Foyle's War (TV Series)

The German Woman (2002)

Michael Kitchen: Christopher Foyle

Quotes 

• Assistant Commissioner Summers : You're doing a good job. No telling where you might be once the war is over.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : It'll depend on who wins I suppose.

• Samantha Stewart : Yes, but... she was a German.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Well, that doesn't matter at all. She's a human being, and 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.

• Samantha Stewart : [Sam is treating a wounded civilian]  It's all right, it's not broken, it's all to stop the bleeding.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : That's a very good job.

  Samantha Stewart : They taught us basic first aid in the MTC, my instructor said he'd rather bleed to death, than be bandaged by me.

• Andrew Foyle : [Fishing with his father]  You know, I never did quite work out the attaction of spending half a day

  [looking at the water] 

  Andrew Foyle : ... ankle deep in mud at the seat of a fish too stupid to even come near us.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Andrew, just never underestimate the intelligence of a trout... and they can hear you from forty feet away, so do be quiet.

  Andrew Foyle : They must have heard me coming because I've been here two hours and haven't seen a thing.

• Samantha Stewart : Can I ask you something? Were you tempted to let him go? I mean, even for a moment?

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Yes, I was. Yeah... I mean, hanging him is probably not going to do anybody much good, and I suppose he had a point...

  Samantha Stewart : But...?

  DCS Christopher Foyle : In the end, I'm a policeman, I'm here to do a job. It's simple as that. If I start bending the rules, I might as well pack it in!

• DCS Christopher 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.

  Assistant Commissioner Summers : So you've arrested him, this doctor?

  DCS Christopher Foyle : No, because he was only a part of it.

  Assistant Commissioner Summers : Are you suggesting there was a conspiracy?

  DCS Christopher 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 interned immediately, and the committee that gave her C-registration must have been blind, idiotic, corrupt, or all three. But, of course, you know all this, don't you? Because you were the chairman of the committee.

  Assistant Commissioner Summers : [nervous sniff]  Foyle, we can work this out...

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Well, I don't think so.

• DCS Christopher Foyle : Where are you gonna be based?

  Andrew Foyle : I'm not allowed to tell you.

  [His father gives him a look] 

  Andrew Foyle : It's a drome just ouside some god-awful place never heard of up in Ross-shire.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Scotland!

• Andrew Foyle : [Looking at a fish his father just caught]  What is it dad, a starter?

  DCS Christopher Foyle : You are very difficult to please, Andrew, it's a main course. Perfect.