646f9e108c When Max&#39;s long-dead ex-wife suddenly reappears, kidnapping and a hot diamond necklace are not far behind. I could not believe that Pearl Danko, the long presumed deceased ex-wife of Max, was played by the incredible Allyn Ann McLerie. McLerie, an actress, dancer and singer in film, stage and television since the 1940s, was born in Quebec to Anglophone parents but raised in Brooklyn. <br/><br/>She played elegant, beautiful, well-spoken, complicated but comprehensible women. However,Pearl Danko, she was unrecognizable here. (I had to check the credits to see who was playing the role.) I fairly quickly recognized Dana Wynter despite missing the opening credits. But McLerie, her beauty obscured through masterful makeup and her apparently long-ago discarded Brooklyn accent restored pitch perfect, was masterful. A fairly innocuous opening, with Max doing a non-verbal Gorton&#39;s fisherman impression, missing the arrival of his ex-wife…and the murder that she&#39;s apparently connected to. This script would need altering today,this episode takes you back to the day of luggage being checked out. That aside, the intrigue is maintained for quite awhile,Max rekindles his relationship with his ex-wire after he realizes she&#39;s alive. We hear and see the good and the bad between them that explains why they split. Meanwhile, a couple of plays on her name, Pearl, &quot;I hope it&#39;s not Pearl Harbor&quot; and &quot;I think it&#39;s time we stopped letting Pearl string us along&quot; and a nice diversion to what looked like Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach). A brief, dual scuffle towards the end, and all ends well…and that&#39;s no fish story!
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