The New Avengers (1976–1977): Season 1, Episode 11 - Three Handed Game - full transcript
Steed has invented a way of using a triumvirate of agents with photographic memories to memorize top secret information in three parts. Each third being useless without the other two. A brilliant criminal named Juventor plans to use a mind-swapping device to piece all three parts together and sell the combined information to the highest bidder. When he learns The New Avengers are closing in on him, Juventor decides to swap brains completely with one of his victims.
Has a policy of war.
Imperative allies of too ..can be.
I'm not going too fast for you.
- No.
That's fine.
Which be rich red is of country.
United and pursue of full,
but that are the which ...
... be limit we forced four.
States always avoid scale imperative.
Our bluff game vital opponents.
Can you remember all that?
It's already here.
And tomorrow, it'll be in London.
Report from Roger Masgard.
He has will policy a war ...
Report from Helen McKay.
United and pursue of full ...
Report from Tony Fields.
States always avoiding ...
... scale imperative a bluff game.
Put them all together ...
... now, what have we got?
United States has and will always
a few a policy avoiding a scale war.
But it is imperative that our allies
avare off the limits to which we can be pushed.
- Found out lot of plans, general.
- And it served as perfectly.
They also served well.
Yes.
If there's any chance of using them again
on the missile ... - General.
One job and then disband them.
We agreed, general.
Yes, I was just thinking that
they might be ...
Masgard feels the same as me.
Their lives will be at risk
for at least two or three years.
Until the information they carry
becomes redundant.
Don't us push our luck, general.
Right.
They're off the hook.
Tell them to get back
to their normal lives and ...
Forget all about it?
No chance of that.
Now, where is it?
That put in there.
And that is here.
Well, now that's okey.
There. Yes. Like many other discovery.
Like Newton's apple.
It was an accident.
A short-circuit, Mr. Juventor
A simple short-circuit from my car battery.
Suddenly, the battery was flat.
Drained of electricity.
And so I thought of the human brain.
What is that?
The sort of computer.
A storage battery for electrical impulses.
Now, let me tell you
what you are thinking.
Congratulations pro ..professor.
Right first time.
Come in!
Not a bad at all tonight.
When the drums start to beat together.
It should be.
That's about as near to being on the ball
as you're gonna get.
Larry.
It was unlocked.
I just strolled in.
Pretty lack security.
- It's not fort knox here.
I didn't know.
But some valuable items here.
Purdey's right though.
Not fort knocks.
But not a place to confidential
information either.
I suppose you have something to say.
Well, this is not a mission
checking people's side doors.
- Juventor's in town.
- Who is Juventor?
A very nasty piece of work.
A top agent.
No doubt about it.
Clever, but independent.
- He's a mercenary.
Sells here, buys there
to the highest bidder.
I know his reputation.
And that's all you do know.
I know he entered the country on ...
... Saturday. - Saturday.
18:32 to Dover, false papers.
You knew.
Then why haven't you ...
- Don't have to think about it.
Not will I leave to you.
You have good man telling him,
aren't you?
Ivan. Outside there's a man
who wears a hat ...
... and a light topcoat.
Right.
You lost him Larry.
Your man lost him.
And I thought you were so on the ball.
- Lack security
- I should handle the job myself.
Definitely.
Would it be much better.
You could have been splattered
against the wall. - Look this isn't funny.
Juventor is dangerous.
- And he has something to sell.
Didn't you know that?
He went to seaside she yesterday.
He was in and out of there embassy
and five minutes flat.
So he must to be no go.
It's Ivan his way to goes next.
Purdey.
We're supposed to be undercover.
- Well, he wait first.
- He is a first-class fool.
- First class?
You gave him top marks.
Could be worse.
He's handsome fellow
and rugged and charming ...
... and very very sexy.
- Purdey.
Purdey, we're supposed to be
watching the embassy.
I knew it.
You're jealous.
- Jealous?
Please try to control your emotions.
And stop staring at me.
We're supposed to be watching embassy.
It's unbelievable.
- It's the key Colonel Meroff.
A key that will unlock a door
you will never be able to pe.. penetrate.
But I can.
For a very considerable fee.
If this thing works
you can name your own price.
If.
I anticipa.. pated your doubts colonel.
I've arranged a small demonstration.
But far from here.
But per.. mit me colonel.
Yes, they're still there.
I should be flattered
I sup.. pose that ...
... someone considers
Mr. Imp.. portant.
The red car?
And the white van opposite.
Don't worry colonel.
It'll be attended to.
And now I suggest we should leave.
Well, you have to grant it one thing.
He is versatile.
Please.
Please!
- Keep dancing.
Step dancing?
Skill you never possess colonel.
I thought carefully about this demonstration.
Mental.
Immersion.
Evidence.
Settled.
No, no.
A physical skill.
When you're ready colonel.
Colonel.
The Alhambra Theatre.
The Palladium ...
... and the Palace.
- What else do you remember, Colonel?
Amazing.
Steps absolutely amazing.
Name your own p.. price
you said, Colonel.
Effective, yes.
And you've given me the proof,
but ten million?
Colonel.
With this device I can obtain for you
the unobtainable.
And the unobtainable is cheap
at any p.. price.
I will sanctioned.
What would that be?
The three handed game?
It's five hundred.
It can be yours,
but it will not be easy to locate.
Masgard, the memory man is known to me.
But the other two.
- I can attend to that.
The three handed game is always the hardest.
We know every move.
Security around ...
How much he been here?
How much does he know?
Let's find out.
- A tap dancer? - An expert
in percussive terpsichorean art.
That's what I said.
Why would Juventor stash an expert
in percussive terpsichorean art?
The tap dancer?
I work to that.
The North Atlantic seaboard.
The key stand to the western defenses.
The ploy counter ploy of naval strategy.
The movement of vast tonnage of naval ships.
Weaving and interweaving.
Maneuvering.
Art maneuvering.
Now, if one ship
would wander of course ...
... and to get in the path of the other one.
- Yes.
Haven't you seen those old
Busby Berkeley movies?
The dancers never bump into one another.
Steed, what are you trying to tell us?
I'm trying to tell you.
I had absolutely no idea of
what Juventor is up to.
It's all down to Larry then.
Steed.. knows about Juventor.
Steed knows about me.
And as I'm in the country.
- Is that all he knows?
- Yes.
- Nothing else.
- No.
- Except.
- Go on.
I fancy P..Purdey.
Tell finance to clear 10 million for payment.
10 million?
In notes of small denomination,
to be ready by the end of the week.
But Colonel Meroff ...
Yes, I know.
There will be questions.
But there is just one simple answer.
The three handed game.
I try to reveal it.
One.
Two.
Three.
- Three.
Three handed ...
One.
Two.
Three.
Three-handed.
Three.
Tap dancer.
Get help.
Do you know Steed?
I'm beginning to like Juventor.
- Like?
Well, I admire then.
He's been personally responsible
for deposing three heads of state.
On this missile head.
He sold the plans to four different countries
on the same day.
Four.
It could have been early closing.
He's a pro.
You've got to admit that.
Deadly, dangerous and ruthless.
A master of the double play.
You're not related in any way.
Are you?
The way to a man's knees
is through his stomach.
Purdey is the way to a man's heart.
What if you got against knees?
- May know yours.
- It smells delicious.
It is.
Marshmallow pie.
The marshmallow is a neglected little beast,
but it has been seasoned just now.
Must be a Wednesday in the month.
It could've been beefsteak,
it could have been lasagne ...
... it could have been omelet.
But I happen to like marshmallows.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Ivan.
Ivan.
Well, there's no physical injury
that I can see.
Concussion?
No evidence that either.
But the way he's staring ...
... certain his mind is addled at the moment
Tell me, who are you,
where do you live?
Larry.
You know who I am?
Game.
Game.
This isn't the time or the place.
He knows me.
- Juventor.
- That's not his name.
Do you remember your name,
your address?
Juventor North.
Old north.
Old north what, Larry?
Larry?
Old North Road.
What part of Old North Road?
Larry?
Do you think you can take us there?
I'm sorry.
It's too late for that.
We don't know how make stop his mind is.
But sooner or later he'll recover
and lead them back here.
This p.. place is blow.
And he with it.
You know, really understood this machine,
have you Ivan?
Takes man's mind steals their thought.
- Good Ivan.
Very good.
Thoughts in the brain of flash
from cell-to-cell ...
... in a form of electrical imp.. pulses.
This machine drains that force
and transfers it to another mind.
The longer the time is switched off
the greater the knowledge.
Much more than the victims memory.
The p.. positioning of the p...plate
determines the skills.
Knowledge, emotion.
Physical ability.
But what if the machine is used to transfer
the whole mind?
Personality.
Everything.
Ivan. I'm gonna teach you
how to use this machine.
It's quite simple really.
But you must concentrate hard.
Imp.. portant work Ivan.
- Important
- Vital.
My only chance.
Here we are.
The Old North Road
Old North Road.
Tell us where to go Larry.
Cantley.
Cantley?
Cantley.
Remember.
A full minute.
Whatever happens a full minute.
Even if I collapse or die, no matter.
Come on, hurry.
Hurry.
You worked.
Worked ...
p.. perfectly
You released me Ivan.
Don't you understand.
That body. That mine ...
... empty.
Now I'm looking like this.
I'm Juventor.
Come on.
- You do that awfully well.
- I've got a lot of practice.
- Dead.
- Game.
Game.
Do you think he wants to play card?
Maybe.
He's a bridge addict.
Three ...
... game.
Three handed game.
- Three handed what?
What was that?
- Three handed game.
Come in.
Come in.
We have full details of the locations.
What's he doing here?
Where's Juventor?
I am here ...
... in person.
I am Juventor.
But three handed game ...
... the triumvirate.
My lord.
A few months ago, our American cousins
updated their policy ...
... in the event of impending war.
And quite rightly.
They thought that
we should know those plans too.
Bulletproof.
Soundproof.
This area is totally secure from
bugging, infiltration, etc. etc.
And it costs 10 million pounds to make it so.
Even in America, land of plenty ...
... there are only a dozen such places.
Yes.
They wanted to send us their plans.
But how?
Radio, people listening ...
... papers?
Too easy to steal.
A man? He gets caught,
interrogated, tells all.
And that would be like playing poker
with an open hand.
Why didn't you go over to states ...
... and sit in one of their secure places ...
... and - And memorize a document
of runs for 4,000 pages.
Besides ... - He could have been
grabbed on the way back.
Right.
And so it was Steed
who came up with the answer.
He usually does.
The three handed game.
Three people.
Each with a photographic memory.
Each entrusted with only
1/3 of the information.
And each useless without the others.
Hmm.
The three handed game.
Roger Masgard, Helen McKay
and Tony Fields.
And somewhere in there Juventor.
But Juventor's dead.
- Neverthless.
- I agree.
We must made quite sure
that our three-handed game ...
... remains secure.
Who did you get?
You wouldn't like him.
How about you?
Oh, you wouldn't like her either.
I think, you are very attractive.
Just as well my orders are
to stick close to you.
With orders like that
I'm delighted. I'm in danger.
How charming.
Just a small part of my
theater training, Purdey.
This is very unusual, Mr. Gambit.
Mike.
Mike.
Look upon it as I do
and unexpected.
And pleasant surprise.
I've never been subjected
to special security measures before.
I've read your file.
Twice.
And your photograph doesn't do you justice.
And you have to stay close to me.
Until we're completely sure.
- How close?
Well ...
Is a permissive age.
And I'm supposed to feel safe
with you around.
You don't?
You are a very attractive man, Mike.
I never argue with a beautiful woman.
Very ...
... attractive.
I don't think we should waste our time together.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
Mike.
Helen.
Take your clothes off?
- I'm sorry about this.
- Not at all.
Whatever you do, I do.
- Am I stay? - Well, parhaps.
- They've gone inside.
- Of course.
- Makes it difficult.
- Quite the contrary.
It.. perfectly simple.
I ...
We know every inch of that theater.
Is that correct?
- Correct.
Good.
Right answer.
Next question, please.
Here is your question.
Who is the tallest man in the world?
Tallest man in the world.
Yes, sir.
This record is held at the moment ...
... by Robert Pershing Wadlow
of Alton Illinois ...
... in the United States of America.
His recorded height is 8 feet
and 11 inches.
Is it correct?
- Correct.
Correct.
Next question, please.
Oh, thank goodness.
I thought I'd lost you.
Well, how did it go?
How did what go?
Masgard, the memory act.
Memory act?
What memory act?
Who is Masgard?
Hello.
Hi.
Tony Fields?
- That's right.
- I'd like to speak to him urgently.
Sorry. You'll be out there
for another hour.
He won't come in even if I call him.
He just broken the lap record.
Oh, dear.
I see if I can change his mind.
Hey!
Good afternoon.
I had to give up racing,
when I joined the triumphant.
They can't stop me practicing.
How long are you gonna be
chaperoning me, Steed?
What?
Oh.
As long as it's necessary.
Something wrong?
No, no, nothing.
Right, let's go.
I hope you're enjoying this, Mike.
It's a new experience.
Really?
Oh, you're the best
I've had all week.
Gambit.
Purdey.
You've got it all wrong.
That's not me.
That's me.
Oh?
Well, I hope this soon get better.
Did you want something?
There must be.
Oh, yes.
Masguard's gone.
Now, Tony Fields and Helen McKay.
There's only Helen McKay now.
Fields's mind is a blank.
Alright, that's settled then.
I'll leave you here.
I'll check on Larry.
I leave you in capable hands.
Thank you.
I better get dressed.
I can see now it isn't you.
Too tall.
Three ...
... handed game.
Dancing.
Tap ... tap ... tap ...
Tapping.
Tap dancing.
Tap dancing.
Tap dancing.
Tap dancing.
Brains.
Their brains.
Changes their brains.
My works are mostly
what do you call, modern.
Aphrodite at the waterhole.
What else?
Napoleon at Moscow.
Nelson after Barbara.
No.
The Gardener ...
... put it up to support
the rhododendrons.
Symbolic.
But obvious.
Purdey.
Purdey.
Gambit!
She's joined the others.
Larry made sense.
Finally.
Juventor had a brain drain machine.
So the three handed game is
now of one mind.
- Almost certainly.
- But whose?
Juventor is dead.
Presumably had more than one accomplice.
- End of the line.
- Perhaps, only one way.
But nothing to go on.
- Except ...
... he had a sense of rhythm.
A tap dancer!
- Tap dancer!
- Tap dancer!
Meroff?
Yes?
- Juventor.
I hope you have the money
p.. repared.
I have now the three handed game.
I should need proof.
The United States has and always will
pursue p..olicy of avoiding a full-scale war.
But it is imperative that
our allies ...
That's all you get, Meroff.
Until I get p ..paid.
Ranson!
Pu.. Pu.. Pu.. Purdey!
Ranson!
Or should I call you Juventor?
- I don't know what you mean!
- No?
Say, peter, piper picked
a peck of pickled ...
... pepper.
Peter.
Picker.
Pepper.
- Purdey!
- How about that!
Bravo!
Purdey.
The brain drain machine.
- Did he touch you?
- Juventor.
Listen!
Peter piper picked
a peck of pickled pepper.
I could tap while I quite walk.
- Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
- Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
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Imperative allies of too ..can be.
I'm not going too fast for you.
- No.
That's fine.
Which be rich red is of country.
United and pursue of full,
but that are the which ...
... be limit we forced four.
States always avoid scale imperative.
Our bluff game vital opponents.
Can you remember all that?
It's already here.
And tomorrow, it'll be in London.
Report from Roger Masgard.
He has will policy a war ...
Report from Helen McKay.
United and pursue of full ...
Report from Tony Fields.
States always avoiding ...
... scale imperative a bluff game.
Put them all together ...
... now, what have we got?
United States has and will always
a few a policy avoiding a scale war.
But it is imperative that our allies
avare off the limits to which we can be pushed.
- Found out lot of plans, general.
- And it served as perfectly.
They also served well.
Yes.
If there's any chance of using them again
on the missile ... - General.
One job and then disband them.
We agreed, general.
Yes, I was just thinking that
they might be ...
Masgard feels the same as me.
Their lives will be at risk
for at least two or three years.
Until the information they carry
becomes redundant.
Don't us push our luck, general.
Right.
They're off the hook.
Tell them to get back
to their normal lives and ...
Forget all about it?
No chance of that.
Now, where is it?
That put in there.
And that is here.
Well, now that's okey.
There. Yes. Like many other discovery.
Like Newton's apple.
It was an accident.
A short-circuit, Mr. Juventor
A simple short-circuit from my car battery.
Suddenly, the battery was flat.
Drained of electricity.
And so I thought of the human brain.
What is that?
The sort of computer.
A storage battery for electrical impulses.
Now, let me tell you
what you are thinking.
Congratulations pro ..professor.
Right first time.
Come in!
Not a bad at all tonight.
When the drums start to beat together.
It should be.
That's about as near to being on the ball
as you're gonna get.
Larry.
It was unlocked.
I just strolled in.
Pretty lack security.
- It's not fort knox here.
I didn't know.
But some valuable items here.
Purdey's right though.
Not fort knocks.
But not a place to confidential
information either.
I suppose you have something to say.
Well, this is not a mission
checking people's side doors.
- Juventor's in town.
- Who is Juventor?
A very nasty piece of work.
A top agent.
No doubt about it.
Clever, but independent.
- He's a mercenary.
Sells here, buys there
to the highest bidder.
I know his reputation.
And that's all you do know.
I know he entered the country on ...
... Saturday. - Saturday.
18:32 to Dover, false papers.
You knew.
Then why haven't you ...
- Don't have to think about it.
Not will I leave to you.
You have good man telling him,
aren't you?
Ivan. Outside there's a man
who wears a hat ...
... and a light topcoat.
Right.
You lost him Larry.
Your man lost him.
And I thought you were so on the ball.
- Lack security
- I should handle the job myself.
Definitely.
Would it be much better.
You could have been splattered
against the wall. - Look this isn't funny.
Juventor is dangerous.
- And he has something to sell.
Didn't you know that?
He went to seaside she yesterday.
He was in and out of there embassy
and five minutes flat.
So he must to be no go.
It's Ivan his way to goes next.
Purdey.
We're supposed to be undercover.
- Well, he wait first.
- He is a first-class fool.
- First class?
You gave him top marks.
Could be worse.
He's handsome fellow
and rugged and charming ...
... and very very sexy.
- Purdey.
Purdey, we're supposed to be
watching the embassy.
I knew it.
You're jealous.
- Jealous?
Please try to control your emotions.
And stop staring at me.
We're supposed to be watching embassy.
It's unbelievable.
- It's the key Colonel Meroff.
A key that will unlock a door
you will never be able to pe.. penetrate.
But I can.
For a very considerable fee.
If this thing works
you can name your own price.
If.
I anticipa.. pated your doubts colonel.
I've arranged a small demonstration.
But far from here.
But per.. mit me colonel.
Yes, they're still there.
I should be flattered
I sup.. pose that ...
... someone considers
Mr. Imp.. portant.
The red car?
And the white van opposite.
Don't worry colonel.
It'll be attended to.
And now I suggest we should leave.
Well, you have to grant it one thing.
He is versatile.
Please.
Please!
- Keep dancing.
Step dancing?
Skill you never possess colonel.
I thought carefully about this demonstration.
Mental.
Immersion.
Evidence.
Settled.
No, no.
A physical skill.
When you're ready colonel.
Colonel.
The Alhambra Theatre.
The Palladium ...
... and the Palace.
- What else do you remember, Colonel?
Amazing.
Steps absolutely amazing.
Name your own p.. price
you said, Colonel.
Effective, yes.
And you've given me the proof,
but ten million?
Colonel.
With this device I can obtain for you
the unobtainable.
And the unobtainable is cheap
at any p.. price.
I will sanctioned.
What would that be?
The three handed game?
It's five hundred.
It can be yours,
but it will not be easy to locate.
Masgard, the memory man is known to me.
But the other two.
- I can attend to that.
The three handed game is always the hardest.
We know every move.
Security around ...
How much he been here?
How much does he know?
Let's find out.
- A tap dancer? - An expert
in percussive terpsichorean art.
That's what I said.
Why would Juventor stash an expert
in percussive terpsichorean art?
The tap dancer?
I work to that.
The North Atlantic seaboard.
The key stand to the western defenses.
The ploy counter ploy of naval strategy.
The movement of vast tonnage of naval ships.
Weaving and interweaving.
Maneuvering.
Art maneuvering.
Now, if one ship
would wander of course ...
... and to get in the path of the other one.
- Yes.
Haven't you seen those old
Busby Berkeley movies?
The dancers never bump into one another.
Steed, what are you trying to tell us?
I'm trying to tell you.
I had absolutely no idea of
what Juventor is up to.
It's all down to Larry then.
Steed.. knows about Juventor.
Steed knows about me.
And as I'm in the country.
- Is that all he knows?
- Yes.
- Nothing else.
- No.
- Except.
- Go on.
I fancy P..Purdey.
Tell finance to clear 10 million for payment.
10 million?
In notes of small denomination,
to be ready by the end of the week.
But Colonel Meroff ...
Yes, I know.
There will be questions.
But there is just one simple answer.
The three handed game.
I try to reveal it.
One.
Two.
Three.
- Three.
Three handed ...
One.
Two.
Three.
Three-handed.
Three.
Tap dancer.
Get help.
Do you know Steed?
I'm beginning to like Juventor.
- Like?
Well, I admire then.
He's been personally responsible
for deposing three heads of state.
On this missile head.
He sold the plans to four different countries
on the same day.
Four.
It could have been early closing.
He's a pro.
You've got to admit that.
Deadly, dangerous and ruthless.
A master of the double play.
You're not related in any way.
Are you?
The way to a man's knees
is through his stomach.
Purdey is the way to a man's heart.
What if you got against knees?
- May know yours.
- It smells delicious.
It is.
Marshmallow pie.
The marshmallow is a neglected little beast,
but it has been seasoned just now.
Must be a Wednesday in the month.
It could've been beefsteak,
it could have been lasagne ...
... it could have been omelet.
But I happen to like marshmallows.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Ivan.
Ivan.
Well, there's no physical injury
that I can see.
Concussion?
No evidence that either.
But the way he's staring ...
... certain his mind is addled at the moment
Tell me, who are you,
where do you live?
Larry.
You know who I am?
Game.
Game.
This isn't the time or the place.
He knows me.
- Juventor.
- That's not his name.
Do you remember your name,
your address?
Juventor North.
Old north.
Old north what, Larry?
Larry?
Old North Road.
What part of Old North Road?
Larry?
Do you think you can take us there?
I'm sorry.
It's too late for that.
We don't know how make stop his mind is.
But sooner or later he'll recover
and lead them back here.
This p.. place is blow.
And he with it.
You know, really understood this machine,
have you Ivan?
Takes man's mind steals their thought.
- Good Ivan.
Very good.
Thoughts in the brain of flash
from cell-to-cell ...
... in a form of electrical imp.. pulses.
This machine drains that force
and transfers it to another mind.
The longer the time is switched off
the greater the knowledge.
Much more than the victims memory.
The p.. positioning of the p...plate
determines the skills.
Knowledge, emotion.
Physical ability.
But what if the machine is used to transfer
the whole mind?
Personality.
Everything.
Ivan. I'm gonna teach you
how to use this machine.
It's quite simple really.
But you must concentrate hard.
Imp.. portant work Ivan.
- Important
- Vital.
My only chance.
Here we are.
The Old North Road
Old North Road.
Tell us where to go Larry.
Cantley.
Cantley?
Cantley.
Remember.
A full minute.
Whatever happens a full minute.
Even if I collapse or die, no matter.
Come on, hurry.
Hurry.
You worked.
Worked ...
p.. perfectly
You released me Ivan.
Don't you understand.
That body. That mine ...
... empty.
Now I'm looking like this.
I'm Juventor.
Come on.
- You do that awfully well.
- I've got a lot of practice.
- Dead.
- Game.
Game.
Do you think he wants to play card?
Maybe.
He's a bridge addict.
Three ...
... game.
Three handed game.
- Three handed what?
What was that?
- Three handed game.
Come in.
Come in.
We have full details of the locations.
What's he doing here?
Where's Juventor?
I am here ...
... in person.
I am Juventor.
But three handed game ...
... the triumvirate.
My lord.
A few months ago, our American cousins
updated their policy ...
... in the event of impending war.
And quite rightly.
They thought that
we should know those plans too.
Bulletproof.
Soundproof.
This area is totally secure from
bugging, infiltration, etc. etc.
And it costs 10 million pounds to make it so.
Even in America, land of plenty ...
... there are only a dozen such places.
Yes.
They wanted to send us their plans.
But how?
Radio, people listening ...
... papers?
Too easy to steal.
A man? He gets caught,
interrogated, tells all.
And that would be like playing poker
with an open hand.
Why didn't you go over to states ...
... and sit in one of their secure places ...
... and - And memorize a document
of runs for 4,000 pages.
Besides ... - He could have been
grabbed on the way back.
Right.
And so it was Steed
who came up with the answer.
He usually does.
The three handed game.
Three people.
Each with a photographic memory.
Each entrusted with only
1/3 of the information.
And each useless without the others.
Hmm.
The three handed game.
Roger Masgard, Helen McKay
and Tony Fields.
And somewhere in there Juventor.
But Juventor's dead.
- Neverthless.
- I agree.
We must made quite sure
that our three-handed game ...
... remains secure.
Who did you get?
You wouldn't like him.
How about you?
Oh, you wouldn't like her either.
I think, you are very attractive.
Just as well my orders are
to stick close to you.
With orders like that
I'm delighted. I'm in danger.
How charming.
Just a small part of my
theater training, Purdey.
This is very unusual, Mr. Gambit.
Mike.
Mike.
Look upon it as I do
and unexpected.
And pleasant surprise.
I've never been subjected
to special security measures before.
I've read your file.
Twice.
And your photograph doesn't do you justice.
And you have to stay close to me.
Until we're completely sure.
- How close?
Well ...
Is a permissive age.
And I'm supposed to feel safe
with you around.
You don't?
You are a very attractive man, Mike.
I never argue with a beautiful woman.
Very ...
... attractive.
I don't think we should waste our time together.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
Mike.
Helen.
Take your clothes off?
- I'm sorry about this.
- Not at all.
Whatever you do, I do.
- Am I stay? - Well, parhaps.
- They've gone inside.
- Of course.
- Makes it difficult.
- Quite the contrary.
It.. perfectly simple.
I ...
We know every inch of that theater.
Is that correct?
- Correct.
Good.
Right answer.
Next question, please.
Here is your question.
Who is the tallest man in the world?
Tallest man in the world.
Yes, sir.
This record is held at the moment ...
... by Robert Pershing Wadlow
of Alton Illinois ...
... in the United States of America.
His recorded height is 8 feet
and 11 inches.
Is it correct?
- Correct.
Correct.
Next question, please.
Oh, thank goodness.
I thought I'd lost you.
Well, how did it go?
How did what go?
Masgard, the memory act.
Memory act?
What memory act?
Who is Masgard?
Hello.
Hi.
Tony Fields?
- That's right.
- I'd like to speak to him urgently.
Sorry. You'll be out there
for another hour.
He won't come in even if I call him.
He just broken the lap record.
Oh, dear.
I see if I can change his mind.
Hey!
Good afternoon.
I had to give up racing,
when I joined the triumphant.
They can't stop me practicing.
How long are you gonna be
chaperoning me, Steed?
What?
Oh.
As long as it's necessary.
Something wrong?
No, no, nothing.
Right, let's go.
I hope you're enjoying this, Mike.
It's a new experience.
Really?
Oh, you're the best
I've had all week.
Gambit.
Purdey.
You've got it all wrong.
That's not me.
That's me.
Oh?
Well, I hope this soon get better.
Did you want something?
There must be.
Oh, yes.
Masguard's gone.
Now, Tony Fields and Helen McKay.
There's only Helen McKay now.
Fields's mind is a blank.
Alright, that's settled then.
I'll leave you here.
I'll check on Larry.
I leave you in capable hands.
Thank you.
I better get dressed.
I can see now it isn't you.
Too tall.
Three ...
... handed game.
Dancing.
Tap ... tap ... tap ...
Tapping.
Tap dancing.
Tap dancing.
Tap dancing.
Tap dancing.
Brains.
Their brains.
Changes their brains.
My works are mostly
what do you call, modern.
Aphrodite at the waterhole.
What else?
Napoleon at Moscow.
Nelson after Barbara.
No.
The Gardener ...
... put it up to support
the rhododendrons.
Symbolic.
But obvious.
Purdey.
Purdey.
Gambit!
She's joined the others.
Larry made sense.
Finally.
Juventor had a brain drain machine.
So the three handed game is
now of one mind.
- Almost certainly.
- But whose?
Juventor is dead.
Presumably had more than one accomplice.
- End of the line.
- Perhaps, only one way.
But nothing to go on.
- Except ...
... he had a sense of rhythm.
A tap dancer!
- Tap dancer!
- Tap dancer!
Meroff?
Yes?
- Juventor.
I hope you have the money
p.. repared.
I have now the three handed game.
I should need proof.
The United States has and always will
pursue p..olicy of avoiding a full-scale war.
But it is imperative that
our allies ...
That's all you get, Meroff.
Until I get p ..paid.
Ranson!
Pu.. Pu.. Pu.. Purdey!
Ranson!
Or should I call you Juventor?
- I don't know what you mean!
- No?
Say, peter, piper picked
a peck of pickled ...
... pepper.
Peter.
Picker.
Pepper.
- Purdey!
- How about that!
Bravo!
Purdey.
The brain drain machine.
- Did he touch you?
- Juventor.
Listen!
Peter piper picked
a peck of pickled pepper.
I could tap while I quite walk.
- Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
- Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
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