User Reviews

I think that the story seems a bit long - but not complicated though - useless, for a so simple ending, but not predictable. If you compare with other episodes, you'll notice those have to be watched very closely if you want to understand the twist ending. But not there. Not twist but only irony. That's good anough for me.

Carpius (Oskar Homolka) owns an antique store in Cyprus. He's a very bad man, though only later in the episode do you discover how low he will go to make money. It seems that Carpius is rather vain and is in love with a very young woman who clearly cares nothing for him. But he hopes to one day make a lot of money...enough to, in essence, buy her love. So, when he has a client who wants to buy an extremely rare and valuable Orthodox icon, he scrambles to find it...with no success. But he won't give up and eventually learns from a monk that his order has the icon. So, instead of trying to buy it from the monastery, he decides to steal it...and arrives claiming to want to learn from the friars. Where does it all go next? See the show.

Oskar Homolka plays a real weasel in this one...and you really want to see him get what he's earned....which is what happens and why I enjoyed the show. Not brilliant but very good and well worth your time.

This is about a man who sells antiquities but has no respect or love of them. It is all about how much he can make. He is ultimately tempted by an icon from a distant monastery. He decides to go and steal the icon which means a trip up to a mountain where men are sworn to silence. He lies his way in, pretending to be interested in the teachings of the church. He leaves his cell one night and ventures to the room where the sacred icon is displayed. There is a monk guarding it and when he is surprised by our guy, our guy hits him with a metal object, killing him. He pleads his case but the monks have other plans for him.