The Vault (Mission: Impossible)

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Costa Mateo, Central America: Minister of Finance Phillipe Pereda has stolen $40 million from the official vault of Presidente De Varo and store it in a Swiss bank ("Zuricher Kreditbank") to avoid the costly modernization of the country and to take the power by accusing of corruption the Presidente. To reverse Pereda's Machiavellian plan, Barney's safecracking technique and Rollin's acting ability serve to trap and expose the plotter in his own game and saves the honour of the Presidente.

[edit] Cast and details

Crooked Minister of Finance Phillipe Pereda and his right-hand man officer Ortega, Presidente Miguel De Varo and his assistant Paulo, the Security officer are played by Nehemiah Persoff and Jerry Riggio, Rodolfo Acosta and Taldo Kenyon, Ray Martell; Featuring K.D.F. aka the International Auditors that consist of three men (only one has a quoted name: Steiner) who check bank accounts--after a long absence (season 1 "Odds on Evil"), Persoff returns again as a mannered double-crosser money man and shines especially when he is confident in front of the fake Presidente ("Yes, your Excellency… Good night.") and locked in, screams for help and bangs on the mute door: "Ortega! Ortega!". Details of this episode are not so far away from the pilot: the name of the country (here, Costa Mateo and there, Santa Costa), the magnetic disk to open the exit safe and the three codes to open (here, sonic codes and there, color codes).

Jim poses as the (Soviet) representative of the People's Trade Commissariat Comrade Nikolai Validin (assisted by Cinnamon) that wants to conclude a deal (technicians - equipments and $100 million in exchange of four strategic military outposts) with Presidente De Varo who refuses but not Pereda who later asks $120 million in his private office, located in the sixth floor; Jim refers to the neighbouring country named Santo Tomas and asserts he has taken a room at the San Cristobal Hotel (room E3); in the corridor of the hotel, Jim knocks down Pereda's agent (sent to tail Friedrich Vinder and Irena Vorska).

Cinnamon poses as the (Soviet) representative of the People's Trade Commissariat Comrade Irena Vorska; Cinnamon pretends to seduce Rollin/Vinder to move him away from the vault (the couple plays a very amusing scene and Cinnamon concludes: "And I don't believe you're an accountant at all. I think you must be a poet".).

Rollin poses as shy German accountant Friedrich Vinder with small and strict spectacles, the head of the private "Weltriken and Company" that is sent with three men (Rollin works with Herr Steiner) to check the finance of the "Ministerio del Tesoro" aka Ministry of the Treasure; Rollin imitates the voice of De Varo (at the vault's office to scare Ortega and Pereda), and, at his hotel room, he disguises as the Presidente (see the surprising scene that reveals Rollin's back to Cinnamon) and calls the real Presidente about the robbery; later, still disguised as the Presidente, he confuses Pereda, opens the vault, adds a red dot transmitter to the edge of the door and leaves triumphant with a smile on his face.

Willy first poses as a cleaning man from "Costa Mateo Ciudad Conservacion" who polishes a floor that delays the Security officer to help Barney and poses as the chauffeur of the fake Presidente De Varo.

Barney is hidden in Willy's cleaning trolley to step into the "Oficina of Seguridad" and does the risky blue collar job from the "exit" safe (he uses a blowtorch shotgun to open the back door of the exit safe and removes it with a magnetic suction pad, sticks a magnetic disk that turns the safe's knob, adds a magnetic bug to record the Presidente's three sonic codes, to simulate a robbery he puts a hole in the main vault's door thanks again to the blowtorch shotgun, unfolds a mock-up of the door's exit safe, locked in Pereda inside the Presidente's vault by remote control) to the Presidente's vault; Barney removes his blue overall and poses as a Security guard to leave the Ministry with Rollin.

As in "The Bunker", an audio frequency is used to open a very important door. Three characters use proto-walkman to open the Presidente's vault: Pereda, Barney, Rollin-as-De Varo. As in "Operation--Heart", a close friend of a leader betrays him and plots behind his back.