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Princess is under close security. The guards have been assigned to her since

marriage to Prince Arkady.

They're well trained.

And they would die for her.

Every man has his price.

As you've demonstrated, my friend.

Next.

How often is the palace guard changed?

There is six units of eight men each.

Working in shifts.

The guard detail is changed every four hours.

That's all I have.

You've done well.

Betrayed my country.

I'm sure this will comfort your conscience.

No need for that.

You're in a very dangerous neighborhood.

What will happen to her?

I think you know as much as you need.

Coordination. Rhythm and coordination. I guess that's what counts.

Yeah, well, Teacher Rogers had rhythm and coordination, but I don't think

have made the crew.

I rode Stroke on the Berkeley Fours.

That's a while ago now.

Take a look at the blue shell. That'll bring back old times.

Good morning, Jim.

Elaine Murchison was the daughter of the United States ambassador to the small

European principality of Valence, where she met and fell in love with Prince

Arkady, the country's ruler.

They were married late last year.

Valence has for many years been allied to the Warsaw Pact nations.

Because of Elaine's influence and his increasing exposure to American ways,

Prince Arkady has begun to negotiate an alliance with the West.

and has begun the democratization of his own country.

This alliance would include a new American naval base in Valance Harbor,

improve our deterrent capability in Europe, and help to maintain peace and

stability in the area, none of which would suit this man, Gregor Caron, a

anti -American and leader of a group known as the Valance Red Guard.

Caron is dedicated to preventing the Prince's alliance with the West.

We believe he has offered a million dollars to employ an assassin to kill

Princess Elaine as the first step in a campaign of terror against the prince.

Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to prevent the

assassination and to bring Caron to justice.

As always, should you or any of your I .M. force be caught or killed, the

secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

This disc will self -destruct in five seconds.

Good luck, Jim.

A million -dollar assassination.

The Valencia guards are very wealthy terrorists.

No, not anymore.

That payment seems to have emptied their treasury and put them in serious debt

to Libya, who financed them. So it's almost certain that Caron is going to be

needing a new source of income, and urgently, because Libya doesn't like to

kept waiting.

Why don't they just fly the princess to America until the plot's been defused?

Well, that seems the logical thing to do.

Well, it would be if it weren't for Princess Elaine herself. But she's a

independent young lady, and she's determined not to be scared off from

out her official duties.

What's so important she can't wait a week or so?

Only this.

Hmm.

A film festival?

Yes. This year, the Principality of Valence is host to the European Film

Festival, and the princess is their patroness.

What, if she's prepared to risk her life for that?

Well, Valance's economy is based largely on tourism. The festival's very

important to them.

All those visitors.

Crowds.

Personal appearances.

She's going to be an easy target.

Yeah, that's exactly what we have to prevent.

This abandoned warehouse is about to become our base of operations.

And the film studio.

And a trap to snare an assassin.

more set dressing, we'll be ready for production.

And I'll be ready for my first public appearance.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Very kind of you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Autograph. Oh, sorry.

Harriet Palmer, Your Highness's producer, director, writer of The Lady

This is a great honor.

Welcome to Valance, Mr. Palmer. Mr. Palmer, the honor is ours.

And this beautiful young woman is my leading lady, Miss Serena Curzon.

Your Highness, it's an honor.

She's a great actress, going to be a very big star. One of these days you'll

able to tell your friends you knew her when.

I don't believe we've seen your film, Mr. Palmer. Is it entered in the

We're covering a lot of ground with that tap into the theater security cameras.

Not yet, no. Two years in the making. 50 ,000 feet of film already shot in the

can. We're doing location shots here in Valance now.

You must allow us to extend our hospitality to you, Miss Croissant,

here. Why, that's very kind of you. We're honored. We'd be pleased to accept

Right there.

He doesn't seem to be assessing material.

Yeah, number 113.

Every one of them clear so far.

wake up in an alley.

You're throwing cut.

You're wasting your time.

That's a show you haven't been wasting yours.

There's another five of those if you can put me in touch.

Look, appearances are a perfect opportunity for an assassin.

Yeah, hard to stop.

I want to see Cal.

Well, that's a general idea.

What?

I'll tell him when I meet him.

That, of course, might never happen.

It already has.

Who are you?

What's more important is what I do for a living.

And what is that?

I work for a security company.

We run the armored cars that service the Valance Casino.

for a weekly salary.

Good night.

You look at you need that.

That's Grand Signal.

Everything went perfectly, guys.

Good. You know what to do.

I suppose it had occurred to you that all I need to do is pull this trigger

your share becomes mine.

It will cross my mind.

What the hell?

What is it?

What is it? I can't focus.

The gas. They forgot to turn off the gas.

You're telling me that it was a simple rock.

I don't know what you mean. We just... Tiger, gently, gently, gently.

We don't want to kill him, too.

Just tell me about the assassination.

When and where?

Good morning, Mr. Carroll.

Perhaps you can help us.

Your friend here is being very foolishly stubborn.

Oh, he'll help us all right.

Tiger.

There's no need for brutality.

You and I are men of breeding, Mr. Caron. We don't have to descend to the

of animals.

Now we know about the planned assassination. We know you and your

involved.

So we simply keep you here under the tender ministrations of Captain Stiger.

And the killing won't take place.

what you're talking about.

I'm talking about the assassination.

Your friend Pavel talked.

Unfortunately, he died before we could get the details.

Captain Steiger tends to get a little carried away.

The assassination will take place with or without me or

Pavel.

I see.

Then you must tell me when and where and how.

You'll get nothing out of me.

Perhaps not.

You?

Get him out of here. I'm finished with it.

absolutely necessary.

You murdered him in cold blood.

The assassination, Mr.

Caron.

The assassination, now tell me.

about to break. I don't blame him.

Just kill me.

We're wasting time. Let's get this over with.

Oh, wait.

All right, I'll tell you everything I know.

It's true. The princess will be assassinated. Nothing can stop it. You

it. You can call up your men.

It's not that simple. My men aren't doing it. What are you talking about?

We hired someone.

A professional killer.

Who?

That's just the trouble I don't know.

I am losing patience with you.

I swear I'm telling you the truth.

We only know him by a code name.

Coyote. Describe him.

They say he's an American.

I don't know. I've never seen him. No one has. It's the way he works.

You must have a contact for him.

There's a woman. She's his partner.

She takes the job on Coyote's behalf.

She checks it out, makes sure it's not a trap.

And she just disappears.

Once the contract's out, it can't be cancelled.

I don't believe you.

I do.

Your friend Pavel is not dead. He's in police custody along with two very angry

but unharmed security men.

Nicholas.

Blanks.

That's a minor special effects.

Everything's on tape.

Enough to make things very difficult for Mr. Caron and his Red Guard.

Then I think we can say goodbye to Mr. Caron. Thank you for your help.

You just can't trust anyone now, can you?

I'll let you knock him out for about six hours.

What do we have?

A lot, but not enough.

Coyote's real, all right.

He's deadly.

He's been credited with the killing of two African heads of state, police chief

in the U .S., general on his aid in El Salvador, maybe half a dozen or so other

killings all over the world.

No two killings have the same M .O.

No identification, no descriptions, no fingerprints, no clues.

Perfect crimes.

If a crime can be perfect.

Please? I'd like to report something very strange.

Well, there's this armored car.

Yes, like the banks use.

Down near the riverbank, near Medusa Park.

Well, there seems to be a man in it.

No, I don't think he's going anywhere.

All those killings and not one slip. No clues, no witnesses.

Wait a minute, that's not true.

What about witnesses?

Let me access the press reports on those killings.

Yeah, every one of them was committed in front of hundreds, sometimes thousands

of witnesses.

Almost as though the killer deliberately sought out the most public occasion.

Coyote loves an audience.

Yeah, well, that could turn out to be his downfall.

Grant, I want you to process all Coyote's killings. I want to know every

of how they were carried out and when and where and why.

And maybe from that information we can extrapolate some clue to Coyote's

character. We know he likes an audience. All right, that's an ego problem.

It could be the start to building up a picture of him.

It's all the way.

Now, how are the plans coming for the press conference?

Well, we've set it up to coincide with the Prince's garden party. And that'll

guarantee us a total media blitz throughout the whole day.

Every newspaper, radio and television station in Vermont.

Okay, it would have to be deaf and black to miss it. All right, let's start

working on that ego of his.

Disgusting.

Excuse me.

Irina, please.

Lady of Sin is your first starring role, yet you're letting it go to take on

this new path.

Well, actually, I don't know a lot about producing.

But Harry here said that the film is in a lot of trouble.

What the little lady is trying to say is that Lady of Sin has just been

temporarily placed on the back burner.

Now, this is to allow Harry A. Palmer Productions to devote a lot of its time

and considerable resources to this spectacular new project.

And this new film is to be called Assassin.

Catchy titles make cash registers ring, my friend.

Assassin, produced and directed by Harry A. Palmer and co -starring Miss Serena

Curson. Co -starring? Now, I'd like you to meet the star of Assassin, a young

man destined to be a bigger box office draw than Rudolph Valentino. May I

present Mr. Larry Phillips.

Why? Well, Mr. Phillips, what exactly is your role in Assassin?

I don't know if Mr. Palmer has told you or not, but the role is based on a true

story. I played a part of the assassin himself.

The international killer known as Coyote.

With the beautiful Irina Kersan playing Princess Evelyn. Now, she is the wife of

the ruler of a small European country and Coyote's next planned victim.

The story's dramatic, exciting, and what's more, it's based on fact.

After two years of researching and writing the screenplay for Assassin, I

like I've learned more about the character and methods of Coyote than the

and Interpol.

I know him.

I know how he works.

What his weaknesses are.

So, Assassin is a true story based on a past crime of Coyote's.

Exactly.

Assassin is based...

crime that's about to happen.

Are you saying that you know who Coyote is and expect him only?

That's all for now, ladies and gentlemen. We don't want to give away

the plot, do we? I wonder just how much you do know.

But I will say this. When Assassin reaches the screen, the real Coyote will

marked man.

I think Coyote better pay you a visit.

To Harry A. Palmer.

You

may know too

much for your own good.

She takes the job on coyote. He's been up.

What we can do now is wait and see if Coyote takes the bait.

Someone's in here.

She's been working on her all night.

She's still critical.

If she hadn't pushed me aside, it would have been me.

Well, don't blame yourself, Jim. You couldn't have done anything.

You said the place was in total darkness.

Well, there was a light in the corridor.

And then when I went to hit the switch in the studio, that's when she yelled

shoved me aside.

Well, she yelled someone was there.

In the dark.

She must have seen him move.

Her eyes wouldn't have adjusted to the darkness.

She knew someone was there.

She must have heard something.

Well, if she did, I certainly didn't.

Going back to the studio.

Just a few moments.

You rest.

Camion.

What?

Camion.

Camion.

That's it?

Yeah, I think it's friend.

A carriage.

A horse -drawn carriage.

Or a cab.

That's all she said?

Yeah, that's all she said.

Camille, does it mean anything?

Yeah. It means she's still alive.

That's the main thing.

Yeah, well, the doctor said she's got every chance.

She's strong, and she's a fighter.

I got that.

Maybe it's a trade name or a company.

Let's give it a shot.

Perfume.

Let

me

off. She smelled perfume.

a woman.

Explain it to me.

Basically, this thing's a spectrometer.

It draws on a sample scent, perfume, breaks it down to its

spectral wavelength, converting them to

visible colors.

There are no two scents that show the same color spectrum.

A coyote must have operated our recorder and monitor.

There were light traces of cameo on the switches.

I picked them up in the swab.

When perfume is applied to a woman's skin, it reacts.

It changes slightly.

So each woman's perfume is unique to her and her alone.

When I find the match, that's the clue that'll lead us straight to Coyote.

I guess I really fouled things up.

You kept me from taking a .22 bullet in the heart.

You found out that Coyote is a woman.

Now, if that's fouling up, yes, you're right, it's fouling up.

What about her?

If we've done our research right, tonight should be the night. The awards

presentation. It's the biggest night of the festival.

And Coyote loves an audience.

The bigger the better.

And thanks to your tip about the perfume, Grant's figured out a way to

every woman at the presentation.

Wow!

Ladies. Autograph?

No. Sorry, no time right now, thanks.

Palmer, Harry, Abe.

Joe, my pleasure.

Hey, Joe. My pleasure. Will you excuse me?

Keep on checking.

I'm with the woman who shot Shannon.

Waiter.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and privilege to welcome you all to the

annual Velazquez Film Festival.

I trust you have enjoyed the fine film.

Now,

if you would all be kind enough to take a seat.

We'll proceed with the presentation of the award.

At this time, I'd like to introduce our royal hosts, Prince Arkani and Princess

Elaine.

has been graced with some of the best films to come out of Europe, the United

States, Asia, and the countries of the Pacific for many years.

The difficulty facing the judges on this occasion was not in selecting films of

sufficiently high standard for the awards, but in reluctantly eliminating

fine works that would, in other years, have undoubtedly been considered

To have been nominated at all can be considered an honor. And now, without

further ado...

Her Royal Highness Princess Elaine of Valence.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've had the privilege over the last two weeks of

entertained by the worst, very best of the world's films.

The contribution of these men and women, producers, writers, directors, actors,

designers and technicians, all the varied and skilled artists, combined to

us away from the everyday into magic worlds that we might never otherwise

We owe them a great debt, and it is the purpose of this, and similar festivals,

to provide us with the opportunity of showing our gratitude and appreciation

their efforts.

Here in Dallas, we take pride in offering a particularly thought -out

which might... Max! Get him! Get him!

Sasson turned out to be our own victim.

Did you guys buy me all these?

We're not just how many boyfriends do you need?

No, I suppose four or nine.

Mission Impossible will be right back.

Next on Mission Impossible.

The cross of St.

Boniface. This fugitive belongs to God now.

Where did he put the cross? Once and all. But Van Zandt. This is my wife,

Shall we go for a ride, Mrs. Van Zandt?

It will be your enemy.

This thing's got a hair trigger, man.

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