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An undercover agent has been found and captured by the syndicate. He is being interrogated. Can the IMF team rescue him before it is no longer useful to keep him alive? Silly question. The real question is: How will they do it?
Well, they use the old "ghost of the loved one" trick on one of the bad guys, spurring him to investigate the real cause of her death. Our boys (with some help from the uncredited but trusty Hartford Repertory Players) drop some clues in his path. Meanwhile, Jim allows himself to be captured by a rival bad guy after they allow him to seduce a receptionist working for the first bad guy.
I was captivated. I had no idea where all this plotting within plotting was going to lead and it was fun watching it unspool. Another win.
The Star Trek connection: the guy beating up and torturing our agent was the creepiest incarnation of the salt vampire in The Man Trap. Here his hair has grown out to a seventies perm (or he used a wig -- I wasn't sure). He doesn't really cut an imposing figure, but he does project a cruel aura that works for this story.
Reply by Savage918
on November 20, 2019 at 8:22 PM
@sukhisoo
I also remember seeing him in the first Hawaii 5-0 episode, the title of which is Full Fathom Five. And he also played a Russian General in a third season episode of Twelve O'Clock High.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on December 30, 2019 at 5:15 PM
The names of the two bad guys were probably for comic relief: 'Apollo' and 'Epic'.
Reply by Savage918
on December 30, 2019 at 5:19 PM
Also, the actor playing the undercover agent, William Boyett, played Sgt. MacDonald on Adam-12.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on December 30, 2019 at 9:03 PM
And Barney has a moustache again.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on April 7, 2020 at 9:04 AM
Just watched this last night. Love this episode
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on May 6, 2022 at 2:57 AM
@wonder2wonder: I have to strongly disagree about Kevin MacCarthy. He's just too creepy looking and gives off too much of a creepy aura for my taste. Fun Fact: The first (and probably best) version of The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, which Kevin MacCarthy starred in, was filmed in Sierra Madre, California.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on August 22, 2022 at 5:28 AM
Legend has it that Jim's dinner date from the season six episode Invasion is STILL waiting for him at that restaurant table.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on October 17, 2022 at 10:22 PM
😂
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on October 24, 2022 at 10:16 AM
@wonder2wonder : Those last names Epic and Apollo sound like character names from Battlestar Galactica.