The War at Home

Tonight will bring the last installment of the current four-episode run of Foyle’s War, an exceptional World War II-era, Britain-set crime drama that’s part of PBS-TV’s Mystery! series summer schedule. If you haven’t been watching this show, starring Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks, you are definitely missing out. The write-up about tonight’s episode, “Casualties of War,” reads:

March, 1943. [Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher] Foyle’s life is turned upside down when his goddaughter and her seven-year-old son, James, turn up on his doorstep needing somewhere to stay. They have nowhere else to go. James has been severely traumatized by a bombing at his London school where most of his classmates and teachers were killed; he hasn’t spoken a word since. Soon after their arrival, Lydia disappears. Ably assisted by [Weeks’] Sam [Stewart], Foyle has to care for James until he can find Lydia and bring her safely home.

To add to the pressure, a series of sabotage cases is keeping Foyle very busy; something that isn’t pleasing his boss, Assistant Commissioner Parkins. Parkins would rather Foyle spend his time stamping out the increase in illegal gaming along the South Coast.

Sabotage and gambling come together when a local gambler is found murdered near a military research center. This military building is also the target of some internationally-funded saboteurs and Foyle enters the top secret arena of weapons research in his pursuit of the truth.

Foyle’s War begins at 9 p.m. EST/PST on PBS.