Back to Venus Smith with this episode. She, along with the rest of the action, has temporarily relocated to the south of France.
Quite a simple plot: hitmen Siegel (Edwin 'Captain Hart' Richfield again) and Dragna have been engaged to assassinate very French film star Nicole Cauvin for political reasons. Steed carries out a daring theft of jewellery belonging to Dragna's wife in order to bring himself to their attention and join their gang.
His plan works so well that he himself is ordered to carry out the assassination - facing him with the twin problems of keeping Cauvin safe until the gang and their paymasters have been rounded up, and not having to kill Venus, who accidentally witnesses him 'abducting' her from the studios.
Extended set from Venus' backing group (the Dave Lee Trio from The Decapod) in this ep: some great fag-in-mouth percussion from the drummer.
The turps-nudging Mrs Dragna (Patricia 'in The Tomorrow People' Denys) is excellent, I really enjoyed the bit where Steed very wisely turns down her advances.
Steed makes a very convincing crook, both as suave cat-burglar and ruthless killer. I was quite shocked by his callous delivery of the 'it was a tight fit' line.
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