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Comrades, as you know I began this instruction course ...

... with 140 men.

140.

Now narrowed down to just four.

And this assignment for which you have been trained ...

... requires only to.

Intelligence ...

... skill experience.

There is nothing to choose among the four of you.

How to choose?

Reet. Ivan.

A trial of combat between you.

And you Perov ...

... against Nada.

You have practiced fighting against each other many times.

But this time it will be different.

This time, it will be the last time.

Because it is a fight ...

... to the death.

At the end of the bout ...

... two of you will be dead.

The two survivors will accompany me ...

... on the most difficult and dangerous mission.

When my handkerchief touches the ground.

Comrades.

Did you hear that gunshot? - Not a thing.

This is the place then.

Quiet.

Settle the deal immediately. We have to move fast.

They will be arriving in just one week. - Yes, sir.

That's them. Karl Sminsky and two aides. Cultural attaches.

Cultural attaches? They're KGB.

Well, they don't give us much trouble.

Yeah, if they mean trouble some poor guy at their embassy.

None of our business. All we have to do is keep an eye on.

A vacation Steed.

In Toronto?

Oh, come on. You're a hunting and fishing man.

If we're really an vacation, you'd be somewhere up north.

I'm on a working holiday.

And your two compatries. They're ...

Well, they're here to help me enjoy my holiday.

Steed.

John.

I'm your friend, remember?

You stood on my shoulders, when we shined over the wall.

As a matter of fact ...

... used it on mine.

We hear about Karl Sminsky.

What about him?

He's an enigma. A red army colonel, first class.

A KGB agent on special assignment.

Looks like an ex-heavy weight, moves like a cat.

That's about all we know about him. - Except?

Except that he disappeared about two years ago.

The rumor has it that he was in Siberia on a special training mission.

And now he's popped up again in Canada.

As a cultural attache.

I know.

Well, as security chief it's my job to know.

Sminsky and two aides entered this country three days ago.

I've had my men tailing him ever since.

Sminsky and his boys have been good as gold. No problems.

Conclusion?

Well, they're here to pull some rotten apple out of their own barrel.

Take it back to Moscow.

I wonder.

Good as gold.

Well, in that case, I can relax and enjoy my holiday.

What about us?

Greek tavern on Dundas Street still serves a wonderful mousaka.

Rogers, Rogers! Hey!

They're not carrying off a defector.

On that three valises.

Nonetheless. - Oh, yeah, head in one, legs in the other, torso in the other.

Come on Rogers. You're fantasizing.

You're becoming a romantic. - Well, we better stay closer.

Check them out.

Rogers to headquarters.

Saminsky and company have taken off in a light chevy.

Registration.

L-Y-D ...

... 9-5-1. Heading north.

We're in pursuit, we'll stay in touch.

Still with us.

Rogers to headquarters.

We're getting closer. Better switch on the scrambler.

We're pursuing Sminsky along ...

Rogers to headquarters.

Roger's to headquarters.

This is one hell of a time for it to break down.

I think, we should stop and call in.

And lose them? No way.

Ten seconds to go.

That's precision Cresta. Take note and learn.

Comrade. Colonel.

We're followed.

But don't worry. They will take care of it.

Cool it, they're not carrying.

We're lost, right? Missed the main turn of.

Hi, there.

Maybe you can help us.

We're trying to find ...

It's not finished yet.

Still haven't got the heating or air conditioning set up.

Heating?

Air conditioning?

Does the lion need heating?

Air conditioning.

No comforts.

Nothing to seduce or weaken the body or its spirit.

I am going to give you gladiators, comrade. Men so dedicated, so conditioned ...

... that death.

Will be the gentlest most welcome thing ...

... they ever experienced.

John.

I ask you here to do just one thing.

Louse up your vacation. - Karl Sminsky.

Maybe you were right about him.

I don't know.

All I do know is that the two boys I had tailing him have disappeared.

Hartley and Rogers. Two of my best men.

They were tailing him from the embassy.

Heading north in a dark limousine.

You told London. London told me.

I've read the riot act of their ambassador.

They're sending their diplomatic attache ...

... over see if he can come up with any explanations.

John.

Would you ...

Stay sit and offer advice delighted.

Oh, Chuck. - Hmm? - You're wrong about one thing.

That mousaka at the greek taverna. It isn't as good as it was.

It's better.

I've got men out covering the rude Hartley and Rogers took.

Then they'll probably run into Purdey and Gambit.

It was just about here that Hartley and Rogers made their last radio call.

Well, I soppose to say it's a big country.

- Yes, needle in a haystack. - Negative thinking Gambit.

Give me something positive to hold on to.

Well.

But what if Columbus had said that?

- But he didn't. - Exactly.

Yes, all right. Have him come in.

Karnikov. The diplomatic man.

John, I think you better just sit and listen. I know this guy. I mean ...

... really know him.

I spent the last five years building up a rapport with him.

Hard to get through to. I'm sure, I know him now better than anybody.

Steed. John Steed

Oh, nobody told me you were here. - Boris.

What a surprise. What a pleasure.

Good day, Mr. Peters. - Mr. Tarnakoff.

You must come out to my apartment sometime soon.

I have the caviar as you like it. - Chill?

But not frozen and vodka from The Crimea. You know how they gently smoke ...

The grain.

And then allow a second fermentation before it even sees the still.

Exactly. Oh, he should have been Russian.

It is one of the crimes of nature he wasn't born the Russia.

How are you my old friend? Hey, you managed to shake off ...

... the attentions of that beautiful Bolshoi ballerina.

- It wasn't easy. - Because you are so Russian.

I have never seen an Englishman who is so Russian.

Even some of our best Russian are not as Russian as he is.

Oh, do me a favor my friend. Defect.

Defect and we will spend our days together sampling vodka ...

Mr. Tarnokoff.

Oh, yes.

I have to register an official protest.

Oh, not directed at you John. Understand that. No, not at you.

I, Zinevch Tolstoy Tchaikovsky ...

My mother had a weakness for popular music.

... Pushkin Tarnokoff.

On behalf of ... Can we have that as red?

... a wish to formally protest at abduction or concealment of ...

... colonel Karl Schminski and his two aides. - What?

Abduction? - Of his two aides. Ivan Lesnotoff ...

Abduction?

Are you crazy?

I am Tarnokoff. Diplomatic attache.

We do not have crazy diplomatic attaches or not very many ...

Listen.

We just lost two security men ... - All I can say to that is ...

... you are very careless.

They were following Sminsky. - Ah ...

You admit. They were under surveillance.

Have I not trumped his ace? Are you proud of me?

I think, all our wires are dangerously crossed.

Now, Chuck has lost two security men. - Right.

You have lost colonel Sminsky and two men.

Two against our three. I win. Don't I?

For the moment, I think, we're all losing.

We don't have your colonel Sminsky. - No?

No. And you don't have Hartley and Rogers.

- Definitely. - So far as you know ...

... Colonel Sminsky is KGB.

I'm not admitting to that.

Let's suppose he's KGB.

Isn't it possible that he could be up to something ...

... which your embassy knows nothing about?

Let's not being negative Purdey. but where are they now?

- All of them. - All of them?

One at a time.

Come on Gambit, what else can we do? - What else?

Gambit, what's wrong?

I thought, I recognized someone.

But now, he couldn't be.

You keep in trim?

Every day. 10 hours a day.

Building beautiful muscle?

But what about strenght?

He's no good. - I'm sorry colonel.

We'll send him back. - Back?

His body reeks of vanity. And no doubt, his personality too.

He'll talk. He'll boast

No, he can never go back.

He must be killed.

You.

You do it. - Me?

No stomach for it?

No colonel. It's just unexpected, that's all.

Now? - The west have a say;

No time like the present.

Not very quick.

But efficient. - Thank you, sir.

Yes. Yes. A very useful demonstration.

You know this perhaps, the angle of the forearm ...

... now, that was perfect.

But the placing of the feet ...

... too wide apart.

You must gain strength from the ground you stand on.

Like a rose. Yes, it's like a rose.

Throw it. Apply it and ...

But that is only strength.

Now.

Reflexes.

Reflexes are important too.

Good, very good. An excellent beginning.

We shall start right away.

On a comparatively easy art of fending sharp weapons.

You have the knives? - Not yet colonel.

But I can send Cresta. - No need.

Nada. You will go and buy what we need.

You.

You go with him.

Get to know each other. I see you two as a team.

And now, reflexes!

Not at the moment. You are flabby, unalert.

I intend to mold you own you like a sharp knife.

Yes, friend. What can I do for you?

These knives.

- These? - This one.

They're the finest you'll find in these parts.

Swedish design.

Steel from Britain. And a good wooden handle ...

... from the forest of our very own great country and only five dollars a piece.

- I'll take a dozen. - A dozen?

- A dozen. - Certainly, friend.

You must be do an awful lot of cutting. - Yes.

Maybe you're going to give them as gifts say to the hunting fraternity.

Perhaps.

Or maybe, it's for a scout group?

Sixty dollars.

Asked you a question friend. - No, Jed.

- I'm talking to my friend here. - No spoiling for trouble.

I said, I was asking my friend a question.

No. They're not for the boys scout troop.

You could have fooled me.

I thought, you'd be happier playing with the trooper little boys.

Come on.

Hey.

Why are you molesting me?

I do not want trouble. - Did you hear? That bird molested.

Well talks hardly English. That's foreigners English.

Well, I do want trouble, you see? I'll tell you why.

Cause you're too damn big.

Every time, I see a man as big as you, I get to wondering is he better than me.

He's just gotta know.

Come on, let's go. - He's just gotta know.

Molesting? You don't know what molesting is.

But you're gonna know.

You're gonna ...

Trouble somewhere. Worth a look, do you think?

Well, trouble is our business.

A brown window van. Did you get a license number?

- No. - But there were two guys, eh?

Which one used the knife on it? - He didn't use the knife.

Hey, this place is closed down!

He was nearly reaching into his pocket for his id.

- British agnet, huh? - As the Union Jack.

All right, you can stay, but this is no place for a lady.

Lady?

Oh, you mean Purdey. She's not the fainting kind.

What happened to him? - Two guys got into a brawl.

One pulled a knife on the other.

I tried to tell him that he didn't use a knife.

What then, an axe?

He used his hand.

He did that with his hand.

Come on his clothes are ripped wide open. - I am telling you he used his hand.

You saw it.

That's right.

A bare hand, I saw it.

I never saw any like it before. Just like that.

Then you saw the man who did it.

Yeah.

Big guy.

Almost as big as poor Jed there.

Spoke with a ...

... foreign accent. - What kind of a foreign accent?

I don't know. German.

Dutch maybe, I don't know. - What about the guy that was with him?

He was Irish.

What did he look like?

Uh, he was tall, dark. Kind of a smiley face.

Well-built, not over heavy, mustache.

Well, we leave here to boys to.

As you said, it's a local brawl and nothing to concern us.

Tell me Gambit.

Tell you what? - Gambit.

The Irishman.

Same as the face you recognized before. - Yes, Tom O'Hara.

Friend of yours? - Hardly. He tried to kill me once.

He's a paid killer.

Our headquarters are a bit different from yours, hey Steed?

Well, it does lack. The ...

... occasional strenght of worn carpet.

The aroma of brewing tea.

There's not a single umbrella rack in sight.

Visitors.

We have an open day each year.

An open day?

In security? - Well, it's good pr.

Stay behind closed doors too long ...

... pretty soon the ordinary guy in the street begins to wonder ...

... what you have to hide. Pretty soon you become some kind of ogre.

Besides the ordinary guy in the street ...

... is the electorate. The man who paid your wages.

That's right.

But open day. - Well, we cheat a little.

All the real stuff stay safely out of the way.

Behind solid steel.

The computer room, records, heart of the organization.

I'm fascinated by the guided tour.

But there's still something you haven't, told me isn't it?

Oh, you're an incredible Steed, you know that.

You read minds as well. - No, no. I observe human nature.

You're jittery - Well, on the count of Karl Sminsky.

You got me thinking. So I ran a special check on him.

- And? - He was in Siberia.

Before that he attended The Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.

They don't teach the classics there ... - Oh, yes, they do modern classics.

Guarelle warfare terrorism how to kill maim destroy,

but never had to live in peace. - Uh, right.

- So Karl Sminsky majored there. - We don't know that he got academically ...

Oh, yes, he did.

My knowledge of him tells me that he got the very highest honors.

But in which field of human endeavor?

A thin sheet of steel.

Resilient ...

... impenetrable.

Unless one is armed with steel cutters.

Impenetrable.

And yet.

Nada.

I will not expect the same performance from you.

Not for a day or two.

But dent it that I will expect today.

And you know there is no room for a failure here.

Average.

You struck at the metal.

When you should strike ...

... behind it.

Not that you like courage or determination.

Only experience.

It's very hit-and-miss Gambit. - Correction.

It's all miss at the moment.

Tom O'Hara. - If it was O'Hara. - It was.

He and another man came to pick up knives. Hunting knives.

No, they didn't. They wouldn't.

Drive a hundred miles to pick up that kind of thing.

So there must be an immediate area, right? - Right.

Gambit? - Yes?

- Do they have vultures in Canada? - I don't know.

Carrion birds, yes? - Then that's what they are.

- What? - They're over the river, carrion birds.

No carrion birds.

Well, we would have frightened them away, wouldn't we?

But it was just about here, wasn't it?

Or perhaps deeper in. - No, it's here.

Just about here.

Purdey.

Purdey, why don't you go back to the car and wait?

I'm not the fainting kind, remember?

A girl can always change her mind.

Knives.

The west have a saying.

The flesh is weak.

It is. Certainly no resistance ...

... against a dagger point.

Unless ...

... one moves first.

Striking back against that sharp point.

So the man who is holding the knife is thrown back.

O'Hara.

Kill me. I mean it.

Try to kill me. Almost certainly, I shall kill you.

But that was simple.

Child's play.

Soon I will show you how ...

... to evade a bullet.

There's ...

... something else I haven't told you.

Well, it's our internal security. Why should I tell you?

Because we're the best of friends.

That'll do.

We keep a file on undesirables. Troublemakers, potential terrorists.

- So do we. - Yes, well.

Our file has diminished.

- What? - In the past few week,

... maybe a dozen or so of those undesirables have either left Canada or disappeared.

Since Karl Sminsky arrived?

About that time, yes.

Excuse me.

Gambit?

Gambit.

Gambit, where are you?

Come in.

Steed?

- Where are you? - Where are we?

- About three miles east. - About three miles east of ...

- Route 28. - Route 28 ...

... by the river.

We found Hartley and Rogers ...

... in their car. - Stay there. I'm coming over.

Stay here. That's what the man said.

This machine carbine fires upwards of 30 rounds.

The time in space between each row ...

... is 0,57 of a second.

If a man can move his hands at 0,56 ...

... of a second,

... he can beat this sophisticated weapon.

It all depends upon when he begins.

That small flash of movement, when the trigger is pulled ...

... and before the firing pin hits the first bullet.

If you hear the sound the firing pin,

... it is the last sound you will hear.

Because you ...

... are already dead.

Superman?

No.

Super reflexes. Trained reflexes.

A skill that is the amalgam of everything that is best in karate.

Sumo. Ju Jitsu.

The very essence of the mystique of the martial arts of the east.

But nevertheless ...

... a skill without magic.

A skill to be acquired by training and dedication.

A skill that I can pass on to you.

A call for you colonel Sminsky.

Direct from the Kremlin, colonel.

Colonel Sminsky.

Would come with you marshall? That is not possible.

Not probable. It is not probable.

I've only just begun my training schemes one of my men.

He's ready for such a plan, but ...

I will marshall. If it must be done ...

I mean, have to wait we shall do it.

You got trouble? - Trouble we can share.

What?

Down there in a car are two dead men.

- You're kidding. - I wish, we were.

Good day officer.

Hartley and Rogers?

Why don't you come along too?

After all, it's your country. After you.

When our mission is completed, we shall return. Meanwhile ...

... you are in charge here.

Keep them trained.

How?

Like wet cement. Keep them punching till it dries hard.

Hey, that's just like the other guy.

Clothes torn apart with a single blow.

The other one looks like he's been hit by an express train.

- What's going on here? - When we find out, we'll let you know.

- Do you know this area? - Been patrolling it for five years.

Any houses around here?

Well, there's a few. A couple down that way.

Another over there. One over the hill. Not exactly overpopulated.

Well, we should split up and check them out. Gambit?

- I'll take this way. - I'll handle this way.

Purdey, that leaves you and me. Over the hill.

I'd accept that any day.

Colonel.

Use the after path.

If anything goes wrong ...

... you shall be dead. - West has a saying colonel.

Everyone has to die sometime.

Very well.

This route lead through to town?

There colonel. A dirt road through the woods.

Eventually meets up with the main route.

This all has to do with Karl Sminsky, doesn't it?

- It's just a theory. - Well, so is Newton's law of gravity.

There are certain places in The Eastern Hemisphere.

Where men are trained in subversion.

I know those places.

Some of them masquerade as universities.

They're really courses on sophisticated killings.

Honors in anarchy.

But there's one weak link. We know who attend those courses.

We can keep an eye on them afterwards. But suppose ...

But suppose there were mobile universities.

Have lecture, will travel.

One man.

Sminsky?

Available in any country teaching the potential bad lads.

Steed.

I thought, I heard a car.

Hold it.

Who are you guys? What are you doing here?

I said hold it right there.

One more step and I ...

They took off that way.

They came from that way.

Sorry. Wrong side of the road.

If you're really interested ...

... come with me.

We'll try to give you a suitable welcome.

Well ...

A case of mixed fortunes.

Good for us.

Bad.

Very bad ...

... for you.

Comrades.

We have live targets for you to practice upon.

The man perhaps.

He looks as though he might be a worthy opponent for our students.

But not the girl.

So slim.

One blow might demolish her. - Well ...

Perhaps we'll keep her around for more ...

... pleasurable purposes. - Well, remark like that ...

... could make Purdey rather annoyed.

And what does Purdey do, when Purdey gets annoyed?

Thank you gentlemen. No further.

Go ahead. Shoot. You can't touch me.

Go on shoot.

Can I oblige anyone else?

All right Purdey, lock them up.

That'll be one dollar please.

Hold it there please mister.

My readout tells me, you're carrying a gun. - That's right.

And my reader ...

... says I'm entitled to. - Not today mister.

Look, I'm after the two men that killed Hartley and Rogers.

And I think, they're in here. - If they are then ...

... they're not carrying guns. - Check with Charles Peters.

You know, Chuck Peters. Your boss.

We'll do that mister. After you've handed over that gun.

Modern detectors have made it virtually impossible to smuggle a gun.

Or even a knife onto an airplane.

Or indeed into any secure area.

No matter.

With my training you shall become the weapon ...

... able to punch a hole in the fuselage of a plane.

Able to tear thin steel as though it were paper.

I think, I better check the cellar door.

No Purdey.

Tear thin steel.

We have to get back to town.

Now, we'll take the stairs down to.

On this floor are situated the forensics laboratory.

Will not be easy.

But behind this door lies the whole computer brain.

With destroying that ...

... we will wipe out 20 years of accumulated knowledge.

We will put their security system back 20 years.

Contact Chuck Peters please.

Hey, wait a minute.

You still want to be here tomorrow, call him.

Calling Mr. Chuck Peters. Calling Mr. Peters.

Come in please. Report to the main lobby.

Mr. Peters. - Oh, hello Mr. Gambit.

I just have to answer a call. I'll be right back.

Listen.

The men who killed Hartley and Rogers.

I think, they're here. In this building. - What?

That's one of them.

Tom O'Hara. You must have him on fire.

- O'Hara? This way. - Mr. Peters,

Report to the front entrance immediately.

That's all I can do.

When he arrives, tell him we're on the top floor.

What was he doing here?

Checking their getaway route the cars outside. But where are they?

Sweat him. We'll make him talk. - Oh, you might. You just might.

But not in time.

Time.

The top floor.

Damn! Come on.

Kill him.

Hold it right there. - Steed, his hand is evil!

Only if they touch you.

Gambit?

Come in.

Yes.

You've gained a victory over the students.

But you will not fare so well ...

... with a master.

Sminsky, I've seen that before. Concentrate on the weapon.

On the projectile.

But I'm puzzled.

How would it work with two projectiles?

No. It doesn't work with two, does it?

Oh, well, back to the old drawing board.

Nice fighting.

- Nice shooting. - Nice holiday.

Gambit.

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