Episode 23 - Murdersville

Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5
Direction		Music		Humour		Intro & tag
Mastermind		Plot		Emma		Set Design
Overall (0-10)	Joseph	Eric Flynn plays Croft with real heart and really emotionally involves us in the story. It is strange to see Emma showing so much emotion, but then she is human. The village paeans are also great, but it is wrong to call it a fun episode.
	Piers	Second only to The Hidden Tiger, as far as I'm concerned. There's really nothing to fault with this episode, one of the strongest pieces of television drama ever recorded.

The sleepy hamlet of Little Storping In-The-Swuff has its calm disrupted by a man coming out of the pub and gunning another man down. The villagers, however, carry on regardless.
Mrs Peel goes to the village with Croft, an old school friend who has quit the Army and retired to the country. His butler has disappeared, leaving all his objets d'art smashed around his house. Croft disappears, and Emma finds his butler's body, and is then knocked out by an unseen assailant.
When she recovers, she is told she had a car accident, but she notices Paul's watch on the wrist of one of the men in her car. She discovers she has stumbled upon a village of murderers when she finds bodies at the doctor's house, but is captured. After a dunking Emma is forced to ring her 'husband', John, and manages to pass on a message to Steed unbeknownst to the villagers. He turns up in time to rescue her from the local museum and Mrs Peel craftily pelts the villagers into submission.
Mrs Peel has found her knight in shining armour when Steed becomes trapped in the helmet she has just escaped from.

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Martin	Wilson	Pistol
Unknown victim (off screen)	Sunglasses-wearing assassin	Shotgun
Forbes	Hubert & Mickle V*	Sickle
Samuel Morgan	Frederick Williams	Silenced Pistol
Major Paul Croft	Hubert & Mickle? V*	?
Unknown man	Trilby-wearing assassin	Tommy gun
Unknown man	Unknown killers [big]	Body thrown from passing car (Humber Sceptre, maybe), but probably already dead.
Dr Haymes V*	Emma	Spear