Mission: Impossible (1988) s01e12 Episode Script

(guard dogs barking over speakers) (Gasps, dogs barking) (dogs barking) (groans) MAN: We got her! We got her! Bring her inside.
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking Now, heaven knows Anything goes (song continues) I'm sorry, my love, but we've had an incident.
But I was watching a movie.
It's just coming to the part I like.
(Casey gasps, groans) Who is she? Another freedom fighter? WOMAN: Oh, no.
And black's white today, and day's night today When most guys today I'm afraid she's much more than that.
Aren't you, my dear? And much more dangerous.
anything goes So I am afraid we're going to have to do something about that.
Something very permanent.
(Casey yelling, grunting) (bright swing melody playing) When wrestlers go to drama classes To learn how to please the masses on TV shows Anything goes, anything goes, anything goes.
(bright musical interlude plays) (theme music playing) Ah, you're closed for maintenance.
Was it worth waiting? Sure.
Not much can go wrong with these babies; they're computer-controlled.
Yeah, negative friction.
Driven by electronic impulse.
Interesting concept.
You might enjoy a private ride.
(Disc whirrs) MALE VOICE: Good morning, Jim.
While in power, Luis Berezan ruled his country with an iron fist.
But the real power belonged to his wife Emelia.
Political opponents by the thousands disappeared, at her orders.
When Berezan fell ill last year, a popular revolution made the country unsafe for the dictator.
He and his wife sought asylum in the U.
S.
but only after emptying the country's treasury.
With their investments in the hands of this man, Carl Crothers, they continue to live in absolute luxury, while the country they left behind is bankrupt, and the people starving.
Emelia Berezan is obsessed with dreams of returning to her country, and wresting power from the people.
Their vast illegal fortune could make this coup possible.
Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to find and return the money the Berezans stole from the national treasury.
As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This disc will self-destruct in five seconds.
Good luck, Jim.
(Rapid beeping) (hissing) The research for this mission is being done by our very own Casey.
Casey? Yes, the Secretary sent her down on special assignment last week.
She'll be joining us there.
In the meantime, we're taking along an extra team member on this assignment.
This is Shannon Reed.
She has a background in broadcast journalism and she's been an agent for the Secret Service for the last five years.
Emelia Berezan.
She may be married, but that doesn't stop her from making an occasional field trip.
The word is that she likes her men young and rugged.
Max? Well, I'll do my best.
According to Casey's report, the Berezan stronghold in the Florida Keys is guarded by some very highly paid mercenaries.
If it has a vulnerable spot, it would be Here.
GRANT: All communications, television, phone, radio, come in through these satellite dishes.
There's no way of getting in on the ground level.
But there will be one other line of communication open to us.
Notice anything unusual? No.
Except they're the same design as Luis Berezan's.
GRANT: Try them on, Nicholas.
GRANT: How about now? That's clever.
Whatever I put into my computer will appear on the liquid crystal display on the right lens.
Like the code to the Berezan investments.
PHELPS: Exactly.
And once we locate them, Luis Berezan will transfer them right back into the national treasury.
Whether his wife likes it or not.
Had any luck this season? Yeah, caught a few sailfish, couple of wahoo.
And one barracuda.
Hey.
You're Emelia Berezan.
I've seen you on TV.
Oh, I look dreadful on TV.
I hope I'm better in the flesh.
I'm sure you are Mrs.
Berezan.
Excuse me.
Call me Emelia.
(Dog barks) (dog growls) (dog whines) Whose car is that? They're the two gentlemen you were expecting, Madame Berezan.
They are early.
They should not have been let through security.
(Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" playing) When wrestlers go to drama classes To learn how to please the masses on TV (turns film off) My love, what do you think you're doing? I was just trying to be a good host.
Darling, you are not required to provide entertainment.
Danny, would you please escort His Excellency upstairs? You are the man I spoke to on the phone? Uh, yes, ma'am, I'm Mr.
Whitaker; T.
R.
Whitaker.
This is my associate Mr.
Carlson.
You are early and I am not pleased.
You people have no consideration.
Your country offers us asylum, and we find ourselves being watched and spied on.
Well, I hope that you don't feel we're spying on you, ma'am.
We're here strictly on business.
Mr.
Whitaker, you would not be standing there if I had not had you checked out very, very thoroughly, so please state your business.
What would you say if I told you that we could help you and your husband get your country back? Go on.
I'm chief geologist for Mr.
Whitaker's oil company.
We've been testing in your country.
You have some very rich oil deposits in your northern mountains.
A geologist? Of course you have the topographic studies with you.
Yes, well you'll have to talk to those freedom-loving patriots who hounded my husband from office.
We have, Madame Berezan.
They have some insane notions about the environment.
PHELPS: If you were back in power, we'd hope that you'd grant us exclusive oil-drilling rights.
And how could we hope to achieve that? Coupled with military support.
There's still an element in your country that's very loyal to your husband-- enough to get him reinstated-- with our help.
People deal in images, Madame Berezan.
Your people have the image of a virile, strong Luis Berezan.
We'll give them back that image of your husband; they'll give you back your power.
We have the ways and the means to produce for you a virile, strong, healthy Luis Berezan who will rally his people around him.
Casey's right-- security is just about impregnable.
There's no chance of getting in on foot.
Guests are heading for the gate.
But every fortress has its weak spot.
(Starts engine) PHELPS: Hi.
You're right on time.
I'd like you to meet Grant.
Grant Collier, - Shannon Reed.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- what's that? An explosive device.
Smoke, flash, a big bang and harmless.
Oh, electronic remote trigger, right? That's right.
You throw press this.
It'll shatter on impact.
Oh, nice installation.
Yeah, it ought to be quite spectacular.
Well, not quite as spectacular as my jump tonight.
- All in.
- Thanks, buddy.
(Wind whistling) (thud) (dog whines nearby) (whining) (beeping quietly) Nicholas (over radio): we're wired in.
Grant's in position.
PHELPS: Good.
We're on track.
Now, "turmoil," "in turmoil tonight.
" Let's change that -to, uh, "chaos tonight," hm? - Right, okay.
All right, "The Caribbean island of Alcante" RADIO NEWSMAN: Federal disaster aid.
We'll have film of that at 11:00.
Turning now to the local news here in Florida, Fort Lauderdale police are seeking help in identifying the body of a young woman, a woman whose body was washed up on a Florida beach earlier today, carrying no identification.
And police have asked anyone who might be able to assist to come forward immediately.
Persons having any information, please call Fort Lauderdale police.
All phone calls will remain confidential.
-(Newscast continues) -(Shannon speaking indistinctly) (people shouting, whistle blowing) That scene in the streets is from one of last year's demonstrations in Alcante, but it looks as if it's happening right now.
Jim? Jim, are you okay? What's the matter? Oh, no, uh nothing's the matter.
SHANNON (on TV): The island of Alcante -is in chaos tonight - Yes, dear? Madame Berezan, there's a report from Alcante.
- I thought you'd want to see-- - Oh.
Shh, shh! SHANNON: death of Alcante 's ousted dictator, Luis Berezan.
Berezan has been living in exile in Florida but has not been seen in public for three months, a fact that has contributed to the reports of his passing.
Stay tuned to this network for further developments.
(TV clicks off) (grunts angrily) (phone rings) Yes? Madame Berezan, I just saw an interesting news broadcast.
They are fools.
They have no facts.
You know my husband is alive.
Yes, but could he inspire your countrymen with a really forceful, dynamic speech that would make them demand his return, make them beg for him to come back? Can you guarantee your man could do that? I guarantee he'd give you more options than you have right now.
All right.
Bring him tomorrow.
No, time is running short.
It has to be tonight or not at all.
I'll be there in 30 minutes.
- Yes, sir.
Name, please? - Mr.
Whittaker to see Madame Berezan.
Mr.
Whittaker coming in.
(dog barking in distance) Mr.
Whittaker, would you please come with me, sir? PHELPS: His name is David Molliner; he's an actor.
But his skill with makeup makes him an absolute master of disguise.
(Emelia sighs) Show me what he does.
Watch carefully.
(Remote control beeps) That is uncanny.
Yes, isn't it, though.
He's also a master of dialects and voices.
A little coaching from your husband, no one will be able to tell the difference.
A televised speech? A televised speech beamed into every home in Alcante.
Your people will see a strong Luis, a Luis in control.
I think you have nothing to lose, Madame, and everything to gain.
To go home again, back the way it was.
The way it should be.
I'll make them suffer for what they've put us through.
Oh, Jim, she can't be dead.
I just identified the body, Nicholas-- it was Casey.
I can't believe it.
- How? - NICHOLAS: Berezan.
It must have been Berezan.
PHELPS: We don't know that yet.
It had to be-- she was keeping them under surveillance.
Yes, she was.
She started this job, and we're going to finish it.
And when-- I'm sorry, Jim, I just can't do it.
I can't play my part.
You can, Max, and you will.
We all cared about Casey, but you're the only one who will be able to move freely about that house, you're the only one who will have access to the upstairs.
And that could be the only way that we can find out if they did kill her, and prove that they're guilty.
What are you talking about? When I was on the Berezan's roof, I saw video cameras, infrared cameras, that cover every inch of those grounds.
Now, I think it's likely that they record everything that goes on in that compound.
Yeah, so? So perhaps they recorded what happened to Casey.
It's a long shot.
But it could be the only evidence we'll get.
So you want the tapes.
All right.
I'll get the tapes.
I know how you all feel.
She was like a daughter to me.
We will nail whoever did this.
That's a promise.
(Whirring) (hydraulic whirring, clack) His Excellency will be down shortly.
My God! (laughs) He's perfect.
Well, if Madame Berezan agrees, we'll be able to transmit a speech to the island of Alcante this afternoon.
If I didn't know any better, I Well, I would swear that was my husband.
I'm glad Madame Emelia is pleased.
(Hydraulic whirring) (clack) He doesn't sound like me at all.
Well, yes, we know the voice needs a little work, Your Excellency.
We were hoping you would help us in that department.
In a day, I am supposed to teach this actor to be like me? Gentlemen, my husband will help in any way he can.
If he is supposed to be me, what about his glasses, eh? I could never look into those hot television lights without my glasses.
Oh.
That's better.
Yes, isn't it? Now be careful with the glass, please.
Come on.
Yeah.
Hold it.
(Vehicle rumbles) Hello? Mrs.
Berezan.
Oh, I-I told you, it's Emelia.
What's your name anyway? (Instrumental rock music playing on tape) Jack.
Jack Mills.
(Music stops, beeping) (key clicks, engine rumbles) (engine revving) (engine revving) Excuse me.
What'd you do, buy up the whole store? When I see something I want, I buy it.
(Engine humming) Well, maybe you just can't buy everything.
Everything has its price.
Hey, watch out! (Beep, Emelia screams) (crowd gasps, shouts) (engine roaring) They tried to kill me! They tried to kill me! Relax.
It's all over.
They'll pay.
I swear they'll pay.
(Emelia yells) (sighs) For my hero.
I cannot believe that those so-called patriots would actually follow us to Florida and try to attack me.
After all I've done for my country.
Try to knock off a simple fisherman in the bargain.
You are such a beautiful liar, Jack.
Do you know something I don't? I know you're not a fisherman.
I had you checked out.
(Max chuckles) You like to live too well.
Doesn't everyone? And wealthy older women help you to do that, don't they? They make me happy.
I make them happy.
You could get rid of them and become my personal bodyguard.
This place is already guarded like a fortress.
But I'm grateful to you, Jack.
Very grateful.
Well, what your husband think of me being your bodyguard? My husband has two interests in life-- old movies and sitting in his room manipulating his investments.
Only thing he has turned on in a year is his computer.
(Max chuckles) And it takes him one hour to do that.
(Keys clacking, computer trilling quietly) Shannon, time to call Berezan's attorney.
What time do you want to make the appointment? Let's go through the whole sequence again.
You make the appointment for exactly three hours from now, because that's when the Berezans expect us to do the broadcast.
The tape will run exactly 20 minutes.
Once it's on, it'll occupy the Berezans while Nicholas goes to their attorney and transfers everything they own.
And Grant will have 20 minutes to get into the computer and feed Nicholas the data.
And if he can't, I'll be sitting in that office with egg all over Berezan's face.
Well, I ain't gonna let that happen.
(Dial tone) (keypad beeping) SHANNON: Hello.
This is President Luis Berezan's secretary.
President Berezan wishes to make an appointment with Mr.
Crothers.
He will arrive at the office at 4:00 p.
m.
At that time, Mr.
Crothers will have an exact financial status of the president's investments.
Well, then, he'll just have to cancel his appointments.
I was sure that he would.
(Phone line clicks off) Good.
I think we're getting close here.
Let's try a run-through.
All right.
Okay.
Ready when you are.
(Shannon sighs) This is Linda Vance bringing you a direct hook-up to the historic broadcast being made by ex-President Luis Berezan to his one-time subjects in the island state of Alcante.
You guys can start carrying this stuff in.
You can carry this in for me.
Thank you very much.
- Let me get that.
-Here, I'll get the other end for you.
No, I got it.
(Indistinct chatter) GRANT: Now, the old guy in the military uniform said you'd help me bring some equipment in? You want to get a move on? Miss Vance has agreed to host the president's broadcast in return for an exclusive for her own network.
I believe you were just in my country.
Yes, I was.
I was surprised by the number of people calling for your return.
MAN: You want to move that stuff over there? I see no reason for surprise.
(Inhales deeply) GRANT: Thanks, buddy.
Just put it in the screening room, all right? Hey.
Pretty expensive-looking equipment there.
Yeah, tell me about it.
It was the only tape in the room.
It's got to be the one.
What about his financial records? All on computer, up in his room.
How can we be sure that people will be tuned into this broadcast? My staff has set up a television relay in the mountains.
Not only will it beam in the president's broadcast, it will jam every other signal as long as we're on the air.
Oh, no, no! He's-He's using his hands too much! He Nobody is going to believe that he is me.
I don't need this, you know.
I almost had a TV series in L.
A.
last year.
And besides which, I've not received a cent in payment.
The deal was 20 grand up front, the rest after the broadcast.
Come on-- you get your money when we get back to the hotel.
I'm an actor, friend.
I've heard that line before.
I get paid now, or I walk.
- Madame Berezan, I'm sorry-- - Well, of course you'll be paid.
I assume you have a bank account.
I'm not a pauper.
Good.
The money will be transferred right now.
Videotape records images by recording a series of electromagnetic impulses.
When you use a tape a second and third time, you're rearranging the magnetic structure in order to create a totally new image.
I've been working on a theory that each recorded picture, even after it's been wiped and recorded over, leaves an impression on the tape, which, uh, normally would be neutralized.
Except for infrared.
Exactly.
It's entirely different impression.
Like, um, a negative on all the daylight film.
And you're trying to strip the brighter images from the videotape.
GRANT: In order to see if the infrared ones have been preserved.
A darker impression but it's still not clear.
I'm gonna try and deepen the infrared image.
(Static hissing, crackling) What is it, Grant? It's coming through like a film negative.
Is that her? Yeah.
That's Casey.
(Dogs barking) (Nicholas' voice): Hey, I am not a performing seal.
Get these people out of here.
PHELPS: David, take it easy.
My deal says I do my bit and then I get out.
No one said anything about an audience.
Well, perhaps if there was a place where Madame and President Berezan could watch it.
If we must, there are monitors in our security room.
Oh, that's perfect.
Then you'll be able to see the broadcast the same as your people will.
But what if he starts waving his arms again? I'm sure Your Excellency will be depicted with all the respect and dignity you deserve.
All right.
I'm going to the van.
SHANNON: Showtime.
This is Linda Vance bringing you a direct hookup to the historic broadcast being made by ex-president Luis Berezan to his one-time subjects in the island state of Alcante.
(Dogs barking) Don't stand there like a stunned porpoise! Open the door! To Crothers' office as fast as you can.
Yes, sir.
(Typing) President Berezan has specifically requested the opportunity to make this exclusive statement.
Dear people of Alcante, my people such is the nature of politics in this modern world of ours that we must constantly be on guard against the specter of lies and rumors.
Some would have it that I am no longer capable of leading this fair and prosperous country.
NICHOLAS (as Luis): As you can plainly see before you, Luis Berezan is not yet a fleeting till the end of the tape.
Grant, less than 15 minutes.
Everything? But surely there's no need, Your Excellency.
With the greatest respect, I must urge you to reconsider your decision.
The people want me back.
Yes, but-- Sol require my money to rebuild the army, for weapons, ammunition.
Well, I'm not sure that we can just simply transfer everything to Alcante.
The treasury are going to want an explanation.
(Dial tone) Then explain.
Grant, Nicholas is stalling for time.
We've got less than ten minutes.
But onwards to tomorrow, dear people, and the dawning of a new light.
(Hangs up phone) Your Excellency, forgive me, but perhaps I should check with Madame Berezan.
I have to get my wife's permission? Is that what you're saying? Of course not, Your Excellency, but she did mention certain problems, a certain vagueness, a tendency to be, well, a little irrational.
NICHOLAS (as Luis): A time when agriculture and industry will flourish manifold Not my words, you do understand, they're Madame Berezan's.
She talked about a-- well, a loss of memory.
You think I'm irrational, uh, vague, huh? Oh, no, no, no, no, not I.
Madame Berezan Loss of memory, hmm? For your own protection, Your Excellency, let me just talk to Madame Emelia.
Ten million U.
S.
Treasury bonds maturing December 17, 1999.
$130,134,000 in bullion.
Uncut diamonds-- $3,408,300.
Antique coins and postage stamp collection-- $2,170,100.
And is that enough for you, Mr.
Crothers? Do you still think that I suffer from lapses of memory, a certain vagueness, a tendency to be irrational? I'm sorry, Your Excellency, forgive me, I was, I was really just concerned for your own security.
Then perhaps we can commence the transfer.
Yes, yes, immediately.
(Typing) (over speaker): That's it, Your Excellency, all your funds have been transferred.
NICHOLAS (as Luis): I salute you, my people.
(Steady tone sounding) What is going on here? Oh, it must be some problem with the transmission.
W-Where's the regular program? The actor-- where is he? As a matter of fact, he's visiting your attorney, doing a little business on your behalf.
Business? What business? Transferring your funds back where they belong.
Back to the people of Alcante.
Jack And there's nothing you can do to stop it.
The money, the treasury bonds-- it's all gone, every stolen nickel.
This is what we've been looking for.
You have no right, you We have asylum in this country.
This is a copy of something we're sending to the FBI.
It just might interest you.
This is evidence enough to have you indicted and convicted for the murder of Casey Randall.
You're going down.
No one can touch me.
It's all over, Emelia.
You're going to jail for the rest of your life and that's too good for you.
You can't touch me.
No one can touch me.
I am Emelia Berezan.
My people will protect me.
My people.
My people will protect me.
Citizens of Alcante, do not believe the lies that they are spreading.
I am coming home, home to Alcante, home to my own country.
Your Emelia, your beloved Emelia is coming home and I place myself under your protection, and I will bring back your Luis.
(laughing): Yes, your president, fit and strong, ready to rule for the protection of his countrymen.
Luis? Come, my love.
Tell them, tell them that we are going home.
(Beeps) (film projector whirring) Has gone mad today And good's bad today, and black's white today Luis your subjects are waiting, darling.
Tell them, tell them that they, that they need us and, and that they, they love us.
You decrepit old fool.
Tell them.
The people, the people of Alcante.
They need us! (Typing) (theme music playing)