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Brett wakes up in Sweden with a terrible hangover - but he soon discovers that's the least of his problems: apparently he has gotten married (!), though he can't remember a thing about the entire ceremony. The papers which prove that the marriage took place seem to be in order, but while Brett takes his wife (?) back to London, Danny stays in Stockholm to investigate further....One of the better episodes of "The Persuaders", with an intriguing story and the unusual structure of having Brett and Danny in two different countries for much of the time (they do reunite in England, for a memorable car vs. plane chase with the bad guys), but to be honest the chief reason this episode is now among my favorites is Yutte Stensgaard: playing a judo instructor (and her judo is actually very good!), she manages to be cute, charming and sexy all at once. Regrettably, she disappears from the screen when the action finally moves back to England. *** out of 4.

One might forget one's wedding, just about. But it is hardly likely that, if you did find yourself mysteriously married, knowing it to be a scam, and you were at the same time organising a secret conference, that you would then invite the wife, whom you knew to be a fraud, to your house to meet the secret guests. Still less likely that the spooks you had invited would welcome her with open arms and make a fuss of her. And almost impossible that they would all then quite happily welcome into the house a previously unknown and unannounced brother-in-law. They wouldn't know he was armed, of course, because they didn't search him or his luggage.

It is also incredible that a load of enemy spies would think that the best way of weedling their way into the secret set-up would be to fake a marriage between one of your agents and the man hosting the conference. Wouldn't there be a better way of getting into the house, given the complete lack of security.

But least credible of all is that Lord Brett would be telling jokes and getting sentimental with his ex-ex-wife, when she had just been a party to the brutal and callous murder of his faithful family retainer.