"Whoever tampers with the brain does so at his own risk" warns our host, John Newland, at the beginning of this scrambled episode, set in a grand house in Milan, where a medical student is showing off a new piece of optical equipment that he has (most improbably) been allowed to take home and experiment with. Apparently the bright light can have strange effects on the "nerve endings of the brain", and when a divorcing English couple, Jim and Mary, arrive for cocktails, he asks Mary if he can use her for a demonstration.
Mary soon goes into an uncomfortable trance, where she is fixated on images of a sumptuous villa and the sound of someone screaming in the lift. Presently she happens to recognise a picture of this villa in a full-page advertisement in a magazine, and goes to the address. The agent explains that it's a guest-house where only two people have stayed in the last year. But the lift is just as she saw it in her trance.
We can't tell you more, but the ending is just as unconvincing as the rest of the plot, and in any case, we can never really tell who's who in the zoo - a disjointed group, apparently selling top-end furniture, fashions and perfumes, with Jim often absent at the factory, but sometimes using his absences to cheat on Mary.
The only bonus is a brief glimpse of the young, unknown Michael Crawford as the student.
Mary soon goes into an uncomfortable trance, where she is fixated on images of a sumptuous villa and the sound of someone screaming in the lift. Presently she happens to recognise a picture of this villa in a full-page advertisement in a magazine, and goes to the address. The agent explains that it's a guest-house where only two people have stayed in the last year. But the lift is just as she saw it in her trance.
We can't tell you more, but the ending is just as unconvincing as the rest of the plot, and in any case, we can never really tell who's who in the zoo - a disjointed group, apparently selling top-end furniture, fashions and perfumes, with Jim often absent at the factory, but sometimes using his absences to cheat on Mary.
The only bonus is a brief glimpse of the young, unknown Michael Crawford as the student.
