The pre credit scene has a young woman apparently shot dead by an elderly and eccentric relative.
The episode opens with that looks like the same woman who goes to a surgeon to have a perfectly good finger to be amputated. When he refuses, she later deliberately injures it so he has to operate on it.
The concerned surgeon calls in Professor Van Dusen (Douglas Wilmer) to investigate. Events turn sinister when the woman turns up dead.
It was nice to see Van Dusen again. With Wilmer playing him, the Sherlock Holmes connections are more obvious. This could easily had been a Holmes adventure.
It is all to do with inheriting the estate of the eccentric old relative. It features the old chestnut of cousins that look identical.
The episode opens with that looks like the same woman who goes to a surgeon to have a perfectly good finger to be amputated. When he refuses, she later deliberately injures it so he has to operate on it.
The concerned surgeon calls in Professor Van Dusen (Douglas Wilmer) to investigate. Events turn sinister when the woman turns up dead.
It was nice to see Van Dusen again. With Wilmer playing him, the Sherlock Holmes connections are more obvious. This could easily had been a Holmes adventure.
It is all to do with inheriting the estate of the eccentric old relative. It features the old chestnut of cousins that look identical.
