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If the whole episode had been a
motion comic, it might have been
the best thing ever. |
Brian's quiet evening of watching and rigorously analysing
Game of Thrones ("So, if the cute guy with the beard and the sword beats the ice zombies he still has to beat the other cute guy with the beard and sword?") with his sister Rachel is interrupted by the arrival of Sands, with a bullet in his side.
Thus begins 'Sands, Agent of Morra', a blockbuster romp as Brian is dragged along on a trail of murders with a single commission from Sands: Find his old MI6 handler before he can be blackmailed into murdering all of his old teammates. In the meantime, Rebecca and the team are tracking a kidnapped child; there couldn't possibly be a connection, could there?
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| Apparently Rebecca is punching a Russian bear. Not sure why. |
This episode does a lot to humanise Sands, while still portraying him as a dangerous bastard. As ever, however, the highlight of the episode is its narrative device; in this instance, the comic book covers and pages which illustrate Sands' backstory and incidental aspects of the story. They are a perfect way of framing Sands' larger than life history and cold brutality.
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