Episode 24 - Mission... Highly Improbable

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Direction		Music		Humour		Intro & tag
Mastermind		Plot		Emma		Set Design
Overall (0-10)	Joseph	A good story, really going back to the Fifth season (it was originally written in 1964) and good performances from Francis Matthews and Ronald Radd assure it a good rating. There are a few continuity errors, and this is the last proper Emma story. Noo, please don't end!
	Piers	Overall, this is a damn fine episode. A welcome return to the sci-fi escapism and referential postmodernism that The Avengers is famous for. A clever blend of reality and sheer impossibility, as well as a dig at Mission : Highly Impossible. What more could you want?

Professor Rushton has invented a miniaturising ray, but his assistant Chivers uses it for unpatriotic activities. First he shrinks the minister who had come to examine their finances, then a snooping Captain, and finally to steal the new Saracen FV603 armoured car. The buyer - Shaffer - is unaware that Steed was inside the armoured car when it was shrunk, and has come along for the ride!. Rescued by Mrs Peel, they escape and Steed is returned to normal size, only for Emma to be shrunk. Emma then frees Steed, the Professor and his daughter, and is in turn returned to normal - "Everything? Everything!" Shaffer and Chivers are then shrunk and collected in Steed's bowler.
With rain expected, Steed offers Emma his still shrunken umbrella...

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Sir Gerald Bancroft	Chivers V*	Thrown into garbage bin
Captain Gifford	Chivers V*	Hosed down the drain
* Strange ways to kill people, but they were miniaturised first.