Someone's trying to take over the diamond trade with cheap smuggled stones, and they've got a murderous beautician on their side. Steed goes undercover as a diamond dealer, and Cathy assumes the role of Mrs Steed, leading to some nice by-play between the two. They began to remind me rather of Mulder and Scully in this episode, not least in the way that Mulder and Steed both enjoy the 'marriage' joke a lot more than Cathy and Scully do.
Hamilton 'Gen. Scobie' Dyce and Gerald 'Megara' Cross on show in this. Cross has just the right voice and manner for a cold, calculating, villainous diamond dealer.
Not the usual amount of misdirection in this episode, all but one of the crooks are made known to us almost from the start. It's enjoyable for the Steed/Cathy bits, and Steed's cool handling of incompetent threats from one of the villains, but it feels rather linear. Very badly staged final gag with a trophy head.
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