"The White Feather"
| Writer: Anthony Horowitz | Director: Jeremy Silberston | Airdate: 3 November 2002 | Set: May 1940 | Episode 2 (1:2) |
| Guests: Charles Dance, Maggie Steed, Paul Brooke, Bernard Kay, Patrick Godfrey, Ian Hogg | ||||
| Set against the backdrop of the Allies' retreat from Dunkirk, the future looks bleak for England - invasion and defeat seem imminent. Paul Milner, while visiting London, meets Guy Spencer, a charismatic fascist sympathizer, politician, and conman, and is invited inside to a meeting. Outside however, a passerby who voices distaste at the meeting is badly beaten. Investigations into a minor sabotage case leads Foyle to a local hotel, The White Feather. At home, Milner is frustrated by his wife who struggles to cope with his amputation, leaving him conflicted between his duties and doubts. Later, Spencer leads a private meeting of the pro-nationalist "Friday Club" at the same hotel at which the hotel manageress is shot dead. Foyle and Milner investigate, and chase up numerous leads including the fisherman boyfriend of the saboteur, a missing letter from the Foreign Office, an army intelligence agent, and a shop-owner whose gun (the murder weapon) was taken from his hotel-room. In the end, the husband is revealed as the murderer, since he longed to be free of his wife's domination. | ||||
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