Foyle's War

Foyle: The German woman was protected by influential friends, and it's still possible that it was those friends that wanted her dead. She was as fit as you or me. And yet the family doctor lied about an angina condition on her medical report to prevent her from being interned. Asst. Commissioner Summers: So you've arrested him, this doctor? Foyle: No, because he was only a part of it. Asst. Commissioner Summers: Are you suggesting there was a conspiracy? Foyle: I'm suggesting that Henry Beaumont, her husband, is rich and influential and would find it very easy to expect favors. Greta Beaumont went before a tribunal last February. She was given C-registration and was classified as a refugee from Nazi oppression. Greta Anna Hauptmann, her maiden name, isn't exactly a classic refugee. For starters, she still has two brothers in Germany. One of them served under von Falkenhorst in Norway, and the other is a ranking officer in the Abwehr in Berlin, which should have led to her being interne

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Samantha Stewart: [after Foyle arrests Greta Beaumont's murderer] Do you mind if I ask you a question? Were you tempted to let him go? Foyle: Yes. Yes, I was. Hanging him is not gonna do anybody much good, and he had a point, I suppose, but I'm a policeman. I'm here to do a job. It's as simple as that. If I start bending the rules, I might as well pack it in. Samantha Stewart: Yes, but she was a German. Foyle: Well, that doesn't make any difference at all. She's a human being. She was murdered. Murder is murder. You stop believing that, and we might as well not be fighting the war. Because you end up like the Nazis.

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Eric Cooper: You know, I never wanted Joe to leave London. I never wanted him to go. But they said it would be better for him. They said there'd be air raids, and there weren't enough shelters. And, you know, Mr. Foyle, even the Missus said he'd be safer in the country. She said all the boys and girls were going; she said he'd be safe. And I took him to the station myself. And you've never seen so many kids. You could hardly see the platforms. And all the luggage everywhere, mothers crying. Little boys and girls, all with those labels round their necks, you know, all being packed off. But Joe, Joe didn't want to go. Joe held onto my leg. And in the end, they took him away, and they packed him off in a carriage with hundreds of them. And walking home, that was the strange thing, Mr. Foyle, because the streets were empty. Nobody laughing, nobody crying, nobody shouting, nobody kicking a ball. I've never heard anything like it before in my life, Mr. Foyle. It was a city with no kids, but

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Wing Commander Keller: I had nothing to do with it! I was simply doing what I thought was best for the war. Foyle: I'm sure a great many Nazis will be saying the same thing when this war is over.

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Andrew Foyle: You are brilliant, Dad. You know that? Foyle: Yeah.

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[in bed during an air raid] Can't we ask Jerry to come back later?

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