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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - # 96 Lover's Knot 1970
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Writer: Laurence Heath
Director: Reza S. Badiyi
Jim Phelps: Peter Graves
Paris: Leonard Nimoy
Dana Lambert: Lesley (Ann) Warren
Barney Collier: Greg Morris
Willy Armitage: Peter Lupus
Lady Cora Weston: Jane Merrow
"K", Lord Richard Weston: John Williams
There is no tape in this episode. The IMF is to uncover "K".
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Lady Cora Weston, wife of the elderly Lord Weston, helps her husband
with his work as agent trying to get an "unscrambler" to decipher
London's U.S. embassy's radio transmissions – by any means as her
husband, Lord Weston, wishes.
Jim is the communication officer with a gambling habit and Cora is
a Lady to be attractive to him. She submits and seems to be used
to that kind of "work".
Jim's protocol man, Paris, gets close to her, too. The IMF works
on a plan to get to "K" via Lady Weston.
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It is not planned that
Paris sees the person and her needs and desperation behind the facade.
He really begins to care for her.
In a casino, Jim's urge for gambling is taken care of. Going out with Cora,
she leads him into the casino where he looses huge sums of money.
Of course, the owner of the casino is acquainted with "K".
Trying to find out who "K" is, Jim goes on losing money until he has
lost so much that he is forced to sell the unscrambling device.
In addition to that, the IMF makes sure that Paris, meanwhile also
meeting regularly with Cora, is known by "K" as in charge of all
espionage activities and wanted for the theft of millions from a mission in Asia.
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Barney prepares a second wall in the cellar where the central heating, in form of a fire place, is situated. It looks as if the real fire is
right behind the wall he has built.
In the given situation Cora is to care for Jim, pretending to be with
him, but in order to get the device, and she is to "deliver" Paris to
"K".
Obviously she really cares for Paris, but she cannot overcome her chore
to sell him to "K". Aware of the fact that her conversation with Paris
is videotaped (and Paris waiting for her to make the right choice),
she tries to make Paris come over to her side.
They are interrupted
by Jim, who is in trouble having lost so much money. It comes to a fight
where Jim is it by Paris a)
nd falls onto the stones before the fireplace.
His head is bleeding (prepared by Barney) and Paris has to confirm the
death of his friend. Cora knows that all is videotaped as Paris removes
all traces of the incident. He carries Jim downstairs and gets rid of
the body – in the fire behind the wall in the cellar.
There Jim is received by Barney behind the wall.
Back in the room Paris is confronted with the videotape and – having
no choice but to work with "K" – taken to him. Now the IMF finds out
that "K" is Lord Weston.
Their mission accomplished, Paris insists to take out Cora.
Jim, disguised as driver rescue both of them, while Lord Weston, knowing
that it is over, takes his own life.
In the car together with the IMF Cora shares that she wanted to
leave the scene. Paris in compassion, but with clarity states: "It is too late".
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