A small country under a military dictatorship is about to have an election, and to ensure that they win, they're RIGGING a single voting machine in a single district. Dan's assignment (should he decide to accept it), is to make sure the machine is UN-rigged, so the actual votes count. (But, what if after they do this, the actual votes are in FAVOR of the dictatorship? Oh, never mind.)
The machines are stored in the back of a police station. So Dan & Willy, disguised as police, "arrest" Barney and take him inside... then, knock out a guard, and sneak into the room where the machines are. While this is going on, Cinnamon pretends to be a woman who fell victim to a CONFIDENCE artist. (Hey, isn't that exactly the IMF, every single episode?) When a "jailbreak" ensues to allow the 3 agents to escape, Barney is shot, and Dan prevents a doctor, at gunpoint, from reporting the gunshot to the police. But, WORSE... "El Presidente", who's desperate not to lose the election, is SO suspicious, he has Cinnamon called in for questioning, and after, has her put under constant surveilance. I'm reminded of how the "MAD" magazine parody of M:I had everybody keep commenting that the actions of the IMF were "VERY SUSPICIOUS!"
Percy Rodrigues (STAR TREK: "Court Martial") is "Captain Trez", the hard-nosed, cold-blooded police chief who doesn't believe a word of Cinammon's story, but is charmed enough to allow himself to be distracted by her-- up to a point.
Mark Lenard (STAR TREK: "Balance Of Terror") is "Felipe Mora", head of the "Nationalistic" party, a guy who probably would have voted for Adolph Hitler, and is someone you're just looking forward to being taken down hard.
Larry Gelman (THE ODD COUPLE, THE BOB NEWHART SHOW) has a brief cameo as a voter who complains when one of the machines is broken.
For the 2nd episode this season already, Martin Landau winds up playing both Rollin Hand AND someone else that Rollin just happens to be impersonating. I'd think there was only so long they could get away with that. The situation between the other man and Cinnamon is actually rather heart-warming, and you're not sure, if, by the end, she actually wishes she could stay behind with this kind, gentle man of such strong political convictions.
Although Dan's unseen boss insists that no citizen of the foreign country may be "employed", in this case, so many of them were witness to the IMF's "funny business", from the prisoners in the jail to the doctor to the security man sent to trail Cinnamon, you'd think somebody might have have said something after it was all over... of course, most of them may have kept quiet, since they WANTED the election to go their way, after all.
The machines are stored in the back of a police station. So Dan & Willy, disguised as police, "arrest" Barney and take him inside... then, knock out a guard, and sneak into the room where the machines are. While this is going on, Cinnamon pretends to be a woman who fell victim to a CONFIDENCE artist. (Hey, isn't that exactly the IMF, every single episode?) When a "jailbreak" ensues to allow the 3 agents to escape, Barney is shot, and Dan prevents a doctor, at gunpoint, from reporting the gunshot to the police. But, WORSE... "El Presidente", who's desperate not to lose the election, is SO suspicious, he has Cinnamon called in for questioning, and after, has her put under constant surveilance. I'm reminded of how the "MAD" magazine parody of M:I had everybody keep commenting that the actions of the IMF were "VERY SUSPICIOUS!"
Percy Rodrigues (STAR TREK: "Court Martial") is "Captain Trez", the hard-nosed, cold-blooded police chief who doesn't believe a word of Cinammon's story, but is charmed enough to allow himself to be distracted by her-- up to a point.
Mark Lenard (STAR TREK: "Balance Of Terror") is "Felipe Mora", head of the "Nationalistic" party, a guy who probably would have voted for Adolph Hitler, and is someone you're just looking forward to being taken down hard.
Larry Gelman (THE ODD COUPLE, THE BOB NEWHART SHOW) has a brief cameo as a voter who complains when one of the machines is broken.
For the 2nd episode this season already, Martin Landau winds up playing both Rollin Hand AND someone else that Rollin just happens to be impersonating. I'd think there was only so long they could get away with that. The situation between the other man and Cinnamon is actually rather heart-warming, and you're not sure, if, by the end, she actually wishes she could stay behind with this kind, gentle man of such strong political convictions.
Although Dan's unseen boss insists that no citizen of the foreign country may be "employed", in this case, so many of them were witness to the IMF's "funny business", from the prisoners in the jail to the doctor to the security man sent to trail Cinnamon, you'd think somebody might have have said something after it was all over... of course, most of them may have kept quiet, since they WANTED the election to go their way, after all.
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