As this episode opens a woman is enjoying a surprise beauty treatment that was apparently booked by her husband. Then it is time for the mudpack and it sets leaving her unable to breathe. It turns out that her husband is in the diamond trading business; a business that Steed is investigating because somebody is smuggling uncut diamonds into the country. Steed goes into partnership with the dead woman's husband and buys his house; he then gets Cathy to move in and poses as his wife. It soon becomes apparent that there is a crime syndicate trying to undermine the current monopoly in the trade of uncut diamonds and is threatening those close to honest dealers to pressure them to buy stones. If Steed and Cathy are to uncover who is behind the crimes they will have to figure out how they are getting the stones into the country in large quantities.
This episode gets off to an intriguing start; and a slightly dark one given that the victim is not directly connected to the business she is killed to scare her husband. Since he also has a daughter there is a sense that she is in danger too. This feeling only increases when it emerges that her fiancé is involved with the smugglers. There were some decent enough fight scenes featuring Cathy Gale; it was nice to see such a strong female character in a series this old; Honor Blackman does a fine job in the role. Guest star Meier Tzelniker impresses as Steed's new business partner; nicely portraying his desire to be honest but also his fear for his daughter. The rest of the cast are pretty solid too. Overall this is a pretty solid episode.
This episode gets off to an intriguing start; and a slightly dark one given that the victim is not directly connected to the business she is killed to scare her husband. Since he also has a daughter there is a sense that she is in danger too. This feeling only increases when it emerges that her fiancé is involved with the smugglers. There were some decent enough fight scenes featuring Cathy Gale; it was nice to see such a strong female character in a series this old; Honor Blackman does a fine job in the role. Guest star Meier Tzelniker impresses as Steed's new business partner; nicely portraying his desire to be honest but also his fear for his daughter. The rest of the cast are pretty solid too. Overall this is a pretty solid episode.