Illusion (Mission: Impossible)

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[edit] Summary

In order to help pro-Western world East German candidate Paul Trock for becoming the new secret police head, the IMF manipulates and excites the emotions and feelings of mentally-ill Emil Skarbeck with the sordid past love affair of Carlotta Kleve at the Traumerie Café so that he eliminates his rival: officer Kurt Lom.

[edit] Cast and details

Officer Kurt Lom, his silent assistant Otto, Paul Trock, unbalanced Emil Skarbeck are played by Kevin Hagen, Horst Ebersberg, Martin E. Brooks and Fritz Weaver--Weaver's deranged character is more engrossing than his flat season 2 one and is described as an "emotional time bomb" in the apartment scene.

Jim poses as journalist Eric Neustadt, real name: Dietriech Becker, the revengeful brother of psychiatrist Dr. Josef Becker murdered by his patient Emil Skarbeck-- Otto watches Skarbeck's flat, witnesses Willy putting Skarbeck's body in the car, and on his way to gun down Cinnamon, Jim knocks him out in the rear.

Rollin poses as side show freak (comedian, pianist) Fritz Elb, formerly Fritz Mueller, a masked clown with an injured face a la "The Phantom of the Opera" and also disguised as Kurt Lom--in his Traumerie dressing room, to excite Skarbeck's jealousy, Rollin activates a tape player that let hear laughs of him and Cinnamon.

Cinnamon poses as hot cabaret singer Mona Bern in the line of Marlene Dietrich who emulates the style of the late Carlotta Cleve and teases with her pink garters accompanied by Rollin! At Morgenstrabe 15, Cinnamon forces Skarbeck's repressed impulses: Cinnamon-as-Mona is kissed by Skarbeck when Rollin-as-Fritz rings the bell to look for Mona and bring her home. Skarbeck is annoyed and runs to the bathroom to get a pill and thirty seconds later collapse at the sight of Barney and Jim breaking in. Jim conditions Skarbeck and asks him to confess the murder of Carlotta Kleve. Cinnamon does so when she gives him back a blank recording and states that she has an affair with Lom so Skarbeck strangles her but she stings him with a needle containing a knockout drop... they both faint.

As in "Old Man Out", Barney poses as a clown but, here, as a replacement of Rollin, helped by a vinyl record, for the unexpected outcome! At Morgenstrabe 15 again, Barney breaks in Skarbeck's flat thanks to a piece of glass that allows him to open the window and substitutes the standard pills by pink hypnotic ones and adds a transmitter in the cape of the pills' tube to be warned by Skarbeck's take.

Willy poses as a stage worker who takes care of the light show and also as a cab driver to bring Skarbeck to the Traumerie Café.

The irony is that both East German sides are skeptical and paranoid: Cinnamon-as-Mona makes Skarbeck believe that Kurt Lom pays her 10,000 Marks to seduce him but Skarbeck asks to do so on Lom by using a mini tape recorder. On the other hand, Jim-as-Neustadt shows Kurt Lom a letter of his dead brother proving that Skarbeck is mad and suggests him to hire Mona Bern to spy on Skarbeck. Kurt Lom discovers the tape recorder of Cinnamon and pays her 25,000 Marks to spy on Skarbeck: the cycle is completed! For the anecdote, the building of Skarbeck is already used in "Live Bait" but for Stephanie and in Lom's flat, you can see the painting used to hide the safe of Walter Townsend in "The Mind of Stefan Miklos".