Foyle's War (TV Series)

War Games (2003)

Ian Redford: Sir Reginald Walker

Quotes 

• DCS Christopher Foyle : Where's your wife?

  Sir Reginald Walker : She's left me.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Not much of a day for you, is it? Your wife, your son... your business.

  Sir Reginald Walker : My business?

  DCS Christopher Foyle : [pointing at the golden box]  Do you know what this is?

  Sir Reginald Walker : It's a gift.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : But you know what it is?

  Sir Reginald Walker : It's solid gold and it's a gift given to my company in recognition of succesful trade relations.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : A gift from whom?

  Sir Reginald Walker : The office for trade.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : The German office for trade?

  Sir Reginald Walker : Yes.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : And you didn't disclose the theft of it because...?

  Sir Reginald Walker : Because my son did not declare it, he smuggled it into this country from Switzerland, a few weeks ago.

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Well, you're right. It is solid gold, hasn't been declared, certainly came to the country recently and might well have come from the office for trade, Sir Reginald. But it first of all came through a Department of the Third Reich known as the Vermögensverkehrsstelle, the Property Transfer Office, which deals with property acquired by the Nazis. This is a Jewish artifact, made in Frankfurt in the 18th century by Jeremiah Sobel, and until six weeks ago, it belonged to a family called the Rothenbergs, who used it as a prayer book holder. The family, all four of them, were shot and their home looted by the Nazis. And once it's generally known that you're a beneficiary of this Nazi "reallocation" of property, how long do you think you and your company have got?

  [he picks up his hat and turns to leave] 

  DCS Christopher Foyle : One or two things bigger than business, wouldn't you say?

  Sir Reginald Walker : ...Aren't you going to arrest me?

  DCS Christopher Foyle : Well, on behalf of a very dear friend of mine, I'd say it's no longer necessary.

• Sir Reginald Walker : [sees his wife]  I just want to say that I'm extremely sorry that I spoke to you in the way that I did. I will see that the child is all right, and give some sort of compensation if necessary. It was a complete loss of control. It will never happen again.

  Lady Alice Walker : It wasn't control that you lost. It was the pretence.

  Sir Reginald Walker : I'm sorry?

  Lady Alice Walker : That you're a civilised man.

  [walks past him] 

• Sir Reginald Walker : [to Foyle]  Let me tell you something, Mr. Foyle. You may be at war, but I'm not - because business is bigger than war.