Friday, January 06, 2012

Naive Avengersthon - 8. Propellant 23

Positively packed with familiar faces, this one: Nicholas Courtney and Geoffrey Palmer, who are unmistakeable, and John 'BOSS' Dearth, Justine 'The Girl Who Was Death And Also The White Witch' Lord and John 'Mr Oak' Gill, none of whom I recognised at first.

Steed is in Marseilles (I think) expecting to collect a package from one Meyer, who however has collapsed on board Nicholas Courtney's plane. So the package has to be retrieved from Meyer's luggage: Steed is further hampered by not knowing exactly what he's looking for, just that it's in a container. Cue contest between Steed and Cathy Gale on the one hand, and Geoffrey Palmer on the other, to locate the candidate containers. A nice parallel here between Palmer's character sweet-talking the air-hostess, and CG covertly questioning the airport staff. Good bit when she gets a bit too overt in her interrogation and attracts the attention of the shrewdest of the three comedy gendarmes (and the only one who looks remotely French).

Like Death Despatch, at the denouement everyone takes turns to hold guns on each other, in a hotel bakery this time. A nice bit of Steedery here with him interrupting himself to say how delicious the smell of baking bread is.

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