Echo of Yesterday - Recap

Jim picks up his briefing from a parked car and is informed that Colonel Marcus von Frank, head of a neo-Nazi organization, is working with Otto Kelmann, head of a major munitions plant in Europe. Kelmann plans tot urn his financial empire over to von Frank, letting him become a second Adolph Hitler.

Jim assembles the usual team and informs them that Kelmann’s wife was killed by Adolph Hitler and Kelmann helped in the cover-up. Cinnamon has gone over her photo gear and Willy has the projector and uniform ready. Rollin has his theater friends ready, and Jim confirms that von Frank is a manic-depressive paranoid. He plans to gain the man’s confidence.

von Frank meets with Kelmann and is eager to have him sign over his company, but Kelmann delays. von Frank finds Jim waiting for him as a representative of the American neo-Nazi movement. Jim wants von Frank to give him his personal support but the neo-Nazi insists he engage in a swordfight to demonstrate his bravery. Jim passes the test and asks to work with von Frank.

Kelmann goes to his usual bench in the park where Cinnamon is setting up her photo shoot and insists he move along. He notices she is wearing her hair in an old-fashioned style, then Cinnamon rips her skirt and Kelmann offers her help and a ride home. Meanwhile, Rollin and Willy set up at a warehouse.

At Cinnamon’s apartment, Kelmann notes that his wife was also a photographer. Cinnamon apologizes but then gets a call from a man and tries to get him to leave her alone. Kelmann offers his help and when the phone rings again he insists on her accompanying him and she gives in. They have dinner and chat about Nazism, while Rollin goes over newsreels of Adolph Hitler.

von Frank’s assistant Karl informs him that Kelmann has met Cinnamon, who is staying the night. After they go to bed, Cinnamon slips down to the lobby and starts taking photos, then locates old photos of the room. Karl, who has been assigned to Kelmann, comes in and finds her and demands to know what she’s doing. Kelmann comes down and she explains that she was taking photos for a book Kelmann has planned. Kelmann buys her explanation and they go back to bed.

Jim and von Frank come to visit Kelmann and Karl tells them what happened. Cinnamon is taking photos of Kelmann and von Frank demands her film. Jim convinces her to give up her camera and takes out the film, while von Frank demands that Kelmann dismiss her. Jim then gives Cinnamon a knockout drug and the antidote, and use a fake roll of film to show to von Frank it’s been destroyed. As they leave, Jim warns von Frank that Cinnamon is his enemy.

Jim gets the film to Rollin and Willy, who start recreating it at the warehouse. Cinnamon pours tea for Kelmann and drugs him. Karl checks on Cinnamon’s background and determines that she’s lying to Kellman, and von Frank orders a complete investigation.

Cinnamon signals Rollin and Willy, who knock out Karl then pick up the unconscious Kelmann and take him to the warehouse. Jim and von Frank search Cinnamon’s apartment while Willy and Rollin set Kelmann up and use his drugged state to convince him he’s back in 1932, with Cinnamon pretending to be his wife. Rollin, disguised as Hitler, barges in and claims Cinnamon is a traitor. He shoots her as Kelmann grabs a gun from his desk but refuses to use it. He collapses and they take the place apart.

At Cinnamon’s apartment, Jim “discovers” an airline ticket proving she recently entered the country. They go to Kelmann’s apartment, where he’s been returned, and accuse Cinnamon of being a spy. The same scene plays out again as from 1932 and Jim hands von Frank a pistol to kill her, as Kelmann looks on. von Frank “kills” her, then uses his own gun to kills von Frank for killing the image of his wife. Kelmann goes to call the police and turn himself in.

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