assistant: mr. foyle, sir. how do you do? how do you do? please sit down, mr. foyle. thank you. have you been offered tea? i won't, thank you very much. well, let's get straight to the point, then. you want to talk to me about my client, james devereaux. well, not so much about him as the unit he belonged to in germany. the british free corps? that's right. how much do you know about them? well, not as much as we'd like to, which is why a meeting with your client could prove enormously helpful. how much do you know about them? well, it was just a propaganda exercise really, wasn't it? one of hitler's crazier ideas. get a bunch of misfits and ne'er-do-wells out of the pow camps dress them up in german uniforms with union jacks, send them off to fight against the russians. my client was picked up in dresden, what was left of it. for a couple of months he was missing, believed dead and then the russians handed him over. i may as well tell you now it's almost certain he'll hang. we're talking about traitors, mr. foyle. william joyce, lord haw-haw. john amery. son of the secretary of

oh, we're very grateful to you, mr. foyle.the only problem is you'll now have to account for your part in all this. i don't understand. how long had you known agnes? i knew her when we were children. her father worked on the estate. we used to play together. and later? you wrote to her from germany? and she helped pass on coded information in the letters to the intelligence services which you signed "jack." how do you know all this? so you don't deny it? no. why "jack"? my mother used to call me jack. it was the name of a character in a story that i loved as a boy. foyle: jack... harkaway. foyle: he joined the british free corps to undermine and disrupt it, and used the freedom of movement it gave him to send reports back to intelligence here. he's a brave young man. i knew it. i knew he couldn't have been a traitor. why didn't he say this? why did it never come out in the trial? because he wanted to hang as a traitor. the codes i used existed in various forms. the letter you've mentioned was written in fifty six zero, for exa