I really enjoyed this one, it's a development of those stories about Cornish 'wreckers', except that here it's Irish crooks based in a convent wrecking aeroplanes to steal consignments of cash. Rather like the plot of an unmade Will Hay film.
I'm not sure whether to say that the Irish setting is made good use of, or that stereotypes abound; the evil Mother Superior neutralises Steed's threats to have the convent raided by telling him that the Gardai would never do such a thing, and Donal Donnelly plays a simple pub potman. Though the latter is inverted by the fact that it's a convincing act to conceal his role in the crimes.
Each successive episode has Steed in a more central role, and here he's unquestionably the main man. He gets to demonstrate aeronautical and piloting expertise too; like Bond and Number Six, he isn't just any secret agent.
I'm not rating the episodes because I have no idea how the upcoming ones will compare to them, but if I was, I'd give this 5/5, if only for the splendid image of the Mother Superior firing a machinegun at Steed through the ceiling of the convent belfry.
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