When an agent turns up carrying a large bag of bird seed it is thought the seed might contain some evidence but it doesn't. Steed and Mrs Peel are soon on the trail of one Captain Caruso not initially realising that the captain is a parrot. The villains of the story have been using homing pigeons to get aerial photographs of a top secret missile range and they intend to use the parrot to take the secrets out of the country. Along the way to solving the case Steed meets a beautiful blonde model and Mrs Peel meets a man named Twitter and is photographed apparently wearing nothing but a large union flag!
This episode enjoyably mixes the serious and the ridiculous. The bad guys are more menacing than usual; a pair a nasty psychopaths rather than the usual comic villains and the plot to steal military secrets is believable however using pigeon-cams seems far-fetched and the idea of reciting the secrets to a parrot to get them out of the country rather than just smuggling them out or having a person learn them is just bonkers amusingly bonkers. There is some good action including a fight on a scaffolding and Mrs Peel dealing with a bad guy on a diving board. We also see both of our heroes got the better of by the villains temporarily. Overall this was a rather fun episode.
This episode enjoyably mixes the serious and the ridiculous. The bad guys are more menacing than usual; a pair a nasty psychopaths rather than the usual comic villains and the plot to steal military secrets is believable however using pigeon-cams seems far-fetched and the idea of reciting the secrets to a parrot to get them out of the country rather than just smuggling them out or having a person learn them is just bonkers amusingly bonkers. There is some good action including a fight on a scaffolding and Mrs Peel dealing with a bad guy on a diving board. We also see both of our heroes got the better of by the villains temporarily. Overall this was a rather fun episode.