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Episode 1/3 Plan of Attack

April 1944: Foyle has retired, Sam has been fired, and life at the station isn't what it used to be for Milner. Paul now reports to Detective Chief Superintendent Meredith but relations are strained and he has applied for a transfer. Then a man is found hanging in the woods and Meredith dismisses the death as suicide. Paul thinks otherwise. If only Foyle could be persuaded to return…

RT Choice (David Butcher, 6 Jan 2008)

Fans of Michael Kitchen's phlegmatic Second World War detective will be upset that for the first half-hour of this new episode he is largely absent from the screen. I say "half-hour" but it could have been longer. You lose all sense of time watching a Foyle's War, so it may have been several months.

This series has many virtues but it is achingly, hummingly slow. It makes ITV's other dreamy whodunnit Midsomer Murders look like The Bourne Ultimatum by comparison. Tonight's plot, such as it is, wafts along with dreary people doing undramatic things, and scenes unfolding at such a leisurely pace you'd swear you can see the continents drift apart in the background[…]

[…]That a programme like Foyle can survive in the age of MTV and YouTube is a kind of miracle.

Episode 2/3 Broken Souls

October 1944: as the war grinds on, it continues to take its toll on the mental state of soldiers - and the staff of a military psychiatric hospital. With its inhabitants wounded in every sense, the place is a tinderbox, so when the inevitable happens and someone is murdered, almost everyone is a suspect. Finding out the truth means dealing with deeper questions of the war's impact on people's lives and minds.

RT Choice (David Butcher, 13 April 2008)

These may be the dying days of Foyle's War. So as that lovely oboe music wafts in the opening titles, you're hoping for a classy episode. And it is - with storylines that weave together cleverly to serve up a tragic denouement.

Episode 3/3 All Clear

May 1945: it's almost over. What may be the final episode of Foyle's War - it was cancelled but ITV1 now says it's reconsidering because of public demand - covers the last six days of the Second World War. Friends and enemies have been changed by the conflict and as the town of Hastings prepares to make merry, a member of the Victory Day celebrations committee is murdered. Foyle's last investigation threatens to uncover Allied secrets that might be best kept hidden.