At the beginning we see Nichols meet an old friend in London Town, talking to her about a book and a case that has just been solved. Back in the Big Apple two dealers killed each other in a sword fight dying from severe blooding. A first glance it's enough for Nichols to figure out everything was staged: one victim, an old man in his seventies, was very close to him and the detective knows he suffered from a nerve damage that unable him to hold a sword. The man who found the bodies, the caretaker, was the prime suspect, together with the dealer's daughter, who is sick due to schizophrenia (she lives her life trapped in her twenties, in a sort of groundhog day); she was once attached to Nichols and that causes some trouble in him.
This storyline mixed up Hitchcock movies (the butler presence), Agatha Christie's book and a little "The da Vinci Code". Too much in a single episode where Jeff Goldblum isn't at ease to play the part. Stevens' acting involves just few line.
This storyline mixed up Hitchcock movies (the butler presence), Agatha Christie's book and a little "The da Vinci Code". Too much in a single episode where Jeff Goldblum isn't at ease to play the part. Stevens' acting involves just few line.