Broken Souls

Foyle meets Josef Novak for a chess game. Novak is a Polish-Jewish psychiatrist at a nearby military mental-health institution where Dr Worth is found murdered. Foyle is called in, having to delegate the finding of a missing East End boy (formerly a child-evacuee in the Hastings area) to Sam. Under suspicion, and hearing radio news of the discovery of the concentration camp to which his wife and daughter have been taken, Novak attempts suicide, but he is saved by Foyle. Meanwhile Fred Dawson, a crippled former POW, arrives back at his farm to find his wife and child being helped in the farm work by Johann, a German POW. Suspecting his wife Rose of an affair with Johann and resenting his easy manner with Fred and Rose's son, the couple argue, and Johann is later found dead after escaping the camp. Foyle finally finds that Novak had attempted to get himself convicted of Worth's murder to save Peter Phelps, a mentally disturbed airman at the institution whom Novak had found by Worth's body with bloodied hands. In fact Worth's murderer was the institution's head, Dr Campbell, whom Worth was blackmailing over Campbell's affair with Phelps' wife. However, Foyle also finds a witness that saw that Novak murdered Johann after hearing him speak German, out of anger at the concentration camps - though subsequently, he heard news that his daughter had survived. Fred Dawson asks his wife if anything had gone on between her and Johann and is relieved to hear that while he was "sweet on" her, she was waiting for her "sweetheart". Fred, his wife and their son walk back to their farm all holding hands.