Frank teams up with a thief in order to acquire a missile control device that murdered several of the US top brass in the original timeline.

Once again the writers seem to have got stuck on something very simplistic. It's an easy mission, it doesn't have any variables, and as such it's just not interesting. Sending Frank to London is clearly meant to provide the excitement lacking in pretty much every other area, but that fails too, firstly because it could just as well be set anywhere and secondly because it merely brings to Seven Days a selection of dreadful 'awright mum' English accents. You'd think with all the UK actors working in the States these days that a) the Americans would have a better chance of copying the accent and b) that the producers could just cast (shock, horror) someone British!

The character of Raven is ripped off pretty comprehensively from Amanda from Highlander's spin-off show, including the name, and there's no reason why the thief has to be French or whatever accent Bobbie Phillips is trying to do. The idea of one of Raven's accomplices working for the other side isn't novel and neither is it very well done, with the rebellion put down far too easily. The arrival of Donovan and Owsley makes no difference, Frank beds Raven for no readily apparent reason as they certainly don't have any chemistry and it becomes a mish-mash of ideas that never actually take off. I'm still not entirely sure what was going on and, frankly, I don't care.

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