an icepick through the keyhole

"Always keep your bowler on in times of stress... and watch out for diabolical masterminds."

It is said that, after filming the farewell scene between himself and The Avengers co-star Diana Rigg, Patrick Macnee went back to his dressing room and wept.

I have to confess, from the bottom of my fanboy soul: at the end of watching the the Emma Peel DVD Megaset, and "The Forget-Me-Knot", so did I.

(wept, that is, not go to my dressing room, which I don't have... oh, never mind.)