An elderly couple is sent to an alien civilian internment camp where one of them dies. Meanwhile, a German woman married to a prominent English magistrate has somehow avoided the camps but begins to feel the disdain of the community when a German bomb hits the centre of town.
A German attack is feared any day. Foyle investigates the sabotage and suspicious death of Margaret Ellis who works for the White Feather hotel where a pro Hitler group meets every Friday. Foyle is surprised to learn that Sgt. Milner is a member of the Friday club.
It is June 1940 and a man dies in police cell after being refused exemption from joining the military by a Judge after being beaten by police. A young buy is evacuated from London and dies in an explosion at Judge Gascoigne's house when his garden office is blown up, this makes the police believe it was a revenge attack.
A man is found stabbed in the heart after a bomb raid on the city of Hastings. Foyle learns the dead man was a lorry driver who was moving valuable paintings to Wales for safety. Andrew, Foyle's son comes home on leave for an air-force base and his friend becomes the suspect of an investigation from special branch for being a communist sympathiser.
When a dead body is found on Hastings beach the main suspects are an American multi-millionaire, an old flame of Sam's and a man that claims to be a Ditch refugee. Sam looks for a place to live when her house is destroyed by a bombing raid.
Foyle suspects an illegal fuel racket when a truck carrying barrels of petrol crashes. Sam convinces Foyle to let he go undercover at the fuel depot, but what she learns may be very bad for Foyle's son Andrew.
It is October 1940 and a young secretary plummets to her death at the London headquarters of a multinational company. A member of the Home Guard is killed in Hasting and Foyle and the minister think the deaths are linked.
Foyle is suspended from duty for spreading malicious rumors. During the time Foyle attempts to clear his name his replacement sends Sam back to the transport corps.
Foyle discovers the charred remains of a young man and is drawn into an intricate web of SOE espionage, where he must use all his ingenuity to avoid becoming fatally ensnared.
Foyle investigates a suspicious death at Dr Wrenn's famous clinic, which specializes in treating men of the Royal Air Force suffering from severe burns. As well as murder, he finds a web of adultery and sabotage.
Foyle investigates a dramatic and complicated series of events, which lead him to visit a squadron of Spitfires flying out of an R.A.F. airfield. He finds the case unsettling.
A crackdown on an organised crime racket leads Foyle and Milner to a shipyard, where a group of Royal Marines find thousands of pounds of hidden cash.
American GI’s arrive in Hastings to a mixed welcome and Foyle is called on to calm the locals. But his attempts at soothing relations are jeopardized when a barmaid's involvement with a visiting soldier leads to murder, leaving the detective to defy orders to keep the peace and solve the case.
A local woman is killed when an experiment in biological warfare goes awry. Sam also falls victim to a potentially fatal illness as a result of the project. Foyle is forced to head into the most secretive - and dangerous - areas of wartime research, unearthing secrets that can't be revealed even to the Prime Minister.
When Grace Phillips is killed in an accident whilst working one of her fellow workers asks Foyle to investigate. When another woman is killed Foyle starts to think the deaths aren't an accident and are connected.
Foyle's god daughter and her son come for a visit. The son is traumatized after seeing his teachers and school friends killed in a bombing at the school. Foyle finds himself looking into some cases of sabotage.
Meridith isn't convinced it is a simple case of suicide when a member of the RAF is founded hanged in the woods. Milner believes that is could be a murder case after a picture of a German village is found in his pocket. Foyle is forced to come out of retirement when there is a sudden turn of events.
As the second world war is reaching its conclusion the conflict has taken its toll on many. When a member of staff at the local military psychiatric hospital is found dead Foyle is called in to solve the mystery.
The war has now ended and Sam's new boss artist Sir Leonard Spencer-Jones is found murdered in his home. The main suspect is Niko, a Russian prisoner of war whom the artist had befriended. Niko finds sanctuary at Russian House in London. Foyle is assigned the task of bringing him back into custody. When Foyle and Sam arrive in London they investigate more.
Foyle finds himself going head to head with the US army as racial prejudice erupts. Mandy Dean is one of the residents staying at a guest house being run by Sam and Adam. She finds herself all alone disowned by her family as she has had a mixed-race baby. He ex boyfriend is hoping to get back together with her and after she is murdered the finger of suspicion points towards him.
Foyle learns when he can finally leave Hastings police station with his tenure as Detective Chief Superintendent over. When he reads a headline in a newspaper about a member of a distinguished family about to be hanged for treason he decides he has one last case to look at.