Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983) s01e20 Episode Script
Weekend
Yeah, Lee Stetson.
You sure you're not holding any messages for me? I know I just asked.
I'm asking again.
Okay.
Okay, thank you.
- Are you still here? LEE: Yeah, I am still here.
I don't know what happened to Francine.
She knew what time we were leaving.
She's 45 minutes late.
- Forty-five minutes.
- Would you relax? You know Francine.
She probably forgot what to pack.
[LEE SIGHS.]
- Oh, come on.
This is business.
- I know it's business.
You're gonna be with the beautiful people, and she'll probably wanna look beautiful.
- But she doesn't.
- Ugh, hey.
Sorry I'm late.
- What happened to you? - Tooth.
Aw.
- Great.
Great.
Do you have a toothache? - All night long.
Oh, I hope it's not a root canal.
Have you ever had a root canal? No, and you can't either.
How can you have a root canal at a time like this? I thought it might be more fun than a weekend in the country.
- I'm sorry.
- Ugh.
Hey, I'm sorry, okay? Well, what do we do now? I can't go alone.
Let's check the computer.
[LEE SIGHS.]
Oh, not available.
Just great.
What about the interagency pool? Those names are from the interagency pool.
Are you telling me there aren't any female agents available? I'm not telling you anything, the computer is.
I'm gonna have to do it, okay? We can't abort.
You can't walk around the Cumberland wearing an ice pack.
Go home and get some rest, huh? - I'm sorry.
- It's okay, it's okay.
It's just lousy timing.
Go on.
You know, Billy, I don't need a special agent for this.
Just need somebody with the right security clearance.
AMANDA: Toothbrushes.
- We forgot their toothbrushes.
DOTTY: No, we didn't.
- I have them in my other bag.
- Are you sure? Oh, Amanda, we have everything we could possibly need, plus a lot of nonessentials.
[AMANDA CHUCKLES.]
It just seems like we always forget somethi - Vitamins.
- I have them.
- In your bag.
Mm-hm.
- Yes, right.
We're supposed to be waiting outside getting ready for when the bus gets here.
PHILIP: If we're not there, they'll leave.
They're not gonna leave.
And I wish you wouldn't be in such a hurry.
I miss you.
DOTTY: Wish you were going with us.
- Aw, so do I, but I've got work to do.
I hope this company you're working for realizes you're missing a beautiful weekend.
- You might mention it.
- Yes, Mother, I will.
Are you gonna be all right? What if something happens? Who will help you? [BUS HORN HONKING.]
- Aw, Amanda.
- Mom, it's the bus.
Nothing is going to happen.
There are a dozen parents plus twice that many counselors.
I am going to be there.
AMANDA: I know, Mother.
I know.
Okay, now, listen.
I want you to obey all the safety rules.
- You promise? JAMIE & PHILIP: Yes.
I want you to go to sleep when it's lights out.
I want you to eat all of your meals.
- You told us all this, Mom.
AMANDA: I know.
Jamie, I even want you to eat all your vegetables, okay? PHILIP: I love you, Mama.
I love you.
You have a good time.
Be careful and have fun.
Stop worrying.
We're only going to Anacostia.
- It's only a few hours' drive.
- I know.
I'm just being silly.
Aw, come on.
You're the same way I was when I used to send you camping.
- All right, now get your typing done.
- I will.
- Uh, look, take a lot of pictures.
- I will.
- Okay.
Bye-bye.
- Goodbye, goodbye.
[SIGHING.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- Hello.
- Hi.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
What are you doing here? Nobody saw you come in, did they? - Of course they didn't.
- Of course not.
I'm sorry.
You're not here for the typing, are you? Mr.
Melrose told me that I have until Monday morning.
And I'm gonna need that long.
I'm only about half an hour into the first - Forget the typing, Amanda, okay? - Oh, no, I won't forget it.
Oh, no, no.
I know how important it is.
If it weren't important, I would be with my mother and the boys on the way to Camp Anacostia right now.
I mean, you know, this is the first year that I've missed.
I saw your mother and the boys get on the bus.
Is that where they're going? - Camp Anacostia? - Yep.
- For the weekend.
We go every year.
- Yeah.
- First year I've missed.
- I got that.
How long will it take you to pack? [CHUCKLES.]
I'm not going.
I promised Mr.
Melrose that I would do these This was Billy's idea, Amanda.
Believe me, it was his idea.
You're spending the weekend with me.
- I'm spending the weekend with you? - Heh.
It's not that kind of weekend.
- No, of course not.
It wouldn't be - Strictly business.
Strictly business.
Of course, it's strictly - Strictly What kind of business? - Agency business.
Oh, agency business.
What else? It's gotta be Francine's jaw is way out to here, and there was no one else available.
- Oh.
- So, look, I don't have time to explain.
We have to be there no later than 5:00.
So pack, okay? Don't you think you at least ought to tell me? Ugh, it's a matter of national security, Amanda.
- National security.
- Mm-hm.
Listen, I'm not complaining or anything but heh, with you people, it's always need-to-know or national security That's what the agency deals with, Amanda.
Matters of national security.
- So pack.
Come on.
- I'm packing.
Ah, it's a resort, but we'll dress for dinner.
- We'll dress for dinner? - That's right.
And you have 10 minutes.
- Ten minutes? - Go, go.
Come on.
- Dressy resort.
- Yeah.
AMANDA: I don't know if I have anything for a dressy resort.
[GRO ANS.]
BORCHEV: You're comfortable owning the Cumberland, Mr.
Armin but with a new leader, we can expect changes.
Surely not in your case, Anatole.
You've served long and well.
Like your American joke: - What have I achieved recently? - Oh, yes, I understand that.
You need an act of accomplishment, a restatement of your values.
That, or accept reassignment.
My country has a post open now in Afghanistan.
Oh, my.
Hardly a place for a man of your tastes.
But if you can help me get this one man, my problem will be solved.
Always happy to help a friend.
Even happier to receive my information on the wheat purchases.
That has made you a millionaire many times over.
Yes, of course.
But you would have no use for a pauper, would you? I'll be at the Cumberland when he arrives.
You rest easy at the embassy.
I'll handle everything.
Hmm? When I was younger, I was working as a field operative and I have seen many missions like this one fail because of a single unforeseen event or the action of a single person.
Be careful.
Watch for that single detail, that unexpected individual.
[CAR ENGINE REVS.]
AMANDA: I'm afraid I packed all the wrong things.
You look fine.
Oh, yeah, I look fine for Camp Anacostia, or I look fine for Arlington but I do not look fine for the Cumberland.
How do you know that if you've never been there? I told you we were dressing for dinner.
Sure.
We dress for dinner at Camp Anacostia: Sweat suits and down jackets.
Ha, ha.
Come on, Amanda.
Look, Lee, I don't know who I'm supposed to be and I don't know why I'm going there and, well, you have to admit, it's a little confusing.
- Is that it? - Unsettling and confusing.
I just wanted to clear that up.
- Yeah, you clarified everything.
- Good.
Now, would you like a little clarification from me? Oh, that would be very nice.
Okay.
We are going to the Cumberland because one of the guests who will be checking in is slated for a surprise trip behind the Iron Curtain.
A kidnapping? Are you telling me that someone's gonna be kidnapped? Well, not if we can Not if I can help it.
We don't have that much information, just, uh, bits and pieces of wiretaps and surveillance tapes.
- We've been watching Armin for - Jay Armin? [CHUCKLES.]
- The owner of the Cumberland? - You got it.
We've had him under surveillance for a couple of years now.
He's a little too connected to the Eastern Bloc.
He's too powerful and too smart to touch without hard evidence.
So that's what we're supposed to do this weekend.
- Get hard evidence.
- That's what I'm supposed to get.
- What am I supposed to do? - Just act natural.
Oh, come on.
I don't know how to act natural at the Cumberland.
I know how to act natural at the PTA and the carpool Just be yourself, Amanda.
- Heh, just be myself? - Only not too much.
AMANDA: Thank you very much.
- Lee Stetson.
The bags are in the trunk.
- Lee.
LEE: What? Should you be using your real name? Ha, ha.
Why not? I thought, on a case like this, you should probably be using a cover.
- Oh, I have, I have.
- Oh.
This Lee Stetson is the nephew of a Supreme Court justice.
Good.
- What's my cover? - Ha.
Yeah.
- I didn't mention that, did I? - No.
[CHUCKLES.]
This weekend, you're Mrs.
Lee Stetson.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Thank you.
Oh, this is very pretty.
Yes.
- Oh, yes, very nice.
AMANDA: Lovely.
- Very nice.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
LEE: Look at this.
AMANDA: Mm.
- Darling, look at this terrific view.
- That's really beautiful, isn't it, sweetheart? - Yes.
Yes.
AMANDA: Mm-hm.
Well, everything seems to be, uh, just fine.
Thank you.
- There you go.
- Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
- Oops! That's all right.
- Pardon me.
Okay.
Don't you think we should talk about? Dinner? If you don't mind, darling, I'd like to go down just a little early.
I worked up quite an appetite on that drive, you know.
- Hmm.
LEE: Oh, uh did you know they have a cordon bleu chef here? AMANDA: No, I didn't know that.
- Mm-hm.
And a championship tennis court.
Maybe we could put in a couple sets before we dress.
- Oh, gee, I didn't bring my racket.
Ha.
- Oh, that's okay.
The, uh, Cumberland's the kind of place where you can just do what you feel like.
Yes, if you don't wanna play tennis or golf or swim, you don't have to.
The room's not bugged.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
- What are you looking for? - My room.
- Well, this is your room.
- Then where is your room? [SIGHS.]
- It's also my room.
It's our room.
- Oh, no.
Amanda, I'm going to take a look around while you're dressing for dinner.
Oh, no.
It's too early for dinner.
It's only 5:15.
[SIGHS.]
We have to be down in the lobby before 6:00.
Oh.
Don't you think that we should discuss the accommodations? Do you know what I'm talking about? There aren't enough accommodations.
- Mm-hm.
Later, okay? - How much later? Heh, later.
"Later" means never.
VALERIE: Hi.
- Good afternoon.
- I bet you're a new arrival.
Just checked in for the weekend.
Lee Stetson.
- Valerie Tucker.
- Mrs.
Tuck Tucker.
- Tuck Tucker? - Sounds like a stutter, doesn't it? Ha.
Tuck guards his first name more fiercely than anything in his old think tank.
Of course.
I've heard of Dr.
Tucker.
Perhaps, uh, you and your husband would join us for dinner one night.
- "Us"? - Uh, my wife and I.
Oh, sure.
If he shows up.
But you know how unreliable geniuses can be.
Yeah.
Well, uh, I'll get in touch with you later.
Do that.
Okay.
Be there at 6:00, and don't make any mistakes.
- You got it, baby.
- Don't be so obvious.
Just say, "Thank you, Mrs.
Tucker," and leave.
Thank you, Mrs.
Tucker.
You said you packed the wrong things.
What's wrong with what you've got on? There's nothing wrong with it.
I feel silly being all dressed up when it's still light outside.
Don't you feel a little silly? MRS.
CRADDOCK: Terribly sorry.
- Ooh, excuse me.
- You haven't seen my husband, have you? LEE: Uh Oh, no, of course you haven't.
I don't know you.
- You've never seen me before in your life.
- No.
I can't see a thing without my glasses.
I broke them the first day we were here.
- Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Mrs? - Craddock.
Hello.
I'm Amanda - Stetson.
- Stetson.
- Yes.
And I'm Lee Stetson.
- Yes.
How do you do? Your first trip to the Cumberland? [LEE CLEARS THRO AT.]
I'm a regular, and I don't believe I've seen you before.
But then, of course, I can't be sure.
- Well, yes, it is our first trip.
- Well, we celebrate everything here: Birthdays, Christmas.
This time, it's our 30th anniversary.
- How wonderful.
- Can you believe that? Thirty years.
How long have you been married? - Oh, about s - Not very Just a short time.
[CHUCKLES.]
Newlyweds.
Oh, isn't that wonderful? Then you won't wanna waste your time talking to an old woman.
[LAUGHING.]
Newlyweds.
Uh, it was nice to meet you, Mrs.
Craddock.
Great.
Newlyweds.
The way that woman talks, it'll be all over the hotel.
- Why didn't you pick a number? Two years.
- Why didn't you? Because that is not a question for a man to answer.
AMANDA: A man can answer the question as well as a woman.
LEE [WHISPERING.]
: Shush.
AMANDA: Don't shush me.
LEE: It's almost 6:00.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
- [IN NORMAL VOICE.]
Sweetheart? - Hmm? What happens at 6:00? [WHISPERING.]
Whoever's being kidnapped is checking in.
Oh.
You mean we don't know who it is? Our surveillance tapes didn't give us any of the vital stats.
Six o'clock at the Cumberland, that's all we know.
That, and the fact that Jay Armin is engineering the whole thing.
Oh.
[BOTH SIGH.]
Hi, folks.
Welcome to the Cumberland.
Okay, here we go.
Should be Room 412.
Front.
I don't recognize him.
All right, I've gotta get a look at the [AMANDA GASPS.]
Room 342.
Enjoy your stay.
Okay, it's one of three.
Amanda, go along with this.
I've gotta get a look at those names.
Right.
Yeah.
Ha.
I'm sorry.
This is very embarrassing.
But it seems that both the wife and I left our keys in the room.
- I wonder if you could - Oh, it's no problem at all, Mr [PANTING.]
Oh.
Mr.
Stetson, you all right, sir? Anything I can do? Oh.
- Get my wife.
My wife - Your what? - My wife.
The pills.
- Yes.
Take it easy.
I'll get her.
I need my pills.
- Mrs.
Stetson, your husband is AMANDA: Yes, I know.
[LEE PANTING.]
[GRO ANING.]
- Here you are.
You need your pills.
- Darling, hurry.
- I have them right here.
Under your tongue.
- Oh, plea - I'll get the house physician for you.
- No, no, no.
That'll be all right.
This [LEE GRO ANS.]
LEE: I'm AMANDA: Are you all right? - Oh, yeah.
- Ready to go? - I'm better.
It's happened before.
- You sure? - All right.
I'll help you.
- Thank you very much.
- Thank you very much.
- Of course.
AMANDA: Okay.
There you go.
That's it.
Okay, Billy.
Okay.
Bye.
LEE: Mm.
They weren't exaggerating about the food in this place.
I heard it was good.
It's great.
[CHUCKLES.]
[AMANDA CLEARS THRO AT.]
What's the matter? Aren't you hungry? Oh, it's just that there were no prices on the menu.
That sort of affects my appetite.
L Very good.
- Hello, Mrs.
Craddock.
Hello.
- Oh.
- Amanda Stetson, yes.
- Mrs.
Stetson and Mr.
Stetson.
The newlyweds, ha.
Oh, isn't that sweet? [BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Sweet.
Ah.
- Lee.
- Mm.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE.]
- Is that absolutely necessary? LEE: Well, of course it is.
- It's our cover.
- Right.
It's part of our cover.
LEE: There's one of them now.
- One of who? - One of the 6:00 check-ins.
Blaine Rooks.
According to Billy, he's a pro golfer with a lot of bad habits.
What would the Eastern Bloc want with a pro golfer? Nothing.
- I've already scratched him.
AMANDA: Oh.
Who are some of the other possible victims? Well, there's Harvey Ballentine over there.
He's a British shipping magnate with connections with every deep-water port in the world.
David Bosca, Nobel laureate, genetic engineering.
Dr.
Tucker was my prime candidate, but he didn't show.
Who's Dr.
Tucker? He's a major brain at a California think tank.
Nobody knows what they're working on, but a lot of people would love to find out.
This might sound like a silly question.
How do you know he didn't show up if you're not sure that he was supposed to be here? Well, I talked to his wife this afternoon.
She was working on her suntan, or the lifeguard.
It was a tossup.
- Oh.
- Heh.
Well, you know, we can't really watch all of them.
No, we can't watch them all.
I just wonder what Jay Armin's doing with him.
Look, we're gonna stick to David Bosca.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Hello.
Well, uh - I thought we carried that off pretty well.
- Oh, yes.
Very well.
- And I also think we were very convincing.
- Oh, we were very convincing.
We convinced Mrs.
Craddock, and she's been married 30 years.
Yeah.
Ha, ha.
Uh, well, I guess you plan to, uh Uh, yeah.
You mind? It's been a long day.
Oh, no, no, I don't mind.
I know you must be tired.
- Oh, tired.
- Yeah.
Uh, but you probably do wanna keep an eye on Mr.
Bosca's room or, if you'd like, I could keep an eye on it.
No, no, no.
I'll keep an eye on it.
They're not gonna make a move on him while there's still so much activity around here.
I just wanna grab a couple hours of sleep.
Yeah, well, you have to get your rest to do your job well.
Amanda.
[LEE SIGHS.]
- You know, you're not being compromised.
- I know that.
[CHUCKLES.]
It's a matter of national security.
- Sorry.
- Ha.
Look, I, uh You see, there weren't any suites available.
This was the only room that I could get, okay? I mean, if Francine had come along like we'd agreed, and Yes? It's surveillance.
It's not an assignation.
- I know that.
- Good.
- It's not a problem.
- Good.
Fine.
There's no problem.
You know, I could call the housekeeper and have them send up a rollaway bed.
A what? I could call the housekeeper and have them send I do it all the time with Philip and Jamie when we travel together.
And, you know, it's a little extra expense, but it's, uh, it's not that much, and - Amanda.
- Hmm? A rollaway bed on our honeymoon? - Wouldn't look right, would it? - No.
Ha, ha.
It would not look right.
- Look, I will take the couch.
- You won't fit on the couch.
- I said I will take the couch.
- You won't fit.
It I'll fit.
You just watch.
[GRUNTS.]
- It's not gonna work.
- It's going to work.
It's not gonna work.
Look, um, you're welcome to the bed.
Why don't you just take the bed? And I'll just sit in the chair and read.
Ugh! Forget it.
Just forget it, huh? If you need me, I will be in the closet across from Mr.
Bosca's room.
[CHUCKLES.]
Good night.
Yeah.
[SHOWER RUNNING.]
Lee.
Lee! Lee! Lee, would you get out of the shower? Get out of the shower.
Lee.
Lee, get out Lee, there's a man being kidnapped.
Lee? Lee, get out of the shower.
There's a man being kidnapped.
Hurry.
- Amanda? - Never mind.
- What? - Too late.
- "Too late" what? - You're too late.
They're gone.
- Who's gone? - Look.
There was a man walking toward a lady who was playing tennis.
Now, he waved at her.
Two men jumped out.
One of them had a gun.
They forced him into a limousine.
I tried to get you out of the shower, but you took too long.
No.
I don't believe it.
[SCOFFING.]
I don't believe it.
I sat and watched Bosca's room all night sitting in a damn closet, and they got him in the morning? Six o'clock in the morning? - Oh.
- No, no, no.
Lee, it wasn't Mr.
Bosca.
- It wasn't? - No.
- Who was it? Ballentine? - I don't know.
I never saw him before in my life.
- Roadblock.
What now? - That's up to Armin.
Turn around.
- She was standing right about there LEE: Mm-hm.
when the two men came and took the other man away.
All right.
Give me her description again.
Uh, she was very tall, very pretty, very blond, very sort of everything.
- Oh, Amanda, that's a terrible description.
- Sorry.
- It was right here, huh? - Yeah.
Yeah, right about there.
- Hi.
- Think I know who it is.
Valerie.
- Valerie Tucker, this is my wife, Amanda.
- Hello.
Thought maybe we could get a foursome in later, huh? Uh, unless your husband's too tired from the drive.
Tuck's not here yet.
Besides, I'm strictly a singles player.
Well, uh, maybe some dinner later, the four of us.
- That is, if he arrives.
- Well, one thing you learn about geniuses: Don't make plans.
Besides, I'm gonna have a sauna and a massage and I'm not making any plans after that.
LEE: Hmm.
- Unless something special comes up.
- That is her.
I'm certain of it.
- Okay.
- All right, follow her, and try not to be - Conspicuous.
Yes.
- I'll search for Tucker.
- You sure you don't wanna follow her? - Sweetheart, we're newlyweds.
- I know.
- What kind of a roadblock? - Oh, you know, police cars and lights.
It's like the ones they set up to test for drunks.
- Nobody saw you? - Oh, no way, Mr.
Armin.
We came back and tossed the old guy in the pump room.
- I got Tony watching him now.
- That's very good.
Keep Tucker where he is for the time being.
I'II, uh, tell Tony we did the right thing, okay? Yeah, of course.
Of course.
You did exactly the right thing.
- Careful.
I'm not strudel dough.
- Sorry.
That's enough.
If there's even the slightest bruise, I'll notify the management.
I hope they're all out of peroxide in Hairdressing.
Sometimes hostility comes out before you know it.
Nuh-uh.
It was the way she talked to Marie on the phone: "I want my dress by 5.
If I miss my flight, it's your job.
" Hmph.
- Thank you, Mrs.
Stetson.
- Thank you.
- I think you're due in Hairdressing now.
- Yes, I think you're right.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- Officer.
- Your license, sir.
Yes, sir.
Would you step out of the car? Would you step over to that patrol car over here? Okay, you know the routine.
They got Tucker.
- Did you see them? - No.
Amanda did.
- It was too late to do anything about it.
- Oh, Lee.
Look, Amanda saw his wife decoy him into a limo.
They pulled him in and drove away.
- Have you talked to the wife? - Yeah, she's friendly.
She acts like nothing's wrong.
She's quite good at being vague.
Well, whoever's got Tucker saw the roadblock and doubled back.
- They're still up there at Cumberland.
- Yeah, but who knows for how long? So Tucker was in senate hearings on think-tank federal grants.
Damn.
He'd have to know every project we've got in the oven, everything in pre-planning.
Everything in the Defense department.
Close your eyes and touch your nose.
It would take an army to search the Cumberland, if we could get a warrant.
- Yeah.
- Find him, Lee.
I don't know how long I can keep these safety-sobriety checkpoints in operation.
Uh, hello.
Mrs.
Tucker's room, please.
[RINGING.]
Listen, Anatole, there's been a kind of a slip-up with our arrangements.
Well, these roadblocks are for sobriety tests.
[STAMMERS.]
Look, Anatole, if they're still there within a few hours I'll make delivery in another way.
We'll go over the roadblocks.
I think you're overreacting just a little, Anatole.
I am quite certain I am not overreacting.
In this case, I would say what you are doing is important very important to my well-being.
Particularly my geographical location and my personal comfort.
Well, you can assure your associates that the whole matter will be resolved in a few hours.
Goodbye, Anatole.
Oh, good.
Excuse me.
I'm Mrs.
Tucker's assistant.
She sent me up with her dress.
She forgot to give me the key.
I wonder if you could use your passkey and let me in.
MAID: No problem.
- Thank you very much.
She wants it up here by 5:00.
Thank you very much.
- I'll just put this in the closet.
- Okay.
[AMANDA GASPS.]
Hello.
I was just bringing Mrs.
Tucker's dress up but it, uh, seems she's already checked out.
You don't believe that.
Shake down her room.
And watch for that guy Stetson.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
I'm sorry things turned out so badly, sir.
It was actually a very good plan.
We knew that someone was gonna be kidnapped but we didn't know it was you until I saw it happen and it was too late, and Please don't explain, my dear.
Whatever happens, I suppose I'll never see Valerie again.
Well, you're taking it very well.
She's your wife, and I know you must love her very much.
Do you think she might've been blackmailed into doing what she did to me? No, sir, I really don't think so.
They must've offered her something that dazzled her distorted her sense of loyalty.
Sir, you know, I used to be pretty good with knots.
I don't think they covered this in the book.
If you could just get up maybe we could help each other Oh, don't, please.
- Watch your hand, sir.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Now, I'll just If I can If you hold that Not that That.
Okay.
- I'm out.
- Good.
Uh, now I'll get you out.
- There you are.
You're out too.
- Good.
Now, we wanna keep them out.
So I'm gonna [METAL CLANGING.]
[AMANDA GRUNTS.]
keep them out.
Actually, the door opens out, but it was an imaginative thought.
Yes, sir.
- I think I have another idea, sir.
- Wonderful.
What do they control? I don't have any idea, sir, but whatever they control it's bound to get us a little attention, and it'll get somebody down here.
Aha! Unfortunately, the man behind all this owns the hotel and we're liable to signal somebody that we don't wish to see.
Yes, sir, but it's either that or wait for them to come back.
Good thinking.
We're fighting back.
I may get away in time to save Valerie.
AMANDA: Turn those knobs.
- Ugh! This may be very hard for you to grasp.
What started as a simple favor to a friend is now a threat to a business empire of very much importance to me: My own.
Tony's checking out the room.
He's very good, and he's loyal.
Tony? Tony? Tony the pool boy? My future is in the hands of a pool boy.
- Now, who turned the heat on full blast? - You want me to call Maintenance? No.
Get Tony out of Stetson's room.
We have a helicopter on the way.
We're moving Tucker and the woman out.
- Oh, I wouldn't go in there if I were you.
- And why not? - Oh, it's Mr.
Stetson.
- Yeah.
And where is your lovely wife? - Well, I was just going to go and - She's probably down by the pool.
Unless they've done something unthinkable there too.
Wha Uh, I'm not following you, Mrs.
Craddock, and I am in a bit of a hurry One doesn't expect this sort of thing from a resort with the reputation of the Cumberland.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING.]
It was absolutely sweltering in my room, and I came down to the lounge and it's freezing in there.
Not to mention the fact that they seem to have turned all the water off.
They're not going through the roadblock, they're going over it.
Get back to the Cumberland.
I'll take it from here.
Shake him loose.
Try and follow them.
Come on, come on, shake him.
Lose him.
Shake him, shake him.
[ARMIN GRUNTS.]
[ARMIN GRUNTING.]
LEE: All right, take this chopper down.
Okay, Armin, it's all over.
LEE: All right, hold it.
All right, shut it down.
[POLICE SIREN WAILING.]
MAN: We're nailed, Cuddy.
TONY: Yep, you're right.
Now what? LEE: Hey.
- Hello.
Uh, Mr.
Melrose, you'll probably wanna pick up Mrs.
Tucker too.
She helped arrange the kidnapping.
- I'll send a car back to the hotel.
- No, sir.
She'll be at the airport.
- Five o'clock flight.
- Thank you.
- Yes, sir.
- Hey, Billy? How'd you move so fast? I didn't have time to call you.
Well, I looked up, and there's this guy hanging from a helicopter.
Had to be you.
[AMANDA CHUCKLES.]
- Thank you.
- Well, we got our man, huh? - Yeah.
- Ha, ha.
- Hey, you know, I like the sound of that.
- What? We got Armin.
"Our man.
" - Oh.
- Ha.
- Yeah.
That's pretty terrible.
- That is pretty bad.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
- That's pretty terrible.
- Yeah.
[JAMIE AND PHILIP CHATTERING.]
BO Y 1: Bye.
Bye, Billy.
Bye.
BO Y 2: Bye.
AMANDA: Hi.
JAMIE & PHILIP: Hi.
Mom, you should've been there.
There was a snake at least 6 feet long.
- It was a rattler.
I thought I was a goner.
- Really? Well, sweetheart, I'm glad you weren't.
Now, did? You had a wonderful time? - It was the best trip ever.
- The best.
- Except for your mother not being there.
- Except for that.
- You didn't miss me.
- We missed you.
- Oh, you didn't miss me.
You didn't.
- Yeah, we did.
- You did? JAMIE & PHILIP: Yeah.
- You swear? JAMIE & PHILIP: Yeah.
Good.
Okay, run upstairs, wash your hands, wash your faces, put your gear up.
- How about you, Mother? - Oh, exhausting.
But I planned on that.
The food was better than last year.
- That's good.
- But we sure did miss you.
- Did you get your typing done? - No.
Oh, you see? Work, work, work.
You gotta take some time for yourself.
- You need something exciting to happen.
- I need some excitement.
I wanna hear all about the trip.
I'll make some sandwiches Oh, sounds marvelous.
It's the first time in two days that I haven't skewered something to a stick and hung it over a campfire.
- We'll be down in five minutes.
- Okay.
Come on, boys, let's get that stuff put away.
Hurry up, now.
[SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Amanda? Is the coast clear? No, the coast isn't clear.
Mother and the boys are upstairs.
Ah.
- I thought you left.
- Well, I did.
But I came back.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
You forgot your toothbrush.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
You sure you're not holding any messages for me? I know I just asked.
I'm asking again.
Okay.
Okay, thank you.
- Are you still here? LEE: Yeah, I am still here.
I don't know what happened to Francine.
She knew what time we were leaving.
She's 45 minutes late.
- Forty-five minutes.
- Would you relax? You know Francine.
She probably forgot what to pack.
[LEE SIGHS.]
- Oh, come on.
This is business.
- I know it's business.
You're gonna be with the beautiful people, and she'll probably wanna look beautiful.
- But she doesn't.
- Ugh, hey.
Sorry I'm late.
- What happened to you? - Tooth.
Aw.
- Great.
Great.
Do you have a toothache? - All night long.
Oh, I hope it's not a root canal.
Have you ever had a root canal? No, and you can't either.
How can you have a root canal at a time like this? I thought it might be more fun than a weekend in the country.
- I'm sorry.
- Ugh.
Hey, I'm sorry, okay? Well, what do we do now? I can't go alone.
Let's check the computer.
[LEE SIGHS.]
Oh, not available.
Just great.
What about the interagency pool? Those names are from the interagency pool.
Are you telling me there aren't any female agents available? I'm not telling you anything, the computer is.
I'm gonna have to do it, okay? We can't abort.
You can't walk around the Cumberland wearing an ice pack.
Go home and get some rest, huh? - I'm sorry.
- It's okay, it's okay.
It's just lousy timing.
Go on.
You know, Billy, I don't need a special agent for this.
Just need somebody with the right security clearance.
AMANDA: Toothbrushes.
- We forgot their toothbrushes.
DOTTY: No, we didn't.
- I have them in my other bag.
- Are you sure? Oh, Amanda, we have everything we could possibly need, plus a lot of nonessentials.
[AMANDA CHUCKLES.]
It just seems like we always forget somethi - Vitamins.
- I have them.
- In your bag.
Mm-hm.
- Yes, right.
We're supposed to be waiting outside getting ready for when the bus gets here.
PHILIP: If we're not there, they'll leave.
They're not gonna leave.
And I wish you wouldn't be in such a hurry.
I miss you.
DOTTY: Wish you were going with us.
- Aw, so do I, but I've got work to do.
I hope this company you're working for realizes you're missing a beautiful weekend.
- You might mention it.
- Yes, Mother, I will.
Are you gonna be all right? What if something happens? Who will help you? [BUS HORN HONKING.]
- Aw, Amanda.
- Mom, it's the bus.
Nothing is going to happen.
There are a dozen parents plus twice that many counselors.
I am going to be there.
AMANDA: I know, Mother.
I know.
Okay, now, listen.
I want you to obey all the safety rules.
- You promise? JAMIE & PHILIP: Yes.
I want you to go to sleep when it's lights out.
I want you to eat all of your meals.
- You told us all this, Mom.
AMANDA: I know.
Jamie, I even want you to eat all your vegetables, okay? PHILIP: I love you, Mama.
I love you.
You have a good time.
Be careful and have fun.
Stop worrying.
We're only going to Anacostia.
- It's only a few hours' drive.
- I know.
I'm just being silly.
Aw, come on.
You're the same way I was when I used to send you camping.
- All right, now get your typing done.
- I will.
- Uh, look, take a lot of pictures.
- I will.
- Okay.
Bye-bye.
- Goodbye, goodbye.
[SIGHING.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- Hello.
- Hi.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
What are you doing here? Nobody saw you come in, did they? - Of course they didn't.
- Of course not.
I'm sorry.
You're not here for the typing, are you? Mr.
Melrose told me that I have until Monday morning.
And I'm gonna need that long.
I'm only about half an hour into the first - Forget the typing, Amanda, okay? - Oh, no, I won't forget it.
Oh, no, no.
I know how important it is.
If it weren't important, I would be with my mother and the boys on the way to Camp Anacostia right now.
I mean, you know, this is the first year that I've missed.
I saw your mother and the boys get on the bus.
Is that where they're going? - Camp Anacostia? - Yep.
- For the weekend.
We go every year.
- Yeah.
- First year I've missed.
- I got that.
How long will it take you to pack? [CHUCKLES.]
I'm not going.
I promised Mr.
Melrose that I would do these This was Billy's idea, Amanda.
Believe me, it was his idea.
You're spending the weekend with me.
- I'm spending the weekend with you? - Heh.
It's not that kind of weekend.
- No, of course not.
It wouldn't be - Strictly business.
Strictly business.
Of course, it's strictly - Strictly What kind of business? - Agency business.
Oh, agency business.
What else? It's gotta be Francine's jaw is way out to here, and there was no one else available.
- Oh.
- So, look, I don't have time to explain.
We have to be there no later than 5:00.
So pack, okay? Don't you think you at least ought to tell me? Ugh, it's a matter of national security, Amanda.
- National security.
- Mm-hm.
Listen, I'm not complaining or anything but heh, with you people, it's always need-to-know or national security That's what the agency deals with, Amanda.
Matters of national security.
- So pack.
Come on.
- I'm packing.
Ah, it's a resort, but we'll dress for dinner.
- We'll dress for dinner? - That's right.
And you have 10 minutes.
- Ten minutes? - Go, go.
Come on.
- Dressy resort.
- Yeah.
AMANDA: I don't know if I have anything for a dressy resort.
[GRO ANS.]
BORCHEV: You're comfortable owning the Cumberland, Mr.
Armin but with a new leader, we can expect changes.
Surely not in your case, Anatole.
You've served long and well.
Like your American joke: - What have I achieved recently? - Oh, yes, I understand that.
You need an act of accomplishment, a restatement of your values.
That, or accept reassignment.
My country has a post open now in Afghanistan.
Oh, my.
Hardly a place for a man of your tastes.
But if you can help me get this one man, my problem will be solved.
Always happy to help a friend.
Even happier to receive my information on the wheat purchases.
That has made you a millionaire many times over.
Yes, of course.
But you would have no use for a pauper, would you? I'll be at the Cumberland when he arrives.
You rest easy at the embassy.
I'll handle everything.
Hmm? When I was younger, I was working as a field operative and I have seen many missions like this one fail because of a single unforeseen event or the action of a single person.
Be careful.
Watch for that single detail, that unexpected individual.
[CAR ENGINE REVS.]
AMANDA: I'm afraid I packed all the wrong things.
You look fine.
Oh, yeah, I look fine for Camp Anacostia, or I look fine for Arlington but I do not look fine for the Cumberland.
How do you know that if you've never been there? I told you we were dressing for dinner.
Sure.
We dress for dinner at Camp Anacostia: Sweat suits and down jackets.
Ha, ha.
Come on, Amanda.
Look, Lee, I don't know who I'm supposed to be and I don't know why I'm going there and, well, you have to admit, it's a little confusing.
- Is that it? - Unsettling and confusing.
I just wanted to clear that up.
- Yeah, you clarified everything.
- Good.
Now, would you like a little clarification from me? Oh, that would be very nice.
Okay.
We are going to the Cumberland because one of the guests who will be checking in is slated for a surprise trip behind the Iron Curtain.
A kidnapping? Are you telling me that someone's gonna be kidnapped? Well, not if we can Not if I can help it.
We don't have that much information, just, uh, bits and pieces of wiretaps and surveillance tapes.
- We've been watching Armin for - Jay Armin? [CHUCKLES.]
- The owner of the Cumberland? - You got it.
We've had him under surveillance for a couple of years now.
He's a little too connected to the Eastern Bloc.
He's too powerful and too smart to touch without hard evidence.
So that's what we're supposed to do this weekend.
- Get hard evidence.
- That's what I'm supposed to get.
- What am I supposed to do? - Just act natural.
Oh, come on.
I don't know how to act natural at the Cumberland.
I know how to act natural at the PTA and the carpool Just be yourself, Amanda.
- Heh, just be myself? - Only not too much.
AMANDA: Thank you very much.
- Lee Stetson.
The bags are in the trunk.
- Lee.
LEE: What? Should you be using your real name? Ha, ha.
Why not? I thought, on a case like this, you should probably be using a cover.
- Oh, I have, I have.
- Oh.
This Lee Stetson is the nephew of a Supreme Court justice.
Good.
- What's my cover? - Ha.
Yeah.
- I didn't mention that, did I? - No.
[CHUCKLES.]
This weekend, you're Mrs.
Lee Stetson.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Thank you.
Oh, this is very pretty.
Yes.
- Oh, yes, very nice.
AMANDA: Lovely.
- Very nice.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
LEE: Look at this.
AMANDA: Mm.
- Darling, look at this terrific view.
- That's really beautiful, isn't it, sweetheart? - Yes.
Yes.
AMANDA: Mm-hm.
Well, everything seems to be, uh, just fine.
Thank you.
- There you go.
- Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
- Oops! That's all right.
- Pardon me.
Okay.
Don't you think we should talk about? Dinner? If you don't mind, darling, I'd like to go down just a little early.
I worked up quite an appetite on that drive, you know.
- Hmm.
LEE: Oh, uh did you know they have a cordon bleu chef here? AMANDA: No, I didn't know that.
- Mm-hm.
And a championship tennis court.
Maybe we could put in a couple sets before we dress.
- Oh, gee, I didn't bring my racket.
Ha.
- Oh, that's okay.
The, uh, Cumberland's the kind of place where you can just do what you feel like.
Yes, if you don't wanna play tennis or golf or swim, you don't have to.
The room's not bugged.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
- What are you looking for? - My room.
- Well, this is your room.
- Then where is your room? [SIGHS.]
- It's also my room.
It's our room.
- Oh, no.
Amanda, I'm going to take a look around while you're dressing for dinner.
Oh, no.
It's too early for dinner.
It's only 5:15.
[SIGHS.]
We have to be down in the lobby before 6:00.
Oh.
Don't you think that we should discuss the accommodations? Do you know what I'm talking about? There aren't enough accommodations.
- Mm-hm.
Later, okay? - How much later? Heh, later.
"Later" means never.
VALERIE: Hi.
- Good afternoon.
- I bet you're a new arrival.
Just checked in for the weekend.
Lee Stetson.
- Valerie Tucker.
- Mrs.
Tuck Tucker.
- Tuck Tucker? - Sounds like a stutter, doesn't it? Ha.
Tuck guards his first name more fiercely than anything in his old think tank.
Of course.
I've heard of Dr.
Tucker.
Perhaps, uh, you and your husband would join us for dinner one night.
- "Us"? - Uh, my wife and I.
Oh, sure.
If he shows up.
But you know how unreliable geniuses can be.
Yeah.
Well, uh, I'll get in touch with you later.
Do that.
Okay.
Be there at 6:00, and don't make any mistakes.
- You got it, baby.
- Don't be so obvious.
Just say, "Thank you, Mrs.
Tucker," and leave.
Thank you, Mrs.
Tucker.
You said you packed the wrong things.
What's wrong with what you've got on? There's nothing wrong with it.
I feel silly being all dressed up when it's still light outside.
Don't you feel a little silly? MRS.
CRADDOCK: Terribly sorry.
- Ooh, excuse me.
- You haven't seen my husband, have you? LEE: Uh Oh, no, of course you haven't.
I don't know you.
- You've never seen me before in your life.
- No.
I can't see a thing without my glasses.
I broke them the first day we were here.
- Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Mrs? - Craddock.
Hello.
I'm Amanda - Stetson.
- Stetson.
- Yes.
And I'm Lee Stetson.
- Yes.
How do you do? Your first trip to the Cumberland? [LEE CLEARS THRO AT.]
I'm a regular, and I don't believe I've seen you before.
But then, of course, I can't be sure.
- Well, yes, it is our first trip.
- Well, we celebrate everything here: Birthdays, Christmas.
This time, it's our 30th anniversary.
- How wonderful.
- Can you believe that? Thirty years.
How long have you been married? - Oh, about s - Not very Just a short time.
[CHUCKLES.]
Newlyweds.
Oh, isn't that wonderful? Then you won't wanna waste your time talking to an old woman.
[LAUGHING.]
Newlyweds.
Uh, it was nice to meet you, Mrs.
Craddock.
Great.
Newlyweds.
The way that woman talks, it'll be all over the hotel.
- Why didn't you pick a number? Two years.
- Why didn't you? Because that is not a question for a man to answer.
AMANDA: A man can answer the question as well as a woman.
LEE [WHISPERING.]
: Shush.
AMANDA: Don't shush me.
LEE: It's almost 6:00.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
- [IN NORMAL VOICE.]
Sweetheart? - Hmm? What happens at 6:00? [WHISPERING.]
Whoever's being kidnapped is checking in.
Oh.
You mean we don't know who it is? Our surveillance tapes didn't give us any of the vital stats.
Six o'clock at the Cumberland, that's all we know.
That, and the fact that Jay Armin is engineering the whole thing.
Oh.
[BOTH SIGH.]
Hi, folks.
Welcome to the Cumberland.
Okay, here we go.
Should be Room 412.
Front.
I don't recognize him.
All right, I've gotta get a look at the [AMANDA GASPS.]
Room 342.
Enjoy your stay.
Okay, it's one of three.
Amanda, go along with this.
I've gotta get a look at those names.
Right.
Yeah.
Ha.
I'm sorry.
This is very embarrassing.
But it seems that both the wife and I left our keys in the room.
- I wonder if you could - Oh, it's no problem at all, Mr [PANTING.]
Oh.
Mr.
Stetson, you all right, sir? Anything I can do? Oh.
- Get my wife.
My wife - Your what? - My wife.
The pills.
- Yes.
Take it easy.
I'll get her.
I need my pills.
- Mrs.
Stetson, your husband is AMANDA: Yes, I know.
[LEE PANTING.]
[GRO ANING.]
- Here you are.
You need your pills.
- Darling, hurry.
- I have them right here.
Under your tongue.
- Oh, plea - I'll get the house physician for you.
- No, no, no.
That'll be all right.
This [LEE GRO ANS.]
LEE: I'm AMANDA: Are you all right? - Oh, yeah.
- Ready to go? - I'm better.
It's happened before.
- You sure? - All right.
I'll help you.
- Thank you very much.
- Thank you very much.
- Of course.
AMANDA: Okay.
There you go.
That's it.
Okay, Billy.
Okay.
Bye.
LEE: Mm.
They weren't exaggerating about the food in this place.
I heard it was good.
It's great.
[CHUCKLES.]
[AMANDA CLEARS THRO AT.]
What's the matter? Aren't you hungry? Oh, it's just that there were no prices on the menu.
That sort of affects my appetite.
L Very good.
- Hello, Mrs.
Craddock.
Hello.
- Oh.
- Amanda Stetson, yes.
- Mrs.
Stetson and Mr.
Stetson.
The newlyweds, ha.
Oh, isn't that sweet? [BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Sweet.
Ah.
- Lee.
- Mm.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE.]
- Is that absolutely necessary? LEE: Well, of course it is.
- It's our cover.
- Right.
It's part of our cover.
LEE: There's one of them now.
- One of who? - One of the 6:00 check-ins.
Blaine Rooks.
According to Billy, he's a pro golfer with a lot of bad habits.
What would the Eastern Bloc want with a pro golfer? Nothing.
- I've already scratched him.
AMANDA: Oh.
Who are some of the other possible victims? Well, there's Harvey Ballentine over there.
He's a British shipping magnate with connections with every deep-water port in the world.
David Bosca, Nobel laureate, genetic engineering.
Dr.
Tucker was my prime candidate, but he didn't show.
Who's Dr.
Tucker? He's a major brain at a California think tank.
Nobody knows what they're working on, but a lot of people would love to find out.
This might sound like a silly question.
How do you know he didn't show up if you're not sure that he was supposed to be here? Well, I talked to his wife this afternoon.
She was working on her suntan, or the lifeguard.
It was a tossup.
- Oh.
- Heh.
Well, you know, we can't really watch all of them.
No, we can't watch them all.
I just wonder what Jay Armin's doing with him.
Look, we're gonna stick to David Bosca.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Hello.
Well, uh - I thought we carried that off pretty well.
- Oh, yes.
Very well.
- And I also think we were very convincing.
- Oh, we were very convincing.
We convinced Mrs.
Craddock, and she's been married 30 years.
Yeah.
Ha, ha.
Uh, well, I guess you plan to, uh Uh, yeah.
You mind? It's been a long day.
Oh, no, no, I don't mind.
I know you must be tired.
- Oh, tired.
- Yeah.
Uh, but you probably do wanna keep an eye on Mr.
Bosca's room or, if you'd like, I could keep an eye on it.
No, no, no.
I'll keep an eye on it.
They're not gonna make a move on him while there's still so much activity around here.
I just wanna grab a couple hours of sleep.
Yeah, well, you have to get your rest to do your job well.
Amanda.
[LEE SIGHS.]
- You know, you're not being compromised.
- I know that.
[CHUCKLES.]
It's a matter of national security.
- Sorry.
- Ha.
Look, I, uh You see, there weren't any suites available.
This was the only room that I could get, okay? I mean, if Francine had come along like we'd agreed, and Yes? It's surveillance.
It's not an assignation.
- I know that.
- Good.
- It's not a problem.
- Good.
Fine.
There's no problem.
You know, I could call the housekeeper and have them send up a rollaway bed.
A what? I could call the housekeeper and have them send I do it all the time with Philip and Jamie when we travel together.
And, you know, it's a little extra expense, but it's, uh, it's not that much, and - Amanda.
- Hmm? A rollaway bed on our honeymoon? - Wouldn't look right, would it? - No.
Ha, ha.
It would not look right.
- Look, I will take the couch.
- You won't fit on the couch.
- I said I will take the couch.
- You won't fit.
It I'll fit.
You just watch.
[GRUNTS.]
- It's not gonna work.
- It's going to work.
It's not gonna work.
Look, um, you're welcome to the bed.
Why don't you just take the bed? And I'll just sit in the chair and read.
Ugh! Forget it.
Just forget it, huh? If you need me, I will be in the closet across from Mr.
Bosca's room.
[CHUCKLES.]
Good night.
Yeah.
[SHOWER RUNNING.]
Lee.
Lee! Lee! Lee, would you get out of the shower? Get out of the shower.
Lee.
Lee, get out Lee, there's a man being kidnapped.
Lee? Lee, get out of the shower.
There's a man being kidnapped.
Hurry.
- Amanda? - Never mind.
- What? - Too late.
- "Too late" what? - You're too late.
They're gone.
- Who's gone? - Look.
There was a man walking toward a lady who was playing tennis.
Now, he waved at her.
Two men jumped out.
One of them had a gun.
They forced him into a limousine.
I tried to get you out of the shower, but you took too long.
No.
I don't believe it.
[SCOFFING.]
I don't believe it.
I sat and watched Bosca's room all night sitting in a damn closet, and they got him in the morning? Six o'clock in the morning? - Oh.
- No, no, no.
Lee, it wasn't Mr.
Bosca.
- It wasn't? - No.
- Who was it? Ballentine? - I don't know.
I never saw him before in my life.
- Roadblock.
What now? - That's up to Armin.
Turn around.
- She was standing right about there LEE: Mm-hm.
when the two men came and took the other man away.
All right.
Give me her description again.
Uh, she was very tall, very pretty, very blond, very sort of everything.
- Oh, Amanda, that's a terrible description.
- Sorry.
- It was right here, huh? - Yeah.
Yeah, right about there.
- Hi.
- Think I know who it is.
Valerie.
- Valerie Tucker, this is my wife, Amanda.
- Hello.
Thought maybe we could get a foursome in later, huh? Uh, unless your husband's too tired from the drive.
Tuck's not here yet.
Besides, I'm strictly a singles player.
Well, uh, maybe some dinner later, the four of us.
- That is, if he arrives.
- Well, one thing you learn about geniuses: Don't make plans.
Besides, I'm gonna have a sauna and a massage and I'm not making any plans after that.
LEE: Hmm.
- Unless something special comes up.
- That is her.
I'm certain of it.
- Okay.
- All right, follow her, and try not to be - Conspicuous.
Yes.
- I'll search for Tucker.
- You sure you don't wanna follow her? - Sweetheart, we're newlyweds.
- I know.
- What kind of a roadblock? - Oh, you know, police cars and lights.
It's like the ones they set up to test for drunks.
- Nobody saw you? - Oh, no way, Mr.
Armin.
We came back and tossed the old guy in the pump room.
- I got Tony watching him now.
- That's very good.
Keep Tucker where he is for the time being.
I'II, uh, tell Tony we did the right thing, okay? Yeah, of course.
Of course.
You did exactly the right thing.
- Careful.
I'm not strudel dough.
- Sorry.
That's enough.
If there's even the slightest bruise, I'll notify the management.
I hope they're all out of peroxide in Hairdressing.
Sometimes hostility comes out before you know it.
Nuh-uh.
It was the way she talked to Marie on the phone: "I want my dress by 5.
If I miss my flight, it's your job.
" Hmph.
- Thank you, Mrs.
Stetson.
- Thank you.
- I think you're due in Hairdressing now.
- Yes, I think you're right.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- Officer.
- Your license, sir.
Yes, sir.
Would you step out of the car? Would you step over to that patrol car over here? Okay, you know the routine.
They got Tucker.
- Did you see them? - No.
Amanda did.
- It was too late to do anything about it.
- Oh, Lee.
Look, Amanda saw his wife decoy him into a limo.
They pulled him in and drove away.
- Have you talked to the wife? - Yeah, she's friendly.
She acts like nothing's wrong.
She's quite good at being vague.
Well, whoever's got Tucker saw the roadblock and doubled back.
- They're still up there at Cumberland.
- Yeah, but who knows for how long? So Tucker was in senate hearings on think-tank federal grants.
Damn.
He'd have to know every project we've got in the oven, everything in pre-planning.
Everything in the Defense department.
Close your eyes and touch your nose.
It would take an army to search the Cumberland, if we could get a warrant.
- Yeah.
- Find him, Lee.
I don't know how long I can keep these safety-sobriety checkpoints in operation.
Uh, hello.
Mrs.
Tucker's room, please.
[RINGING.]
Listen, Anatole, there's been a kind of a slip-up with our arrangements.
Well, these roadblocks are for sobriety tests.
[STAMMERS.]
Look, Anatole, if they're still there within a few hours I'll make delivery in another way.
We'll go over the roadblocks.
I think you're overreacting just a little, Anatole.
I am quite certain I am not overreacting.
In this case, I would say what you are doing is important very important to my well-being.
Particularly my geographical location and my personal comfort.
Well, you can assure your associates that the whole matter will be resolved in a few hours.
Goodbye, Anatole.
Oh, good.
Excuse me.
I'm Mrs.
Tucker's assistant.
She sent me up with her dress.
She forgot to give me the key.
I wonder if you could use your passkey and let me in.
MAID: No problem.
- Thank you very much.
She wants it up here by 5:00.
Thank you very much.
- I'll just put this in the closet.
- Okay.
[AMANDA GASPS.]
Hello.
I was just bringing Mrs.
Tucker's dress up but it, uh, seems she's already checked out.
You don't believe that.
Shake down her room.
And watch for that guy Stetson.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
I'm sorry things turned out so badly, sir.
It was actually a very good plan.
We knew that someone was gonna be kidnapped but we didn't know it was you until I saw it happen and it was too late, and Please don't explain, my dear.
Whatever happens, I suppose I'll never see Valerie again.
Well, you're taking it very well.
She's your wife, and I know you must love her very much.
Do you think she might've been blackmailed into doing what she did to me? No, sir, I really don't think so.
They must've offered her something that dazzled her distorted her sense of loyalty.
Sir, you know, I used to be pretty good with knots.
I don't think they covered this in the book.
If you could just get up maybe we could help each other Oh, don't, please.
- Watch your hand, sir.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Now, I'll just If I can If you hold that Not that That.
Okay.
- I'm out.
- Good.
Uh, now I'll get you out.
- There you are.
You're out too.
- Good.
Now, we wanna keep them out.
So I'm gonna [METAL CLANGING.]
[AMANDA GRUNTS.]
keep them out.
Actually, the door opens out, but it was an imaginative thought.
Yes, sir.
- I think I have another idea, sir.
- Wonderful.
What do they control? I don't have any idea, sir, but whatever they control it's bound to get us a little attention, and it'll get somebody down here.
Aha! Unfortunately, the man behind all this owns the hotel and we're liable to signal somebody that we don't wish to see.
Yes, sir, but it's either that or wait for them to come back.
Good thinking.
We're fighting back.
I may get away in time to save Valerie.
AMANDA: Turn those knobs.
- Ugh! This may be very hard for you to grasp.
What started as a simple favor to a friend is now a threat to a business empire of very much importance to me: My own.
Tony's checking out the room.
He's very good, and he's loyal.
Tony? Tony? Tony the pool boy? My future is in the hands of a pool boy.
- Now, who turned the heat on full blast? - You want me to call Maintenance? No.
Get Tony out of Stetson's room.
We have a helicopter on the way.
We're moving Tucker and the woman out.
- Oh, I wouldn't go in there if I were you.
- And why not? - Oh, it's Mr.
Stetson.
- Yeah.
And where is your lovely wife? - Well, I was just going to go and - She's probably down by the pool.
Unless they've done something unthinkable there too.
Wha Uh, I'm not following you, Mrs.
Craddock, and I am in a bit of a hurry One doesn't expect this sort of thing from a resort with the reputation of the Cumberland.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING.]
It was absolutely sweltering in my room, and I came down to the lounge and it's freezing in there.
Not to mention the fact that they seem to have turned all the water off.
They're not going through the roadblock, they're going over it.
Get back to the Cumberland.
I'll take it from here.
Shake him loose.
Try and follow them.
Come on, come on, shake him.
Lose him.
Shake him, shake him.
[ARMIN GRUNTS.]
[ARMIN GRUNTING.]
LEE: All right, take this chopper down.
Okay, Armin, it's all over.
LEE: All right, hold it.
All right, shut it down.
[POLICE SIREN WAILING.]
MAN: We're nailed, Cuddy.
TONY: Yep, you're right.
Now what? LEE: Hey.
- Hello.
Uh, Mr.
Melrose, you'll probably wanna pick up Mrs.
Tucker too.
She helped arrange the kidnapping.
- I'll send a car back to the hotel.
- No, sir.
She'll be at the airport.
- Five o'clock flight.
- Thank you.
- Yes, sir.
- Hey, Billy? How'd you move so fast? I didn't have time to call you.
Well, I looked up, and there's this guy hanging from a helicopter.
Had to be you.
[AMANDA CHUCKLES.]
- Thank you.
- Well, we got our man, huh? - Yeah.
- Ha, ha.
- Hey, you know, I like the sound of that.
- What? We got Armin.
"Our man.
" - Oh.
- Ha.
- Yeah.
That's pretty terrible.
- That is pretty bad.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
- That's pretty terrible.
- Yeah.
[JAMIE AND PHILIP CHATTERING.]
BO Y 1: Bye.
Bye, Billy.
Bye.
BO Y 2: Bye.
AMANDA: Hi.
JAMIE & PHILIP: Hi.
Mom, you should've been there.
There was a snake at least 6 feet long.
- It was a rattler.
I thought I was a goner.
- Really? Well, sweetheart, I'm glad you weren't.
Now, did? You had a wonderful time? - It was the best trip ever.
- The best.
- Except for your mother not being there.
- Except for that.
- You didn't miss me.
- We missed you.
- Oh, you didn't miss me.
You didn't.
- Yeah, we did.
- You did? JAMIE & PHILIP: Yeah.
- You swear? JAMIE & PHILIP: Yeah.
Good.
Okay, run upstairs, wash your hands, wash your faces, put your gear up.
- How about you, Mother? - Oh, exhausting.
But I planned on that.
The food was better than last year.
- That's good.
- But we sure did miss you.
- Did you get your typing done? - No.
Oh, you see? Work, work, work.
You gotta take some time for yourself.
- You need something exciting to happen.
- I need some excitement.
I wanna hear all about the trip.
I'll make some sandwiches Oh, sounds marvelous.
It's the first time in two days that I haven't skewered something to a stick and hung it over a campfire.
- We'll be down in five minutes.
- Okay.
Come on, boys, let's get that stuff put away.
Hurry up, now.
[SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Amanda? Is the coast clear? No, the coast isn't clear.
Mother and the boys are upstairs.
Ah.
- I thought you left.
- Well, I did.
But I came back.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
You forgot your toothbrush.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]