An episode written by Michael Chaplin and not Anthony Horowitz.
There is a sense of optimism that the war might be ending. However as far as Dr Josef Novak, a psychiatrist and a Jewish refugee is concerned. The war is not over and there are more horrors to come.
There are a lot of broken souls here and that are not just the patients at the psychiatric hospital. There is a British soldier returning home after escaping from his prisoner of war camp.
The death of a young psychiatrist who was about to leave for a prestigious job brings Foyle in to investigate. Foyle has been learning to play chess with Dr Novak. He finds out that the murdered man was not popular with colleagues and was unethical.
There is a teenage lad who keeps running away from his home. He too has been affected by the telegrams that he delivers to those who have lost a loved one during the conflict.
A German prisoner of war working in a farm realises that there is no place for him, now the husband has returned home. Then a second dead body is found.
A melancholic episode let down by some bad acting from Jesse Birdsall. I had a good idea as to the identity of the second murderer. It all adds to the downbeat tone as the concentration camps are being discovered by the allies.