Department S Episode 22: The Bones of Byrom Blain

A chauffeur has failed his job by allowing the disappearance of his passenger and whats left is a pile of bones. A VIP from the diplomatic political world has gone missing, but it appears that he is dead and the bones are proof of that. A baffling case initially, however when Sir Curtis also goes missing, Department S is destined to focus all their attention to the bones mystery. There was a diplomatic meeting scheduled for Mr. Blain, Sir Curtis and a still to arrive American diplomat, to discuss exchanging espionage finding between the US and the UK. Jasons snooping gets him into trouble, opening the door for Stuart and Annabelle to find the missing diplomats. After a hypnotic evening, a coup was averted by a crafty Department S investigation.

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Peter Wyngarde as Jason King and Michael Griffiths as Supt. Collins

Peter Wyngarde as Jason King and John Carson as Kilvern

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Peter Wyngarde as Jason King and Rosemary Nicols as Annabelle Hurst

Dennis Alaba Peters as Sir Curtis Seretse

Personal Synopsis

An interesting story about missing people but a full skeleton of the missing person is bound to bring at least some interest to the story. Its hard to say whether it has that effect on me. This episode was a fair enough compilation of missing diplomats, hypnosis and skeletal remains. I did find it hard to correlate the various elements to this story without the disbelief of its possibility.