A British actor with a thoroughly convincing American accent plays a visitor to the UK who lacks any shred of character, murders a struggling former friend, and then goes on to play a crucial role in delivering American aid to Britain to win World War II. Preposterous, and a slap in the face of FDR's motives and techniques for saving the UK, but the basis of an enjoyable episode in Foyle's War--up to the last few laughable minutes, when we are supposed to believe that FDR leaned on a thug to start America's overt aid to Britain against Hitler. I wish the script could have maintained its high quality for the whole show instead of punting at the end, but even at its most non-credible, Foyle's War is a brilliant show.
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