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Does anyone else feel swindled?


...or lied to? Foyle needs a driver at the beginning of the series, so they give him Sam. When Milner and his wife need a quick trip to the hospital, Foyle drives them there expertly, and says that he never said he couldn't drive, he just didn't like to. After that we see him driving almost constantly -- in London traffic, no less -- without a problem, after having spent the war years either walking or being driven. Not even remotely credible.

On top of that, Foyle is anything but a prima donna who needs to have special treatment if he can get by on his own, so the whole "needing a driver" gambit just seemed fake -- a means to get Sam into the story as a character. Piffle.

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No, I don't feel swindled. I thought his reasoning was sound - he just doesn't like to drive if he doesn't have to. I don't doubt that his not driving was a ploy to introduce Sam. I suppose they could have skipped Sam's character altogether. I liked her role in the early seasons, but once the war was over she seemed superfluous.

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Not at all. It was a surprise twist that I suspect Horowitz had planned the whole time and waited until the excitement of the impending birth of Milner’s child in the final ep to deploy.

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I didn't feel swindled, but after he drove Milner and his wife to the hospital, I expected some sort of a backstory — a traumatic event perhaps — for his reluctance to drive. I have a friend who doesn't drive anymore because of a terrible accident he had 20 years ago.

Perhaps Foyle's always racing mind didn't work well when driving.

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lots of higher ranks like being driven around so no

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