"Enjoy what's left of your life. It ends before Saturday"

CAST

Roger Moore (Lord Brett Sinclair)	Tony Curtis (Danny Wilde)

Penelope Horner (Carrie Bowman)	John Cairney (the Jenkins Brothers)	Donald Pickering (Morely Lyndon)	Lois Maxwell (Louise Cornell)
Maxwell Shaw (Vine)	Tim Barrett (John Radcliffe)	Sam Kydd (Dwyer)	David Neal (Jerry Sandford)
Jenny Hanley (Magda)	Sean Lynch (Yates)	Helena Ross (Joe)	Russ Henderson (Sam)

ORIGINAL AIR DATE 25th FEBRUARY, 1972

Motor-racing has hazards off the track as well as on, as Brett and Danny discover when Brett receives macabre threats to his life after entering his new car for a race.
 

Car-racing is a pastime enjoyed by Lord Brett Sinclair; his car, The Sinclair Special has the promise of being a world-beater. But why should someone be trying to frighten him off?

Danny Wilde becomes Brett's self-appointed protector when one strange event after another takes place - an attempt to run Brett down; anonymous notes warning him that his life will end before the race; a cardboard coffin with a grotesque effigy of himself delivered to his apartment.

When Brett overcomes and interrogates an intruder in his apartment, he learns that someone is going to great lengths to hurt but not actually kill him. Brett employs the thug, Lyndon, to discover the name of the anonymous antagonist.

Meanwhile, Danny has discovered that someone is bribing other drivers in the upcoming race to 'throw it' and Brett himself is approached by a man called Vine whom the pair assume to also be responsible for the threats on Brett.

Lyndon meanwhile has supplied an address where the mystery man can be found but when Brett turns up he finds Lyndon dead. Also on the scene is, Carrie Bowman, a journalist who has been assigned by her editor to follow Brett because of a tip-off that someone is rumored to be trying to fix the race. Brett's is astonished when she tells him that all the available evidence points to Danny Wilde being the fixer.

These rumours about the innocent Danny add to the mystery. But whoever is trying to kill Brett has left behind a deliberate clue - a series of 35mm transparencies of a motor crash. Brett accompanies Carrie to her newspaper offices to examine files that help him identify the slides. The images are of an horrific crash at a race Brett was driving in several years earlier when a driver who had been  trying to overtake him spun off the track and crashed, the car bursting into flames. The driver, Jenkins survived but was very badle burned and spent many yeras in hospital. Could Jenkins be behind the threats to Brett's life as part of a revenge for his own injuries?

Meanwhile an attempt to burn the Sinclair Special is foiled but Danny manages to get the name of the person that gave the order: Vine.

Danny visits Vine and discovers he is in fact only a middle man. The real brains behind the race-fixing attempt is Louise Cornell, who admits that she and her American syndicate associates are trying to bring gangster methods into motor-racing, but she denies emphatically issuing orders for Brett's life to be threatened.

So who is responsible? Can it be Jenkins after all? But when Jenkins is traced, he is mentally and physically incapacitated, obviously unable to take any sort of action...
 

	This episode features one of the most original fight scenes ever to appear in  a television show. Shot in the style of a flickering 1920's black & white film complete with suitable piano accompaniment, the obligatory 'scrap' sequence stands-out from all the others for its relative inventiveness and sheer entertainment value.
	The vehicle in which that Danny & Sid escape Rome, in Five Miles to Midnight can be seen in this episode as a background fixture in the scene where Danny is asking the mechanics of one of the other race cars, if they have been approached by the fixers.

	It is a curiosity of this episode that neither of the Jenkins brothers seem to have a Christian name
	Lois Maxwell (Louise Cornell) appeared in two episodes of The Saint: Interlude In Venice & Simon And Delilah  She also played the part of Miss Moneypenny in all the EON 007 films from Dr No to A View to A Kill submitted by Christopher Survela
	Donald Pickering (Lyndon) has appeared in The Saint episode, The Angel�s Eye  submitted by Christopher Survela