John Drakes' Mission: Drake sets out to retrieve a woman wanted by the British government for espionage.
I've got to disagree with the other reviews on IMDb for this episode. To me, it's one of the weakest I've seen so far. These episodes are only 22 or so minutes long. As a result, they're usually jam-packed with action with no time to waste. In Find and Return, it felt like the first 2/3 was filler. Drake spent an inordinate amount of time just talking. His scene with Hardy is so leisurely paced you'd think he (and the show) had all the time in the world. To make it worse, by the time the final third rolls around and things start to get interesting, there's not enough time. The final felt rushed.
Other than the last 5 - 7 minutes, other things I liked about this episode: Donald Pleasence' overly ambitious character, Nikolides, and Warren Mitchell's insecure foreign agent, Stashig. Most of these episodes are really helped by strong supporting casts.
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