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The IMF sets their sights of Sheriff Lobo, speed dealer.
Casey puts on a Jenny Sullivan mask and pretends to be a crazy speed freak hippie motorcycle riding daughter of Sheriff Lobo so that her "friend" (who has white hair and a calm demeanor and is secretly the head of the IMF) can insinuate himself into the speed dealer's life. In the meantime, Barney pretends to be a Nawlins drug dealer looking to score a big batch of pills from Sheriff Lobo. He has to win an auction, though. (Which is weird. Drug deals don't usually work that way, but okay...)
The IMF had a clever scheme. Casey and Jim set up a situation where the only way to deliver the big batch of speed pills is to use Jim's airplane. He portrayed himself as a reluctant participant (a common IMF tactic -- don't seem overeager). Willie provides behind the scenes support. They overlook a small detail: the crazy speed freak daughter is sleeping with a random scumbag on the side and Casey has no real idea of how to successfully handle him and he ends up throwing a major spanner into the works.
So the IMF ends up saving the day with a gunfight.
A so-so episode. To me, the highlight was watching Casey perform motorcycle stunts in front of the Fairmont. I spent a few days in that hotel on a business trip. $450 a night for the cheap rooms, but well worth it if someone else is paying for it. Just one of the chandeliers in the dining room, as I recall, was probably worth ten times my bank account.
The fact that I was daydreaming about such things when I should have been lost in the story says something about the overall mediocrity of the episode.
I have one more disc left. Then I will have watched every episode in the original series.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on October 31, 2020 at 2:56 PM
I had a problem accepting Casey wearing the mask and doing the voices. I’ve said it before that I could buy Rollin or Paris doing it because they were considered master of disguises. But when you have Barney and Casey doing it it kinda takes me out of it because it makes it look like anybody can do it.
Reply by sukhisoo
on October 31, 2020 at 3:15 PM
It's pretty much an overused trope in the series, but I just suspend disbelief and go with it.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on October 31, 2020 at 3:53 PM
I thought it was a solid episode though
Reply by LansingFan
on January 28, 2021 at 4:14 AM
In seasons 6 and 7, Casey was both the Femme Fatale AND the Makeup Artist.
Reply by sukhisoo
on January 28, 2021 at 11:42 AM
I do remember being concerned about the intel gathering skills of the IMF. How can they overlook the fact that a drug addicted biker chick had a boyfriend on the side?
Maybe I will rewatch this one some day.
Reply by LansingFan
on February 14, 2021 at 1:11 AM
Another one of season Seven's failures, although it had a similar plot to season six' s episode Encounter, which, as you all know, one of my all-time Classic Mission Impossible episodes.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on March 9, 2022 at 11:38 AM
For some reason this episode really annoyed me.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on March 29, 2022 at 4:37 PM
I meant to say that Encounter is one of my all-time favorite Classic Mission Impossible episodes.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on April 6, 2022 at 11:11 PM
I think that Dana was better at pretending to be a drug addict than any other other female IMF who ever appeared on the series.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on April 7, 2022 at 12:33 AM
Oops, my bad. I should have said Dana Lambert, not Dana Scully.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on April 21, 2022 at 2:03 AM
She definitely was more believable with that
Reply by wonder2wonder
on April 21, 2022 at 9:36 AM
That's true.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on April 22, 2022 at 2:48 PM
I remember how in the first three seasons Cinnamon pretended to be a gambling addict for at least 3 times.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on May 5, 2022 at 10:13 PM
As you all know, I wasn't a big Lesley Warren fan when she first appeared in season five, but rewatching season five all these years later I have to give credit where credit is due. Lesley is no Barbara Bain (but then again, who is?), but she's not that bad, either.
P.S. Happy Cinco De Mayo, Everyone!
Reply by Jayhn1111
on July 15, 2022 at 2:15 AM
She was very good at that