Before I start ripping this episode apart, please note I DO understand that this is fiction, and light-hearted fiction at that, so I don't expect faithful real-world situations. But, seriously...
(Spoilers !!!)
So the bad guys go to the considerable time, effort and expense of creating a room that's identical to the one in Pilgrim's house but what of the rest of their plan? Their method of rendering him unconscious is to knock him over the head, something that's very difficult to do without either not hitting hard enough or causing serious injury or death. The weapon used is one of his own dumb bell weights, did they not bring their own weapon? What if he'd not been carrying the weights that day, or had dropped them somewhere less convenient? The entire plan, all of that expense and time and planning, falls apart if Pilgrim isn't knocked out cleanly without seeing his attacker and there's no way they'd choose this method.
So let's assume they pull off the knock-out. How do they know how long he'll be unconscious? How can they be certain he is, and not faking? Again, all he needs is one single memory of the move, and the whole plan collapses.
If they get as far as moving him to the fake room, why is the door open on that room? Sure, Pilgrim left the door open when he came in from his run, but he knows he's been attacked so he'd have no reason to question the door being shut when he wakes up, he'd just assume the assailant(s) shut it on their way out (which would make sense, see below). Is everyone in the commune in on the abduction? Why is the fake room in full view in a barn, what if one of the other commune members had gone for a walk and found it?
Once he's in the fake room and Tracy has been abducted, they need to get him back to the real room and they wait for him to fall asleep? They have no idea how much time they have before the police call at the house, or more likely, whether anyone else might visit the house in the meantime and be a witness that Pilgrim isn't there, especially (see above) given that the door is open.
They're incredibly lucky, and Pilgrim falls asleep. They then have to creep into the room without waking him, put him out (using the well-known but totally false method of "instant sleep" caused by Chloroform). Again, how do they know how long he'll be out?
I could go on. The point is that one part of the plan - the fake room - is very detailed and thought out (to some extent) but there are countless other factors that are entirely left to chance. This wasn't a clever or devious plot, it was a farcical plan that should never have worked.
I really like Jonathan Creek, but this episode absolutely stinks of desperation in trying to find a "weird" situation.
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