Great stuff but I didn't get the British girl in Koroshi. Why is she involved with the villain but not a part of his plot? Why move into the dead agent's apartment (other than to get the plot moving)? Seemed like it came a bit too easy for Drake in that one. - adamwarlock
Yes, the English girl was a lazy plot device. Yes, it was too easy for Drake here. You can tell McGoohan was phoning it in.
The last handful of DMs were the weakest of the lot, with the final two the worst, in color or not. "Shinda Shima" is a poor James Bond copy, and that's ironic as McGoohan had been offered the Bond role before Sean Connery. McGoohan was already looking ahead to
The Prisoner.
Norman Hudis wrote "Koroshi" and "Shinda Shima." He had never written for the show before; his resume highlights were the
Carry On . . . films. It shows.
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