Sloane is on the trail of a Japanese mercenary called Tiger Person, who has recently joined a private army. After catching the secret agent having a drink with his girlfriend, Tiger Person attacks him, but Sloane retaliates in force, so the soldier flees from the scene. Sloane and Torque give chase but before they can capture him, he takes a drug designed to wipe out his memory.
Around the same time, a safe belonging to a high-ranking U.S. General is broken into and a dossier stolen. Actually, the safe has been made to crumble to dust, courtesy of a new device that causes instant metal fatigue and which resembles a big tuning fork.
The top expert in the country on such matters is one Carl Updike. Sloane goes to his office, only to find him unavailable. Before he leaves he plants a bugging device.
Sloane overhears a worried Alice Baker - Updike's secretary - contacting a man over the phone. He tells her to go to a secret rendezvous with his helicopter. She does so, but the chopper pilot tries to shoot her. She is saved by the unexpected intervention of Sloane. The chopper is traced to a company used as a front by one General William P. McEvoy, known to all and sundry as 'Wild Bill'. Booted out of the U.S. army for playing 'nuclear chicken' ( I have no idea what that means either ), he has joined forces with KARTEL and intends to use the metal debilitator to assist in the theft of an atom bomb from a research centre in Nevada...
One of two 'Sloane' episodes penned by Dick Nelson, whose other writing credits include 'It Takes A Thief' and 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'. He had previously been an actor, and played 'Dan Forrester' in a Laurel & Hardy picture called 'Great Guns'. Geoffrey Lewis, who plays 'McEvoy', appeared as a THRUSH agent in 'The Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E: The Fifteen Years Later Affair' T.V. movie in 1983.
Don Bagley's incidental music comes perilously close to echoing Lalo Schrfrin's 'The Plot', used in countless 'Mission: Impossible' episodes. The theme of renegade soldiers was also explored in 'The New Avengers' episode 'Dirtier By The Dozen' in 1976, while the metal debilitator may or may not have been inspired by the spray used to destroy wood in 'The Avengers' episode 'The Rotters' ( 1968 ). Poor Torque has his cybernetic hand disintegrated at one point.
Sloane's gadgets - a fishing rod which doubles as a gun, and a cigar containing a chemical designed to render guns ( and bombs ) ineffective.
This episode must have had quite a tidy budget, what with a helicopter and a tank popping into the storyline. Denise DuBarry, cast as the wonderfully named 'Corporal Comfort', looks good even in army denims.
Around the same time, a safe belonging to a high-ranking U.S. General is broken into and a dossier stolen. Actually, the safe has been made to crumble to dust, courtesy of a new device that causes instant metal fatigue and which resembles a big tuning fork.
The top expert in the country on such matters is one Carl Updike. Sloane goes to his office, only to find him unavailable. Before he leaves he plants a bugging device.
Sloane overhears a worried Alice Baker - Updike's secretary - contacting a man over the phone. He tells her to go to a secret rendezvous with his helicopter. She does so, but the chopper pilot tries to shoot her. She is saved by the unexpected intervention of Sloane. The chopper is traced to a company used as a front by one General William P. McEvoy, known to all and sundry as 'Wild Bill'. Booted out of the U.S. army for playing 'nuclear chicken' ( I have no idea what that means either ), he has joined forces with KARTEL and intends to use the metal debilitator to assist in the theft of an atom bomb from a research centre in Nevada...
One of two 'Sloane' episodes penned by Dick Nelson, whose other writing credits include 'It Takes A Thief' and 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'. He had previously been an actor, and played 'Dan Forrester' in a Laurel & Hardy picture called 'Great Guns'. Geoffrey Lewis, who plays 'McEvoy', appeared as a THRUSH agent in 'The Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E: The Fifteen Years Later Affair' T.V. movie in 1983.
Don Bagley's incidental music comes perilously close to echoing Lalo Schrfrin's 'The Plot', used in countless 'Mission: Impossible' episodes. The theme of renegade soldiers was also explored in 'The New Avengers' episode 'Dirtier By The Dozen' in 1976, while the metal debilitator may or may not have been inspired by the spray used to destroy wood in 'The Avengers' episode 'The Rotters' ( 1968 ). Poor Torque has his cybernetic hand disintegrated at one point.
Sloane's gadgets - a fishing rod which doubles as a gun, and a cigar containing a chemical designed to render guns ( and bombs ) ineffective.
This episode must have had quite a tidy budget, what with a helicopter and a tank popping into the storyline. Denise DuBarry, cast as the wonderfully named 'Corporal Comfort', looks good even in army denims.