I remembered this being a pretty forgettable episode, and Penny was never my favorite character, so I don't rewatch it much.
What I'd forgotten and really stuck out to me this time was the entire story revolving around the bad guys' Swiss bank accounts, misappropriated jewels, and frantic attempts to keep them from being exposed. Which is the kind of thing that keeps coming back in later seasons. This show really had its finger on the kind of ubiquitous petty corruption that made the Soviet Bloc (including and especially the secret polices) run. It's less riveting than stories about them funding terrorists or stealing military secrets, but given the way that corruption just exploded in a lot of these countries after 1991, probably an even more important thing to remember.
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