Foyle's War

Bleak Midwinter (4x3)

Udgivelsesdato: Feb 11, 2007

Foyle busts a restaurateur for offering illegal Christmas foods which are then confiscated as evidence. He then begins to investigate the death of Grace Phillips, a munitions worker who accidentally killed herself on the job. Tensions at the funeral begin to cast suspicion on her scheming lover, Harry Osborne, just as suspicions fall on Milner over the sudden and "convenient" murder of his wife after a public row over their divorce in a hotel. Meanwhile, another worker, Phyllis Law, tries to blackmail Eddie Baker, the factory foreman, over a dubious collection for Phillips's ageing mother (since she discovered she was in fact an orphan). It is also revealed that Phillips and Mrs Milner knew each other as hairdressers before the war. Constable Peters admits his duplicity in manipulating evidence to get back at Milner over his earlier reprimand of him. In the end Foyle confronts Osborne in the bank cellar, where it is revealed that Osborne had Phillips steal explosives in order to break into the safe at the bank next to the hairdressers, later using rat-poison to silence her, and killed Mrs Milner to steal back a condemning letter written by Phillips.