This episode left me wondering why the Bishop wasted his "best agents" for a robbery.

It was rather obvious that the man riding shotgun in the security truck was in on the caper. Having him tell the driver to stop the first time could be put down to safety concerns, but having him tell the driver to brake again, after the driver had pointed out that it looked like an ambush, made it very clear what was going on.

Why did Matthew have to be shrunk for the trip in to the the Bishop's office? Why not ride comfortably beside him in the fresh air? They slipped in through a secret passage, after all. Matthew didn't need to hide.

Matthew must have been rather disgruntled with this mission. Father Unwin was told that he was to be on the train with the money. After asking plaintively, "What about me?" Matthew was told, "You'll be in your case!" And that's just where he was the entire time. Good thing he isn't claustrophobic.

Some nice touches--Matthew amiably agreeing with Father Unwin that driving at forty or even fifty miles an hour was quite remarkable, Matthew trying to help the Father out with his card game and being scolded for cheating, and old Albert proudly wearing his proper uniform to meet the first train coming into his station in four years.

Another good touch that might look like a blooper at first--when the woman came into the station near the tunnel to arrange for the train to be transferred to the unused line, the man in charge protested, and the woman fired her gun. I noticed that the window shattered an instant before I heard the sound of the shot. This is as it should be, although quite often it's done the other was around on T.V. and in movies.

Poor Blake still isn't being told anything. After the train "disappeared", Blake was expecting the Bishop to blow up, not realizing that they had wanted the hijackers to strike so that they could be dealt with.

Poor Matthew, stuck in his case the whole time, really put his heart into distracting the bad guys. Listening to his tone of voice saying, "Reeeeeeeed!" made me giggle. However, it could easily have been done the way Reed and the others thought that it was done--with a tape recorder in the case.

I liked how Father Unwin just stared into the camera after Albert told him that he didn't know how to stop this new-fangled type of train.

Father Unwin expressed concern that they wouldn't be able to stop in time after recieving instructions from the Bishop. However, he wasted several precious seconds telling Albert how it was done. He should have said, instantly, "Albert, let go of the controls!" and then gone on to explain that that was all they needed to do. In fact, he should have relayed the instructions as the Bishop was speaking to him.

While the train was speeding along the tracks, they kept showing Matthew's case rocking back and forth, and almost getting hit by items falling from the upper shelves, but they didn't show Matthew himself reacting. It would have been nice to hear some pithy comments. I think that it would have improved the final dialogue, with Matthew agreeing with Father Unwin about the safer speed of forty miles per hour.