Olga’s holiday becomes a disaster when she finds herself in the vicinity of a pipeline explosion. Frank must backstep to save her and avert disaster.

Okay, any episode that starts with Olga in leather underwear holding a whip and later moves on to show her skinny-dipping deserves at least two stars. However, getting over the excitement of these aspects, let’s take a look at the actual story, which is, sad to say, rather predictable.

Taking a cue from the latest James Bond film, the destruction of the pipeline isn’t that huge a problem that there’s really a backstep warranted. The person in charge of the pipeline station is very stupid and deserves everything he gets and the mercenaries trying to blow the place up aren’t that clever either. The only thing that makes the episode worth watching really is the relationship between Olga and Frank, which takes a surprise turn here as Olga realizes her feelings and it’s unusually Frank who talks his way out of a night with her. It’s good that both of them can see through each other so well, and the sexual tension reaches unbearable heights right until the end, just as the final wrench is thrown in.

Much of the episode seems designed to throw Frank and Olga together, and it’s good to see faults on both sides; the girls Olga is on her trip with are good characters which help keep the mood fairly light and in contrast to the rather dark opening before the backstep. It’s not a bad episode, it just goes along in pretty much exactly the way you’d expect. And that’s hardly the worst crime this show has committed.

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