My first encounter with Cathy Gale. She's very impressive, a real steely cold-eyed professional with a bit of surface glitter. I didn't know they had women like that in the 60s. Perhaps if the Village had deployed someone like her to be Number Six's girl of the week, instead of useless women in stripy tops, they might have got some information out of him.
Quite a simple plot where Steed has to find out who intercepted certain seemingly innocuous British diplomatic papers, and why. The answer is 'Senor Rosas', who intends to stage a coup in Chile; after some toing and froing Steed and Gale are brought before him and seize control of the situation by holding a gun to his innocent daughter's head. I was quite shocked by this but also pleased by the development of the idea that S & G aren't necessarily nice people. Number Six is an intelligence agent doing a similar job but I can't imagine him being written as doing that.
Rosas and his daughter are the weakest actors in this, some of his responses to the action are 'silent movie' quality. David Cargill as chief henchman is excellently sinister, he gives the impression that he's got an eyepatch and scar without actually having either.
There's also a great song/Spanish guitar accompaniment in the bar scenes. It's interesting that it can stick in my head even though the only words I could understand were 'No tengo dinero'.
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