This is an episode where you think it would not amount to much but then you realise it is so cleverly written.
It also carries over Callan's interest in model soldiers from the previous episode. Callan is on leave and plans on going to an exhibition of model soldiers.
Hunter gives him a mission and it ties up nicely with his hobby.
All Callan has to do is persuade Heathcote Land an executive of a tractor manufacturing firm not to go after his sales director Donovan Prescott.
The latter makes frequent trips behind the Iron curtain for tractor sales and he also does some work for the British security services.
The KGB has sent Land some incrimination photos of Prescott with a Russian woman. Land threatens to use them again Prescott as they are also after the same promotion.
This should be an easy task for Callan and things go swimmingly well. Land is also a model soldier enthusiast and both play Napoleonic war games but Lonely spoils it for Callan.
Land realises just who Callan is and what his real game might be.
The episode is really a battle of wits and played over the war games scenario. Both men have great respect for each other while Cross looks for dirt of Land, a man regarded as having no stain on his character.
There is no action here, it is very much cerebral. So Cross has a smaller role in this one.
It also carries over Callan's interest in model soldiers from the previous episode. Callan is on leave and plans on going to an exhibition of model soldiers.
Hunter gives him a mission and it ties up nicely with his hobby.
All Callan has to do is persuade Heathcote Land an executive of a tractor manufacturing firm not to go after his sales director Donovan Prescott.
The latter makes frequent trips behind the Iron curtain for tractor sales and he also does some work for the British security services.
The KGB has sent Land some incrimination photos of Prescott with a Russian woman. Land threatens to use them again Prescott as they are also after the same promotion.
This should be an easy task for Callan and things go swimmingly well. Land is also a model soldier enthusiast and both play Napoleonic war games but Lonely spoils it for Callan.
Land realises just who Callan is and what his real game might be.
The episode is really a battle of wits and played over the war games scenario. Both men have great respect for each other while Cross looks for dirt of Land, a man regarded as having no stain on his character.
There is no action here, it is very much cerebral. So Cross has a smaller role in this one.
