Up until the ending, I wasn't super-impressed with "The Confession". After all, it seemed very familiar--sort of like a reworking of "The Defiant Ones" as well as several other films. Fortunately, the episode had a dynamite twist--one that even caught the IM Force by surprise.
The show begins after an Eastern Bloc assassin has killed an American senator. However, despite it appearing as if he did it for his communist masters, the Secretary (the guy on the tapes at the beginning of the show) thinks that an opportunistic commie-baiter, R.J. McMillan (Pat Hingle) actually ordered the hit. The problem is that the assassin keeps saying his bosses in his home country ordered it and the team has to prove that he's lying as well as prove who did order the hit. And, it's up to a prison escape (with Rollin playing a prisoner) to bring out the truth...but you can't handle the truth.
All in all an interesting and worthy episode and an obvious statement about the Red Scare of the 1950s. There is only one problem with the mission, however, as Rollin was seen by several million Americans as a result of the mission. Wouldn't that make him a rather ineffective future member of the team?!
The show begins after an Eastern Bloc assassin has killed an American senator. However, despite it appearing as if he did it for his communist masters, the Secretary (the guy on the tapes at the beginning of the show) thinks that an opportunistic commie-baiter, R.J. McMillan (Pat Hingle) actually ordered the hit. The problem is that the assassin keeps saying his bosses in his home country ordered it and the team has to prove that he's lying as well as prove who did order the hit. And, it's up to a prison escape (with Rollin playing a prisoner) to bring out the truth...but you can't handle the truth.
All in all an interesting and worthy episode and an obvious statement about the Red Scare of the 1950s. There is only one problem with the mission, however, as Rollin was seen by several million Americans as a result of the mission. Wouldn't that make him a rather ineffective future member of the team?!