Drake trails a Soviet spy to a Scottish island. The trick, and a good one, is that, according to fingerprint evidence, the man he's looking for has been dead for twenty years.
I'm an American and know little about such things, but it seems to me an (exceptionally) lovely young Francisca Annis, whom I first caught in "Partners in Crime," does a fine sounding Scottish accent. The usually reliable Nigel Green, on the other hand, sounds like the lead speaker at a Burns dinner.
It's right out of Nancy Drew. A ruined castle, mysterious signaling, a subplot about a still and a small part for Graham Crowden. All stuff I like. But I can't build any excitement for this episode or feel sympathy for those who sell out the cause of freedom. One of the big lies about the Cold War was that there was some moral equivalency between the two sides. Read about what the Soviet Union was really like.
Still, gotta love Francisca. I'm glad she went on to such a fruitful career.
I'm an American and know little about such things, but it seems to me an (exceptionally) lovely young Francisca Annis, whom I first caught in "Partners in Crime," does a fine sounding Scottish accent. The usually reliable Nigel Green, on the other hand, sounds like the lead speaker at a Burns dinner.
It's right out of Nancy Drew. A ruined castle, mysterious signaling, a subplot about a still and a small part for Graham Crowden. All stuff I like. But I can't build any excitement for this episode or feel sympathy for those who sell out the cause of freedom. One of the big lies about the Cold War was that there was some moral equivalency between the two sides. Read about what the Soviet Union was really like.
Still, gotta love Francisca. I'm glad she went on to such a fruitful career.