Kepler, not interested.

Shall we go?

- I don't think so.

- Have you come here alone?

- No.

I came into the church alone out of respect.

For the church, that is.

- You have men waiting outside.

- Of course.

- But even so, you are my enemy and I have nothing to lose.

If I'm arrested I will be executed.

I am a dead man.

- I suggest you make your peace.

I'll wait outside.

(gunshot) (choral singing) - If you don't mind me asking sir, are you intending to stay?

- Well, might as well see the war out.

How about you, you were gonna leave weren't you?

- I think I might have second thoughts.

- Good.

- Mister Foyle.

Someone to see you sir.

(light music) - Here I am sir.

All present and correct.

- All present and correct for what?

- Well aren't you gonna need a driver sir?

I resigned.

- It's a bit presumptuous isn't it?

- Well absolutely sir, I presumed you couldn't manage without me.

- Well look, get the car I'll be out in five minutes.

(soft music) - That's better.

(lively orchestral music)