dctrainer's Check-Ins

This was one of the best of the entire series run. It has much in common with episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" of the same era. The opening scenes setup a plausible yet nearly impossible conundrum. German infiltrators dressed as GI's have sown confusion and mistrust among allied soldiers, British and American alike. The only one the viewer can be sure of is Kirby. Gavin Macleod guests as a possinly unhinged Brit who has either gunned down several of his own countrymen or another group of German infiltrators. He happens upon Kirby, guests Nick Adams and Roger Perry and can trust none of them
To confuse matters further, Adams character possesses a suspicious fluency in German and is revealed to have attempted to assume the ID of a dead MP who had been escorting him as a prisoner. His explanation of German-American heritage and being under arrest as a US deserter satisfies no one. Even when the real infiltrator is revealed later on the twists don't end. A French resistance fighter intervenes throwing everything back to square one-he can trust no one's story. The ending throws an ironic twist to the story fully worthy of any Twilight Zone or Hitchcock episode ending.