This episode uses some footage that was also used in a season 1 episode "License to Kill: Limit Three People". The only reason I noticed this is because I watched both episodes back to back which is a crazy coincidence. I'm watching the series in order on Prime Video but sometimes I randomly skip ahead which is what I did today. It seems like they use stock footage not alot but a fair amount of times in this show so I guess the odds aren't that astronomical.
In the opening scene they used the exact same footage of the plane flying in the air with blacked out windows (in the season 1 ep they were black bc of a test flight of some sort). But in this one you can see through the windows in close up and interior shots so you notice a difference. Also, a short shot of the men sitting in that little control booth during takeoff is from the other episode too. I felt like I was experiencing deja vu but actually seeing the same thing that I just did 40 mins earlier!
It's also interesting bc there are multiple parallels from both episodes that I recognized. Like the plots having something to do with trying to push a partner or head person out of a business by murder. Another weird one is Mannix gets kissed by the wife in both. Here he kisses the mistress too! I wonder how his client would feel about that? Mannix was telling him everything else but not that lol. At least the women thought he was dead, Mannix you dog.
Ok this one isn't a parallel just something that kinda irked me. When Mannix and the mistress go to the parking lot to retrieve the maps from her car why in the world in Mannix like escorting her by the arms as if he was forcing her or something? I see that happen ALOT in older stuff (especially westerns) men grabbing or guiding a woman by putting his hands on her. I'm a guy and still that feels so inappropriate to me... is that supposed to be some chivalrous back in the day thing? Apparently a woman is so dumb and ditzy that she needs to be steered to her own car by a man even when he doesn't know which car it is! It's weird to see but I guess it's one of those things that are a product of it's time, so you have to accept if you're gonna watch things from that era.