S3.E2

Enemy Fire

Episode aired Oct 31, 2004
TV-14
1h 33m

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8.4/10

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Crime Drama Mystery War

February 1941: When a manor house is commandeered as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of accidents.February 1941: When a manor house is commandeered as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of accidents.February 1941: When a manor house is commandeered as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of accidents.

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Foyle's War: Enemy Fire

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Trivia
The specialist hospital for burned pilots is based on the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead which specialised in experimental reconstructive plastic surgery during the war. The social club and mutual support network of the burned pilots was called the Guinea Pig Club.

Goofs
Wing Commander Turner selects airman Greville Woods to fly a night reconnaissance mission using a new camera that can photograph heat but as his Spitfire is out of action he is given Andrew Foyle's instead and flies off that evening. However both men are fighter pilots. A standard Spitfire fighter would be useless for reconnaissance and it would takes several days at least to refit it to take any type of camera. For reconnaissance missions, specially fitted out planes were used that had cameras in the belly and wings instead of armaments. These were flown by dedicated reconnaissance pilots who were trained on how to take photographs from the air.

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Anne Bolton: Sam told me Greville had been hurt. She told me I should visit him, but it was only when I was there, I realized I didn't want to. Does that sound very cool to you, sergeant Milner? I can't see him, I should want to see him, I want the Greville Woods I was in love with, the Greville I was going to marry. I tried to make myself visit him, that's why I was there that night, but I couldn't do it, I couldn't face him.
Sergeant Paul Milner: Thank you, miss Bolton.
Anne Bolton: You think I'm disgusting?...
Sergeant Paul Milner: No... But I will speak out of term, if you don't mind. This
[pointig at his leg]
Sergeant Paul Milner: is fake, it's aluminium. I lost most of my leg in Trondheim last year. I was a mess, when they carried me home, maybe not as badas your fiancé, but there was massive scarring everywhere.
Anne Bolton: I'm sorry.
Sergeant Paul Milner: You shouldn't be. I'm the man I was before, I haven't changed.
Anne Bolton: And what are you saying? That Greville is still the same?...
Sergeant Paul Milner: He won't be, if you leave him.

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6/10

Enemy Fire

All roads lead to Gordon Drake. A thoroughly disreputable fellow that as Foyle observes, half the village set out to kill him.

An adulterer, a wife beater, a blackmailer and a negligent RAF mechanic.

The story involves a requisitioned mansion which is now being used as a hospital to treat burns victims with pioneering treatment. Sir Michael Waterford who owns the house but has now moved to a cottage in his estate is not happy with this state of affairs. The hospital itself is suffering mishaps that leads a doctor to believe is deliberate sabotage.

Andrew Foyle has a run in with Drake for not fixing his plane properly. Andrew is also showing signs of battle fatigue, something he confides in Samantha about.

Foyle and Milner find themselves investigating the peculiar goings on at the hospital, later with Drake's murder and then Foyle has to go looking for his son who has gone AWOL.

There are a lot of bases that are covered in this episode. It was almost inevitable someone Andrew knows is abound to end up being a burns victim at the hospital.

The murder actually happens well into the episode. Everything else is just the hors d'oeuvres until then.