"The F.B.I." The Flaw (TV Episode 1968) Poster

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(1968)

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7/10
Aside from a rough start, a pretty good episode.
planktonrules19 September 2020
This episode begins at a ski resort and one of the sloppiest murders occurs when Glen Parmenter (Barry Morse) kills an operative who has disappointed him. I say sloppy because it just didn't make a lot of sense. There were plenty of witnesses and the gun was amazingly quiet...much quieter than a gun with a silencer. It just took me out of the story it was handled so poorly. Fortunately, it did get a lot better after.

With the death of this man who worked at a chemical company making propellants for the US Army, the gang of commie spies need another inside man. Now with Erskine posing as a new scientist with a shady background, the spies think he'll be ideal to deliver to them the new formula. But things are a mess with the spies....as there is a fight over power and one of the spies seems to be going rogue. What's next? See the show.

I liked all the outdoor location shooting for this one. They said briefly it is supposed to be around Denver but it probably was in the Sierra Nevada mountain range or some other nearby location...IMDB doesn't list this. Regardless, the scenery is nice. The story, aside from a rocky start is also good...and quite exciting.

By the way, I did find it funny that in the cabin where the spies operated was a book on the bookshelf that I found pretty funny...John Stormer's book on the evils of commie infiltration of the United States, "None Dare Call It Treason"! An interesting book scattered among the books on the shelf.
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