Foyle's War (TV Series)

Enemy Fire (2004)

Michael Kitchen: Christopher Foyle

Quotes 

• Christopher Foyle : [Andrew is leaving to the RAF base at Debden]  Are you all right?

  Samantha Stewart : Yes sir, all present and correct.

  Christopher Foyle : [after a pause]  Well, I'll miss him... Will you?

  Samantha Stewart : [sobbing]  Yes, sir... I'm sorry sir, I... I didn't mean to get involved... Oh, I did, but...

  Christopher Foyle : Well... The Foyle's you know... Always have been hard to resist.

  Samantha Stewart : Absolutely, sir!

• Sir Michael Waterford : I did think of it sometimes... Often... Of taking my own life.

  Christopher Foyle : Why?

  Sir Michael Waterford : Because I know what I am. Because I know I'm a fake. Sometimes living with myself is hard. I was at Messines Ridge, in the summer of 1917, battle of Ypres. For god sake I was their commanding officer. My batman was a man called Martin Drake, Gordon's father.

  Christopher Foyle : Yes, you told me.

  Sir Michael Waterford : What I didn't tell you, that it was hell! In the start it was gas shells, you'd hear them whining, as they came overhead. The gas and the shrapnels and the shells, and the mud and the blood, the rifles, machine guns, the artillery and the noise! And the endlessness of it. I didn't think it would be over until I was dead, ripped to pieces. Young men with their entrances hanging out. I'd had enough. I took out my gun, and I shot myself in the leg. I had to get out of there, it was the only way, that's what I did. Drake saw. He carried me to the field hospital. And as far as I knew, he never told anyone. And he wrote about it to his son. Gordon turned up and showed me the letter. He knew it would ruin me. He made me pay. I've been paying ever since. And in the end, I expect he'd have taken everything I have. Everything except my self-respect. I lost that twenty-five years ago.

• Wing Commander Turner : You know, too many of the top brass at Command and Group still think that human error and human weakness is all a question of morale. They are too ready to throw the book at anyone who steps out of line. LMF, they call it. Lack of moral fiber.

  Christopher Foyle : What do you call it?

  Wing Commander Turner : Well, I see the truth of it. These young men, we ask so much of them. It's not just the number of ops they fly, and the mental strain, it's lack of sleep, it's no wonder they get ill. Flying stress, combat fatigue, shellshock even. There are many names, there just aren't enough of us to recognize it.