User Reviews

First I hate shows that have actors use accents that just are painful to listen to. Henry Darrow is a fantastic actor who is of Spanish decent. Why they had him play a Frenchmen is beyond me. His French accent is terrible. I'd rather they just had him play an Englishmen or anything.

As to the story it's a typical story that isn't bad.

To save yourself mute it when Darrow speaks and turn on the closed captions.

The writers of McMillan&Wife were getting a bit too cute with their plots in this episode. Two story lines were running here with only the flimsiest of connections if any.

Rock Hudson himself is in on a sting arrest for Alan Manson, a lawyer who has some access to criminals who have a fine line in intimidation. That makes him the target of a well known criminal hit man who goes by the name of Sable. At the same time a close police buddy Henry Darrow is over from France where he's a high ranking inspector in the Paris police department. Darrow's gone and married into a wealthy San Francisco family headed by Lew Ayres and he's married Susan Sullivan who is currently feuding with her sister Lynn Borden and Ayres's indispensable assistant Geraldine Brooks for control of his company. One of them has aligned with Manson.

When Sullivan gets shot and killed while meeting with Hudson it's the infamous Sable who is suspected. But is it really?

One of my favorite lines from classic is uttered by Walter Brennan in My Darling Clementine when as Old Man Clanton he tells his idiot sons 'When you pull a gun, kill a man'. According to this Manson hires Stanley Kamel playing Sable to just fire warning shots at the police commissioner. I mean come on.

I guess things were going stale at the creative end of McMillan&Wife.

As we've watched the series over the last few months, the writing has just gotten worse and worse. Part of the problem is characterization. They became unable to write characters we care anything about, and that's death for writing. And I don't mean just characters you love. In this episode, there weren't even any characters to hate. Even the culprit was just pathetic, not someone you really dislike ... just pity.

The writers through seasons four and five thought they were writing clever red herrings in the mysteries. Instead all they were writing were disconnected junk that has nothing to do with what they thought was a plot ... and in this episode if there was a plot, you had to dig deep to find it. Literally nothing the writers leaned on as plot bore on their solution.

And at this point, they completely gave up on the clever byplay between Mac and Sally which made the first season entertaining. Really pathetic and lazy writing.