The Traitor - Recap

Dan picks up his briefing at an empty warehouse and is informed that American intelligence officer Edward Hughes has defected to the enemy and taken along a top-secret message that the person who sent it died. Victor Belson, one of the enemy’s best cryptographers, is going to the embassy where Hughes is hiding out. The IMF must get Hughes out and discredit his information.

Dan assembles the usual team plus contortionist Tina Mara. The team goes over the embassy plan and Tina displays her abilities. Rollin has an ampoule ready with a knockout drug. Cinnamon arrives dressed in a stewardess episode, assuring them that Belson will be delayed.

Rollin arrives at the embassy as Victor Belson and meets with Koler, head of internal security. He’s introduced to Hughes and the embassy chief, Ambassador Brazneck, who checks his credentials and is convinced. Rollin express doubts about Hughes’ sincerity then picks up a newspaper that the IF arranged to be delivered.

Cinnamon and Dan arrive at a nearby hotel and set up communications gear. In his room, Rollin turns on a radio, then tampers with the thermostat. Barney and Tina wait outside in a van while Brazneck shows Rollin to the heavily guarded vault with an electric-eye alarm system. Rollin is left with Hughes to provide assistance as necessary, but reads the magazine and reveals that it has a coded message indicating Dan at the hotel. Rollin accuses Hughes of being a double-agent over Brazneck’s objections. They call the hotel to confirm Dan’s presence, and confirming to Dan they’ve taken the bait.

The embassy calls for a repairman for the thermostat and Barney intercepts the call and then cancels it, while Willy puts a new sign on their van. Willy goes in to repair it, taking a large segment of venting with Tina hid inside. He holds it up to test the size, giving Tina time to enter the pipes while keeping in contact with Barney by two-way radio.

Brazneck puts a bug in a bouquet and has Koler deliver it to Dan’s room. Cinnamon and Dan then stage a conversation where Dan demands payment from her to finance his contact, who they hint is Hughes. Meanwhile, Barney guides Tina through the vents and having her home in on the radio that Rollin left playing.

Rollin leave a burning matchbook in the vault then goes up to his room, leaving Hughes there to work. The fumes cause Hughes to start to collapse, and he goes up to his room where Tina has made it. She opens the grate from the inside but is forced to hide in the corner when Brazneck opens the door to check on the unconscious Hughes. He doesn’t spot her and leaves, and Tina covers Hughes with an inflatable fake mattress. She then goes back into the vents and down to the vault room where she assembles a series of mirrors that give her enough room to get past the eye beams. She then uses a safecracking device to get into the vault and replaces Hughes’ coded message with a fake.

Dan leaves the hotel and seemingly meets with Hughes, and Koler reports to Brazneck. Brazneck finds Hughes’ room empty and goes to the vault. He has Rollin confirm that the coded message has been replaced, but then arrests Rollin as he’s received word that Belson is a double agent working with Hughes.

Tina goes back to Hughes’ room and removes the fake mattress, revealing the unconscious Hughes. She plants money and a passport on him then slips out. Rollin defends himself pointing out that Brazneck was only warned to watch him. They go to Hughes room and find the agent unconscious. They wake him up and find the incriminating evidence, and of course Hughes has no idea what is going on and makes a run for it. A guard tries to shoot Hughes and Rollin knocks him aside, and Hughes gets outside where Dan arrests him. Rollin says it was better they don’t kill Hughes and then identifies himself as a member of internal security. Brazneck sends a teletype to confirm Rollin’s new identity before Belson arrives and Tina, watching from the vents, warns Barney they need to get Belson there sooner.

Willy goes back with a new piece of venting and gets Tina out, while Dan drives the taxi to get Belson to the embassy. Belson’s arrival seemingly confirms Rollin’s story and Rollin gets out and escapes with Dan just before Brazneck gets word Rollin isn’t who he says.

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