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Lady in a Trap
darbski9 September 2017
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**SPOILERS** When it opens, it looks like a crew getting set for a heist. Nope, just a small combo with a pretty girl vocalist (Yvonne Craig), and they play el-cheapo lounge interpretations of bad songs. Enter #2, Karen Sharpe, who is desperate to get out of a marriage and bad divorce. Stu is hired to track her down; she stays at the same place the combo's at, and soon takes up with their guitarist. After it gets started, it lurches along, until #2 gets the business books back to her ex-huz, and leaves guitar for a phony Hollywood producer. This is the end of the episode, with guitar getting back into the combo, and 2 leaving with Hollywood.

Thing is, I don't like it; I mean, at all. Sure the guy is rich (so it appears anyway), but there's just something slimy about him and his so-called chauffeur. The brief conversation they had sounds more like "let's just use this fluff for some fun, and dump her", or worse. Like I said, I don't like it. Divorce is hard on everyone, and guys who know what to look for prey on girls just like Paula. #2's name, that is. Good luck, poor girl. Also, Stu left the room without taking the all important "books", so, well, anything goes. Of course. Stu, observant P.I. that he's supposed to be, misses all this as she leaves with the dirtbags.
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5/10
Stu the observer
dburton21 October 2017
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Like a couple other in this next-to-last season, this plays like a script written generically for any show -- Stu Bailey stands around on the margins to show that it's really an episode of 77 Sunset Strip, but contributes nothing to the plot. Everything that happens in the story (woman holds hostage a real estate man's books and papers, then tries to start a relationship in Palm Springs with a wealthy young man, as realtor pursues) could have happened without the involvement of the agency of Bailey & Spencer. Not horrible; it moves at a fairly good pace and it's always nice to see Yvonne Craig, but overall a disappointment for failing to fit into the show's format.
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