Foyle's War2002

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 Verm?gensverkehrsstelle, 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.