Plot Summary
Infamous assassin Ramos returns to the UK to be given a new target. He kidnaps
the daughter of a British oil tycoon, Mitchell and ransoms her for the use of his
house as a safe operations centre and for resources to supply his effort. CI5, having
heard that Ramos is back, believe he had been hired to kill Dr Harbinger, once the
American Defence Secretary and now a diplomat. Cowley assigns Bodie and Doyle to
shadow Harbinger at the forthcoming conference on anti-terrorist measures.
Cowley liases with the two main players at the conference, Harbinger and Sheik Achmeia,
whose country Morani advocates a far stricter, more fatal punishment for suspected
and convicted terrorists, while Bodie and Doyle check the security precautions around
the site. Ramos though stops the military jeep bringing the mail to the delegates
whilst it is en route for the conference. He takes a pill that makes him appear to
have suffered a heart attack, but when the sergeant and corporal leave the jeep to
help him he kills the corporal and forces the sergeant to drive him to the conference.
Posing as a clerk from the MOD, taking the corporal’s place, Ramos gets into the
compound.
The same morning, Harbinger insists on going for his daily jog. Cowley has Bodie
and Doyle kitted out in the same red suit as the doctor and sends them off to accompany
him. Cowley steps out onto the stairs as they arrive back and spots a reflection
from a rifle's sights on one of the guard towers. He warns Harbinger to get down
and the shot hits the doorpost. Bodie and Doyle chase Ramos across the compound but
he escapes on a motorbike.
At the same time, two men try to break into Mitchell’s house, bypassing the high-tech
security system, which one of them helped install. As they reach the house though
they spot Ramos in the doorway and run, tripping an invisible alarm and alerting
the police. When he is arrested, one of the thieves tries to bargain for his freedom
by telling them he has seen Ramos.
CI5 are brought in, and Bodie and Doyle take the thief back to the house so he can
show them how to break in. They meet Mitchell, who explains about his daughter.
Reporting back, they find that Cowley has seen Harbinger off to the airport without
further problems, and in fact, Cowley has begun to doubt that Harbinger was the target
at all. He says that someone as good as Ramos would not have missed, and since the
bullet hit the doorframe, he must have been aiming for Cowley. They put guards on
Cowley’s house and he decides to stay at Headquarters, dismissing the others while
he showers. Ramos, however is already in the building and makes his way upstairs.
Bodie and Doyle realise this, and run back to the office to find that Cowley has
already disabled Ramos.
Under arrest, Ramos offers to tell them where the kidnapped girl is in return for
free passage out of the UK. They agree, and Bodie and Doyle rescue her from a ruined
building due to be demolished practically at that moment. Ramos’ plane takes off
but there is a CI5 operative on board. He takes one of the pills Ramos used earlier
and, thinking they have a passenger with a heart condition, they make an emergency
landing in Morani, where Sheik Achmeia’s anti-terrorist forces have already been
alerted to his arrival.
Notes
Despite being the main focus of at least the first half of the episode, Ed only has a few scenes, mostly wandering around corridors having 'polite conversation' or jogging around the estate. All the same this is a highly enjoyable episode and does come to a satisfactory conclusion. One thing that I would think viewers in the UK might find off-putting was casting Roger Lloyd Pack as the deadly assassin, as after this appearance he went on to play the extremely dim character Trigger in the comedy series Only Fools and Horses, so it is strange to see him being serious for once!
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