Tear Jerker / Foyle's War

• The ending of "The White Feather": a local fisherman's son, David, is being held on suspicion of murder; his father, who has been recruited to help evacuate the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, says he can't pilot his boat without David's help, and asks that Foyle release him from jail, swearing "on everything I hold sacred", to bring him back and return him to custody. Foyle agrees, and the captain keeps his promise - bringing back David's dead body, and breaking down in tears when he relates that his son caught a stray bullet while helping fleeing soldiers aboard the boat.
  • The episode's subplot involving Edith Johnstone, a maid at The White Feather hotel. She is arrested for cutting a telephone wire, and is accused of being a saboteur for the Nazis. She proudly admits it, claiming that she will be freed within a week, when the Germans invade England, and gives Foyle a defiant "Heil Hitler." After the hotel's owner Margaret Ellis is killed, Edith tearfully admits that Ellis - a devoted Nazi sympathizer - told her that with a Jewish grandmother, she'd be thrown into prison as soon as the Germans occupied the country, and she was so terrified that she felt she had to do something to show she was on the Nazis' side, even if she knew it was wrong.
• When Foyle begins deconstructing Reginald Walker in "War Games," the gold box from Germany is the linchpin. As soon as his narration voices over a flashback to his visit to a rabbi, you know that the box belonged to victims of the Holocaust. Specifically, it was the prayer-book holder for a Jewish family before they were shot by the Nazis. The euphemistic "Property Transfer Office" then gave it as a sickening gift to the Walkers who, according to Foyle's barrister friend, were more virulently antisemetic than even most Nazis.
• All of Dr. Novak's plot in "Broken Souls."
• The deterioration of Captain Kiefer's character, from his first appearance in "Invasion" to his return in "All Clear." The glimpses we get of how this happened don't help a bit.
• The pilot begins with a kindly middle-aged German couple being Mistaken for Spies and arrested, with the wife dying of a heart attack.
  • The death of the teenaged barmaid during an air raid later in the episode, given how she has a boyfriend and is one of the only locals who doesn't show virulent xenophobia toward all Germans.
• "Forty Ships" has a subplot where Foyle investigates a German spy. He visits the man's German-English cousin, who was tricked into helping him, and tells her and her husband what happened and to tell the spy's mother about her son's fate. After Foyle leaves, the cousin's wife calls her a traitor even though she thought her cousin was an innocent refugee and coldly says that they're no longer married in his eyes and he'll never talk to her again.
• DCS Fielding's monologue about his experiences in World War I in "Plan of Attack", describing the chlorine gas attack that killed so many of his comrades and ruined his faith in human nature.

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