User Reviews

By golly, if you like action this is the one for you with no less than 4 gunbattles in the ep.

Cowley doesn't think about dying. He tells Bodie and Doyle they are his top men which is unusually giving of him.

Bodie and Doyle have 3 rounds of drinks and drive off to a gunfight, all for under £5! Bodie drinks Harvey Wallbangers and Skol lager, how 70s. Molensky compares CI5 to the Soviets and the way they treat him he's not far wrong. Both Bodie and Doyle demonstrate a rather professional handgrip.

Must say I'm still a little puzzled by the overall plot? The best I can figure is Ruduk was genuinely on the run and Meredith and Kodai were in it with him. They needed money to get away and everything else was a ruse to convince Cowley they were genuine. Kodai meanwhile has a grudge against Cowley and decides to kill 2 birds with one stone by offing him at the airfield?

This is one of the episodes of The Professionals I can remember watching when it was first broadcast as it features Cowley in grave danger.

It also features a ruthless hitman played by the henchman in the octagonal glasses in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

I did think the episode has shades of John le Carre. CI5 operative Meredith was presumed dead after being captured by the Khmer Rouge.

However he returns to Britain in dramatic fashion after being held by the Cambodians for several years. Meredith has information on a Russian agent called Radouk who plans to give valuable information to British secret service in exchange for a British passport and money.

However ace Russian assassin Kodai plans to silence Meredith. Bodie and Doyle need to keep him safe while Cowley decides if he can really trust Meredith.

There is certainly plenty of action scenes, car chases and double dealing. Just a thought, if you think your returning CI5 operative might be in danger, it would be better if you did not take a very long walk to your car in the docks. Anyone can take a potshot at you.