The Interrogator (Mission: Impossible)

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Contents 1 Tape scene: 2 Summary: 3 Cast and details: 4 Stock music:

[edit] Tape scene:

Recycled, shortened and edited from the season 2 "Charity".

[edit] Summary:

Despite severe Soviet interrogations by Colonel Friedrich Spindler, East German agent Norvan Kruger refuses to reveal the location of a major attack against the United States via missiles launched by submarines. Enroute to execution by car, the IMF captures Spindler and Kruger who is drugged to provoke temporary amnesia and brought to a replica of his castle home: the Lobinsk prison. In order to make Kruger confess the vital information (20 miles southwest of Resnik Island) before 3 P.M., the IMF forces him to interrogate a false convict named Oscar Manfred.

[edit] Cast and details:

State Security Interrogator Colonel Friedrich Spindler and his right-hand man Rostov, prisoner Colonel Norvan Kruger are played by Gunnar Hellstrom (returning from the season 1 "The Legend") and Erik Holland, Henry Silva--both Spindler and Kruger have German names and are from different sides? Featuring four men from the Hartford Repertory Company (the file only shows three men): an extra posing as a State truck driver along with Barney, an extra as a Lobinsk prison warder, an extra (Vincent Van Lynn) posing as General Kutzof over the phone and, later, inside the Lobinsk prison along with another extra as an armed soldier.

Kruger first carries an American blue jean convict outfit and a military uniform whose white shirt is covered by three blood spots. He has frequent subliminal memories (facial extreme close-ups and intercuts of his wife in slow motion, him as a boy chasing butterflies - as a former brown-leathered war interrogator and as a convict seen through the reflection of Spindler's sunglasses, Spindler in the interrogation room) between "The Execution" and "The Mind of Stefan Miklos", hallucinations and psychic transfer with Rollin: the interrogation room and the cell. Latin Henry Silva is supposed to be an East German? One year earlier, Silva appeared as Soviet psychiatrist-torturer Dr. John Akivic in a "I Spy" episode entitled "Anyplace I Hang myself is Home". As in "Operation Rogosh" (see Imry Rogosh in the Stefan Castle State Prison), Colonel Spindler wakes up in a Lobinsk prison's cell as convict #68647 and, later, to avoid being gagged by Willy, recites a top secret code to Jim: Red code, blue 9, 758.

Jim, hidden in the bush, first presses a button of a remote control to trigger the destruction of the State car's motor engine and then poses as a Lobinsk prison Major to cook in disdain Spindler and as prison psychiatrist Dr. Drago who helps Kruger and injects truth drug to Rollin-as-Manfred; Jim watches through a hidden eyepiece Kruger awaking in his bedroom: abducted Kruger alone in a dark room remind a similar situation with Stephanie in "Live Bait"--see the recycled footage of the decorated ceiling; Jim communicates with Rollin and Barney via a bug hidden under the clock of the interrogation room; Jim injects a sedative in the neck of Kruger after his confession.

Rollin poses as a fake Lobinsk prison doctor to examin Spindler, drugged convict #64739 Oscar Manfred and also disguises as Spindler re-named Major Dietrich Werner aka Mrs. Anna Kruger's lover; Rollin as a convict moves his lips and doesn't talk to drive Kruger mad and then reverses the roles and, as in "A Cube of Sugar", Rollin reacts violently against the authority figure and, here, strangles Kruger (via a swift hand-held camera shot). As Reisner in "The Glass Cage", Rollin's interrogation chair comes from "The Execution".

Cinnamon poses as Kruger's adultary red hair wife, Anna.

Barney first sneaks into Spindler's HQ by the roof, goes down in the garage and, under the State car, installs a detonator whose wire is connected to the engine; he then poses as a State truck officer who gases down through a little hole both foes in the back of the State Citroen truck. During the apartment scene he shows Jim two faked pictures: Kruger with Cinnamon and Kruger's wife with Rollin.

Willy installs a pulley and tightens a metallic cable from one tree to another to make a side-car motorcycle State driver fall and then poses as a Lobinsk prison warder that is armed with a long stick to gag Spindler.

Act I starts with a footage from "The Spy" to depict the Security HQ. As in "The Exchange" and "The Bunker", the foe (Spindler) is lead in an old 1960's New York Checker black cab camouflaged with the emblem (a black eagle) of the country--you can even notice the New Jersey plate (H NJ 2825) at the exit of the HQ's garage.

[edit] Stock music:

• "The Mind of Stefan Miklos" (dominant) • "The Execution" (Barney is driven by a State Citroen truck and he is stopped by Spindler)